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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States. With 6,479,548 visitors to its three locations in 2019, it was the fourth most visited art museum in the world. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37535 |
Central Park
Central Park is an urban park in New York City, located between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan. It is the fifth-largest park in the city by area, covering . The park is the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 37.5–38 million visitors annually... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37536 |
NEAR Shoemaker
The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37537 |
PalmPilot
The PalmPilot Personal and PalmPilot Professional are the second generation of Palm PDA devices produced by Palm Inc (then a subsidiary of U.S. Robotics). These devices were launched on March 10, 1997.
Palm also sold the 10201U modem at 14.4 kbit/s, introduced at a price of $129 (this modem is also compatib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37544 |
Palm OS
Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) is a discontinued mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996. Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is provided with a suite of basic applications for personal i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37545 |
Mycenae
Mycenae ( or , "Mykē̂nai" or "Mykḗnē") is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece. It is located about south-west of Athens; north of Argos; and south of Corinth. The site is inland from the Saronic Gulf and built upon a hill rising above sea level.
In the second mill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37548 |
Naval Submarine Base New London
Naval Submarine Base New London is the United States Navy's primary East Coast submarine base, also known as the "Home of the Submarine Force". It is located in Groton, Connecticut directly across the Thames River from its namesake city of New London.
In 1868, the State of Connecticut ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37551 |
Duverger's law
In political science, Duverger's law holds that plurality-rule elections (such as "first past the post") structured within single-member districts tend to favor a two-party system, whereas "the double ballot majority system and proportional representation tend to favor multipartism". The discovery of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37553 |
William H. Riker
William Harrison Riker (September 22, 1920 – June 26, 1993) was an American political scientist who is prominent for applying game theory and mathematics to political science.
William Harrison Riker was born on September 22, 1920 in Des Moines, Iowa. He earned his bachelor's degree in economics at In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37554 |
Enriched uranium
Enriched uranium is a type of uranium in which the percent composition of uranium-235 (written 235U) has been increased through the process of isotope separation. Naturally occurring uranium is composed of three major isotopes: uranium-238 (238U with 99.2739–99.2752% natural abundance), uranium-235 (2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37555 |
Open system (computing)
Open systems are computer systems that provide some combination of interoperability, portability, and open software standards. (It can also refer to specific installations that are configured to allow unrestricted access by people and/or other computers; this article does not discuss that meani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39229 |
Israel Defense Forces
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; , "lit." "The Army of Defense for Israel"; ), commonly known in Israel by the Hebrew acronym "Tzahal" (), are the military forces of the State of Israel. They consist of the ground forces, air force, and navy. It is the sole military wing of the Israeli security fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39237 |
Name server
A name server is a computer application that implements a network service for providing responses to queries against a directory service. It translates an often humanly meaningful, text-based identifier to a system-internal, often numeric identification or addressing component. This service is performed by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39241 |
Medea
In Greek mythology, Medea (; , "Mēdeia") is the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, a niece of Circe and the granddaughter of the sun god Helios. Medea figures in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, appearing in Hesiod's "Theogony" around 700 BC, but best known from Euripides's tragedy "Medea" and Apollonius of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39245 |
Limit (category theory)
In category theory, a branch of mathematics, the abstract notion of a limit captures the essential properties of universal constructions such as products, pullbacks and inverse limits. The dual notion of a colimit generalizes constructions such as disjoint unions, direct sums, coproducts, pusho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39248 |
Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause". The word "wright" is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder (as in a wheelwright or cartwright). The words c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39262 |
Solidarity Electoral Action
Solidarity Electoral Action (, AWS) was a political coalition in Poland. Since 1997, its official name has been "Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność Prawicy" (AWSP) or Electoral Action Solidarity of the Right. Ruch Społeczny AWS (RS AWS), or Social Movement for Electoral Action Solidarity, was the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39264 |
Caucasus
The Caucasus (), or Caucasia (), is an area between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea and mainly occupied by Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Russia. It is home to the Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus mountain range, which has historically been considered a natural barrier between Eastern E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39282 |
Wilhelm Busch
Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch (15 April 1832 – 9 January 1908) was a German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter. He published comic illustrated cautionary tales from 1859, achieving his most notable works in the 1870s. Busch's illustrations used wood engraving, and later, zincography.
