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John Radcliffe (physician)
John Radcliffe (1650 – 1 November 1714) was an English physician, academic and politician. A number of landmark buildings in Oxford, including the Radcliffe Camera (in Radcliffe Square), the Radcliffe Infirmary, the Radcliffe Science Library, Radcliffe Primary Care and the Radcliffe Observa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16530 |
Joual
Joual () is an accepted name for the linguistic features of basilectal Quebec French that are associated with the French-speaking working class in Montreal which has become a symbol of national identity for some. "Joual" is stigmatized by some and celebrated by others. While "joual" is often considered a sociole... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16533 |
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, (5 April 182710 February 1912), was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery, whose research into bacteriology and infection in wounds, raised his skillful operative technique, that was similar to his peers, to a new plane where his observations, deductions a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16535 |
Johann Homann
Johann Baptist Homann (20 March 1664 – 1 July 1724) was a German geographer and cartographer, who also made maps of the Americas.
Homann was born in Oberkammlach near Kammlach in the Electorate of Bavaria. Although educated at a Jesuit school, and preparing for an ecclesiastical career, he eventually co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16537 |
Jadavpur University
Jadavpur University is a public state university located in Kolkata in the state of West Bengal in India. It was established in 1955.
University of Calcutta is one of the three universities in early modern India, the other two being Bombay (now Mumbai) and Madras University. It was set up by the B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16542 |
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, (Henry Charles Albert David; 15 September 1984) is a member of the British royal family. He is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales and is sixth in the line of succession to the British throne.
Harry was educated at Wetherb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14457 |
Hail
Hail is a form of solid precipitation. It is distinct from ice pellets (American English "sleet"), though the two are often confused. It consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, each of which is called a hailstone. Ice pellets fall generally in cold weather while hail growth is greatly inhibited during cold s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14458 |
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a type of alternative medicine in which hypnosis is used to create a state of focused attention and increased suggestibility during which positive suggestions and guided imagery are used to help individuals deal with a variety of concerns and issues.
The United States' "Federal Dictionary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14459 |
Hangman (game)
Hangman is a paper and pencil guessing game for two or more players. One player thinks of a word, phrase or sentence and the other(s) tries to guess it by suggesting letters within a certain number of guesses.
If none of the people that are guessing the word get it right the person who give the word DOE... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14462 |
Harmonic mean
In mathematics, the harmonic mean (sometimes called the subcontrary mean) is one of several kinds of average, and in particular, one of the Pythagorean means. Typically, it is appropriate for situations when the average of rates is desired.
The harmonic mean can be expressed as the reciprocal of the ari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14463 |
Hellbender
The hellbender ("Cryptobranchus alleganiensis"), also known as the hellbender salamander, is a species of aquatic giant salamander endemic to the eastern and central United States. A member of the family Cryptobranchidae, the hellbender is the only extant member of the genus "Cryptobranchus". Other closely ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14465 |
Harold Eugene Edgerton
Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton, also known as Papa Flash (April 6, 1903 – January 4, 1990) was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14466 |
Harry Kroto
Sir Harold Walter Kroto (born Harold Walter Krotoschiner; 7 October 1939 – 30 April 2016), known as Harry Kroto, was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He was the recipient of many other honors and awards.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14467 |
Heimskringla
Heimskringla () is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (1178/79–1241) 1230. The name "Heimskringla" was first used in the 17th century, derived from the first two words of one of the manuscripts ("kringla heimsins"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14468 |
Hamar
Hamar is a town in Hamar Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hedmarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Hamar. The municipality of Hamar was separated from Vang as a town and municipality of its own in 1849. Vang was merged back into Hama... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14470 |
Irina Krush
Irina Krush (; born December 24, 1983) is an American chess player. She was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2013. Krush is a seven-time U.S. women's champion.
