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Lettres de cachet
Lettres de cachet (; ) were letters signed by the king of France, countersigned by one of his ministers, and closed with the royal seal, or "cachet". They contained orders directly from the king, often to enforce arbitrary actions and judgments that could not be appealed.
In the case of organized bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18089 |
Lisbon
Lisbon (; Portuguese: Lisboa; ) is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 505,526 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a population of around 2.8 million people, being the 10th-m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18091 |
Local Group
The Local Group is the galaxy group that includes the Milky Way.
It has a total diameter of roughly , and a total mass of the order of .
It consists of two clusters of galaxies in a "dumbbell" shape: the Milky Way and its satellites form one lobe, and the Andromeda Galaxy and its satellites constitute the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18093 |
Litre
The litre (British and Commonwealth spelling) or liter (American spelling) (SI symbols L and l, other symbol used: ℓ) is a non-SI unit of volume. It is equal to 1 cubic decimetre (dm3), 1000 cubic centimetres (cm3) or 0.001 cubic metre. A cubic decimetre (or litre) occupies a volume of (see figure) and is thus e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18094 |
Lavr Kornilov
Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov (, ; – 13 April 1918) was a Russian military intelligence officer, explorer, and general of Siberian Cossack origin in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and the ensuing Russian Civil War. He is today best remembered for the Kornilov Affair, an unsuccessful endeavor i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18096 |
Linear map
In mathematics, a linear map (also called a linear mapping, linear transformation or, in some contexts, linear function) is a mapping between two modules (for example, two vector spaces) that preserves (in the sense defined below) the operations of addition and scalar multiplication. If a linear map is a bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18102 |
Leyden jar
A Leyden jar (or Leiden jar) is an antique electrical component which stores a high-voltage electric charge (from an external source) between electrical conductors on the inside and outside of a glass jar. It typically consists of a glass jar with metal foil cemented to the inside and the outside surfaces, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18103 |
Lennon Wall
The Lennon Wall or John Lennon Wall is a wall in Prague, Czechia. Since the 1980s this once typical wall has been filled with John Lennon-inspired graffiti, lyrics from Beatles' songs, and designs relating to local and global causes.
Located in a small and secluded square across from the French Embassy, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18109 |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (; ; ), officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L.A., is the largest city in California. With an estimated population of nearly four million people, it is the second-most populous city in the United States (after New York City) and the third-most populous city in Nort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18110 |
Lepus (constellation)
Lepus (, ) is a constellation lying just south of the celestial equator. Its name is Latin for hare. It is located below—immediately south—of Orion (the hunter), and is sometimes represented as a hare being chased by Orion or by Orion's hunting dogs.
Although the hare does not represent any part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18111 |
Lupus (constellation)
Lupus is a constellation located in the deep Southern Sky. Its name is Latin for wolf. Lupus was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations, although it was previously an asterism associated with the neighboring co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18112 |
Lyra
Lyra (; Latin for lyre, from Greek "λύρα") is a small constellation. It is one of 48 listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and is one of the 88 constellations recognized by the International Astronomical Union. Lyra was often represented on star maps as a vulture or an eagle carrying a lyre, and hence is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18113 |
Legnica
Legnica (, , ) is a city in southwestern Poland, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the Kaczawa River (left tributary of the Oder) and the Czarna Woda. Between 1 June 1975 and 31 December 1998 Legnica was the capital of the Legnica Voivodeship. It is currently the seat of the county and since 1992 the ci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18115 |
Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club in Liverpool, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The club has won six European Cups, three UEFA Cups, four UEFA Super Cups, one FIFA Club World Cup, and has holds the English record of wins in each of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18119 |
Lysosome
A lysosome () is a membrane-bound organelle found in many animal cells. They are spherical vesicles that contain hydrolytic enzymes that can break down many kinds of biomolecules. A lysosome has a specific composition, of both its membrane proteins, and its lumenal proteins. The lumen's pH (~4.5–5.0) is optim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18120 |
Lisp machine
Lisp machines are general-purpose computers designed to efficiently run Lisp as their main software and programming language, usually via hardware support. They are an example of a high-level language computer architecture, and in a sense, they were the first commercial single-user workstations. Despite b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18123 |
Links (web browser)
Links is an open source text and graphic web browser with a pull-down menu system. It renders complex pages, has partial HTML 4.0 support (including tables and frames and support for multiple character sets such as UTF-8), supports color and monochrome terminals and allows horizontal scrolling.
