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Meteorology
Meteorology is a branch of the atmospheric sciences which includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics, with a major focus on weather forecasting. The study of meteorology dates back millennia, though significant progress in meteorology did not occur until the 18th century. The 19th century saw m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19904 |
Meitnerium
Meitnerium is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Mt and atomic number 109. It is an extremely radioactive synthetic element (an element not found in nature, but can be created in a laboratory). The most stable known isotope, meitnerium-278, has a half-life of 4.5 seconds, although the unconfirmed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19916 |
Megabyte
The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. Its recommended unit symbol is MB. The unit prefix "mega" is a multiplier of (106) in the International System of Units (SI). Therefore, one megabyte is one million bytes of information. This definition has been incorporated into the Interna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19918 |
Monosaccharide
Monosaccharides (from Greek "monos": single, "sacchar": sugar), also called simple sugar, are the simplest form of sugar and the most basic units of carbohydrates. They cannot be further hydrolyzed to simpler chemical compounds. The general formula is . They are usually colorless, water-soluble, and cry... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19919 |
Microscopium
Microscopium ("the Microscope") is a minor constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere, one of twelve created in the 18th century by French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille and one of several depicting scientific instruments. The name is a Latinised form of the Greek word for microscope. Its st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19924 |
IC 342/Maffei Group
The IC 342/Maffei Group (also known as the IC 342 Group or the Maffei 1 Group) is the nearest group of galaxies to the Local Group. The group can be described as a binary group; the member galaxies are mostly concentrated around either IC 342 or Maffei 1, both of which are the brightest galaxies wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19925 |
M81 Group
The M81 Group is a galaxy group in the constellations Ursa Major and Camelopardalis that includes the galaxies Messier 81 and Messier 82, as well as several other galaxies with high apparent brightnesses. The approximate center of the group is located at a distance of 3.6 Mpc, making it one of the nearest gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19926 |
Metre (poetry)
In poetry, metre (British) or meter (American; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order. The study and the actual use of metres and f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19930 |
Mimeograph
The stencil duplicator or mimeograph machine (often abbreviated to mimeo) is a low-cost duplicating machine that works by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper. The mimeograph process should not be confused with the spirit duplicator process.
Mimeographs, along with spirit duplicators and hectographs, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19935 |
Meteorite
A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet or moon. When the original object enters the atmosphere, various factors such as friction, pressure, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19937 |
Mark Bingham
Mark Kendall Bingham (May 22, 1970 – September 11, 2001) was an American public relations executive who founded his own company, the Bingham Group. During the September 11 attacks in 2001, he was a passenger on board United Airlines Flight 93. Bingham was among the passengers who, along with Todd Beamer, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19941 |
Manner of articulation
In articulatory phonetics, the manner of articulation is the configuration and interaction of the articulators (speech organs such as the tongue, lips, and palate) when making a speech sound. One parameter of manner is "stricture," that is, how closely the speech organs approach one another. Oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19942 |
Motherboard
A motherboard (also called mainboard, main circuit board, system board, baseboard, planar board, logic board, and mobo) is the main printed circuit board (PCB) in general-purpose computers and other expandable systems. It holds, and allows communication between, many of the crucial electronic components of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19945 |
Mannerism
Mannerism, also known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it. Northern Mannerism continued int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19947 |
Monica Lewinsky
Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American activist, television personality, fashion designer, and former White House intern. President Bill Clinton admitted to having had what he called an "inappropriate relationship" with Lewinsky while she worked at the White House in 1995–1996. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19948 |
Pressure measurement
Pressure measurement is the analysis of an applied force by a fluid (liquid or gas) on a surface. Pressure is typically measured in units of force per unit of surface area. Many techniques have been developed for the measurement of pressure and vacuum. Instruments used to measure and display press... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19951 |
Medieval dance
Sources for an understanding of dance in Europe in the Middle Ages are limited and fragmentary, being composed of some interesting depictions in paintings and illuminations, a few musical examples of what may be dances, and scattered allusions in literary texts. The first detailed descriptions of dancin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19953 |
Megatokyo
Set in a fictional version of Tokyo, "Megatokyo" portrays the adventures of Piro, a young fan of anime and manga, and his friend Largo, an American video game enthusiast. The comic often parodies and comments on the archetypes and clichés of anime, manga, dating sims, arcade and video games, occasionally mak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19955 |
Medieval music
Medieval music consists of songs, instrumental pieces, and liturgical music from about 500 A.D. to 1400. Medieval music was an era of Western music, including liturgical music (also known as sacred) used for the church, and secular music, non-religious music. Medieval music includes solely vocal music, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19956 |
Maser
A maser (, an acronym for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation), is a device that produces coherent electromagnetic waves through amplification by stimulated emission. The first maser was built by Charles H. Townes, James P. Gordon, and Herbert J. Zeiger at Columbia University in 1953. Tow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19957 |
Mario Botta
Mario Botta is a Swiss architect.
