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Stone of Scone
The Stone of Scone (; , )—also known as the Stone of Destiny, and often referred to in England as The Coronation Stone—is an oblong block of red sandstone that has been used for centuries in the coronation of the monarchs of Scotland, and later also when the monarchs of Scotland became monarchs of Engla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43795 |
Violence against LGBT people
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people sometimes experience violence directed toward their sexuality or gender identity. This violence may be enacted by the state, as in laws prescribing punishment for homosexual acts, or by individuals. It may be psychological or physical a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43797 |
Tin foil hat
A tin foil hat is a hat made from one or more sheets of aluminium foil, or a piece of conventional headgear lined with foil, often worn in the belief or hope that it shields the brain from threats such as electromagnetic fields, mind control, and mind reading. The notion of wearing homemade headgear for s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43803 |
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. The term refers to U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) and has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting from the late 1940s through the 1950s. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43805 |
Lombardy
Lombardy ( ; ; , , or , ) is one of the twenty administrative regions of Italy, in the northwest of the country, with an area of . About 10 million people live in Lombardy, forming more than one-sixth of Italy's population, and more than a fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in the region, making it the most pop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43807 |
George Pullman
George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town, Pullman, for the workers who manufactured it. His Pullman Company also hired African-American men to staff the Pullman ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43808 |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (often shortened to the TMNT or Ninja Turtles) are four fictional teenaged superhero anthropomorphic mutant turtles. Named after Italian Renaissance artists, they were trained by their anthropomorphic rat "sensei" in the Japanese martial art of "ninjutsu". ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43815 |
Java XML
The Java programming language XML APIs developed by Sun Microsystems consist of the following separate computer-programming APIs:
Only the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) is a required API in Enterprise Java Beans Specification 1.3.
A number of different open-source software packages implement these API... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43818 |
John Coughlin (alderman)
John Joseph Coughlin (August 15, 1860 – November 11, 1938), known as "Bathhouse John" or "the Bath", was an American politician who served as alderman of Chicago's 1st ward from 1892 until his death. Representing the Chicago Loop and in later years its environs, he represented what was often c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43820 |
Michael Kenna
Michael Kenna (August 20, 1857 – October 9, 1946), also known as "Hinky Dink", was an American politician who served as alderman of Chicago's 1st Ward from 1897 to 1923 and again from 1939 to 1943. In addition to his position as alderman he was committeeman of the 1st Ward for the Democratic Party from 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43821 |
Robert Altman
Robert Bernard Altman (; February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Altman is known as five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era with such directors as Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Sid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43823 |
Assata Shakur
Assata Olugbala Shakur (born JoAnne Deborah Byron; July 16, 1947, sometimes referred to by her married surname Chesimard) is a former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA), who was convicted of being an accomplice in the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the Ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43824 |
Andie MacDowell
Rosalie Anderson MacDowell (born April 21, 1958) is an American actress and fashion model. She made her film debut in 1984's "", before receiving critical acclaim for her role in "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" (1989), for which she won Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead and was nominated for a G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43825 |
Java servlet
A Java servlet is a Java software component that extends the capabilities of a server. Although servlets can respond to many types of requests, they most commonly implement web containers for hosting web applications on web servers and thus qualify as a server-side servlet web API. Such web servlets are t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43826 |
Santorum Amendment
The Santorum Amendment was a failed proposed amendment to the 2001 education funding bill (which became known as the No Child Left Behind Act), proposed by Republican Rick Santorum (then a United States Senator for Pennsylvania), which promoted the teaching of intelligent design while questioning th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43839 |
Organ donation
Organ donation is the process when a person allows an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive or dead with the assent of the next of kin.
