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Latin hip hop
Latin hip hop or Latin rap is hip hop music recorded by Latin American artists in the United States and Spanish-speaking countries in the Caribbean, Central America and South America.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, most Latin rap came from the West Coast of the United States. Cuban-American artist M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17722 |
Lighthouse of Alexandria
The Lighthouse of Alexandria, sometimes called the Pharos of Alexandria (; Ancient Greek: ὁ Φάρος τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας, contemporary Koine ), was a lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom, during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (280–247 BC), which has been estimated to be at least in overal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17724 |
Lighthouse
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or another type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
Lighthouses mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs, rocks, and safe entries to harbors; t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17725 |
Library of Alexandria
The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. The Library was part of a larger research institution called the Mouseion, which was dedicated to the Muses, the nine goddesses of the arts. The idea of a universal li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17726 |
Library
A library is a curated collection of sources of information and similar resources, selected by experts and made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing, often in a quiet environment conducive to study. It provides physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical location or a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17727 |
Latin
Latin (, ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken in the area around Rome, known as Latium. Through the power of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in Italy, and subsequently throughout the western Roman Empire. Latin ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17730 |
LiveScript
LiveScript is a functional programming language that compiles to JavaScript. It was created by Jeremy Ashkenas—the creator of CoffeeScript—along with Satoshi Muramaki, George Zahariev, and many others. For a brief period in the 1990s, "LiveScript" was the name of JavaScript.
LiveScript is an indirect desce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17731 |
Local area network
A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building. By contrast, a wide area network (WAN) not only covers a larger geographic distance, but also generally involves leased t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17739 |
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (, ; December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of disease... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17740 |
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (; ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
From 1929 to 1947, Wittgenstein taught at the University of Cambridge. Duri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17741 |
Lanthanum
Lanthanum is a chemical element with the symbol La and atomic number 57. It is a soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes slowly when exposed to air and is soft enough to be cut with a knife. It is the eponym of the lanthanide series, a group of 15 similar elements between lanthanum and lutetium in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17744 |
Lutetium
Lutetium is a chemical element with the symbol Lu and atomic number 71. It is a silvery white metal, which resists corrosion in dry air, but not in moist air. Lutetium is the last element in the lanthanide series, and it is traditionally counted among the rare earths. Lutetium is sometimes considered the firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17745 |
Lawrencium
Lawrencium is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Lr (formerly Lw) and atomic number 103. It is named in honor of Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, a device that was used to discover many artificial radioactive elements. A radioactive metal, lawrencium is the eleventh transuranic element ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17746 |
Lead
Lead () is a chemical element with the symbol Pb (from the Latin "plumbum") and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. Lead is soft and malleable, and also has a relatively low melting point. When freshly cut, lead is silvery with a hint of blue; it tarnishes to a dull gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17747 |
Limestone
Limestone is a carbonate sedimentary rock that is often composed of the skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, foraminifera, and molluscs. Its major materials are the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). A closely related rock is dolom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17748 |
Lübeck
Lübeck ( , ) (Danish: "Lybæk"), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
(), is a city in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, and one of the major ports of Germany. On the river Trave, it was the leading city of the Hanseatic League, and because of its extensive Brick Gothic architecture, it is listed by UNESC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17750 |
Laos
Laos (, ; , "Lāo" ), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (; ), is a socialist state and the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. At the heart of the Indochinese peninsula, Laos is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast and Thailand to the w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17752 |
History of Laos
Evidence for modern human presence in the northern and central highlands of Indochina, that constitute the territories of the modern Laotian nation-state dates back to the Lower Paleolithic. These earliest human migrants are Australo-Melanesians — associated with the Hoabinhian culture and have populat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17753 |
Geography of Laos
Laos is an independent republic, and a landlocked nation in Southeast Asia, northeast of Thailand, west of Vietnam. It covers 236,800 square kilometers in the center of the Southeast Asian peninsula and it is surrounded by Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, Thailand, and Vietn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17754 |
Demographics of Laos
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Laos, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Laos' population was estimated at about /1e6 round 2 million in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17755 |
Economy of Laos
The economy of Laos is a rapidly growing lower-middle income developing economy. Being one of five remaining socialist states, the Lao economic model resembles the Chinese socialist market and/or Vietnamese socialist-oriented market economies by combining high degrees of state ownership with an opennes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17757 |
Mass media in Laos
Mass media in Laos are based on a network of telephone lines and radiotelephone communications in remote areas, as well as mobile phone infrastructure. The system is not well-developed.