Busch drew... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39283 |
Quirinal Hill
The Quirinal Hill (; ; ) is one of the Seven Hills of Rome, at the north-east of the city center. It is the location of the official residence of the Italian head of state, who resides in the Quirinal Palace; by metonymy "the Quirinal" has come to stand for the Italian president. The Quirinal Palace has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39284 |
Stephen Langton
Stephen Langton (c. 1150 – 9 July 1228) was an English Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Canterbury between 1207 and his death in 1228. The dispute between King John of England and Pope Innocent III over his election was a major factor in the crisis which produced Magna Carta in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39287 |
Design by contract
Design by contract (DbC), also known as contract programming, programming by contract and design-by-contract programming, is an approach for designing software.
It prescribes that software designers should define formal, precise and verifiable interface specifications for software components, which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39289 |
Precondition
In computer programming, a precondition is a condition or predicate that must always be true just prior to the execution of some section of code or before an operation in a formal specification.
If a precondition is violated, the effect of the section of code becomes undefined and thus may or may not car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39290 |
Postcondition
In computer programming, a postcondition is a condition or predicate that must always be true just after the execution of some section of code or after an operation in a formal specification. Postconditions are sometimes tested using assertions within the code itself. Often, postconditions are simply inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39291 |
Time Crisis (video game)
Time Crisis is a light gun shooter arcade game released by Namco in 1995. It was ported for the PlayStation in 1997, bundled with the Guncon light gun controller, which was released alongside it.
"Time Crisis" served as an answer to Namco rival Sega's "Virtua Cop", imitating that game's fully... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39292 |
Software performance testing
In software quality assurance, performance testing is in general a testing practice performed to determine how a system performs in terms of responsiveness and stability under a particular workload. It can also serve to investigate, measure, validate or verify other quality attributes of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39294 |
Communications Decency Act
The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) was the first notable attempt by the United States Congress to regulate pornographic material on the Internet. In 1997, in the landmark case of "Reno v. ACLU", the United States Supreme Court struck the anti-indecency provisions of the act.
The a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39296 |
Hide-and-seek
Hide-and-seek is a popular children's game in which at least two players (Usually at least three) conceal themselves in a set environment, to be found by one or more seekers. The game is played by one player chosen (designated as being "it") closing their eyes and counting to a predetermined number while... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39299 |
Bellingham, Washington
Bellingham ( ) is the county seat and most populous city of Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington. Located southeast of Vancouver, British Columbia, north of Seattle, and south of the U.S.–Canada border, Bellingham is in between two major metropolitan areas, Seattle and Vancouver, Briti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39300 |
Orientalism
In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the West. In particular, Orientalist painting, depicting more specifically "the Middle East", was one of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39301 |
Fascist Manifesto
The Manifesto of the Italian Fasci of Combat (), commonly known as the Fascist Manifesto, was the initial declaration of the political stance of the "Fasci Italiani di Combattimento" ("Italian League of Combat") the movement founded in Milan by Benito Mussolini in 1919 and an early exponent of Fascis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39315 |
Compass
A compass is an instrument used for navigation and orientation that shows direction relative to the geographic cardinal directions (or points). Usually, a diagram called a compass rose shows the directions north, south, east, and west on the compass face as abbreviated initials. When the compass is used, the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39316 |
Congruence (geometry)
In geometry, two figures or objects are congruent if they have the same shape and size, or if one has the same shape and size as the mirror image of the other.
More formally, two sets of points are called congruent if, and only if, one can be transformed into the other by an isometry, i.e., a c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39330 |
Hubert Languet
Hubert Languet (1518 – 30 September 1581 in Antwerp) was a French diplomat and reformer. The leading idea of his diplomacy was that of religious and civil liberty for the protection and expansion of Protestantism. He did everything in his power to advance the union of the Protestant churches.
