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Junk science
The expression junk science is used to describe scientific data, research, or analysis considered by the person using the phrase to be spurious or fraudulent. The concept is often invoked in political and legal contexts where facts and scientific results have a great amount of weight in making a determina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15627 |
James Cook
James Cook (7 November 172814 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy. He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15630 |
John Baskerville
John Baskerville (baptised 28 January 1707 – 8 January 1775) was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and type designer.
Baskerville was born in the village of Wolverley, near Kidderminster in Worcestershire and baptised on 28 J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15632 |
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until 1953 as the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and premier of the Soviet Union (1941... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15641 |
Johnny Unitas
John Constantine Unitas (; May 7, 1933 – September 11, 2002), nicknamed "Johnny U" and "the Golden Arm", was an American professional football player in the National Football League (NFL). He spent the majority of his career playing for the Baltimore Colts. He was a record-setting quarterback, and the NF... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15644 |
Julian calendar
The Julian calendar, proposed by Julius Caesar in 708Ab urbe condita (AUC) (46 BC), was a reform of the Roman calendar. It took effect on , by edict. It was designed with the aid of Greek mathematicians and Greek astronomers such as Sosigenes of Alexandria.
The calendar was the predominant calendar in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15651 |
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams (; July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States Secretary of State from 1817 to 1825. During his long diplomatic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15654 |
Jurassic
The Jurassic ( ; from the Jura Mountains) is a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of the Mesozoic Era, also known as the Age of Reptiles. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15655 |
John Wyndham
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (; 10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969) was an English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Some of his works were set in post... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15656 |
Jerzy Kosiński
Jerzy Kosiński (; June 14, 1933 – May 3, 1991), born Józef Lewinkopf, was a Polish-American novelist and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English. Born in Poland, he survived World War II and, as a young man, immigrated to the U.S., where he became a citizen.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15657 |
Jeep
Jeep is a brand of American automobile and also a division of FCA US LLC (formerly Chrysler Group, LLC), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Italian-American corporation Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Jeep has been part of Chrysler since 1987, when Chrysler acquired the Jeep brand, along with remaining assets, from its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15658 |
Jamaica
Jamaica () is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola (the island containing the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15660 |
History of Jamaica
The Caribbean island of Jamaica was inhabited by the Arawak tribes prior to the arrival of Columbus in 1494. Early inhabitants of Jamaica named the land "Xaymaca", meaning "Land of wood and water ". The Spanish enslaved the Arawak, who were so ravaged by their conflict with the Europeans and by fore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15661 |
Geography of Jamaica
Jamaica lies south of Cuba and west of Haiti. At its greatest extent, Jamaica is long, and its width varies between . Jamaica has a small area of . However, Jamaica is the largest island of the Commonwealth Caribbean and the third largest of the Greater Antilles, after Cuba and Hispaniola. Many sm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15662 |
Demographics of Jamaica
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Jamaica, including population density, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
According to the total population was in , compared to only 1,403,000... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15663 |
Economy of Jamaica
The economy of Jamaica is heavily reliant on services, accounting for 70% of the country's GDP. Jamaica has natural resources, primarily bauxite, and an ideal climate conducive to agriculture and also tourism. The discovery of bauxite in the 1940s and the subsequent establishment of the bauxite-alum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15665 |
Telecommunications in Jamaica
Telecommunications in Jamaica include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Country Code: +1-876, +1-658
International Call Prefix: 011 (outside NANP)
Calls from Jamaica to the US, Canada, and other NANP Caribbean nations, are dialed as 1 + NANP area code + ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15666 |
Transport in Jamaica
Transport in Jamaica consists of roadways, railways, ship and air transport, with roadways forming the backbone of the island's internal transport system.
The Jamaican road network consists of almost 21,000 kilometres of roads, of which over 15,000 kilometres is paved. The Jamaican Government has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15667 |
Foreign relations of Jamaica
Jamaica has diplomatic relations with most nations and is a member of the United Nations and the Organization of American States. Jamaica chairs the Working Group on smaller Economies.
