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Politics of the United States
The United States is a federal constitutional republic, in which the President of the United States (the head of state and head of government), Congress, and judiciary share powers reserved to the national government, and the federal government shares sovereignty with the state government... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32021 |
Economy of the United States
The economy of the United States is highly developed and mixed. It is the world's largest economy by nominal GDP and net wealth and the second-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). It has the world's eighth-highest per capita GDP (nominal) and the tenth-highest per capita GDP (PPP) in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32022 |
Communications in the United States
The primary regulator of communications in the United States is the Federal Communications Commission. It closely regulates all of the industries mentioned below with the exception of newspapers and the Internet service provider industry.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32023 |
Transportation in the United States
Transportation in the United States is facilitated by road, air, rail, and waterways (via boats). The vast majority of passenger travel occurs by automobile for shorter distances, and airplane (or railroad, in some regions) for longer distances. In descending order, most cargoes tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32024 |
List of political parties in the United States
This is a list of political parties in the United States, both past and present. It does not include independents.
These organizations do not nominate candidates for election but otherwise function similarly to political parties. Some of them have nominated candidates in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32026 |
Standard of living in the United States
The standard of living in the United States is high by the standards that most economists use, and for many decades throughout the 20th century, the United States was recognized as having the highest standard of living in the world. Per capita income is high but also less evenly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32028 |
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, the University of Texas was inducted into the Association of American Universities in 1929, becomin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32031 |
Unix shell
A Unix shell is a command-line interpreter or shell that provides a command line user interface for Unix-like operating systems. The shell is both an interactive command language and a scripting language, and is used by the operating system to control the execution of the system using shell scripts.
Users ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32035 |
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the "Earthsea" fantasy series. She was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32037 |
The Dispossessed
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, set in the fictional universe of the seven novels of the Hainish Cycle, e.g. "The Left Hand of Darkness". The book won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1974, as well as winning both th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32039 |
Hainish Cycle
The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin. It is set in an alternate history/future history in which civilizations of human beings on planets orbiting a number of nearby stars, including Terra ("Earth"), are contacting each other for the first time ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32041 |
University of Tulsa
The University of Tulsa (TU) is a private research university in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It has a historic affiliation with the Presbyterian Church and the campus architectural style is predominantly Collegiate Gothic.
The University of Tulsa manages the Gilcrease Museum, which includes one of the larges... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32043 |
Libertarian Party (United States)
The Libertarian Party (LP) is a political party in the United States that promotes civil liberties, non-interventionism, "laissez-faire" capitalism, and limiting the size and scope of government. The party was conceived in August 1971 at meetings in the home of David F. Nolan in Westm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32044 |
University of Sussex
The University of Sussex is a public research university located in Falmer, Sussex, England. Its campus is surrounded by the South Downs National Park and it is a short distance away from central Brighton. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961, the first of the plate glass unive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32045 |
Ur
Ur (; Sumerian: "Urim"; Sumerian Cuneiform: , or ; Akkadian: "Uru"; ; ) was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar () in south Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate. Although Ur was once a coastal city near the mouth of the Euphrates on the Persian Gulf, the coa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32047 |
Urho Kekkonen
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (; 3 September 1900 – 31 August 1986) was a Finnish politician who served as the eighth and longest-serving President of Finland from 1956 until 1982. He was the third and most recent president from the Agrarian League/Center Party. As head of state for nearly 26 years, he dominated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32048 |
Utrecht University
Utrecht University (UU; , formerly "Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht") is a university in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrolment of 31,801 students, and employed 7,191 faculty and staff. In 2018, 525 PhD degrees were awa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32053 |
Urology
Urology (from Greek οὖρον "ouron" "urine" and "-logia" "study of"), also known as genitourinary surgery, is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of the male and female urinary-tract system and the male reproductive organs. Organs under the domain of urology include the kidneys, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32055 |
Upper Iowa University
Upper Iowa University (UIU) is a private university in Fayette, Iowa. It enrolls around 900 students and offers distance education programs that include 15 centers in the U.S., an online program, an independent study program, and centers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. UIU has a total stude... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32058 |
Unitarian Universalism
Unitarian Universalism (UU) is a liberal religion characterized by a "free and responsible search for truth and meaning". Unitarian Universalists assert no creed, but instead are unified by their shared search for spiritual growth, guided by a dynamic, "living tradition". Currently, these tradit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32059 |
Urea cycle
The urea cycle (also known as the ornithine cycle) is a cycle of biochemical reactions that produces urea (NH2)2CO from ammonia (NH3). This cycle occurs in ureotelic organisms. The urea cycle converts highly toxic ammonia to urea for excretion. This cycle was the first metabolic cycle to be discovered (Hans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32061 |
Ugo Nespolo
Ugo Nespolo (born 29 August 1941 in Mosso, Biella) is an Italian painter and sculptor, particularly known for his experimental films, his applied arts works and his artistic collaborations in advertising, theatre and literature.
