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Johnny Weissmuller
Johnny Weissmuller (June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American competition swimmer, water polo player and actor. He was known for playing Edgar Rice Burroughs' ape man Tarzan in films of the 1930s and 1940s and for having one of the best competitive swimming records of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16558 |
Jean Grey
Jean Elaine Grey is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been known under the aliases Marvel Girl, Phoenix, and Dark Phoenix. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in "The X-Men" #1 (September 1963).
Je... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16559 |
Jack Brabham
Sir John Arthur Brabham, (2 April 1926 – 19 May 2014) was an Australian racing driver who was Formula One World Champion in , , and . He was a founder of the Brabham racing team and race car constructor that bore his name.
Brabham was a Royal Australian Air Force flight mechanic and ran a small engineeri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16564 |
Jones calculus
In optics, polarized light can be described using the Jones calculus, discovered by R. C. Jones in 1941. Polarized light is represented by a Jones vector, and linear optical elements are represented by "Jones matrices". When light crosses an optical element the resulting polarization of the emerging lig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16565 |
Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz (, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; , ), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various roles from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War II, he was the leader of the Partisans, often regarded as the most effective resistance movement in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16567 |
John Stauber
John Stauber is an American progressive writer. Stauber has co-authored five books about government propaganda, private interests and the public relations industry. His work includes one book about how industry manipulates science ("Trust Us, We're Experts"), one about the history and current scope of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16568 |
James P. Hogan (writer)
James Patrick Hogan (27 June 1941 – 12 July 2010) was a British science fiction author.
Hogan was born in London, England. He was raised in the Portobello Road area on the west side of London. After leaving school at the age of sixteen, he worked various odd jobs until, after receiving a schol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16569 |
Jeff Lynne
Jeffrey Lynne (born 30 December 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist who co-founded the rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). The group formed in 1970 as an offshoot of the Move, of which Lynne was also a member. Following the departure of Roy Wood in 1972, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16570 |
Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd is a comic book franchise based on the longest-running comic strip in "2000 AD" (1977), a British weekly anthology comic.
The franchise is centered around Judge Dredd, a law enforcement and judicial officer in the dystopian future city of Mega-City One, which covers most of the east coast of N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16572 |
James Flynn (academic)
James Robert Flynn FRSNZ (born 1934) is a New Zealand intelligence researcher. An Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, he is famous for his publications about the continued year-after-year increase of IQ scores throughout the world, which is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16573 |
John Hay
John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838July 1, 1905) was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln, Hay's highest office was United States Secretary of State under Presidents William McKinley a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16578 |
Joy Division
Joy Division were an English rock band formed in Salford in 1976. The group consisted of vocalist Ian Curtis, guitarist/keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris.
Sumner and Hook formed the band after attending a Sex Pistols concert. While Joy Division's first recordings w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16579 |
Johnny Bench
Johnny Lee Bench (born December 7, 1947) is an American former professional baseball player. He played his entire career in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Cincinnati Reds from through . Bench was the leader of the Reds team known as the Big Red Machine that dominated the National League in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16581 |
Jell-O
Jell-O is a variety of gelatin desserts (fruit-flavored gels), puddings, and no-bake cream pies. The original Jell-O gelatin dessert (genericized as jello) is the signature of the brand. Jell-O is a registered trademark of Kraft Heinz and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
The original gelatin dessert began in Le ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16585 |
Javier Saviola
Javier Pedro Saviola Fernández (; born 11 December 1981) is an Argentine former professional footballer, who played as a forward.