Irina Krush was born in Odessa, USSR (now Ukraine). She learned to play chess at age five, emigrating with her parents to Brooklyn that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14526 |
Institut des hautes études scientifiques
The Institut des hautes études scientifiques (IHÉS; English: Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies) is a French institute supporting advanced research in mathematics and theoretical physics. It is located in Bures-sur-Yvette just south of Paris. It is an independent research... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14527 |
Iceland
Iceland (; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of 364,134 and an area of , making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Reykjavík. Reykjavik and the surrounding areas in the southwest of the country are home to over two-thirds of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14531 |
Italy
Italy ( ), officially the Italian Republic ( ), is a country consisting of a peninsula delimited by the Alps and surrounded by several islands. Italy is located in south-central Europe, and it is also considered a part of western Europe. A unitary parliamentary republic with its capital in Rome, the country cove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14532 |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the second-most populous country, the seventh-largest country by area, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14533 |
Mark Antony
Marcus Antonius (14 January 1 August 30 BC), commonly known in English as Mark Antony or Anthony, was a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic from an oligarchy into the autocratic Roman Empire.
Antony was a supporter of Julius Caesar, and serve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19960 |
Manchester United F.C.
Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Nicknamed "the Red Devils", the club was founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, changed its nam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19961 |
Mesa (programming language)
Mesa is a programming language developed in the late 1970s at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in Palo Alto, California, United States. The language name was a pun based upon the programming language catchphrases of the time, because Mesa is a "high level" programming language.
Mesa is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19962 |
Morphogenesis
Morphogenesis (from the Greek "morphê" shape and "genesis" creation, literally, "beginning of the shape") is the biological process that causes an organism to develop its shape. It is one of three fundamental aspects of developmental biology along with the control of cell growth and cellular differentiat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19965 |
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (; ; 1703 – 22 June 1792) was a religious leader, Islamic scholar and theologian from Najd in central Arabia, founder of the Islamic doctrine and movement known as Wahhabism. Born to a family of jurists, Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab's early education consisted of learning a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19975 |
Maine
Maine () is the northernmost state in the northeastern United States. Maine is the 12th smallest by area, the 9th least populous, and the 13th least densely populated of the 50 U.S. states. Located in New England, it is bordered by New Hampshire to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, and the Canadian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19977 |
Montana
Montana () is a state in the Northwestern United States. Montana has several nicknames, although none are official, including "Big Sky Country" and "The Treasure State", and slogans that include "Land of the Shining Mountains" and more recently "The Last Best Place".
Montana is the fourth-largest in area, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19978 |
Machine translation
Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT (not to be confused with computer-aided translation, machine-aided human translation (MAHT) or interactive translation), is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of software to translate text or speech fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19980 |
Central moment
In probability theory and statistics, a central moment is a moment of a probability distribution of a random variable about the random variable's mean; that is, it is the expected value of a specified integer power of the deviation of the random variable from the mean. The various moments form one set o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19983 |
Murad I
Murad I (; (nicknamed Hüdavendigâr, from Persian: خداوندگار, "Khodāvandgār", "the devotee of God" – but meaning "sovereign" in this context); 29 June 1326 – 15 June 1389) was the Ottoman Sultan from 1362 to 1389. He was a son of Orhan Gazi and Nilüfer Hatun.
Murad I conquered Adrianople, renamed it to Edirne,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19986 |
Mehmed I
Mehmed I (1389 – 26 May 1421), also known as Mehmed Çelebi (, "the noble-born") or Kirişçi (from Greek "Kyritzes", "lord's son"), was the Ottoman Sultan from 1413 to 1421. The fourth son of Sultan Bayezid I and Devlet Hatun, he fought with his brothers over control of the Ottoman realm in the Ottoman Interreg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19987 |
Murad II
Murad II's reign was marked by the long war he fought against the Christian feudal lords of the Balkans and the Turkish beyliks in Anatolia, a conflict that lasted 25 years. He was brought up in Amasya, and ascended the throne on the death of his father Mehmed I.
