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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (abbreviated WWTBAM and informally known as simply Millionaire) is an international television game show franchise of British origin, created by David Briggs, Mike Whitehill and Steven Knight. In its format, currently owned and licensed by Sony Pictures Tel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38156 |
Lingerie
Lingerie (, ; ) is a category of primarily women's clothing including undergarments (mainly brassieres), sleepwear, and lightweight robes. The specific choice of the word is often motivated by an intention to imply that the garments are alluring, fashionable or both.
Lingerie is made of lightweight, stretchy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38165 |
Avignon
Avignon (, ; ; or , ; ) is the prefecture of the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southeastern France. Located on the left bank of the Rhône River, the commune had a population of 93,671 as of the census results of 2017, with about 16,000 (estimate from Avignon's municipal servic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38166 |
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (, abbreviated MV), also known by its anglicized name Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania or Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, is a state of Germany. Of the country's sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ranks 14th in population, 6th in area, and 16th in population density. Schwerin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38168 |
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (; ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century.
Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved internationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38172 |
Hot air balloon
A hot air balloon is a lighter-than-air aircraft consisting of a bag, called an envelope, which contains heated air. Suspended beneath is a gondola or wicker basket (in some long-distance or high-altitude balloons, a capsule), which carries passengers and a source of heat, in most cases an open flame c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38173 |
Clothing
Clothing (also known as clothes, apparel and attire) is items worn on the body. Clothing is typically made of fabrics or textiles but over time has included garments made from animal skin or other thin sheets of materials put together. The wearing of clothing is mostly restricted to human beings and is a feat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38180 |
United States Navy SEALs
The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's primary special operations force and a component of the Naval Special Warfare Command. Among the SEALs' main functions are conducting small-unit special operation missions in maritime, jun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38188 |
Fetishism
A fetish (derived from the French "fétiche"; which comes from the Portuguese "feitiço"; and this in turn from Latin "facticius", "artificial" and "facere", "to make") is an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a human-made object that has power over others. Essentially, fetishism is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38193 |
Pioneer 10
Pioneer 10 (originally designated Pioneer F) is an American space probe, launched in 1972 and weighing , that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter. Thereafter, "Pioneer 10" became the first of five artificial objects to achieve the escape velocity needed to leave the Solar System. This space ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38198 |
Menstruation
Menstruation, also known as a period or monthly, is the regular discharge of blood and mucosal tissue (known as menses) from the inner lining of the uterus through the vagina. The first period usually begins between twelve and fifteen years of age, a point in time known as menarche. However, periods may o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38203 |
Footwear
Footwear refers to garments worn on the feet, which originally serves to purpose of protection against adversities of the environment, usually regarding ground textures and temperature. Footwear in the manner of shoes therefore primarily serves the purpose to ease the locomotion and prevent injuries. Secondly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38210 |
Codex Manesse
The Codex Manesse, Manesse Codex, or Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift is a "Liederhandschrift" (book of songs/poetry), the single most comprehensive source of Middle High German "Minnesang" poetry, written and illustrated between c. 1304 when the main part was completed, and c. 1340 with the addenda.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38211 |
Numismatics
Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money and related objects. While numismatists are often characterised as students or collectors of coins, the discipline also includes the broader study of money and other payment media used to resolve debts and the exchange... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38212 |
UPN
The United Paramount Network (UPN) was an American broadcast television network that launched on January 16, 1995. The network was originally owned by Chris-Craft Industries and United Television; Viacom (through its Paramount Television unit, which produced most of the network's series) turned the network into a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32306 |
United Airlines
United Airlines, Inc. (commonly referred to as United) is a major American airline headquartered at Willis Tower in Chicago, Illinois. United operates a large domestic and international route network spanning cities large and small across the United States and all six continents.
