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Optimizing compiler
In computing, an optimizing compiler is a compiler that tries to minimize or maximize some attributes of an executable computer program. Common requirements are to minimize a program's execution time, memory requirement, and power consumption (the last two being popular for portable computers).
Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40355 |
Vulgate
The Vulgate (; , ) is a late-4th century Latin translation of the Bible. It was to become the Catholic Church's officially promulgated Latin version of the Bible during the 16th century and is still used in the Latin Church alongside the Hebrew and Greek sources.
The translation was largely the work of Jerome... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32576 |
Vermont
Vermont () is a northeastern state in the New England region of the United States. It borders the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. Vermont is the only state in New England that does not border the Atlant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32578 |
Venice, Los Angeles
Venice is a residential, commercial, and recreational beachfront neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles, California. This urban region of coastal Los Angeles County is known locally as the Westside.
Venice was founded in 1905 as a seaside resort town. It was an independent city until 1926, when i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32579 |
Vampyrellidae
The family Vampyrellidae is a subgroup of the order Vampyrellida within the phylum Cercozoa. Based on molecular sequence data, the family currently comprises the genus "Vampyrella", and maybe several other vampyrellid amoebae (e.g. "Gobiella"). The cells are naked and characterised by radiating, filose P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32582 |
Volgograd
Volgograd (, ; ), formerly Tsaritsyn (), 1589–1925, and Stalingrad (; ), 1925–1961, is an industrial city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The city lies on the western bank of the Volga River. Volgograd was one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
The Soviets' Battle of S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32585 |
V-chip
V-chip is a technology used in television set receivers in Canada, Brazil and the United States, that allows the blocking of programs based on their ratings category. It is intended for use by parents to manage their children's television viewing based on blocking systems. Televisions manufactured for the Unite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32586 |
Veganism
Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products, particularly in diet, and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals. A follower of the diet or the philosophy is known as a vegan. Distinctions may be made between several categories of veganism. Dietary vegans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32587 |
Vegemite
Vegemite ( ) is a thick, dark brown Australian food spread made from leftover brewers' yeast extract with various vegetable and spice additives. It was developed by Cyril Callister in Melbourne, Victoria in 1922. The Vegemite brand was owned by Mondelez International (formerly Kraft Foods Inc.) until January ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32593 |
Vietnam veteran
A Vietnam veteran is someone who served in the armed forces of participating countries during the Vietnam War.
The term has been used to describe veterans who were in the armed forces of South Vietnam, the United States armed forces, and countries allied to them, whether or not they were stationed in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32594 |
Vilnius
Vilnius (, see also other names) is the capital of Lithuania and its largest city, with a population of 580,020 . The population of Vilnius's functional urban area, which stretches beyond the city limits, is estimated at 697,691 (as of 2017), while according to the Vilnius territorial health insurance fund, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32597 |
Viola
The viola ( , also , ) is a string instrument that is bowed, plucked, or played with varying techniques. It is slightly larger than a violin and has a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of the violin family, between the violin (which is tuned a perfect fifth abov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32600 |
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32603 |
Vocal loading
Vocal loading is the stress inflicted on the speech organs when speaking for long periods.
Of the working population, about 13% have professions where their voice is their primary tool. That includes professions such as teachers, sales personnel, actors and singers, and TV and radio reporters. Many of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32609 |
Vikings
Vikings were the Norse people from southern Scandinavia (in present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden) who from the late 8th to late 11th centuries raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of Europe, and explored westwards to Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland. While the term viking... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32610 |
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America () or simply the American War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was official... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32611 |
Virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from the real world. Applications of virtual reality can include entertainment (i.e. video games) and educational purposes (i.e. medical or military training). Other, distinct types of VR style technology incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32612 |
Venice
Venice (; ; or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is situated on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are located in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay that lies between the mouths of the Po and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32616 |
Victoria Bitter
Victoria Bitter (VB) is a lager produced by Carlton & United Breweries, a subsidiary of Foster's Group in Melbourne, Victoria. It was first brewed by Thomas Aitken at Victoria Brewery in 1854, and is a Victorian beer. It is one of the best selling beers in Australia.
