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Audit trail
An audit trail (also called audit log) is a security-relevant chronological record, set of records, and/or destination and source of records that provide documentary evidence of the sequence of activities that have affected at any time a specific operation, procedure, or event. Audit records typically resu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40742 |
Authenticator
An authenticator is the means used to confirm the identity of a user, that is, to perform digital authentication. A person authenticates to a computer system or application by demonstrating that he or she has possession and control of an authenticator. In the simplest case, the authenticator is a common ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40745 |
Automated information system
An automated information system (AIS) is an assembly of computer hardware, software, firmware, or any combination of these, configured to accomplish specific information-handling operations, such as communication, computation, dissemination, processing, and storage of information. Included... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40746 |
Automated information systems security
In telecommunication, automated information systems security comprises measures and controls that ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information processed and stored by automated information systems. The unauthorized disclosure, modification, or destructio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40747 |
Automatic callback
In telecommunication, an automatic callback is a computer telephony calling feature that permits a user, when encountering a busy condition or other condition where the called individual is unavailable, to instruct the system to retain the called number and to establish the call when there is an ava... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40748 |
Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War (; , "Japanese-Russian War") was fought during 1904 and 1905 between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. The major theatres of operations were the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden in Southern Manchuria and the seas arou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44575 |
Big O notation
Big O notation is a mathematical notation that describes the limiting behavior of a function when the argument tends towards a particular value or infinity. Big O is a member of a family of notations invented by Paul Bachmann, Edmund Landau, and others, collectively called Bachmann–Landau notation or as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44578 |
Monostable
A monostable multivibrator, also called a one shot, is a sequential logic electronic circuit that generates an output pulse. When triggered, a pulse of pre-defined duration is produced. The circuit then returns to its stable state and produces no more output until triggered again.
Monostables may be consid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44580 |
Robert of Ketton
Robert of Ketton, known in Latin as Rodbertus Ketenensis ( 1141–1157), was an English astronomer, translator, priest and diplomat active in Spain. He translated several works of Arabic into Latin, including the first translation of the Quran into any Western language. Between 1144 and 1157 he held an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44584 |
Cyclotron
A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest O. Lawrence in 1929–1930 at the University of California, Berkeley, and patented in 1932. A cyclotron accelerates charged particles outwards from the center along a spiral path. The particles are held to a spiral trajectory by a static magnetic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44585 |
Radius of gyration
Radius of gyration or gyradius of a body about an axis of rotation is defined as the radial distance to a point which would have a moment of inertia the same as the body's actual distribution of mass, if the total mass of the body were concentrated.
Mathematically the radius of gyration is the root... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44590 |
Portland, Maine
Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County. Portland's population was 66,215 as of 2019. The Greater Portland metropolitan area is home to over half a million people, more than one-third of Maine's total population, making it the most populous metrop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44591 |
National parks of England and Wales
The national parks of England and Wales are areas of relatively undeveloped and scenic landscape that are designated under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 (save for the Broads which was set up under the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988). Despite their si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44592 |
Rib
In vertebrate anatomy, ribs () are the long curved bones which form the rib cage, part of the axial skeleton. In most tetrapods, ribs surround the chest, enabling the lungs to expand and thus facilitate breathing by expanding the chest cavity. They serve to protect the lungs, heart, and other internal organs of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44593 |
Sea butterfly
Sea butterflies, scientific name Thecosomata (thecosomes, "case/shell-body"), are a taxonomic suborder of small pelagic swimming sea snails. These are holoplanktonic opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the informal group Opisthobranchia. They include some of the world's most abundant gastropod species.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44594 |
Positronium
Positronium (Ps) is a system consisting of an electron and its anti-particle, a positron, bound together into an exotic atom, specifically an onium. The system is unstable: the two particles annihilate each other to predominantly produce two or three gamma-rays, depending on the relative spin states. The e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44596 |
National parks of Scotland
The national parks of Scotland are managed areas of outstanding landscape where some forms of development are restricted to preserve the landscape and natural environment. At present, Scotland has two national parks: Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, created in 2002, and the Cairn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44597 |
Chalcedony
Chalcedony () is a cryptocrystalline form of silica, composed of very fine intergrowths of quartz and moganite. These are both silica minerals, but they differ in that quartz has a trigonal crystal structure, while moganite is monoclinic. Chalcedony's standard chemical structure (based on the chemical struc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44599 |
Calcite
Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). The Mohs scale of mineral hardness, based on scratch hardness comparison, defines value 3 as "calcite".