It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18125 |
Learning object
A learning object is "a collection of content items, practice items, and assessment items that are combined based on a single learning objective". The term is credited to Wayne Hodgins, and dates from a working group in 1994 bearing the name. The concept encompassed by 'Learning Objects' is known by nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18126 |
Louisiana
Louisiana (, ) is a state in the Deep South region of the South Central United States. It is the 19th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is bordered by the state of Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18130 |
Los Angeles International Airport
Los Angeles International Airport , commonly referred to as LAX (with each of its letters pronounced individually), is the primary international airport serving Los Angeles and its surrounding metropolitan area.
LAX is located in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles, southwest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18131 |
La Tène culture
The La Tène culture (; ) was a European Iron Age culture.
It developed and flourished during the late Iron Age (from about 450 BCE to the Roman conquest in the 1st century BCE), succeeding the early Iron Age Hallstatt culture without any definite cultural break, under the impetus of considerable Medit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18133 |
Lorenz curve
In economics, the Lorenz curve is a graphical representation of the distribution of income or of wealth. It was developed by Max O. Lorenz in 1905 for representing inequality of the wealth distribution.
The curve is a graph showing the proportion of overall income or wealth assumed by the bottom "x"% of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18135 |
Literate programming
Literate programming is a programming paradigm introduced by Donald Knuth in which a computer program is given an explanation of its logic in a natural language, such as English, interspersed with snippets of macros and traditional source code, from which compilable source code can be generated. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18136 |
Logistic map
The logistic map is a polynomial mapping (equivalently, recurrence relation) of degree 2, often cited as an archetypal example of how complex, chaotic behaviour can arise from very simple non-linear dynamical equations. The map was popularized in a 1976 paper by the biologist Robert May, in part as a disc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18137 |
League of Nations mandate
A League of Nations mandate was a legal status for certain territories transferred from the control of one country to another following World War I, or the legal instruments that contained the internationally agreed-upon terms for administering the territory on behalf of the League of Nations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18139 |
Lincoln, New Hampshire
Lincoln is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. It is the second-largest town by area in New Hampshire. The population was 1,662 at the 2010 census. The town is home to the New Hampshire Highland Games and to a portion of Franconia Notch State Park. Set in the White Mountains,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18143 |
List of laser applications
Many scientific, military, medical and commercial laser applications have been developed since the invention of the laser in 1958. The coherency, high monochromaticity, and ability to reach extremely high powers are all properties which allow for these specialized applications.
In science, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18145 |
Laser construction
A laser is constructed from three principal parts:
The "pump source" is the part that provides energy to the laser system. Examples of pump sources include electrical discharges, flashlamps, arc lamps, light from another laser, chemical reactions and even explosive devices. The type of pump source... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18151 |
Logical conjunction
In logic, mathematics and linguistics, And (∧) is the truth-functional operator of logical conjunction; the "and" of a set of operands is true if and only if "all" of its operands are true. The logical connective that represents this operator is typically written as or .
formula_1 is true if and o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18152 |
Logical connective
In logic, a logical connective (also called a logical operator, sentential connective, or sentential operator) is a symbol or word used to connect two or more sentences (of either a formal or a natural language) in a grammatically valid way, such that the value of the compound sentence produced depe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18153 |
Propositional calculus
Propositional calculus is a branch of logic. It is also called propositional logic, statement logic, sentential calculus, sentential logic, or sometimes zeroth-order logic. It deals with propositions (which can be true or false) and argument flow. Compound propositions are formed by connecting p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18154 |
Lazy evaluation
In programming language theory, lazy evaluation, or call-by-need is an evaluation strategy which delays the evaluation of an expression until its value is needed (non-strict evaluation) and which also avoids repeated evaluations (sharing). The sharing can reduce the running time of certain functions by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18155 |
Lemuridae
Lemuridae is a family of strepsirrhine primates native to Madagascar and the Comoros Islands. They are represented by the Lemuriformes in Madagascar with one of the highest concentration of the lemurs. One of five families commonly known as lemurs. These animals were once thought to be the evolutionary prede... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18156 |
History of Egypt
The history of Egypt has been long and wealthy, due to the flow of the Nile River with its fertile banks and delta, as well as the accomplishments of Egypt's native inhabitants and outside influence. Much of Egypt's ancient history was a mystery until Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered with the disc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13588 |
House
A house is a single-unit residential building, which may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex, structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. Houses use a range of different roofing systems to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13590 |
Java applet
Java applets were small applications written in the Java programming language, or another programming language that compiles to Java bytecode, and delivered to users in the form of Java bytecode. The user launched the Java applet from a web page, and the applet was then executed within a Java virtual machi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13593 |
Heathrow Airport
Heathrow Airport, originally called London Airport (until 1966) and now known as London Heathrow , is a major international airport in London, United Kingdom. Heathrow is the second busiest airport in the world by international passenger traffic, as well as the busiest airport in Europe by passenger t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13595 |
Hipparchus
Hipparchus of Nicaea (; , "Hipparkhos"; ) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician. He is considered the founder of trigonometry but is most famous for his incidental discovery of precession of the equinoxes.