Measured by fleet size... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32307 |
United States customary units
United States customary units are a system of measurements commonly used in the United States. The United States customary system (USCS or USC) developed from English units which were in use in the British Empire before the U.S. became an independent country. However, the United Kingdom's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32308 |
Lockheed U-2
The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed ""Dragon Lady"", is an American single-jet engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It provides day and night, high-altitude (), all-weather intelligence gathering... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32310 |
Unua Libro
Dr. Esperanto's International Language (, "International Language"), commonly referred to as Unua Libro ("First Book"), is an 1887 book by L. L. Zamenhof, in which the author first introduced and described the constructed language Esperanto. First published in Russian on , the publication of "Unua Libro" ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32312 |
Unobtainium
In fiction, engineering, and thought experiments, unobtainium is any hypothetical, fictional, extremely rare, costly, or impossible material. Less commonly, it can refer to a device with desirable engineering properties for an application, but which are difficult or impossible to achieve. The properties of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32313 |
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) (French/Spanish acronym: ONUDI) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that assists countries in economic and industrial development. It is headquartered at the UN Office in Vienna, Austria, with a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32315 |
Unary numeral system
The unary numeral system is the bijective base-1 numeral system. It is the simplest numeral system to represent natural numbers: in order to represent a number "N", an arbitrarily chosen symbol representing 1 is repeated "N" times.
For example, in this system the number 0 would be represented as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32316 |
Universal Networking Language
Universal Networking Language (UNL) is a declarative formal language specifically designed to represent semantic data extracted from natural language texts. It can be used as a pivot language in interlingual machine translation systems or as a knowledge representation language in informat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32321 |
United States naval reactors
United States naval reactors are nuclear reactors used by the United States Navy aboard certain ships to generate the steam used to produce power for propulsion, electric power, catapulting airplanes in aircraft carriers, and a few more minor uses. Such naval nuclear reactors have a comple... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32325 |
USS Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685)
USS "Glenard P. Lipscomb" (SSN-685) was a nuclear-powered attack submarine of the United States Navy.
The submarine was named after Glenard P. Lipscomb, who served as a representative from California's 24th congressional district from 1953 until his death in 1970.
"Glenard P. Lipsco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32326 |
UEFA
The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; ; ) is the administrative body for association football, futsal and beach soccer in Europe, although several member states are primarily or entirely located in Asia. It is one of six continental confederations of world football's governing body FIFA. UEFA consis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32332 |
Coins of the United States dollar
Coins of the United States dollar (aside from those of the earlier Continental currency) were first minted in 1792. New coins have been produced annually and they make up a valuable aspect of the United States currency system. Today, circulating coins exist in denominations of 1¢ (i.e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32333 |
Uniform continuity
In mathematics, a function "f" is uniformly continuous if, roughly speaking, it is possible to guarantee that "f"("x") and "f"("y") be as close to each other as we please by requiring only that "x" and "y" are sufficiently close to each other; unlike ordinary continuity, where the maximum distance b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32337 |
Uniform space
In the mathematical field of topology, a uniform space is a set with a uniform structure. Uniform spaces are topological spaces with additional structure that is used to define uniform properties such as completeness, uniform continuity and uniform convergence. Uniform spaces generalize metric spaces and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32339 |
Variance
In probability theory and statistics, variance is the expectation of the squared deviation of a random variable from its mean. Informally, it measures how far a set of numbers are spread out from their average value. Variance has a central role in statistics, where some ideas that use it include descriptive s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32344 |
Vacuole
A vacuole () is a membrane-bound organelle which is present in all plant and fungal cells and some protist, animal and bacterial cells. Vacuoles are essentially enclosed compartments which are filled with water containing inorganic and organic molecules including enzymes in solution, though in certain cases th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32347 |
Virtual machine
In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is an emulation of a computer system. Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and provide functionality of a physical computer. Their implementations may involve specialized hardware, software, or a combination.
There are different kinds of virtual mac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32353 |
Virtual memory
In computing, virtual memory (also virtual storage) is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that are actually available on a given machine" which "creates the illusion to users of a very large (main) memory".
