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History of astronomy
Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious, mythological, cosmological, calendrical, and astrological beliefs and practices of prehistory: vestiges of these are still found in astrology, a discipline long interwoven with public and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14021 |
Haber process
The Haber process, also called the Haber–Bosch process, is an artificial nitrogen fixation process and is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia today. It is named after its inventors, the German chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, who developed it in the first decade of the 20th ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14022 |
Hot or Not
Hot or Not is a rating site that allows users to rate the attractiveness of photos submitted voluntarily by others. The site offers a matchmaking engine called 'Meet Me' and an extended profile feature called "Hotlists". The domain hotornot.com is currently owned by Hot Or Not Limited, and was previously ow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14023 |
H.263
H.263 is a video compression standard originally designed as a low-bit-rate compressed format for videoconferencing. It was standardized by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) in a project ending in 1995/1996. It is a member of the H.26x family of video coding standards in the domain of the ITU-T.
Like ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14024 |
Histone
In biology, histones are highly basic proteins found in eukaryotic cell nuclei that pack and order the DNA into structural units called nucleosomes. Histones are abundant in lysine and arginine. Histone are the chief protein components of chromatin, acting as spools around which DNA winds, and playing a role i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14029 |
Hierarchical organization
A hierarchical organization is an organizational structure where every entity in the organization, except one, is subordinate to a single other entity. This arrangement is a form of a hierarchy. In an organization, the hierarchy usually consists of a singular/group of power at the top with su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14031 |
Harry Secombe
Sir Harry Donald Secombe (8 September 1921 – 11 April 2001) was a Welsh comedian, actor and singer. Secombe was a member of the British radio comedy programme "The Goon Show" (1951–1960), playing many characters, but most notably, Neddie Seagoon. An accomplished tenor, he also appeared in musicals and fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14033 |
Heroin
Heroin, also known as diamorphine among other names, is an opioid used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects. It is used medically in several countries to relieve pain or in opioid replacement therapy. It is typically injected, usually into a vein, but it can also be smoked, snorted, or inhaled. The o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14034 |
Hinayana
"Hīnayāna" () is a Sanskrit term literally meaning the "small/deficient vehicle". Classical Chinese and Tibetan teachers translate it as "smaller vehicle". The term was applied to the "Śrāvakayāna", the Buddhist path followed by a śrāvaka who wished to become an arhat. This term appeared around the first or s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14036 |
Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (; December 25, 1899January 14, 1957) was an American film and stage actor. His performances in Classical Hollywood cinema films made him an American cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Bogart as the greatest male star of classic American cinema.
Bogar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14045 |
History painting
History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than artistic style. History paintings usually depict a moment in a narrative story, rather than a specific and static subject, as in a portrait. The term is derived from the wider senses of the word "historia" in Latin and I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14051 |
Hyperbola
In mathematics, a hyperbola (plural "hyperbolas" or "hyperbolae") is a type of smooth curve lying in a plane, defined by its geometric properties or by equations for which it is the solution set. A hyperbola has two pieces, called connected components or branches, that are mirror images of each other and res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14052 |
Humayun
Nasir-ud-Din Muḥammad (; 6 March 1508 – 27 January 1556), better known by his regnal name, Humayun (), was the second emperor of the Mughal Empire, who ruled over territory in what is now Afghanistan, Pakistan, Northern India, and Bangladesh from 1530–1540 and again from 1555–1556. Like his father, Babur, he l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14055 |
Prince-elector
The prince-electors ( pl. "Kurfürsten", , ), or electors for short, were the members of the electoral college that elected the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
From the 13th century onwards, the prince-electors had the privilege of electing the monarch who would be crowned by the pope. After 1508, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14056 |
Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world. He first became prominent as a film pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14059 |
Hugh Binning
Hugh Binning (1627–1653) was a Scottish philosopher and theologian. He was born in Scotland during the reign of Charles I and was ordained in the (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland. He died in 1653, during the time of Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth of England.
