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Microserfs
Microserfs, published by HarperCollins in 1995, is an epistolary novel by Douglas Coupland. It first appeared in short story form as the cover article for the January 1994 issue of "Wired" magazine and was subsequently expanded to full novel length. Set in the early 1990s, it captures the state of the techn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19002 |
Moscow
Moscow (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, standing on the Moskva River in the central part of Western Russia, Moscow's population is estimated at 12.6 million residents within the city proper, with over 17 million residents in the urban area, and over 20 million residents in the Moscow Metr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19004 |
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant. Although the sea is sometimes considered a part of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19006 |
Milgram experiment
The Milgram experiment(s) on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured the willingness of study participants, men from a diverse range of occupations with varying levels of education, to obey ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19009 |
Monarch
A monarch is a sovereign head of state in a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority and power in the state, or others may wield that power on behalf of the monarch. Usually a monarch either personally inherits the lawful right to exercise the state's sovereign rights (often referred to as "the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19012 |
Monarchy
A monarchy is a form of government in which a person, the monarch, is head of state for life or until abdication. The political legitimacy and governing power of the monarch may vary from purely symbolic (crowned republic), to restricted (constitutional monarchy), to fully autocratic (absolute monarchy), comb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19013 |
Mr. T
Mr. T (born Lawrence Tureaud; May 21, 1952) is an American actor, bodyguard, television personality, and retired professional wrestler, known for his roles as B. A. Baracus in the 1980s television series "The A-Team" and as boxer Clubber Lang in the 1982 film "Rocky III".
Mr. T is known for his distinctive hair... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19019 |
Malmö
Malmö (; ; ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania. It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in Scandinavia, with a population of 316,588 (municipal total 338,230 in 2018). The Malmö Metropolitan Region is home to over 700,000 people, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19021 |
Measurement
Measurement is the assignment of a number to a characteristic of an object or event, which can be compared with other objects or events. The scope and application of measurement are dependent on the context and discipline. In the natural sciences and engineering, measurements do not apply to nominal proper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19022 |
Malden Island
Malden Island, sometimes called Independence Island in the nineteenth century, is a low, arid, uninhabited atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, about in area. It is one of the Line Islands belonging to the Republic of Kiribati. The lagoon is entirely enclosed by land, however it is connected to the sea by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19023 |
Mater lectionis
In the spelling of Hebrew and some other Semitic languages, matres lectionis (from Latin "mothers of reading", singular form: "mater lectionis", from ) are certain consonants that are used to indicate a vowel. The letters that do this in Hebrew are "aleph" , "he" , "waw" and "yod" . The "'yod" and "waw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19026 |
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play "Pygmalion", with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19027 |
Martial arts film
Martial arts films, also colloquially known as karate or kung fu films, are a subgenre of action films that feature numerous martial arts fights between characters. These fights are usually the films' primary appeal and entertainment value, and often are a method of storytelling and character express... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19028 |
Musical film
Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.
The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate "production numbers."... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19029 |
Motala Municipality
Motala Municipality ("Motala kommun") is a municipality in Östergötland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Motala.
In 1971 Motala Municipality was formed by the amalgamation of the "City of Motala" with some of the adjacent rural municipalities. Three years later more e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19030 |
Maltese language
Maltese () is a Semitic language spoken by the Maltese people of Malta. It is the national language of the country and also serves as an official language of the European Union, the only Semitic language so distinguished. Maltese is a Latinised variety of spoken historical Arabic through its descent f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19031 |
Mormon (word)
The word Mormon most colloquially denotes an adherent, practitioner, follower, or constituent of Mormonism in restorationist Christianity. "Mormon" also commonly refers, specifically, to a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), which is often colloquially, but imprecisely... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19035 |
Mariana Trench
The Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench is located in the western Pacific Ocean about east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. It is crescent-shaped and measures about in length and in width. The maximum known depth is (± ) (6.825 miles) at the southern end of a small slot-s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19036 |
Macedonian language
Macedonian (; , , ) is an Eastern South Slavic language. Spoken as a first language by around two million people, it serves as the official language of North Macedonia. Most speakers can be found in the country and its diaspora, with a smaller number of speakers throughout the transnational region ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19037 |
Municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. It is to be distinguished (usually) from the county, which may encompass rural territory or numerous small c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19038 |
Marley Marl
Marlon Williams (born September 30, 1962), better known by his stage name Marley Marl, is an American DJ, record producer, rapper and record label founder, primarily operating in hip hop music. Marlon grew up in Queensbridge housing projects located in Queens New York. He is credited with influencing a num... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19041 |
Metal
A metal (from Greek μέταλλον "métallon", "mine, quarry, metal") is a material that, when freshly prepared, polished, or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well. Metals are typically malleable (they can be hammered into thin sheets) or ductile (can be drawn into w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19042 |
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet standard that extends the format of email messages to support text in character sets other than ASCII, as well as attachments of audio, video, images, and application programs. Message bodies may consist of multiple parts, and header information may be s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19045 |
Mehmed the Conqueror
Mehmed II (; Modern , ; 30 March 14323 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror (), was an Ottoman Sultan who ruled from August 1444 to September 1446, and then later from February 1451 to May 1481. In Mehmed II's first reign, he defeated the crusade led by John Hunyadi after the Hungaria... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19046 |
Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis (; aka Martina Hingisová Molitorová; born Martina Hingisová; 30 September 1980) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. She spent a total of 209 weeks as the singles world No. 1 and 90 weeks as doubles world No. 1, holding both No. 1 rankings simultaneously for 29 weeks. She won fiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19047 |
Mass
Mass is both a property of a physical body and a measure of its resistance to acceleration (a change in its state of motion) when a net force is applied. An object's mass also determines the strength of its gravitational attraction to other bodies.
