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Industrial espionage
Industrial espionage, economic espionage, corporate spying or corporate espionage is a form of espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of purely national security.
While economic espionage is conducted or orchestrated by governments and is international in scope, industrial or corpor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15508 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer (; November 21, 1902 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-American writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. The Polish form of his birth name was . He used his mother's first name in an initial literary pseudonym, "Izaak Baszewis", which he later expanded. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15511 |
Islamic eschatology
Islamic eschatology is the aspect of Islamic theology concerning ideas of life after death, matters of the soul, and the "Day of Judgement," known as "Yawm al-Qiyāmah" (, , "the Day of Resurrection") or "Yawm ad-Dīn" (, , "the Day of Judgment"). The Day of Judgement is characterized by the annihila... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15513 |
Iblis
Iblīs (alternatively Eblis or Ibris) is a figure frequently occurring in the Quran, commonly in relation to the creation of Adam and the command to prostrate himself before him. After he refused, he was cast out of heaven. For many classical scholars, he was an angel, but is regarded as a jinn in most contempora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15514 |
Intelsat
Intelsat Corporation (formerly INTEL-SAT, INTELSAT, Intelsat) is a communications satellite services provider. Originally formed as International Telecommunications Satellite Organization ("ITSO", or INTELSAT), from 1964 to 2001 it was an intergovernmental consortium owning and managing a constellation of com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15516 |
Ian Botham
Sir Ian Terence Botham (born 24 November 1955) is an English cricket commentator and a former cricketer who has been chairman of Durham County Cricket Club since 2017. Widely regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders in cricket history, Botham represented England in both Test and One-Day International cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15524 |
Id Software
id Software LLC () is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas. The company was founded on February 1, 1991, by four members of the computer company Softdisk, programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack (no relation to John Carmack). Busine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15526 |
Isaac Stern
Isaac Stern (July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) was an American violinist.
The son of Solomon and Clara Stern, Isaac Stern was born in Kremenets, Poland (now Ukraine), into a Jewish family. He was 14 months old when his family moved to San Francisco in 1921. He received his first music lessons from his m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15531 |
Integral
In mathematics, an integral assigns numbers to functions in a way that can describe displacement, area, volume, and other concepts that arise by combining infinitesimal data. Integration is one of the two main operations of calculus; its inverse operation, differentiation, is the other. Given a function of a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15532 |
Zionist political violence
Zionist political violence refers to acts of violence or terror committed by Zionists. The period of Zionist political violence started on June 30, 1924, and continued on a sporadic basis.
Actions were carried out by individuals and Jewish paramilitary groups such as the Irgun, the Lehi, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15533 |
Inclusion body myositis
Inclusion body myositis (IBM) [my-oh-SIGH-tis] (sometimes called sporadic inclusion body myositis, sIBM) is the most common inflammatory muscle disease in older adults. The disease is characterized by slowly progressive weakness and wasting of both proximal muscles (closest to the body's midlin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15538 |
Ion implantation
Ion implantation is a low-temperature process by which ions of one element are accelerated into a solid target, thereby changing the physical, chemical, or electrical properties of the target. Ion implantation is used in semiconductor device fabrication and in metal finishing, as well as in materials ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15539 |
John Woo
John Woo Yu-Sen SBS (; born 1 May 1946) is a Hong Kong film director, producer and screenwriter. He is considered a major influence on the action genre, known for his highly chaotic action sequences, stylized imagery, Mexican standoffs, frequent use of slow motion and allusions to neo-noir, "wuxia" and Wester... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15571 |
Japan
Japan (, "Nippon" or "Nihon" ) is an island country in East Asia located in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It borders the Sea of Japan to the west, and it extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. Japan is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire and comprises an archipela... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15573 |
Geography of Japan
Japan is an island country comprising a stratovolcanic archipelago over along East Asia's Pacific coast. It consists of 6,852 islands. The 5 main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku and Okinawa. There are 6,847 'remote islands'. The Ryukyu Islands and Nanpō Islands are south and east of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15575 |
Demographics of Japan
The demographic features of the population of Japan include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects regarding the population.