In 1997 there were 25,000 telephone lines in use, and in 2007 there were 850,000 mobile cellular subscribers. Lao... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17758 |
Transport in Laos
This article concerns the systems of transportation in Laos. Laos is a country in Asia, which possesses a number of modern transportation systems, including several highways and a number of airports. As a landlocked country, Laos possesses no ports or harbours on the sea, and the difficulty of naviga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17759 |
Lao People's Armed Forces
The Lao People's Armed Forces (LPAF) is the name of the armed forces of the Lao People's Democratic Republic and the institution of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, who are charged with protecting the country.
The army of 29,100 is equipped with 30 main battle tanks. The army marine se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17760 |
Foreign relations of Laos
The foreign relations of Laos, internationally designated by its official name as the Lao People's Democratic Republic, after the takeover by the Pathet Lao in December 1975, were characterized by a hostile posture toward the West, with the government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17761 |
Nuclear physics
Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies atomic nuclei and their constituents and interactions. Other forms of nuclear matter are also studied. Nuclear physics should not be confused with atomic physics, which studies the atom as a whole, including its electrons.
Discoveries in nuclear phy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21285 |
Nuremberg
Nuremberg ( ; ; ; East Franconian: or , locally ) is the second-largest city of the German federal state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 511,628 (2016) inhabitants make it the 14th largest city in Germany. On the Pegnitz River (from its confluence with the Rednitz in Fürth onwards: Regnitz, a tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21287 |
Nicholas Lemann
Nicholas Berthelot Lemann is the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism and Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has been a staff writer at "The New Yorker" since 1999.
Nicholas Lemann was born, raised, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21288 |
N
N or n is the fourteenth letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is "en" (pronounced ), plural "ens".
One of the most common hieroglyphs, snake, was used in Egyptian writing to stand for a sound like the English , because the Egyptian word for "snake" was "djet". ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21290 |
Nail (fastener)
In woodworking and construction, a nail is a small object made of metal (or wood, called a tree nail or "trunnel") which is used as a fastener, as a peg to hang something, or sometimes as a decoration. Generally, nails have a sharp point on one end and a flattened head on the other, but headless nails ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21291 |
Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean; it shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. Although it does not border Zimbabwe, less than 200 metres (660 f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21292 |
Geography of Namibia
At , Namibia is the world's thirty-fourth largest country. After Mongolia, Namibia is the second least densely populated country in the world ().
The Namibian landscape consists generally of five geographical areas, each with characteristic abiotic conditions and vegetation with some variation wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21294 |
Demographics of Namibia
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Namibia, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
As required by the Namibian "Statistics Act" #66 of 1976, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21295 |
Politics of Namibia
Politics of Namibia takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Namibia is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by both the President and the Government. Legi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21296 |
Economy of Namibia
The economy of Namibia has a modern market sector, which produces most of the country's wealth, and a traditional subsistence sector. Although the majority of the population engages in subsistence agriculture and herding, Namibia has more than 200,000 skilled workers and a considerable number of wel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21297 |
Telecommunications in Namibia
Telecommunications in Namibia include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Since Independence in 1990, Namibia has seen a dramatic growth in radio stations, with both commercial (for instance Radio 99, Radio Wave, Radio Energy, Omulunga Radio, West Coast FM,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21298 |
Transport in Namibia
This article deals with the system of transport in Namibia, both public and private.