Jamaica is an active member of the Commonwealth of Nations and the Non-Aligned Movement (G-77). Jamaica ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15669 |
Science and technology in Jamaica
Since the late 3477, the Jamaican government has set an agenda to push the development of technology in Jamaica. The goal is to make Jamaica a significant player in the arena of information technology.
Jamaica was among the earliest developing countries to craft a scientific law to g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15670 |
Jan Mayen
Jan Mayen () is a Norwegian volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean, with no permanent population. It is long (southwest-northeast) and in area, partly covered by glaciers (an area of around the Beerenberg volcano). It has two parts: larger northeast Nord-Jan and smaller Sør-Jan, linked by a wide isthmus. It lie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15673 |
Jarvis Island
Jarvis Island (; formerly known as Bunker Island or Bunker's Shoal) is an uninhabited coral island located in the South Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and the Cook Islands. It is an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States, administered by the United States Fish and Wildlif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15683 |
Jersey
Jersey ( , ; ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (; Jèrriais: "Bailliage dé Jèrri"), is a British Crown dependency located near the coast of Normandy, France. It is the second-closest of the Channel Islands to France, after Alderney.
Jersey was part of the Duchy of Normandy, whose dukes went on to become kin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15693 |
History of Jersey
The island of Jersey and the other Channel Islands represent the last remnants of the medieval Duchy of Normandy that held sway in both France and England. Jersey lies in the Bay of Mont Saint-Michel and is the largest of the Channel Islands. It has enjoyed self-government since the division of the D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15694 |
Geography of Jersey
This article describes the geography of Jersey, an island territory in the English Channel. The island of Jersey has an area of 119 square kilometres, with 70 kilometres of coastline. Jersey claims a territorial sea of and an exclusive fishing zone of .
Jersey is the largest and southernmost of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15695 |
Demographics of Jersey
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Jersey, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
The Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown dependency off th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15696 |
Politics of Jersey
Politics of the Bailiwick of Jersey takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic constitution.
As one of the Crown Dependencies, Jersey is autonomous and self-governing, with its own independent legal, administrative and fiscal systems.
The legislature is the States Asse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15697 |
Economy of Jersey
The economy of Jersey is largely driven by international financial services and legal services, which accounted for 40.5% of total GVA in 2010. Other sectors include construction, retail, agriculture, tourism and telecommunications.
In 2008 Jersey’s gross national income per capita was among the hig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15698 |
Transport in Jersey
This article details the variety of means of transport in Jersey, Channel Islands.
Airports:
Historically there were public railway services in the island, provided by two railway companies:
The mostly coastal lines operated out of St Helier and ran across the southern part of the island, reachin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15700 |
Johnston Atoll
Johnston Atoll, also known as Kalama Atoll to Native Hawaiians, is an unincorporated territory of the United States currently administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Johnston Atoll is a National Wildlife Refuge and is closed to public entry. Limited access for management needs is on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15704 |
Geography of Jordan
Jordan is situated geographically in Southwest Asia, south of Syria, west of Iraq, northwest of Saudi Arabia and east of Israel and the West Bank; politically, the area has also been referred to in the West as the Middle or Near East. The territory of Jordan now covers about .
Between 1950 and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15716 |
Demographics of Jordan
Jordan has a population of approximately 9,531,712 inhabitants (Female: 47%; Males: 53%) as of 2015. Jordanians () are the citizens of Jordan, who share a common Levantine Semitic ancestry. Some 98% percent of Jordanians are Arabs, while the remaining 2% are other ethnic minorities. Around 2.9 m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15717 |
Politics of Jordan
The politics of Jordan takes place in a framework of a parliamentary monarchy, whereby the Prime Minister of Jordan is head of government, and of a multi-party system. Jordan is a constitutional monarchy based on the constitution promulgated on January 8, 1952. The king exercises his power through t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15718 |
Lucent
Lucent Technologies, Inc., was an American multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in the United States. It was established on September 30, 1996, through the divestiture of the former AT&T Technologies business unit of AT&T Corporation, which included Wester... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18157 |
Lupercalia
Lupercalia was an ancient, possibly pre-Roman pastoral annual festival, observed in the city of Rome from the 13th to the 15th of February to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility. Lupercalia was also called "dies Februatus", after the instruments of purification called "feb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18158 |
List of agnostics
Listed here are persons who have identified themselves as theologically agnostic. Also included are individuals who have expressed the view that the veracity of a god's existence is unknown or inherently unknowable.