Other polymorphs of calcium carbonate are the minerals aragonite and vaterite. Aragonite will change to calcite ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44603 |
Ars Magica
Ars Magica is a role-playing game set in 'Mythic Europe' - a historically-grounded version of Europe and the Levant around AD 1200, with the added conceit that conceptions of the world prevalent in folklore and institutions of the High Middle Ages are factual reality (a situation known informally as the 'me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44605 |
Casu marzu
Casu marzu (; literally 'rotten/putrid cheese'), also called casu modde, casu cundídu and casu fràzigu in Sardinian, is a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese that contains live insect larvae (maggots). A variation of the cheese, , is also produced in some Southern Corsican villages.
Derived from pecori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44606 |
History of British newspapers
The history of British newspapers dates to the 17th century with the emergence of regular publications covering news and gossip. The relaxation of government censorship in the late 17th century led to a rise in publications, which in turn led to an increase in regulation throughout the 18... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44607 |
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt (; born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 or 23 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including "La Dame Aux Camelias" by Alexandre Dumas, "fils"; "Ruy Blas" by Victor Hugo; "Fé... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44608 |
Dave Mattacks
David James "Dave" Mattacks (born 13 March 1948) is an English rock and folk drummer. Best known for his work with Fairport Convention, Mattacks has also worked both as a session musician and as a performance artist. Apart from playing the drums, he is also a versed keyboard player and occasionally playe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44610 |
Thomas F. Bayard
Thomas Francis Bayard (October 29, 1828 – September 28, 1898) was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat from Wilmington, Delaware. A Democrat, he served three terms as United States Senator from Delaware and made three unsuccessful bids for the Democratic nomination for President of the United S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44613 |
British sitcom
A British sitcom or a Britcom is a situation comedy programme produced for British television. Although styles of sitcom have changed over the years they tend to be based on a family, workplace or other institution, where the same group of contrasting characters is brought together in each episode. Brit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44616 |
Pete Phipps
Peter William Phipps (born 5 August 1951 in Clapham, South London) is a rock drummer, singer and songwriter known for his work with Gary Glitter, The Glitter Band, and later Eurythmics, XTC and Denim.
Phipps was a founder member of The Glitter Band (originally known as The Glittermen), who started as Gary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44617 |
Homeland defense
Homeland defense (HD) is the protection of a territory, sovereignty, domestic population, and critical infrastructure against external threats and aggression. (Definition will be incorporated into JP 3-26 upon its approval). Not to be confused with Homeland security.
Homeland security (HS) is a conce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44622 |
Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna (, ) of 1814–1815 was one of the most important international conferences in European history. It remade Europe after the downfall of French Emperor Napoleon I. It was a meeting of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich, and held in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44628 |
Diphthong
A diphthong ( or ; from Greek: , "diphthongos", literally "double sound" or "double tone"; from "δΐς" "¨twice" and "φθόγγος" "sound"), also known as a gliding vowel, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable. Technically, a diphthong is a vowel with two different targets: that is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44629 |
History of Portugal (1415–1578)
The Kingdom of Portugal in the 15th century was the first European power to begin building a colonial empire. The Portuguese Renaissance was a period of exploration during which Portuguese sailors discovered several Atlantic archipelagos like the Azores, Madeira, and Cape Verde, explore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44631 |
Ultramarine
Ultramarine is a deep blue color pigment which was originally made by grinding lapis lazuli into a powder. The name comes from the Latin "ultramarinus", literally "beyond the sea", because the pigment was imported into Europe from mines in Afghanistan by Italian traders during the 14th and 15th centuries.