Hipparchus was born in Nicaea, Bithynia (now İznik, Turkey), and probably died on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13600 |
Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych Zwingli or Ulrich Zwingli (1 January 1484 – 11 October 1531) was a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland, born during a time of emerging Swiss patriotism and increasing criticism of the Swiss mercenary system. He attended the University of Vienna and the University of Basel, a scholarly ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13602 |
Homeschooling
Homeschooling, also known as home education, is the education of children at home or at a variety of places other than school. Home education is usually conducted by a parent, tutor, or an online teacher. Many families use less formal ways of educating. "Homeschooling" is the term commonly used in North ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13603 |
Heteroatom
In chemistry, a heteroatom (from Ancient Greek "heteros", "different", + "atomos", "uncut") is, strictly, any atom that is not carbon or hydrogen.
In practice, the term is usually used more specifically, to indicate that non-carbon atoms have replaced carbon in the backbone of the molecular structure. Typ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13605 |
Half-life
Half-life (symbol "t"1⁄2) is the time required for a quantity to reduce to half of its initial value. The term is commonly used in nuclear physics to describe how quickly unstable atoms undergo, or how long stable atoms survive, radioactive decay. The term is also used more generally to characterize any type... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13606 |
Humus
In soil science, humus (derived in 1790–1800 from the Latin "humus" for earth, ground) denominates the fraction of soil organic matter that is amorphous and without the "cellular cake structure characteristic of plants, micro-organisms or animals". Humus significantly affects the bulk density of soil and contrib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13607 |
Hydrogen bond
A hydrogen bond (often informally abbreviated H-bond) is a partial intermolecular bonding interaction between a lone pair on an electron rich donor atom, particularly the second-row elements nitrogen (N), oxygen (O), or fluorine (F), and the antibonding molecular orbital of a bond between hydrogen (H) an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13609 |
Heraldry
Heraldry () is a broad term, encompassing the design, display, and study of armorial bearings (known as "armory"), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank, and pedigree. Armory, the best-known branch of heraldry, concerns the design and transmission of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13610 |
Heretic (video game)
Heretic is a dark fantasy first-person shooter video game released in 1994. It was developed by Raven Software and published by id Software through GT Interactive. The game was released on Steam on August 3, 2007.
Using a modified version of the "Doom" engine, "Heretic" was one of the first first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13611 |
Hexen: Beyond Heretic
Hexen: Beyond Heretic is a dark fantasy first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software and published by id Software through GT Interactive Software on October 30, 1995. It is the sequel to 1994's "Heretic", and the second game in Raven Software's "Serpent Riders" trilogy, which culmi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13612 |
Hexen II
Hexen II is a dark fantasy first-person shooter (FPS) video game developed by Raven Software from 1996 to 1997, then published by id Software and distributed by Activision. It is the third game in the ""/"Heretic" series, and the last in the Serpent Riders trilogy. It was later made available on Steam on Augu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13613 |
Heretic II
Heretic II is a dark fantasy action-adventure game developed by Raven Software and published by Activision in 1998 continuing the story of Corvus, the main character from its predecessor, "Heretic". It is the fourth game in the "" series and comes after the "Serpent Rider" trilogy.
Using a modified Quake I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13614 |
Household hardware
Household hardware (or simply, hardware) is equipment that can be touched or held by hand such as keys, locks, nuts, screws, washers, hinges, latches, handles, wire, chains, belts, plumbing supplies, electrical supplies, tools, utensils, cutlery and machine parts. Household hardware is typically sol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13615 |
Howard Carter
Howard Carter (9 May 18742 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who became world-famous after discovering the intact tomb (designated KV62) of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun (colloquially known as "King Tut" and "the boy king"), in November 1922.
Howard Carter was born in Kens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13616 |
History of Scotland
The recorded begins with the arrival of the Roman Empire in the 1st century, when the province of Britannia reached as far north as the Antonine Wall. North of this was Caledonia, inhabited by the "Picti", whose uprisings forced Rome's legions back to Hadrian's Wall. As Rome finally withdrew from B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13617 |
Hadrian
Hadrian (; ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born Publius Aelius Hadrianus in Italica, Hispania Baetica, into a Roman Italo-Hispanic family that settled in Spain from the Italian city of Atri in Picenum. His father was of senatorial rank and was a first cousin of Emperor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13621 |
Herman Melville
Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are "Moby-Dick" (1851), "Typee" (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and "Billy Budd, Sailo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13623 |
High fidelity
High fidelity (often shortened to hi-fi or hifi) is a term used by listeners, audiophiles and home audio enthusiasts to refer to high-quality reproduction of sound. This is in contrast to the lower quality sound produced by inexpensive audio equipment, AM radio, or the inferior quality of sound reproduct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13624 |
Holden
Holden, formerly known as General Motors-Holden, is an Australian automobile marque and former automobile manufacturer, which manufactured cars in Australia before switching to importing cars under the Holden brand. It is headquartered in Port Melbourne.