The origins of Victoria Bitter (VB... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32617 |
Vern Clark
Vernon E. Clark (born September 7, 1944) is a retired admiral who served as the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) of the United States Navy. He retired on July 22, 2005, making his tenure of five years the second-longest serving CNO behind Arleigh Burke. He currently sits on the board of directors of Raytheon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32618 |
Video art
Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting. Video art can take many forms: recordings that are broadcast; in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32622 |
Vanilla
Vanilla is a spice derived from orchids of the genus "Vanilla", primarily obtained from pods of the Mexican species, flat-leaved vanilla ("V. planifolia"). The word "vanilla", derived from , the diminutive of the Spanish word ( itself meaning a sheath or a pod), is translated simply as "little pod". Pre-Columb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32623 |
Video editing software
Video editing software is software used for performing the post-production video editing of digital video sequences on a non-linear editing system (NLE). It has replaced traditional flatbed celluloid film editing tools and analogue video tape-to-tape online editing[1] machines.
NLE software is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32624 |
VisiCalc
VisiCalc (for "visible calculator") was the first spreadsheet computer program for personal computers, originally released for the Apple II by VisiCorp. It is often considered the application that turned the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a serious business tool, prompting IBM to int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32628 |
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" is a 1973 work of short philosophical fiction by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38543 |
Nutmeg
Nutmeg is the seed or ground spice of several species of the genus "Myristica". "Myristica fragrans" (fragrant nutmeg or true nutmeg) is a dark-leaved evergreen tree cultivated for two spices derived from its fruit: nutmeg, from its seed, and mace, from the seed covering. It is also a commercial source of an es... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38546 |
Dotdash
Dotdash (formerly About.com) is an American digital media company that publishes articles and videos about various subjects across categories including health, home, food, finance, tech, beauty, lifestyle, travel and education. It operates brands including Verywell, The Spruce, The Balance, Investopedia, Lifew... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38553 |
Outpatient commitment
Outpatient commitment—also called assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) or a community treatment order (CTO)—refers to a civil court procedure wherein a judge orders an individual diagnosed with a severe mental disorder who is experiencing a psychiatric crisis that requires intervention to adhere t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38557 |
Eileen Heckart
Eileen Heckart (born Anna Eileen Herbert, March 29, 1919 – December 31, 2001) was an American actress whose career spanned nearly 60 years. She first became known for her role as schoolteacher Rosemary Sydney in the original 1953 cast of William Inge's play "Picnic" on Broadway. She won an Academy Award... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38563 |
Inverse multiplexer
An inverse multiplexer (often abbreviated to inverse MUX or IMUX) allows a data stream to be broken into multiple lower data rate communication links. An inverse multiplexer differs from a demultiplexer because the multiple output streams from the former stay inter-related, whereas those from the l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38566 |
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, (Margaret Rose; 21 August 1930 – 9 February 2002) was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and the only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II.
Margaret spent much of her childhood with her parents and sister. Her life change... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38567 |
Adenine
Adenine (A, Ade) is a nucleobase (a purine derivative). It is one of the four nucleobases in the nucleic acid of DNA that are represented by the letters G–C–A–T. The three others are guanine, cytosine and thymine. Its derivatives have a variety of roles in biochemistry including cellular respiration, in the fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38571 |
Hebron
Hebron ( ; ) is a Palestinian city in the southern West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Nestled in the Judaean Mountains, it lies 930 meters (3,050 ft) above sea level. The largest city in the West Bank, and the second largest in the Palestinian territories after Gaza, it has a population of 215,452 Palestinians (201... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38577 |
Gravity
Gravity (), or gravitation, is a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass or energy—including planets, stars, galaxies, and even light—are brought toward (or "gravitate" toward) one another. On Earth, gravity gives weight to physical objects, and the Moon's gravity causes the ocean tides. The gravitati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38579 |
Poltava
Poltava (, ; ; ) is a city located on the Vorskla River in central Ukraine. It is the capital city of the Poltava Oblast (province) and of the surrounding Poltava Raion (district) of the oblast. Poltava is administratively incorporated as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. It has a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38581 |
Charles XIV John
Charles XIV John (in Swedish "Karl XIV Johan" and Norwegian "Karl III Johan"; born Jean Bernadotte; 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844) from 1818 until his death was King of Sweden and Norway. In modern Norwegian lists of kings he is called Karl III Johan. He was the first monarch of the Bernadotte dynast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38585 |
Æsir
The Æsir are the gods of the principal pantheon in Norse religion. They include Odin, Frigg, Thor, Baldr and Týr. The second Norse pantheon is the Vanir. In Norse mythology, the two pantheons wage war against each other, resulting in a unified pantheon.