He represented both Barcelona and Real Madrid, also having notable spells with Benfica and Olympiacos, and was named as the youngest player on Pelé's FIFA 100 list of the 12... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16588 |
Junkers Ju 87
The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (from "Sturzkampfflugzeug", "dive bomber") was a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft. Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935. The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War and served the Axis force... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16590 |
Keanu Reeves
Keanu Charles Reeves ( ; born September 2, 1964) is a Canadian actor, musician, film producer and director. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Reeves grew up in Toronto, Canada. He began acting in theatre productions, and in television films before making his mainstream film debut in "Youngblood" (1986). Reeves gai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16603 |
Koto (instrument)
The is a Japanese stringed musical instrument and the national instrument of Japan. It is derived from the Chinese and se, and similar to the Mongolian , the Korean and ajaeng, the Vietnamese , the Sundanese "kacapi" and the Kazakhstan jetigen. Koto are about length, and made from "kiri" wood ("Paulo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16610 |
Kludge
A kludge or kluge () is a workaround or quick-and-dirty solution that is clumsy, inelegant, inefficient, difficult to extend and hard to maintain. This term is used in diverse fields such as computer science, aerospace engineering, Internet slang, evolutionary neuroscience, and government. It is similar in mean... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16615 |
King Crimson
King Crimson are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968. King Crimson have been influential both on the early 1970s progressive rock movement and many contemporary artists. Although the band has undergone numerous formations throughout its history, Robert Fripp is the only constant memb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16616 |
Kilogram
The kilogram (also kilogramme) is the base unit of mass in the metric system, formally the International System of Units (SI), having the unit symbol kg. It is a widely used measure in science, engineering, and commerce worldwide, and is often simply called a kilo in everyday speech.
The kilogram was origina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16619 |
Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher (; ; born 3 January 1969) is a German retired racing driver who competed in Formula One for Jordan Grand Prix, Benetton, Ferrari (where he spent most of his career), and Mercedes upon his return to the sport. Schumacher is widely regarded as one of the greatest Formula One drivers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20396 |
Muonium
Muonium is an exotic atom made up of an antimuon and an electron, which was discovered in 1960 by Vernon W. Hughes
and is given the chemical symbol Mu. During the muon's lifetime, muonium can enter into compounds such as muonium chloride (MuCl) or sodium muonide (NaMu). Due to the mass difference between the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20398 |
Medicine man
A medicine man or medicine woman is a traditional healer and spiritual leader who serves a community of indigenous people of the Americas. Individual cultures have their own names, in their respective Indigenous languages, for the spiritual healers and ceremonial leaders in their particular cultures.
In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20401 |
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20405 |
M-theory
M-theory is a theory in physics that unifies all consistent versions of superstring theory. Edward Witten first conjectured the existence of such a theory at a string-theory conference at the University of Southern California in the spring of 1995. Witten's announcement initiated a flurry of research activity... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20406 |
Multicast
In computer networking, multicast is group communication where data transmission is addressed to a group of destination computers simultaneously. Multicast can be one-to-many or many-to-many distribution. Multicast should not be confused with physical layer point-to-multipoint communication.
Group communica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20407 |
Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska Curie ( , , ), born Maria Salomea Skłodowska (; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20408 |
MATLAB
MATLAB ("matrix laboratory") is a multi-paradigm numerical computing environment and proprietary programming language developed by MathWorks. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20412 |
Meuse
The Meuse ( , also , ; ) or Maas ( , ; or ) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta. It has a total length of .
From 1301 the upper Meuse roughly marked the western border of the Holy Roman ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20414 |
Michael Bentine
Michael Bentine, (born Michael James Bentin; 26 January 1922 – 26 November 1996) was a British comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons. His father was a Peruvian Briton. In 1971, Bentine received the Order of Merit of Peru following his fund-raising work for the 1970 Great Peruvian earth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20418 |
Mania
Mania, also known as manic syndrome, is a state of abnormally elevated arousal, affect, and energy level, or "a state of heightened overall activation with enhanced affective expression together with lability of affect." Although mania is often conceived as a "mirror image" to depression, the heightened mood can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20419 |
Multimedia
Multimedia is content that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, video and interactive content. Multimedia contrasts with media that use only rudimentary computer displays such as text-only or traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material.
Multimedi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20420 |
Max Headroom (TV series)
Max Headroom is an American satirical science fiction television series by Chrysalis Visual Programming and Lakeside Productions for Lorimar-Telepictures that aired in the United States on ABC from March 31, 1987 to May 12, 1988. The series is set in a futuristic dystopia ruled by an oligarchy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20421 |
Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects humans and other animals. Malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, tiredness, vomiting, and headaches. In severe cases it can cause yellow skin, seizures, coma, or death. Symptoms usually begin ten to fifteen days after being bitten by an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20423 |
Lunar phase
The lunar phase or Moon phase is the shape of the directly sunlit portion of the Moon as viewed from Earth. The lunar phases gradually change over the period of a synodic month (about 29.53 days), as the orbital positions of the Moon around Earth and of Earth around the Sun shift.