Nespolo graduated at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti of Turin with Enri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32065 |
Ulster
Ulster (; or "Cúige Uladh" ; or "Ulster") is one of the four traditional Irish provinces, located in the north of Ireland. It is made up of nine counties: six of these constitute Northern Ireland (a part of the United Kingdom); the remaining three are in the Republic of Ireland.
It is the second largest (afte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32066 |
USS John C. Stennis
USS "John C. Stennis" (CVN-74) is the seventh nuclear-powered supercarrier in the United States Navy, named for Democratic Senator John C. Stennis of Mississippi.
She was commissioned on 9 December 1995. Her home port is temporarily Norfolk, Virginia, for her scheduled refueling complex and overha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32069 |
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (Grand Old Party) and the Party of Lincoln, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with its rival, the Democratic Party.
The GOP was founded in 1854 by opponents of the Kansas–Nebraska Act, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32070 |
USS Liberty incident
The USS "Liberty" incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship, , by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy motor torpedo boats, on 8 June 1967, during the Six-Day War. The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32071 |
USB
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard that establishes specifications for cables and connectors and protocols for connection, communication and power supply (interfacing) between computers, peripherals and other computers. A broad variety of USB hardware exists, including several different connectors,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32073 |
1996 United States presidential election
The 1996 United States presidential election was the 53rd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1996. Incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton defeated former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, the Republican nominee, and Ross Perot, the Reform... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32077 |
Whig Party (United States)
The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States. Alongside the Democratic Party, it was one of the two major parties in the United States during the late 1830s, the 1840s, and the early 1850s, part of the Second Party System. Four U.S. presi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32078 |
Sex education
Sex education is the instruction of issues relating to human sexuality, including emotional relations and responsibilities, human sexual anatomy, sexual activity, sexual reproduction, age of consent, reproductive health, reproductive rights, safe sex, birth control and sexual abstinence. Sex education th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42327 |
Pankisi
Pankisi () or the Pankisi Gorge (, "Pankisis Kheoba") is a valley region in Georgia, in the upper reaches of River Alazani just south of Georgia’s historic region of Tusheti between Mt Borbalo and the ruined 17th-century fortress of Bakhtrioni. Administratively, it is included in the Akhmeta municipality of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42338 |
Hyman G. Rickover
Hyman G. Rickover (January 27, 1900 – July 8, 1986) was an Admiral in the U.S. Navy. He directed the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of the U.S. Naval Reactors office. In addition, he oversaw the development of the Shippingp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42345 |
List of IOC country codes
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) uses three-letter abbreviation country codes to refer to each group of athletes that participate in the Olympic Games. Each geocode usually identifies a National Olympic Committee (NOC), but there are several codes that have been used for other instan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42350 |
Acupressure
Acupressure is an alternative medicine technique similar in principle to acupuncture. It is based on the concept of life energy which flows through "meridians" in the body. In treatment, physical pressure is applied to acupuncture points with the aim of clearing blockages in these meridians. Pressure may b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42353 |
Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was an English-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s, and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She continued her career s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42357 |
On the Waterfront
On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film, directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando and features Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, and Eva Marie Saint in her film debut. The musical score was composed by Leonard Bernstein. The film was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42361 |
John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow (October 3, 1947February 7, 2018) was an American poet and essayist, a cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who had been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He was also a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42363 |
United States federal government continuity of operations
Continuity of Operations (COOP) is a United States federal government initiative, required by U.S. Presidential Policy Directive 40 (PPD-40), to ensure that agencies are able to continue performance of essential functions under a broad range of circumstances. P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42366 |
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac ( , more commonly , ; born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence "La Comédie humaine", which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his "magnum opus".
Owing to his keen observation of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42368 |
History of Belgium
The history of Belgium extends before the founding of the modern state of that name in 1830, and is intertwined with those of its neighbors: the Netherlands, Germany, France and Luxembourg. For most of its history, what is now Belgium was either a part of a larger territory, such as the Carolingian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42370 |
Logarithmic spiral
A logarithmic spiral, equiangular spiral, or growth spiral is a self-similar spiral curve that often appears in nature. The logarithmic spiral was first described by Descartes and later extensively investigated by Jacob Bernoulli, who called it "Spira mirabilis", "the marvelous spiral".