The beginnings of organised travel and transport routes in the territory of South West Africa, today Namibia, have not yet been established. This is due to the lack of any written records relating to roads prior ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21299 |
Namibian Defence Force
The Namibian Defence Force (NDF) is the military of Namibia. It was created when South West Africa gained full independence from South Africa in 1990. The constitution of Namibia defines the role of the military as ""defending the territory and national interests.""
Namibia's military was born ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21300 |
Nauru
Nauru ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Nauru () and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Micronesia, a subregion of Oceania, in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kiribati, to the east. It further lies northwest of Tuvalu, northeast of the Sol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21302 |
History of Nauru
The history of human activity in Nauru, an island country in the Pacific Ocean, began roughly 3,000 years ago when 12 Micronesian and Polynesian clans settled the island.
Nauru was first settled by Micronesian and Polynesian people at least 3,000 years ago. Nauruans subsisted on coconut and pandanus ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21303 |
Demographics of Nauru
The demographics of Nauru, an island country in the Pacific Ocean, are known through national censuses, which have been analysed by various statistical bureaus since the 1920s. The Nauru Bureau of Statistics have conducted this task since 1977—the first census since Nauru gained independence in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21305 |
Politics of Nauru
Politics of Nauru takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Nauru is the head of government of the executive branch. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the parliament. The Judiciary is independent of the executive an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21306 |
Economy of Nauru
The economy of Nauru is tiny, based on a population in 2014 of only 11,000 people. The economy is primarily based on phosphate mining, offshore banking, and processing of coconut products. Mining of phosphate ceased after the exhaustion of the primary phosphate reserves, but in 2006–07 mining of a dee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21307 |
Telecommunications in Nauru
Nauru has one government-owned radio station and two television stations. One station is government-owned and mainly rebroadcasts CNN and the other is a private sports network. The island's Internet service is provided by CenPacNet.
Telephones - main lines in use:
2,000 (1994)
Telephones ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21308 |
Navassa Island
Navassa Island (; ; also "La Navasse", "La Navase") is a small uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea. Located northeast of Jamaica, south of Cuba, west of Jérémie on the south west peninsula of Haiti, the island is subject to an ongoing territorial dispute between Haiti and the United States, which ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312 |
History of Nepal
The history of Nepal is intertwined with the history of the broader Indian subcontinent and the surrounding regions, comprising the areas of South Asia and East Asia.
Nepal is a multi-ethnic, multiracial, multicultural, multi-religious, and multilingual country. The most spoken language is Nepali fol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21323 |
Geography of Nepal
Nepal measures about along its Himalayan axis by across. It has an area of .
Nepal is landlocked by India on three sides and China's Tibet Autonomous Region to the north. West Bengal's narrow "Siliguri Corridor" or "Chicken's Neck" separate Nepal and Bangladesh. To the east are India and Bhutan. N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21324 |
Demographics of Nepal
In the 2011 census, Nepal's population was approximately 26 million people with a population growth rate of 1.35% and a median age of 21.6 years. In 2016, the female median age was approximately 25 years old and the male median age was approximately 22 years old. Only 4.4% of the population is es... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21325 |
Politics of Nepal
The politics of Nepal functions within the framework of a parliamentary republic with a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister and his/her cabinet, while legislative power is vested in the Parliament.
It has four political parties recognised in the federal parliament:... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21326 |
Economy of Nepal
Economic development in Nepal has been complicated and affected by the constant change in political scenarios which has ranged from monarchy to being ruled by the Communist party in 2019. An isolated, agrarian society until the mid-20th century, Nepal entered the modern era in 1951 without schools, ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21327 |
Telecommunications in Nepal
Nepal's telecommunication network has increased over the years significantly, with the number of telephone users (both fixed and mobile phone) reaching 40,789,198 subscribers as on 14 May 2019.
Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) is the regulatory body of telecommunications in the co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21328 |
Transport in Nepal
Nepal is a landlocked mountainous country where transportation is difficult due to the terrain.
Road is the country's primary transport mode.