The Moon's rotation is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20424 |
Metonic cycle
The Metonic cycle or enneadecaeteris (from
(enneakaidekaeteris), "nineteen") is a period of approximately 19 years after which the phases of the moon recur on the same day of the year. The recurrence is not perfect, and by precise observation the Metonic cycle is defined as 235 synodic lunar months, a p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20426 |
Marcello Malpighi
Marcello Malpighi (10 March 1628 – 29 November 1694) was an Italian biologist and physician, who is referred to as the "Founder of microscopical anatomy, histology & Father of physiology and embryology". Malpighi's name is borne by several physiological features related to the biological excretory sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20428 |
Momentum
In Newtonian mechanics, linear momentum, translational momentum, or simply momentum (pl. momenta) is the product of the mass and velocity of an object. It is a vector quantity, possessing a magnitude and a direction. If is an object's mass and is its velocity (also a vector quantity), then the object's moment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20431 |
Mood stabilizer
A mood stabilizer is a psychiatric pharmaceutical drug used to treat mood disorders characterized by intense and sustained mood shifts, such as bipolar disorder type I or type II and schizoaffective disorder.
Used to treat bipolar disorder, mood stabilizers suppress shifts between mania and depression... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20432 |
Mere Christianity
Mere Christianity is a 1952 theological book by C. S. Lewis, adapted from a series of BBC radio talks made between 1941 and 1944, while Lewis was at Oxford during the Second World War. Considered a classic of Christian apologetics, the transcripts of the broadcasts originally appeared in print as thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20433 |
Mathematical game
A mathematical game is a game whose rules, strategies, and outcomes are defined by clear mathematical parameters. Often, such games have simple rules and match procedures, such as Tic-tac-toe and Dots and Boxes. Generally, mathematical games need not be conceptually intricate to involve deeper comput... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20434 |
Martin Gardner
Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer, with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature—especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20435 |
MIDI timecode
MIDI time code (MTC) embeds the same timing information as standard SMPTE timecode as a series of small 'quarter-frame' MIDI messages. There is no provision for the user bits in the standard MIDI time code messages, and messages are used to carry this information instead. The quarter-frame messages are t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20436 |
Mass transfer
Mass transfer is the net movement of mass from one location, usually meaning stream, phase, fraction or component, to another. Mass transfer occurs in many processes, such as absorption, evaporation, drying, precipitation, membrane filtration, and distillation. Mass transfer is used by different scientif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20437 |
Museum of Jurassic Technology
The Museum of Jurassic Technology at 9341 Venice Boulevard in the Palms district of Los Angeles, California, was founded by David Hildebrand Wilson and Diana Drake Wilson in 1988. It calls itself "an educational institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the public apprecia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20448 |
Men at Work
Men at Work are an Australian rock band formed in 1979 and best known for hits such as "Who Can It Be Now?" and "Down Under". Its founding member was Colin Hay on lead vocals and guitar. After playing as an acoustic duo with Ron Strykert during 1978–79, he formed the group with Strykert playing bass guitar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20451 |
Meconium aspiration syndrome
Meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS) also known as neonatal aspiration of meconium is a medical condition affecting newborn infants. It describes the spectrum of disorders and pathophysiology of newborns born in meconium-stained amniotic fluid (MSAF) and have meconium within their lungs. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20452 |
Meconium
Meconium is the earliest stool of a mammalian infant. Unlike later feces, meconium is composed of materials ingested during the time the infant spends in the uterus: intestinal epithelial cells, lanugo, mucus, amniotic fluid, bile and water. Meconium, unlike later feces, is viscous and sticky like tar, its co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20453 |
Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits
The Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits is a 1936 agreement that gives Turkey control over the Turkish Straits (the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits) and regulates the transit of naval warships. The Convention guarantees the free passage of ci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20454 |