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Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
Raised in St. Loui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44634 |
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by the Recording Academy to recognize achievements in the music industry. The trophy depicts a gilded gramophone. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44635 |
Grammy Award for Song of the Year
The Grammy Award for Song of the Year is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. The Song of the Year award is one of the four most prestigious categories at the awards (alongside Best New Artist, Re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44636 |
Led Zeppelin (album)
Led Zeppelin is the debut album by English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released on 12 January 1969 in the United States and on 31 March in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Records.
The album was recorded in September and October 1968 at Olympic Studios in London, shortly after the band's formati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44640 |
Ferdinand II of León
Ferdinand II (c. 1137 – 22 January 1188) was King of León and Galicia from 1157 to his death.
Born in Toledo, Castile, he was the son of King Alfonso VII of León and Castile and of Berenguela, of the House of Barcelona. At his father's death, he received León and Galicia, while his brother Sancho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44641 |
Strom Thurmond
James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American military officer and politician who served for 48 years as a United States Senator from South Carolina. He ran for president in 1948 as the Dixiecrat candidate on a States Rights platform supporting racial segregation. He receiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44642 |
Michif
Michif (also Mitchif, Mechif, Michif-Cree, Métif, Métchif, French Cree) is the language of the Métis people of Canada and the United States, who are the descendants of First Nations women (mainly Cree, Nakota and Ojibwe) and fur trade workers of European ancestry (mainly French and Scottish Canadians). Michif e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44645 |
National parks of New Zealand
The national parks of New Zealand are protected areas administered by the Department of Conservation (DOC). Although the national parks contain some of New Zealand's most beautiful scenery, the first few established were all focused on mountain scenery. Since the 1980s the focus has been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44649 |
Lapis lazuli
Lapis lazuli (), or lapis for short, is a deep-blue metamorphic rock used as a semi-precious stone that has been prized since antiquity for its intense color.
As early as the 7th millennium BCE, lapis lazuli was mined in the Sar-i Sang mines, in Shortugai, and in other mines in Badakhshan province in nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44653 |
Domenico Scarlatti
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (Naples, 26 October 1685 Madrid, 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style. Like his renowned father Alessandro Scarlatti, he compos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44656 |
Metis (mythology)
Metis (; , "wisdom", "skill", or "craft"), in ancient Greek religion, was a mythical Titaness belonging to the second generation of Titans.
By the era of Greek philosophy in the 5th century BC, Metis had become the mother of wisdom and deep thought, but her name originally connoted "magical cunning... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44657 |
One-child policy
The one-child policy was part of a birth planning program designed to control the size of the rapidly growing population of the People's Republic of China. Distinct from the family planning policies of most other countries, which focus on providing contraceptive options to help women have the number o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44664 |
Arago spot
In optics, the Arago spot, Poisson spot, or Fresnel spot is a bright point that appears at the center of a circular object's shadow due to Fresnel diffraction. This spot played an important role in the discovery of the wave nature of light and is a common way to demonstrate that light behaves as a wave (for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44665 |
Battle of Hastings
The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman conquest of England. It took place approximately northwest of Hastings, close to the present-day... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44667 |
Porcupine
Porcupines are large rodents with coats of sharp spines, or quills, that protect them against predators. The term covers two families of animals: the Old World porcupines of family Hystricidae, and the New World porcupines of family Erethizontidae. Both families belong to the infraorder Hystricognathi within... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44668 |
François Arago
Arago was born at Estagel, a small village of 3,000 near Perpignan, in the "" of Pyrénées-Orientales, France, where his father held the position of Treasurer of the Mint.
His parents were François Bonaventure Arago (1754–1814) and Marie Arago (1755–1845).