Hugh Binning was the son of John Binnin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14063 |
Henry Home, Lord Kames
Henry Home, Lord Kames (169627 December 1782) was a Scottish advocate, judge, philosopher, writer and agricultural improver. A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, a founding member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, and active in the Select Society, he acted as patron to some o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14064 |
Harwich
Harwich is a town in Essex, England and one of the Haven ports, located on the coast with the North Sea to the east. It is in the Tendring district. Nearby places include Felixstowe to the northeast, Ipswich to the northwest, Colchester to the southwest and Clacton-on-Sea to the south. It is the northernmost c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14065 |
Hans Baldung
Hans Baldung (1484 or 1485 – September 1545), also called Hans Baldung Grien, the "Grien" element being an early nickname after his preferred colour green, was a German artist in painting and printmaking who was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer. Throughout his lifetime, Baldung develop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14068 |
Hammered dulcimer
The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer, dulcimer, or tympanon) is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board. The hammered dulcimer is set before the musician, who in more traditional styles may sit cross-legg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14070 |
Humanae vitae
Humanae vitae (Latin: "Of Human Life") is an encyclical written by Pope Paul VI and dated 25 July 1968. The text was issued at a Vatican press conference on 29 July. Subtitled "On the Regulation of Birth", it re-affirmed the teaching of the Catholic Church regarding married love, responsible parenthood, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14071 |
History of Wikipedia
Wikipedia began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Its technological and conceptual underpinnings predate this; the earliest known proposal for an online encyclopedia was made by Rick Gates in 1993, and the concept of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14072 |
Hydropower
Hydropower or water power (from , "water") is power derived from the energy of falling or fast-running water, which may be harnessed for useful purposes. Since ancient times, hydropower from many kinds of watermills has been used as a renewable energy source for irrigation and the operation of various mecha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14073 |
Horse breed
A horse breed is a selectively bred population of domesticated horses, often with pedigrees recorded in a breed registry. However, the term is sometimes used in a very broad sense to define landrace animals, or naturally selected horses of a common phenotype located within a limited geographic region. Depe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14076 |
Horse breeding
Horse breeding is reproduction in horses, and particularly the human-directed process of selective breeding of animals, particularly purebred horses of a given breed. Planned matings can be used to produce specifically desired characteristics in domesticated horses. Furthermore, modern breeding manageme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14082 |
Heterosexuality
Heterosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between persons of the opposite sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, heterosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to persons of the opposite sex; it "also refers to a person's s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14084 |
Hopewell Centre (Hong Kong)
Hopewell Centre is a , 64-storey skyscraper at 183 Queen's Road East, in Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. The tower is the first circular skyscraper in Hong Kong. It is named after Hong Kong–listed property firm Hopewell Holdings Limited, which constructed the building. Hopewell Hol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14086 |
Harwich, Massachusetts
Harwich ( ) is a New England town on Cape Cod, in Barnstable County in the state of Massachusetts in the United States. At the 2010 census it had a population of 12,243. The town is a popular vacation spot, located near the Cape Cod National Seashore. Harwich's beaches are on the Nantucket Sound... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14089 |
Hull classification symbol
The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) use a hull classification symbol (sometimes called hull code or hull number) to identify their ships by type and by individual ship within a type. The system is analogo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14090 |
Habeas corpus
Habeas corpus (; Medieval Latin meaning "[we, a Court, command] that you have the body [of the detainee brought before us]") is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a pris... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14091 |
Prince Henry the Navigator
Infante Dom Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu (4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460), better known as Prince Henry the Navigator (), was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion. Through his administ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14092 |
Human cloning
Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy (or clone) of a human. The term is generally used to refer to artificial human cloning, which is the reproduction of human cells and tissue. It does not refer to the natural conception and delivery of identical twins. The possibility of person... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14094 |
Internet troll
In Internet slang, a troll is a person who starts flame wars or intentionally upsets people on the Internet by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into displayi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14594 |
Geography of India
India lies on the Indian Plate, the northern part of the Indo-Australian Plate, whose continental crust forms the Indian subcontinent. The country is situated north of the equator between 8°4' north to 37°6' north latitude and 68°7' east to 97°25' east longitude. It is the seventh-largest country in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14597 |
Demographics of India
India is the second most populated country in the world with nearly a fifth of the world's population. According to population stood at .