The computer's operating system, usi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32354 |
Vexatious litigation
Vexatious litigation is legal action which is brought solely to harass or subdue an adversary. It may take the form of a primary frivolous lawsuit or may be the repetitive, burdensome, and unwarranted filing of meritless motions in a matter which is otherwise a meritorious cause of action. Filing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32356 |
Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro (; traditional dates 15 October 70 BC – 21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He wrote three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the "Eclogues" (or "Bucolics"), the "Georgics", and the epic "Aeneid"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32359 |
Value theory
Value theory involves various approaches that examine how, why, and to what degree humans value things and whether the object or subject of valuing is a person, idea, object, or anything else. Within philosophy, it is also known as ethics or axiology.
Traditionally, philosophical investigations in value... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32361 |
Vampire
A vampire is a creature from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighborhoods they inhabited while they were alive. They wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32362 |
Vostok 1
Vostok 1 (, "East" or "Orient" 1) was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first crewed spaceflight in history. The Vostok 3KA space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 12, 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard, making him the first human to cross into outer space... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32363 |
Vagueness
In philosophy, vagueness is an important problem in semantics, metaphysics and philosophical logic. Definitions of this problem vary. A predicate is vague if it has borderline cases. The predicate "is tall" is vague because there seems to be no particular height at which someone becomes tall. Alternately, a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32369 |
Vector space
A vector space (also called a linear space) is a collection of objects called vectors, which may be added together and multiplied ("scaled") by numbers, called "scalars". Scalars are often taken to be real numbers, but there are also vector spaces with scalar multiplication by complex numbers, rational nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32370 |
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many small islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It has a territorial extension of 916,445 km2 (353,841 sq mi) and the population of Venezuela w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32374 |
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his "nom de plume" Voltaire (; also , ), was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity—especially the Roman Catholic Church—as well as his advocacy of freedom of speech, freedom of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32375 |
Geography of Vietnam
Vietnam is located on the eastern margin of the Indochinese peninsula and occupies about 331,211.6 square kilometers, of which about 25% was under cultivation in 1987. It borders the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and Pacific Ocean, along with China, Laos, and Cambodia. The elongated roughly "S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32378 |
Demographics of Vietnam
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Vietnam, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Originating in northern Vietnam, the Vietnamese people pus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32379 |
Politics of Vietnam
The politics of Vietnam are defined by a single-party socialist republic framework, where the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam is the Party leader and head of the Politburo, holding the highest position in the one-party system. The President of Vietnam is the head of state, and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32380 |
Economy of Vietnam
The economy of Vietnam is a socialist-oriented market economy, which is the 44th-largest in the world as measured by nominal gross domestic product (GDP) and 27th-largest in the world as measured by purchasing power parity (PPP). Vietnam is a member of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Association ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32381 |
People's Army of Vietnam
The People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN; ), also known as the Vietnamese People's Army (VPA), is the military force of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The PAVN is a part of the Vietnam People's Armed Forces and includes: Ground Force (including Strategic Rear Forces), Navy, Air Force, Border Def... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32384 |
Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 85,792, and the Greater Victoria Area has a population of 367,770. Victoria is the 7th most densely populated ci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32388 |
Puzzle video game
Puzzle video games make up a broad genre of video games that emphasize puzzle solving. The types of puzzles can test many problem-solving skills including logic, pattern recognition, sequence solving, spatial recognition, and word completion.
