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William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone (; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four terms beginning in 1868 and ending in 1894. He also served as Chancellor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33954 |
WordNet
WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words in more than 200 languages. WordNet links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into "synsets" with short definitions and usage examples. WordNet can thus be seen as a combination and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33955 |
Whippet
The Whippet (also English Whippet or Snap Dog) is a dog breed of medium size. They are a sighthound breed that originated in England, where they descended from Greyhounds. Whippets today still strongly resemble a smaller Greyhound. Part of the Hound group, Whippets have relatively few health problems other tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33956 |
Palace of Culture and Science
Palace of Culture and Science (; abbreviated PKiN), is a notable high-rise building in central Warsaw, Poland. With a total height of it is the tallest building in Poland, the 5th-tallest building in the European Union (including spire) and one of the tallest on the European continent. Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33957 |
Wake-on-LAN
Wake-on-LAN (WoL) is an Ethernet or token ring computer networking standard that allows a computer to be turned on or "awakened" by a network message.
The message is usually sent to the target computer by a program executed on a device connected to the same local area network, such as a smartphone. It is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33958 |
Witchcraft
Witchcraft (or witchery) is the practice of magical skills, spells, and abilities. "Witchcraft" is a broad term that varies culturally and societally, and thus can be difficult to define with precision.
Historically, and currently in most traditional cultures worldwide - notably in Asia, South America, Afr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33959 |
Warren, Michigan
Warren is a city in Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The 2010 census places the city's population at 134,056, making Warren the largest city in Macomb County, the third largest city in Michigan, and Metro Detroit's largest suburb.
The city is home to a wide variety of businesses, including... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33967 |
William Herschel
Frederick William Herschel, (; ; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-born British astronomer, composer and brother of fellow astronomer Caroline Herschel, with whom he worked. Born in the Electorate of Hanover, Herschel followed his father into the Military Band of Hanover, before migratin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33971 |
Wolfgang Pauli
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (; ; 25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958) was an Austrian theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. Later in life he got the citizenships of the United States and Switzerland. In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein, Pauli received the Nobel Priz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33972 |
Will Eisner
William Erwin Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series "The Spirit" (1940–1952) was noted for its experiments in content and form. In 1978, he popularized... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33974 |
Weather
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Most weather phenomena occur in the lowest level of the atmosphere, the troposphere, just below the stratosphere. Weather refers to day-to-day temperature and preci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33978 |
Waterfall model
The waterfall model is a breakdown of project activities into linear sequential phases, where each phase depends on the deliverables of the previous one and corresponds to a specialisation of tasks. The approach is typical for certain areas of engineering design. In software development, it tends to be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33980 |
Wau Holland
Herwart Holland-Moritz, known as Wau Holland, (20 December 1951 – 29 July 2001) was a German computer security activist and journalist who in 1981 cofounded the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), one of the world's oldest hacking clubs.
In 1981, Holland cofounded the Chaos Computer Club. The CCC became world-fam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33983 |
Weather Underground
The Weather Underground Organization (WUO), commonly known as the Weather Underground, was a radical left militant organization active in the late 1960s and 1970s, founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan. It was originally called the Weathermen. The WUO organized in 1969 as a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33984 |
War hammer
A war hammer is a late medieval weapon of war primarily used for close combat action, whose design resembles the hammer. Its appearance is similar to that of an ice axe. Originating in Europe and the Middle East in response to plate armour technology, it was later introduced to Mughal India.
A war hammer c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33986 |
Warren Farrell
Warren Thomas Farrell (born June 26, 1943) is an American educator, activist and author of seven books on men's and women's issues.
Farrell initially came to prominence in the 1970s as a supporter of second wave feminism; he served on the New York City Board of the National Organization for Women (NOW)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33994 |
List of cocktails
A cocktail is a mixed drink typically made with a distilled liquor (such as arrack, brandy, cachaça, gin, rum, tequila, vodka, or whiskey) as its base ingredient that is then mixed with other ingredients or garnishments. Sweetened liqueurs, wine, or beer may also serve as the base or be added. If bee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33999 |
Warmia
Warmia (pronounced: , , Latin: "Varmia", , Old Prussian: "Wārmi", ) is a historical region in northern and northeastern Poland. Its historic seat and capital was Lidzbark () and the largest city is Olsztyn ().