The logarit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42373 |
Ljubljana
Ljubljana (, , , locally also ; also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It has been the cultural, educational, economic, political, and administrative centre of independent Slovenia since 1991.
During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the area. Ljubljan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42374 |
Tin whistle
The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, flageolet, English flageolet, Scottish penny whistle, tin flageolet, Irish whistle, Belfast Hornpipe, (or simply ) and Clarke London Flageolet is a simple, six-holed woodwind instrument. It is a type of fipple flute, putting it in the same class as the record... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42380 |
Going My Way
Going My Way is a 1944 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald. Based on a story by Leo McCarey, the film is about a new young priest taking over a parish from an established old veteran. Crosby sings five songs in the film, with other songs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42383 |
Whistle
A whistle is an instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air. It may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means. Whistles vary in size from a small slide whistle or nose flute type to a large multi-piped church organ.
Whistles have been around since early h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42387 |
History of Bermuda
Bermuda was originally discovered in 1503 by Spanish explorer Juan de Bermúdez. In 1609, the English Virginia Company, which had established Jamestown in Virginia two years earlier, permanently settled Bermuda in the aftermath of a hurricane, when the crew and passengers of steered the ship onto the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42388 |
History of Bhutan
Bhutan's early history is steeped in mythology and remains obscure. Some of the structures provide evidence that the region has been settled as early as 2000 BC. According to a legend it was ruled by a Cooch-Behar king, Sangaldip, around the 7th century BC, but not much is known prior to the introduc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42389 |
Warsaw Ghetto
Warsaw Ghetto (, officially , "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; ) was the largest of all the Nazi ghettos during World War II. It was established by the German authorities in November 1940; within the new General Government territory of occupied Poland. At its height as many as 460,000 Jews were i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42395 |
History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes referred to simply as Bosnia, is a country in Southeastern Europe on the Balkan Peninsula. It has had permanent settlement since the Neolithic Age. By the early historical period it was inhabited by Illyrians and Celts. Christianity arrived in the 1st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42399 |
Socialization
In sociology, socialization is the process of internalizing the norms and ideologies of society. Socialization encompasses both learning and teaching and is thus "the means by which social and cultural continuity are attained".
Socialization is strongly connected to developmental psychology. Humans need... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42400 |
Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany
Under the rule of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, gay men and (to a lesser extent) lesbians were persecuted with thousands of gay men imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps.
Beginning in 1933, gay organizations were banned, scholarly books about homosexuality, and human sexu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42402 |
Ichthyology
Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish (Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of October 2016, with approximately 250 new species described each year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42405 |
Single non-transferable vote
Single non-transferable vote or SNTV is an electoral system used in multi-member constituency elections. It is a generalization of first-past-the-post, applied to multi-member constituencies.
In any election, each voter casts one vote for one candidate in a multi-candidate race for multip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42408 |
John Wesley
John Wesley (; 2 March 1791) was an English cleric, theologian and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to this day.
Educated at Charterhouse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42411 |
X10 (industry standard)
X10 is a protocol for communication among electronic devices used for home automation ("domotics"). It primarily uses power line wiring for signaling and control, where the signals involve brief radio frequency bursts representing digital information. A wireless radio based protocol transport i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42416 |
Electrical cable
An electrical cable is an assembly of one or more wires running side by side or bundled, which is used to carry electric current.
A cable assembly is the composition of one or more electrical cables and their corresponding connectors. A cable assembly is not necessarily suitable for connecting two de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42418 |
Harald Bluetooth
Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson (; , died c. 985/86) was a king of Denmark and Norway.
He was the son of King Gorm the Old and of Thyra Dannebod. Harald ruled as king of Denmark from c. 958 – c. 986. Harald introduced Christianity to Denmark and consolidated his rule over most of Jutland and Zealand. Har... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42419 |
Monetarism
Monetarism is a school of thought in monetary economics that emphasizes the role of governments in controlling the amount of money in circulation. Monetarist theory asserts that variations in the money supply have major influences on national output in the short run and on price levels over longer periods. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42423 |
Treblinka extermination camp
Treblinka () was an extermination camp, built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, south of the village of Treblinka in what is now the Masovian Voivodeship. The camp operated between 23 July 1942 and 19 October 1943 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42424 |
Quest Software
Quest Software, also known as Quest, is a privately held software company headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, United States with 53 offices in 24 countries. The company was founded in 1987.
The company is known for Toad, a product used by database professionals, in addition to other offerings for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42437 |
Physical modelling synthesis
Physical modelling synthesis refers to sound synthesis methods in which the waveform of the sound to be generated is computed using a mathematical model, a set of equations and algorithms to simulate a physical source of sound, usually a musical instrument.