During 1975–2010, the population doubled to 1.2 billion. The Indian population reached the billion mark in 1998. India is projected to be the world's most pop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14598 |
Politics of India
The Politics of India works within the framework of the country's constitution. India is a federal parliamentary democratic republic in which the President of India is the head of state and the Prime Minister of India is the head of government. India follows the dual polity system, i.e. a double gove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14599 |
Telecommunications in India
India's telecommunication network is the second largest in the world by number of telephone users (both fixed and mobile phone) with 1.1724 billion subscribers as on 31 Dec 2019. It has one of the lowest call tariffs in the world enabled by mega telecom operators and hyper-competition among... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14601 |
Transport in India
Transport in India consists of transport by land, water and air. Public transport is the primary mode of road transport for most
of the Indian citizens, and India's public transport systems are among the most heavily used in the world.
India's road network is the second-largest and one of the busi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14602 |
Foreign relations of India
The Ministry of External Affairs of India (MEA), also known as the Foreign Ministry, is the government agency responsible for the conduct of foreign relations of India. With the world's third largest military expenditure, largest armed force, fifth largest economy by nominal rates and third ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14604 |
Indian religions
Indian religions, sometimes also termed Dharmic religions or Indic religions, are the religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent; namely Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. These religions are also all classified as Eastern religions. Although Indian religions are connected through the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14605 |
Idaho
Idaho () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It borders the state of Montana to the east and northeast, Wyoming to the east, Nevada and Utah to the south, and Washington and Oregon to the west. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canadian border with the province of Britis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14607 |
Interrogatories
In law, interrogatories (also known as requests for further information) are a formal set of written questions propounded by one litigant and required to be answered by an adversary in order to clarify matters of fact and help to determine in advance what facts will be presented at any trial in the cas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14612 |
Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in Silicon Valley. It is the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip manufacturer based on revenue, and is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14617 |
İsmet İnönü
Mustafa İsmet İnönü (; 24 September 1884 – 25 December 1973) was a Turkish general and statesman, who served as the second President of Turkey from 11 November 1938 to 22 May 1950, when his Republican People's Party was defeated in Turkey's second free elections. He also served as the first Chief of the Ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14618 |
Inorganic chemistry
Inorganic chemistry deals with synthesis and behavior of inorganic and organometallic compounds. This field covers all chemical compounds except the myriad of organic compounds (carbon-based compounds, usually containing C-H bonds), which are the subjects of organic chemistry. The distinction betwe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14624 |
Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish director, writer, and producer who worked in film, television, theatre, and radio. Considered to be among the most accomplished and influential filmmakers of all time, Bergman's films include "Smiles of a Summer Night" (1955), "The Seventh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14626 |
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14627 |
Inventor
An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method, form, device or other useful means that becomes known as an invention. The word "inventor" comes from the Latin verb "invenire", "invent-", to find. The system of patents was established to encourage inventors by granting limited-term, limited mon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14629 |
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (, ; ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was an influential German philosopher in the Age of Enlightenment. In his doctrine of transcendental idealism, he argued that space, time, and causation are mere sensibilities; "things-in-themselves" exist, but their nature is unknowable. In his view... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14631 |
History of Indonesia
The history of Indonesia has been shaped by its geographic position, its natural resources, a series of human migrations and contacts, wars and conquests, as well as by trade, economics and politics. Indonesia is an archipelagic country of 17,000 to 18,000 islands (8,844 named and 922 permanently ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14643 |
Geography of Indonesia
Indonesia is an archipelagic country located in Southeast Asia, lying between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. It is located in a strategic location astride or along major sea lanes connecting East Asia, South Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world. Indonesia'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14644 |
Demographics of Indonesia
The population of Indonesia was 237.64 million according to the 2010 national census, and it was estimated to reach 255.4 million in 2015. Fifty-eight per cent live on the island of Java, the world's most populous island.