Warmia is currently the core of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (province). The region covers an ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34001 |
William O'Dwyer
William O'Dwyer (July 11, 1890November 24, 1964) was an Irish-American politician and diplomat who served as the 100th Mayor of New York City, holding that office from 1946 to 1950.
O'Dwyer was born in Bohola, County Mayo, Ireland and studied at St. Nathys College, Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34002 |
Worms (series)
Worms is a series of artillery tactical video games developed by British company Team17. In these games, small platoons of anthropomorphic worms battle each other across a deformable landscape with the objective being to become the sole surviving team. The games are noted for their cartoony animation an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34004 |
Wildebeest
The wildebeest ( , , plural wildebeest or wildebeests), also called the gnu ( or ), is an antelope in the genus Connochaetes. It belongs to the family Bovidae, which includes antelopes, cattle, goats, sheep, and other even-toed horned ungulates. "Connochaetes" includes two species, both native to Africa: th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34033 |
Web design
Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design; interface design; authoring, including standardised code and proprietary software; user experience design; and search engine optimization.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34035 |
Area rule
The Whitcomb area rule, also called the transonic area rule, is a design technique used to reduce an aircraft's drag at transonic and supersonic speeds, particularly between Mach 0.75 and 1.2.
This is one of the most important operating speed ranges for commercial and military fixed-wing aircraft today, wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34036 |
Word grammar
Word grammar is a theory of linguistics, developed by Richard Hudson since the 1980s. It started as a model of syntax, whose most distinctive characteristic is its use of dependency grammar, an approach to syntax in which the sentence's structure is almost entirely contained in the information about indiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34038 |
West Pakistan
West Pakistan (, ; , ) was one of the two exclaves created at the formation of the modern State of Pakistan following the 1947 Partition of India.
After gaining independence from the British in 1947, the State of Pakistan was physically separated into two exclaves, with the western and eastern wings sep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34039 |
West Bengal
West Bengal () is a state in the eastern region of India along the Bay of Bengal. With over 91 million inhabitants, it is the fourth-most populous state and the thirteenth-largest state by area in India. Covering an area of , it is also the world's seventh-most populous country subdivision. Part of the Ben... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34040 |
Wormhole
A wormhole (or Einstein–Rosen bridge or Einstein–Rosen wormhole) is a speculative structure linking disparate points in spacetime, and is based on a special solution of the Einstein field equations. A wormhole can be visualized as a tunnel with two ends at separate points in spacetime (i.e., different locatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34043 |
Web banner
A web banner or banner ad is a form of advertising on the World Wide Web delivered by an ad server. This form of online advertising entails embedding an advertisement into a web page. It is intended to attract traffic to a website by linking to the website of the advertiser. In many cases, banners are deliv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34044 |
Vedda
The Vedda ( , "Vēdar") or Wanniyalaeto are a minority indigenous group of people in Sri Lanka who, among other sub-communities such as Coast Veddas, Anuradhapura Veddas and Bintenne Veddas, are accorded indigenous status. The Vedda minority in Sri Lanka is in threat of becoming completely assimilated. Most speak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34046 |
Wart
Warts are typically small, rough, hard growths that are similar in color to the rest of the skin. They typically do not result in other symptoms, except when on the bottom of the feet, where they may be painful. While they usually occur on the hands and feet, they can also affect other locations. One or many wart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34049 |
Warrant officer
Warrant officer (WO) is a rank or category of ranks in the armed forces of many countries. Depending on the service or historical context, some WOs are classified as the most junior of the commissioned ranks, the most senior of the NCO ranks or in a separate category of their own. However, warrant offi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34050 |
Walter Gilbert
Walter Gilbert (born March 21, 1932) is an American biochemist, physicist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.
Walter Gilbert was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 21, 1932, the son of Emma (Cohen), a child psychologist, and Richard V. Gilbert, an economist.
When Gilbert was seven-yea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34051 |
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. and abbreviated as WB), is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a division of AT&T's WarnerMedia. Founded in 1923 by br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34052 |
Hybrid-propellant rocket
A hybrid-propellant rocket is a rocket with a rocket motor that uses rocket propellants in two different phases: one solid and the other either gas or liquid. The hybrid rocket concept can be traced back to at least the 1930s.