Unlike the Old English word "god" (and Old Norse "), the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38611 |
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus () is a 1942 philosophical essay by Albert Camus. The English translation by Justin O'Brien was first published in 1955.
Influenced by philosophers such as Søren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Friedrich Nietzsche, Camus introduces his philosophy of the absurd, that lif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38615 |
1549
Year 1549 (MDXLIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. In the Kingdom of England, it was known as "The Year of the Many-Headed Monster", because of the unusually high number of rebellions which occurred in the country. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38674 |
2002 Winter Olympics
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002, was a winter multi-sport event that was celebrated from 8 to 24 February 2002 in and around Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
2,399 athletes from 78 nations participated in 78 events in fift... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38678 |
Visitor pattern
In object-oriented programming and software engineering, the visitor design pattern is a way of separating an algorithm from an object structure on which it operates. A practical result of this separation is the ability to add new operations to existing object structures without modifying the structure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38689 |
Texas Revolution
The Texas Revolution (October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836) was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos (Texas Mexicans) in putting up armed resistance to the centralist government of Mexico. While the uprising was part of a larger one that included other provinces opposed to the regim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38711 |
World
The World is the Earth and all life on it, including human civilization. In a philosophical context, the "world" is the whole of the physical Universe, or an ontological world (the "world" of an individual). In a theological context, the "world" is the material or the profane sphere, as opposed to the celestial,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38714 |
Sigismund, Archduke of Austria
Sigismund (26 October 1427 – 4 March 1496), a member of the House of Habsburg, was Duke of Austria from 1439 (elevated to Archduke in 1477) until his death. As a scion of the Habsburg Leopoldian line, he ruled over Further Austria and the County of Tyrol from 1446 until his resignation i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38715 |
Karlskoga Municipality
Karlskoga Municipality ("Karlskoga kommun") is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Karlskoga.
Karlskoga was formed as rural municipality when the first Swedish local government acts came into force in 1863. In 1925 the southern part was detached... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38719 |
Bofors
Bofors AB ( , , ) is a Swedish and British arms manufacturer. The name has been associated with the iron industry and artillery manufacturing for more than 350 years.
Located in Karlskoga, Sweden, the company originates from the hammer mill "Boofors", which was founded as a royal state-owned company in 1646. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38721 |
Psychiatric hospital
Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental health hospitals, and mental health units, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorders, such as major depressive disorder, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Psychiatric hospitals vary widely in their size and gradin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38722 |
Cross of Gold speech
The Cross of Gold speech was delivered by William Jennings Bryan, a former United States Representative from Nebraska, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896. In the address, Bryan supported bimetallism or "free silver", which he believed would bring the nation prosperity... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38725 |
Cosmos
The cosmos (, ) is the Universe. Using the word "cosmos" rather than the word "universe" implies viewing the universe as a complex and orderly system or entity; the opposite of chaos.
The cosmos, and our understanding of the reasons for its existence and significance, are studied in cosmology – a very broad dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38737 |
Cape Cod
Cape Cod is a geographic cape extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer months.
As defined by the Cape Cod Commission's enabling legisl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38743 |
Oscar I of Sweden
Oscar I (4 July 1799 – 8 July 1859) was King of Sweden and Norway from 8 March 1844 until his death. He was the second monarch of the House of Bernadotte.