Botta was graduated from Università Iuav di Venezia (1969), he designed his first buildings at age 16, a two-family house at Morbio Superiore in Ticino. While the arrangements of spaces in this structure is inconsistent, its relationship to its site, separation of living ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19958 |
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur (; colloquially shortened to ) is a federal territory and the capital city of Malaysia. It is the largest city in Malaysia, covering an area of with an estimated population of 1.73 million . Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.564 million peopl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16854 |
Kansas State University
Kansas State University (KSU), commonly shortened to Kansas State or K-State, is a public research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas. It was opened as the state's land-grant college in 1863 and was the first public institution of higher learning in the state of Kansas. It had... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16855 |
Sporting Kansas City
Sporting Kansas City, often shortened to Sporting KC, are an American professional soccer club based in Kansas City, Kansas. The administrative offices are located in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, and the team clubhouse and practice facilities are located in Kansas City, Kansas near Children's M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16857 |
Knights of Columbus
The Knights of Columbus (K of C) is a global Catholic fraternal service order. Membership is composed of (and limited to) practicing Catholic men. It is led by Supreme Knight Sir Carl A. Anderson.
The organization was founded in 1882 as a mutual benefit society for working-class and immigrant Cath... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16858 |
Japanese sword
A is one of several types of traditionally made swords from Japan. Swords have been made from as early as the Kofun period, though most people generally refer to the curved blades made after the Heian period when speaking of "Japanese swords". There are many types of Japanese swords that differ by size,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16860 |
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published fourteen novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of nonfiction, with further collections being published after his death. He is most famous for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16861 |
Kōan
A (; , ; "gong-an"; ) is a story, dialogue, question, or statement which is used in Zen practice to provoke the "great doubt" and to practice or test a student's progress in Zen.
The Japanese term "kōan" is the Sino-Japanese reading of the Chinese word "gong'an" (). The term is a compound word, consisting of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16862 |
Knights Templar
The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (), also known as the Order of Solomon's Temple, the Knights Templar or simply the Templars, were a Catholic military order founded in 1119, headquartered on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem through 1128 when they went to the Vatican and were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16869 |
Kazaa
Kazaa Media Desktop (once stylized as "KaZaA", but later usually written "Kazaa") started as a peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol licensed by Joltid Ltd. and operated as Kazaa by Sharman Networks. Kazaa was subsequently under license as a legal music subscription service by Atrins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16871 |
Kimono
The (lit., "thing to wear" – from the verb , "to wear (on the shoulders)" and the noun , "thing") is a traditional Japanese garment and the national dress of Japan. The kimono is a T-shaped garment wrapped left over right (unless the wearer is deceased), and is worn with an alongside accessories such as and soc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16873 |
Kingston upon Thames
Kingston upon Thames (spelled with hyphens until 1965 and sometimes abbreviated to Kingston) is a town, former manor, ecclesiastical parish and borough now within Greater London, England, formerly within the county of Surrey. It is situated on the River Thames, about above sea level and southwest ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16876 |
Karnataka
Karnataka (ISO: , ) is a state in the south western region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as the State of Mysore, it was renamed "Karnataka" in 1973. The state corresponds to the Carnatic region. The capital and largest city is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16880 |
Kashrut
Kashrut (also kashruth or kashrus, ) is a set of dietary laws dealing with the foods that Jews are permitted to eat and how those foods must be prepared according to Jewish law. Food that may be consumed is deemed kosher ( in English, ), from the Ashkenazi pronunciation of the Hebrew term "kashér" (), meaning ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16881 |
KLM
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, legally "Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V." (literal translation: Royal Aviation Company, Inc.), is the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands. KLM is headquartered in Amstelveen, with its hub at nearby Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. It is part of the Air France–KLM group and a membe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16882 |
Kansas City Royals
The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member team of the American League (AL) Central division. The team was founded as an expansion franchise in 1969, and has participated in four Worl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16883 |
Klingon language
The Klingon language ("codice_1", , in "codice_2" ) is the constructed language spoken by the fictional Klingons in the "Star Trek" universe.