The basic SI unit of mass is the kilogram (kg). In physics, mass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19048 |
Finnish markka
The Finnish markka (; ; sign: mk; ISO code: FIM) was the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002, when it ceased to be legal tender. The markka was divided into 100 pennies (; ), abbreviated as "p". At the point of conversion, the rate was fixed at €1 = 5.94573 mk.
The markka was replaced ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19050 |
Manganese
Manganese is a chemical element with the symbol Mn and atomic number 25. It is not found as a free element in nature; it is often found in minerals in combination with iron. Manganese is a transition metal with a multifaceted array of industrial alloy uses, particularly in stainless steels.
Historically, ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19051 |
Molybdenum
Molybdenum is a chemical element with the symbol Mo and atomic number 42. The name is from Neo-Latin "molybdaenum", from Ancient Greek ", meaning lead, since its ores were confused with lead ores. Molybdenum minerals have been known throughout history, but the element was discovered (in the sense of differe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19052 |
Mineral
A mineral is, broadly speaking, a solid chemical compound that occurs naturally in pure form. Minerals are most commonly associated with rocks due to the presence of minerals within rocks. These rocks may consist of one type of mineral, or may be an aggregate of two or more different types of minerals, spacial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19053 |
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite. Marble is typically not foliated, although there are exceptions. In geology, the term "marble" refers to metamorphosed limestone, but its use in stonemasonry more broadly encompasses unmetamorphosed li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19054 |
Manufacturing Consent (film)
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media is a 1992 documentary film that explores the political life and ideas of linguist, intellectual, and political activist Noam Chomsky. Canadian filmmakers Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick expand the analysis of political economy and mass medi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19055 |
Munich
Munich ( ; ; ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, the second most populous German state. With a population of around 1.5 million, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, and thus the largest which does not constitute its own state, as well as the 11th-largest city in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19058 |
Millsaps College
Millsaps College is a private liberal arts college in Jackson, Mississippi. Founded in 1890 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church, Millsaps is home to 985 students.
The college was founded in 1889–90 by a Confederate veteran, Major Reuben Webster Millsaps, who donated the land for the colle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19064 |
Mälaren
Mälaren ( , , or ), historically referred to as Lake Malar ( , ) in English, is the third-largest freshwater lake in Sweden (after Vänern and Vättern). Its area is 1,140 km2 and its greatest depth is 64 m. Mälaren spans 120 kilometers from east to west. The lake drains, from south-west to north-east, into the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19066 |
Macau
Macau, also spelled Macao (; , ; official "Macau"), and officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is a city in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. It is a special administrative region of China and maintains separate governing and economic systems fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19068 |
Iridium
Iridium is a chemical element with the symbol Ir and atomic number 77. A very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum group, iridium is considered to be the second-densest metal (after osmium) with a density of as defined by experimental X-ray crystallography. However, at room temperature... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14752 |
International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation of the sounds of spoken language. The IPA is u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14761 |
Inspector Morse
Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse, GM, is the eponymous fictional character in the series of detective novels by British author Colin Dexter. On television, he appears in the 33-episode drama series "Inspector Morse" (1987–2000), in which John Thaw played the character, as well as the (2012–) p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14762 |
History of the Isle of Man
The Isle of Man had become separated from Great Britain and Ireland by 6500 BC. It appears that colonisation took place by sea sometime during the Mesolithic era (about 6500 BC). The island has been visited by various raiders and trading peoples over the years. After being settled by people ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14763 |
Geography of the Isle of Man
The Isle of Man is an island in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland in Western Europe, with a population of almost 85,000. It is a British Crown dependency. It has a small islet, the Calf of Man, to its south. It is located at .