For information on historical demographic data in Japan prior to 1945 refer to:
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15576 |
Politics of Japan
The politics of Japan are conducted in a framework of a multi-party bicameral parliamentary representative democratic constitutional monarchy in which the Emperor is the ceremonial head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of government and the head of the Cabinet, which directs the executive ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15577 |
Economy of Japan
The economy of Japan is a highly developed free-market economy. It is the third-largest in the world by nominal GDP and the fourth-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). and is the world's second largest developed economy. Japan is a member of the G7 and GroupofTwenty. According to the Internationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15578 |
Communications in Japan
The nation of Japan currently possesses one of the most advanced communication networks in the world. For example, by 2008 the Japanese government's Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry stated that about 75 million people used mobile phones to access the Internet, said total accounting ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15579 |
Transport in Japan
Transportation in Japan is modern and highly developed. Japan's transport sector stands out for its energy efficiency: it uses less energy per person compared to other countries, thanks to a high share of rail transport and low overall travel distances. Transport in Japan is also very expensive in i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15580 |
Foreign relations of Japan
The are handled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
Japan maintains diplomatic relations with every United Nations member state except for North Korea, in addition to UN observer states Holy See, as well as the Kosovo, Cook Islands and Niue.
Japanese foreign relations had earliest ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15582 |
Joshua Jackson
Joshua Jackson (born June 11, 1978) is a Canadian–American actor. He is known for his starring role as Pacey Witter in the teen drama series "Dawson's Creek" (1998–2003), Peter Bishop in the science fiction series "Fringe" (2008–2013), Cole Lockhart in the drama series "The Affair" (2014–18), Mickey Jos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15587 |
John Ray
John Ray FRS (29 November 1627 – 17 January 1705) was an English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him". He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15596 |
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for "Ul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15600 |
Judo
The philosophy and subsequent pedagogy developed for judo became the model for other modern Japanese martial arts that developed from . Judo also spawned a number of derivative martial arts across the world, such as Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Krav Maga, Sambo and ARB.
The early history of judo is inseparable from its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15601 |
James Bond
The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have written authorised Bond novels or novelisations: Kingsley Amis, Christop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15604 |
Japanese language
Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial texts did not appear until the 8th century. During the Heian period (794–1185), Chinese had considerable influence on the vocabulary ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15606 |
Simon–Ehrlich wager
The Simon–Ehrlich wager was a 1980 scientific wager between business professor Julian L. Simon and biologist Paul Ehrlich, betting on a mutually agreed-upon measure of resource scarcity over the decade leading up to 1990. The widely-followed contest originated in the pages of "Social Science Quarte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15611 |
John Tenniel
Sir John Tenniel (28 February 1820 – 25 February 1914) was an English illustrator, graphic humorist, and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century. He was knighted for his artistic achievements in 1893. Tenniel is remembered especially as the principal political cartoonist for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15612 |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music, linked b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15613 |
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
Swift is remembered for works such as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15614 |
Jello Biafra
Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958), better known by his professional name Jello Biafra, is an American singer, musician, and spoken word artist. He is the former lead singer and songwriter for the San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys.
Initially active from 1979 to 1986, Dead Kennedys were known... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15616 |
John Grierson
John Grierson CBE (26 April 1898 – 19 February 1972) was a pioneering Scottish documentary maker, often considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film. In 1926, Grierson coined the term "documentary" in a review of Robert Flaherty's "Moana".
