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Loudspeaker
A loudspeaker is an electroacoustic transducer; a device which converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound. The most widely used type of speaker in the 2010s is the dynamic speaker, invented in 1924 by Edward W. Kellogg and Chester W. Rice. The dynamic speaker operates on the same basic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45871 |
Pre-emptive nuclear strike
In nuclear strategy, a first strike is a preemptive surprise attack employing overwhelming force. First strike capability is a country's ability to defeat another nuclear power by destroying its arsenal to the point where the attacking country can survive the weakened retaliation while the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45876 |
Line printer
A line printer prints one entire line of text before advancing to another line. Most early line printers were
impact printers.
Line printers are mostly associated with unit record equipment and the early days of digital computing, but the technology is still in use. Print speeds of 600 lines per minute ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45879 |
Trento
Trento (; also anglicized as Trent; ; ; ) is a city on the Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th century, the city was the location of the Council of Trent. Formerly part of Austria and Austria-Hungary, it was annexed by Italy i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45882 |
Cathedral
A cathedral is a church that contains the "cathedra" () of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denominations with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Catholic, Anglican, Eastern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45883 |
Leeuwarden
Leeuwarden (, ; /; Town Frisian: "Liwwadden"; Leeuwarder dialect: "Leewarden") is a city and municipality in Friesland in the Netherlands. It is the provincial capital and seat of the States of Friesland. The municipality has a population of 122,293.
The region has been continuously inhabited since the 10t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45884 |
Fermat pseudoprime
In number theory, the Fermat pseudoprimes make up the most important class of pseudoprimes that come from Fermat's little theorem.
Fermat's little theorem states that if "p" is prime and "a" is coprime to "p", then "a""p"−1 − 1 is divisible by "p". For an integer "a" > 1, if a composite integer "x"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45891 |
Michigan Technological University
Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech, MTU, or simply Tech) is a public research university in Houghton, Michigan. Its main campus sits on on a bluff overlooking Portage Lake. Michigan Tech was founded in 1885 as the first post-secondary institution in the Upper Peninsula o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45893 |
The Stranger (Camus novel)
L'Étranger () is a 1942 novel by French author Albert Camus. Its theme and outlook are often cited as examples of Camus's philosophy, absurdism coupled with that of existentialism, though Camus personally rejected the latter label.
The title character is Meursault, an indifferent French Alg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45896 |
The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Published and set in 1962, the novel takes place fifteen years after a different end to World War II, and depicts intrigues between the victorious Axis Powers—primarily, Imperial Japan and Nazi German... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45903 |
Exponential distribution
In probability theory and statistics, the exponential distribution is the probability distribution of the time between events in a Poisson point process, i.e., a process in which events occur continuously and independently at a constant average rate. It is a particular case of the gamma distri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45906 |
Beyond This Horizon
Beyond This Horizon is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It was originally published as a two-part serial in "Astounding Science Fiction" (April, May 1942, under the pseudonym Anson MacDonald) and then as a single volume by Fantasy Press in 1948. It was awarded a Retro-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45907 |
Rocket Ship Galileo
Rocket Ship Galileo is a juvenile science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1947, about three teenagers who participate in a pioneering flight to the Moon. It was the first in the Heinlein juveniles, a long and successful series of science fiction novels published by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45908 |
Space Cadet
Space Cadet is a 1948 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about Matt Dodson, who joins the Space Patrol to help preserve peace in the Solar System. The story translates the standard military academy story into outer space: a boy from Iowa goes to officer school, sees action and adventure, shoulders... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45912 |
Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world. He is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg, though he is not explicitly described as such. The first recorded versions of the rhyme date from late eight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45915 |
Between Planets
Between Planets is a juvenile science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in "Blue Book" magazine in 1951 as "Planets in Combat". It was published in hardcover that year by Scribner's as part of the Heinlein juveniles.
The scientist parents of Don Harvey withdraw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45918 |
Augusta, Maine
Augusta is the state capital of the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Kennebec County.
The city's population was 19,136 at the 2010 census, making it the third-least populous state capital in the United States after Montpelier, Vermont, and Pierre, South Dakota, and the ninth-most populous cit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45920 |
Starman Jones
Starman Jones is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a farm boy who wants to go to the stars. It was first published by Charles Scribner's Sons as part of the Heinlein juveniles series.