Described in the 1985 book "The Klingon Dictionary" by Marc Okrand and deliberately designed to sound "alien", it has a number of typologically uncommon featur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16890 |
Kid Icarus
Kid Icarus, known in Japan as A Mythology of Light: The Mirror of Palthena, is an action platform video game for the Family Computer Disk System in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System in Europe and North America. It was released in Japan in December 1986, in Europe in February 1987, and in North Ame... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16892 |
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue, (; born 28 May 1968), often known simply as Kylie, is an Australian-British singer, songwriter and actress. She is the highest-selling female Australian artist of all time and has been recognised with several honorific nicknames, most notably the "Princess of Pop". Minogue has also bee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16894 |
Knight
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity.
The background of knighthood can be traced back to the Greek "hippeis" (ἱππεῖς) and Roman "eques" of c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16897 |
Kara Sea
The Kara Sea (, "Karskoye more") is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia. It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. It is named after the Kara River (flowing into Baydaratskaya Bay), whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16898 |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.; April 16, 1947) is an American former professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers. During his career as a center, Abdul-Jabbar was a recor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16899 |
Kuomintang
The Kuomintang (KMT), often referred to in English as the Nationalist Party or Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in Taiwan, i.e. the Republic of China, based in Taipei. Formed in 1919, the KMT was the sole ruling party of the Republic of China from 1928 to 2000 and is currently an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16903 |
Kabbalah
Kabbalah (, literally "reception, tradition" or "correspondence") is an esoteric method, discipline, and school of thought in Jewish mysticism. A traditional Kabbalist in Judaism is called a "Mequbbāl" (). The definition of Kabbalah varies according to the tradition and aims of those following it, from its re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16905 |
Kagoshima
Kagoshima Prefecture (also known as the Satsuma Domain) was the center of the territory of the Shimazu clan for many centuries. It was a busy political and commercial port city throughout the medieval period and into the Edo period (1603–1868) when it formally became the capital of the Shimazu's fief, the Sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16910 |
Kajang
Kajang (Jawi: كاجڠ; ; Tamil: காஜாங்) is a town in southeastern Selangor, Malaysia. It is located 20 km southeast of downtown Kuala Lumpur, in the coterminous mukim (commune) of Kajang in the Hulu Langat District.
Kajang is about half an hour's drive from Kuala Lumpur's central business district, primarily thro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16911 |
Karl Benz
Karl Friedrich Benz or Carl Friedrich Benz (; 25 November 1844 – 4 April 1929) was a German engine designer and automotive engineer. His Benz Patent Motorcar from 1885 is considered the first practical automobile. He received a patent for the motorcar in 1886.
Karl Benz was born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16912 |
Ceiba pentandra
Ceiba pentandra is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae (previously separated in the family Bombacaceae), native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and (as the variety "C. pentandra" var "guineensis") to tropical west Africa. A somewhat small... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16913 |
Kyushu
In the 8th-century Taihō Code reforms, Dazaifu was established as a special administrative term for the region.