Michael Jordan
Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials MJ, is an American former professional basketball player and the principal owner of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 15 seasons in the NBA, winning six championships with the Chicago ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20455 |
Musicology
Musicology (from Greek 'μουσική' (mousikē) for 'music' and 'λογος' (logos) for 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some music research is scientific in focus (psychological, sociological, acou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20458 |
Film promotion
Film promotion is the practice of promotion specifically in the film industry, and usually occurs in coordination with the process of film distribution. Sometimes called the press junket or film junket, film promotion generally includes press releases, advertising campaigns, merchandising, franchising, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20460 |
M25 motorway
The M25 or London Orbital Motorway is a major road encircling almost all of Greater London, England. The Dartford Crossing (A282) is part of the orbital route but is not part of the motorway. The M25 is one of the most important roads in Britain and one of the busiest. The final section was opened by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20469 |
Mohs scale of mineral hardness
The Mohs scale of mineral hardness () is a qualitative ordinal scale characterizing scratch resistance of various minerals through the ability of harder material to scratch softer material. Created in 1812 by German geologist and mineralogist Friedrich Mohs, it is one of several definiti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20474 |
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann (; September 15, 1929 – May 24, 2019) was an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. He was the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, a di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20476 |
Magnetopause
The magnetopause is the abrupt boundary between a magnetosphere and the surrounding plasma. For planetary science, the magnetopause is the boundary between the planet's magnetic field and the solar wind. The location of the magnetopause is determined by the balance between the pressure of the dynamic plan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20478 |
Magnetosphere
A magnetosphere is a region of space surrounding an astronomical object in which charged particles are affected by that object's magnetic field. It is created by a star or planet with an active interior dynamo.
In the space environment close to a planetary body, the magnetic field resembles a magnetic d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20479 |
Manama
Manama ( "" Bahrani pronunciation: ) is the capital and largest city of Bahrain, with an approximate population of 157,000 people. Long an important trading center in the Persian Gulf, Manama is home to a very diverse population. After periods of Portuguese and Persian control and invasions from the ruling dyn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20481 |
Melbourne Cup
The Melbourne Cup is Australia's most famous annual Thoroughbred horse race. It is a 3200-metre race for three-year-olds and over, conducted by the Victoria Racing Club on the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Victoria as part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. It is the richest "two-mile" handic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20485 |
Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet
The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet was a German rocket-powered interceptor aircraft. Designed by Alexander Lippisch, it is the only rocket-powered fighter aircraft ever to have been operational and the first piloted aircraft of any type to exceed 1000 km/h (621 mph) in level flight. Its performa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20486 |
Mohamed Atta
Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta ( ; "" ; September 1, 1968 – September 11, 2001) was an Egyptian hijacker and one of the ringleaders of the September 11 attacks in which four United States commercial aircraft were commandeered with the intention of destroying specific civilian and military tar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20487 |
Messerschmitt Me 262
The Messerschmitt Me 262, nicknamed Schwalbe (German: "Swallow") in fighter versions, or Sturmvogel (German: "Storm Bird") in fighter-bomber versions, was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft. Design work started before World War II began, but problems with engines, metallurg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20488 |
Masuria
Masuria (, , Masurian: "Mazurÿ") is a region in northeastern Poland, famous for its 2,000 lakes. Masuria occupies much of the Masurian Lake District. Administratively, it is part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (administrative area/province). Its biggest city, often regarded as its capital, is Ełk. The reg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20493 |