Despite a fairly effective family planning program that has been in pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14645 |
Politics of Indonesia
The politics of Indonesia take place in the framework of a presidential representative democratic republic whereby the President of Indonesia is both head of state and head of government and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14646 |
Economy of Indonesia
The economy of Indonesia is the largest in Southeast Asia and is one of the emerging market economies of the world. Indonesia is a member of G20 and classified as a newly industrialised country. It is the 16th largest economy in the world by nominal GDP and the 7th largest in terms of GDP (PPP). E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14647 |
Communications in Indonesia
Communications in Indonesia has a complex history due to the need to reach an extended archipelago of over 17,500 islands. The once important non-electronic communication methods of the past have given away to a considerable telecommunications infrastructure in contemporary Indonesia.
Indo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14648 |
Transport in Indonesia
Indonesia's transport system has been shaped over time by the economic resource base of an archipelago with thousands of islands, and the distribution of its more than 200 million people highly concentrated on a single island, Java.
All transport modes play a role in the country’s transport sys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14649 |
Indonesian National Armed Forces
The Indonesian National Armed Forces (, literally ""Indonesian National Military""; abbreviated as TNI) are the military forces of the Republic of Indonesia. It consists of the Army (TNI-AD), Navy (TNI-AL), and Air Force (TNI-AU). The President of Indonesia is the commander-in-chief of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14650 |
Foreign relations of Indonesia
Since independence, Indonesian foreign relations have adhered to a "free and active" foreign policy, seeking to play a role in regional affairs commensurate with its size and location but avoiding involvement in conflicts among major powers. Indonesian foreign policy under the "New Order... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14651 |
List of islands of Indonesia
The islands of Indonesia, also known as the Indonesian Archipelago, may refer either to the islands comprising the country of Indonesia or to the geographical groups which include its islands. According to the Indonesian Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs, of 17,508 officially list... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14652 |
Iran
Iran ( ), also called Persia, and officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ( ), is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered to the northwest by Armenia and Azerbaijan, to the north by the Caspian Sea, to the northeast by Turkmenistan, to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the south by the Persian Gulf and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14653 |
Game Boy Color
The (commonly abbreviated as GBC) is a handheld game console, manufactured by Nintendo, which was released in Japan on October 21, 1998 and to international markets that November. It is the successor to the original Game Boy and is part of the Game Boy family.
The GBC features a color screen rather tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13097 |
Genosha
Genosha ( or ) is a fictional country appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is an island nation that exists in Marvel's main shared universe, known as "Earth 616" in the Marvel Universe and a prominent place in the X-Men chronology. The fictional nation served as an allegory for slav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13098 |
Grinnell College
Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa. It was founded in 1846 when a group of New England Congregationalists established the Trustees of Iowa College. Grinnell is known for its rigorous academics, innovative pedagogy, and commitment to social justice.
Grinnell has the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13104 |
Global warming controversy
The global warming controversy concerns the public debate over whether global warming is occurring, how much has occurred in modern times, what has caused it, what its effects will be, whether any action can or should be taken to curb it, and if so what that action should be. In the scientif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13109 |
George Dantzig
George Bernard Dantzig (; November 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was an American mathematical scientist who made contributions to industrial engineering, operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics.
Dantzig is known for his development of the simplex algorithm, an algorithm for solving l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13111 |
Geoff Ryman
Geoffrey Charles Ryman (born 1951) is a Canadian writer of science fiction, fantasy, slipstream and historical fiction.
Ryman was born in Canada and moved to the United States at age 11. He earned degrees in History and English at UCLA, then moved to England in 1973, where he has lived most of his life. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13114 |
Gametophyte
A gametophyte () is one of the two alternating phases in the life cycle of plants and algae. It is a haploid multicellular organism that develops from a haploid spore that has one set of chromosomes. The gametophyte is the sexual phase in the life cycle of plants and algae. It develops sex organs that prod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13115 |
Gavoi
Gavoi is a "comune" in central Sardinia (Italy), part of the province of Nuoro, in the natural region of Barbagia. It overlooks the Lake of Gusana.