Donation may be for research or, more commonly, healthy transplantable organs and ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43846 |
Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born February 18, 1950) is an American actress and former model. Shepherd's better-known roles include Jacy in Peter Bogdanovich's "The Last Picture Show" (1971), Kelly in Elaine May's "The Heartbreak Kid" (1972), Betsy in Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" (1976), and Nancy in Wood... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43848 |
Social norm
Social norms are regarded as collective representations of acceptable group conduct as well as individual perceptions of particular group conduct. They can be viewed as cultural products (including values, customs, and traditions) which represent individuals' basic knowledge of what others do and think tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43851 |
Reality
Reality is the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent within a system, as opposed to that which is only imaginary. The term is also used to refer to the ontological status of things, indicating their existence. In physical terms, reality is the totality of a system, known and unknown. Philosophical q... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43854 |
Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich (born July 30, 1939) is an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic and film historian. He is part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, and his most critically acclaimed and well-known film is "The Last Picture Show" (1971).
Bogdanovich also directed the thriller "Ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43855 |
Odense University
Odense University was a university in Odense, Denmark. It was established in 1966. In 1998, the university was merged with two other institutions to form the University of Southern Denmark. Its campus is now known as University of Southern Denmark Odense ("Syddansk Universitet Odense", abbr. SDU Oden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43860 |
University of Southern Denmark
The University of Southern Denmark (, literally "South Danish University", abbr. SDU) is a university in Denmark that has campuses located in Southern Denmark and on Zealand.
The university offers a number of joint programmes in co-operation with the University of Flensburg and the Univ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43861 |
Choir
A choir (; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which spans from the medieval era to the present, or popular music repertoire. Mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43866 |
Fatal insomnia
Fatal insomnia is a rare disorder that results in trouble sleeping. The problems sleeping typically start out gradually and worsen over time. Other symptoms may include speech problems, coordination problems, and dementia. It results in death within a few months to a few years.
It is a prion disease of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43871 |
Franco Zeffirelli
Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli (12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019), commonly known as Franco Zeffirelli (), was an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television. He was also a senator from 1994 until 2001 for the Italian centre-right "Forza Italia" party.
Some of his operatic designs and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43876 |
Merced, California
Merced (Spanish for "Mercy") is a city in, and the county seat of, Merced County, California, United States, in the San Joaquin Valley. As of 2019, the city had a population of 83,676. Incorporated on April 1, 1889, Merced is a charter city that operates under a council-manager government. It is nam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43896 |
Albert Finney
Albert Finney (9 May 1936 – 7 February 2019) was an English actor who worked in film, television and theatre. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining prominence on screen in the early 1960s, debuting with "The Entertainer" (1960), directed by Tony Richards... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43910 |
Anthony Quinn
Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), known professionally as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican-American actor, painter, writer and film director who achieved international renown. He was known for his portrayal of earthy, passionate characters "marked by a brutal and elemental ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43913 |
René Goscinny
René Goscinny (, ; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comic editor and writer, who created the "Astérix" comic book series with illustrator Albert Uderzo. Raised largely in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he attended French schools, he lived for a time in the United States. There he met Belgia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43921 |
Clostridium botulinum
Clostridium botulinum is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped, anaerobic, spore-forming, motile bacterium with the ability to produce the neurotoxin botulinum.
The botulinum toxin can cause a severe flaccid paralytic disease in humans and other animals and is the most potent toxin known to humankind, nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43922 |
Asperger syndrome
Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's, is a developmental disorder characterised by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. As a milder autism spectrum disorder (ASD), it differs fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37556 |
Tazio Nuvolari
Tazio Giorgio Nuvolari (; 16 November 1892 – 11 August 1953) was an Italian racing driver. He first raced motorcycles and then concentrated on sports cars and single-seaters. A resident of Mantua, he was known as 'Il Mantovano Volante' (The Flying Mantuan) and nicknamed 'Nivola'. His victories—72 major ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37558 |
List of political scientists
This is a list of notable political scientists. See the list of political theorists for those who study political theory. See also political science.
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Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise which was founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas by Dan and Frank Carney. The company is known for its Italian American cuisine menu, including pizza and pasta, as well as side dishes and desserts. Pizza Hut has 18,703 restaurants worldwide as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37561 |
Taco Bell
Taco Bell is an American chain of fast food restaurants based in Irvine, California and a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. The restaurants serve a variety of Mexican and Tex-Mex foods that include tacos, burritos, quesadillas, and nachos.