Area:
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This makes it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14764 |
Politics of the Isle of Man
The government of the Isle of Man is a parliamentary representative democracy. As a Crown Dependency, it is not subordinate to the government of the United Kingdom. That government, however, is responsible for defence and external affairs and could intervene in the domestic affairs of the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14766 |
Economy of the Isle of Man
The economy of the Isle of Man is a low-tax economy with insurance, online gambling operators and developers, information and communications technology (ICT), and offshore banking forming key sectors of the island's economy.
As an offshore financial centre located in the Irish Sea, the Isle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14767 |
Communications in the Isle of Man
The Isle of Man has an extensive communications infrastructure consisting of telephone cables, submarine cables, and an array of television and mobile phone transmitters and towers.
The history of Manx telecommunications starts in 1859, when the Isle of Man Electric Telegraph Company... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14768 |
Transport in the Isle of Man
There are a number of transport services around the Isle of Man, mostly consisting of paved roads, public transport, rail services, sea ports and an airport.
The island has a total of of public roads, all of which are paved. Roads are numbered using a numbering scheme similar to the numbe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14769 |
Information theory
Information theory studies the quantification, storage, and communication of information. It was originally proposed by Claude Shannon in 1948 to find fundamental limits on signal processing and communication operations such as data compression, in a landmark paper titled "A Mathematical Theory of C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14773 |
Information explosion
The information explosion is the rapid increase in the amount of published information or data and the effects of this abundance. As the amount of available data grows, the problem of managing the information becomes more difficult, which can lead to information overload. The Online Oxford Englis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14774 |
Inch
The inch (abbreviation: in or ″) is a unit of length in the (British) imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. It is equal to yard or of a foot. Derived from the Roman uncia ("twelfth"), the word "inch" is also sometimes used to translate similar units in other measurement systems, usually und... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14775 |
Inn
Inns are generally establishments or buildings where travelers can seek lodging, and usually, food and drink. Inns are typically located in the country or along a highway; before the advent of motorized transportation they also provided accommodation for horses.
Inns in Europe were possibly first established when... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14776 |
International Olympiad in Informatics
The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) is an annual competitive programming competition for secondary school students. It is the second largest olympiad, after International Mathematical Olympiad, in terms of number of participating countries (83 at IOI 2017). The first I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14777 |
ISP (disambiguation)
ISP often refers to Internet Service Provider. ISP may also refer to: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14780 |
Erectile dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction (ED), also known as impotence, is a type of sexual dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis during sexual activity. ED can have psychological consequences as it can be tied to relationship difficulties and self-image.
A physica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14783 |
Iran–Contra affair
The Iran–Contra affair (, ), popularized in Iran as the McFarlane affair, the Iran–Contra scandal, or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14787 |
Infocom
Infocom was a software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that produced numerous works of interactive fiction. They also produced one notable business application, a relational database called "Cornerstone".
Infocom was founded on June 22, 1979, by staff and students of Massachusetts Institute of Techn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14788 |
Interactive fiction
Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, is software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives, either in the form of interactive narratives or interactive narrations.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14789 |
Ice hockey
Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score goals. The sport is known to be fast-paced and physical, with teams usually fielding six players at a time: one goaltender,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14790 |
IEEE 802.3
IEEE 802.3 is a working group and a collection of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards produced by the working group defining the physical layer and data link layer's media access control (MAC) of wired Ethernet. This is generally a local area network (LAN) technology with some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14791 |
Integer (computer science)
In computer science, an integer is a datum of integral data type, a data type that represents some range of mathematical integers. Integral data types may be of different sizes and may or may not be allowed to contain negative values. Integers are commonly represented in a computer as a grou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14794 |
Icon
An icon (from the Greek "eikṓn" "image", "resemblance") is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, in the cultures of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Roman Catholic, and certain Eastern Catholic churches. They are not simply artworks but "an icon is a sacred image used in religious... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14800 |
Icon (programming language)
Icon is a very high-level programming language featuring goal-directed execution and many facilities for managing strings and textual patterns. It is related to SNOBOL and SL5, string processing languages. Icon is not object-oriented, but an object-oriented extension called Idol was develop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14801 |
Iconology
Iconology is a method of interpretation in cultural history and the history of the visual arts used by Aby Warburg, Erwin Panofsky and their followers that uncovers the cultural, social, and historical background of themes and subjects in the visual arts. Though Panofsky differentiated between iconology and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14802 |