Grierson was born in the old schoolhouse in De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15621 |
Monaco
Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (), is a sovereign city-state, country, and microstate on the French Riviera in Western Europe. It is bordered by France to the north, east and west, and by the Mediterranean Sea to the south. The principality is home to 38,682 residents and is widely recognise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19261 |
History of Monaco
The early history of Monaco is primarily concerned with the protective and strategic value of the Rock of Monaco, the area's chief geological landmark, which served first as a shelter for ancient peoples and later as a fortress. Part of Liguria's history since the fall of the Roman Empire, from the 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19262 |
Demographics of Monaco
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Monaco, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
In 1995, Monaco's population was estimated at 30,744, with a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19264 |
Politics of Monaco
The politics of Monaco take place within the framework of a constitutional monarchy, with the Prince of Monaco as head of state, with some powers devolved to several advisory and legislative bodies.
Historically, the princes of the ruling House of Grimaldi were autocrats of an absolute monarchy unt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19265 |
Economy of Monaco
The economy of Monaco is reliant on tourism and banking. Monaco, situated on the French coast of the Mediterranean Sea, is a popular resort, attracting tourists to its casino and pleasant climate.
The Principality has successfully sought to diversify into services and small, high-value-added, nonpol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19266 |
Military of Monaco
The Principality of Monaco, the world's second-smallest sovereign state, after the Vatican City State, has a very limited military capability, and depends almost entirely upon its larger neighbour, France, for defence. Altogether, there are 255 soldiers serving in Monaco's military (excluding civili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19269 |
Mongolia
Mongolia (, Mongolian: Монгол Улс, transcription: , Traditional Mongolian: , transliteration: "") is a landlocked country in East Asia. Its area is roughly equivalent with the historical territory of Outer Mongolia, and that term is sometimes used to refer to the current state. It is sandwiched between Russia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19271 |
Geography of Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in Central Asia and East Asia, located between China and Russia. The terrain is one of mountains and rolling plateaus, with a high degree of relief. The total land area of Mongolia is 1,564,116 square kilometres. Overall, the land slopes from the high Altai Mounta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19273 |
Politics of Mongolia
Politics of Mongolia takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the President and the Government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament. The Judiciary is independent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19275 |
Economy of Mongolia
The economy of Mongolia has traditionally been based on agriculture and livestock. Mongolia also has extensive mineral deposits: copper, coal, molybdenum, tin, tungsten, and gold account for a large part of industrial production. Soviet assistance, at its height one-third of Gross domestic product ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19276 |
Telecommunications in Mongolia
Telecommunications in Mongolia face unique challenges. As the least densely populated country in the world, with a significant portion of the population living a nomadic lifestyle, it has been difficult for many traditional information and communication technology (ICT) companies to make... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19277 |
Transport in Mongolia
The transportation system in Mongolia consists of a network of railways, roads, waterways, and airports.
The Trans-Mongolian Railway connects the Trans-Siberian Railway from Ulan Ude in Russia to Erenhot and Beijing in China through the capital Ulaanbaatar. The Mongolian section of this line run... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19278 |
Mongolian Armed Forces
The Mongolian Armed Forces (, "Mongol ulsyn zevsegt hüchin") is the collective name for the Mongolian military and the joint forces that comprise it. It is tasked with protecting the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of the Mongolian state. Defined as the peacetime configurati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19279 |
Montserrat
Montserrat ( ) is a British Overseas Territory (BOT) in the Caribbean. The island is in the Leeward Islands, which is part of the chain known as the Lesser Antilles, in the West Indies. Montserrat measures approximately in length and in width, with approximately of coastline. Montserrat is nicknamed "The Em... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19281 |
Economy of Montserrat
The economy of Montserrat was severely disrupted by volcanic activity which began in July 1995. Prior to this date, the small island country of 12,000 had an export economy based on agriculture, clothing, electronic parts and plants, with a per capita gross national product of US$3,000 to 8,000.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19286 |
Telecommunications in Montserrat
Montserrat possesses a number of telecommunications systems, including mobile and main line telephone, radio and television. The country code for Montserrat is "MS".
