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Tru64 UNIX
Tru64 UNIX is a discontinued 64-bit UNIX operating system for the Alpha instruction set architecture (ISA), currently owned by Hewlett-Packard (HP). Previously, Tru64 UNIX was a product of Compaq, and before that, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), where it was known as Digital UNIX (originally DEC OSF/1 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38275 |
PDP-7
The PDP-7 was a minicomputer produced by Digital Equipment Corporation as part of the PDP series. Introduced in 1964, shipped since 1965, it was the first to use their Flip-Chip technology. With a cost of , it was cheap but powerful by the standards of the time. The PDP-7 is the third of Digital's 18-bit machine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38278 |
Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code
Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code by John Lions (1976) contains source code of the 6th Edition Unix kernel plus a commentary. It is commonly referred to as the Lions Book. Despite its age, it is still considered an excellent commentary on si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38279 |
NOFX
NOFX is an American punk rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1983. NOFX has gone through numerous lineup changes, leaving vocalist/bassist Fat Mike and guitarist Eric Melvin as the remaining original members of the band. Drummer Erik Sandin joined NOFX shortly after, and El Hefe joined the band in 199... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38282 |
Glam rock
Glam rock is a style of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s performed by musicians who wore outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter. Glam artists drew on diverse sources across music and throwaway pop culture, ranging from bubblegum ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38283 |
Musician
A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented. Anyone who composes, conducts, or performs music is referred to as a musician. A musician who plays a musical instrument is also known as an instrumentalist. A person who is able play a number of instruments is called a multi-inst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38284 |
Hokusai
, known simply as Hokusai, was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series which includes the internationally iconic print, "The Great Wave off Kanagawa".
Hokusai created the "Thirty-Six Views" both... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43357 |
George Streeter
George Wellington "Cap" Streeter (1837 – January 22, 1921) was an American who became infamous in Chicago for his real estate schemes and oftentimes bizarre eccentricity. From 1886 to 1921, Streeter, through forgery and other manipulative means, attempted to steal of Lake Michigan shoreline from variou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43365 |
Clint Eastwood
Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, film director, producer, and composer. After achieving success in the Western TV series "Rawhide", he rose to international fame with his role as the Man with No Name in Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's "Dollars" Trilogy of Spaghetti Western... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43373 |
Communitarianism
Communitarianism is a philosophy that emphasizes the connection between the individual and the community. Its overriding philosophy is based upon the belief that a person's social identity and personality are largely molded by community relationships, with a smaller degree of development being placed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43375 |
Boston Celtics
The Boston Celtics ( ) are an American professional basketball team based in Boston. The Celtics compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Atlantic Division. Founded in 1946 as one of the league's original eight teams, the Celtics play their home... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43376 |
Keratin
Keratin () is one of a family of fibrous structural proteins known as scleroproteins. "α-Keratin" is a type of keratin found in vertebrates. It is the key structural material making up hair, nails, feathers, horns, claws, hooves, calluses, and the outer layer of skin among vertebrates. Keratin also protects ep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43377 |
Lund Municipality
Lund Municipality () is a municipality in Skåne County, southern Sweden. Its seat is the city of Lund.
As most municipalities in Sweden, the territory of municipality consists of many former local government units, united in a series of amalgamations. The number of original entities (as of 1863) is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43378 |
Ballista
The ballista (Latin, from Greek βαλλίστρα "ballistra" and that from βάλλω "ballō", "throw"), plural ballistae, sometimes called bolt thrower, was an ancient missile weapon that launched either bolts or stones at a distant target.
Developed from earlier Greek weapons, it relied upon different mechanics, using... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43379 |
Trebuchet
A trebuchet () is a type of catapult that uses a long arm to throw a projectile. It was a common powerful siege engine until the advent of gunpowder.