Puzzle games focus on logical and conceptual challenges. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32393 |
Platform game
Platform games (or platformers, Jump 'n' Run) are a video game genre and subgenre of action game. In a platformer, the player controlled character must jump and climb between suspended platforms while avoiding obstacles. Environments often feature uneven terrain of varying height that must be traversed. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32394 |
Fighting game
A fighting game is a video game genre based around close combat between a limited number of characters, in a stage in which the boundaries are fixed. The characters fight each others until they defeat their opponents or the time expires. The matches typically consist of several rounds, in an arena, with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32398 |
Video game developer
A video game developer is a software developer that specializes in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games. A game developer can range from one person who undertakes all tasks to a large business with employee responsibilities split between individual d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32399 |
Ayodhya
Ayodhya (; IAST: "") is a city and the administrative headquarters of Faizabad district (officially Ayodhya district) of Uttar Pradesh, India. It shares municipal corporation with its neighbouring twin town of Faizabad. The city is identified with the legendary city of Ayodhya, and as such, is the birthplace o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42098 |
Christopher Lambert
Christophe Guy Denis Lambert (; ; born 29 March 1957), known professionally as Christopher Lambert, is a French American actor, novelist, and producer. He started his career playing supporting parts in several French films, and became internationally famous with the role of Tarzan in "" in 1984. Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42099 |
Cameron Diaz
Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is a retired American actress, author, producer and model. She frequently appeared in comedies throughout her career, while also earning critical recognition in dramatic films. Her accolades include four Golden Globe Award nominations, three Screen Actors Guild... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42104 |
Homeland security
Homeland security is an American national security term for "the national effort to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards where American interests, aspirations, and ways of life can thrive to the national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42105 |
SS Eastland
The SS "Eastland" was a passenger ship based in Chicago and used for tours. On July 24, 1915, the ship rolled over onto her side while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew were killed in what was the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
After ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42107 |
Kassel
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1928) is a city located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 200,507 inhabitants in December 2015. The former capital of the state of Hesse-Kassel has many ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42108 |
PS Lady Elgin
The PS "Lady Elgin" was a wooden-hulled sidewheel steamship that sank in Lake Michigan off the fledgling town of Port Clinton, Illinois, whose geography is now divided between Highland Park and Highwood, Illinois, after she was rammed in a gale by the schooner "Augusta" in the early hours of September 8,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42111 |
Chicago flood
The Chicago flood occurred on April 13, 1992, when repair work on a bridge spanning the Chicago River damaged the wall of an abandoned and disused utility tunnel beneath the river. The resulting breach flooded basements, facilities and the underground Chicago Pedway throughout the Chicago Loop with an es... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42113 |
Salmonella
Salmonella is a genus of rod-shaped (bacillus) Gram-negative bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae. The two species of "Salmonella" are "Salmonella enterica" and "Salmonella bongori". "S. enterica" is the type species and is further divided into six subspecies that include over 2,600 serotypes. "Salmone... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42114 |
Paul Reuter
Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter (Baron von Reuter; 21 July 1816 – 25 February 1899) was a German-born, British entrepreneur who was a pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting. He was a reporter and media owner, and the founder of Reuters News Agency, which became part of the Thomson Reuters conglomerate in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42115 |
Server (computing)
In computing, a server is a computer program or a device that provides functionality for other programs or devices, called "clients". This architecture is called the client–server model. Servers can provide various functionalities, often called "services", such as sharing data or resources among mul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42116 |
Haile Selassie
Haile Selassie I (, ; born Lij Tafari Makonnen; 23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975) was the Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, and he had been Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia from 1916. He is a defining figure in modern Ethiopian history. He was a member of the Solomonic dynasty who traced his lineage... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42120 |
CATIA
CATIA software(, an acronym of computer-aided three-dimensional interactive application) is a multi-platform software suite for computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), computer-aided engineering (CAE), PLM and 3D, developed by the French company Dassault Systèmes.
CATIA started as an in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42123 |
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens ( , also , ; ; 14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695), also spelled Huyghens, was a Dutch physicist, mathematician, astronomer and inventor, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time and a major figure in the scientific revolution. In physics, Huygens made groundb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42127 |
Rastafari
Rastafari, also known as Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s. It is classified as both a new religious movement and a social movement by scholars of religion. There is no central authority in control of the movement and much diversity exists among practitioners... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42132 |
Johann Eck
Johann Maier von Eck (13 November 1486 – 13 February 1543), often Anglicized as John Eck, was a German Scholastic theologian, Catholic prelate, and early counterreformer who was among Martin Luther's most important interlocutors and theological opponents.