Languet w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39341 |
Injunction
An injunction is a legal and equitable remedy in the form of a special court order that compels a party to do or refrain from specific acts. "When a court employs the extraordinary remedy of injunction, it directs the conduct of a party, and does so with the backing of its full coercive powers." A party tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39343 |
Robert Graves
Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was a British poet, historical novelist, critic, and classicist. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were both Celticists and students of Irish mythology. Graves produced more than 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39345 |
PSPACE
In computational complexity theory, PSPACE is the set of all decision problems that can be solved by a Turing machine using a polynomial amount of space.
If we denote by SPACE("t"("n")), the set of all problems that can be solved by Turing machines using "O"("t"("n")) space for some function "t" of the input s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39351 |
List of telecommunications encryption terms
This is a list of telecommunications encryption terms. This list is derived in part from the "Glossary of Telecommunication Terms" published as Federal Standard 1037C. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39352 |
Uracil
Uracil (; U) is one of the four nucleobases in the nucleic acid RNA that are represented by the letters A, G, C and U. The others are adenine (A), cytosine (C), and guanine (G). In RNA, uracil binds to adenine via two hydrogen bonds. In DNA, the uracil nucleobase is replaced by thymine. Uracil is a demethylated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39354 |
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn (; 1501 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII. Their marriage, and her execution for treason and other charges by beheading, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start of the English Reformation. Anne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39356 |
Tequila
Tequila () is a distilled beverage made from the blue agave plant, primarily in the area surrounding the city of Tequila northwest of Guadalajara, and in the Jaliscan Highlands ("Los Altos de Jalisco") of the central western Mexican state of Jalisco.
The red volcanic soils in the region of Tequila are well su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39357 |
Open set
In mathematics, particularly in topology, an open set is an abstract concept generalizing the idea of an open interval in the real line. The simplest example is in metric spaces, where open sets can be defined as those sets which contain a ball around each of their points (or, equivalently, a set is open if i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39358 |
Disjoint sets
In mathematics, two sets are said to be disjoint sets if they have no element in common. Equivalently, two disjoint sets are sets whose intersection is the empty set.
For example, {1, 2, 3} and {4, 5, 6} are "disjoint sets," while {1, 2, 3} and {3, 4, 5} are not disjoint. A collection of more than two se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39359 |
Good-Bye to All That
Good-Bye to All That is an autobiography by Robert Graves which first appeared in 1929, when the author was 34 years old. "It was my bitter leave-taking of England," he wrote in a prologue to the revised second edition of 1957, "where I had recently broken a good many conventions". The title may a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39360 |
Prototile
In the mathematical theory of tessellations, a prototile is one of the shapes of a tile in a tessellation.
A tessellation of the plane or of any other space is a cover of the space by closed shapes, called tiles, that have disjoint interiors. Some of the tiles may be congruent to one or more others. If is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39372 |
Large Magellanic Cloud
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of about 50 kiloparsecs (≈163,000 light-years), the LMC is the second- or third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way, after the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal (~16 kpc) and the possible dwarf irregular galaxy known a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39374 |
Space suit
A space suit is a garment worn to keep a human alive in the harsh environment of outer space, vacuum and temperature extremes. Space suits are often worn inside spacecraft as a safety precaution in case of loss of cabin pressure, and are necessary for extravehicular activity (EVA), work done outside spacecr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39375 |
Engagement ring
An engagement ring is a ring indicating that the person wearing it is engaged to be married, especially in Western cultures. A ring is presented as an engagement gift by a partner to their prospective spouse when they propose marriage or directly after a marriage proposal is accepted. It represents a f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39376 |
Similarity (geometry)
In Euclidean geometry, two objects are similar if they both have the same shape, or one has the same shape as the mirror image of the other. More precisely, one can be obtained from the other by uniformly scaling (enlarging or reducing), possibly with additional translation, rotation and reflecti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39377 |
Distance
Distance is a numerical measurement of how far apart objects or points are. In physics or everyday usage, distance may refer to a physical length or an estimation based on other criteria (e.g. "two counties over"). In most cases, "distance from A to B" is interchangeable with "distance from B to A". In mathem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39378 |
Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
Maximilian II (31 July 1527 – 12 October 1576), a member of the Austrian House of Habsburg, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1564 until his death. He was crowned King of Bohemia in Prague on 14 May 1562 and elected King of Germany (King of the Romans) on 24 November 1562. On 8 September 15... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39380 |
Infimum and supremum
In mathematics, the infimum (abbreviated inf; plural infima) of a subset "S" of a partially ordered set "T" is the greatest element in "T" that is less than or equal to all elements of "S", if such an element exists. Consequently, the term "greatest lower bound" (abbreviated as "GLB") is also comm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39382 |
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the production of products for use or sale using labor and machines, tools, chemical or biological processing or formulation, and is the essence of secondary industry. The term may refer to a range of human activity from handicraft to high tech but is most commonly applied to industrial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39388 |
Pine
A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus () of the family Pinaceae. "Pinus" is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. The Plant List compiled by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden accepts 126 species names of pines as current, together with 35 unresolved species and many more synonym... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39389 |
Epicureanism
Epicureanism is a system of philosophy founded around 307 BC based upon the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus. Epicureanism was originally a challenge to Platonism. Later its main opponent became Stoicism.