Murad was born in June 1404 (or 1403) to Sult... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19988 |
Mustafa I
Mustafa I (; ; 1591 – 20 January 1639), called Mustafa the Saint (Veli Mustafa) during his second reign and often called Mustafa the Mad (Deli Mustafa) by modern historians, was the son of Mehmed III and was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1617 to 1618 and from 1622 to 1623.
Mustafa was born in the M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19991 |
Murad IV
Murad IV or Amurath IV (, "Murād-ı Rābiʿ"; 27 July 1612 – 8 February 1640) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640, known both for restoring the authority of the state and for the brutality of his methods. Murad IV was born in Constantinople, the son of Sultan Ahmed I (r. 1603–17) and Kösem Sul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19992 |
Masamune Shirow
, better known by his pen name , is a Japanese manga artist. Shirow is best known for the manga "Ghost in the Shell", which has since been turned into three theatrical anime movies, two anime television series, an anime television movie, an anime OVA series, a theatrical live action movie, and several ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19994 |
Musical saw
A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is a hand saw used as a musical instrument. Capable of continuous glissando (portamento), the sound creates an ethereal tone, very similar to the theremin. The musical saw is classified as a plaque friction idiophone with direct friction (132.22) under the Hornbost... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19995 |
MIDI
MIDI (; an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing and recording music. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19996 |
Microcode
Microcode is a computer hardware technique that interposes a layer of organisation between the CPU hardware and the programmer-visible instruction set architecture of the computer. As such, the microcode is a layer of hardware-level instructions that implement higher-level machine code instructions or intern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19999 |
Multitier architecture
In software engineering, multitier architecture (often referred to as "n"-tier architecture) or multilayered architecture is a client–server architecture in which presentation, application processing and data management functions are physically separated. The most widespread use of multitier arc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20003 |
Myrinet
Myrinet, ANSI/VITA 26-1998, is a high-speed local area networking system designed by the company Myricom to be used as an interconnect between multiple machines to form computer clusters.
Myrinet was promoted as having lower protocol overhead than standards such as Ethernet, and therefore better throughput, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20016 |
Musique concrète
Musique concrète (; ) is a type of music composition that utilizes recorded sounds as raw material . Sounds are often modified through the application of audio effects and tape manipulation techniques, and may be assembled into a form of montage . It can feature sounds derived from recordings of music... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20017 |
Metric space
In mathematics, a metric space is a set together with a metric on the set. The metric is a function that defines a concept of "distance" between any two members of the set, which are usually called points. The metric satisfies a few simple properties. Informally:
A metric on a space induces topological p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20018 |
Marine biology
Marine biology is the scientific study of marine life, organisms in the sea. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather than on taxonomy.
A large proportion ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20021 |
Microkernel
In computer science, a microkernel (often abbreviated as μ-kernel) is the near-minimum amount of software that can provide the mechanisms needed to implement an operating system (OS). These mechanisms include low-level address space management, thread management, and inter-process communication (IPC).
If ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20023 |
Multihull
A multihull is a ship or boat with more than one hull, whereas a vessel with a single hull is a monohull.
Multihull ships can be classified by the number of hulls, by their arrangement and by their shapes and sizes.
The first multihull vessels were Austronesian canoes. The builders hollowed out logs to mak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20025 |
Multics Relational Data Store
The Multics Relational Data Store, or MRDS for short, was the first commercial relational database management system. It was written in PL/1 by Honeywell for the Multics operating system and first sold in June 1976. Unlike the SQL systems that emerged in the late 1970s and early 80's, MRD... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20029 |
Mike Oldfield
Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English multi-instrumentalist and composer. His work blends progressive rock with world, folk, classical, electronic, ambient, and new-age music. His biggest commercial success is the 1973 album "Tubular Bells"which launched Virgin Records and became a hit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20032 |
Mutual recursion
In mathematics and computer science, mutual recursion is a form of recursion where two mathematical or computational objects, such as functions or data types, are defined in terms of each other. Mutual recursion is very common in functional programming and in some problem domains, such as recursive de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20034 |
Metasyntactic variable
A metasyntactic variable is a specific word or set of words identified as a placeholder in computer science and specifically computer programming. These words are commonly found in source code and are intended to be modified or substituted to be applicable to the specific usage before compilatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20036 |
Mondegreen
A mondegreen is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to clearly hear a lyric, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense. American wri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20038 |
Merge sort
In computer science, merge sort (also commonly spelled mergesort) is an efficient, general-purpose, comparison-based sorting algorithm. Most implementations produce a stable sort, which means that the order of equal elements is the same in the input and output. Merge sort is a divide and conquer algorithm t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20039 |
Maule Air
Maule Air, Inc. is a manufacturer of light, single-engined, short take-off and landing (STOL) aircraft, based in Moultrie, Georgia, USA. The company delivered 2,500 aircraft in its first 50 years of business.