Arago was the eldest of four brothers. Jean (17... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44669 |
Siméon Denis Poisson
Baron Siméon Denis Poisson FRS FRSE (; 21 June 1781 – 25 April 1840) was a French mathematician, engineer, and physicist who made many scientific advances.
Poisson was born in Pithiviers, Loiret district in France, the son of Siméon Poisson, an officer in the French army.
In 1798, he entered th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44670 |
The Mothman Prophecies
The Mothman Prophecies is a 1975 book by John Keel.
The book relates Keel's accounts of his investigation into alleged sightings of a large, winged creature called Mothman in the vicinity of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, during 1966 and 1967. It combines these accounts with his theories about ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44672 |
Polokwane
Polokwane (, meaning "Place of Safety" in Northern Sotho), also known by its former name, Pietersburg, is a city and the capital of the Limpopo Province of South Africa. It is South Africa's largest urban centre north of Gauteng. Polokwane was one of the host cities of the official tournament of the 2010 FIF... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44680 |
Bourbon whiskey
Bourbon whiskey is a type of American whiskey, a barrel-aged distilled spirit made primarily from corn. The name ultimately derives from the French Bourbon dynasty, although the precise inspiration for the whiskey's name is uncertain; contenders include Bourbon County in Kentucky and Bourbon Street in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44681 |
CMYK color model
The CMYK color model (; process color, four color) is a subtractive color model, based on the CMY color model, used in color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself. CMYK refers to the four ink plates used in some color printing: cyan, magenta, yellow, and
key (black).
The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44682 |
Protected areas of South Africa
The protected areas of South Africa include national parks and marine protected areas managed by the national government, public nature reserves managed by provincial and local governments, and private nature reserves managed by private landowners. Most protected areas are intended for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44683 |
List of national parks of France
The national parks of France are a system of eleven national parks throughout metropolitan France and its overseas departments, coordinated by the French Agency for Biodiversity (French: "Agence française pour la biodiversité"), an établissement public à caractère administratif under t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44686 |
Almost everywhere
In measure theory (a branch of mathematical analysis), a property holds almost everywhere if, in a technical sense, the set for which the property holds takes up nearly all possibilities. The notion of "almost everywhere" is a companion notion to the concept of measure zero, and is analogous to the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44688 |
West Berlin
West Berlin ( or colloquially "West-Berlin") was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War. There was no specific date on which the sectors of Berlin occupied by the Western Allies became "West Berlin", but 1949 is widely accepted as the year in which t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33170 |
War film
War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama. It has been strongly associated with the 20th century. The fateful nature of battle scenes means that war films often end with them. Themes explored include combat, survival a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33171 |
Wireless network
A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes.
Wireless networking is a method by which homes, telecommunications networks and business installations avoid the costly process of introducing cables into a building, or as a connection between various... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33172 |
Web browser
A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for accessing information on the World Wide Web. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the web browser retrieves the necessary content from a web server and then displays the page on a screen.
A web browser is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33173 |
Wharf
A wharf, quay (, also ), or staith(e) is a structure on the shore of a harbour or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. Such a structure includes one or more berths (mooring locations), and may also include piers, warehouses, or other facilities necessary fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33174 |
William Blake
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. What he called his prophetic works were said by 20th-century... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33175 |
Demon dialing
In the computer hacking scene of the 1980s, demon dialing was a technique by which a computer was used to repeatedly dial a number (usually to a crowded modem pool) in an attempt to gain access immediately after another user had hung up. The expansion of accessible internet service provider connectivity ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33176 |
White supremacy
White supremacy or white supremacism is the racist belief that white people are superior to people of other races and therefore should be dominant over them. White supremacy has roots in the now-discredited doctrine of scientific racism and often relies on pseudoscientific arguments. Like most similar ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33178 |
W
W or w is the 23rd and fourth-to-last letter of the modern English and ISO basic Latin alphabets. It usually represents a consonant, but in some languages it represents a vowel. Its name in English is "double-u", plural "double-ues".