Max Jones works the family farm in the Ozark Mountains. With his father dead and his stepmother m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45921 |
Geometric distribution
In probability theory and statistics, the geometric distribution is either of two discrete probability distributions:
Which of these one calls "the" geometric distribution is a matter of convention and convenience.
These two different geometric distributions should not be confused with each ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45922 |
Podkayne of Mars
Podkayne of Mars is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in "Worlds of If" (November 1962, January, March 1963), and published in hardcover in 1963. The novel is about a teenage girl named Podkayne "Poddy" Fries and her asocial younger genius brother, Cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45927 |
History of Australia
The history of Australia is the history of the area and people of the Indigenous and the more recently arrived settlers from the late 18th century onward. Aboriginal Australians arrived on the Australian mainland by sea from Maritime Southeast Asia between 40,000 and 70,000 years ago. The artistic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39582 |
Anjou
Anjou (, ; ; ) was a French province straddling the lower Loire River. Its capital was Angers and it was roughly coextensive with the diocese of Angers. It bordered Brittany to the west, Maine to the north, Touraine to the east and Poitou to the south. The adjectival form of Anjou is Angevin, and inhabitants of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39594 |
Human leg
The human leg, in the general word sense, is the entire lower limb of the human body, including the foot, thigh and even the hip or gluteal region. However, the definition in human anatomy refers only to the section of the lower limb extending from the knee to the ankle, also known as the crus.
Legs are used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39595 |
Italian East Africa
Italian East Africa (, AOI) was an Italian colony in the Horn of Africa. It was formed in 1936 through the merger of Italian Somalia, Italian Eritrea, and the newly occupied Ethiopian Empire, conquered in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
Italian East Africa was divided into six governorates. Eritre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39597 |
Blum Blum Shub
Blum Blum Shub (B.B.S.) is a pseudorandom number generator proposed in 1986 by Lenore Blum, Manuel Blum and Michael Shub that is derived from Michael O. Rabin's one-way function.
Blum Blum Shub takes the form
where "M" = "pq" is the product of two large primes "p" and "q". At each step of the algorith... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39599 |
Peckforton Castle
Peckforton Castle is a Victorian country house built in the style of a medieval castle. It stands in woodland at the north end of Peckforton Hills northwest of the village of Peckforton, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed buildin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39606 |
Walter Winterbottom
Sir Walter Winterbottom (31 March 1913 – 16 February 2002) was the first manager of the England football team (1946–1962) and FA Director of Coaching. He resigned from the FA in 1962 to become General Secretary of the Central Council of Physical Recreation (CCPR) and was appointed as the first Dire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39608 |
Soho
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London. Originally a fashionable district for the aristocracy, it has been one of the main entertainment districts in the capital since the 19th century.
The area was developed from farmland by Henry VIII in 1536, when it became a royal park. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39616 |
Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom
The British honours system is a means of rewarding individuals' personal bravery, achievement, or service to the United Kingdom and the British Overseas Territories. The system consists of three types of award – honours, decorations and medals:
Appointments to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39617 |
Electroporation
Electroporation, or electropermeabilization, is a microbiology technique in which an electrical field is applied to cells in order to increase the permeability of the cell membrane, allowing chemicals, drugs, or DNA to be introduced into the cell (also called electrotransfer). In microbiology, the proc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39619 |
Freddie Prinze
Freddie James Prinze (born Frederick Karl Pruetzel; June 22, 1954 – January 29, 1977) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Prinze was the star of NBC-TV sitcom "Chico and the Man" from 1974 until his death in 1977. Prinze is the father of actor Freddie Prinze Jr.