Hybrid rockets avoid some of the disadvantages of solid rockets li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37831 |
Monopropellant rocket
A monopropellant rocket (or "monoprop rocket") is a rocket that uses a single chemical as its propellant.
For monopropellant rockets that depend on a chemical reaction, the power for the propulsive reaction and resultant thrust is provided by the chemical itself. That is, the energy needed to pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37832 |
Resistojet rocket
A resistojet is a method of spacecraft propulsion (electric propulsion) that provides thrust by heating a, typically non-reactive, fluid. Heating is usually achieved by sending electricity through a resistor consisting of a hot incandescent filament, with the expanded gas expelled through a conventio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37835 |
Arcjet rocket
An arcjet rocket or arcjet thruster is a form of electrically powered spacecraft propulsion, in which an electrical discharge (arc) is created in a flow of propellant (typically hydrazine or ammonia). This imparts additional energy to the propellant, so that one can extract more work out of each kilogram... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37836 |
Hall-effect thruster
In spacecraft propulsion, a Hall-effect thruster (HET) is a type of ion thruster in which the propellant is accelerated by an electric field. Hall-effect thrusters use a magnetic field to limit the electrons' axial motion and then use them to ionize propellant, efficiently accelerate the ions to p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37838 |
Ion thruster
An ion thruster or ion drive is a form of electric propulsion used for spacecraft propulsion. It creates thrust by accelerating ions using electricity.
An ion thruster ionizes a neutral gas by extracting some electrons out of atoms, creating a cloud of positive ions. These ion thrusters rely mainly on el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37839 |
Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster
A magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster (MPDT) is a form of electrically powered spacecraft propulsion which uses the Lorentz force (the force on a charged particle by an electromagnetic field) to generate thrust. It is sometimes referred to as Lorentz Force Accelerator (LFA) or (mostly in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37840 |
Pulsed plasma thruster
A pulsed plasma thruster (PPT), also known as a plasma jet engine, is a form of electric spacecraft propulsion. PPTs are generally considered the simplest form of electric spacecraft propulsion and were the first form of electric propulsion to be flown in space, having flown on two Soviet probes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37841 |
Nuclear thermal rocket
A nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) is a type of thermal rocket where the heat from a nuclear reaction, often nuclear fission, replaces the chemical energy of the propellants in a chemical rocket. In an NTR, a working fluid, usually liquid hydrogen, is heated to a high temperature in a nuclear reacto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37842 |
Nuclear electric rocket
A nuclear electric rocket (more properly nuclear electric propulsion) is a type of spacecraft propulsion system where thermal energy from a nuclear reactor is converted to electrical energy, which is used to drive an ion thruster or other electrical spacecraft propulsion technology. The nuclear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37843 |
Mass driver
A mass driver or electromagnetic catapult is a proposed method of non-rocket spacelaunch which would use a linear motor to accelerate and catapult payloads up to high speeds. All existing and contemplated mass drivers use coils of wire energized by electricity to make electromagnets. Sequential firing of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37844 |
Magnetic sail
A magnetic sail or magsail is a proposed method of spacecraft propulsion which would use a static magnetic field to deflect charged particles radiated by the Sun as a plasma wind, and thus impart momentum to accelerate the spacecraft. A magnetic sail could also thrust directly against planetary and solar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37845 |
Gaseous fission reactor
A gas nuclear reactor (or gas fueled reactor or vapor core reactor) is a proposed kind of nuclear reactor in which the nuclear fuel would be in a gaseous state rather than liquid or solid. In this type of reactor, the only temperature-limiting materials would be the reactor walls. Conventional ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37846 |
Nuclear salt-water rocket
A nuclear salt-water rocket (NSWR) is a theoretical type of nuclear thermal rocket which was designed by Robert Zubrin. In place of traditional chemical propellant, such as that in a chemical rocket, the rocket would be fueled by salts of plutonium or 20 percent enriched uranium. The solution... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37849 |
Beam-powered propulsion
Beam-powered propulsion, also known as directed energy propulsion, is a class of aircraft or spacecraft propulsion that uses energy beamed to the spacecraft from a remote power plant to provide energy. The beam is typically either a microwave or a laser beam and it is either pulsed or continuou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37850 |
Nuclear photonic rocket
In a traditional nuclear photonic rocket, an onboard nuclear reactor would generate such high temperatures that the blackbody radiation from the reactor would provide significant thrust. The disadvantage is that it takes much power to generate a small amount of thrust this way, so acceleration ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37851 |
