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Petri dish
A Petri dish (alternatively known as a Petri plate or cell-culture dish) is a shallow transparent lidded dish that biologists use to culture cells, such as bacteria, fungi or small mosses. It is the most common type of culture plate. The Petri dish is one of the most common items in biology laboratories and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43942 |
Massage
Massage is the manipulation of the body's soft tissues. Massage techniques are commonly applied with hands, fingers, elbows, knees, forearms, feet, or a device. The purpose of massage is generally for the treatment of body stress or pain. A person who was professionally trained to give massages was traditional... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43945 |
Biofilm
A biofilm comprises any syntrophic consortium of microorganisms in which cells stick to each other and often also to a surface. These adherent cells become embedded within a slimy extracellular matrix that is composed of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). The cells within the biofilm produce the EPS com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43946 |
Star formation
Star formation is the process by which dense regions within molecular clouds in The "medium" is present further soon.-->interstellar space, sometimes referred to as "stellar nurseries" or "star-forming regions", collapse and form stars. As a branch of astronomy, star formation includes the study of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43948 |
Interstate Highway System
The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System in the United States. Construction of the system was authorized by the Federa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43950 |
United States Numbered Highway System
The United States Numbered Highway System (often called U.S. Routes or U.S. Highways) is an integrated network of roads and highways numbered within a nationwide grid in the contiguous United States. As the designation and numbering of these highways were coordinated among the sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43951 |
Erlenmeyer flask
An Erlenmeyer flask, also known as a conical flask (British English) or a titration flask, is a type of laboratory flask which features a flat bottom, a conical body, and a cylindrical neck. It is named after the German chemist Emil Erlenmeyer (1825–1909), who created it in 1860.
Erlenmeyer flasks ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43956 |
Laboratory glassware
Laboratory glassware refers to a variety of equipment used in scientific work, and traditionally made of glass. Glass can be blown, bent, cut, molded, and formed into many sizes and shapes, and is therefore common in chemistry, biology, and analytical laboratories. Many laboratories have training ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43958 |
Clozapine
Clozapine, sold under the brand name Clozaril among others, is an atypical antipsychotic medication. It is mainly used for schizophrenia that does not improve following the use of other antipsychotic medications. In those with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder it may decrease the rate of suicidal be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43961 |
Psychosurgery
Psychosurgery, also called neurosurgery for mental disorder (NMD), is the neurosurgical treatment of mental disorder. Psychosurgery has always been a controversial medical field. The modern history of psychosurgery begins in the 1880s under the Swiss psychiatrist Gottlieb Burckhardt. The first significan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43963 |
Calorimeter
A calorimeter is an object used for calorimetry, or the process of measuring the heat of chemical reactions or physical changes as well as heat capacity. Differential scanning calorimeters, isothermal micro calorimeters, titration calorimeters and accelerated rate calorimeters are among the most common typ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43970 |
Partial pressure
In a mixture of gases, each constituent gas has a partial pressure which is the notional pressure of that constituent gas if it alone occupied the entire volume of the original mixture at the same temperature. The total pressure of an ideal gas mixture is the sum of the partial pressures of the gases ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43972 |
SS General von Steuben
SS "General von Steuben was a German passenger liner and later an armed transport ship of the German Navy that was sunk during World War II. She was launched as München (sometimes spelled Muenchen), renamed in 1930 General von Steuben (after the famous German officer of the American Revolutionar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43974 |
Yes (band)
Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford. The band has undergone numerous formations throughout its history; nineteen musicians have been full-time members. Since Jun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43975 |
Polish contribution to World War II
The European theatre of World War II opened with the German invasion of Poland on Friday September 1, 1939, which was then followed by the Soviet invasion of Poland on September 17, 1939. The Polish Army was defeated after approximately a month of fighting. Poland never officially c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43977 |
Tórshavn
Tórshavn (; lit. 'Thor's harbour'; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Faroe Islands. It is in the southern part on the east coast of Streymoy. To the northwest of the city lies the mountain Húsareyn, and to the southwest, the Kirkjubøreyn. They are separated by the Sandá River. The city itself has a p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43979 |
Reading, Berkshire
Reading ( ) is a large, historic market town in Berkshire, South East England. It is in the Thames Valley at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, and on both the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway. Reading is east of Bristol, south of Oxford, west of London, north of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43980 |
Plumbing
Plumbing is any system that conveys fluids for a wide range of applications. Plumbing uses pipes, valves, plumbing fixtures, tanks, and other apparatuses to convey fluids. Heating and cooling (HVAC), waste removal, and potable water delivery are among the most common uses for plumbing, but it is not limited t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43982 |
Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin (; , ; 1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77, and 1992 until his assassination in 1995.