Some writings by Epicurus have survived. Some scholars consider the epic poem "D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39393 |
Robert Estienne
Robert I Estienne (; 15037 September 1559), known as "Robertus Stephanus" in Latin and sometimes referred to as "Robert Stephens" or "Roberti Stephani" was a 16th-century printer and classical scholar in Paris. He was the proprietor of the Estienne print shop after the death of his father Henri Estienn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39398 |
Central limit theorem
In probability theory, the central limit theorem (CLT) establishes that, in some situations, when independent random variables are added, their properly normalized sum tends toward a normal distribution (informally a "bell curve") even if the original variables themselves are not normally distrib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39406 |
Dirac equation
In particle physics, the Dirac equation is a relativistic wave equation derived by British physicist Paul Dirac in 1928. In its free form, or including electromagnetic interactions, it describes all spin- massive particles such as electrons and quarks for which parity is a symmetry. It is consistent wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39407 |
Trisomy
A trisomy is a type of polysomy in which there are three instances of a particular chromosome, instead of the normal two. A trisomy is a type of aneuploidy (an abnormal number of chromosomes).
Most organisms that reproduce sexually have pairs of chromosomes in each cell, with one chromosome inherited from eac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39413 |
Moore's law
Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years. Moore's law is an observation and projection of a historical trend. Rather than a law of physics, it is an empirical relationship linked to gains from experience in production.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39418 |
Right triangle
A right triangle (American English) or right-angled triangle (British English) is a triangle in which one angle is a right angle (that is, a 90-degree angle). The relation between the sides and angles of a right triangle is the basis for trigonometry.
The side opposite the right angle is called the "hy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39420 |
Primo Levi
Primo Michele Levi (; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was an Italian Jewish chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. He was the author of several books, novels, collections of short stories, essays, and poems. His best-known works include "If This Is a Man" (1947, published as "Survival in Auschwitz"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39425 |
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Four Horsemen are figures in Christian faith, appearing in the New Testament's final book, Revelation, an apocalypse written by John of Patmos, as well as in the Old Testament's prophetic Book of Zechariah, and in the Book of Ezekiel, where they are named as punishments from God.
R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39430 |
New Scientist
New Scientist, first published on 22 November 1956, is a weekly English-language magazine that covers all aspects of science and technology. Based in London, it publishes editions in the UK, the United States, and Australia. Since 1996 it has been available online.
Sold in retail outlets (paper edition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39431 |
Stephen Cook
Stephen Arthur Cook, (born December 14, 1939) is an American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who has made major contributions to the fields of complexity theory and proof complexity. He is a university professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science and Department of M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39432 |
Tony Hoare
Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (born 11 January 1934) is a British computer scientist. He developed the sorting algorithm quicksort in 1959–1960. He also developed Hoare logic for verifying program correctness, and the formal language communicating sequential processes (CSP) to specify the interactions o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39434 |
Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor (born Laura Augusta Gainor; October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American film, stage and television actress and painter.
