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Corinthian order
The Corinthian order is the last developed of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric order which was the earliest, followed by the Ionic order. When classical architecture was revived during the Renaissance, two more orders were added ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46259 |
Nightmare
A nightmare, also called a bad dream, is an unpleasant dream that can cause a strong emotional response from the mind, typically fear but also despair, anxiety and great sadness. However, psychological nomenclature differentiates between nightmares and bad dreams, specifically, people remain asleep during ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46262 |
Nadsat
Nadsat is a fictional register or argot used by the teenage gang members in Anthony Burgess's dystopian novel "A Clockwork Orange". Burgess was a linguist and he used this background to depict his characters as speaking a form of Russian-influenced English. The name comes from the Russian suffix equivalent of "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46264 |
Atbash
Atbash (; also transliterated Atbaš) is a monoalphabetic substitution cipher originally used to encrypt the Hebrew alphabet. It can be modified for use with any known writing system with a standard collating order.
The Atbash cipher is a particular type of monoalphabetic cipher formed by taking the alphabet (o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46265 |
Encaustic painting
Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. The liquid or paste is then applied to a surface—usually prepared wood, though canvas and other materials are often used. The simplest encaustic mixture can be made from adding pigm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46268 |
New materials in 20th-century art
New materials in 20th-century art were introduced to art making from the very beginning of the century. The introduction of new materials (and techniques) and heretofore non-art materials helped drive change in art during the 20th century. Traditional materials and techniques were not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46270 |
Mother's Day
Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in the months of March or May. It complements similar celebrations honoring family mem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46276 |
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian ( ) is an East Slavic language. It is the official state language of Ukraine and one of the three official languages in the unrecognized state of Transnistria, the other two being Moldovan and Russian. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic script (see Ukrainian alphabet).
Histo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46279 |
Father's Day
Father's Day is a day of honoring fatherhood and paternal bonds, as well as the influence of fathers in society. In Catholic countries of Europe, it has been celebrated on March 19 as Saint Joseph's Day since the Middle Ages. In America, Father's Day was founded by Sonora Smart Dodd, and celebrated on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46280 |
Milton Berle
Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger; ; July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American comedian and actor. Berle's career as an entertainer spanned over 80 years, first in silent films and on stage as a child actor, then in radio, movies and television. As the host of NBC's "Texaco Star Theatre" (1948–55)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46284 |
Long John Silver's
Long John Silver's LLC (also formerly known as Long John Silver's Seafood Shop and sometimes abbreviated as LJS) is an American fast food restaurant chain that specializes in seafood. The brand's name is derived from the novel "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson, in which the pirate "Long Jo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46286 |
Xerxes I
Xerxes I (; – August 465 BC), commonly known as Xerxes the Great, was the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, ruling from 486 to 465 BC. He was the son and successor of Darius the Great () and his mother was Atossa, a daughter of Cyrus the Great (), the first Achaemenid king. Like his father and pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46289 |
Menelaus
In Greek mythology, Menelaus (; , "Menelaos", from μένος "vigor, rage, power" and λαός "people," "wrath of the people") was a king of Mycenaean (pre-Dorian) Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy, and the son of Atreus and Aerope. According to the "Iliad", Menelaus was a central figure in the Trojan War, leadin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46299 |
Menelaus of Alexandria
Menelaus of Alexandria (; , "Menelaos ho Alexandreus"; c. 70 – 140 CE) was a Greek mathematician and astronomer, the first to recognize geodesics on a curved surface as natural analogs of straight lines.
Although very little is known about Menelaus's life, it is supposed that he lived in Rome, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46301 |
Lobster
Lobsters are a family (Nephropidae, sometimes also "Homeridae") of large marine crustaceans.
Lobsters have long bodies with muscular tails, and live in crevices or burrows on the sea floor. Three of their five pairs of legs have claws, including the first pair, which are usually much larger than the others. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46310 |
Flounder
Flounders are a group of flatfish species. They are demersal fish, found at the bottom of oceans around the world; some species will also enter estuaries.
