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Female genital mutilation
Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. The practice is found in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and within communities from countries in which FGM is com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11408 |
Fiorello La Guardia
Fiorello Henry La Guardia (; born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia, ; December 11, 1882September 20, 1947) was an American politician. He is best known for being the 99th Mayor of New York City for three terms from 1934 to 1945 as a pro-New Deal liberal progressive Republican. Previously he had been elec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11418 |
Flag
A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular or quadrilateral) with a distinctive design and colours. It is used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration. The term "flag" is also used to refer to the graphic design employed, and flags have evolved into a general tool for rudimentary signalling a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11424 |
Father Dougal McGuire
Father Dougal McGuire is a character in the Channel 4 sitcom "Father Ted". Created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, Dougal was portrayed by comedian Ardal O'Hanlon for the programme's three series. The character is a childlike, simple-minded Roman Catholic curate exiled to Craggy Island, a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11425 |
First Punic War
The First Punic War (264 to 241 BC) was the first of three wars fought between Carthage and Rome, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the early 3rd century BC. For 23 years, in the longest continuous conflict and greatest naval war of antiquity, the two powers struggled for supremacy, p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11427 |
False document
A false document is a technique, employed to create verisimilitude in a work of fiction, where an author tries to create a sense of authenticity beyond the normal and expected suspension of disbelief for a work of art by inventing and inserting or mentioning documents that appear to be factual. The goal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11429 |
Fernando Pessoa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (; 13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11431 |
Full moon
The full moon is the lunar phase when the Moon appears fully illuminated from Earth's perspective. This occurs when Earth is located between the Sun and the Moon (more exactly, when the ecliptic longitudes of the Sun and Moon differ by 180°). This means that the lunar hemisphere facing Earth – the near side ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11432 |
Faster-than-light
Faster-than-light (also superluminal or FTL) communications and travel are the conjectural propagation of information or matter faster than the speed of light.
The special theory of relativity implies that only particles with zero rest mass may travel at the speed of light. Tachyons, particles whose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11439 |
FidoNet
FidoNet logo by John Madil
FidoNet is a worldwide computer network that is used for communication between bulletin board systems (BBSes). It uses a store-and-forward system to exchange private (email) and public (forum) messages between the BBSes in the network, as well as other files and protocols in so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11442 |
Flag of the United States
The flag of the United States of America, often referred to as the American Flag or U.S. flag, is the national flag of the United States. It consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton (referred to specifica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11447 |
Federated States of Micronesia
The Federated States of Micronesia (; abbreviated FSM and also known simply as Micronesia) is an independent republic associated with the United States. It consists of four states from west to east, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosraethat are spread across the Western Pacific Ocean. Together,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11448 |
Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg
Frederick William (; 16 February 1620 – 29 April 1688) was Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, thus ruler of Brandenburg-Prussia, from 1640 until his death in 1688. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he is popularly known as "the Great Elector" ("") because of his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11449 |
French horn
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the "horn" in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11456 |
Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico (born Guido di Pietro; February 18, 1455) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance, described by Vasari in his "Lives of the Artists" as having "a rare and perfect talent". He earned his reputation primarily for with the series of frescoes he made for his own friary, San Marco, in Flor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11457 |
Frédéric Bazille
Jean Frédéric Bazille (December 6, 1841 – November 28, 1870) was a French Impressionist painter. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which he placed the subject figure within a landscape painted "en plein air".
Frédéric Bazille was born in Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11459 |
Ford Madox Brown
Ford Madox Brown (16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) was a British painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Arguably, his most notable painting was "Work" (1852–1865). Brown spent the latter years of his life... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11460 |
Francis Crick
Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was a British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. In 1953, he co-authored with James Watson the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Together with Watson and Maurice Wilkins, he was jointly aw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11461 |
Frigate
A frigate () is a type of warship, having various sizes and roles over time.