List of Indian massacres
In the history of the European colonization of the Americas, an atrocity termed "Indian massacre" is a specific incident wherein a group of people (military, mob or other) deliberately kill a significant number of relatively defenseless people — usually civilian noncombatants — or to the summa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14804 |
Islamic calendar
The Islamic calendar ( '), also known as the Hijri, Lunar Hijri, Muslim or Arabic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. It is used to determine the proper days of Islamic holidays and rituals, such as the annual period of fasting and the proper time ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14810 |
Interquartile range
In descriptive statistics, the interquartile range (IQR), also called the midspread, middle 50%, or Hspread, is a measure of statistical dispersion, being equal to the difference between 75th and 25th percentiles, or between upper and lower quartiles, IQR = "Q"3 − "Q"1. In other words, the IQR is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14812 |
Indiana Jones (character)
Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr. is the title character and protagonist of the "Indiana Jones" franchise. George Lucas created the character in homage to the action heroes of 1930s film serials. The character first appeared in the 1981 film "Raiders of the Lost Ark", to be followed by "I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14814 |
Irreducible fraction
An irreducible fraction (or fraction in lowest terms, simplest form or reduced fraction) is a fraction in which the numerator and denominator are integers that have no other common divisors than 1 (and -1, when negative numbers are considered). In other words, a fraction a⁄b is irreducible if and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14822 |
Isomorphism class
In mathematics, an isomorphism class is a collection of mathematical objects isomorphic to each other.
Isomorphism classes are often defined if the exact identity of the elements of the set is considered irrelevant, and the properties of the structure of the mathematical object are studied. Examples... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14826 |
Isomorphism
In mathematics, an isomorphism is a mapping between two structures of the same type that can be reversed by an inverse mapping. Two mathematical structures are isomorphic if an isomorphism exists between them. The word isomorphism is derived from the Ancient Greek: ἴσος "isos" "equal", and μορφή "morphe" "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14828 |
Intergovernmental organization
An intergovernmental organization (IGO) or international organization is an organization composed primarily of sovereign states (referred to as "member states"), or of other intergovernmental organizations. IGOs are established by a treaty that acts as a charter creating the group. Treat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14832 |
International Telecommunication Union
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU; or UIT), originally the International Telegraph Union (), is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is responsible for issues that concern information and communication technologies. It is the oldest global international org... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14836 |
Internet Message Access Protocol
In computing, the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is an Internet standard protocol used by email clients to retrieve email messages from a mail server over a TCP/IP connection. IMAP is defined by RFC 3501.
IMAP was designed with the goal of permitting complete management of an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14837 |
Inertial frame of reference
An inertial frame of reference in classical physics and special relativity possesses the property that in this frame of reference a body with zero net force acting upon it does not accelerate; that is, such a body is at rest or moving at a constant velocity. An inertial frame of reference c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14838 |
Illuminati: New World Order
Illuminati: New World Order ("INWO") is an out-of-print collectible card game (CCG) that was released in 1994 by Steve Jackson Games, based on their original boxed game Illuminati, which in turn was inspired by the 1975 book "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14840 |
Interstellar travel
Interstellar travel is crewed or uncrewed travel between stars or planetary systems. Interstellar travel would be much more difficult than interplanetary spaceflight. Whereas the distances between the planets in the Solar System are less than 30 astronomical units (AU), the distances between stars ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14843 |
Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) is a distance vector interior gateway protocol (IGP) developed by Cisco. It is used by routers to exchange routing data within an autonomous system.
IGRP is a proprietary protocol. IGRP was created in part to overcome the limitations of RIP (m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14844 |
Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are a large language family native to western Eurasia. It comprises most of the languages of Europe together with those of the northern Indian Subcontinent and the Iranian Plateau. A few of these languages, such as English, have expanded through colonialism in the mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14848 |
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It has the fifth largest gross domestic product (GDP),
the sixth largest population, and the 25th largest land area of all U.S. states. Illinois has been noted as a microcosm of the entire United States. With Chicago in no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14849 |
Ian Murdock
Ian Ashley Murdock (28April 1973 28December 2015) was an American software engineer, known for being the founder of the Debian project and Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial Linux company.
Although Murdock's parents were both from Southern Indiana, he was born in Konstanz, West Germany, on 28 April 1973,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14851 |
Inner product space
In linear algebra, an inner product space is a vector space with an additional structure called an inner product. This additional structure associates each pair of vectors in the space with a scalar quantity known as the inner product of the vectors. Inner products allow the rigorous introduction o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14856 |
Iain Banks
Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author. He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies ().