Taco Bell was founded by Glen Bell, who opened the first Taco Bell in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37563 |
Chardonnay
Chardonnay (, , ) is a green-skinned grape variety used in the production of white wine. The variety originated in the Burgundy wine region of eastern France, but is now grown wherever wine is produced, from England to New Zealand. For new and developing wine regions, growing Chardonnay is seen as a ‘rite o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37566 |
Chinese law
Chinese law is one of the oldest legal traditions in the world. The core of modern Chinese law is based on Germanic-style civil law, socialist law, and traditional Chinese approaches.
For most of the history of China, its legal system has been based on the Confucian philosophy of social control through mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37568 |
Head of government
The head of government is either the highest or second highest official in the executive branch of a sovereign state, a federated state, or a self-governing colony, autonomous region, or other government who often presides over a cabinet, a group of ministers or secretaries who lead executive depart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37570 |
Cordelia Chase
Cordelia Chase is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"; she also appeared on "Buffy's" spin-off series, "Angel". Portrayed by Charisma Carpenter, the character appears as a series regular in the first three seasons of "Buffy", before leaving t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37574 |
Airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports often have facilities to store and maintain aircraft, and a control tower. An airport consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37575 |
Wine (software)
Wine (recursive backronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a free and open-source compatibility layer that aims to allow computer programs (application software and computer games) developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37583 |
List of wine-producing regions
This list of wine-producing regions catalogues significant growing regions where vineyards are planted. Wine grapes mostly grow between the 30th and the 50th degree of latitude, in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Grapes will sometimes grow beyond this range, thus minor amount... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37584 |
Museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or tempora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37585 |
Padthaway, South Australia
Padthaway is a small town in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east within the Limestone Coast region about south east of the state capital of Adelaide and about south-east of the municipal seat of Bordertown. The name is derived from the Potawurutj, the Ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37587 |
Offa's Dyke
Offa's Dyke () is a large linear earthwork that roughly follows the current border between England and Wales. The structure is named after Offa, the Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia from AD 757 until 796, who is traditionally believed to have ordered its construction. Although its precise original purpose is deb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37588 |
Dorset
Dorset (; archaically: Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset. Covering an area of , Dorset borders Devon to the west, Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37589 |
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon () is one of the world's most widely recognized red wine grape varieties. It is grown in nearly every major wine producing country among a diverse spectrum of climates from Canada's Okanagan Valley to Lebanon's Beqaa Valley. Cabernet Sauvignon became internationally recognized thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37591 |
Grey matter
Grey matter (or gray matter) is a major component of the central nervous system, consisting of neuronal cell bodies, neuropil (dendrites and unmyelinated axons), glial cells (astrocytes and oligodendrocytes), synapses, and capillaries. Grey matter is distinguished from white matter in that it contains nume... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37592 |
Traffic (2000 film)
Traffic is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan. It explores the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: users, enforcers, politicians, and traffickers. Their stories are edited together throughout the film, although some of the char... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37599 |
Eagle
Eagle is the common name for many large birds of prey of the familia Accipitridae. Eagles belong to several groups of genera, not all of which are closely related. Most of the 60 species of eagle are from Eurasia and Africa. Outside this area, just 14 species can be found—2 in North America, 9 in Central and Sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37602 |
Kanji
Chinese characters first came to Japan on official seals, letters, swords, coins, mirrors, and other decorative items imported from China. The earliest known instance of such an import was the King of Na gold seal given by Emperor Guangwu of Han to a Wa emissary in 57 AD. Chinese coins from the first century AD ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37604 |
Norfolk
Norfolk () is a county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the northwest, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea and to the northwest, The Wash. The county town is Norwich. With an area of and a population of 8... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37605 |
Putamen
The putamen (; from Latin, meaning "nutshell") is a round structure located at the base of the forebrain (telencephalon). The putamen and caudate nucleus together form the dorsal striatum. It is also one of the structures that compose the basal nuclei. Through various pathways, the putamen is connected to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37608 |
Striatum
The striatum, or corpus striatum (also called the neostriatum and the striate nucleus), is a nucleus (a cluster of neurons) in the subcortical basal ganglia of the forebrain. The striatum is a critical component of the motor and reward systems; receives glutamatergic and dopaminergic inputs from different sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37609 |
Voicelessness
In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating. Phonologically, it is a type of phonation, which contrasts with other states of the larynx, but some object that the word phonation implies voicing and that voicelessness is the lack of phonation.