The sounds (spelled ) and (spelled ) of Classical Latin developed into a bilabial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33180 |
Woman
A woman is a female human being. The word "woman" is usually reserved for an adult; "girl" is the usual term for a female child or adolescent. The plural "women" is also sometimes used for female humans, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "women's rights".
Typically, a woman has two X chromosomes and is c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33183 |
Waffen-SS
The Waffen-SS (, "Armed SS") was the military branch of the Nazi Party's SS organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with volunteers and conscripts from both occupied and unoccupied lands.
The Waffen-SS grew from three regiments to over 38 divisions during World War II, and served ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33186 |
Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham ( ); 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s.
Both Maugham's parents died before he was 10, and the orphaned boy wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33187 |
Wake Island
Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll in the western Pacific Ocean in the northeastern area of the Micronesia subregion, east of Guam, west of Honolulu, southeast of Tokyo, and north of Majuro. The island is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States that is also claime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33189 |
Wallis and Futuna
Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands (; or ', Fakauvea and Fakafutuna: '), is a French island collectivity in the South Pacific between Tuvalu to the northwest, Fiji to the southwest, Tonga to the southeast, Samoa to the east, and Tokelau to the northeast.
Its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33199 |
Demographics of Wallis and Futuna
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Wallis and Futuna, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
The following demographic statistics a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33202 |
West Bank
The West Bank ( '; ' or "") is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, bordered by Jordan to the east and by the Green Line separating it and Israel on the south, west and north. The West Bank also contains a significant section of the western Dead Sea shore. The "West Bank" was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33209 |
Western Sahara
Western Sahara ( ""; ; Spanish and French: ) is a disputed territory on the northwest coast and in the Maghreb region of North and West Africa, partially controlled by the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and partially occupied by neighboring Morocco. Its surface area amounts to . It is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33220 |
History of Western Sahara
The history of Western Sahara can be traced back to the times of Carthaginian explorer Hanno the Navigator in the 5th century BC. Though few historical records are left from that period, Western Sahara's modern history has its roots linked to some nomadic groups (living under Berber tribal ru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33221 |
Demographics of Western Sahara
All data about demographic information regarding Western Sahara is extremely error prone, regardless of source. Most countries take censuses every ten years, and some every five in order to stay abreast of change and miscounts; the last count was conducted in 1970, and even that data by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33223 |
Economy of Western Sahara
The majority of the territory of Western Sahara - the Southern Provinces - is currently administered by the Kingdom of Morocco. As such, the majority of the economic activity of Western Sahara happens in the framework of the economy of Morocco.
In the Moroccan-administered territory, fishing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33225 |
Telecommunications in Western Sahara
Telecommunications in Western Sahara include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Morocco claims the Western Sahara territory and administers Moroccan law through Moroccan institutions in the estimated 85 percent of the territory it controls. The Popul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33226 |
Transport in Western Sahara
Transport in Western Sahara is very limited by sea, road and air with camels being the primary means of transport in the desert area. Road transport by buses remain the major mode of transportation. The longest conveyor belt in the world is long, from the phosphate mines of Bu Craa to the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33227 |
Political status of Western Sahara
Western Sahara, formerly the Spanish colony of Spanish Sahara, is a disputed territory claimed by both the Kingdom of Morocco and the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (Polisario Front), which is an independence movement based in Algeria. It is li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33229 |
Wolfgang Petersen
Wolfgang Petersen (born 14 March 1941) is a German film director, film producer and screenwriter. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for the World War II submarine warfare film "Das Boot" (1981). His other films include "The NeverEnding Story" (1984), "Enemy Mine" (1985), "In the Line of Fire" (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33230 |
White matter
White matter refers to areas of the central nervous system (CNS) that are mainly made up of myelinated axons, also called tracts. Long thought to be passive tissue, white matter affects learning and brain functions, modulating the distribution of action potentials, acting as a relay and coordinating commu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33234 |
Word processor (electronic device)
A word processor is an electric device or computer software application that performs the task of composing, editing, formatting, and printing of documents.
