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Geography of Albania
Albania is a small country in Southern and Southeastern Europe strategically positioned on the Adriatic and Ionian Sea inside the Mediterranean Sea, with a coastline of about . It is bounded by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, North Macedonia to the east and Greece to the sout... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12691 |
Group representation
In the mathematical field of representation theory, group representations describe abstract groups in terms of bijective linear transformations (i.e. automorphisms) of vector spaces; in particular, they can be used to represent group elements as invertible matrices so that the group operation can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12695 |
GRE Physics Test
The GRE physics test is an examination administered by the Educational Testing Service (ETS). The test attempts to determine the extent of the examinees' understanding of fundamental principles of physics and their ability to apply them to problem solving. Many graduate schools require applicants to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12696 |
Gardnerian Wicca
Gardnerian Wicca, or Gardnerian witchcraft, is a
tradition in the neopagan religion of Wicca, whose members can trace initiatory descent from Gerald Gardner. The tradition is itself named after Gardner (1884–1964), a British civil servant and amateur scholar of magic. The term "Gardnerian" was proba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12697 |
Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, reckoned from midnight. At different times in the past, it has been calculated in different ways, including being calculated from noon; as a consequence, it cannot be used to specify a precise time unles... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12701 |
GIF
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF or ) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite on June 15, 1987. It has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability between... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12702 |
Greg Egan
Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction writer and amateur mathematician, best known for his works of hard science fiction. Egan has won multiple awards including the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Hugo Award, and the Locus Award.
Egan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12706 |
Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes (; 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who was involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was born and educated in York; his father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12707 |
Goodtimes virus
The Goodtimes Virus was a computer virus hoax that spread during the early years of the Internet's popularity. Warnings about a computer virus named "Good Times" began being passed around among Internet users in 1994. The Goodtimes virus was supposedly transmitted via an email bearing the subject heade... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12709 |
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American man of letters. Perhaps best known as a poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), he is also an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist with anarchoprimitivist leanings. He has been described as the "poet laureat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12710 |
Giant panda
The giant panda ("Ailuropoda melanoleuca"; ), also known as the panda bear or simply the panda, is a bear native to south central China. It is characterised by large, black patches around its eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. The name "giant panda" is sometimes used to distinguish it from the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12713 |
Glissando
In music, a glissando (; plural: "glissandi", abbreviated "gliss.") is a glide from one pitch to another (). It is an Italianized musical term derived from the French "glisser", "to glide". In some contexts, it is distinguished from the continuous portamento. Some colloquial equivalents are slide, sweep (ref... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12716 |
Giraffe
The giraffe ("Giraffa") is an African artiodactyl mammal, the tallest living terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant. It is traditionally considered to be one species, "Giraffa camelopardalis", with nine subspecies. However, the existence of up to eight extant giraffe species has been described, based upon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12717 |
Gustave de Molinari
Gustave de Molinari (; 3 March 1819 – 28 January 1912) was a Belgian political economist and French Liberal School theorist associated with French "laissez-faire" economists such as Frédéric Bastiat and Hippolyte Castille.
Born in Liège, Wallonia, Molinari's critique of the state sometimes resulte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12719 |
Guerrilla warfare
Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which small groups of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility, to fight a larger and less-mobile tradition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12720 |
Original proof of Gödel's completeness theorem
The proof of Gödel's completeness theorem given by Kurt Gödel in his doctoral dissertation of 1929 (and a rewritten version of the dissertation, published as an article in 1930, titled "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems") is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12727 |
General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York City and headquartered in Boston. , the company operates through the following segments: aviation, healthcare, power, renewable energy, digital industry, additive manufacturing, venture capital and finance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12730 |
George Harrison
George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer, songwriter, and music and film producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12731 |
Giant planet
A giant planet is any planet much larger than Earth. They are usually primarily composed of low-boiling-point materials (gases or ices), rather than rock or other solid matter, but massive solid planets can also exist. There are four known giant planets in the Solar System: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Nep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12733 |
Goddess
A goddess is a female deity. Goddesses have been linked with virtues such as beauty, love, sexuality, motherhood and fertility (Mother-goddess cult in prehistoric times). They have also been associated with ideas such as war, creation, and death.