In the 17th century, a frigate was any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built". These could be warships carrying their principal batteries of carriage-mounted guns on a single dec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11464 |
Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco Bahamonde (, ; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title "Caudillo". This period ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11466 |
Flash Crowd
"Flash Crowd" is a 1973 English-language novella by science fiction author Larry Niven, one of a series about the social consequence of inventing an instant, practically free transfer booth.
One consequence not foreseen by the builders of the system was that with the almost immediate reporting of newswort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11467 |
August Kekulé
Friedrich August Kekulé, later Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz ( , ; 7 September 1829 – 13 July 1896), was a German organic chemist. From the 1850s until his death, Kekulé was one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially in theoretical chemistry. He was the principal founder of the the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11469 |
Fuerteventura
Fuerteventura () is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean and is part of the North Africa region, politically part of Spain. At , it is the second largest of the Canary Islands, after Tenerife. As at the start of 2019, Fuerteventura had 116,886 inhabitants. It was declared a biosphere reserve ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11475 |
Free verse
Free verse is an open form of poetry, which in its modern form arose through the French "vers libre" form. It does not use consistent metre patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech.
Poets have explained that free verse is not totally free: "Its only free... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11478 |
F. W. de Klerk
Frederik Willem de Klerk (, ; born 18 March 1936) is a South African politician who served as State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as Deputy President from 1994 to 1996. As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the aparth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11479 |
Furlong
A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U.S. customary units equal to one eighth of a mile, equivalent to 660 feet, 220 yards, 40 rods, 10 chains or approximately 201 meters.
In the United States some states use older definitions for surveying purposes, leading to variations in the length of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11488 |
Fundamental frequency
The natural frequency, or fundamental frequency, often referred to simply as the fundamental, is defined as the lowest frequency of a periodic waveform. In music, the fundamental is the musical pitch of a note that is perceived as the lowest partial present. In terms of a superposition of sinusoi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11490 |
Fable
Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a pi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11491 |
Foot
The foot (plural feet) is an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates. It is the terminal portion of a limb which bears weight and allows locomotion. In many animals with feet, the foot is a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg made up of one or more segments or bones, generally including claws or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11492 |
Fallout shelter
A fallout shelter is an enclosed space specially designed to protect occupants from radioactive debris or fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion. Many such shelters were constructed as civil defense measures during the Cold War.
During a nuclear explosion, matter vaporized in the resulting firebal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11493 |
History of the Federated States of Micronesia
The Federated States of Micronesia are located on the Caroline Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. The history of the modern Federated States of Micronesia is one of settlement by Micronesians; colonization by Spain, Germany, and Japan; United Nations trusteeship under U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11494 |
Politics of the Federated States of Micronesia
The politics of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) takes place in a framework of a federal representative democratic republic. The President of the Federated States of Micronesia is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the presi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11495 |
Demographics of the Federated States of Micronesia
This article is about the demographic features of the population of the Federated States of Micronesia, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11497 |
Economy of the Federated States of Micronesia
The economic activity of the Federated States of Micronesia consists primarily of subsistence agriculture and fishing. The islands have few mineral deposits worth exploiting, except for high-grade phosphate. The potential for a tourist industry exists, but the remoteness o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11498 |
Telecommunications in the Federated States of Micronesia
This article is about communications systems in the Federated States of Micronesia.
In 2010, Pohnpei State was connected to the Internet using the HANTRU-1 undersea cable to provide high-speed bandwidth. Kosrae State, Chuuk State, and Yap State, were planned t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11499 |
Foreign relations of the Federated States of Micronesia
The government of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) conducts its own foreign relations.
Since independence in 1986, the FSM has established diplomatic relations with a number of nations, including most of its Pacific neighbors.