Fusion rocket
A fusion rocket is a theoretical design for a rocket driven by fusion propulsion which could provide efficient and long-term acceleration in space without the need to carry a large fuel supply. The design relies on the development of fusion power technology beyond current capabilities, and the constructi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37852 |
Bussard ramjet
The Bussard ramjet is a theoretical method of spacecraft propulsion proposed in 1960 by the physicist Robert W. Bussard, popularized by Poul Anderson's novel "Tau Zero", Larry Niven in his "Known Space" series of books, Vernor Vinge in his "Zones of Thought" series, and referred to by Carl Sagan in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37853 |
Antimatter rocket
An antimatter rocket is a proposed class of rockets that use antimatter as their power source. There are several designs that attempt to accomplish this goal. The advantage to this class of rocket is that a large fraction of the rest mass of a matter/antimatter mixture may be converted to energy, all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37854 |
Alcubierre drive
The Alcubierre drive, Alcubierre warp drive, or Alcubierre metric (referring to metric tensor) is a speculative idea based on a solution of Einstein's field equations in general relativity as proposed by theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre, by which a spacecraft could achieve apparent faster-than-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37856 |
Reformation
The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in particular to papal authority, arising from what was perceived to be er... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37857 |
Butler Act
The Butler Act was a 1925 Tennessee law introduced by Tennessee House of Representatives member John Washington Butler prohibiting public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of mankind's origin. It was enacted as Tennessee Code Annotated Title 49 (Education) Section 1922, having been signed in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37858 |
Ante-Nicene Fathers (book)
The Ante-Nicene Fathers, subtitled ""The Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325"", is a collection of books in 10 volumes (one volume is indexes) containing English translations of the majority of Early Christian writings. The period covers the beginning of Christianity until the promulgat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37861 |
Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem
The Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem is a theorem in the field of digital signal processing which serves as a fundamental bridge between continuous-time signals and discrete-time signals. It establishes a sufficient condition for a sample rate that permits a discrete sequence of "sampl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37864 |
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, usually known as the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (NPNF), is a set of books containing translations of early Christian writings into English. It was published between 1886 and 1900. Unlike the "Ante-Nicene ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37866 |
Pope Leo X
Pope Leo X (born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, 11 December 14751 December 1521) was pope and ruler of the Papal States from 9 March 1513 to his death on 1 December 1521.
Born into the prominent political and banking Medici family of Florence, Giovanni was the second son of Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37870 |
Beta particle
A beta particle, also called beta ray or beta radiation (symbol β), is a high-energy, high-speed electron or positron emitted by the radioactive decay of an atomic nucleus during the process of beta decay. There are two forms of beta decay, β− decay and β+ decay, which produce electrons and positrons res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37872 |
August Ferdinand Möbius
August Ferdinand Möbius (, ; ; 17 November 1790 – 26 September 1868) was a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer.
Möbius was born in Schulpforta, Saxony-Anhalt, and was descended on his mother's side from religious reformer Martin Luther. He was home-schooled until he was 13, when he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37875 |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA ) is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere.
NOAA warns of dangerous weather, charts seas, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37876 |
Crocodile
Crocodiles (subfamily Crocodylinae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. Crocodylinae, all of whose members are considered true crocodiles, is classified as a biological subfamily. A broader sense of the term crocodile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37882 |
Falstaff (opera)
Falstaff () is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and scenes from "Henry IV", parts 1 and 2. The work premiered on 9 February 1893 at La Scala, Milan.
Verdi wrote "Falstaff", whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37885 |
Aida
Aida () is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its première there on 24 December 1871, in a performance conducted by Giovanni Bottesini. Today the work holds a central p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37888 |
Micky Dolenz
George Michael Dolenz Jr. (born March 8, 1945) is an American actor, musician, television director, radio personality and theater director, best known as a vocalist and drummer of the 1960s pop/rock band the Monkees.