The name "flounder" is used for several only distantly related species, though all are in the suborder Pleuronectoidei (families Achiropsettidae, Bothidae... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46311 |
Globalization
Globalization or globalisation is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide. As a complex and multifaceted phenomenon, globalization is considered by some as a form of capitalist expansion which entails the integration of local and national economies in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46313 |
Chowder
Chowder is a type of soup or stew often prepared with milk or cream and thickened with broken crackers, crushed ship biscuit, or a roux. Variations of chowder can be seafood or vegetable. Crackers such as oyster crackers or saltines may accompany chowders as a side item, and cracker pieces may be dropped atop ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46316 |
Democratic-Republican Party
The Democratic-Republican Party, better known at the time as the Republican Party and various other names, was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s that championed republicanism, political equality, and expansionism. The party became i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32080 |
Ulvophyceae
The Ulvophyceae or ulvophytes are a class of green algae, distinguished mainly on the basis of ultrastructural morphology, life cycle and molecular phylogenetic data. The sea lettuce, "Ulva", belongs here. Other well-known members include "Caulerpa", "Codium", "Acetabularia", "Cladophora", "Trentepohlia" a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32082 |
Federalist Party
The Federalist Party was the first political party in the United States. Under Alexander Hamilton, it dominated the national government from 1789 to 1801. It became a minority party while keeping its stronghold in New England and made a brief resurgence by opposing the War of 1812. It then collapsed w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32086 |
United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution. As the oldest and most senior branch of the U.S. military in order of preced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32087 |
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services. Initially formed as a part of the United States Army on 1 August 1907, the USAF was established as a separate branch of the U.S. Armed Force... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32090 |
Cape Breton University
Cape Breton University (CBU), formerly known as the "University College of Cape Breton" (UCCB), is a university in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada. Located near Sydney, CBU is the only post-secondary degree-granting institution on Cape Breton Island. The university is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32092 |
University of New Brunswick
The University of New Brunswick (UNB) is a public university with two primary campuses in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick. It is the oldest English-language university in Canada, and among the oldest public universities in North America. UNB was founded by a group of seven Loyalis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32094 |
University of Sudbury
The University of Sudbury () is a Roman Catholic bilingual university in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada which offers courses in French and English. Programs include religious studies, philosophy, Indigenous studies and folklore (entirely in French). It is a federated school of Laurentian University.
T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32095 |
University of Prince Edward Island
The University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) is a public university in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and the sole university in the province. Founded in 1969, the enabling legislation is the "University Act, R.S.P.E.I 2000."
The university traces its roots back to 18... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32096 |
University of Utah
The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. As the state's public flagship institution and top-tier research university, the U is classified by the Carnegie Foundation among the 131 research universities with the "highest research a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32097 |
University of Victoria
The University of Victoria (commonly known as UVic) is a public research university located in the Greater Victoria municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The university traces its roots to Victoria College, the first post-secondary institution established in British Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32098 |
University of Manitoba
The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a public research university in the province of Manitoba, Canada. Its main campus is located in the Fort Garry neighbourhood of southern Winnipeg with other campuses throughout the city. Founded in 1877, it is the first university of weste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32099 |
Urban exploration
Urban exploration (often shortened as UE, urbex and sometimes known as roof-and-tunnel hacking) is the exploration of manmade structures, usually abandoned ruins or hidden components of the manmade environment. Photography and historical interest/documentation are heavily featured in the hobby and it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32100 |
Umbriel (moon)
Umbriel is a moon of Uranus discovered on October 24, 1851, by William Lassell. It was discovered at the same time as Ariel and named after a character in Alexander Pope's poem "The Rape of the Lock". Umbriel consists mainly of ice with a substantial fraction of rock, and may be differentiated into a ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32101 |
Urd (Oh My Goddess!)