The Economic Survey 2014-15 released by the Ministry of Finance (Nepal), shows that the country has a total road network of , which includes of roads constru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21329 |
Nepalese Armed Forces
The Nepalese Armed Forces are the military forces of Nepal. The current Nepal Army (technically the Gorkha Army) traces its direct historic roots from the Royal Nepal Army, renamed in recognition of Nepal's transition from a monarchy to a popularly elected republic in 2006. Composed primarily of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21330 |
Foreign relations of Nepal
Though the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) is the government agency responsible for the conduct of foreign relations of Nepal, historically, it is the Office of Prime Minister (PMO) that has exercised the authority to formulate and conduct policies related to Nepal's foreign affairs. As a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21331 |
Netherlands Antilles
The Netherlands Antilles (, ; Papiamentu: "Antia Hulandes") was a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The country consisted of several island territories located in the Caribbean Sea. The islands were also informally known as the Dutch Antilles. The country came into being in 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21332 |
Demographics of the Netherlands Antilles
This article is about the demographic features of the population of the former Netherlands Antilles, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
According to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21335 |
Economy of the Netherlands Antilles
The Netherlands Antilles was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which was formally dissolved in 2010.
Tourism, petroleum transshipment, and offshore finance were the mainstays of the economy, which was closely tied to the outside world. The islan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21337 |
New Caledonia
New Caledonia (; ) is a special collectivity of France, currently governed under the Nouméa Accord, located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, to the south of Vanuatu, about east of Australia and from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21342 |
Geography of New Caledonia
The geography of New Caledonia ("Nouvelle-Calédonie"), an overseas collectivity of France located in the subregion of Melanesia, makes the continental island group unique in the southwest Pacific. Among other things, the island chain has played a role in preserving unique biological lineages... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21344 |
Demographics of New Caledonia
This article is about the demographic features of the population of New Caledonia, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Ethnic Melanesians known as Kanak constituted ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21345 |
Politics of New Caledonia
New Caledonia is a French sui generis collectivity with a system of government based on parliamentarism and representative democracy. The President of the Government is the head of government, and there is a multi-party system, with Executive power being exercised by the government. Legislati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21346 |
Telecommunications in New Caledonia
Country calling code: 687
Telephones - main lines in use:
53,300 (2004) (up from 44,000 in 1995)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
116,400 (2004) (up from 825 in 1995)
Telephone system:
"domestic:"
NA
"international:"
satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean)
Radio broadc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21348 |
Geography of New Zealand
New Zealand ("") is an island country located in the south-western Pacific Ocean, near the centre of the water hemisphere. It consists of a large number of islands, estimated around 600, mainly remnants of a larger land mass now beneath the sea. The two main islands by size are the North Islan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21353 |
Demographics of New Zealand
The demographics of New Zealand encompass the gender, ethnic, religious, geographic, and economic backgrounds of the million people living in New Zealand. New Zealanders, informally known as "Kiwis", predominantly live in urban areas on the North Island. The five largest cities are Auckland... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21354 |
Politics of New Zealand
The politics of New Zealand function within a framework of a unitary parliamentary representative democracy. The structure of government is based on the Westminster system, and the legal system is modelled on the common law of England. New Zealand is a constitutional monarchy in which a heredit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21355 |
Economy of New Zealand
The economy of New Zealand is a highly developed free-market economy. It is the 51st-largest national economy in the world when measured by nominal gross domestic product (GDP) and the 67th-largest in the world when measured by purchasing power parity (PPP). New Zealand has a large GDP for its s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21356 |
Telecommunications in New Zealand
Telecommunications in New Zealand are fairly typical for an industrialised country.