Dolenz was born at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital (now Cedars-Sinai Medical Center), in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37891 |
Thrust
Thrust is a reaction force described quantitatively by Newton's third law. When a system expels or accelerates mass in one direction, the accelerated mass will cause a force of equal magnitude but opposite direction on that system.
The force applied on a surface in a direction perpendicular or normal to the sur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37892 |
Collatz conjecture
The Collatz conjecture is a conjecture in mathematics that concerns a sequence defined as follows: start with any positive integer . Then each term is obtained from the previous term as follows: if the previous term is even, the next term is one half of the previous term. If the previous term is odd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37895 |
Cyprian
Cyprian (; ; 200 – September 14, 258 AD) was bishop of Carthage and a notable Early Christian writer of Berber descent, many of whose Latin works are extant. He is also recognised as a saint in the Christian churches. He was born around the beginning of the 3rd century in North Africa, perhaps at Carthage, whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37899 |
Valerian (herb)
Valerian ("Valeriana officinalis", Caprifoliaceae) is a perennial flowering plant native to Europe and Asia. In the summer when the mature plant may have a height of , it bears sweetly scented pink or white flowers that attract many fly species, especially hoverflies of the genus "Eristalis". It is con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37901 |
La traviata
La traviata (; "The Fallen Woman") is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on "La Dame aux camélias" (1852), a play adapted from the 1848 novel by Alexandre Dumas "fils". The opera was originally titled Violetta, after the main character.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37902 |
Il trovatore
Il trovatore ('The Troubadour') is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play "El trovador" (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez. It was Gutiérrez's most successful play, one which Verdi scholar Julian Budden describes as "a high ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37903 |
Ernani
Ernani is an operatic "dramma lirico" in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play "Hernani" by Victor Hugo.
Verdi was commissioned by the Teatro La Fenice in Venice to write an opera, but finding the right subject took some time, and the composer worked wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37907 |
Don Carlos
Don Carlos is a five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French-language libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, based on the dramatic play "Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien" ("Don Carlos, Infante of Spain") by Friedrich Schiller. In addition, it has been noted by David Kimball that the Font... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37909 |
Spacecraft
A spacecraft is a vehicle or machine designed to fly in outer space. A type of artificial satellite, spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, Earth observation, meteorology, navigation, space colonization, planetary exploration, and transportation of humans and cargo. All spa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37910 |
Escape velocity
In physics (specifically, celestial mechanics), escape velocity is the minimum speed needed for a free, non-propelled object to escape from the gravitational influence of a massive body, that is, to achieve an infinite distance from it. Escape velocity is a function of the mass of the body and distance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37913 |
Carmen
Carmen is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and scan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37914 |
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
The story is set in Nuremberg in the mid-16th century. At the time, Nuremberg was a free imperial city and one of the centers of the Renaissance in Northern Europe. The story revolves around the city's guild of "Meistersinger" (Master Singers), an association of amateur poets and musicia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37915 |
The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute (German: , ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a "Singspiel", a popular form during the time it was written that included both singing and spoken dialogue. The work was premiered on 30 Sept... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37916 |
La bohème
La bohème (; ) is an opera in four acts, composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on "Scènes de la vie de bohème" (1851) by Henri Murger. The story is set in Paris around 1830, and shows the Bohemian lifestyle (known in French as "")... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37929 |
Saverio Mercadante
Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante (baptised 17 September 179517 December 1870) was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as prolific a number of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37932 |
Maison Ikkoku
The manga was adapted into a ninety-six-episode anime television series created by Studio Deen that ran on Fuji TV from March 26, 1986 to March 2, 1988. A "Final Chapter" movie, three OVAs, and a music special were also produced, with a live-action movie made by Toei in 1986. A live-action TV special air... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37933 |
Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (, also , , ; 29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer, best known for his almost 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, Donizetti was a leading composer of the "bel canto" opera style during the first half of the nineteenth cent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37934 |
Bell OH-58 Kiowa
The Bell OH-58 Kiowa is a family of single-engine, single-rotor, military helicopters used for observation, utility, and direct fire support. Bell Helicopter manufactured the OH-58 for the United States Army based on its Model 206A JetRanger helicopter. The OH-58 was in continuous U.S. Army service fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37935 |
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Ruggero (or Ruggiero) Leoncavallo ( , , ; 23 April 18579 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer and librettist. Although he produced numerous operas and other songs throughout his career it is his opera "Pagliacci" (1892) that remained his lasting contribution, despite attempts to escape the sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37938 |
Francesco Cilea
Francesco Cilea (also "Cilèa"; Palmi, 23 July 1866 – Varazze, 20 November 1950) was an Italian composer. Today he is particularly known for his operas "L'arlesiana" and "Adriana Lecouvreur".