Rabin was born in Jerusalem to Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and was r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43983 |
Johann Friedrich Struensee
Johann Friedrich, Greve Struensee (5 August 1737 – 28 April 1772) was a German physician, philosopher and statesman. He became royal physician to the mentally ill King Christian VII of Denmark and a minister in the Danish government. He rose in power to a position of ""de facto"" regent of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43984 |
Evil Empire speech
The "Evil Empire" speech was a speech delivered by U.S. President Ronald Reagan to the National Association of Evangelicals in 1983 during the Cold War. In that speech, Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" and as "the focus of evil in the modern world". Reagan explicitly rejected ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43986 |
Royal Observatory, Greenwich
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG; known as the Old Royal Observatory from 1957 to 1998, when the working Royal Greenwich Observatory, RGO, moved from Greenwich to Herstmonceux) is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park, overlooking the River Thames. It played a major role... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43989 |
Charing Cross Road
Charing Cross Road is a street in central London running immediately north of St Martin-in-the-Fields to St Giles Circus (the intersection with Oxford Street) and then becomes Tottenham Court Road. It is so called because it leads from the north in the direction of Charing Cross at the south side of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43990 |
Alyson Hannigan
Alyson Lee Hannigan (born March 24, 1974) is an American actress and television presenter. She is best known for her roles as Willow Rosenberg in the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997–2003), Lily Aldrin in the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" (2005–2014) for which she won a People's Choi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43997 |
United States Secretary of Defense
The secretary of defense (SecDef) is the leader and chief executive officer of the United States Department of Defense, the executive department of the Armed Forces of the U.S. The secretary of defense's position of command and authority over the U.S. military is second only to that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43998 |
United States Secretary of the Navy
The Secretary of the Navy (or SECNAV) is a statutory officer () and the head (chief executive officer) of the Department of the Navy, a military department (component organization) within the United States Department of Defense.
By law, the Secretary of the Navy must be a civilian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44001 |
The English Patient
The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian Campaign of World War II. The four main characters are: an unrecognisably burned man — the eponymous patient, presumed to be English; his Canadian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44005 |
Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding
Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC) is a family of proprietary audio compression algorithms developed by Sony. MiniDisc was the first commercial product to incorporate ATRAC in 1992. ATRAC allowed a relatively small disc like MiniDisc to have the same running time as CD while ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44008 |
MiniDisc
MiniDisc (MD) is a magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, and later, 80 minutes of digitized audio or 1 gigabyte of Hi-MD data. Sony brand audio players were on the market in September 1992.
Sony announced the MiniDisc in September 1992 and released it in November of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44009 |
Anton Bruckner
Josef Anton Bruckner (; ) was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44012 |
Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson ( – disappeared 23 June 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the northeastern United States.
In 1607 and 1608, Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a rumour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44014 |
Candle
A candle is an ignitable wick embedded in wax, or another flammable solid substance such as tallow, that provides light, and in some cases, a fragrance. A candle can also provide heat or a method of keeping time.