Belford D. Maule (1911–1995) designed his first aircraft, the M-1 starting at age 19. He founded th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20040 |
Minnesota Twins
The Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Twins compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team is named after the Twin Cities area which includes the two adjoining cities of Minneap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20050 |
Mach number
Mach number (M or Ma) (; ) is a dimensionless quantity in fluid dynamics representing the ratio of flow velocity past a boundary to the local speed of sound.
where:
By definition, at Mach1, the local flow velocity is equal to the speed of sound. At Mach0.65, is 65% of the speed of sound (subsonic), and, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20051 |
Moving Picture Experts Group
The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is a working group of authorities that was formed by ISO and IEC to set standards for audio and video compression and transmission. MPEG's official designation is ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 – "Coding of moving pictures and audio" (ISO/IEC Joint Techni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20055 |
MPEG-1
MPEG-1 is a standard for lossy compression of video and audio. It is designed to compress VHS-quality raw digital video and CD audio down to about 1.5 Mbit/s (26:1 and 6:1 compression ratios respectively) without excessive quality loss, making video CDs, digital cable/satellite TV and digital audio broadcasting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20056 |
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook; April 24, 1954) is a political activist and journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. He became widely known while on death row for his writings and commentary on the crimi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20057 |
Multiplicative function
In number theory, a multiplicative function is an arithmetic function "f"("n") of a positive integer "n" with the property that "f"(1) = 1 and whenever
"a" and "b" are coprime, then
An arithmetic function "f"("n") is said to be completely multiplicative (or totally multiplicative) if "f"(1) = ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20059 |
MPEG-2
MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods, which permit storage and transmission of movies using currently available ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20060 |
MPEG-3
MPEG-3 is the designation for a group of audio and video coding standards agreed upon by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) designed to handle HDTV signals at 1080p in the range of 20 to 40 megabits per second. MPEG-3 was launched as an effort to address the need of an HDTV standard while work on MPEG-2 wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20061 |
Meditation
Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state. Scholars have found meditation difficult to define, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20062 |
MPEG-4
MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual (AV) digital data. It was introduced in late 1998 and designated a standard for a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology agreed upon by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11) under the formal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20063 |
Maritime archaeology
Maritime archaeology (also known as marine archaeology) is a discipline within archaeology as a whole that specifically studies human interaction with the sea, lakes and rivers through the study of associated physical remains, be they vessels, shore-side facilities, port-related structures, cargoe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20064 |
Morihei Ueshiba
The son of a landowner from Tanabe, Ueshiba studied a number of martial arts in his youth, and served in the Japanese Army during the Russo-Japanese War. After being discharged in 1907, he moved to Hokkaidō as the head of a pioneer settlement; here he met and studied with Takeda Sōkaku, the founder of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20069 |
Memory address register
In a computer, the memory address register (MAR) is the CPU register that either stores the memory address from which data will be fetched to the CPU, or the address to which data will be sent and stored.