"To be sure, when she wrote her groundbreaking book, Friedan considered herself an "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18166 |
Linked list
In computer science, a linked list is a linear collection of data elements, whose order is not given by their physical placement in memory, Instead, each element points to the next. It is a data structure consisting of a collection of nodes which together represent a sequence. In its most basic form, each ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18167 |
Logic gate
A logic gate is an idealized or physical electronic device implementing a Boolean function, a logical operation performed on one or more binary inputs that produces a single binary output. Depending on the context, the term may refer to an ideal logic gate, one that has for instance zero rise time and unlim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18168 |
Linear search
In computer science, a linear search or sequential search is a method for finding an element within a list. It sequentially checks each element of the list until a match is found or the whole list has been searched.
A linear search runs in at worst linear time and makes at most comparisons, where is the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18171 |
Land mine
A land mine is an explosive device concealed under or on the ground and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets, ranging from combatants to vehicles and tanks, as they pass over or near it. Such a device is typically detonated automatically by way of pressure when a target steps on it or drives over it,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18172 |
Labour economics
Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour. Labour is a commodity that supplied by labourers in exchange for a wage paid by demanding firms.
Labour markets or job markets function through the interaction of workers and employers. Labour economics ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18178 |
Lammas
Lammas Day (Anglo-Saxon "hlaf-mas", "loaf-mass"), also known as Loaf Mass Day, is a Christian holiday celebrated in some English-speaking countries in the Northern Hemisphere on 1 August. It is a festival to mark the annual wheat harvest, and is the first harvest festival of the year. The name originates from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18179 |
Longmeadow, Massachusetts
Longmeadow is a town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, in the United States. The population was 15,784 at the 2010 census.
Longmeadow was first settled in 1644, and officially incorporated October 17, 1783. The town was originally farmland within the limits of Springfield. It remained relati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18182 |
Body relative direction
Body relative directions (also known as egocentric coordinates) are geometrical orientations relative to a body such as a human person's.
The most common ones are: left and right; forward(s) and backward(s); up and down.
They form three pairs of orthogonal axes.
Since definitions of left and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18183 |
Lizard
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 6,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic as it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia; some lizards are more closely related to these two excluded groups than they... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18184 |
Book of Leviticus
The Book of Leviticus () is the third book of the Torah and of the Old Testament; scholars generally agree that it developed over a long period of time, reaching its present form during the Persian Period between 538-332 BC.
Most of its chapters (1–7, 11–27) consist of God's speeches to Moses, which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18187 |
L. Frank Baum
His works anticipated such century-later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers ("The Master Key"), wireless telephones ("Tik-Tok of Oz"), women in high-risk and action-heavy occupations ("Mary Louise in the Country"), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing ("Aunt Jane's Nie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18188 |
Lake Ladoga
Lake Ladoga ( or ; [earlier in Finnish "Nevajärvi"]; ; ) is a freshwater lake located in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia, in the vicinity of Saint Petersburg.
It is the largest lake located entirely in Europe, the second largest lake after Baikal in Russia, and the 14t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18189 |
Language family
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common "ancestral language" or "parental language", called the proto-language of that family. The term "family" reflects the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing lan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18190 |
Looe Island
Looe Island (, meaning "island of the monk's enclosure"), also known as St George's Island, and historically St Michael's Island is a small island a mile from the mainland town of Looe off Cornwall, England.