A person who makes candles is traditionally known as a chandler. Various devices have been invente... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44017 |
Utopian and dystopian fiction
Utopian and dystopian fiction are genres of speculative fiction that explore social and political structures. Utopian fiction portrays a setting that agrees with the author's ethos, having various attributes of another reality intended to appeal to readers. Dystopian fiction (sometimes co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44021 |
United States National Security Council
The White House National Security Council (NSC) is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for consideration of national security, military, and foreign policy matters with senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials and is part of the Executiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44026 |
Permutation
In mathematics, a permutation of a set is, loosely speaking, an arrangement of its members into a sequence or linear order, or if the set is already ordered, a rearrangement of its elements. The word "permutation" also refers to the act or process of changing the linear order of an ordered set.
Permutatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44027 |
Executive Office of the President of the United States
The Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP) is a group of agencies at the center of the executive branch of the United States federal government. The EOP supports the work of the president. It consists of several offices and agencies, such as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44029 |
Office of Management and Budget
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). OMB's most prominent function is to produce the President's Budget, but OMB also measures the quality of agency programs, policies, and procedures to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44030 |
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is an American non-profit corporation created in 1967 by an act of the United States Congress and funded by the American people, as stated under their logo in use since 2000, to promote and help support public broadcasting. The corporati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44032 |
Franco-Prussian War
The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire (and later, the Third French Republic) and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. Lasting from 19 July 1871, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44035 |
Solvation
Solvation describes the interaction of solvent with dissolved molecules. Both ionized and uncharged molecules interact strongly with solvent, and the strength and nature of this interaction influence many properties of the solute, including solubility, reactivity, and color, as well as influencing the proper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44041 |
Oceanography
Oceanography (compound of the Greek words ὠκεανός meaning "ocean" and γράφω meaning "write"), also known as oceanology, is the study of the physical and biological aspects of the ocean. It is an important Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, wav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44044 |
Chiricahua
Chiricahua ( ) is a one of seven socio-culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, which include the Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Salinero, Plains and Western Apache. Native Americans, based in the Southern Plains and Southwest United States. Culturally related t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44049 |
Measurable function
In mathematics and in particular measure theory, a measurable function is a function between the underlying sets of two measurable spaces that preserves the structure of the spaces: the preimage of any measurable set is measurable, analogous to the definition that a function between topological spa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44055 |
MD Data
MD Data (standing for MiniDisc Data) is a magneto-optical medium for storing computer data. Sony wanted MD Data to replace floppy disks, but the Zip drive from Iomega ended up filling that market need and, later on, the advent of affordable CD writers and very cheap blank CD media, coupled with the availabilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44056 |
Catania
Catania (, , Sicilian and ) is the second largest city in Sicily, after Palermo, and among the ten largest cities in Italy. Located on Sicily’s east coast, it faces the Ionian Sea. It is the capital of the 58-municipality region known as the Metropolitan City of Catania, which is the seventh-largest metropolit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44776 |
Complete lattice
In mathematics, a complete lattice is a partially ordered set in which "all" subsets have both a supremum (join) and an infimum (meet). Complete lattices appear in many applications in mathematics and computer science. Being a special instance of lattices, they are studied both in order theory and uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44777 |
Trapani
Trapani ( , ; ; ; ) is a city and "comune" on the west coast of Sicily in Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Trapani. Founded by Elymians, the city is still an important fishing port and the main gateway to the nearby Egadi Islands.
Drepana was founded by the Elymians to serve as the port of the near... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44778 |
Wilfred Bion
Wilfred Ruprecht Bion DSO (; 8 September 1897 – 8 November 1979) was an influential British psychoanalyst, who became president of the British Psychoanalytical Society from 1962 to 1965.
Bion was born in Mathura, North-Western Provinces, India, and educated at Bishop's Stortford College in England. After... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44779 |
Erice
Erice (; ) is a historic town and "comune" in the province of Trapani in Sicily, southern Italy.
The main town of Erice is located on top of Mount Erice, at around above sea level, overlooking the city of Trapani, the low western coast towards Marsala, the dramatic Punta del Saraceno and Capo San Vito to the no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44781 |
Battle of Stirling Bridge
The Battle of Stirling Bridge () was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence. On 11 September 1297, the forces of Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeated the combined English forces of John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, and Hugh de Cressingham near Stirling, on the River Forth.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44782 |
Apulia
Apulia ( ; ; ; ; ) is a region of Italy, located in the southern peninsular section of the country, bordering the Adriatic Sea to the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of Otranto and Gulf of Taranto to the south. The region comprises , and its population is about four million.