Gaynor began her career as an extra in shorts and silent films. After signing with Fox Film Corporation (later 20th Century-Fox) in 1926, she rose to fame and bec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45794 |
Natural capital
Natural capital is the world's stock of natural resources, which includes geology, soils, air, water and all living organisms. Some natural capital assets provide people with free goods and services, often called ecosystem services. Two of these (clean water and fertile soil) underpin our economy and s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45795 |
Clouded leopard
The clouded leopard ("Neofelis nebulosa") is a medium-size wild cat occurring from the Himalayan foothills through mainland Southeast Asia into southern China. Since 2008, it is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Its total population is suspected to be fewer than 10,000 mature individuals, with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45798 |
Public capital
Public capital is the aggregate body of government-owned assets that are used as a means for productivity. Such assets span a wide range including: large components such as highways, airports, roads, transit systems, and railways; local, municipal components such as public education, public hospitals, p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45800 |
Physical capital
Physical capital represents in economics one of the three primary factors of production. Physical capital is the apparatus used to produce a good and services. Physical capital represents the tangible man-made goods that help and support the production inventory, cash, equipment or real estate are all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45801 |
Social capital
Social capital is the effective functioning of social groups through interpersonal relationships, a shared sense of identity, a shared understanding, shared norms, shared values, trust, cooperation, and reciprocity. Social capital is a measure of the value of resources, both tangible (public spaces, pri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45802 |
Individual capital
Individual capital, the economic view of talent, comprises inalienable or personal traits of persons, tied to their bodies and available only through their own free will, such as skill, creativity, enterprise, courage, capacity for moral example, non-communicable wisdom, invention or empathy, non-tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45803 |
Human capital
Human capital is the stock of habits, knowledge, social and personality attributes (including creativity) embodied in the ability to perform labour so as to produce economic value.
Human capital is unique and differs from any other capital. It is needed for companies to achieve goals, develop and remain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45804 |
Instructional capital
Instructional capital is a term used in educational administration after the 1960s, to reflect capital resulting from investment in producing learning materials.
Some have objected to this phrasing, which is an elaboration of referring to training as "human capital", either for the same reason t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45805 |
Financial capital
Financial capital is any economic resource measured in terms of money used by entrepreneurs and businesses to buy what they need to make their products or to provide their services to the sector of the economy upon which their operation is based, i.e. retail, corporate, investment banking, etc.
Fina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45807 |
Dijkstra's algorithm
Dijkstra's algorithm (or Dijkstra's Shortest Path First algorithm, SPF algorithm) is an algorithm for finding the shortest paths between nodes in a graph, which may represent, for example, road networks. It was conceived by computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra in 1956 and published three years la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45809 |
Subwoofer
A subwoofer (or sub) is a loudspeaker designed to reproduce low-pitched audio frequencies known as bass and sub-bass, lower in frequency than those which can be (optimally) generated by a woofer. The typical frequency range for a subwoofer is about 20–200 Hz for consumer products, below 100 Hz for profession... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45810 |
Structural engineering
Structural engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering in which structural engineers are trained to design the 'bones and muscles' that create the form and shape of man made structures. Structural engineers need to understand and calculate the stability, strength and rigidity of built s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45829 |
Tetanus
Tetanus, also known as lockjaw, is a bacterial infection characterized by muscle spasms. In the most common type, the spasms begin in the jaw and then progress to the rest of the body. Each spasm usually lasts a few minutes. Spasms occur frequently for three to four weeks. Some spasms may be severe enough to f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45831 |
Gyrocompass
A gyrocompass is a type of non-magnetic compass which is based on a fast-spinning disc and the rotation of the Earth (or another planetary body if used elsewhere in the universe) to find geographical direction automatically. The use of a gyrocompass is one of the seven fundamental ways to determine the hea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45832 |
Palatino
Palatino is the name of an old-style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf, initially released in 1949 by the Stempel foundry and later by other companies, most notably the Mergenthaler Linotype Company.
Named after the 16th-century Italian master of calligraphy Giambattista Palatino, Palatino is based on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45833 |
Optima
Optima is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf and released by the D. Stempel AG foundry, Frankfurt, Germany and released in 1958.