According to local legend, Joseph of Arimathea landed here with the Christ Child. Some scholars, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18194 |
LaTeX
LaTeX ( or ), stylized within the system as LaTeX, is a document preparation system. When writing, the writer uses plain text as opposed to the formatted text found in "What You See Is What You Get" word processors like Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer and Apple Pages. The writer uses markup tagging convention... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18195 |
Lebesgue measure
In measure theory, a branch of mathematics, the Lebesgue measure, named after French mathematician Henri Lebesgue, is the standard way of assigning a measure to subsets of "n"-dimensional Euclidean space. For "n" = 1, 2, or 3, it coincides with the standard measure of length, area, or volume. In gener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18198 |
Lake Champlain
Lake Champlain (; ; Abenaki: "Pitawbagok"; ) is a natural freshwater lake in North America mainly within the borders of the United States (in the states of Vermont and New York) but partially situated across the Canada–U.S. border, in the Canadian province of Quebec.
The New York portion of the Champla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18201 |
Lambda calculus
Lambda calculus (also written as λ-calculus) is a formal system in mathematical logic for expressing computation based on function abstraction and application using variable binding and substitution. It is a universal model of computation that can be used to simulate any Turing machine. It was introduc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18203 |
Lossy compression
In information technology, lossy compression or irreversible compression is the class of data encoding methods that uses inexact approximations and partial data discarding to represent the content. These techniques are used to reduce data size for storing, handling, and transmitting content. The diff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18208 |
Lossless compression
Lossless compression is a class of data compression algorithms that allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data. By contrast, lossy compression permits reconstruction only of an approximation of the original data, though usually with greatly improved compression... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18209 |
Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven (; born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer. His best-known works are "Ringworld" (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards, and, with Jerry Pournelle, "The Mote in God's Eye" (1974) and "Lucifer's Hammer" (1977). The Science Fiction and Fantasy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18210 |
Linux distribution
A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that is based upon the Linux kernel and, often, a package management system. Linux users usually obtain their operating system by downloading one of the Linux distributions, which are available ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18212 |
Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Established in 1883 in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the team relocated to Los... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18213 |
Louis Andriessen
Louis Andriessen (; born 6 June 1939) is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He is a lecturer at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He was recipient of the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1959.
Andriessen was born in Utrecht into a musical family, the son of the composer Hen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18214 |
Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is an American indigenous rights activist and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and also of Lakota and Dakota descent. After being extradited from Canada through a witness statement, he was convicted in a controversial 1977 trial and sentenced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18217 |
LambdaMOO
LambdaMOO is an online community of the variety called a MOO. It is the oldest MOO today.
"LambdaMOO" was founded in late 1990 or early 1991 by Pavel Curtis at Xerox PARC. Now hosted in the state of Washington, it is operated and administered entirely on a volunteer basis. Guests are allowed, and membership... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18221 |
Lorica segmentata
The lorica segmentata () is a type of personal armour that was used by soldiers of the Roman Empire, consisting of metal strips ("girth hoops" fashioned into circular bands), fastened to internal leather straps. The Latin name translates to "segmented cuirass" and was first used in the 16th century; ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18223 |
Known Space
Known Space is the fictional setting of about a dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by Larry Niven. It has also become a shared universe in the spin-off "Man-Kzin Wars" anthologies. ISFDB catalogs all works set in the fictional universe that includes Known Space un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18224 |
La Jetée
La Jetée () is a 1962 French science fiction featurette directed by Chris Marker and associated with the Left Bank artistic movement. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. It is 28 minutes long and shot in black and white.
It won t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18230 |
Little penguin
The little penguin ("Eudyptula minor") is the smallest species of penguin. It grows to an average of in height and in length, though specific measurements vary by subspecies. It is found on the coastlines of southern Australia and New Zealand, with possible records from Chile. In Australia, they are oft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18232 |
Lake Balaton
Lake Balaton (Hungarian IPA , , , , ) is a freshwater lake in the Transdanubian region of Hungary. It is the largest lake in Central Europe, and one of the region's foremost tourist destinations. The Zala River provides the largest inflow of water to the lake, and the canalised Sió is the only outflow.