In other words, MAR holds the memory location of data that needs to be accessed. When rea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20070 |
Microassembler
A microassembler is a computer program that helps prepare a microprogram, called "firmware", to control the low level operation of a computer in much the same way an assembler helps prepare higher level code for a processor. The difference is that the microprogram is usually only developed by the proces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20072 |
Machine pistol
A machine pistol is a self-loading pistol capable of fully automatic or burst fire, and sometimes also a stockless handgun-style submachine gun. The term is a calque of "Maschinenpistole", the German word for submachine guns. Machine pistols were developed during World War I and originally issued to Ger... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20074 |
Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash is a deprecated multimedia software platform used for production of animations, rich Internet applications, desktop applications, mobile applications, mobile games and embedded web browser video players. Flash displays text, vector graphics and raster graphics to provide animations, video games... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20947 |
Brainwashing
Brainwashing (also known as mind control, menticide, coercive persuasion, thought control, thought reform, and re-education) is the concept that the human mind can be altered or controlled by certain psychological techniques. Brainwashing is said to reduce its subjects' ability to think critically or inde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20948 |
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that enabled those two powers to divide-up Poland between them. It was signed in Moscow on August 23, 1939, by Foreign Ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov, and was officially know... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20950 |
Mobile, Alabama
Mobile ( , ) is the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 as of the 2010 United States Census, making it the third most populous city in Alabama, the most populous in Mobile County, and the largest municipality on the Gulf Coast between ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20952 |
Monoamine oxidase
Monoamine oxidases (MAO) () are a family of enzymes that catalyze the oxidation of monoamines, employing oxygen to clip off their amine group. They are found bound to the outer membrane of mitochondria in most cell types of the body. The first such enzyme was discovered in 1928 by Mary Bernheim in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20953 |
Magna Carta
After John's death, the regency government of his young son, Henry III, reissued the document in 1216, stripped of some of its more radical content, in an unsuccessful bid to build political support for their cause. At the end of the war in 1217, it formed part of the peace treaty agreed at Lambeth, where ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20958 |
Möbius function
The classical Möbius function is an important multiplicative function in number theory and combinatorics. The German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius introduced it in 1832. It is a special case of a more general object in combinatorics.
For any positive integer , define as the sum of the primitiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20961 |
Methadone
Methadone, sold under the brand name Dolophine among others, is an opioid used for opioid maintenance therapy in opioid dependence and for chronic pain management. Detoxification using methadone can be accomplished in less than a month, or it may be done gradually over as long as six months. While a single d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20962 |
Möbius inversion formula
In mathematics, the classic Möbius inversion formula was introduced into number theory in 1832 by August Ferdinand Möbius.
A large generalization of this formula applies to summation over an arbitrary locally finite partially ordered set, with Möbius' classical formula applying to the set of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20963 |
Martin Lowry
Thomas Martin Lowry (; 26 October 1874 – 2 November 1936) was an English physical chemist who developed the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory simultaneously with and independently of Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted and was a founder-member and president (1928–1930) of the Faraday Society.
Lowry was born in Low ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20964 |
Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics is the brand name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc., formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, a publisher of American comic books and related media. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Worldwide's parent company.
Marvel was sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20966 |
Meritocracy
Meritocracy ("merit", from Latin "mereō", and "-cracy", from Ancient Greek κράτος "" 'strength, power') is a political system in which economic goods and/or political power are vested in individual people on the basis of talent, effort, and achievement, rather than wealth or social class. Advancement in su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20971 |
Marxism–Leninism
Marxism–Leninism is a political philosophy that seeks to establish a socialist state to develop further into socialism and eventually communism, a classless social system with common ownership of the means of production, with full social and economic equality of all members of society. Marxist–Leninis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20972 |
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and formerly Soviet politician. The eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, he was the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was also the country's head of state from 1988 until 1991, se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20979 |
Masada
Masada ( ', "fortress") is an ancient fortification in the Southern District of Israel situated on top of an isolated rock plateau, akin to a mesa. It is located on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea east of Arad.