The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37612 |
BBC World News
BBC World News is an international pay television channel that is operated by BBC. The BBC is a public corporation of the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. It has the largest audience of any channel, with an estimated 121 million viewers weekly in 2016/2017, part of the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37613 |
Finger
A finger is a limb of the human body and a type of digit, an organ of manipulation and found in the hands of humans and other primates.
Normally humans have five digits, the bones of which are termed phalanges, on each hand, although some people have more or fewer than five due to congenital disorders such as p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37618 |
Venus (mythology)
Venus (, Classical Latin: ; genitive "Veneris" ) is a Roman goddess, whose functions encompassed love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity and victory. In Roman mythology, she was the ancestor of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy. Julius ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37622 |
Hildegard Knef
Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef (; 28 December 19251 February 2002) was a German actress, voice actress, singer, and writer. She was billed in some English-language films as Hildegard Neff or Hildegarde Neff.
Hildegard Knef was born in Ulm. Her parents were Hans Theodor and Friede Augustine Knef. Her f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37625 |
BBC World Service
The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster, owned and operated by the BBC. It is the world's largest of any kind. It broadcasts radio news, speech and discussions in more than 40 languages to many parts of the world on analogue and digital shortwave platforms, internet streaming, podcastin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37627 |
Neutron bomb
A neutron bomb, officially defined as a type of enhanced radiation weapon (ERW), is a low yield thermonuclear weapon designed to maximize lethal neutron radiation in the immediate vicinity of the blast while minimizing the physical power of the blast itself. The neutron release generated by a nuclear fusi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37630 |
Fighting Fantasy
Fighting Fantasy is a series of single-player role-playing gamebooks created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. The first volume in the series was published in paperback by Puffin in 1982.
The series distinguished itself by mixing Choose Your Own Adventure-style storytelling with a dice-based role... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37632 |
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (also known as NASEM or the National Academies) is the collective scientific national academy of the United States. The name is used interchangeably in two senses: (1) as an umbrella term for its thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37635 |
Encephalitis
Encephalitis is inflammation of the brain. The severity can be variable with symptoms including headache, fever, confusion, a stiff neck, and vomiting. Complications may include seizures, hallucinations, trouble speaking, memory problems, and problems with hearing.
Causes of encephalitis include viruses s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37636 |
Nucleophile
A nucleophile is a chemical species that donates an electron pair to form a chemical bond in relation to a reaction. All molecules or ions with a free pair of electrons or at least one pi bond can act as nucleophiles. Because nucleophiles donate electrons, they are by definition Lewis bases.
"Nucleophilic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37637 |
Lumbar disc disease
Lumbar disc disease is the drying out of the spongy interior matrix of an intervertebral disc in the spine. Many physicians and patients use the term lumbar disc disease to encompass several different causes of back pain or sciatica. In this article, the term is used to describe a lumbar herniated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37640 |
Head injury
A head injury is any injury that results in trauma to the skull or brain. The terms "traumatic brain injury" and "head injury" are often used interchangeably in the medical literature. Because head injuries cover such a broad scope of injuries, there are many causes—including accidents, falls, physical ass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37641 |
Tremor
A tremor is an involuntary, somewhat rhythmic, muscle contraction and relaxation involving oscillations or twitching movements of one or more body parts. It is the most common of all involuntary movements and can affect the hands, arms, eyes, face, head, vocal folds, trunk, and legs. Most tremors occur in the h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37642 |
Amplitude
The amplitude of a periodic variable is a measure of its change in a single period (such as time or spatial period). There are various definitions of amplitude (see below), which are all functions of the magnitude of the differences between the variable's extreme values. In older texts the phase is sometimes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37649 |
Kyoto
Kyoto (; Japanese: , "Kyōto" ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. As of 2018, the city had a population of 1.47 million.