The territory of Gavoi is inhabited since the prenuragic period. During the middleage is cited various times in the list of villages and towns that paid the taxes t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13116 |
Gusana
Gusana is the name of an artificial lake and of the surrounding area, in the territory of Gavoi, Sardinia, Italy.
The lake was built in the 1930s to store water for an electricity generator (central of Coghinadordza), and it covered an ancient Roman bridge as well as an ancient archaeological site of the Nurag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13117 |
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn Theodore Seaborg (; April 19, 1912February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His work in this area also led to his development of the actinide con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13120 |
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (; 21 May 1792 – 19 September 1843) was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating frame of reference, leading to the Coriolis effect. He was the first to ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13126 |
Gecko
Geckos are small lizards belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from 1.6 to 60 cm (0.64 to 24 inches). Most geckos cannot blink, but they often lick their eyes to keep them clean and moist. They have a fixed lens within each iris that enlarges in darkness to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13134 |
Game show
A game show is a type of radio, television, or stage show in which contestants, individually or as teams, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles, usually for money or prizes. Alternatively, a "gameshow" can be a demonstrative program about a game [while usually retaining the spirit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13135 |
Grindcore
Grindcore is an extreme fusion genre of heavy metal and hardcore punk that originated in the mid-1980s, drawing inspiration from abrasive-sounding musical styles, such as: thrashcore, crust punk, hardcore punk, extreme metal, and industrial. Grindcore is characterized by a noise-filled sound that uses heavil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13137 |
George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
George of Brandenburg-Ansbach () (4 March 1484 – 27 December 1543), known as George the Pious, was a Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from the House of Hohenzollern.
He was born in Ansbach, the third of eight sons of Margrave Frederick the Elder and his wife Sophia of Poland, da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13141 |
Generalized mean
In mathematics, generalized means (or power mean, or Hölder mean) are a family of functions for aggregating sets of numbers, that include as special cases the Pythagorean means (arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic means).
If "p" is a non-zero real number, and formula_1 are positive real numbers, then... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13143 |
Gerolamo Cardano
Gerolamo (or Girolamo, or Geronimo) Cardano (; ; ; 24 September 1501 – 21 September 1576) was an Italian polymath, whose interests and proficiencies ranged from being a mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, writer, and gambler. He was one of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13145 |
Gene Roddenberry
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter, producer and creator of the , and its first spin-off "". Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer. Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13148 |
Galaxy Quest
Galaxy Quest is a 1999 American science fiction comedy film directed by Dean Parisot and written by David Howard and Robert Gordon. A parody of and homage to science-fiction films and series, especially "Star Trek" and its fandom, the film stars Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13149 |
Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh (; originally ) was a major hero in ancient Mesopotamian mythology, and is the protagonist of the "Epic of Gilgamesh", an epic poem written in Akkadian during the late 2nd millennium BC. He was also most likely a historical king of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk, who was posthumously deified. His ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13151 |
Gluten
Gluten (from Latin "gluten", "to stick") is a group of proteins, called prolamins and glutelins, which occur with starch in the endosperm of various cereal grains. This protein complex supplies 75–85% of the total protein in bread wheat. It is found in related wheat species and hybrids, (such as spelt, khorasan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13152 |
Glen or Glenda
Glen or Glenda is a 1953 American exploitation film written, directed by and starring Ed Wood (credited in his starring role as "Daniel Davis"), and featuring Bela Lugosi and Wood's then-girlfriend Dolores Fuller. It was produced by George Weiss who also made the exploitation film "Test Tube Babies" tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13154 |
The Golden Turkey Awards
The Golden Turkey Awards is a 1980 book by film critic Michael Medved and his brother Harry.
The book awards "Golden Turkey Awards" to films judged by the authors as poor in quality, and to directors and actors judged to have created a chronically inept body of work. The book features many lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13155 |
George Fox
George Fox (July 1624 – 23 January 1691 (O.S.13 January 1690)) was an English Dissenter, who was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. The son of a Leicestershire weaver, he lived in times of social upheaval and war. He rebelled against the religious and po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13156 |
Gunpowder Plot
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.