Herod the Great built two palaces for himself on the mountain and f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20985 |
Marvel Universe
The Marvel Universe is a fictional universe where the stories in most American comic book titles and other media published by Marvel Comics take place. Super-teams such as the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Defenders, the Midnight Sons, and many Marvel superhe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20986 |
Munich massacre
The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, by eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, who took nine members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage, after killing two of them previously, and killing them along with a West German poli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20989 |
Michael Nesmith
Robert Michael Nesmith (born December 30, 1942) is an American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, novelist, businessman, and philanthropist, best known as a member of the pop rock band the Monkees and co-star of the TV series "The Monkees" (1966–1968). Nesmith's songwriting credits include "Differe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20993 |
McLaren
McLaren Racing Limited is a British motor racing team based at the McLaren Technology Centre, Woking, Surrey, England. McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor and also has a history of competing in American open wheel racing as both an entrant and a chassis constructor, and has won the Canadian-Amer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20994 |
Montalcino
Montalcino is a hill town and "comune" in the province of Siena, Tuscany, central Italy.
The town is located to the west of Pienza, close to the Crete Senesi in Val d'Orcia. It is from Siena, from Florence and from Pisa. Monte Amiata is located nearby.
The hill upon which Montalcino sits has probably bee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20997 |
List of marine aquarium fish species
The following list of marine aquarium fish species commonly available in the aquarium trade is not a completely comprehensive list; certain rare specimens may available commercially yet not be listed here. A brief section on each, with a link to the page about the particular specie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20999 |
Magazine
A magazine is a periodical publication which is printed in gloss-coated and matte paper or electronically published (sometimes referred to as an online magazine). Magazines are generally published on a regular schedule and contain a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21001 |
Multivibrator
A multivibrator is an electronic circuit used to implement a variety of simple two-state devices such as relaxation oscillators, timers and flip-flops. It consists of two amplifying devices (transistors, vacuum tubes or other devices) cross-coupled by resistors or capacitors. The first multivibrator circ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21008 |
Marsh gas
Marsh gas, swamp gas, and bog gas is a mixture of methane, hydrogen sulfide, and carbon dioxide, produced naturally within some geographical marshes, swamps, and bogs.
The surface of marshes, swamps, and bogs is initially porous vegetation that rots to form a crust that prevents oxygen from reaching the or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21009 |
Merseburg
Merseburg () is a town in the south of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt on the river Saale, approx. 14 km south of Halle (Saale) and 30 km west of Leipzig. It is the capital of the Saalekreis district. It had a diocese founded by Archbishop Adalbert of Magdeburg.
The University of Merseburg is located withi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21012 |
Microcontroller
A microcontroller (MCU for "microcontroller unit") is a small computer on a single metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) integrated circuit (IC) chip. In modern terminology, it is similar to, but less sophisticated than, a system on a chip (SoC); a SoC may include a microcontroller as one of its components. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21017 |
Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known best as simply Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. His ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21019 |
Mecca
Makkah al-Mukarramah, () commonly shortened to Makkah, and also known by its latinized form, Mecca, is the holiest city in Islam and the capital of the Makkah Province of Saudi Arabia. The city is located inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow valley above sea level. Its last recorded population was 1,57... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21021 |
Mormonism
Mormonism is the predominant religious tradition of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity started by Joseph Smith in Western New York in the 1820s and 30s.
The word "Mormon" originally derived from the Book of Mormon, a religious text published by Smith, which he said he translated fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21023 |
Meat Loaf
Michael Lee Aday, (born Marvin Lee Aday, September 27, 1947), known professionally as Meat Loaf, is an American singer and actor. He is noted for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and for his theatrical live shows.
Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of Hell" trilogy of albums—"Bat Out of Hell", "", and ""—has sold more th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21026 |
James Cameron
James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker and environmentalist who is best known for making science fiction and epic films for the Hollywood mainstream. Cameron first gained recognition for directing "The Terminator" (1984). He found further critical and commercial success with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15622 |
Judaism
Judaism (originally from Hebrew , "Yehudah", "Judah"; via Latin and Greek) is an ethnic religion comprising the collective religious, cultural and legal tradition and civilization of the Jewish people. Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenant that God established with the Ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15624 |
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873), usually cited as J. S. Mill, was a British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy. Dub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15626 |
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