In 794, Kyoto (then known ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37652 |
Slough
Slough () is a large town in Berkshire, England (historically in Buckinghamshire), west of central London and north-east of Reading, in the Thames Valley at the intersection of the M4, M40 and M25 motorways. Slough had a population of 164,000 in 2018.
The A4 and the Great Western Main Line pass through the tow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45221 |
Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel André Jarre (; born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and record producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and new-age genres, and is known for organising outdoor spectacles featuring his music, vast laser displays, large projections and fireworks.
Jarre was rais... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45222 |
Animal Crackers (1930 film)
Animal Crackers is a 1930 American pre-Code Marx Brothers comedy film directed by Victor Heerman. The film stars the Marx Brothers, Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo, with Lillian Roth and Margaret Dumont. It was based on their broadway musical of the same name, in which mayhem and zaniness ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45224 |
The Hunting of the Snark
The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a poem written by English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem. Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45227 |
David Zindell
David Zindell (born November 28, 1952) is an American writer known for science fiction and fantasy epics. He was born in Toledo, Ohio, and resides today in Boulder, Colorado, where he works as a test coach; he received a BA degree in mathematics and minored in anthropology at the University of Colorado a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45228 |
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach and illustrated by Russell Munson, is a fable in novella form about a seagull who is trying to learn about life and flight, and a homily about self-perfection. Bach wrote it as a series of short stories that were published in "Flying" mag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45232 |
Robert Peel
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–35 and 1841–46) and twice as Home Secretary (1822–27 and 1828–30). He is regarded as the father of modern British policing, owing to his founding... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45233 |
Subalgebra
In mathematics, a subalgebra is a subset of an algebra, closed under all its operations, and carrying the induced operations.
"Algebra", when referring to a structure, often means a vector space or module equipped with an additional bilinear operation. Algebras in universal algebra are far more general: th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45239 |
Kernel (algebra)
In algebra, the kernel of a homomorphism (function that preserves the structure) is generally the inverse image of 0 (except for groups whose operation is denoted multiplicatively, where the kernel is the inverse image of 1). An important special case is the kernel of a linear map. The kernel of a mat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45240 |
Isomorphism theorems
In mathematics, specifically abstract algebra, the isomorphism theorems (also known as Noether's isomorphism theorems) are theorems that describe the relationship between quotients, homomorphisms, and subobjects. Versions of the theorems exist for groups, rings, vector spaces, modules, Lie algebra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45241 |
Reds (film)
Reds is a 1981 American epic historical drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty. The picture centers on the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his 1919 book "Ten Days That Shook the World". Beatty stars in the lead role al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45242 |
Chacmool
Chacmool (also spelled chac-mool) is the term used to refer to a particular form of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sculpture depicting a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees from the front, supporting itself on its elbows and supporting a bowl or a disk upon its stomach. These figures possibly symboli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45243 |
Korn
Korn (stylized as KoЯn) is an American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993. The band is notable for pioneering the nu metal genre and bringing it into the mainstream.
Originally formed in 1993 by three members of the band L.A.P.D., Korn's current lineup features founding members James "Mun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45246 |
User interface
The user interface (UI), in the industrial design field of human-computer interaction, is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur. The goal of this interaction is to allow effective operation and control of the machine from the human end, whilst the machine simultaneously feeds ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45249 |
Clear and present danger
Clear and present danger was a doctrine adopted by the Supreme Court of the United States to determine under what circumstances limits can be placed on First Amendment freedoms of speech, press, or assembly. The test was replaced in 1969 with "Brandenburg v. Ohio"s "imminent lawless action" te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45254 |
Biosafety
Biosafety is the prevention of large-scale loss of biological integrity, focusing both on ecology and human health.