Regional cooperation throug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11503 |
Fandom
A fandom is a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of empathy and camaraderie with others who share a common interest. Fans typically are interested in even minor details of the objects of their fandom and spend a significant portion of their time and energy involved with their interest, often... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11504 |
Fort Collins, Colorado
Fort Collins is a municipality in northern Colorado, which serves as the seat of Larimer County. Situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, Fort Collins is located north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. With a 2019 estimated population of 170,243, it is the fou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11507 |
Maya Lin
Maya Ying Lin (born October 5, 1959) is an American designer, architectural designer, and artist who works in sculpture and land art. She achieved national recognition as a 21-year-old undergraduate at Yale University when she won a national competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19166 |
Manuscript
A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document that is written by hand – or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten — as opposed to being mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way. More recently, the term has come t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19167 |
Misogyny
Misogyny () is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls. Misogyny manifests in numerous ways, including social exclusion, sex discrimination, hostility, androcentrism, patriarchy, male privilege, belittling of women, disenfranchisement of women, violence against women, and sexual objec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19168 |
Martinique
Martinique ( , ; Martinican Creole: or ) is an island which is an overseas territorial collectivity of France, located in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of and a population of 376,480 inhabitants as of January 2016. It is an overseas territorial collect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19169 |
Demographics of Martinique
According to INSEE Martinique has an estimated population of 390,371 on January 1, 2012. Life expectancy at birth is 78.9 years for male children, and 84.8 for female (figures for 2011).
African and African-white-Indian mixture 80%; Indo-Martiniquais 10%; white 5%; Lebanese and Syrians, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19172 |
Politics of Martinique
Martinique is an overseas Territorial collectivity of France, with the same political status as regions and departments in mainland France. The administrative centre of Martinique is located in Fort-de-France.
During the referendum of 24 January 2010, the residents of Martinique approved by 68.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19173 |
Economy of Martinique
The economy of Martinique is mostly based in the services sector. Agriculture accounts for about 6% of Martinique's GDP and the small industrial sector for 11%. Sugar production has declined, with most of the sugarcane now used for the production of rum. Banana exports are increasing, going mostl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19174 |
Telecommunications in Martinique
Communications in Martinique.
Telephones - main lines in use:
172,000 (2001)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
319,900 (2002)
Telephone system:
domestic facilities are adequate
"domestic:"
NA
"international:"
microwave radio relay to Guadeloupe, Dominica, and Saint Lucia; satellite eart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19175 |
History of Mauritania
The original inhabitants of Mauritania were the Bafour, presumably a Mande ethnic group, connected to the contemporary Arabized minor social group of "Imraguen" ("fishermen") on the Atlantic coast.
The territory of Mauritania was on the fringe of geographical knowledge of Libya in classical anti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19180 |
Demographics of Mauritania
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Mauritania (), including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
According to , the total population was in , comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19182 |
Politics of Mauritania
The first fully democratic Presidential election since 1960 occurred on 11 March 2007. The election was the final transfer from military to civilian rule following the military coup in 2005. This was the first time the president was selected by ballot in the country's history. The election was w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19183 |
Economy of Mauritania
The economy of Mauritania is still largely based on agriculture and livestock, even though most of the nomads and many subsistence farmers were forced into the cities by recurring droughts in the 1970s and 1980s.
Mauritania has extensive deposits of iron ore, which account for almost 50% of tota... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19184 |
Transport in Mauritania
Citizens of Mauritania have various transportation methods. Railways and highways connect major cities in the country. Mauritania is a coastal country so there are many ports along its coast and there are a few big rivers that run through the country. Lastly, there are 26 airports spread out th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19185 |
Telecommunications in Mauritania
Telephones - main lines in use:
31,500 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
300,000 (2003)
Telephone system:
"general assessment:"
limited system of cable and open-wire lines, minor microwave radio relay links, and radiotelephone communications stations (improvements being made)
"dom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19186 |
Armed Forces of Mauritania
The Armed Forces of Mauritania (, ) is the defence force of Mauritania, having an army, navy, air force, gendarmerie, and presidential guard. Other services include the national guard and national police, though they both are subordinated to the Ministry of the Interior. As of 2010, the Maur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19187 |
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay , the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. According to United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai was the second-most populous city in India after Delhi and the seventh-most populous city in the world with a population of roughly 20 million.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19189 |
Miami Dolphins
The Miami Dolphins are a professional American football team based in the Miami metropolitan area. The Dolphins compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The club plays its home games at Hard Rock Stadium, located in the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19190 |
Mean
There are several kinds of mean in mathematics, especially in statistics.