T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18233 |
Libro de los juegos
The Libro de los Juegos ("Book of games"), or Libro de axedrez, dados e tablas ("Book of chess, dice and tables", in Old Spanish), was commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile, Galicia and León and completed in his scriptorium in Toledo in 1283, is an exemplary piece of Alfonso's medieval literary lega... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18234 |
Lithium citrate
Lithium citrate (Li3C6H5O7) is a chemical compound of lithium and citrate that is used as a mood stabilizer in psychiatric treatment of manic states and bipolar disorder. There is extensive pharmacology of lithium, the active component of this salt.
Lithia water contains various lithium salts, includi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18236 |
Lithium carbonate
Lithium carbonate is an inorganic compound, the lithium salt of carbonate with the formula . This white salt is widely used in the processing of metal oxides and treatment of mood disorders.
For the treatment of bipolar disorder, it is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18237 |
Lunar Roving Vehicle
The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15, 16, and 17) during 1971 and 1972. They are popularly known as "Moon buggies", a play on the words "dune buggy".
Built by Boeing, each LRV weighs (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18238 |
Labyrinth
In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (, ) was an elaborate, confusing structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur, the monster eventually killed by the hero Theseus. Daedalus had so cunningly made the Labyrinth that h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18245 |
Lyon & Healy
Lyon & Healy Harps, Inc. is an American musical instrument manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois and is a subsidiary of Salvi Harps. Today best known for concert harps, the company's Chicago headquarters and manufacturing facility contains a showroom and concert hall. George W. Lyon and Patrick J. Healy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18246 |
Lamborghini
Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. () is an Italian brand and manufacturer of luxury sports cars and SUVs based in Sant'Agata Bolognese. The company is owned by the Volkswagen Group through its subsidiary Audi.
Ferruccio Lamborghini, an Italian manufacturing magnate, founded Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini S.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18271 |
Lotus 1-2-3
Lotus 1-2-3 is a discontinued spreadsheet program from Lotus Software (later part of IBM). It was the IBM PC's first killer application, was hugely popular in the 1980s and contributed significantly to the success of the IBM PC.
The first spreadsheet, VisiCalc, had helped launch the Apple II as one of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18273 |
Light pollution
Light pollution is the presence of anthropogenic and artificial light in the night environment. It is exacerbated by excessive, misdirected or obtrusive use of light, but even carefully used light fundamentally alters natural conditions. As a major side-effect of urbanization, it is blamed for compromi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18279 |
Lagrangian point
In celestial mechanics, the Lagrangian points ( also Lagrange points, L-points, or libration points) are the points near two large bodies in orbit where a smaller object will maintain its position relative to the large orbiting bodies. At other locations, a small object would go into its own orbit aro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18285 |
Lucid dream
A lucid dream is a dream during which the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming. During a lucid dream, the dreamer may gain some amount of control over the dream characters, narrative, and environment; however, this is not actually necessary for a dream to be described as lucid. Lucid dreaming has been s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18286 |
Light-emitting diode
A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor light source that emits light when current flows through it. Electrons in the semiconductor recombine with electron holes, releasing energy in the form of photons. The color of the light (corresponding to the energy of the photons) is determined by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18290 |
Lev Kuleshov
Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov (; – 29 March 1970) was a Russian and Soviet filmmaker and film theorist, one of the founders of the world's first film school, the Moscow Film School. He was given the title People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1969. He was intimately involved in development of the style of film mak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18292 |
Legacy system
In computing, a legacy system is an old method, technology, computer system, or application program, "of, relating to, or being a previous or outdated computer system," yet still in use. Often referencing a system as "legacy" means that it paved the way for the standards that would follow it. This can al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18295 |
Lunar eclipse
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are exactly or very closely aligned (in syzygy), with Earth between the other two. A lunar eclipse can occur only on the night of a full moon. The type and length of a lunar eclipse depen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18298 |
Latin alphabet
The Latin or Roman alphabet is the writing system originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.