Prinze was born Frederick Karl ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39620 |
Shiraz
Shiraz (; ) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province also known as Pars (, ) and Persis (Persia). At the 2016 census, the population of the city was 1,869,001 and its built-up area with "Shahr-e Jadid-e Sadra" (Sadra New Town) was home to 1,565,572 inhabitants. Shiraz is located ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39622 |
Syrah
Syrah (), also known as Shiraz, is a dark-skinned grape variety grown throughout the world and used primarily to produce red wine. In 1999, Syrah was found to be the offspring of two obscure grapes from southeastern France, Dureza and Mondeuse Blanche. Syrah should not be confused with Petite Sirah, a cross of S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39623 |
Cymbeline
Cymbeline , also known as The Tragedie of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain () and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobeline. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39628 |
Shakespeare's late romances
The late romances, often simply called the romances, are a grouping of William Shakespeare's last plays, comprising "Pericles, Prince of Tyre"; "Cymbeline"; "The Winter's Tale"; and "The Tempest". "The Two Noble Kinsmen", of which Shakespeare was co-author, is sometimes also included in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39630 |
Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics
The cross-country skiing events at the 2002 Winter Olympics were marred by drug problems. The winners of three races were disqualified after blood tests showed that three skiers had overly high red blood cell counts indicating the use of darbepoetin, a drug used to trea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39634 |
New England Digital
New England Digital Corporation (1976–1993) was founded in Norwich, Vermont, and relocated to White River Junction, Vermont. It was best known for its signature product, the Synclavier Synthesizer System, which evolved into the Synclavier Digital Audio System or "Tapeless Studio." The company sold ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39648 |
OCaml
OCaml ( , formerly Objective Caml) is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language which extends the Caml dialect of ML with object-oriented features. OCaml was created in 1996 by Xavier Leroy, Jérôme Vouillon, Damien Doligez, Didier Rémy, Ascánder Suárez, and others.
The OCaml toolchain includes an i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39652 |
Dissociative identity disorder
Dissociative identity disorder (DID), previously known as multiple personality disorder (MPD), is a mental disorder characterized by the maintenance of at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states. The illness is accompanied by memory gaps beyond what would be explain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39653 |
Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, (19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences.
Banks made his name on the 1766 natural-history expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768–1771), visiting Brazil, Tahiti, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39657 |
John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy (; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include "The Forsyte Saga" (1906–1921) and its sequels, "A Modern Comedy" and "End of the Chapter". He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
Galsworthy was born at what is now known as Galsw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39658 |
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI (; ; ; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, , 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic Church who served as head of the Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2005 until his resignation in 2013. Benedict's election as pope occurred in the 2005 papal conclave that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39660 |
John Bunyan
John Bunyan (; baptised November 30, 1628August 31, 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory "The Pilgrim's Progress". In addition to "The Pilgrim's Progress", Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons.
Bunyan came from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39661 |
Kepler's Supernova
SN 1604, also known as Kepler's Supernova, Kepler's Nova or Kepler's Star, was a Type Ia supernova that occurred in the Milky Way, in the constellation Ophiuchus. Appearing in 1604, it is the most recent supernova in our galaxy to have been unquestionably observed by the naked eye, occurring no fart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39663 |
Jon Appleton
Jon Howard Appleton (born January 4, 1939) is an American composer and teacher who was a pioneer in electro-acoustic music. His earliest compositions in the medium, e.g. Chef d'Oeuvre and Newark Airport Rock attracted attention because they established a new tradition some have called programmatic electro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39665 |
Synclavier
The Synclavier was an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation manufactured by New England Digital Corporation of Norwich, Vermont. It was produced in various forms from the late 1970s into the early 1990s. The instrument has been used by prominent musicians.
The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39668 |
Dengue fever
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne tropical disease caused by the dengue virus. Symptoms typically begin three to fourteen days after infection. These may include a high fever, headache, vomiting, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic skin rash. Recovery generally takes two to seven days. In a small ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39669 |
Eleusine coracana
Eleusine coracana, or finger millet, is an annual herbaceous plant widely grown as a cereal crop in the arid and semiarid areas in Africa and Asia. It is commonly called kodo in Nepal where 877 accessions have been maintained by National Plant Genetic Resource Centre, Khumaltar, Nepal. It is a tetrap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39670 |
Gas sculpture
Gas sculpture is a proposal made by Joan Miró in his late writings to make sculptures out of gaseous materials.
The idea of a gas sculpture also appeared in the book "Gog", by Giovanni Papini (1881–1956).