Modelling attempts to replicate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42441 |
Terrorism in Yemen
In its war on terrorism in Yemen, the US government describes Yemen as "an important partner in the global war on terrorism". There have been attacks on civilian targets and tourists, and there was a cargo-plane bomb plot in 2010. Counter-terrorism operations have been conducted by the Yemeni police... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42442 |
Dalton (unit)
The dalton or unified atomic mass unit (symbols: Da or u) is a unit of mass widely used in physics and chemistry. It is defined as 1/12 of the mass of an unbound neutral atom of carbon-12 in its nuclear and electronic ground state and at rest. The atomic mass constant, denoted "m"u, is defined identicall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42445 |
Reason
Reason is the capacity of consciously making sense of things, applying logic, and adapting or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information. It is closely associated with such characteristically human activities as philosophy, science, language, mathematics, and art, and i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42446 |
Pentaerythritol tetranitrate
Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), also known as PENT, PENTA, TEN, corpent, or penthrite (or, rarely and primarily in German, as nitropenta), is an explosive material. It is the nitrate ester of pentaerythritol, and is structurally very similar to nitroglycerin. Penta refers to the five ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42451 |
Kirkendall effect
The Kirkendall effect is the motion of the interface between two metals that occurs as a consequence of the difference in diffusion rates of the metal atoms. The effect can be observed for example by placing insoluble markers at the interface between a pure metal and an alloy containing that metal, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42453 |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rhyme of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of "Lyrical Ballads". Some modern editions use a revised version printed i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42478 |
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels by American writers Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, first published in 1975. The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction-influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex-, and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38214 |
Fnord
"Fnord" () is a word coined in 1965 by Kerry Thornley and Greg Hill in the Discordian religious text "Principia Discordia". It entered the popular culture after appearing in "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" (1975) of satirical and parody conspiracy fiction novels by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. In these novels... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38217 |
Émile Durkheim
David Émile Durkheim ( or ; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917) was a French sociologist. He formally established the academic discipline of sociology and—with Karl Marx and Max Weber —is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science.
From his lifetime, much of Durkheim's work would ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38218 |
Toilet humour
Toilet humour, or potty or scatological humour (compare scatology), is a type of off-colour humour dealing with defecation, urination and flatulence, and to a lesser extent vomiting and other bodily functions. It sees substantial crossover with sexual humour, such as dick jokes.
Toilet humour is popular... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38219 |
Shit
Shit is a word generally considered to be vulgar and profane in Modern English. As a noun, it refers to fecal matter, and as a verb it means to defecate; in the plural ("the shits"), it means diarrhoea. Shite is a common variant in British and Irish English. As a slang term, it has many meanings, including: nonse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38221 |
Engineer
Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost. The w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38223 |
Transportation in Boston
The Boston transportation system includes roadway, subway, regional rail, air, and sea options for passenger and freight transit in Boston, Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) operates the Port of Boston, which includes a container shipping facility in South Boston, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38226 |
Lanford Wilson
Lanford Wilson (April 13, 1937March 24, 2011) was an American playwright. His work, as described by "The New York Times", was "earthy, realist, greatly admired [and] widely performed." Wilson helped to advance the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement with his earliest plays, which were first produced at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38231 |
Tannhäuser
Tannhäuser (; Middle High German: "Tanhûser") was a German Minnesinger and poet. Historically, his biography is obscure beyond the poetry, which dates between 1245 and 1265.
His name becomes associated with a "fairy queen"-type folk ballad in German folklore of the 16th century.
Tradition has it that he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38233 |
Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011) was a British novelist, poet, academic, literary critic, and short story writer. She principally wrote fantasy and speculative fiction novels for children and young adults.
Some of her better-known works are the Chrestomanci series, the Dalemark ser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38234 |
Parsifal
Parsifal (WWV 111) is an opera in three acts by German composer Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on "Parzival" by Wolfram von Eschenbach, a 13th-century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival (Percival) and his quest for the Holy Grail (12th century).