In some faiths, a sacred female figure holds a central place in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12734 |
Gunpowder
Gunpowder, also known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive. It consists of a mixture of sulfur (S), charcoal (C), and potassium nitrate (saltpeter, KNO3). The sulfur and charcoal act as fuels while the saltpeter is an oxidizer. Because of it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12737 |
Gary Kildall
Gary Arlen Kildall (; May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP/M operating system and founded Digital Research, Inc. (DRI). Kildall was one of the first people to see microprocessors as fully capable computers, rather than equipment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12740 |
Gesta Danorum
Gesta Danorum ("Deeds of the Danes") is a patriotic work of Danish history, by the 12th century author Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Literate", literally "the Grammarian"). It is the most ambitious literary undertaking of medieval Denmark and is an essential source for the nation's early history. It is als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12741 |
Garrison Keillor
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He is best known as the creator of the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show "A Prairie Home Companion" (called "Garrison Keillor's Radio Show" in some international syndi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12743 |
Generalization
A generalization is a form of abstraction whereby common properties of specific instances are formulated as general concepts or claims. Generalizations posit the existence of a domain or set of elements, as well as one or more common characteristics shared by those elements (thus creating a conceptual m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12746 |
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini ( , , ; 22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
Puccini's early work was rooted in traditional late-19th-century romantic Italian opera. Later, he s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12750 |
Gramophone (disambiguation)
Gramophone or phonograph is a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.
Gramophone may also refer to: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12753 |
George Cukor
George Dewey Cukor (; July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO when David O. Selznick, the studio's Head of Production, assigned Cukor to direct several of RKO's major films, including "What Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12754 |
Gas mask
A gas mask is a mask used to protect the wearer from inhaling airborne pollutants and toxic gases. The mask forms a sealed cover over the nose and mouth, but may also cover the eyes and other vulnerable soft tissues of the face. Most gas masks are also respirators, though the word "gas mask" is often used to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12772 |
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; born ; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) [(N.S.) 5 March] – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi and organ concertos. Handel ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12775 |
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( 1525 – 2 February 1594) was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a long-lasting influence on the development of church and secular music in Eu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12776 |
Group velocity
The group velocity of a wave is the velocity with which the overall envelope shape of the wave's amplitudes—known as the "modulation" or "envelope" of the wave—propagates through space.
For example, if a stone is thrown into the middle of a very still pond, a circular pattern of waves with a quiescent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12778 |
Group action
In mathematics, a group action on a space is a group homomorphism of a given group into the group of transformations of the space. Similarly, a group action on a mathematical structure is a group homomorphism of a group into the automorphism group of the structure. It is said that the group "acts" on the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12781 |
Gzip
gzip is a file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression. The program was created by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler as a free software replacement for the compress program used in early Unix systems, and intended for use by GNU (the "g" is from "GNU"). Version 0.1 was first pu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12783 |
General anaesthetic
General anaesthetics (or anesthetics, see spelling differences) are often defined as compounds that induce a loss of consciousness in humans or loss of righting reflex in animals. Clinical definitions are also extended to include an induced coma that causes lack of awareness to painful stimuli, suf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12786 |
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet and author. Widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, he is best known for "The Canterbury Tales". He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He was the first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12787 |
History of Asia
The history of Asia can be seen as the collective history of several distinct peripheral coastal regions such as East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East linked by the interior mass of the Eurasian steppe.
The coastal periphery was the home to some of the world's earliest known civili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14097 |
History of the Americas
The prehistory of the Americas (North, South, and Central America, and the Caribbean) begins with people migrating to these areas from Asia during the height of an Ice Age. These groups are generally believed to have been isolated from the people of the "Old World" until the coming of Europeans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14098 |
History of Africa
The history of Africa begins with the emergence of hominids, archaic humans and—at least 200,000 years ago—anatomically modern humans ("Homo sapiens"), in East Africa, and continues unbroken into the present as a patchwork of diverse and politically developing nation states.The earliest known recorde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14099 |
History of Oceania
The History of Oceania includes the history of Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and other Pacific island nations.
The prehistory of Oceania is divided into the prehistory of each of its major areas: Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Australasia, and these vary greatly as t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14104 |
Hanseatic League
The Hanseatic League (; , , ; ; ; ) was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northwestern and Central Europe. Growing from a few North German towns in the late 1100s, the league came to dominate Baltic maritime trade for three centuries along the coasts of No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14105 |
Horror fiction
Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks, or even frightens the rea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14109 |
Holomorphic function
In mathematics, a holomorphic function is a complex-valued function of one or more complex variables that is, at every point of its domain, complex differentiable in a neighborhood of the point. The existence of a complex derivative in a neighbourhood is a very strong condition, for it implies tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14110 |
History of Algeria
Much of the history of Algeria has taken place
on the fertile coastal plain of North Africa, which is often called the Maghreb (or Maghrib). North Africa served as a transit region for people moving towards Europe or the Middle East, thus, the region's inhabitants have been influenced by population... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14113 |
History of Zimbabwe
Following the Lancaster House Agreement of 1979 there was a transition to internationally recognized majority rule in 1980; the United Kingdom ceremonially granted Zimbabwe independence on 18 April that year. In the 2000s Zimbabwe's economy began to deteriorate due to various factors, including, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14114 |
History of Russia
The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. The traditional start-date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in 862 ruled by Vikings. Staraya Ladoga and Novgorod became the first major cities of the new union of immigrants from Scan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14115 |
History of Christianity
The history of Christianity concerns the Christian religion, Christendom, and the Church with its various denominations, from the 1st century to the present.