An example of pure water fog sculpture is in the sculpture garden at the National Gallery of Austr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39672 |
Berengar of Tours
Berengar of Tours (c. 9996 January 1088), in Latin Berengarius Turonensis, was an 11th-century French Christian theologian and archdeacon of Angers, a scholar whose leadership of the cathedral school at Chartres set an example of intellectual inquiry through the revived tools of dialectic that was so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39673 |
Planetary nebula
A planetary nebula, abbreviated as PN or plural PNe, is a type of emission nebula consisting of an expanding, glowing shell of ionized gas ejected from red giant stars late in their lives.
The term "planetary nebula" is a misnomer because they are unrelated to planets or exoplanets. The term originat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39674 |
DeCSS
DeCSS is one of the first free computer programs capable of decrypting content on a commercially produced DVD video disc. Before the release of DeCSS, other operating systems (such as BSD and GNU/Linux) could not play encrypted video DVDs.
DeCSS's development was done without a license from the DVD Copy Control... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39675 |
Black's Law Dictionary
Black's Law is the most widely used law dictionary in the United States. Henry Campbell Black (1860–1927) authored the first two editions (see a list of all editions, below). The U.S. Supreme Court has cited the dictionary as a secondary legal authority in many U.S. Supreme Court cases.
The fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39679 |
Muckleshoot
The Muckleshoot are a Lushootseed-speaking Indian tribe, part of the Coast Salish peoples of the Pacific Northwest. They are descendants of the Duwamish and Puyallup peoples whose traditional territory was located along the Green and White rivers, including up to the headwaters in the foothills of the Casc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39681 |
Banksia
Banksia is a genus of around 170 species in the plant family Proteaceae. These Australian wildflowers and popular garden plants are easily recognised by their characteristic flower spikes and fruiting "cones" and heads. "Banksias" range in size from prostrate woody shrubs to trees up to 30 metres tall. They ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39683 |
Figure skating jumps
Figure skating jumps are an element of three competitive figure skating disciplines—men's singles, ladies' singles, and pair skating but not ice dancing. Jumping in figure skating is "relatively recent". They were originally individual compulsory figures, and sometimes special figures; many jumps ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39685 |
Norwich, Vermont
Norwich is a town in Windsor County, in the U.S. state of Vermont. The population was 3,414 at the 2010 census. Home to some of the state of Vermont's wealthiest residents, the municipality is a commuter town for nearby Hanover, New Hampshire across the Connecticut River. The town is part of the Dresd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39687 |
Niihau
Niihau (Hawaiian: ) anglicized as Niihau ( ) is the westernmost main and seventh largest inhabited island in Hawaii. It is southwest of Kauai across the Kaulakahi Channel. Its area is . Several intermittent playa lakes provide wetland habitats for the Hawaiian coot, the Hawaiian stilt, and the Hawaiian duck. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39688 |
Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and created by Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. At the airing of its last episode, it was the longest-running police... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39690 |
Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, also known as FIBT from the French . National competiti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39693 |
Oak
An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (;; Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 600 extant species of oaks. The common name "oak" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably "Lithocarpus" (stone oaks), as well as in those of unrelated species such as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39696 |
Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (; July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, who is considered one of the most significant figures in American western folk music. His music, including songs, such as "This Land Is Your Land", has inspired several generations both politically and musically... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33278 |
County Wicklow
County Wicklow ( ; ) is a county in Ireland. The last of the traditional 32 counties to be formed, as late as 1606, it is part of the Mid-East Region and also part of the traditional province of Leinster. It is named after the town of Wicklow, which derives from the Old Norse name "Víkingaló", meaning "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33279 |
Coregonus
Coregonus is a diverse genus of fish in the salmon family (Salmonidae). The "Coregonus" species are known as whitefishes. The genus contains at least 68 described extant taxa, but the true number of species is a matter of debate. The type species of the genus is "Coregonus lavaretus".
Most "Coregonus" speci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33282 |
Wuxia
The word "" is a compound composed of the elements (, literally "martial", "military", or "armed") and (, literally "chivalrous", "vigilante" or "hero"). A martial artist who follows the code of is often referred to as a (, literally "follower of ") or (, literally "wandering "). In some translations, the martia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33284 |
Words of Mormon
The Words of Mormon is one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon. It is the only one of them which is not titled as a 'book' and consists of a single chapter of eighteen verses. According to the text, it is a comment inserted by the prophet Mormon while compiling the records which became the Boo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33287 |
Wisława Szymborska
Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska (; 2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent, which has since become part of Kórnik, she later resided in Kraków until the end of her life. In Poland, Szymborska's books ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33290 |
WYSIWYG
In computing, What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG, ) is a system where editing software allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as a printed document, web page, or slide presentation.