Urd was one of a series of characters created by Kōsuke Fujishima, and is depicted as the older sister of Belldandy. Belldandy, Keiichi Morisato, Skuld (Urd and Belldandy's younger sister) and Urd make up the four major characters in "Oh My Goddess!". Urd first appeared in the manga in chapter 14,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32110 |
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories or simply the Conservatives, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom. The governing party since 2010, it holds an overall majority in the House of Commons with 365 Me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32113 |
Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan – also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P. – is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan, the other being the Lower Peninsula. It is bounded primarily by Lake Superior to the north, separa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32117 |
Universal (metaphysics)
In metaphysics, a universal is what particular things have in common, namely characteristics or qualities. In other words, universals are repeatable or recurrent entities that can be instantiated or exemplified by many particular things. For example, suppose there are two chairs in a room, each... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32120 |
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) was a university based in the centre of the city of Manchester in England. It specialised in technical and scientific subjects and was a major centre for research. On 1 October 2004, it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32121 |
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (UNCCD) is a Convention to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought through national action progra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32124 |
Uniramia
Uniramia ("uni" – one, "ramus" – branch, i.e. single-branches) is a group within the arthropods. In the past this group included the Onychophora, which are now considered a separate category. The group is currently used in a narrower sense.
Uniramia is one of three subphyla in the Arthropoda classification su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32126 |
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1890, the school is located on a campus in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood.
The university is composed of the undergraduate college as well as various graduate programs and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32127 |
Uniformitarianism
Uniformitarianism, also known as the Doctrine of Uniformity or the Uniformitarian Principle, is the assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in our present-day scientific observations have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in the universe. It ref... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32128 |
Universal Decimal Classification
The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is a bibliographic and library classification representing the systematic arrangement of all branches of human knowledge organized as a coherent system in which knowledge fields are related and inter-linked. The UDC is an analytico-synthetic a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32129 |
Ultima (series)
Ultima is a series of open world fantasy role-playing video games from Origin Systems, Inc. "Ultima" was created by Richard Garriott. The series is one of the most significant in computer game history and is considered, alongside "Wizardry" and "Might and Magic", to be one of the establishers of the CR... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32131 |
Urethra
The urethra (from Greek οὐρήθρα – "ourḗthrā") is a tube that connects the urinary bladder to the urinary meatus for the removal of urine from the body of both females and males. In human females and other primates, the urethra connects to the urinary meatus above the vagina, whereas in marsupials, the female's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32133 |
United States Virgin Islands
The United States Virgin Islands (abbreviated USVI; also called the U.S. Virgin Islands or American Virgin Islands), officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States. The islands are geog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32135 |
Geography of the United States Virgin Islands
The United States Virgin Islands are a group of several dozen islands and cays located in the Caribbean, about southeast of Florida, north of Venezuela, east of Puerto Rico, and immediately west and south of the British Virgin Islands.
The U.S. Virgin Islands lie near the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32137 |
Politics of the United States Virgin Islands
Politics of the United States Virgin Islands takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic dependency, whereby the Governor is the head of the local government, and of a multi-party system. United States Virgin Islands are an unincorporated and orga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32139 |
Economy of the United States Virgin Islands
The economy of the United States Virgin Islands is primarily dependent upon tourism, trade, and other services, accounting for nearly 60% of the Virgin Island's GDP and about half of total civilian employment. Close to two million tourists per year visit the islands. The gov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32140 |
Telecommunications in the United States Virgin Islands
Communications in the United States Virgin Islands
The following statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.
Telephones - main lines in use: 74,200 (2008)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 80,300 (2005)
The islands are served by Claro P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32141 |
Universal precautions
Universal precautions refers to the practice, in medicine, of avoiding contact with patients' bodily fluids, by means of the wearing of nonporous articles such as medical gloves, goggles, and face shields. The infection control techniques were essentially good hygiene habits, such as hand washing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32145 |
Uniform Resource Identifier
A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a string of characters that unambiguously identifies a particular resource. To guarantee uniformity, all URIs follow a predefined set of syntax rules, but also maintain extensibility through a separately defined hierarchical naming scheme (e.g. codice_... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32146 |
Union of International Associations
The Union of International Associations (UIA) is a non-profit non-governmental research institute and documentation center based in Brussels, Belgium, and operating under United Nations mandate. It was founded in 1907 under the name Central Office of International Associations by He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32147 |
Quarter (United States coin)
The quarter, short for quarter dollar, is a United States coin worth 25 cents, one-quarter of a dollar. It has a diameter of .955 inch (24.26 mm) and a thickness of .069 inch (1.75 mm). The coin sports the profile of George Washington on its obverse, and its reverse design has changed freq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32150 |
Ural Mountains
The Ural Mountains (; ; , "Ural tauźarı") or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the river Ural and northwestern Kazakhstan.