The only child of King Charles XIV & III John, Oscar inherited the thrones upon the death of his father. Throughout his reign he would pursue a l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38746 |
Brittany
Brittany (; ; , or ; Gallo: "Bertaèyn" ) is a cultural region in the west of France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation. It became an independent kingdom and then a duchy before being united with the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province governed as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38748 |
Juggling
Juggling is a physical skill, performed by a juggler, involving the manipulation of objects for recreation, entertainment, art or sport. The most recognizable form of juggling is toss juggling. Juggling can be the manipulation of one object or many objects at the same time, most often using one or two hands b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38749 |
ArXiv
arXiv (pronounced "archive"—the X represents the Greek letter chi [χ]) is an open-access repository of electronic preprints (known as e-prints) approved for posting after moderation, but not full peer review. It consists of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, electrical engineerin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38751 |
Integrase
Retroviral integrase (IN) is an enzyme produced by a retrovirus (such as HIV) that integrates—forms covalent links between—its DNA (genetic information) into that of the host cell it infects. Retroviral INs are not to be confused with phage integrases (recombinases), such as λ phage integrase, as discussed i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38765 |
Mercia
Mercia (; ; ) was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. The name is a Latinisation of the Old English ' or ' (West Saxon dialect; in the Mercian dialect itself), meaning "border people" (see March). Mercia dominated what would later become England for three centuries, subsequently going into a gradu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38769 |
Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone (; January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter, credited as the creator of the Spaghetti Western genre and widely regarded as one of the most influential directors in the history of cinema.
Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38772 |
Otto Preminger
Otto Ludwig Preminger (, ; 5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an Austrian-born theatre and film director.
He directed more than 35 feature films in a five-decade career after leaving the theatre. He first gained attention for film noir mysteries such as "Laura" (1944) and "Fallen Angel" (1945), while... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38773 |
Don Siegel
Donald Siegel (; October 26, 1912 – April 20, 1991) was an American film and television director and producer. His name variously appeared in the credits of his films as both Don Siegel and Donald Siegel.
Siegel was described by "The New York Times" as "a director of tough, cynical and forthright action-ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38774 |
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is an American professional baseball organization and the oldest of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. A total of 30 teams play in Major League Baseball: 15 teams in the National League (NL) and 15 in the American League (AL). The NL... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38776 |
Andrew Fastow
Andrew Stuart "Andy" Fastow (born December 22, 1961) is a convicted felon and former financier who was the chief financial officer of Enron Corporation, an energy trading company based in Houston, Texas, until he was fired shortly before the company declared bankruptcy. Fastow was one of the key figures ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38779 |
Mariner 2
Mariner 2 (Mariner-Venus 1962), an American space probe to Venus, was the first robotic space probe to conduct a successful planetary encounter. The first successful spacecraft in the NASA Mariner program, it was a simplified version of the Block I spacecraft of the Ranger program and an exact copy of Marine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38780 |
Mariner 6 and 7
Mariner 6 and Mariner 7 (Mariner Mars 69A and Mariner Mars 69B) were two unmanned NASA space probes that completed the first dual mission to Mars in 1969 as part of NASA's wider Mariner program. Mariner 6 was launched from Launch Complex 36B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Mariner 7 from Launch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38782 |
Mariner 10
Mariner 10 was an American robotic space probe launched by NASA on 3 November 1973, to fly by the planets Mercury and Venus. It was the first spacecraft to perform flybys of multiple planets.