WYSIWYG implies a user interface that allo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33291 |
Wire-frame model
A wire-frame model, also wireframe model, is a visual representation of a three-dimensional (3D) physical object used in 3D computer graphics. It is created by specifying each edge of the physical object where two mathematically continuous smooth surfaces meet, or by connecting an object's constituent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33292 |
WIPO Copyright Treaty
The World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty (WIPO Copyright Treaty or WCT) is an international treaty on copyright law adopted by the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 1996. It provides additional protections for copyright to respond to adva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33293 |
World Intellectual Property Organization
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO; ) is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN). Pursuant to the 1967 Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO was created to promote and protect intellectual property (IP) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33294 |
Wicca
Wicca (), also termed Pagan Witchcraft, is a modern Pagan religion. Scholars of religion categorise it as both a new religious movement and as part of the occultist stream of Western esotericism. It was developed in England during the first half of the 20th century and was introduced to the public in 1954 by Ger... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33295 |
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of the United States in 1841. He died of typhoid, pneumonia or paratyphoid fever 31 days into his term (the shortest tenure), becoming the first president t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33299 |
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) was a British mathematical physicist and engineer who was born in Belfast in 1824. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and secon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33302 |
Wankel engine
The Wankel engine is a type of internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design to convert pressure into rotating motion.
All parts of a rotary engine rotate in one direction. This is opposed to the common reciprocating piston engine, which has pistons instantly and rapidly changing direction... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33303 |
White Dwarf (magazine)
White Dwarf is a magazine published by British games manufacturer Games Workshop, which has long served as a promotions and advertising platform for Games Workshop and Citadel Miniatures products.
During the first ten years of its publication, it covered a wide variety of fantasy and science-fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33304 |
Water
Water is an inorganic, transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance, which is the main constituent of Earth's hydrosphere and the fluids of all known living organisms. It is vital for all known forms of life, even though it provides no calories or organic nutrients. Its chemical form... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33306 |
Weezer
Weezer is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1992. Since 2001, the band has consisted of Rivers Cuomo (lead vocals, lead guitar, keyboards), Patrick Wilson (drums), Brian Bell (guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), and Scott Shriner (bass, backing vocals).
After signing to Geffen Records... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33308 |
Wave–particle duality
Wave–particle duality is the concept in quantum mechanics that every particle or quantum entity may be described as either a particle or a wave. It expresses the inability of the classical concepts "particle" or "wave" to fully describe the behaviour of quantum-scale objects. As Albert Einstein w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33426 |
Wolfenstein 3D
Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software and FormGen. Originally released on May 5, 1992 for DOS, it was inspired by the 1981 Muse Software video game "Castle Wolfenstein", and is the third installment in the "Wolfenstein" series. In "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33430 |
Whidbey Island
Whidbey Island (historical spellings Whidby, Whitbey, or Whitby) is the largest of the islands composing Island County, Washington, in the United States. (The other large island is Camano Island, east of Whidbey.) Whidbey is about north of Seattle, and lies between the Olympic Peninsula and the I-5 corr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33431 |
Writers of the Future
Writers of the Future (WOTF) is a science fiction and fantasy story contest that was established by L. Ron Hubbard in the early 1980s. A sister contest, Illustrators of the Future, presents awards for science fiction art. Hubbard characterized the contest as a way of "giving back" to the field th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33432 |
Wilfrid Laurier
Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier ( ; ; 20 November 1841 – 17 February 1919) was a Canadian politician and statesman who served as the seventh prime minister of Canada, in office from 11 July 1896 to 6 October 1911.