The word processor was a stand-alone office machine in the 1960s, combining the keyboard text-entry and printing functions of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33236 |
WorldForge
The WorldForge project is producing an open source framework for massively multiplayer online role-playing games. The intent lies in creating a widely used development framework and set of libraries by motivating interested developers to improve on the original source code.
The WorldForge Project began in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33254 |
Widescreen
Widescreen images are images that are displayed within a set of aspect ratios (relationship of image width to height) used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than the standard 1.37:1 Academy aspect ratio provided... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33263 |
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, when he led the country to victory in the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years betw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33265 |
Władysław Reymont
Władysław Reymont (, born Rejment; 7 May 1867 – 5 December 1925) was a Polish novelist and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel "Chłopi" ("The Peasants").
Born into an impoverished noble family, Reymont was educated to become ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33266 |
William DeVries
William Castle DeVries (born December 19, 1943) is an American cardiothoracic surgeon, mainly known for the first transplant of a TAH (total artificial heart) using the Jarvik-7 model.
William DeVries was born December 19, 1943 in Brooklyn Navy Yard. His father, Henry DeVries, was a Dutch immigrant wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33267 |
When Harry Met Sally...
When Harry Met Sally... is a 1989 American romantic comedy film written by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner. It stars Billy Crystal as Harry and Meg Ryan as Sally. The story follows the title characters from the time they meet just before sharing a cross-country drive, through twelve year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33270 |
Weighted arithmetic mean
The weighted arithmetic mean is similar to an ordinary arithmetic mean (the most common type of average), except that instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others. The notion of weighted mean plays a role in descript... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33274 |
W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an Anglo-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content. Some of his best known poems are about love, suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33276 |
William Morris
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33277 |
Philip Larkin
Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, "The North Ship", was published in 1945, followed by two novels, "Jill" (1946) and "A Girl in Winter" (1947), and he came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43923 |
Java API for XML Processing
In computing, the Java API for XML Processing, or JAXP ( ), one of the Java XML Application programming interfaces (API)s, provides the capability of validating and parsing XML documents. It has three basic parsing interfaces:
In addition to the parsing interfaces, the API provides an XSL... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43926 |
Transitive verb
A transitive verb is a verb that accepts one or more objects. This contrasts with intransitive verbs, which do not have objects. Transitivity is traditionally thought a global property of a clause, by which activity is transferred from an agent to a patient.
Transitive verbs can be classified by the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43931 |
Intransitive verb
In grammar, an intransitive verb does not allow a direct object. This is a distinctive from a transitive verb, which takes one or more objects. The verb property is called "transitivity". Intransitive verbs are often identified as those that can't be followed by "who" or "what".
In the following sen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43933 |
Micrometer
A micrometer, sometimes known as a micrometer screw gauge, is a device incorporating a calibrated screw widely used for accurate measurement of components in mechanical engineering and machining as well as most mechanical trades, along with other metrological instruments such as dial, vernier, and digital c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43935 |
Ditransitive verb
In grammar, a ditransitive verb is a verb which takes a subject and two objects which refer to a theme and a recipient. According to certain linguistics considerations, these objects may be called "direct" and "indirect", or "primary" and "secondary". This is in contrast to monotransitive verbs, whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43936 |
Parasitism
In evolutionary ecology, parasitism is a symbiotic relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or in another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has characterised parasites as "predators that ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43937 |
Bacterial lawn
Bacterial lawn is a term used by microbiologists to describe the appearance of bacterial colonies when all the individual colonies on a Petri dish agar plate merge to form a field or mat of bacteria. Bacterial lawns find use in screens for antibiotic resistance and bacteriophage titering.
Bacterial law... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43938 |
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player (WMP) is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. Editions of Win... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43941 |
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