Christianity originated with the ministry of Jesus in the 1st century Roman province of Judea. According to the Gospels, Jesus was a Jew... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14117 |
Hertz
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second. It is named after Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, the first person to provide conclusive proof of the existence of electromagnetic waves. Hertz are commonly expressed in multiples: kil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14121 |
Höðr
Höðr ( ; often anglicized as Hod, Hoder, or Hodur) is a blind god and a son of Odin and Frigg in Norse mythology. Tricked and guided by Loki, he shot the mistletoe arrow which was to slay the otherwise invulnerable Baldr.
According to the "Prose Edda" and the "Poetic Edda", the goddess Frigg, Baldr's mother, mad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14127 |
Herat
Herāt (; Persian/Pashto: ) is the third-largest city of Afghanistan. It has a population of about 436,300, and serves as the capital of Herat Province, situated in the fertile valley of the Hari River in the western part of the country. It is linked with Kandahar, Kabul, and Mazar-i-Sharif via Highway 1 or the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14128 |
Hedeby
Hedeby (, Old Norse "Heiðabýr", German "Haithabu") was an important Danish Viking Age (8th to the 11th centuries) trading settlement near the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula, now in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the most important archaeological site in Schleswig-H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14130 |
Hazaras
The Hazaras (; ) are an ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Hazarajat in central Afghanistan. They speak the Hazaragi variant of Persian, one of the two official languages of Afghanistan.
They are the third-largest ethnic group in Afghanistan, also making up a significant minority group in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14131 |
Hawala
Hawala or hewala ( , meaning "transfer" or sometimes "trust"), also known as ' in Persian, and ' or in Somali, is a popular and informal value transfer system based not on the movement of cash, or on telegraph or computer network wire transfers between banks, but instead on the performance and honour of a huge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14132 |
Hydroponics
Hydroponics is a type of Horticulture and a subset of hydroculture, which is a method of growing plants without soil, by using mineral nutrient solutions in a water solvent. Terrestrial plants may be grown with only their roots exposed to the nutritious liquid, or the roots may be physically supported by a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14133 |
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell () ( September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer. Although it incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements, Purcell's was a uniquely English form of Baroque music. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest English composers; no later native-born English compo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14135 |
Hydrophobe
In chemistry, hydrophobicity is the physical property of a molecule that is seemingly repelled from a mass of water (known as a hydrophobe). (Strictly speaking, there is no repulsive force involved; it is an absence of attraction.) In contrast, hydrophiles are attracted to water.
Hydrophobic molecules tend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14136 |
Harley-Davidson
Harley-Davidson, Inc., H-D, or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1903 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depression, along with Indian. The company has survived numerous ownership arrangements, subsidiary arran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14142 |
Hiberno-English
Hiberno-English (from Latin "Hibernia": "Ireland") or Irish English (, ) is the set of English dialects natively written and spoken within the island of Ireland (including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland).
English was brought to Ireland as a result of the Norman invasion of Ireland o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14144 |
Harmonic analysis
Harmonic analysis is a branch of mathematics concerned with the representation of functions or signals as the superposition of basic waves, and the study of and generalization of the notions of Fourier series and Fourier transforms (i.e. an extended form of Fourier analysis). In the past two centurie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14147 |
Home run
In baseball, a home run (abbreviated HR) is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to circle the bases and reach home
safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team in the process. In modern baseball, the feat is typically achieved by hitting the ball ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14148 |
Harappa
Harappa (; Urdu/) is an archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, about west of Sahiwal. The site takes its name from a modern village located near the former course of the Ravi River which now runs to the north. The current village of Harappa is less than from the ancient site. Although modern Harappa has a le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14149 |
Hendecasyllable
In poetry, a hendecasyllable is a line of eleven syllables. The term "hendecasyllabic" is used to refer to two different poetic meters, the older of which is quantitative and used chiefly in classical (Ancient Greek and Latin) poetry and the newer of which is accentual and used in medieval and modern p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14153 |
Hebrides
The Hebrides (; , ; ) comprise a widespread and diverse archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland. There are two main groups: the Inner and Outer Hebrides.