It is bordere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44783 |
Bari
Bari ( , ; ; ; ) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, in southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples (and the third after Palermo, if Insular Italy is included), a port and university city, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44784 |
Dream
A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and purpose of dreams are not fully understood, although they have been a topic of scientific, philosophical and religious interest throughout recorded histo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44785 |
Up to
In mathematics, the phrase up to is used to convey the idea that some objects in the same class — while distinct — may be considered to be equivalent under some condition or transformation. It often appears in discussions about the elements of a set, and the conditions under which some of those elements may be c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44787 |
Luminosity
Luminosity is an absolute measure of radiated electromagnetic power (light), the radiant power emitted by a light-emitting object.
In astronomy, luminosity is the total amount of electromagnetic energy emitted per unit of time by a star, galaxy, or other astronomical object.
In SI units, luminosity is mea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44790 |
Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) is an act of the United States Congress, passed in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). It requires hospital Emergency Departments that accept payments from Medicare to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44793 |
Naburimannu
Nabu-ri-man-nu (also spelled "Nabu-rimanni"; Greek sources called him Ναβουριανός, "Nabourianos", Latin "Naburianus") (fl. c. 6th – 3rd century BC) was a Chaldean astronomer and mathematician.
Classical and ancient cuneiform sources mention an astronomer with this name:
The following is an excerpt of a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44794 |
Giovanni Falcone
Giovanni Falcone (; 18 May 1939 – 23 May 1992) was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Sicily, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian Mafia. After a long and distinguished career, culminating in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44796 |
Milazzo
Milazzo (Sicilian: Milazzu, Latin: Mylae from ) is a town ("comune") in the Metropolitan City of Messina, Sicily, southern Italy; it is the largest commune in the Metropolitan City after Messina and Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto. The town has a population of around 31,500 inhabitants.
Several civilizations settle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44798 |
Termini Imerese
Termini Imerese (; ) is a town and "comune" near the Metropolitan City of Palermo on the northern coast of Sicily, southern Italy.
The site of the town has been populated since prehistoric times, as many archaeological excavations have shown through the years. Its documented history begins in 409 BC a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44800 |
Pentito
Pentito (; lit. "repentant"; plural: "pentiti") is used colloquially to designate people in Italian criminal procedure terminology who were formerly part of criminal organizations and decided to collaborate with a public prosecutor. The judicial category of "pentiti" was originally created in 1970s to combat v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44802 |
Zakopane
Zakopane is a town in the extreme south of Poland, in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. From 1975 to 1998, it was part of Nowy Sącz Province; since 1999, it has been part of Lesser Poland Province. its population was 27,266. Zakopane is a center of Goral culture and i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44805 |
Syntactic category
A syntactic category is a type of syntactic unit that theories of syntax assume. Word classes, largely corresponding to traditional parts of speech (e.g. noun, verb, preposition, etc.), are syntactic categories. In phrase structure grammars, the "phrasal categories" (e.g. noun phrase, verb phrase, p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44806 |
Corleone
Corleone (; or ) is an Italian town and "comune" of roughly 11,158 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, in Sicily.
Several Mafia bosses have come from Corleone, including Tommy Gagliano, Jack Dragna, Giuseppe Morello, Michele Navarra, Luciano Leggio, Leoluca Bagarella, Salvatore Riina and Bernard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44807 |
Sicilian cuisine
Sicilian cuisine is the style of cooking on the island of Sicily. It shows traces of all cultures that have existed on the island of Sicily over the last two millennia. Although its cuisine has a lot in common with Italian cuisine, Sicilian food also has Greek, Spanish, French and Arab influences.
Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44808 |
Łódź
Łódź (), written in English as Lodz, is the third-largest city in Poland and a former industrial centre. Located in the central part of the country, it has a population of 679,941 (2019). It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an exampl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44812 |
Olsztyn
Olsztyn ( , ; ; Old Polish: "Holstin"; Old Prussian: or "Alnestabs"; ) is a city on the Łyna River in northeastern Poland. Olsztyn is the capital of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, and is a city with county rights. The population of the city was estimated at 171,979 residents in 2019.
Founded as Allenstein ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44815 |
Pragmatics
Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics and semiotics that studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning. Pragmatics encompasses speech act theory, conversational implicature, talk in interaction and other approaches to language behavior in philosophy, sociology, linguistics and anthropology. Unl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44816 |
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (; 2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976), was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. He is best known for his films "Ossessione" (1943), "Senso" (1954), "Rocco and His Brothers" (1960), "The Leopard" (1963), "The Damned... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44822 |
Seven hills of Rome
The seven hills of Rome ( , ) east of the river Tiber form the geographical heart of Rome, within the walls of the city.
The seven hills are:
The Vatican Hill (Latin "Collis Vaticanus") lying northwest of the Tiber, the Pincian Hill (Latin "Mons Pincius"), lying to the north, and the Janiculum H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44828 |
Dąbrowa Górnicza
Dąbrowa Górnicza is a city in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie, southern Poland, near Katowice and Sosnowiec. It is located in eastern part of the Silesian Voivodeship, on the "Czarna Przemsza" and "Biała Przemsza" rivers (tributaries of the Vistula, see Przemsza).
Even though Dąbrowa Górnicza belongs to the hist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44829 |
Manuel I Komnenos
Manuel I Komnenos or Comnenus, also known as Manuel Porphyrogennetos, "born in the purple" (, "Manouēl I Komnēnos"; 28 November 1118 – 24 September 1180) was a Byzantine Emperor of the 12th century who reigned over a crucial turning point in the history of Byzantium and the Mediterranean. His reign s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44833 |
Speech act
In the philosophy of language and linguistics, speech act is something expressed by an individual that not only presents information, but performs an action as well. For example, the phrase "I would like the kimchi, could you please pass it to me?" is considered a speech act as it expresses the speaker's de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44836 |
Limit superior and limit inferior
In mathematics, the limit inferior and limit superior of a sequence can be thought of as limiting (i.e., eventual and extreme) bounds on the sequence. They can be thought of in a similar fashion for a function (see limit of a function). For a set, they are the infimum and supremum of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44837 |
Manuel II Palaiologos
Manuel II Palaiologos or Palaeologus (; 27 June 1350 – 21 July 1425) was Byzantine Emperor from 1391 to 1425. Shortly before his death he was tonsured a monk and received the name "Matthew". His wife Helena Dragaš saw to it that their sons, John VIII Palaiologos and Constantine XI Palaiologos, be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44839 |
Deixis
In linguistics, deixis () refers to words and phrases that cannot be fully understood without additional contextual information. Words are deictic if their semantic meaning is fixed but their denoted meaning varies depending on time and/or place. Words or phrases that require contextual information to be fully ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44844 |
Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (, , ; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher.
He is famous for the novel "The Betrothed" (orig. ) (1827), generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature. The novel is also a symbol of the Italian Risorgimen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44845 |
Edward II of England
Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also called Edward of Caernarfon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327. The fourth son of Edward I, Edward became the heir apparent to the throne following the death of his elder brother Alphonso. Beginning in 1300, Edwar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44848 |
Brad Pitt
William Bradley Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. He has received multiple awards, including two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award for his acting, in addition to another Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award as producer under his production company, Plan B Entert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44849 |
Kidinnu
Kidinnu (also "Kidunnu") (fl. 4th century BC? possibly died 14 August 330 BC) was a Chaldean astronomer and mathematician. Strabo of Amaseia called him Kidenas, Pliny the Elder Cidenas, and Vettius Valens Kidynas.
Some cuneiform and classical Greek and Latin texts mention an astronomer with this name, but it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44850 |
Engine department
An engine department or engineering department is an organizational unit aboard a ship that is responsible for the operation, maintenance, and repair of the propulsion systems and the support systems for crew, passengers, and cargo.