Johann Eck was born Johann Maier at Eck (later Egg,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42136 |
The Greatest Show on Earth (film)
The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 American drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in Technicolor, and released by Paramount Pictures. Set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the film stars Betty Hutton and Cornel Wilde as trapeze artists competing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42137 |
Garden
A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, or enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The most common form today is a residential garden, but the term "garden" has traditionally been a more general... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42139 |
Historical fiction
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for the historical novel, it can also be applied to other types of narrative, including theatre, opera, cinema and television, as well as video games... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42142 |
Victor Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo (; 7 Ventôse year X (26 February 1802) – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42146 |
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American Western buddy drama film, based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. The film was written by Waldo Salt, directed by John Schlesinger, and stars Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, with notable smaller roles being filled by Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42147 |
Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters. Actor Robert De Niro described him as "an actor with the everyman's face who embodied the heartbreakingly human". At a young age Hoff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42148 |
Janez Strnad
Janez Strnad (March 4, 1934 – November 28, 2015) was a Slovene physicist and popularizer of natural science.
Strnad was born in Ljubljana, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Slovenia).
He received a degree at the University of Ljubljana in technical physics in 1957, and got his Ph.D. in 1963. His main research ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42149 |
Parashurama
Parashurama (Sanskrit: परशुराम, IAST: "Paraśurāma", lit. "Rama with an axe") is the sixth avatar of Vishnu in Hinduism and he is one of the chiranjeevis who will appear at the end of the Kali yuga to be the guru of Vishnu's tenth and last avatar Kalki . Born as a Brahmin, Parashurama carried traits of a Ks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42152 |
Amiga demos
Amiga demos are demos created for the Commodore Amiga home computer.
A "demo" is a demonstration of the multimedia capabilities of a computer (or more to the point, a demonstration of the skill of the demo's constructors). There was intense rivalry during the 1990s among the best programmers, graphic arti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42155 |
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives (aka Glory for Me and Home Again) is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, and Harold Russell. The film is about three United States servicemen re-adjusting to civi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42159 |
Beaverton, Oregon
Beaverton is a city in Washington County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. The city is located west of Portland in the Tualatin Valley and is among the main cities that make up the Portland metropolitan area. Its population was 89,803 at the 2010 census, making it the second-largest city in the county an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42160 |
Security (finance)
A security is a tradable financial asset. The term commonly refers to any form of financial instrument, but its legal definition varies by jurisdiction. In some countries and languages the term "security" is commonly used in day-to-day parlance to mean any form of financial instrument, even though t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42162 |
Data transmission
Data transmission (also data communication or digital communications) is the transfer of data (a digital bitstream or a digitized analog signal) over a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communication channel. Examples of such channels are copper wires, optical fibers, wireless communication chann... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42168 |
Dual number
In linear algebra, the dual numbers extend the real numbers by adjoining one new element with the property ( is nilpotent). Thus the multiplication of dual numbers is given by
(and addition is done componentwise).
The collection of dual numbers forms a particular two-dimensional commutative unital associ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42169 |
Walter Mondale
Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale (born January 5, 1928) is an American politician, diplomat and lawyer who served as the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A United States senator from Minnesota (1964–1976), he was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1984 United States preside... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42172 |
Aston Villa F.C.