For a data set, the arithmetic mean, also called the expected value or average, is the central value of a discrete set of numbers: specifically, the sum of the values divided by the number of values. The arithmetic mean of a set of numbers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19192 |
MIT License
The MIT License is a permissive free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s. As a permissive license, it puts only very limited restriction on reuse and has, therefore, high license compatibility.
It is compatible because it can be re-licensed un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19193 |
Mu-metal
Mu-metal is a nickel–iron soft ferromagnetic alloy with very high permeability, which is used for shielding sensitive electronic equipment against static or low-frequency magnetic fields. It has several compositions. One such composition is approximately 77% nickel, 16% iron, 5% copper, and 2% chromium or mol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19196 |
Molecular biology
Molecular biology is the branch of biology that concerns the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including molecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms and interactions. The central dogma of molecular biology describes the process in which DNA is transcribed into RNA then tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19200 |
Mauritius
Mauritius ( ; ; Creole: ]), officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) off the south-east coast of the African continent. The country includes the islands of Mauritius, Rodrigues, Agaléga and St. Brandon. The islands of Mauritius and Rodrigu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19201 |
History of Mauritius
The known history of Mauritius begins with its discovery by Arabs, followed by Europeans and its appearance on maps in the early 16th century. Mauritius was successively colonized by the Dutch, the French and the British, and became independent in 1968.
Mauritius was first discovered by the Moors... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19202 |
Demographics of Mauritius
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Mauritius, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Mauritian society includes people from many different ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19204 |
Economy of Mauritius
The economy of Mauritius is a mixed developing economy based on agriculture, exports, financial services, and tourism. Since the 1980s, the government of Mauritius has sought to diversify the country's economy beyond its dependence on just agriculture, particularly sugar production. In terms of en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19206 |
Telecommunications in Mauritius
Telecommunications had an early beginning in Mauritius, with the first telephone line installed in 1883, seven years after the invention of the telephone. Over the years, the network and telephony improved. By the late 20th century, the rapid development and convergence of information a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19207 |
Transport in Mauritius
Transportation in Mauritius is characterized by the network of roadways, ports, and airports. The island was originally only accessible by boat until 1922, when the first flight landed in Mauritius.
There are currently no railways in Mauritius. There were previously industrial railways, but the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19208 |
Mayotte
Mayotte (, ; Shimaore: "Maore", ; ) is an overseas department and region of France officially named the Department of Mayotte (French: "Département de Mayotte"). It consists of a main island, Grande-Terre (or Maore), a smaller island, Petite-Terre (or Pamanzi), and several islets around these two. Mayotte is p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19211 |
Demographics of Mayotte
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Mayotte, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. Mayotte's population density went from 179 persons per squa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19214 |
History of Mexico
The written history of Mexico spans more than three millennia. First populated more than 13,000 years ago, central and southern Mexico, (termed Mesoamerica), saw the rise and fall of complex indigenous civilizations. Uniquely in the Western Hemisphere, Mesoamerican civilizations developed glyphic wri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19222 |
Demographics of Mexico
With a population of about 126 million in 2019, Mexico is the 10th most populated country in the world. It is the most populous Spanish-speaking country and the third-most populous in the Americas after the United States and Brazil. Throughout most of the twentieth century Mexico's population wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19224 |
Politics of Mexico
The Politics of Mexico take place in a framework of a federal presidential representative democratic republic whose government is based on a congressional system, whereby the President of Mexico is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. The federal government represe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19225 |
Economy of Mexico
The economy of Mexico is a developing market economy. It is the 15th largest in the world in nominal terms and the 11th largest by purchasing power parity, according to the International Monetary Fund.