Laurier is often considered one of the country's greatest statesmen. He is well-known ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33433 |
William Lyon Mackenzie King
William Lyon Mackenzie King (December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950), commonly known as Mackenzie King, was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s. He served as the tenth prime minister of Canada in 1921–1926, 1926–1930 and 1935–1948. He is best known for his lea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33436 |
Waterloo (1970 film)
Waterloo () is a 1970 epic period war film directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It depicts the story of the preliminary events and the Battle of Waterloo and is famous for its lavish battle scenes. It was a co-production between the Soviet Union and Italy, and was film... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33446 |
William Empson
Sir William Empson (27 September 1906 – 15 April 1984) was an English literary critic and poet, widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, a practice fundamental to New Criticism. His best-known work is his first, "Seven Types of Ambiguity", published in 1930.
Jonathan Bate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33449 |
Web server
A web server is server software, or hardware dedicated to running this software, that can satisfy client requests on the World Wide Web. A web server can, in general, contain one or more websites. A web server processes incoming network requests over HTTP and several other related protocols.
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Well-order
In mathematics, a well-order (or well-ordering or well-order relation) on a set "S" is a total order on "S" with the property that every non-empty subset of "S" has a least element in this ordering. The set "S" together with the well-order relation is then called a well-ordered set. In some academic article... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33456 |
Well-ordering theorem
In mathematics, the well-ordering theorem, also known as Zermelo's theorem or well-ordering principle, states that every set can be well-ordered. A set "X" is "well-ordered" by a strict total order if every non-empty subset of "X" has a least element under the ordering. The well-ordering theorem ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33458 |
Weapon
A weapon, arm or armament is any implement or device that can be used with intent to inflict damage or harm. Weapons are used to increase the efficacy and efficiency of activities such as hunting, crime, law enforcement, self-defense, and warfare. In broader context, weapons may be construed to include anything... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33496 |
Wire
A wire is a single, usually cylindrical, flexible strand or rod of metal. Wires are used to bear mechanical loads or electricity and telecommunications signals. Wire is commonly formed by drawing the metal through a hole in a die or draw plate. Wire gauges come in various standard sizes, as expressed in terms of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33498 |
White dwarf
A white dwarf, also called a degenerate dwarf, is a stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. A white dwarf is very dense: its mass is comparable to that of the Sun, while its volume is comparable to that of Earth. A white dwarf's faint luminosity comes from the emission of stored... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33501 |
Wabash College
Wabash College is a private, men's liberal arts college in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Founded in 1832 by several Dartmouth College graduates and Midwestern leaders, it enrolls nearly 900 students. The college offers an undergraduate liberal arts curriculum in three academic divisions with 39 majors.
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Walking
Walking (also known as ambulation) is one of the main gaits of locomotion among legged animals. Walking is typically slower than running and other gaits. Walking is defined by an 'inverted pendulum' gait in which the body vaults over the stiff limb or limbs with each step. This applies regardless of the unusab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33509 |
War of the Polish Succession
The War of the Polish Succession (; 1733–35) was a major European conflict sparked by a Polish civil war over the succession to Augustus II of Poland, which the other European powers widened in pursuit of their own national interests. France and Spain, the two Bourbon powers, attempted to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33514 |
Wave
In physics, mathematics, and related fields, a wave is a disturbance (change from equilibrium) of one or more fields such that the field values oscillate repeatedly about a stable equilibrium (resting) value. If the relative amplitude of oscillation at different points in the field remains constant, the wave is s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33516 |
William McKinley
William McKinley (born William McKinley Jr.; January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th president of the United States from 1897, until his assassination in 1901. During his presidency, McKinley led the nation to victory in the Spanish–American War, raised protective tariffs to promote Americ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33521 |
Isis
Isis (; "Ēse"; "Isis"; Meroitic: "Wos"["a"] or "Wusa") was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingdom (c. 2686–2181 BCE) as one of the main characters of the Osiris myth, in which she resurrects her slain husband,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37753 |
Mountain
A mountain is a large landform that rises above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak. A mountain is generally considered to be steeper than a hill. Mountains are formed through tectonic forces or volcanism. These forces can locally raise the surface of the earth. Mountains ero... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37754 |
Vindolanda
Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort ("castrum") just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, which it originally pre-dated. Archaeological excavations of the site show it was under Roman occupation from roughly 85 AD to 370 AD. Located near the modern village of Bardon Mill in Northumberland, it guar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37757 |
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