Médecins Sans Frontières
MSF's principles and operational guidelines are highlighted in its Charter, the Chantilly Principles, and the later La Mancha Agreement. Governance is addressed in Section 2 of the Rules portion of this final document. MSF has an associative structure, where operational decisions are made, lar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20498 |
History of Germany
The concept of Germany as a distinct region in central Europe can be traced to Roman commander Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as "Germania", thus distinguishing it from Gaul (France), which he had conquered. The victory of the Germanic tribes in the Battle of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13224 |
GNU Hurd
GNU Hurd is the multiserver microkernel written as part of GNU. It has been under development since 1990 by the GNU Project of the Free Software Foundation, designed as a replacement for the Unix kernel, and released as free software under the GNU General Public License. When the Linux kernel proved to be a v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13236 |
Health care reform
Health care reform is for the most part governmental policy that affects health care delivery in a given place. Health care reform typically attempts to:
In the United States, the debate regarding health care reform includes questions of a right to health care, access, fairness, sustainability, qua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13250 |
Henry Mayhew
Henry Mayhew (25 November 1812 – 25 July 1887) was a journalist, playwright and advocate of reform. He was one of the co-founders of the satirical magazine "Punch" in 1841, and was the magazine's joint-editor, with Mark Lemon, in its early days. He is also known for his work as a social researcher, publis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13253 |
Hydrogen
Hydrogen is the chemical element with the symbol H and atomic number 1. With a standard atomic weight of , hydrogen is the lightest element in the periodic table. Hydrogen is the most abundant chemical substance in the Universe, constituting roughly 75% of all baryonic mass. Non-remnant stars are mainly compo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13255 |
Helium
Helium (from ) is a chemical element with the symbol He and atomic number 2. It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert, monatomic gas, the first in the noble gas group in the periodic table. Its boiling point is the lowest among all the elements. Helium is the second lightest and second most abun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13256 |
Hydrocarbon
As defined by IUPAC nomenclature of organic chemistry, the classifications for hydrocarbons are:
Hydrocarbons can be gases (e.g. methane and propane), liquids (e.g. hexane and benzene), waxes or low melting solids (e.g. paraffin wax and naphthalene) or polymers (e.g. polyethylene, polypropylene and polys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13257 |
Halogen
The halogens () are a group in the periodic table consisting of five chemically related elements: fluorine (F), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), iodine (I), and astatine (At). The artificially created element 117, tennessine (Ts), may also be a halogen. In the modern IUPAC nomenclature, this group is known as grou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13258 |
Hee Haw
Hee Haw is an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with the fictional rural "Kornfield Kounty" as the backdrop. It aired first-run on CBS from 1969 to 1971, in syndication from 1971 to 1993, and on TNN from 1996 to 1997. Reruns of the series ran on RFD-TV (from September 2008, thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13260 |
Hexadecimal
In mathematics and computing, hexadecimal (also base 16, or hex) is a positional system that represents numbers using a base of 16. Unlike the common way of representing numbers with ten symbols, it uses sixteen distinct symbols, most often the symbols "0"–"9" to represent values zero to nine, and "A"–"F" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13263 |
Histogram
A histogram is an approximate representation of the distribution of numerical or categorical data. It was first introduced by Karl Pearson. To construct a histogram, the first step is to "bin" (or "bucket") the range of values—that is, divide the entire range of values into a series of intervals—and then cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13266 |
Hawaii
Hawaii ( ; ) is a state of the United States of America located in the Pacific Ocean. It is the only U.S. state located outside North America and the only island state.
The state encompasses nearly the entire Hawaiian archipelago, 137 islands spread over . The volcanic archipelago is physiographically and ethn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13270 |
Hearse
A hearse is a vehicle used to carry the dead in a coffin/casket. They range from deliberately anonymous vehicles to very formal heavily decorated vehicles.
In the funeral trade of some countries hearses are called funeral coaches.