"Mariner 10" was launched approximately two years after "Mariner 9" and was the last spacecraft in the Mariner prog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38785 |
Mariner 1
Mariner 1 was the first spacecraft of the American Mariner program, designed for a planetary flyby of Venus. It cost US$18.5 million in 1962. It was launched aboard an Atlas-Agena rocket on July 22, 1962. Shortly after takeoff the rocket responded improperly to commands from the guidance systems on the groun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38786 |
Mariner 8
Mariner-H (Mariner Mars '71), also commonly known as Mariner 8, was (along with Mariner 9) part of the Mariner Mars '71 project. It was intended to go into Mars orbit and return images and data, but a launch vehicle failure prevented Mariner 8 from achieving Earth orbit and the spacecraft reentered into the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38790 |
Hunting
Hunting is the practice of seeking, pursuing and capturing or killing wild animals. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for meat, recreation, to remove predators that can be dangerous to humans or domestic animals, to remove pests that destroy crops or kill livestock, or for trade... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38791 |
Sausthorpe
Sausthorpe is a small village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, east of Horncastle and north-west of Spilsby. It lies on the southern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds – a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty – in the valley of the River Lymn. Farming remains as t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38796 |
Arthur Andersen
Arthur Andersen LLP was an American holding company based in Chicago. Formerly one of the "Big Five" accounting firms (along with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young, and KPMG), the company had provided auditing, tax and consulting services to large corporations. By 2001, it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38797 |
Gender
Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity. Depending on the context, these characteristics may include biological sex (i.e., the state of being male, female, or an intersex variation), sex-based social structures (i.e., gender roles), or gender... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38076 |
Jagiellonian University
The Jagiellonian University (Polish: "Uniwersytet Jagielloński"; Latin: "Universitas Iagellonica Cracoviensis", also known as the University of Kraków) is a research university in Kraków, Poland.
Founded in 1364 by Casimir III the Great, the Jagiellonian University is the oldest university in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38078 |
Narcotic
The term narcotic (, from ancient Greek ναρκῶ "narkō", "to make numb") originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with sleep-inducing properties, and euphoric properties as well. In the United States, it has since become associated with opiates and opioids, commonly morphine and heroin, as wel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38079 |
Viking program
The Viking program consisted of a pair of American space probes sent to Mars, "Viking 1" and "Viking 2". Each spacecraft was composed of two main parts: an orbiter designed to photograph the surface of Mars from orbit, and a lander designed to study the planet from the surface. The orbiters also served ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38082 |
Gender changer
A gender changer or "gender-bender", is a hardware device placed between two cable connectors of the same type and gender.
An example is a cable connector shell with either two female or two male connectors on it (male-to-male or female-to-female), used to correct the mismatches that result when interco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38089 |
Charles University
Charles University, known also as Charles University in Prague ( (UK); ; ) or historically as the University of Prague (), is the oldest and largest university in the Czech Republic. It is one of the oldest universities in Europe in continuous operation. Today, the university consists of 17 facultie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38091 |
Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni (; K. 527; complete title: , literally "The Rake Punished, namely Don Giovanni" or "The Libertine Punished") is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It is based on the legends of Don Juan, a fictional libertine and seducer, by Sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38092 |
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A World Tour Underwater () is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne.
The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's fortnightly periodical, the . A deluxe octa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38093 |
M551 Sheridan
The M551 "Sheridan" AR/AAV (Armored Reconnaissance/Airborne Assault Vehicle) was a light tank developed by the United States and named after General Philip Sheridan, of American Civil War fame. It was designed to be landed by parachute and to swim across rivers. It was armed with the technically advanced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38094 |
MGM-51 Shillelagh
The Ford MGM-51 Shillelagh (pronounced ) was an American anti-tank guided missile designed to be launched from a conventional gun (cannon). It was originally intended to be the medium-range portion of a short, medium, and long-range system for armored fighting vehicles in the 1960s and '70s to defeat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38095 |
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Giovanni Battista Draghi (; 4 January 1710 – 16 or 17 March 1736), often referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (), was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist and organist. His best-known works include his Stabat Mater and the opera "La serva padrona" ("The Maid Turned Mistress"). His c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38099 |
Actual infinity
In the philosophy of mathematics, the abstraction of actual infinity involves the acceptance (if the axiom of infinity is included) of infinite entities as given, actual and completed objects. These might include the set of natural numbers, extended real numbers, transfinite numbers, or even an infinit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38106 |
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results.