There are two main types of trebuchets. The first is the traction trebuchet, or mangonel, which uses manpower to swing the arm. It first appeared in China in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43380 |
Zenobia
Septimia Zenobia (Palmyrene: (Btzby), pronounced Bat-Zabbai; 240 – c. 274 AD) was a third century queen of the Palmyrene Empire in Syria. Many legends surround her ancestry; she was probably not a commoner and she married the ruler of the city, Odaenathus. Her husband became king in 260, elevating Palmyra to s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43382 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is oft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43384 |
Open Shortest Path First
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a routing protocol for Internet Protocol (IP) networks. It uses a link state routing (LSR) algorithm and falls into the group of interior gateway protocols (IGPs), operating within a single autonomous system (AS). It is defined as OSPF Version 2 in RFC 2328 (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43388 |
Routing Information Protocol
The Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is one of the oldest distance-vector routing protocols which employ the hop count as a routing metric. RIP prevents routing loops by implementing a limit on the number of hops allowed in a path from source to destination. The largest number of hops al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43389 |
Erich von Drygalski
Erich Dagobert von Drygalski (February 9, 1865 – January 10, 1949) was a German geographer, geophysicist and polar scientist, born in Königsberg, then under the Province of Prussia.
Between 1882 and 1887, Drygalski studied mathematics and natural science at the University of Königsberg, Bonn, Berl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43392 |
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43395 |
Trams in Melbourne
Trams are a major form of public transport in Melbourne, the capital city of the state of Victoria, Australia. As of May 2017, the Melbourne tramway network consists of of double track, 493 trams, 24 routes, and 1,763 tram stops. The operator Yarra Trams claims the system is the largest operational ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43396 |
Polka
The polka is originally a Czech dance and genre of dance music familiar throughout all of Europe and the Americas. It originated in the middle of the 19th century in Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. The polka remains a popular folk music genre in many European and American countries, and is performed by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43397 |
Actuary
An actuary is a business professional who deals with the measurement and management of risk and uncertainty . The name of the corresponding field is actuarial science. These risks can affect both sides of the balance sheet and require asset management, liability management, and valuation skills . Actuaries pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43405 |
Thomas à Kempis
Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380 – 25 July 1471; ; ) was a German-Dutch canon regular of the late medieval period and the author of "The Imitation of Christ", one of the most popular and best known Christian devotional books. His name means "Thomas of Kempen", Kempen being his home town.
He was a member of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43407 |
VHDL
VHDL (VHSIC-HDL, Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language) is a hardware description language used in electronic design automation to describe digital and mixed-signal systems such as field-programmable gate arrays and integrated circuits. VHDL can also be used as a general-purpose paralle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43410 |
VHSIC
VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuits) was a 1980s U.S. government program. The program's mission was to research and develop very high speed integrated circuits.
The United States Department of Defense launched the VHSIC program in 1980 as a joint tri-service (Army/Navy/Air Force) program. The program led... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43411 |
Winchester
Winchester is a city and the county town of Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government district, at the western end of the South Downs National Park, on the River Itchen. It is south-west of London and from Southampton, the closest other city. At the 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43412 |
Aurelian
Aurelian (; 9 September 214 or 215September or October 275) was Roman emperor from 270 to 275. Born in humble circumstances, he rose through the military ranks to become emperor. During his reign, he defeated the Alamanni after a devastating war. He also defeated the Goths, Vandals, Juthungi, Sarmatians, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43413 |
Hotel-class submarine
The Hotel class is the general NATO classification for a type of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine that was originally put into service by the Soviet Union around 1959. The Soviet designation was Project 658.
Development of the submarine, designed to carry the D-2 launch system and R-1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43415 |
Juliett-class submarine
The Project 651, known in the West by its NATO reporting name Juliett class, was a class of Soviet diesel-electric submarines armed with cruise missiles. They were designed in the late 1950s to provide the Soviet Navy with a nuclear strike capability against targets along the east coast of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43416 |
Clara Barton
Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was a pioneering American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and patent clerk. Nursing education was not very formalized at that time and she did not attend nursing school, so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43417 |
Julian of Norwich
Julian (or Juliana) of Norwich (1343 – after 1416), also known as Dame Julian or Mother Julian, was an English anchorite of the Middle Ages. She wrote the earliest surviving book in the English language written by a woman, "Revelations of Divine Love".
She lived practically her whole life in the Eng... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43418 |
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book "Walden", a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally pub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43421 |
John B. Anderson
John Bayard Anderson (February 15, 1922 – December 3, 2017) was a United States politician from Illinois. As a member of the Republican Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives, representing Illinois's 16th congressional district from 1961 to 1981. In 1980, he ran an independent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43424 |
Wolf Messing
Wolf Grigoryevich (Gershkovich) Messing (, , ) (10 September 1899 – 8 November 1974) claimed to be a psychic and telepathist.