, Kyushu has a population of 12,970,479 and covers .
The island is mountainous, and Japan's most active volcano, Mt Aso at , is on Kyushu. There are many other signs of tectonic activity, including ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16914 |
KAB-500KR
The KAB-500Kr (Correctable air bomb - 500 kg) is an electro-optical TV-guided fire and forget bomb developed by the Soviet Air Force in the 1980s. It remains in service with the CIS and various export customers.
The KAB-500Kr is analogous to the American GBU-15 weapon. It uses a standard Soviet/Russian FAB-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16915 |
KAB-500L
The KAB-500L is a laser-guided bomb developed by the Soviet Air Force. It remains in service with the CIS and post-Soviet Russian Air Force.
The KAB-500L is a standard FAB-500 general-purpose bomb, which has a nominal weight of , fitted with a semi-active laser seeker and guidance fins, turning it into an un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16916 |
Kamov Ka-50
The Kamov Ka-50 "Black Shark" (, English: kitefin shark, NATO reporting name: Hokum A) is a Russian single-seat attack helicopter with the distinctive coaxial rotor system of the Kamov design bureau. It was designed in the 1980s and adopted for service in the Russian army in 1995. It is manufactured by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16917 |
Kenny Dalglish
Sir Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish (born 4 March 1951) is a Scottish former football player and manager. During his career he made 322 appearances for Celtic and 502 for Liverpool and earned a record 102 full caps for the Scotland national team scoring 30 goals, also a joint-record. Dalglish won the Ballon ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16919 |
Knowledge representation and reasoning
Knowledge representation and reasoning (KR², KR&R) is the field of artificial intelligence (AI) dedicated to representing information about the world in a form that a computer system can utilize to solve complex tasks such as diagnosing a medical condition or having a dialog in a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16920 |
Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context
Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context (KARNAC) is a system being developed in the United States for use in profiling different categories of terrorist attacks to determine the components of possible future terrorist incidents.
Information for KARNAC is generally t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16921 |
Genetics
Genetics is a branch of biology concerned with the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.
Though heredity had been observed for millennia, Gregor Mendel, a scientist and Augustinian friar working in the 19th century, was the first to study genetics scientifically. Mendel studied "trait... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12266 |
Guy de Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (, ; ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12274 |
Gheorghe Hagi
Gheorghe Hagi (; born 5 February 1965) is a Romanian football manager and former professional player, who played as an attacking midfielder. He is currently the owner and manager of Romanian club Viitorul Constanța. Hagi was considered one of the best players in the world during the 1980s and '90s, and i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12276 |
Gordon Banks
Gordon Banks (30 December 1937 – 12 February 2019) was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He made 679 appearances during a 20-year professional career, and won 73 caps for England, highlighted by starting every game of the nation's 1966 World Cup victory.
Banks joined Chesterf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12277 |
Ganglion
A ganglion is a group of neuron cell bodies in the peripheral nervous system. In the somatic nervous system this includes dorsal root ganglia and trigeminal ganglia among a few others. In the autonomic nervous system there are both sympathetic and parasympathetic ganglia which contain the cell bodies of postg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12278 |
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz (sometimes spelled Leibnitz) (; or ; ; – 14 November 1716) was a prominent German polymath and one of the most important logicians, mathematicians and natural philosophers of the Enlightenment. As a representative of the seventeenth-century tradition of ration... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12281 |
Gamma World
Gamma World is a science fantasy role-playing game, originally designed by James M. Ward and Gary Jaquet, and first published by TSR in 1978. It borrowed heavily from Ward's earlier product, "Metamorphosis Alpha".