These islands have a long history of occupation dating back to the Mesolithic, and the culture of the residents has been affected by the succes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14155 |
Hexameter
Hexameter is a metrical line of verses consisting of six feet. It was the standard epic metre in classical Greek and Latin literature, such as in the "Iliad", "Odyssey" and "Aeneid". Its use in other genres of composition include Horace's satires, Ovid's "Metamorphoses," and the Hymns of Orpheus. According t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14160 |
HIV
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of "Lentivirus" (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14170 |
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia ( "", ) is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent, in modern days roughly corresponding to most of Iraq, Kuwait, the eastern parts of Syria, Southeastern Turkey, and regions along the Turkish–Syrian and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20189 |
Miranda Richardson
Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an English actress. She made her film debut playing Ruth Ellis in "Dance with a Stranger" (1985) and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for "Damage" (1992) and "Tom & Viv" (1994). A seven-time BAFTA Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20192 |
Mecklenburg
Mecklenburg (, Low German: "Mękel(n)borg" ) is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The largest cities of the region are Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg, Wismar and Güstrow.
The name Mecklenburg derives from a castle ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20193 |
Management science
Management science (MS) is the broad interdisciplinary study of problem solving and decision making in human organizations, with strong links to management, economics, business, engineering, management consulting, and other fields. It uses various scientific research-based principles, strategies, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20200 |
Musical notation
Music notation or musical notation is any system used to visually represent aurally perceived music played with instruments or sung by the human voice through the use of written, printed, or otherwise-produced symbols, including notation for durations of absence of sound such as rests.
Types and meth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20201 |
Meir Kahane
Meir David HaKohen Kahane (; ; August 1, 1932 – November 5, 1990) was an Israeli-American ordained Orthodox rabbi, writer, and ultra-nationalist politician who served one term in Israel's Knesset. His legacy continues to influence militant and far-right political groups active today in Israel.
Kahane publ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20202 |
Manatee
Manatees (family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows. There are three accepted living species of Trichechidae, representing three of the four living species in the order Sirenia: the Amazonian manatee ("Trichechus inunguis"), t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20204 |
Marsupial
Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia. All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to these species is that most of the young are carried in a pouch. Well-known marsupials include kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, phalangerif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20205 |
Manchester
Manchester () is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. It is historically and traditionally a part of the county of Lancashire. It has a population of 547,627 as of 2018 (making it the fifth most populous English district). It lies within the United Kingdom's second-most populous u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20206 |
Margaret Murray
Margaret Alice Murray (13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963) was an Anglo-Indian Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist. The first woman to be appointed as a lecturer in archaeology in the United Kingdom, she worked at University College London (UCL) from 1898 to 1935. She se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20208 |
Aoraki / Mount Cook
Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height, as of 2014, is listed as . It lies in the Southern Alps, the mountain range which runs the length of the South Island. A popular tourist destination, it is also a favourite challenge for mountain climbers. Aoraki / Mount Cook c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20212 |
Multiple-image Network Graphics
Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) is a graphics file format, published in 2001, for animated images. Its specification is publicly documented and there are free software reference implementations available.
MNG is closely related to the PNG image format. When PNG development starte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20213 |
Mississippi John Hurt
John Smith Hurt (March 8, 1893 – November 2, 1966), better known as Mississippi John Hurt, was an American country blues singer and guitarist.
Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt taught himself to play the guitar around the age of nine. He worked as a sharecropper and began playing at dances and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20215 |
Moravia
Moravia ( , also , ; ; ; ; ) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia.