Messing was born in the village of Góra Kalwaria, 25 km southeast of Warsaw, at a time when Poland was a territory of the Russian Empire. He claimed that his psychic abilities dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43425 |
Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England. As a multidisciplinary publication "Nature" features peer-reviewed research from a variety of academic disciplines, mainly in science, technology, and the natural sciences. It has core editorial offices across the Unit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43427 |
Simulation
A simulation is an approximate imitation of the operation of a process or system; that represents its operation over time.
Simulation is used in many contexts, such as simulation of technology for performance tuning or optimizing, safety engineering, testing, training, education, and video games. Often, co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43444 |
Arachne
Arachne (; from , cognate with Latin ) is the protagonist of a tale in Greco-Roman mythology known primarily from the version told by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE–17 CE), which is the earliest extant source for the story. In Book Six of his epic poem "Metamorphoses", Ovid recounts how the talented mortal Arachn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43446 |
Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last imperial dynasty of China ruled by Han Chinese. Although the primary capital of Beijing fell in 1644 to a rebellion led by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43449 |
New Netherland
New Netherland (; or ) was a 17th-century colony of the Dutch Republic that was located on what is now the east coast of the United States. The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva Peninsula to southwestern Cape Cod, while the more limited settled areas are now part of New York, New Jersey, De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43451 |
Lawrence of Arabia (film)
Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic historical drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel, through his British company Horizon Pictures, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film stars Peter O'Toole in the title role wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43452 |
Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket
The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) is an electrothermal thruster under development for possible use in spacecraft propulsion. It uses radio waves to ionize and heat an inert propellant, forming a plasma, then a magnetic field to confine and accele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40248 |
Mongolian writing systems
Many alphabets have been devised for the Mongolian language over the centuries, and from a variety of scripts. The oldest, called simply the Mongolian script, has been the predominant script during most of Mongolian history, and is still in active use today in the Inner Mongolia region of Chi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40249 |
Specific impulse
Specific impulse (usually abbreviated "I"sp) is a measure of how effectively a rocket uses propellant or a jet engine uses fuel. Specific impulse can be calculated in a variety of different ways with different units. By definition, it is the total impulse (or change in momentum) delivered per unit of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40250 |
Rowrbrazzle
Rowrbrazzle is an Amateur Press Association magazine devoted to funny animal cartoon illustration.
"Rowrbrazzle" was founded in 1983 by Marc Schirmeister, who published the first issue in February 1984, and was editor for the first nineteen quarterly mailings. Fred Patten was then editor from January 1989... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40252 |
Precognition
Precognition (from the Latin "prae-", "before" and "cognitio", "acquiring knowledge"), also called prescience, future vision, future sight is a claimed psychic ability to see events in the future.
As with other paranormal phenomena, there is no accepted scientific evidence that precognition is a real eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40253 |
Genetic algorithm
In computer science and operations research, a genetic algorithm (GA) is a metaheuristic inspired by the process of natural selection that belongs to the larger class of evolutionary algorithms (EA). Genetic algorithms are commonly used to generate high-quality solutions to optimization and search pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40254 |
Jupiter (mythology)
Jupiter (from or "Iuppiter" , from Proto-Italic "day, sky" + "father", thus "sky father"), also known as Jove (gen. "Iovis" ), is the god of the sky and thunder and king of the gods in Ancient Roman religion and mythology. Jupiter was the chief deity of Roman state religion throughout the Republica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40255 |
Trusted client
In computing, a trusted client is a device or program controlled by the user of a service, but with restrictions designed to prevent its use in ways not authorized by the provider of the service. That is, the client is a device that vendors trust and then sell to the consumers, whom they do not trust. E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40256 |
Harmony
In music, harmony is the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing. Usually, this means simultaneously occurring frequencies, pitches (tones, notes), or chords.
The study of harmony involves chords and their construction and chord progressions a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40258 |
Harthacnut
Harthacnut (; "Tough-knot"; c. 1018 – 8 June 1042), sometimes referred to as Canute III, was King of Denmark from 1035 to 1042 and King of England from 1040 to 1042.