The mountain range forms part of the conventional boundary between the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32152 |
Upwords
Upwords (at one time branded as Scrabble Upwords in the United States and Canada, and Topwords Crucimaster, Betutorony, Palabras Arriba, Stapelwoord in other countries) is a board game invented by Elliot Rudell and originally published by the Milton Bradley Company, now a division of Hasbro. Worldwide marketin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32157 |
University for Peace
The University for Peace (UPEACE) is an intergovernmental organization with university status, established by treaty at the United Nations General Assembly in 1980 and having its main campus in Costa Rica. Its stated mission is "to provide humanity with an international institution of higher educa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32160 |
Urinary tract infection
A urinary tract infection (UTI) is an infection that affects part of the urinary tract. When it affects the lower urinary tract it is known as a bladder infection (cystitis) and when it affects the upper urinary tract it is known as a kidney infection (pyelonephritis). Symptoms from a lower uri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32161 |
USS Greeneville
USS "Greeneville" is a fast attack submarine, and the only vessel of the United States Navy to be named after Greeneville, Tennessee. The contract to build the boat was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia, on 14 December 1988, and her keel was laid down o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32163 |
Unitarianism
Unitarianism (from Latin "unitas" "unity, oneness", from "unus" "one") is a Christian theological movement named for its belief that the God in Christianity is one person, as opposed to the Trinity (tri- from Latin "tres" "three") which in most other branches of Christianity defines God as one being in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32164 |
Ubiquitin
Ubiquitin is a small (8.6 kDa) regulatory protein found in most tissues of eukaryotic organisms, i.e. it occurs "ubiquitously". It was discovered in 1975 by Gideon Goldstein and further characterized throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Four genes in the human genome code for ubiquitin: UBB, UBC, UBA52 and RPS27A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32167 |
Unified Modeling Language
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose, developmental, modeling language in the field of software engineering that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system.
The creation of UML was originally motivated by the desire to standardize the dispar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32169 |
United States Military Academy
The United States Military Academy (USMA), also known as West Point, Army, Army West Point, The Academy, or simply The Point, is a four-year federal service academy in West Point, New York. It was originally established as a fort that sits on strategic high ground overlooking the Hudson ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32173 |
United States Minor Outlying Islands
The United States Minor Outlying Islands are a statistical designation defined by the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 3166-1 code. The entry code is . The minor outlying islands and groups of islands consist of eight United States insular areas in the Pacific O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32176 |
United Nations Environment Programme
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP or UN Environment) is responsible for coordinating the UN's environmental activities and assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices.