Fixed-line broadband and telephone services are largely provided through copper-based networks, although fibre-based services are increasingly common. Spark New Zealand, Vodafone New Zealand, 2degrees... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21357 |
Transport in New Zealand
Transport in New Zealand, with its mountainous topography and a relatively small population mostly located near its long coastline, has always faced many challenges. Before Europeans arrived, Māori either walked or used watercraft on rivers or along the coasts. Later on, European shipping and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21358 |
New Zealand Defence Force
The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF; , "Line of Defence of New Zealand") consists of three services: the Royal New Zealand Navy, the New Zealand Army and the Royal New Zealand Air Force; and is commanded and headed by the chief of Defence Force (CDF).
New Zealand's armed forces have three de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21359 |
Foreign relations of New Zealand
The foreign relations of New Zealand are oriented chiefly toward developed democratic nations and emerging Pacific Island economies. Until the late 20th century, New Zealand aligned itself strongly with the United Kingdom (as a former British colony) and had few bilateral relationships... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21360 |
Nicaragua
Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the northwest, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. Managua is the country's capital and largest city and is also the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21362 |
History of Nicaragua
Nicaragua is the third least densely populated nation in Central America, with a demographic similar in size to its smaller neighbors. It is located about midway between Mexico and Colombia, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. Nicaragua ranges from the Caribbean Sea on t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21363 |
Geography of Nicaragua
Nicaragua (officially the Republic of Nicaragua ) is a country in Central America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, between Costa Rica and Honduras. Nicaragua is the largest country in Central America in square kilometers.
Nicaragua covers a total area of 130,370 s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21364 |
Demographics of Nicaragua
According to , Nicaragua has a population of . Whites and Mestizos/Castizos (a mix of 69% European ancestry, 20% Native American ancestry and 11% Northwest African ancestry) combined make up about 86% of the population. The remainder of the Nicaraguan population is 9% Afro-Latino, and 5% Nati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21365 |
Politics of Nicaragua
Nicaragua is a presidential republic, in which the President of Nicaragua is both head of state and head of government, and there is a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government.
Legislative power is vested in both the government and the National Assembly. The judiciary i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21366 |
Economy of Nicaragua
The economy of Nicaragua is focused primarily on the agricultural sector. Nicaragua itself is the least developed country in Central America, and the second poorest in the Americas by nominal GDP. In recent years, under the administrations of Daniel Ortega, the Nicaraguan economy has expanded some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21367 |
Telecommunications in Nicaragua
Telecommunications in Nicaragua include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Independent media are active and express a variety of views. The government, however, restricts media freedom through harassment, censorship, arbitrary application of libel laws, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21368 |
Transport in Nicaragua
Transport in Nicaragua revolves around road, air and water transport modalities.
The road infrastructure is very well spread across the Pacific side, while the Atlantic side has less infrastructure. As of 2009, from a total of 19,137 km 2,033 km are paved and 17,104 km are unpaved.
Public tran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21369 |
Nicaraguan Armed Forces
The Nicaraguan Armed Forces are the military forces of Nicaragua.
The long years of strife between the peasant and land-owning political factions and the existence of private armies led the United States to sponsor the National Guard as an apolitical institution to assume all military and poli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21370 |
Foreign relations of Nicaragua
Nicaragua pursues an independent foreign policy. A participant of the Central American Security Commission (CSC), Nicaragua also has taken a leading role in pressing for regional demilitarization and peaceful settlement of disputes within states in the region.