He was the son of King Cnut the Great (who ruled Denmark, Norway, and England) and Emma of Normandy. When Cnut died in 1035, Harthacnut strug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40259 |
Harold Harefoot
Harold I ( 1016 – 17 March 1040), also known as Harold Harefoot, was King of England from 1035 to 1040. Harold's nickname "Harefoot" is first recorded as "Harefoh" or "Harefah" in the twelfth century in the history of Ely Abbey, and according to some late medieval chroniclers it meant that he was fleet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40261 |
Industrial sociology
Industrial sociology, until recently a crucial research area within the field of sociology of work, examines
One branch of industrial sociology is labour process theory (LPT). In 1974, Harry Braverman wrote "Labor and Monopoly Capital", which provided a critical analysis of scientific management. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40272 |
Kayaking
Kayaking is the use of a kayak for moving across water. It is distinguished from canoeing by the sitting position of the paddler and the number of blades on the paddle. A kayak is a low-to-the-water, canoe-like boat in which the paddler sits facing forward, legs in front, using a double-bladed paddle to pull ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40275 |
Blackboard bold
Blackboard bold is a typeface style that is often used for certain symbols in mathematical texts, in which certain lines of the symbol (usually vertical or near-vertical lines) are doubled. The symbols usually denote number sets. One way of producing blackboard bold is to double-strike a character with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40276 |
Corpus linguistics
Corpus linguistics is the study of language as expressed in "corpora" (samples) of "real world" text. Corpus linguistics proposes that reliable language analysis is more feasible with corpora collected in the field in its natural context ("realia"), and with minimal experimental-interference.
The f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40277 |
Type theory
In mathematics, logic, and computer science, a type theory is any of a class of formal systems, some of which can serve as alternatives to set theory as a foundation for all mathematics. In type theory, every "term" has a "type" and operations are restricted to terms of a certain type.
Type theory is clos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40282 |
Melting point
The melting point (or, rarely, liquefaction point) of a substance is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid. At the melting point the solid and liquid phase exist in equilibrium. The melting point of a substance depends on pressure and is usually specified at a standard pressure s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40283 |
Cam
A cam is a rotating or sliding piece in a mechanical linkage used especially in transforming rotary motion into linear motion. It is often a part of a rotating wheel (e.g. an eccentric wheel) or shaft (e.g. a cylinder with an irregular shape) that strikes a lever at one or more points on its circular path. The cam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40284 |
William B. Ogden
William Butler Ogden (June 15, 1805 – August 3, 1877) was an American politician and railroad executive who served as the first Mayor of Chicago. He was referred to as "the Astor of Chicago." He was, at one time, the city's richest citizen.
Ogden was born on June 15, 1805, in Walton, New York. He was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40287 |
Hiram College
Hiram College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Hiram, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1850 as the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute by Amos Sutton Hayden and other members of the Disciples of Christ Church. The college is nonsectarian and coeducational. It is accredited by the Higher Lear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40289 |
Joseph Medill
Joseph Medill (April 6, 1823March 16, 1899) was a Canadian-American newspaper editor, publisher, and Republican Party politician. He was co-owner and managing editor of the "Chicago Tribune", and he was Mayor of Chicago from after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 until 1873.
Joseph Medill was born April 6... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40290 |
Carter Harrison Sr.
Carter Henry Harrison Sr. (February 15, 1825October 28, 1893) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1879 until 1887; he was subsequently elected to a fifth term in 1893 but was assassinated before completing the term. He previously served two terms in the United ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40291 |
Nikkei 225
The , more commonly called the Nikkei, the Nikkei index, or the Nikkei Stock Average (), is a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). It has been calculated daily by the "Nihon Keizai Shimbun" ("The Nikkei") newspaper since 1950. It is a price-weighted index, operating in the Japanese Yen (JP... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40293 |
Stephen Smale
Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician, known for his research in topology, dynamical systems and mathematical economics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and spent more than three decades on the mathematics faculty of the University of California, Berkeley (1960–1961 and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40294 |
Hawker Siddeley Nimrod
The Hawker Siddeley Nimrod is a maritime patrol aircraft developed and operated by the United Kingdom. It was an extensive modification of the de Havilland Comet, the world's first operational jet airliner. It was originally designed by de Havilland's successor firm, Hawker Siddeley; further dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40295 |
Jean-Claude Killy
Jean-Claude Killy (born 30 August 1943) is a former French World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, he dominated the sport in the late 1960s. He was a triple Olympic champion, winning the three alpine events at the 1968 Winter Olympics, becoming the most successful athlete the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40298 |
William Hale Thompson
William Hale Thompson (May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931. Known as "Big Bill", he is the most recent Republican to have served as mayor of Chicago. Historians rank him among the most unethical may... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40302 |
Anton Cermak
Anton Joseph Cermak (, ; May 9, 1873 – March 6, 1933) was an American politician who served as the 44th mayor of Chicago, Illinois from April 7, 1931 until his death on March 6, 1933.