UNEP was founded in 1972 by Canadian businessman a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32178 |
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party (UAP) was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. The party won four federal elections in that time, usually governing in coalition with the Country Party. It provided two Prime Ministers of Australia – Joseph Lyons (1932–1939) and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32179 |
Joint Intelligence Committee (United Kingdom)
The Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) is an interagency deliberative body responsible for intelligence assessment, coordination, and oversight of the Secret Intelligence Service, Security Service, GCHQ, and Defence Intelligence. The JIC is supported by the Joint Intellige... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32184 |
Complex system
A complex system is a system composed of many components which may interact with each other. Examples of complex systems are Earth's global climate, organisms, the human brain, infrastructure such as power grid, transportation or communication systems, social and economic organizations (like cities), an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37438 |
AAI RQ-7 Shadow
The AAI RQ-7 Shadow is an American unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) used by the United States Army, Australian Army, Swedish Army, and Italian Army for reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition and battle damage assessment. Launched from a trailer-mounted pneumatic catapult, it is recovered with th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37439 |
Nitrous oxide
Nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas or nitrous, is a chemical compound, an oxide of nitrogen with the formula . At room temperature, it is a colourless non-flammable gas, with a slight metallic scent and taste. At elevated temperatures, nitrous oxide is a powerful oxidizer similar to molecular ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37441 |
Alliant RQ-6 Outrider
The Alliant RQ-6 Outrider unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was designed to provide near-real-time reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition information to United States Marine Corps air/ground task forces, United States Army brigades, and deployed United States Navy units that was small e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37442 |
Kannada
Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ; lesser known as Kanarese) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by people of Karnataka in Southwestern India and by linguistic minorities in the states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Kerala and Goa; and also by Carnatican expats abroad. The language has roughl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37445 |
Latin square
In combinatorics and in experimental design, a Latin square is an "n" × "n" array filled with "n" different symbols, each occurring exactly once in each row and exactly once in each column. An example of a 3x3 Latin square is:
The name "Latin square" was inspired by mathematical papers by Leonhard Euler ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37447 |
Mariner 9
Mariner 9 (Mariner Mars '71 / Mariner-I) was a robotic space probe that contributed greatly to the exploration of Mars and was part of the NASA Mariner program. Mariner 9 was launched toward Mars on May 30, 1971 from LC-36B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, and reached the planet on November 14 o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37449 |
Funeral home
A funeral home, funeral parlor or mortuary, is a business that provides interment and funeral services for the dead and their families. These services may include a prepared wake and funeral, and the provision of a chapel for the funeral.
Funeral homes arrange services in accordance with the wishes of su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37453 |
Overhand knot
The overhand knot, also known as a a knot and half knot, is one of the most fundamental knots, and it forms the basis of many others, including the simple noose, overhand loop, angler's loop, reef knot, fisherman's knot, and water knot. The overhand knot is a stopper, especially when used alone, and henc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37454 |
Service Corporation International
Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas. SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries in 43 states, eight Canadian provinces, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37459 |
State of matter
In physics, a state of matter is one of the distinct forms in which matter can exist. Four states of matter are observable in everyday life: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Many intermediate states are known to exist, such as liquid crystal, and some states only exist under extreme conditions, such as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37461 |
Paul Molitor
Paul Leo Molitor (born August 22, 1956), nicknamed "Molly" and "The Ignitor", is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) player and former manager of the Minnesota Twins, who is in the Baseball Hall of Fame. During his 21-year baseball career, he played for the Milwaukee Brewers (1978–1992), Toront... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37462 |
Miller's knot
A miller's knot (also sack knot or bag knot) is a binding knot used to secure the opening of a sack or bag. Historically, large sacks often contained grains; thus the association of these knots with the miller's trade. Several knots are known interchangeably by these three names.
Constrictor makes a fie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37463 |
Constrictor knot
The constrictor knot is one of the most effective binding knots. Simple and secure, it is a harsh knot that can be difficult or impossible to untie once tightened. It is made similarly to a clove hitch but with one end passed under the other, forming an overhand knot under a riding turn. The double co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37469 |
Trondheim
Trondheim (, , ; ), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It has a population of 199,039 (27/02/2020), and is the third most populous municipality in Norway, although the fourth largest urban area. Trondheim lies on the south shore of Trondheim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37472 |
Civil liberties
Civil liberties are guarantees and freedoms that liberal governments commit not to abridge, either by legislation or judicial interpretation, without due process. Though the scope of the term differs between countries, civil liberties may include the freedom of conscience, freedom of press, freedom of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37476 |
Jamie Zawinski
James Werner Zawinski (born November 3, 1968), commonly known as jwz, is an American computer programmer with contributions to the free software projects Mozilla and XEmacs, and early versions of the Netscape Navigator web browser. He maintains the XScreenSaver project which provides screenblanking for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37479 |
Intranet
An intranet is a computer network for sharing information, collaboration tools, operational systems, and other computing services within an organization, usually to the exclusion of access by outsiders. The term is used in contrast to public networks, such as the Internet, but uses most of the same technology... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37481 |
Rutger Hauer
Rutger Oelsen Hauer (; 23 January 1944 – 19 July 2019) was a Dutch actor. In 1999, he was named by the Dutch public as the Best Dutch Actor of the Century.