These prevention mechanisms include conduction of regular reviews of the biosafety in laboratory settings, as well as strict guidelines to follow. Biosafety is used to protect from harmful inci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45259 |
Safe trade
Safe trade is a slogan advocated by Greenpeace in its desire to "green" the World Trade Organization and the Doha Development Round. It is designed to compete with "free trade" as a concept.
Safe trade is generally seen as a single framework of rules worldwide to drastically inhibit the flow of alien organ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45260 |
Biosecurity
Biosecurity is set of measures aimed at preventing the introduction and/or spread of harmful organisms, in order to minimise the risk of transmission of infectious diseases to people, animals and plants caused by viruses, bacteria or other microorganisms. In agriculture, it aims to protect food crops and l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45262 |
De Bruijn–Newman constant
The De Bruijn–Newman constant, denoted by Λ and named after Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn and Charles M. Newman, is a mathematical constant defined via the zeros of a certain function "H"("λ", "z"), where "λ" is a real parameter and "z" is a complex variable. Precisely,formula_1and Λ is the real ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45265 |
Measure space
A measure space is a basic object of measure theory, a branch of mathematics that studies generalized notions of volumes. It contains an underlying set, the subsets of this set that are feasible for measuring (the -algebra) and the method that is used for measuring (the measure). One important example of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45270 |
Infinite loop
In [[computer programming]], an infinite loop (or endless loop) is a sequence of instructions that, as written, will continue endlessly, unless an external intervention occurs ("pull the plug"). It may be intentional.
This differs from:
Consider:
how_many = 0
while is_there_more_data() do
end
display ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45273 |
Military fiat
Military fiat is a process whereby a decision is made and enforced by military means without the participation of other political elements. The Latin term "fiat", translated as "let it be," suggests the autocratic attitude ascribed to such a process. For example, many coups involve the imposition of a ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45274 |
Arthur Sullivan
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer. He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including "H.M.S. Pinafore", "The Pirates of Penzance" and "The Mikado". His works include 24 operas, 11 major orchestral works, te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45280 |
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples, also known in some regions as First peoples, First Nations, Aboriginal peoples or Native peoples or autochthonous peoples, are ethnic groups who are the original or earliest known inhabitants of an area, in contrast to groups that have settled, occupied or colonized the area more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45281 |
Bonobo
The bonobo (; "Pan paniscus"), also historically called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf or gracile chimpanzee, is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus "Pan"; the other being the common chimpanzee ("Pan troglodytes"). Although bonobos are not a subspecies of chimp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45286 |
Natural Capitalism
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution is a 1999 book on environmental economics co-authored by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins. It has been translated into a dozen languages and was the subject of a Harvard Business Review summary.
In "Natural Capitalism" the autho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45291 |
Cuthbert
Cuthbert (c. 634 – 20 March 687) was an Anglo-Saxon saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Celtic tradition. He was a monk, bishop and hermit, associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in what might loosely be termed the Kingdom of Northumbria, in North East England and the South East ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45293 |
Atmospheric entry
Atmospheric entry is the movement of an object from outer space into and through the gases of an atmosphere of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite. There are two main types of atmospheric entry: uncontrolled entry, such as the entry of astronomical objects, space debris, or bolides; and cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45294 |
Saint Rosalia
Saint Rosalia (1130–1166), also called La Santuzza or ""The Little Saint"", and in Sicilian as "Rusulia", is the patron saint of Palermo in Italy, and three towns in Venezuela: El Hatillo, Zuata, and Anzoátegui. She is especially important internationally as a saint invoked in times of plague (disease). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45302 |
Thread (computing)
In computer science, a thread of execution is the smallest sequence of programmed instructions that can be managed independently by a scheduler, which is typically a part of the operating system. The implementation of threads and processes differs between operating systems, but in most cases a threa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45303 |
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