Though classified as a sans-serif, Optima has a subtle swelling at the terminals suggesting a glyphic serif. Optima was inspired by classical Roman capitals and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45834 |
Hermann Zapf
Hermann Zapf (; 8 November 1918 – 4 June 2015) was a German type designer and calligrapher who lived in Darmstadt, Germany. He was married to the calligrapher and typeface designer Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse. Typefaces he designed include Palatino, Optima, and Zapfino.
Zapf was born in Nuremberg during turbul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45835 |
Drum machine
A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns. Drum machines may imitate drum kits or other percussion instruments, or produce unique sounds, such as synthesized electronic tones. Most modern drum machines allow users to program their own rhyth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45839 |
Voynich manuscript
The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system. The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438), and it may have been composed in Italy during the Italian Renaissance. The manuscript is named after Wilfrid Voynic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45845 |
Ferrara
Ferrara (, ; ) is a city and "comune" in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located north. The town has broad streets and numerous palaces ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45846 |
Agritourism
Agritourism or agrotourism, as it is defined most broadly, involves any agriculturally based operation or activity that brings visitors to a farm or ranch. Agritourism has different definitions in different parts of the world, and sometimes refers specifically to farm stays, as in Italy. Elsewhere, agritou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45847 |
Deep Purple
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although their musical approach changed over the years. Originally formed as a psychedelic rock and progressive rock band, they shifted to a heav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45848 |
Chinese democracy movement
The Chinese democracy movement (abbreviated Minyun) refers to a series of loosely organized political movements in the People's Republic of China against the continued one-party rule by the Communist Party of China. One such movement began during the Beijing Spring in November 1978 and was t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45849 |
Opeth
Opeth is a Swedish progressive metal/rock band from Stockholm, formed in 1989. The group has been through several personnel changes, including the replacement of every single original member. Lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt has remained Opeth's primary driving force since the departure o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45851 |
Charles Ponzi
Charles Ponzi (, ; born Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi; March 3, 1882 – January 18, 1949) was an Italian swindler and con artist in the U.S. and Canada. His aliases include "Charles Ponci", "Carlo", and "Charles P. Bianchi". Born and raised in Italy, he became known in the early 1920s as a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45852 |
Uffizi
The Uffizi Gallery (; , ) is a prominent art museum located adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy. One of the most important Italian museums and the most visited, it is also one of the largest and best known in the world and holds a collection o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45854 |
Monastery
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which may be a chapel, church, or temple, and may also serve as an orator... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45856 |
Hurwitz polynomial
In mathematics, a Hurwitz polynomial, named after Adolf Hurwitz, is a polynomial whose roots (zeros) are located in the left half-plane of the complex plane or on the imaginary axis, that is, the real part of every root is zero or negative. Such a polynomial must have coefficients that are positive ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45857 |
Intellectual capital
Intellectual capital is the intangible value of a business, covering its people (human capital), the value relating to its relationships (relational capital), and everything that is left when the employees go home (structural capital), of which intellectual property (IP) is but one component. It i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45858 |
Raster image processor
A raster image processor (RIP) is a component used in a printing system which produces a raster image also known as a bitmap. Such a bitmap is used by a later stage of the printing system to produce the printed output. The input may be a page description in a high-level page description language... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45862 |
Giulio Racah
Giulio (Yoel) Racah (; February 9, 1909 – August 28, 1965) was an Italian–Israeli physicist and mathematician. He was Acting President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1961 to 1962.
The crater Racah on the Moon is named after him.
Guilio (Yoel) Racah was born in Florence, Italy. He earned his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45864 |
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a state-federal partnership to develop and deploy national-scale cyberinfrastructure that advances research, science and engineering based in the United States of America. NCSA operates as a unit of the Univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45868 |
Ladin language
Ladin (, also ; autonym: "ladin", ; ) is a Romance language of the Rhaeto-Romance subgroup, mainly spoken in the Dolomite Mountains in Northern Italy in the provinces of South Tyrol, Trentino, and Belluno, by the Ladin people. It exhibits similarities to Swiss Romansh and Friulian.
The precise extensio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45870 |
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