Hauer's career began in 1969 with the title role in the Dutch television series "Floris" and surged with his leading role in "Turkish Delight" (1973)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37500 |
Garnet
Garnets () are a group of silicate minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives.
All species of garnets possess similar physical properties and crystal forms, but differ in chemical composition. The different species are pyrope, almandine, spessartine, grossular (varieties of wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37506 |
Magma
Magma (from Ancient Greek μάγμα ("mágma") meaning "thick unguent") is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed. Magma is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and evidence of magmatism has also been discovered on other terrestrial planets and some natural satellites. B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37508 |
Adjective
In linguistics, an adjective (abbreviated ) is a word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes its referent. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun.
Adjectives are one of the main parts of speech of the English language, although historically they were classed together with nou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37512 |
Adverb
An adverb is a word or an expression that modifies a verb, adjective, determiner, clause, preposition, or sentence. Adverbs typically express manner, place, time, frequency, degree, level of certainty, etc., answering questions such as "how?", "in what way?", "when?", "where?", and "to what extent?". This is ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37513 |
Depleted uranium
Depleted uranium (DU; also referred to in the past as Q-metal, depletalloy or D-38) is uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope U-235 than natural uranium. Natural uranium contains about 0.72% U-235, while the DU used by the U.S. Department of Defense contains 0.3% U-235 or less. Uses of DU... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37514 |
Shaped charge
A shaped charge is an explosive charge shaped to focus the effect of the explosive's energy. Various types are used to cut and form metal, initiate nuclear weapons, penetrate armor, and perforate wells in the oil and gas industry.
A typical modern shaped charge, with a metal liner on the charge cavity, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37515 |
Anti-tank guided missile
An anti-tank guided missile (ATGM), anti-tank missile, anti-tank guided weapon (ATGW) or anti-armor guided weapon is a guided missile primarily designed to hit and destroy heavily armored military vehicles.
ATGMs range in size from shoulder-launched weapons, which can be transported by a sing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37517 |
Hoysala architecture
Hoysala architecture is the building style in Hindu temple architecture developed under the rule of the Hoysala Empire between the 11th and 14th centuries, in the region known today as Karnataka, a state of India. Hoysala influence was at its peak in the 13th century, when it dominated the Souther... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37521 |
Hoysala Empire
The Hoysala Empire was a Kannadiga power originating from the Indian subcontinent, that ruled most of what is now Karnataka, India, between the 10th and the 14th centuries. The capital of the Hoysalas was initially located at Belur but was later moved to Halebidu.
The Hoysala rulers were originally fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37522 |
Shravanabelagola
Shravanabelagola () is a town located near Channarayapatna of Hassan district in the Indian state of Karnataka and is 144 km from Bangalore. The Gommateshwara Bahubali statue at Shravanabelagola is one of the most important tirthas (pilgrimage destinations) in Jainism, one that reached a peak in archi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37524 |
Alfa Romeo
Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. () is an Italian premium car manufacturer, was founded on 24 June 1910, as "Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili", and so the acronym for it is "A.L.F.A", in Milano, Italy. "Anonima" means "anonymous", and it was a legal form of company at the time, as it was founded by anonymo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37527 |
Commander Keen
Commander Keen is a series of side-scrolling platform video games developed primarily by id Software. The series consists of six main episodes, a "lost" episode, and a final game; all but the final game were originally released for MS-DOS in 1990 and 1991, while the 2001 "Commander Keen" was released fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37529 |
Tornado
A tornado is a rapidly rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. The windstorm is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology to name a weather ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37530 |
Indian Institute of Science
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in Bangalore city, in the Indian state of Karnataka. The institute was established in 1909 with active support fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37533 |
Hyderabad
Hyderabad ( ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and "de jure" capital of Andhra Pradesh. Occupying along the banks of the Musi River, located on the Deccan Plateau in the northern part of South India. At an average altitude of , much of Hyderabad is situated on hilly terrain ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37534 |
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