According to a July 2016 estimate by the CIA, Montserrat's fully digitalized telephone service had 3,000 subscribers wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19287 |
Morocco
Morocco (; ; ; ), officially the Kingdom of Morocco (; ; ), is a country located in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, with land borders with Algeria to the east and Western Sahara ("status disputed") to the south. Morocco als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19291 |
History of Morocco
Archaeological evidence has shown that the area was inhabited by hominids at least 400,000 years ago. The recorded history of Morocco begins with the Phoenician colonization of the Moroccan coast between the 8th and 6th centuries BCE, although the area was inhabited by indigenous Berbers for some tw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19292 |
Demographics of Morocco
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Morocco, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
The population of Morocco in 2014 is 33,848,242. The overw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19294 |
Politics of Morocco
Politics of Morocco take place in a framework of a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, whereby the Prime Minister of Morocco is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two cham... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19295 |
Economy of Morocco
The economy of Morocco is considered a relatively liberal economy governed by the law of supply and demand. Since 1993, Morocco has followed a policy of privatization of certain economic sectors which used to be in the hands of the government. Morocco has become a major player in African economic af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19296 |
Telecommunications in Morocco
The following is an outline of communications technology in Morocco.
While the Moroccan telecoms market remains under-saturated, its three mobile operators have experienced robust growth in recent years, both at home and abroad. Meditel, which received a mobile licence in 2000, is the ki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19297 |
Transport in Morocco
There are around of roads (national, regional and provincial) in Morocco. In addition to of highways (August 2016).
The Tangier–Casablanca high-speed rail link marks the first stage of the ONCF’s high-speed rail master plan, pursuant to which over of new railway lines will be built by 2035. The h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19298 |
Royal Moroccan Armed Forces
The Royal Moroccan Armed Forces (Berber: "Idwasen Urbiben Igeldanen n Murakuc"; Arabic: القوات المسلحة الملكية المغربية, "Al-Quwwat al-Musallaha al-Malakiyah al-Maghribiyah") are the military forces of the Kingdom of Morocco. They consist of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Royal Gend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19299 |
Foreign relations of Morocco
Morocco is a member of the United Nations and belongs to the African Union, Arab League, Arab Maghreb Union (UMA), Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the Non-Aligned Movement and the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN_SAD). Morocco's relationships vary greatly between African, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19300 |
Mozambique
Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( or , ; ; ; ), is a country located in Southern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini (Swaziland) and South Africa to the southwest. The sovereign st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19301 |
History of Mozambique
Mozambique was a Portuguese colony, overseas province and later a member state of Portugal. It gained independence from Portugal in 1975.
In 2007 Julio Mercader, of the University of Calgary, recovered dozens of 100,000-year-old stone tools from a deep limestone cave near Lake Niassa in Mozambiq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19302 |
Geography of Mozambique
The geography of Mozambique consists mostly of coastal lowlands with uplands in its center and high plateaus in the northwest. There are also mountains in the western portion. The country is located on the east coast of southern Africa, directly west of the island of Madagascar. Mozambique has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19303 |
Demographics of Mozambique
The demographics of Mozambique describes the condition and overview of Mozambique's peoples. Demographic topics include basic education, health, and population statistics as well as identified racial and religious affiliations.
According to the total population was in , compared to only 6 4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19304 |
Politics of Mozambique
Politics of Mozambique takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Mozambique is head of state and head of government of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19305 |
Telecommunications in Mozambique
Telecommunications in Mozambique include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Mozambique has a comparatively low Internet penetration rate with only 4.8% of the population having access to the Internet compared to 16% for Africa as a whole.
Telecommuni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19307 |
Transport in Mozambique
Modes of transport in Mozambique include rail, road, water, and air. There are rail links serving principal cities and connecting the country with Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. There are over 30,000km of roads, but much of the network is unpaved.
On the Indian Ocean coast are several lar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19308 |
Mozambique Defence Armed Forces
The Mozambique Defence Armed Forces (Portuguese: "Forças Armadas de Defesa de Moçambique") or FADM are the national armed forces of Mozambique. They include the General Staff of the Armed Forces and three branches of service: Army, Air Force and Navy.