Born in Palmi near Reggio di Calabria, Cilea gave early indication of an aptitude for music when at the age of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37939 |
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk
The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk is a four-blade, twin-engine, medium-lift utility helicopter manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft. Sikorsky submitted the S-70 design for the United States Army's Utility Tactical Transport Aircraft System (UTTAS) competition in 1972. The Army designated the prototy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37941 |
Domenico Cimarosa
Domenico Cimarosa (; 17 December 1749 – 11 January 1801) was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan school and of the Classical period. He wrote more than eighty operas, the best known of which is "Il matrimonio segreto" (1792); most of his operas are comedies. He also wrote instrumental works and chu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37943 |
Giovanni Pacini
Giovanni Pacini (17 February 17966 December 1867) was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas. The family was of Tuscan origin, living in Catania when the compo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37944 |
Giovanni Paisiello
Giovanni Paisiello (or Paesiello; 9 May 1740 – 5 June 1816) was an Italian composer of the Classical era, and was the most popular opera composer of the late 1700s. His operatic style influenced Mozart and Rossini and whose music was championed by Haydn and Beethoven.
Paisiello was born in Taranto ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37945 |
Violet (color)
Violet is the color of light at the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum, between blue and invisible ultraviolet. It is one of the seven colors that Isaac Newton labeled when dividing the spectrum of visible light in 1672. Violet light has a wavelength between approximately 380 and 450 nanometer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37947 |
Prisoner's dilemma
The prisoner's dilemma is a standard example of a game analyzed in game theory that shows why two completely rational individuals might not cooperate, even if it appears that it is in their best interests to do so. It was originally framed by Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher while working at RAND in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43717 |
Sport of athletics
Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking.
The results of racing events are decided by finishing position (or t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43719 |
Decathlon
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα ("déka", meaning "ten") and ἄθλος ("áthlos", or ἄθλον, "áthlon", meaning "contest" or “prize”). Events are held over two consecutive d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43722 |
Frankie Yankovic
Frank John "Frankie" Yankovic (July 28, 1915October 14, 1998) was an American accordion player and polka musician. Known as "America's Polka King," Yankovic was considered the premier artist to play in the Slovenian style during his long career. He was not related to fellow accordionist "Weird Al" Yan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43727 |
Whigs (British political party)
The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and 1850s, the Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories.
The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43729 |
Linear programming
Linear programming (LP, also called linear optimization) is a method to achieve the best outcome (such as maximum profit or lowest cost) in a mathematical model whose requirements are represented by linear relationships. Linear programming is a special case of mathematical programming (also known as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43730 |
Network packet
A network packet is a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-switched network. A packet consists of control information and user data, which is also known as the payload. Control information provides data for delivering the payload, for example: source and destination network addresses, codes, and s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43734 |
Veneto
Veneto (, ; ) or Venetia is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about five million, ranking fifth in Italy. The region's capital is Venice.
Veneto was part of the Roman Empire until the 5th century AD. Later, after a feudal period, it was part of the Republic of Venice until 1797. Venice ruled fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43780 |
Dál Riata
Dál Riata or Dál Riada (also Dalriada) () was a Gaelic kingdom that encompassed the western seaboard of Scotland and the north-eastern corner of Ireland, on each side of the North Channel. At its height in the 6th and 7th centuries, it covered what is now Argyll ("Coast of the Gaels") in Scotland and part of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43782 |
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