The name is derived, through the French herse, from the Latin , which means a h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13274 |
Hungary
Hungary ( ) is a country in Central Europe. Spanning in the Carpathian Basin, it borders Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. With about 10 million inhabitants, Hungary is a mediu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13275 |
Historiography
Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic using particular sources, techniques, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13276 |
Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire (; ), occasionally but unofficially referred to as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, was a multi-ethnic complex of territories in Western and Central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13277 |
Holiday
A holiday is a day set aside by custom or by law on which normal activities, especially business or work including school, are suspended or reduced. Generally, holidays are intended to allow individuals to celebrate or commemorate an event or tradition of cultural or religious significance. Holidays may be des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13279 |
Hobby
A hobby is a regular activity done for enjoyment, typically during one's leisure time, not professionally and not for pay. Hobbies include collecting themed items and objects, engaging in creative and artistic pursuits, playing sports, or pursuing other amusements. Participation in hobbies encourages acquiring s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13287 |
Holland
Holland is a region and former province on the western coast of the Netherlands. The name "Holland" is also frequently used informally to refer to the whole of the country of the Netherlands. This usage is commonly accepted in other countries, and sometimes employed by the Dutch themselves. However, some in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13288 |
History of the Netherlands
The History of the Netherlands is a history of seafaring people thriving on a lowland river delta on the North Sea in northwestern Europe. Records begin with the four centuries during which the region formed a militarized border zone of the Roman Empire. This came under increasing pressure f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13289 |
Harold and Maude
Harold and Maude is a 1971 American coming-of-age dark comedy drama film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures. It incorporates elements of dark humor and existentialist drama. The plot revolves around the exploits of a young man named Harold Chasen (Bud Cort) who is intrigued with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13290 |
Habitus (sociology)
In sociology, Habitus () comprises socially ingrained habits, skills and dispositions. It is the way that individuals perceive the social world around them and react to it. These dispositions are usually shared by people with similar backgrounds (such as social class, religion, nationality, ethnici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13291 |
Hypoxia (medical)
Hypoxia is a condition in which the body or a region of the body is deprived of adequate oxygen supply at the tissue level. Hypoxia may be classified as either "generalized", affecting the whole body, or "local", affecting a region of the body. Although hypoxia is often a pathological condition, vari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13292 |
Historical revisionism
In historiography, the term historical revisionism identifies the re-interpretation of an historical account.
It usually involves challenging the orthodox (established, accepted or traditional) views held by professional scholars about a historical event or time-span or phenomenon, introducing c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13293 |
History of the petroleum industry in the United States
The first successful oil well in North America was established in Oil Springs, Ontario, Canada in 1858. The field is still in production although quantities are low.
The history of the petroleum industry in the United States goes back to the early 19th century, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13294 |
Hezekiah
Hezekiah (; ), or Ezekias, was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the son of Ahaz and the 13th king of Judah. He is considered a very righteous king in both the Second Book of Kings and the Second Book of Chronicles. He is also one of the more prominent kings of Judah mentioned in the Bible and is one of the kin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14005 |
Haemophilia
Haemophilia is a mostly inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to make blood clots, a process needed to stop bleeding. This results in people bleeding for a longer time after an injury, easy bruising, and an increased risk of bleeding inside joints or the brain. Those with a mild case o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14006 |
Hemicellulose
A hemicellulose (also known as polyose) is one of a number of heteropolymer (matrix polysaccharides), such as arabinoxylans, present along with cellulose in almost all terrestrial plant cell walls. While cellulose is crystalline, strong, and resistant to hydrolysis, hemicelluloses have random, amorphous ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14009 |
Hillbilly
"Hillbilly" is a term (often derogatory) for people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas in the United States, primarily in southern Appalachia and the Ozarks. The term was later used to refer to people from other rural and mountainous areas west of the Mississippi river too, particularly those of the Rocky... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14011 |
Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (; ; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish "Conquistador" who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14013 |
Herstory
Herstory is a term for history written from a feminist perspective, emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman's point of view. It originated as an alteration of the word "history", as part of a feminist critique of conventional historiography, which in their opinion is traditionally written as "his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14015 |
House of Cards (British TV series)
House of Cards is a 1990 British political thriller television serial in four episodes, set after the end of Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It was televised by the BBC from 18 November to 9 December 1990, to critical and popular acclaim.
Andrew D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14017 |
Helen Gandy
Helen W. Gandy (April 8, 1897 – July 7, 1988) was an American civil servant. For 54 years, she was the secretary to Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover, who called her "indispensable". She exercised great behind-the-scenes influence on Hoover and the workings of the Bureau. Following H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14018 |
Horsepower
Horsepower (hp) is a unit of measurement of power, or the rate at which work is done, usually in reference to the output of engines or motors. There are many different standards and types of horsepower. Two common definitions being used today are the mechanical horsepower (or imperial horsepower), which is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14019 |
History of London
The history of London, the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, extends over 2000 years. In that time, it has become one of the world's most significant financial and cultural capital cities. It has withstood plague, devastating fire, civil war, aerial bombardment, terrorist attacks, and r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14020 |
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