The FADM were formed in mid August... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19309 |
Foreign relations of Mozambique
While alliances dating back to the Mozambican War of Independence remain relevant, Mozambique's foreign policy has become increasingly pragmatic. The twin pillars of the policy are maintenance of good relations with its neighbors and maintenance and expansion of ties to development part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19310 |
Meme
A meme ( ) is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19312 |
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (; born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era's changing attitude... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19318 |
Myelin
Myelin is a lipid-rich (fatty) substance that surrounds nerve cell axons (the nervous system's "wires") to insulate them and increase the rate at which electrical impulses (called action potentials) are passed along the axon. The myelinated axon can be likened to an electrical wire (the axon) with insulating ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19319 |
Mebyon Kernow
Mebyon Kernow – The Party for Cornwall (, MK; Cornish for "Sons of Cornwall") is a Cornish nationalist, centre-left political party in Cornwall, a county in the southwestern United Kingdom. It currently has four elected councillors on Cornwall Council, and several town and parish councillors across the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19320 |
Mesozoic
The Mesozoic Era ( ) is an interval of geological time from about . It is also called the Age of Reptiles and the Age of Conifers.
The Mesozoic ("middle life") is one of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon, preceded by the Paleozoic ("ancient life") and succeeded by the Cenozoic ("new life"). The era ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19322 |
Middle East
The Middle East is a transcontinental region which generally includes Western Asia (except for Transcaucasia), all of Egypt (mostly in North Africa), and Turkey (partly in Europe). The term has come into wider usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to the Far East) beginning in the early ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19323 |
Monism
Monism attributes oneness or singleness (Greek: μόνος) to a concept e.g., existence. Various kinds of monism can be distinguished:
There are two sorts of definitions for monism:
Although the term "monism" is derived from Western philosophy to typify positions in the mind–body problem, it has also been used to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19325 |
Master shot
A master shot is a film recording of an entire dramatized scene, start to finish, from a camera angle that keeps all the players in view. It is often a long shot and can sometimes perform a double function as an establishing shot. Usually, the master shot is the first shot checked off during the shooting o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19327 |
Moon
The Moon is an astronomical body orbiting Earth as its only natural satellite. It is the fifth-largest satellite in the Solar System, and by far the largest among planetary satellites relative to the size of the planet that it orbits (its primary). The Moon is, after Jupiter's satellite Io, the second-densest sat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19331 |
Marco Polo
Marco Polo (, , , 1254January 8–9, 1324) was an Italian merchant, explorer, and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. His travels are recorded in "The Travels of Marco Polo" (also known as "Book of the Marvels of the World " and "Il Milione", c. 1300), a book that desc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19334 |
Index of articles related to motion pictures
The film industry is built upon many technologies and techniques, drawing upon photography, stagecraft, music, and many other disciplines. Following is an index of specific terminology applicable thereto.
180 degree rule
- 30 degree rule
A and B editing
- A roll
- Accelera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19337 |
Mountain range
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills ranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arisen from the same cause, usually an orogeny. Mountain ranges are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19338 |
Mental disorder
A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. Such features may be persistent, relapsing and remitting, or occur as a single episode. Many disorders have been described, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19356 |
Mormons
Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity, initiated by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. After Smith's death in 1844, the Mormons followed Brigham Young to what would become the Utah Te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18925 |
Manitoba
Manitoba () is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada. It is often considered one of the three prairie provinces (with Alberta and Saskatchewan) and is Canada's fifth-most populous province with its estimated 1.377 million people. Manitoba covers with a widely varied landscape, from arctic tundra and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18926 |
Subject (philosophy)
A subject is a being who has a unique consciousness and/or unique personal experiences, or an entity that has a relationship with another entity that exists outside itself (called an "object").