Cermak was born to a mining family in Kladno, Austria-Hungary (now in the Czech Republic), the son of Kateřina (Franková)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40303 |
Jane Byrne
Jane Margaret Byrne (née Burke; May 24, 1933November 14, 2014) was an American politician who was the first woman to be elected mayor of a major city in the United States. She served as the 50th Mayor of Chicago from April 16, 1979, until April 29, 1983. Byrne won the Chicago mayoral election on April 3, 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40304 |
Harold Washington
Harold Lee Washington (April 15, 1922 – November 25, 1987) was an American lawyer and politician who was the 51st Mayor of Chicago. Washington became the first African American to be elected as the city's mayor in April 1983 after a coalition of Black-brown unity supported his election. He served as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40305 |
Plasma stability
The stability of a plasma is an important consideration in the study of plasma physics. When a system containing a plasma is at equilibrium, it is possible for certain parts of the plasma to be disturbed by small perturbative forces acting on it. The stability of the system determines if the perturbat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40307 |
Magnetohydrodynamics
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD; also magneto-fluid dynamics or hydromagnetics) is the study of the magnetic properties and behaviour of electrically conducting fluids. Examples of such magnetofluids include plasmas, liquid metals, salt water, and electrolytes. The word "magnetohydrodynamics" is der... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40310 |
Great Chicago Fire
The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people, destroyed roughly of the city, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless. The fire began in a neighborhood southwest of the city center. A l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40311 |
Universal grammar
Universal grammar (UG), in modern linguistics, is the theory of the genetic component of the language faculty, usually credited to Noam Chomsky. The basic postulate of UG is that a certain set of structural rules are innate to humans, independent of sensory experience. With more linguistic stimuli re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313 |
Munro
A Munro () is defined as a mountain in Scotland with a height over , and which is on the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) official list of Munros; there is no explicit topographical prominence requirement. The best known Munro is Ben Nevis (Beinn Nibheis), the highest mountain in the British Isles at .
Munros... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40314 |
Kurdish languages
The Kurdish languages (, ; ) constitute a dialect continuum spoken by Kurds in Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora. The three Kurdish languages are Northern Kurdish (), Central Kurdish (), and Southern Kurdish ( or ). A separate group of non-Kurdish Northwestern Iranian languages, the Zaza–Gorani lang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40316 |
UTF-16
UTF-16 (16-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid code points of Unicode (in fact this number of code points is dictated by the design of UTF-16). The encoding is variable-length, as code points are encoded with one or two 16-bit "code units". UTF-16 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40317 |
Portland cement
Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general use around the world as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco, and non-specialty grout. It was developed from other types of hydraulic lime in England in the early 19th century by Joseph Aspdin, and usually originates from limestone.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40318 |
Sarah Hughes
Sarah Elizabeth Hughes (born May 2, 1985) is a former American competitive figure skater. She is the 2002 Olympic Champion and the 2001 World bronze medalist in ladies' singles.