The term "Latin alphabet" may refer to either the alphabet used to write Latin (as described in this article) or other alphabets based on the Latin script, which is the basic set of lett... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18306 |
Lugh
Lugh or Lug (Old ; Modern Irish: "Lú" ) is one of the most prominent gods in Irish mythology. A member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, Lugh is portrayed as a warrior, a king, a master craftsman and a savior. He is associated with skill and mastery in multiple disciplines, including the arts. He is also associated with o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18307 |
Lanthanide
The lanthanide () or lanthanoid () series of chemical elements comprises the 15 metallic chemical elements with atomic numbers 57–71, from lanthanum through lutetium. These elements, along with the chemically similar elements scandium and yttrium, are often collectively known as the rare earth elements.
Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18308 |
Henry I of England
Henry I (c. 1068 – 1 December 1135), also known as Henry Beauclerc, was King of England from 1100 to his death in 1135. He was the fourth son of William the Conqueror and was educated in Latin and the liberal arts. On William's death in 1087, Henry's elder brothers Robert Curthose and William Rufus ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14179 |
Hentai
Outside of Japan, hentai ( or ; "" ; "pervert") is anime and manga pornography. In Japanese, however, "hentai" is not a genre of media but any type of perverse or bizarre sexual desire or act. For example, outside of Japan a work of animation depicting lesbian sex might be described as "yuri hentai", but in Jap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14183 |
Henry VII of England
Henry VII (; 28 January 1457 – 21 April 1509) was the King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizure of the crown on 22 August 1485 to his death. He was the first monarch of the House of Tudor.
Henry attained the throne when his forces defeated King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Fie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14186 |
Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and, in particular, his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disagreement with Pope Clement VII on the question of suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14187 |
Haryana
Haryana () is one of the 28 states in India, located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 November 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 22nd in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land area. Chandigarh is the state capital, Faridabad in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14189 |
Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh (; "snow-laden province") is a state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the eleven mountain states and is characterized by an extreme landscape featuring several peaks and extensive river systems. Himachal Pradesh shares borders with the Sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14190 |
History of medicine
The history of medicine shows how societies have changed in their approach to illness and disease from ancient times to the present. Early medical traditions include those of Babylon, China, Egypt and India. Sushruta, from India, introduced the concepts of medical diagnosis and prognosis. The Hippo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14194 |
Hanover
Hanover (; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,061 (2017) inhabitants make it the thirteenth-largest city in Germany as well as the third-largest city in Northern Germany after Hamburg and Bremen. The city lies at the confluence of the River Leine (progression: ) an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14197 |
Handheld game console
A handheld game console, or simply handheld console, is a small, portable self-contained video game console with a built-in screen, game controls and speakers. Handheld game consoles are smaller than home video game consoles and contain the console, screen, speakers, and controls in one unit, all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14199 |
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare
Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, (16 April 181525 February 1895) was a British Liberal Party politician, who served in government most notably as Home Secretary (1868–1873) and as Lord President of the Council.
Henry Bruce was born at Duffryn, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, the son o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14201 |
Halophile
Halophiles, named after the Greek word for "salt-loving", are extremophiles that thrive in high salt concentrations. While most halophiles are classified into the "Archaea" domain, there are also bacterial halophiles and some eukaryotic species, such as the alga "Dunaliella salina" and fungus "Wallemia ichth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14204 |
Herbert A. Simon
Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American economist, political scientist and cognitive psychologist, whose primary research interest was decision-making within organizations and is best known for the theories of "bounded rationality" and "satisficing". He received the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14205 |
Hematite
Hematite, also spelled as haematite, is a common iron oxide with a formula of Fe2O3 and is widespread in rocks and soils. Hematite forms in the shape of crystals through the rhombohedral lattice system, and it has the same crystal structure as ilmenite and corundum. Hematite and ilmenite form a complete solid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14207 |
Holocene extinction
The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction, is an ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch (with the more recent time sometimes called Anthropocene) as a result of human activity. The included extinctions span ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14208 |
Harrison Narcotics Tax Act
The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (Ch. 1, ) was a United States federal law that regulated and taxed the production, importation, and distribution of opiates and coca products. The act was proposed by Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York and was approved on December 17, 1914.
"An... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14210 |
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