Nicaragua has submitted th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21371 |
Niger
Niger or the Niger ( or ; ), officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in West Africa named after the Niger River. Niger is bordered by Libya to the northeast, Chad to the east, Nigeria to the south, Benin to the southwest, Mali to the north-west, Burkina Faso to the south-west, and Algeria t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21373 |
Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship "Pequod", for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the kne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19859 |
Madeira River
The Madeira River ( ) is a major waterway in South America, approximately long. The Madeira is the biggest tributary of the Amazon, accounting for about 15% of the water in the basin. A map from Emanuel Bowen in 1747, held by the David Rumsey Map Collection, refers to the Madeira by the pre-colonial, ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19863 |
Marañón River
The Marañón River (, ) is the principal or mainstem source of the Amazon River, arising about 160 km to the northeast of Lima, Peru, and flowing through a deeply eroded Andean valley in a northwesterly direction, along the eastern base of the Cordillera of the Andes, as far as 5° 36′ southern latitude; f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19864 |
Max Newman
Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman, FRS, (7 February 1897 – 22 February 1984), generally known as Max Newman, was a British mathematician and codebreaker. His work in World War II led to the construction of Colossus, the world's first operational, programmable electronic computer, and he established the Royal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19867 |
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (abbreviated MBTA and known colloquially as "the T") is the public agency responsible for operating most public transportation services in Greater Boston, Massachusetts. Earlier modes of public transportation in Boston were indep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19869 |
Meson
In particle physics, mesons ( or ) are hadronic subatomic particles composed of one quark and one antiquark, bound together by strong interactions. Because mesons are composed of quark subparticles, they have a meaningful physical size, a diameter of roughly one femtometer (1×10 m), which is about 1.2 times the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19870 |
Marvel Super Heroes (role-playing game)
Marvel Super Heroes (MSHRPG) is a role playing game set in the Marvel Universe, first published by TSR as "" under license from Marvel Comics in 1984. In 1986, TSR published an expanded edition, entitled the "Marvel Superheroes Advanced Game". Jeff Grubb designed both editions, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19871 |
Measure (mathematics)
In mathematical analysis, a measure on a set is a systematic way to assign a number to each suitable subset of that set, intuitively interpreted as its size. In this sense, a measure is a generalization of the concepts of length, area, and volume. A particularly important example is the Lebesgue ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19873 |
Motorcycle
A motorcycle, often called a motorbike, bike, or cycle, is a two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle. Motorcycle design varies greatly to suit a range of different purposes: long distance travel, commuting, cruising, sport including racing, and off-road riding. Motorcycling is riding a motorcycle and related so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19876 |
Map
A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes.
Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19877 |
Management
Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body. Management includes the activities of setting the strategy of an organization and coordinating the efforts of its employees (or of volunteers) to accomplish its obj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19881 |
Mineralogy
Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts. Specific studies within mineralogy include the processes of mineral origin and formation, classification of minerals... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19883 |
Maple syrup
Maple syrup is a syrup usually made from the xylem sap of sugar maple, red maple, or black maple trees, although it can also be made from other maple species. In cold climates, these trees store starch in their trunks and roots before winter; the starch is then converted to sugar that rises in the sap in l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19886 |
Macron (diacritic)
A macron () is a diacritical mark: it is a straight bar placed above a letter, usually a vowel. Its name derives from Ancient Greek ("makrón") "long", since it was originally used to mark long or heavy syllables in Greco-Roman metrics. It now more often marks a long vowel. In the International Phone... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19891 |
Mosque
A mosque (; from , ; literally "place of ritual prostration") is a place of worship for Muslims. Any act of worship that follows the Islamic rules of prayer can be said to create a mosque, whether or not it takes place in a special building. Informal and open-air places of worship are called "musalla", while mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19894 |
Molecular cloud
A molecular cloud, sometimes called a stellar nursery (if star formation is occurring within), is a type of interstellar cloud, the density and size of which permit the formation of molecules, most commonly molecular hydrogen (H2). This is in contrast to other areas of the interstellar medium that cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19895 |
Minoru Yamasaki
was a Japanese-American architect, best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City and several other large-scale projects. Yamasaki was one of the most prominent architects of the 20th century. He and fellow architect Edward Durell Stone are generally considered to be the two... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19897 |
Madeira
Madeira ( , also , ), officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira ("Região Autónoma da Madeira"), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (the other being the Azores). It is an archipelago situated in the north Atlantic Ocean, in a region known as Macaronesia, just under to the north of the Canary Isl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19898 |
M16 rifle
The M16 rifle, officially designated Rifle, Caliber 5.56 mm, M16, is a family of military rifles adapted from the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle for the United States military. The original M16 rifle was a 5.56mm automatic rifle with a 20-round magazine.
In 1964, the M16 entered US military service and the following ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19901 |
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