Hughes was born in Great Neck, New York, a suburb of Long Island. Her father, John Hughes, is a Canadian of Irish descent and w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40319 |
Soundgarden
Soundgarden was an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil (both of whom are the only members to appear in every incarnation of the band), and bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Matt Cameron became the band's full-time drummer in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40321 |
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza (; or "de Besze"; June 24, 1519 – October 13, 1605) was a French Reformed Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar who played an important role in the Reformation. He was a disciple of John Calvin and lived most of his life in Geneva. Beza succeeded Calvin as a spiritual leader of the Re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40322 |
Inertial confinement fusion
Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a type of fusion energy research that attempts to initiate nuclear fusion reactions by heating and compressing a fuel target, typically in the form of a pellet that most often contains a mixture of deuterium and tritium. Typical fuel pellets are about th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40323 |
Quadratic programming
Quadratic programming (QP) is the process of solving a special type of mathematical optimization problem—specifically, a (linearly constrained) quadratic optimization problem, that is, the problem of optimizing (minimizing or maximizing) a quadratic function of several variables subject to linear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40324 |
Positive semidefinite
In mathematics, positive semidefinite may refer to: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40325 |
Definite symmetric matrix
In linear algebra, a symmetric formula_1 real matrix formula_2 is said to be positive-definite if the scalar formula_3 is strictly positive for every non-zero column vector formula_4 of formula_5 real numbers. Here formula_6 denotes the transpose of formula_4. When interpreting formula_8 as t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40326 |
Magnoliaceae
The Magnoliaceae () are a flowering plant family, the magnolia family, in the order Magnoliales. It consists of two subfamilies: Magnolioideae, of which "Magnolia" is the best-known genus, and Liriodendroidae, a monogeneric subfamily, of which "Liriodendron" (tulip trees) is the only genus.
Unlike most a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40330 |
Magnolia
Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae. It is named after French botanist Pierre Magnol.
"Magnolia" is an ancient genus. Appearing before bees did, the flowers are theorized to have evolved to encourage pollination by beetles. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40333 |
Salzburg
Salzburg (Austrian: [ˈsaltsbʊʁk]; ; literally "Salt Fortress"; ) is the capital city of the State of Salzburg and with 155,031 inhabitants, it is the fourth-largest city in Austria.
The town is located on the site of the former Roman settlement of "Iuvavum". Salzburg was founded as an episcopal see in 696 an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40335 |
Rhododendron
Rhododendron (from Ancient Greek "rhódon" "rose" and "déndron" "tree") is a genus of 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae), either evergreen or deciduous, and found mainly in Asia, although it is also widespread throughout the lowland and montane forests of the Pacific Northwest, C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40336 |
Fetchmail
Fetchmail is an open source software utility for POSIX-compliant operating systems which is used to retrieve e-mail from a remote POP3, IMAP, ETRN or ODMR mail server to the user's local system. It was developed from the popclient program, written by Carl Harris.
Its chief significance is perhaps that its a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40337 |
Mayor of London
The Mayor of London is the executive of the Greater London Authority. The current mayor is Sadiq Khan, who took office on 9 May 2016. The position was held by Ken Livingstone from the creation of the role on 4 May 2000 until he was defeated in May 2008 by Boris Johnson, who served two terms before bein... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40338 |
Lord Mayor of London
The Lord Mayor of London is the City's mayor and the leader of the City of London Corporation. Within the City of London, the Lord Mayor is accorded precedence over all individuals except the sovereign and retains various traditional powers, rights and privileges, including the title and style "Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40339 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device is an electronic component that relies on the electronic properties of a semiconductor material (primarily silicon, germanium, and gallium arsenide, as well as organic semiconductors) for its function. Semiconductor devices have replaced vacuum tubes in most applications. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40344 |
MOSFET
The metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET), also known as the metal–oxide–silicon transistor (MOS transistor, or MOS), is a type of insulated-gate field-effect transistor (IGFET) that is fabricated by the controlled oxidation of a semiconductor, typically silicon. The vo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40345 |
JFET
The junction gate field-effect transistor (JFET) is one of the simplest types of field-effect transistor. JFETs are three-terminal semiconductor devices that can be used as electronically-controlled switches, amplifiers, or voltage-controlled resistors.
Unlike bipolar junction transistors, JFETs are exclusively... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40346 |
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (abbreviated CatB) is an essay, and later a book, by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux kernel development process and his experiences managing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40351 |
Gaudium et spes
Gaudium et spes (, "Joy and Hope"), the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, was one of the four constitutions resulting from the Second Vatican Council. Together, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium (LG), and the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40352 |
London, Ontario
London (pronounced ) is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. The city had a population of 383,822 according to the 2016 Canadian census. London is at the confluence of the Thames River, approximately from both Toronto and Detroit; and about from Buffalo, New Y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40353 |
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