The medieval and early modern Margraviate of Moravia was a crown land of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown from 1348 to 1918, an imperial state of the Ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20216 |
Murray Rothbard
Murray Newton Rothbard (; March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American heterodox economist of the Austrian School, economic historian and political theorist. Rothbard was the founder and leading theoretician of anarcho-capitalism, a staunch advocate of historical revisionism and a central figure in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20217 |
Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American director, writer, actor, comedian, producer and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comedic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show "Your Show of Shows" (1950–54) alongside... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20218 |
Mycoplasma genitalium
Mycoplasma genitalium (MG, commonly known as Mgen), is a sexually transmitted, small and pathogenic bacterium that lives on the skin cells of the urinary and genital tracts in humans. Medical reports published in 2007 and 2015 state Mgen is becoming increasingly common. Resistance to multiple ant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20219 |
Mummy
A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions. Some authorities restrict the use of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20224 |
Melilla
Melilla ( , , ; ) is a Spanish autonomous city located on the northwest coast of Africa, sharing a border with Morocco. It has an area of . Melilla is one of two permanently inhabited Spanish cities in mainland Africa, the other being nearby Ceuta. It was part of the Province of Málaga until 14 March 1995, whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20226 |
Macaroni
Macaroni (, Italian: maccheroni) is dry pasta shaped like narrow tubes. Made with durum wheat, macaroni is commonly cut in short lengths; curved macaroni may be referred to as elbow macaroni. Some home machines can make macaroni shapes, but like most pasta, macaroni is usually made commercially by large-scale... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20229 |
Messenger RNA
Messenger RNA (mRNA) is a single-stranded RNA molecule that corresponds to the genetic sequence of a gene and is read by the ribosome in the process of producing a protein. mRNA is created during the process of transcription, where the enzyme RNA polymerase converts genes into primary transcript mRNA (al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20232 |
Mount Saint Vincent University
Mount Saint Vincent University, often referred to as The Mount, is a public primarily undergraduate university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and was established in 1873. Mount Saint Vincent offers undergraduate programs in Arts, Science, Education, and Professional Studies. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20237 |
Minimal pair
In phonology, minimal pairs are pairs of words or phrases in a particular language, spoken or signed, that differ in only one phonological element, such as a phoneme, toneme or chroneme, and have distinct meanings. They are used to demonstrate that two phones are two separate phonemes in the language.
Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20239 |
Miranda (moon)
Miranda, also designated Uranus V, is the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five round satellites. It was discovered by Gerard Kuiper on 16 February 1948 at McDonald Observatory in Texas, and named after Miranda from William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest". Like the other large moons of Uranus, Mirand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20254 |
Mars in fiction
Fictional representations of Mars have been popular for over a century. Interest in Mars has been stimulated by the planet's dramatic red color, by early scientific speculations that its surface conditions might be capable of supporting life, and by the possibility that Mars could be colonized by human... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20257 |
McIntosh (apple)
The McIntosh ( ), McIntosh Red, or colloquially the Mac is an apple cultivar, the national apple of Canada. The fruit has red and green skin, a tart flavour, and tender white flesh, which ripens in late September. In the 20th century it was the most popular cultivar in Eastern Canada and New England, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20258 |
Machete
A machete (; ) is a broad blade used either as an implement like an axe, or in combat like a short sword. The blade is typically long and usually under thick. In the Spanish language, the word is a diminutive form of the word "macho", which was used to refer to sledgehammers. In the English language, an equiva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20261 |
Mushroom
A mushroom or toadstool is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source.
The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, "Agaricus bisporus"; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi (B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20264 |
Mainframe computer
Mainframe computers or mainframes (colloquially referred to as "big iron") are computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications; bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, and enterprise resource planning; and transaction processing. They are lar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20266 |
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications. It has been a very widely applied spreadsheet for these platforms, especially since ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20268 |
Michael Hutchence
Michael Kelland John Hutchence (22 January 1960 – 22 November 1997) was an Australian musician, singer-songwriter and actor who co-founded the rock band INXS, which sold over 60 million records worldwide and was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2001. Hutchence was the lead singer and lyricist o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20269 |
Motorola 68000
The Motorola 68000 ("'sixty-eight-thousand'"; also called the m68k or Motorola 68k, ""sixty-eight-kay"") is a 16/32-bit CISC microprocessor, introduced in 1979 by Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector.
The design implements a 32-bit instruction set, with 32-bit registers and a 32-bit internal data bus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20270 |
Minicomputer
A minicomputer, or colloquially mini, is a class of smaller computers that was developed in the mid-1960s and sold for much less than mainframe and mid-size computers from IBM and its direct competitors. In a 1970 survey, "The New York Times" suggested a consensus definition of a minicomputer as a machine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20272 |
Mechanized infantry
Mechanized infantry (or mechanised infantry) are infantry units equipped with armored personnel carriers (APCs) or infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) for transport and combat (see also mechanized force).
Mechanized infantry is distinguished from motorized infantry in that its vehicles provide a deg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20282 |
Martin Fowler (software engineer)
Martin Fowler (born 1963) is a British software developer, author and international public speaker on software development, specialising in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, patterns, and agile software development methodologies, including extreme programming.
His 1999 book "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20286 |
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