Since the 1994 crisis, administrations have improved the country's macroeconomic fundamentals. Mexi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19226 |
Mass media in Mexico
Mass media in Mexico are regulated by the Secretariat of Communication and Transportation ("Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes or SCT"), a federal executive cabinet ministry and by the Federal Telecommunications Institute ("Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones or IFT").
Mexico's commun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19227 |
Foreign relations of Mexico
The foreign relations of Mexico are directed by the President of the United Mexican States and managed through the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs. The principles of the foreign policy are constitutionally recognized in the Article 89, Section 10, which include: respect for international law... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19230 |
Micronesia
Micronesia ((, ); from "mikrós" "small" and "nêsos" "island") is a subregion of Oceania, composed of thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It has a close shared cultural history with two other island regions: Polynesia to the east and Melanesia to the south; as well as with the wider Aust... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19231 |
History of Moldova
The history of Moldova can be traced to the 1350s, when the Principality of Moldavia, the medieval precursor of modern Moldova and Romania, was founded. The principality was a vassal of the Ottoman Empire from 1538 until the 19th century. In 1812, following one of several Russian-Turkish wars, the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19241 |
Geography of Moldova
Located in Eastern Europe, Moldova is bordered on the west and southwest by Romania and on the north, south, and east by Ukraine. Most of its territory lies between the area's two main rivers, the Nistru and the Prut. The Nistru forms a small part of Moldova's border with Ukraine in the northeast ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19242 |
Demographics of Moldova
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Moldova, including distribution, ethnicity, languages, religious affiliation and other statistical data.
According to the 2014 Moldovan Census, 2,789,205 people resided in the areas controlled by the central government of Mold... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19243 |
Politics of Moldova
The politics of Moldova take place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, wherein the prime minister is the head of the government, and a multi-party system. The government exercises executive power while the legislative power is vested in the Parliament. The judiciar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19244 |
Economy of Moldova
The economy of Moldova is one of the poorest in Europe. Moldova is a landlocked Eastern European country, bordered by Ukraine on the east and Romania to the west. It was a former Soviet republic.
On January 2, 1992, Moldova introduced a market economy, liberalising prices, which resulted in huge in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19245 |
Telecommunications in Moldova
Telecommunications in Moldova are maintained at a relatively high performance level. Because Moldova is a small country, telecommunications companies managed to achieve good coverage in both wired and wireless communications infrastructure. Landline is available in most settlements, howev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19246 |
Transport in Moldova
In 1995, the main means of transportation in Moldova were railways () and a highway system ( overall, including of paved surfaces). The major railway junctions are Chișinău, Bender, Ungheni, Ocnița (Oknitsa, in Russian), Bălți, and Basarabeasca (Bessarabka, in Russian). Primary external rail links... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19247 |
Armed Forces of the Republic of Moldova
The Armed Forces of the Republic of Moldova () consist of the National Army (which is divided into the Land Forces Command and the Air Forces Command) and the Trupele de Carabinieri under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Until 2012, the Moldovan Border Police (then known as the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19248 |
Midway Atoll
Midway Atoll (colloquial: Midway Islands; Hawaiian: "Pihemanu Kauihelani") is a atoll in the North Pacific Ocean at . Midway is roughly equidistant between North America and Asia. Midway Atoll is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States. Midway continues to be the only island in the H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19250 |
Moldova
Moldova (, ), officially the Republic of Moldova (), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The capital city is Chișinău.
Most of the Moldovan territory was a part of the Principality of Moldavia from the 14th century until 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19260 |
Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution (, or ), or Revolution of 1688, was the deposition and replacement of James II and VII as ruler of England, Scotland and Ireland by his daughter Mary II and his Dutch nephew and Mary's husband, William III of Orange, which took place between November 1688 and May 1689. The o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12466 |
Goidelic languages
The Goidelic or Gaelic languages (; ; ) form one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages.