Wagner conceived the work in April 1857, but did n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38235 |
Uniform
A uniform is a type of clothing worn by members of an organization while participating in that organization's activity. Modern uniforms are most often worn by armed forces and paramilitary organizations such as police, emergency services, security guards, in some workplaces and schools and by inmates in prison... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38237 |
Hepatitis
Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver tissue. Some people with hepatitis have no symptoms, whereas others develop yellow discoloration of the skin and whites of the eyes (jaundice), poor appetite, vomiting, tiredness, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. Hepatitis is "acute" if it resolves within six months, and "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38238 |
Hugh Lofting
Hugh John Lofting (14 January 1886 – 26 September 1947) was an English author trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children's literature character of Doctor Dolittle. It first appeared in illustrated letters to his children written by Lofting from the British Army trenches in World War I.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38239 |
Tristan und Isolde
Tristan und Isolde ("Tristan and Isolde"), WWV 90, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance "Tristan" by Gottfried von Strassburg. It was composed between 1857 and 1859 and premiered at the Königliches Hof- und Nation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38241 |
Suspension of disbelief
Suspension of disbelief, sometimes called willing suspension of disbelief, is an intentional avoidance of critical thinking or logic in examining something surreal, such as a work of speculative fiction, in order to believe it for the sake of enjoyment. Aristotle first explored the idea of such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38243 |
Tosca
Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, "La Tosca", is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38245 |
Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly (; "Madam Butterfly") is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
It is based on the short story "Madame Butterfly" (1898) by John Luther Long, which in turn was based on stories told to Long by his sis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38246 |
Wind tunnel
Wind tunnels are large tubes with air blowing through them. The tunnels are used to replicate the actions of an object flying through the air or moving along the ground. Researchers use wind tunnels to learn more about how an aircraft will fly. NASA uses wind tunnels to test scale models of aircraft and sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38247 |
Turandot
Turandot ( , ; see below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, posthumously completed by Franco Alfano in 1926, and set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Its most well-known aria is "Nessun dorma".
Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38248 |
Manon Lescaut
The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut ( ) is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. Published in 1731, it is the seventh and final volume of "Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité" ("Memoirs and Adventures of a Man of Quality").
The story, set in France and Louisiana in the early 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38249 |
Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards), brothers Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments) and Colin Greenwood (bass), Ed O'Brien (guitar, backing vocals) and Philip Selway (drums, percu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38252 |
Jean Reno
Juan Moreno y Herrera–Jiménez (born 30 July 1948), known as Jean Reno (), is a French actor. He has worked in French, English, Japanese, Spanish and Italian productions; Reno appeared in films such as "Crimson Rivers", "Godzilla", "The Da Vinci Code", "", "The Pink Panther", "Ronin", "Les Visiteurs", "Wasabi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38253 |
Electrolysis
In chemistry and manufacturing, electrolysis is a technique that uses a direct electric current (DC) to drive an otherwise non-spontaneous chemical reaction. Electrolysis is commercially important as a stage in the separation of elements from naturally occurring sources such as ores using an electrolytic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38257 |
Epirus
Epirus () is a geographical and historical region in southeastern Europe, now shared between Greece and Albania. It lies between the Pindus Mountains and the Ionian Sea, stretching from the Bay of Vlorë and the Acroceraunian mountains in the north to the Ambracian Gulf and the ruined Roman city of Nicopolis in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38260 |
Montevideo
Montevideo () is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . The southernmost capital city in the Americas, Montevideo is situated on the southern coast of the country... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38261 |
Max Perutz
Max Ferdinand Perutz (19 May 1914 – 6 February 2002) was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew, for their studies of the structures of haemoglobin and myoglobin. He went on to win the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1971 and the Cop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38262 |
Granada
Granada ( , ) , is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of four rivers, the Darro, the Genil, the Monachil and the Beiro. It sits at an average elevation of above sea level... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38264 |
Viceroyalty of New Granada
The Viceroyalty of New Granada ( ) was the name given on 27 May 1717, to the jurisdiction of the Spanish Empire in northern South America, corresponding to modern Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. The territory corresponding to Panama was incorporated later in 1739, and the provinces of Vene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38265 |
Dimension (vector space)
In mathematics, the dimension of a vector space "V" is the cardinality (i.e. the number of vectors) of a basis of "V" over its base field. It is sometimes called Hamel dimension (after Georg Hamel) or algebraic dimension to distinguish it from other types of dimension.
For every vector space ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38267 |
Nicotine
Nicotine is a widely-used stimulant and potent parasympathomimetic alkaloid that is naturally produced in the nightshade family of plants. It is used for smoking cessation to relieve withdrawal symptoms. Nicotine acts as a receptor agonist at most nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs), except at two nico... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38272 |
Turbo Pascal
Turbo Pascal is a software development system that includes a compiler and an integrated development environment (IDE) for the Pascal programming language running on CP/M, CP/M-86, and DOS. It was originally developed by Anders Hejlsberg at Borland, and was notable for its extremely fast compiling times. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38273 |
Enoch Powell
John Enoch Powell (16 June 1912 – 8 February 1998) was a British politician, classical scholar, author, linguist, soldier, philologist, and poet. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament (1950–1974), then Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) MP (1974–1987), and was Minister of Health (1960–1963).
Before e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38274 |
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