Aston Villa Football Club (nicknamed Villa) is an English professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham. The club competes in the , the top tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1874, they have played at their home ground, Villa Park, since 1897. Aston Villa were one of the fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42173 |
Population transfer
Population transfer or resettlement is the movement of a large group of people from one region to another, often a form of forced migration imposed by state policy or international authority and most frequently on the basis of ethnicity or religion but also due to economic development. Banishment o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42175 |
Éamon de Valera
Éamon de Valera ( , ; first registered as "George de Valero"; changed some time before 1901 to "Edward de Valera"; 14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975) was a prominent statesman and political leader in 20th-century Ireland. His political career spanned over half a century, from 1917 to 1973; he served sev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42178 |
Mount Everest
Mount Everest (Nepali: "Sagarmatha" ; Tibetan: "Chomolungma" ; Chinese: "Zhumulangma" ) is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point.
The current official elevation of , recognised by China an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42179 |
Glasnevin Cemetery
Glasnevin Cemetery () is a large cemetery in Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland which opened in 1832. It holds the graves and memorials of several notable figures, and has a museum.
Prior to the establishment of Glasnevin Cemetery, Irish Catholics had no cemeteries of their own in which to bury their dead ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42180 |
Haskell Curry
Haskell Brooks Curry (; September 12, 1900 – September 1, 1982) was an American mathematician and logician. Curry is best known for his work in combinatory logic. While the initial concept of combinatory logic was based on a single paper by Moses Schönfinkel, Curry did much of the development. Curry is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42182 |
Chiron
In Greek mythology, Chiron ( ; also Cheiron or Kheiron; "hand") was held to be the superlative centaur amongst his brethren since he was called the "wisest and justest of all the centaurs".
Chiron was notable throughout Greek mythology for his youth-nurturing nature. His personal skills tend to match those of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42183 |
Katowice
Katowice ( , , ; officially "Miasto Katowice"; 1953–1956: Stalinogród; ; ) is a city in southern Poland, the capital city of the Silesian Region, and a center of the Upper Silesia and Dąbrowa Basin Metropolis. With the population of 292,774 (as of 2019), it is the eleventh-largest city in Poland. The wider Ka... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42185 |
Vantaa
Vantaa (; , , ) is a city and municipality in Finland. It is part of the inner core of the Finnish Capital Region along with Helsinki, Espoo, and Kauniainen. With a population of (), Vantaa is the fourth most populated city in Finland.
Vantaa is bordered by Helsinki, the Finnish capital, to the south; Espoo to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42194 |
West Bromwich Albion F.C.
West Bromwich Albion Football Club () is an English professional football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England.
They currently play in the Championship, the second tier of English football. The club was formed in 1878 and has played at its home ground, The Hawthorns, since 190... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33921 |
Winter War
The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union (USSR) and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. Despite superior military strength, es... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33924 |
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication "Lyrical Ballads" (1798).
Wordsworth's "magnum opus" is generally considered to be "The Prelude", a sem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33925 |
West Side Story
West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. It was inspired by William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet".
The story is set in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid 1950s, a multiracial, blue-collar n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33928 |
Weight
In science and engineering, the weight of an object is the force acting on the object due to gravity.
Some standard textbooks define weight as a vector quantity, the gravitational force acting on the object. Others define weight as a scalar quantity, the magnitude of the gravitational force. Others define it a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33931 |
Windows 2000
Windows 2000 is a business-oriented operating system that was produced by Microsoft in the United States and was released as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. It was succeeded by Windows XP in 2001, releasing to manufacturing on December 15, 1999 and being officially released to retail o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33941 |
Walloons
Walloons (; ; ) are a Romance ethnic group native to Belgium, principally its southern region of Wallonia, who primarily speak "langues d'oïl" such as Belgian French, Picard and Walloon. Walloons are a distinctive ethnic community within Belgium. Important historical and anthropological criteria (ancestry, re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33948 |
Willi Hennig
Emil Hans Willi Hennig (April 20, 1913 – November 5, 1976) was a German biologist who is considered the founder of phylogenetic systematics, also known as cladistics. In 1945 as a prisoner of war, Hennig began work on his theory of cladistics, which he published in 1950. With his works on evolution and sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33952 |
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