These include the ship engine, fuel oil, lubrication, water distill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44882 |
Welding
Welding is a fabrication or sculptural process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by using high heat to melt the parts together and allowing them to cool, causing fusion. Welding is distinct from lower temperature metal-joining techniques such as brazing and soldering, which do not melt th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44883 |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee first staged in 1962. It examines the complexities of the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George. Late one evening, after a university faculty party, they receive an unwitting younger couple, Nick and Honey, as guest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44885 |
Pope Sixtus V
Pope Sixtus V or Xystus V (13 December 1521 – 27 August 1590), born Felice Piergentile, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 24 April 1585 to his death in 1590. As a youth, he joined the Franciscan order, where he displayed talents as a scholar and preacher, and enjoyed the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44886 |
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann (; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. His teacher, Friedrich Wieck, a Germa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44887 |
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre, including more than 600 secular vocal works (mainly lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44888 |
Aeolian Islands
The Aeolian Islands ( ; ; ; ), sometimes referred to as the Lipari Islands or Lipari group ( , ) after their largest island, are a volcanic archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily, named after the demigod of the winds Aeolus. The islands' inhabitants are known as Aeolians (). The islands have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44889 |
Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786) was a German-Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the "Haskalah", the 'Jewish Enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is indebted.
Born to a poor Jewish family in Dessau, Principality of Anhalt, and originally destined for a rabbi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44893 |
United Arab Republic
The United Arab Republic (UAR; "") was a sovereign state in the Middle East from 1958 to 1971. It was initially a political union between Egypt (including the occupied Gaza Strip) and Syria from 1958 until Syria seceded from the union after the 1961 Syrian coup d'état -- leaving a rump state. Egyp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44895 |
Espoo
Espoo (; , ) is the second largest city and municipality in Finland. It is part of the Finnish Capital Region, along with the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, and Kauniainen, and most of its population lives in the inner urban core of the Helsinki metropolitan area. Espoo shares its eastern border with Helsinki and V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44899 |
Kauniainen
Kauniainen (; ) is a small town and a municipality of inhabitants () in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland. It is surrounded by the City of Espoo, in Greater Helsinki. Kauniainen was founded by a corporation in 1906, AB Grankulla, that parcelled land and created a suburb for villas; Kauniainen received... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44900 |
Astor Piazzolla
Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (, ; March 11, 1921July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed "Nuevo tango", incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. A virtuoso bandoneonist, he regularly p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44903 |
Red–green alliance
In politics, a red–green alliance or red–green coalition is an alliance of "red" (often social-democratic or democratic socialist) parties with "green" (often green and/or occasionally agrarian) parties. The alliance is often based on common left political views, especially a shared distrust of corp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44904 |
Asthma
Asthma is a common long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs. It is characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and easily triggered bronchospasms. Symptoms include episodes of wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath. These may occur a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44905 |
Syllable
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. It is typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants). Syllables are often considered the phonological "building blocks" of words. They can influence the rhythm of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44911 |
Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24–79), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, a naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic "Naturalis Historia" ("Natural History"), which became an editori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44920 |
2000 United States presidential election
The 2000 United States presidential election was the 54th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000. Republican candidate George W. Bush, the governor of Texas and eldest son of the 41st president, George H. W. Bush, won the election, defeating... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32009 |
Natural Law Party (United States)
The Natural Law Party (NLP) was a United States political party affiliated with the international Natural Law Party. It was founded in 1992, but beginning in 2004 many of its state chapters dissolved. It is still active in Michigan.
The party proposed that political problems could be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32012 |
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885, the UofA was the first university in the Arizona Territory. , the university enrolled 45,918 students in 19 separate colleges/schools, including the University of Ariz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32015 |
Geography of the United States
The term "United States", when used in the geographical sense, is the contiguous United States, the state of Alaska, the island state of Hawaii, the five insular territories of Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa, and minor outlying posses... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32019 |
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