"Gamma World" takes place in the mid-25th century, more than a century after a second nuclea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12283 |
Grimoire
A grimoire ( ) (also known as a "book of spells") is a textbook of magic, typically including instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms and divination, and how to summon or invoke supernatural entities such as angels, spirits, deities and d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12284 |
Grand Guignol
Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol (: "The Theatre of the Great Puppet") – known as the Grand Guignol – was a theatre in the Pigalle district of Paris (at 20 bis, ). From its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962, it specialised in naturalistic horror shows. Its name is often used as a general term for grap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12285 |
Great Plague of London
The Great Plague, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. It happened within the centuries-long Second Pandemic, a period of intermittent bubonic plague epidemics which originated from Central Asia in 1331, the first year of the Black Dea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12286 |
Graphical user interface
The graphical user interface (GUI or ) is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and audio indicator such as primary notation, instead of text-based user interfaces, typed command labels or text navigation. GUIs were introduced i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12293 |
Gamete
A gamete (; from Ancient Greek γαμετή "gamete" from gamein "to marry") is a haploid cell that fuses with another haploid cell during fertilization in organisms that sexually reproduce. In species that produce two morphologically distinct types of gametes, and in which each individual produces only one type, a f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12295 |
George R. R. Martin
George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948), also known as GRRM, is an American novelist and short story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, screenwriter, and television producer. He wrote the series of epic fantasy novels "A Song of Ice and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12300 |
A Song of Ice and Fire
A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. He began the first volume of the series, "A Game of Thrones," in 1991, and it was published in 1996. Martin, who initially envisioned the series as a trilogy, has published fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12301 |
World of A Song of Ice and Fire
The fictional world in which the "A Song of Ice and Fire" novels by George R. R. Martin take place is divided into several continents, known collectively as The Known World. Some unofficial fan groups call it Planetos.
Most of the story takes place on the continent of Westeros and in a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12302 |
Grandmaster (chess)
Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain.
Once achieved, the title is generally held for life, though exceptionally it may be revoked for cheating. The abbreviati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12304 |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (; ; 22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and an outstanding representative of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12305 |
Geotechnical engineering
Geotechnical engineering, also known as geotechnics, is the application of scientific methods and engineering principles to the acquisition, interpretation, and use of knowledge of materials of the Earth's crust and earth materials for the solution of engineering problems and the design of eng... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12306 |
Gregory Chaitin
Gregory John Chaitin ( ; born 25 June 1947) is an Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist. Beginning in the late 1960s, Chaitin made contributions to algorithmic information theory and metamathematics, in particular a computer-theoretic result equivalent to Gödel's incompleteness theore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12308 |
Goran Bregović
Goran Bregović (, born 22 March 1950) is a Bosnian recording artist. He is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Slavic-speaking countries in the Balkans, and is one of the few former Yugoslav musicians who has performed at major international venues such as Carnegi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12309 |
Gestation
Gestation is the period of development during the carrying of an embryo or fetus inside viviparous animals. It is typical for mammals, but also occurs for some non-mammals. Mammals during pregnancy can have one or more gestations at the same time, for example in a multiple birth.
The time interval of a gest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12312 |
Gamma function
In mathematics, the gamma function (represented by formula_1 the capital letter gamma from the Greek alphabet) is one commonly used extension of the factorial function to complex numbers. The gamma function is defined for all complex numbers except the non-positive integers. For any positive integer for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12316 |
Georges Braque
Georges Braque (; ; 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most important contributions to the history of art were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905, and the role he played in the development of Cubism. Braque's wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12317 |
GNU Compiler Collection
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a compiler system produced by the GNU Project supporting various programming languages. GCC is a key component of the GNU toolchain and the standard compiler for most projects related to GNU and Linux, including the Linux kernel. The Free Software Foundation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12323 |
Galen
Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (; September 129 AD – /), often Anglicized as Galen and better known as Galen of Pergamon (), was a physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire. He is considered one of the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity, Galen influenced the development of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12326 |
Glossolalia
Glossolalia or speaking in tongues is a phenomenon in which people speak words that are apparently in languages unknown to the speaker. One definition used by linguists is the fluid vocalizing of speech-like syllables that lack any readily comprehended meaning, in some cases as part of religious practice i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12327 |
Gustav Kirchhoff
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (; 12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
He coined the term black-body radiation in 1862. Several different sets... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12332 |
G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". "Time" magazine observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular say... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12333 |
God Save the Queen
"God Save the Queen" (alternatively "God Save the King", depending on the gender of the reigning monarch) is the royal anthem in a number of Commonwealth realms, their territories, and the British Crown dependencies. The author of the tune is unknown, and it may originate in plainchant; but an attri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12334 |
Gladiator
A gladiator (, "swordsman", from , "sword") was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals. Some gladiators were volunteers who risked their lives and their legal and social standin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12336 |
Genetically modified organism
A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. The exact definition of a genetically modified organism and what constitutes genetic engineering varies, with the most common being an organism altered in a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12339 |
Ghent
Ghent (; , ; , ; traditional English Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in size by Brussels and Antwerp.