Goidelic languages historically formed a dialect continuum stretching from Ireland through the Isle of Man to Scotland. There are three modern Goidelic languages:... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12469 |
Gnosticism
Gnosticism (from "gnōstikós", , "having knowledge") is a collection of ancient religious ideas and systems which originated in the first century AD among early Christian and Jewish sects. These various groups emphasised personal spiritual knowledge ("gnosis") over orthodox teachings, traditions, and ecclesi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12471 |
Gospel of Barnabas
The Gospel of Barnabas is a book depicting the life of Jesus, which claims to be by the biblical Barnabas who in this work is one of the twelve apostles. Two manuscripts are known to have existed, both dated to the late 16th or early 17th centuries, with one written in Italian and the other in Spani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12474 |
Georgius Agricola
Georgius Agricola (; born Georg Pawer or Georg Bauer; 24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555) was a German Humanist scholar, mineralogist and metallurgist. Born in the small town of Glauchau, in the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire, he was broadly educated, but took a particular interest in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12475 |
Germanicus
Germanicus Julius Caesar (24 May 15 BC – 10 October AD 19) was a popular and prominent general of the Roman Empire, known for his campaigns in Germania. The son of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor, Germanicus was born into an influential branch of the patrician "gens Claudia". The agnomen "Germanicus"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12478 |
Giulio Alberoni
Giulio Alberoni (30 May 1664 OS – 26 June NS 1752) was an Italian cardinal and
statesman in the service of Philip V of Spain. He is known also for being a remarkable soldier and great gourmet who advised the Spanish court on table manners and menus.
He was born near Piacenza, probably at the village o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12479 |
Giovanni Aldini
Giovanni Aldini (April 10, 1762 – January 17, 1834), was an Italian physician and physicist born in Bologna. He was a brother of a statesman.
He became professor of physics at Bologna in 1798, in succession to his uncle Luigi Galvani (1737–1798). His scientific work was chiefly concerned with galvanis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12481 |
Galeazzo Alessi
Galeazzo Alessi (1512 – 30 December 1572) was an Italian architect from Perugia, known throughout Europe for his distinctive style based on his enthusiasm for ancient architecture. He studied drawing for civil and military architecture under the direction of Giovanni Battista Caporali.
For a number of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12483 |
Giulio Alenio
Giulio Aleni (; 1582– June 10, 1649), in Chinese , was an Italian Jesuit missionary and scholar. He was born in Leno near Brescia in Italy, at the time part of the Republic of Venice, and died at Yanping in China. He became a member of the Society of Jesus in 1600 and distinguished himself in his knowled... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12484 |
German cuisine
The cuisine of Germany is made up of many different local or regional cuisines, as is typical for somewhat larger countries. Germany itself is part of a larger cultural region, Central Europe, sharing many traditions with neighbouring countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic. Southern regions, li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12485 |
Greek cuisine
Greek cuisine () is a Mediterranean cuisine. Greek cookery makes wide use of vegetables, olive oil, grains, fish, wine (white and red), and meat (including pork, poultry, veal, lamb, rabbit and beef). Other important ingredients include olives, pasta (especially hilopites, a kind of pasta similar to tagl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12486 |
Gospel of Mark
The Gospel According to Mark () is the second of the four canonical gospels and of the three synoptic gospels. It tells of the ministry of Jesus from his baptism by John the Baptist to his death and burial and the discovery of the Jesus’ empty tomb. There is no miraculous birth or doctrine of divine pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12490 |
Gospel of Luke
The Gospel According to Luke (), also called the Gospel of Luke, or simply Luke, is the third of the four canonical Gospels. It tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ.
Luke is the longest of the four gospels and the longest book in the New Testament. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12491 |
Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837June 24, 1908) was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office (1885–1889 and 1893–1897). He won the popular vote for three presid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12495 |
Gregorio Allegri
Gregorio Allegri () was a Roman Catholic priest and Italian composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a singer. He was born and died in Rome.
He studied music as a "puer" (boy chorister) at San Luigi dei Francesi, under the "maestro di capella" Giovanni Bernardino Nani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12499 |
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