The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13159 |
Gelatin
Gelatin or gelatine (from meaning "stiff" or "frozen") is a translucent, colorless, flavorless food ingredient, derived from collagen taken from animal body parts. It is brittle when dry and gummy when moist. It may also be referred to as hydrolyzed collagen, collagen hydrolysate, gelatine hydrolysate, hydroly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13160 |
Gelatin dessert
Gelatin desserts are desserts made with a sweetened and flavored processed collagen product (gelatin). This kind of dessert was first recorded as jelly by Hannah Glasse in her 18th century book "The Art of Cookery", appearing in a layer of trifle. Jelly is also featured in the best selling cookbooks of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13162 |
George, Duke of Saxony
George "the Bearded", Duke of Saxony (Meissen, 27 August 1471 – Dresden, 17 April 1539), was Duke of Saxony from 1500 to 1539 known for his opposition to the Reformation. While the Ernestine line embraced Lutheranism, the Albertines (headed by George) were reluctant to do so. Despite George's ef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13168 |
Gneiss
Gneiss () is a common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock. Gneiss is formed by high temperature and high-pressure metamorphic processes acting on formations composed of igneous or sedimentary rocks. Orthogneiss is gneiss derived from igneous rock (such as granite). Paragneiss is gneiss derived from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13169 |
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Gro Harlem Brundtland (; born Gro Harlem, 20 April 1939) is a Norwegian politician, who served three terms as Prime Minister of Norway (1981, 1986–89, and 1990–96) and as Director-General of the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2003. She is also known for having chaired the Brundtland Commi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13171 |
Gregory of Nazianzus
Gregory of Nazianzus (, "Grēgorios ho Nazianzēnos"; c. 329 – 25 January 390), also known as Gregory the Theologian or Gregory Nazianzen, was a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople, and theologian. He is widely considered the most accomplished rhetorical stylist of the patristic age. As a class... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13172 |
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript and VBScript.
Web browsers receive HTML documents from a web server or from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13191 |
Hector
In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Hector (; , ) was a Trojan prince and the greatest fighter for Troy in the Trojan War. He acted as leader of the Trojans and their allies in the defence of Troy, "killing 31,000 Greek fighters." He was ultimately killed by Achilles.
In Greek, is a derivative of the verb ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13207 |
Hera
Hera (; , "Hērā"; , "Hērē" in Ionic and Homeric Greek) is the goddess of women, marriage, family, and childbirth in ancient Greek religion and myth, one of the Twelve Olympians and the sister and wife of Zeus. She is the daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Hera rules over Mount Olympus as queen of the gods. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13208 |
History of the ancient Levant
The Levant is the large area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south, and Mesopotamia in the east. It stretches 400 miles north to south from the Taurus Mountains to the Sinai desert, and 70 to 100 mil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13210 |
History of Europe
The history of Europe covers the people inhabiting the continent of Europe from prehistory to the present. During the Neolithic era and the time of the Indo-European migrations Europe saw human inflows from east and southeast and subsequent important cultural and material exchange. The period known a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13212 |
Hold come what may
Hold come what may is a phrase popularized by logician Willard Van Orman Quine. Beliefs that are "held come what may" are beliefs one is unwilling to give up, regardless of any evidence with which one might be presented.
Quine held (on a perhaps simplistic construal) that there are no beliefs that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13216 |
Haiku
Haiku originated as an opening part of a larger Japanese poem, known as a renga. These haiku that were written as an opening stanza were known as hokku and eventually writers began to write them as their own stand-alone poems. Haiku was given its current name by the Japanese writer Masaoka Shiki at the end of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13217 |
Howard Hawks
Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American director who is not a household name."
A versatile film director, Hawks explored many genres such as comed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13219 |
Compounds of carbon
Compounds of carbon are defined as chemical substances containing carbon. More compounds of carbon exist than any other chemical element except for hydrogen. Organic carbon compounds are far more numerous than inorganic carbon compounds. In general bonds of carbon with other elements are covalent b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15507 |
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