The city originally started as a settlement at the confluenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12341 |
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe (, ; Antillean Creole: ) is an archipelago forming an overseas region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands, Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and the Îles des Saintes, as well as many uninhabited islands and outcroppings. It lies south of Antigua a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12343 |
Demographics of Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe has a population of 403,977 (2012).
According to INSEE Guadeloupe has an estimated population of 403,977 on January 1, 2012. Life expectancy at birth is 77.0 years for males, and 83.5 for females (figures for 2011).
French is the official language, taught in the school system. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12345 |
Telecommunications in Guadeloupe
Telephones - main lines in use:
159,000 (1995)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
814 (1990)
Telephone system:
domestic facilities inadequate
"domestic:"
NA
"international:"
satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); microwave radio relay to Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12349 |
Glagolitic script
The Glagolitic script (, "Glagolitsa") is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed to have been created in the 9th century by Saint Cyril, a Byzantine monk from Thessaloniki. He and his brother, Saint Methodius, were sent by the Byzantine Emperor Michael III in 863 to Great Moravia to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12353 |
Greatest common divisor
In mathematics, the greatest common divisor (gcd) of two or more integers, which are not all zero, is the largest positive integer that divides each of the integers. For example, the gcd of 8 and 12 is 4.
In the name "greatest common divisor", the adjective "greatest" may be replaced by "highe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12354 |
Gazpacho
Gazpacho (; ), or also called Andalusian gazpacho is a cold soup made of raw, blended vegetables. A classic of Spanish and a regional southern Portuguese cuisine, it originated in the southern regions of the Iberian peninsula specifically Andalusia and spread into the Algarve regions. Gazpacho is widely eaten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12357 |
Googolplex
A googolplex is the number 10, or equivalently, 10. Written out in ordinary decimal notation, it is 1 followed by 10100 zeroes, that is, a 1 followed by a googol zeroes.
In 1920, Edward Kasner's nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, coined the term "googol", which is 10, then proposed the further term "goo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12365 |
Freeman Dyson
Freeman John Dyson (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was an English-American theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. He was professor emeritus in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a mem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11397 |
Fourth Council of the Lateran
The Fourth Council of the Lateran was convoked by Pope Innocent III with the papal bull "Vineam domini Sabaoth" of 19 April 1213, and the Council gathered at Rome's Lateran Palace beginning 11 November 1215. Due to the great length of time between the Council's convocation and meeting, ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11399 |
Franconia
Franconia (; ) is a region in Germany, characterised by its culture and language, and may be roughly associated with the areas in which the East Franconian dialect group, colloquially referred to as "Franconian" (German: ""Fränkisch""), is spoken. There are several other Franconian dialects, but only the Eas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11401 |
FileMan
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United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
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FC Den Bosch
FC Den Bosch () is a football club from 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
They were founded 18 August 1965, as FC Den Bosch/BVV. They are the successor of BVV (1906) and Wilhelmina (1890). Their stadium is called 'De Vliert', an 8,500 all-seater. Ruud van Nistelrooy started his professional career at this c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11407 |
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