Orwell wrote the book in 1934 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38114 |
Crucifixion
Crucifixion is a method of punishment or capital punishment in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden beam and left to hang, perhaps for several days, until eventual death from exhaustion and asphyxiation. It was used as a punishment by the Romans. Crucifixion has been used in parts of the wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38115 |
Gerry Adams
Gerard Adams (; born 6 October 1948) is an Irish republican politician who was the President of Sinn Féin political party between 13 November 1983 and 10 February 2018, and served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Louth from 2011 to 2020. From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011, he was an abstentionist Member of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38117 |
Peperomia
Peperomia (radiator plant) is one of the two large genera of the family Piperaceae. Most of them are compact, small perennial epiphytes growing on rotten wood. More than 1500 species have been recorded, occurring in all tropical and subtropical regions of the world, though concentrated in Central America and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38121 |
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer, and actor. Hancock started his career with Donald Byrd. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38123 |
Mystery play
Mystery plays and miracle plays (they are distinguished as two different forms although the terms are often used interchangeably) are among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe. Medieval mystery plays focused on the representation of Bible stories in churches as tableaux with accompany... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38124 |
Cauchy–Schwarz inequality
In mathematics, the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality, also known as the Cauchy–Bunyakovsky–Schwarz inequality, is a useful inequality encountered in many different settings, such as linear algebra, analysis, probability theory, vector algebra and other areas. It is considered to be one of the most i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38128 |
HM Prison Maze
Her Majesty's Prison Maze (previously Long Kesh Detention Centre, and known colloquially as The Maze or H-Blocks) was a prison in Northern Ireland that was used to house paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles from mid-1971 to mid-2000.
It was situated at the former Royal Air Force station of Long K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38130 |
Seal (musician)
Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel (born 19 February 1963), known professionally as Seal, is a British singer-songwriter. He has sold over 20 million records worldwide, with his first international hit song, "Crazy", released in 1991; his most celebrated song, "Kiss from a Rose", was released in 1994.
Seal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38134 |
Seal (emblem)
A seal is a device for making an impression in wax, clay, paper, or some other medium, including an embossment on paper, and is also the impression thus made. The original purpose was to authenticate a document, a wrapper for one such as a modern envelope, or the cover of a container or package holding v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38136 |
Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt ( (; Low German: ) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of
and has a population of 2.2 million inhabitants, making it the 8th-largest state in Germany by area and the 11th-largest by population. Its capital is Mag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38138 |
Wide area network
A wide area network (WAN) is a telecommunications network that extends over a large geographical area for the primary purpose of computer networking. Wide area networks are often established with leased telecommunication circuits.
Business, as well as education and government entities use wide area ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38140 |
Milford H. Wolpoff
Milford Howell Wolpoff is a paleoanthropologist working as a professor of anthropology and adjunct associate research scientist, Museum of Anthropology, at the University of Michigan. He was born in 1942 to Ruth (Silver) and Ben Wolpoff, in Chicago. He is the leading proponent of the multiregional e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38144 |
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos or LANL for short) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory initially organized during World War II for the design of nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project. It is located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38145 |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is an American multiprogram science and technology national laboratory sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and administered, managed, and operated by UT–Battelle as a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) under a contrac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38147 |
The Flying Dutchman (opera)
The Flying Dutchman (German: ), WWV 63, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner. The central theme is redemption through love.
Wagner conducted the premiere at the Königliches Hoftheater in Dresden in 1843.
Wagner claimed in his 1870 autobiography "Mein Lebe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38149 |
AGM-114 Hellfire
The AGM-114 Hellfire is an air-to-surface missile (ASM) first developed for anti-armor use, but later models were developed for precision drone strikes against other target types, and have been used in a number of targeted killings of high-profile individuals. It was originally developed under the nam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38151 |
Governor General of Canada
The governor general of Canada () is the federal viceregal representative of the . The , as a political sovereign, is shared equally both with the 15 other Commonwealth realms and the 10 provinces of Canada, but physically resides predominantly in oldest and most populous realm, the United K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38152 |
Hydra 70
The Hydra 70 rocket is a diameter fin-stabilized unguided rocket used primarily in the air-to-ground role. It can be equipped with a variety of warheads, and in more recent versions, guidance systems for point attacks. The Hydra is widely used by US and allied forces, competing with the Canadian CRV-7, with w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38153 |
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