After the publication and success of "The Wasp Factory" (1984), Banks began to write on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14858 |
Incunable
An incunable, or sometimes incunabulum (plural incunables or incunabula, respectively), is a book, pamphlet, or broadside printed in Europe before the 16th century. Incunabula are not manuscripts, which are documents written by hand. there are about 30,000 distinct known incunable editions extant, but the pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14863 |
Isotropy
Isotropy is uniformity in all orientations; it is derived from the Greek "isos" (ἴσος, "equal") and "tropos" (τρόπος, "way"). Precise definitions depend on the subject area. Exceptions, or inequalities, are frequently indicated by the prefix "an", hence "anisotropy". "Anisotropy" is also used to describe situ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14865 |
International Mathematical Union
The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of mathematics across the world. It is a member of the International Science Council (ISC) and supports the International Congress of Mathemati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14868 |
International Council for Science
The International Council for Science (ICSU, after its former name, International Council of Scientific Unions) was an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the advancement of science. Its members were national scientific bodies and intern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14869 |
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC ) is an international federation of National Adhering Organizations that represents chemists in individual countries. It is a member of the International Science Council (ISC). IUPAC is registered in Zürich, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14870 |
International Hydrographic Organization
The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is an intergovernmental organization representing hydrography. In October 2019 the IHO comprised 93 Member States.
A principal aim of the IHO is to ensure that the world's seas, oceans and navigable waters are properly surveyed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14871 |
IBM mainframe
IBM mainframes are large computer systems produced by IBM since 1952. During the 1960s and 1970s, IBM dominated the large computer market. Current mainframe computers in IBM's line of business computers are developments of the basic design of the IBM System/360.
From 1952 into the late 1960s, IBM manufa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14872 |
Iowa State University
Iowa State University of Science and Technology, (Iowa State University or Iowa State), is a public land-grant and space-grant research university in Ames, Iowa. It is the largest university in the state of Iowa and the third largest university in the Big 12 athletic conference. Iowa State is cla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14875 |
International Astronomical Union
The International Astronomical Union (IAU; , UAI) is an international association of professional astronomers, at the PhD level and beyond, active in professional research and education in astronomy. Among other activities, it acts as the recognized authority for assigning designations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14878 |
International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal that sits in The Hague, Netherlands. The ICC has jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14880 |
Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula , also known as Iberia, is located in the southwest corner of Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia. The peninsula is principally divided between Spain and Portugal, comprising most of their territory, as well as a small area of Southern France, Andorra and the Britis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14883 |
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an African American minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King is best known for advancing civil rights... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20076 |
Martin Luther King (disambiguation)
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) was a minister and civil rights activist.
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Marino Marini (sculptor)
Marino Marini (27 February 1901 – 6 August 1980) was an Italian sculptor.
He attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence in 1917. Although he never abandoned painting, Marini devoted himself primarily to sculpture from about 1922. From this time his work was influenced by Etruscan art an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20080 |
Modular arithmetic
In mathematics, modular arithmetic is a system of arithmetic for integers, where numbers "wrap around" when reaching a certain value, called the modulus. The modern approach to modular arithmetic was developed by Carl Friedrich Gauss in his book "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae", published in 1801.
A f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20087 |
Myriad
A myriad (from Ancient Greek ) is technically the number ten thousand; in that sense, the term is used almost exclusively in translations from Greek, Latin, Korean, or Chinese, or when talking about ancient Greek numbers. More generally, a myriad may be an indefinitely large number of things.
The Aegean numera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20088 |
Mohamed Al-Fayed
Mohamed Al-Fayed (; ; born Mohamed Fayed; 27 January 1933) is an Egyptian businessman. Fayed's business interests include ownership of Hôtel Ritz Paris and formerly Harrods Department Store. Al-Fayed sold Fulham F.C. to Shahid Khan in 2013.
Fayed had a son, Dodi, from his first marriage to Samira Kha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20089 |
Marmite
Marmite ( ) is a food spread made from yeast extract invented by German scientist Justus von Liebig and originally made in the United Kingdom. It is a by-product of beer brewing and is produced by Dutch-British company Unilever. Other similar products include the Australian Vegemite (the name of which is deriv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20090 |
Mabon ap Modron
Mabon ap Modron is a prominent figure from Welsh literature and mythology, the son of Modron and a member of Arthur's war band. Both he and his mother were likely deities in origin, descending from a divine mother–son pair. His name is related to the Romano-British god Maponos, whose name means "Great ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20092 |
Microwave
Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths ranging from about one meter to one millimeter; with frequencies between and . Different sources define different frequency ranges as microwaves; the above broad definition includes both UHF and EHF (millimeter wave) bands. A more common def... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20097 |
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