A "subject" is an observer and an "object" is a thing observed. This concept is especially important in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18930 |
Media bias
Media bias is the bias or perceived bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of many events and stories that are reported and how they are covered. The term "media bias" implies a pervasive or widespread bias contravening the standards of journalism, rather than the pers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18932 |
Morse code
Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called "dots" and "dashes" or "dits" and "dahs". Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, an inventor of the telegraph.
The International Morse Code encodes the 26 English ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18935 |
Emergency contraception
Emergency contraception (EC) are birth control measures that may be used after sexual intercourse to prevent pregnancy. Emergency contraception has not been shown to affect the rates of abortion within a country.
There are different forms of EC. Emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs)—sometimes s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18939 |
Meat
Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food. Humans have hunted and killed animals for meat since prehistoric times. The advent of civilization allowed the domestication of animals such as chickens, sheep, rabbits, pigs and cattle. This eventually led to their use in meat production on an industrial scale with the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18940 |
Monty Python
Monty Python (also collectively known as the Pythons) were a British surreal comedy troupe who created the sketch comedy television show "Monty Python's Flying Circus", which first aired on the BBC in 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series. The Python phenomenon developed from the television... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18942 |
Married... with Children
Married... with Children is an American television sitcom that aired on Fox, created by Michael G. Moye and Ron Leavitt. Originally broadcast from April 5, 1987 to June 9, 1997, it is the longest-lasting live-action sitcom on Fox and the first to be broadcast in the network's primetime slot. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18943 |
Metre
The metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling) (from the French unit "mètre", from the Greek noun μέτρον, "measure") is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). The SI unit symbol is m.
The metre is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18947 |
Mentha
Mentha (also known as mint, from Greek , Linear B "mi-ta") is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae (mint family). The exact distinction between species is unclear; it is estimated that 13 to 24 species exist. Hybridization occurs naturally where some species range overlap. Many hybrids and cultivars are kn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18955 |
Marjoram
Marjoram (; Origanum majorana) is a somewhat cold-sensitive perennial herb or undershrub with sweet pine and citrus flavors. In some Middle Eastern countries, marjoram is synonymous with oregano, and there the names sweet marjoram and knotted marjoram are used to distinguish it from other plants of the genus ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18956 |
Medicine
Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness. Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, bio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18957 |
2001 Mars Odyssey
2001 Mars Odyssey is a robotic spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars. The project was developed by NASA, and contracted out to Lockheed Martin, with an expected cost for the entire mission of US$297 million. Its mission is to use spectrometers and a thermal imager to detect evidence of past or present ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18959 |
Madagascar
Madagascar (; ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( ; ), and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa. At Madagascar is the world's second-largest island country. The nation comprises the island of Madagascar (the fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18964 |
Flowering plant
The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae, or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 64 orders, 416 families, approximately 13,000 known genera and 300,000 known species. Like gymnosperms, angiosperms are seed-producing plants. They are distinguished from gym... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18967 |
Malvales
The Malvales are an order of flowering plants. As circumscribed by APG II-system, the order includes about 6000 species within 9 families. The order is placed in the eurosids II, which are part of the eudicots.
The plants are mostly shrubs and trees; most of its families have a cosmopolitan distribution in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18968 |
Myrtales
The Myrtales are an order of flowering plants placed as a sister to the eurosids II clade as of the publishing of the "Eucalyptus grandis" genome in June 2014.
The APG III system of classification for angiosperms still places it within the eurosids. This finding is corroborated by the placement of the Myrtal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18969 |
Malpighiales
The Malpighiales comprise one of the largest orders of flowering plants, containing about 36 families and more than species, about 7.8% of the eudicots. The order is very diverse, containing plants as different as the willow, violet, poinsettia, and coca plant, and are hard to recognize except with molecu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18970 |
Miranda warning
In the United States, the Miranda" warning is a type of notification customarily given by police to criminal suspects in police custody (or in a custodial interrogation) advising them of their right to silence; that is, their right to refuse to answer questions or provide information to law enforcement... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18972 |
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