The company was founded in 1856 as a saddlery manufactur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13625 |
Hank Greenberg
Henry Benjamin Greenberg (born Hyman Greenberg; January 1, 1911 – September 4, 1986), nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank", "Hankus Pankus", or "The Hebrew Hammer", was an American professional baseball player and team executive. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily for the Detroit Tigers as a firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13627 |
Heinrich Schliemann
Heinrich Schliemann (; 6 January 1822 – 26 December 1890) was a German businessman and a pioneer in the field of archaeology. He was an advocate of the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer and an archaeological excavator of Hisarlik, now presumed to be the site of Troy, along with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13628 |
Hypnos
In Greek mythology, Hypnos (; , "sleep") is the personification of sleep; the Roman equivalent is known as Somnus. His name is the origin of the word hypnosis.
Hypnos is the son of Nyx ("The Night") and Erebus ("The Darkness"). His brother is Thanatos ("Death"). Both siblings live in the underworld ("Hades") o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13629 |
Holy orders
In certain Christian churches, holy orders are ordained ministries such as bishop, priest, or deacon, and the sacrament or rite by which candidates are ordained to those orders. Churches recognizing these orders include the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox (ιερωσύνη ["hierōsynē"], ιεράτευμα ["hierateu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13631 |
Homer
Homer (; , "Hómēros") is the presumed author of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey", two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature. The "Iliad" is set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek kingdoms. It focuses on a quarrel between King Agamemnon a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13633 |
Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback (; born Hugo Gernsbacher, August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967) was a Luxembourgish-American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher, best known for publications including the first science fiction magazine. His contributions to the genre as publisher—although not as a writer—were s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13635 |
History of computing hardware
The history of computing hardware covers the developments from early simple devices to aid calculation to modern day computers. Before the 20th century, most calculations were done by humans. Early mechanical tools to help humans with digital calculations, like the abacus, were referred t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13636 |
Hausdorff space
In topology and related branches of mathematics, a Hausdorff space, separated space or T2 space is a topological space where for any two distinct points there exist neighbourhoods of each which are disjoint from each other. Of the many separation axioms that can be imposed on a topological space, the "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13637 |
Hawkwind
Hawkwind are an English rock band known as one of the earliest space rock groups. Since their formation in November 1969, Hawkwind have gone through many incarnations and have incorporated many different styles into their music, including hard rock, progressive rock and psychedelic rock. They are also regarde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13644 |
Horse
The horse ("Equus ferus caballus") is one of two extant subspecies of "Equus ferus". It is an odd-toed ungulate mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, "Eohippus", into the large, single-toed animal of today. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13645 |
Gerald Gardner (Wiccan)
Gerald Brosseau Gardner (1884–1964), also known by the craft name Scire, was an English Wiccan, as well as an author and an amateur anthropologist and archaeologist. He was instrumental in bringing the Contemporary Pagan religion of Wicca to public attention, writing some of its definitive reli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12789 |
Gavin MacLeod
Gavin MacLeod (born Allan George See; February 28, 1931) is an American film and television character actor, and Christian activist and author, whose career spans six decades. He has also appeared as a guest on several talk, variety, and religious programs.
MacLeod's career began in films in 1957, playi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12792 |
Gopher (protocol)
The Gopher protocol is a communications protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents in Internet Protocol networks. The design of the Gopher protocol and user interface is menu-driven, and presented an alternative to the World Wide Web in its early stages, but ultimately fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12794 |
Genotype
A genotype is an organism’s complete set of heritable genes, or genes that can be passed down from parents to offspring. These genes help encode the characteristics that are physically expressed (phenotype) in an organism, such as hair color, height, etc. The term was coined by the Danish botanist, plant phys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12796 |
Graphic design
Graphic design is the process of visual communication and problem-solving through the use of typography, photography, iconography and illustration. The field is considered a subset of visual communication and communication design, but sometimes the term "graphic design" is used synonymously. Graphic des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12799 |
Great Rift Valley
The Great Rift Valley is a series of contiguous geographic trenches, approximately in total length, that runs from the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon which is in Asia to Mozambique in Southeast Africa. While the name continues in some usages, it is rarely used in geology as it is considered an imprecise mer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12800 |
Grigori Rasputin
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (; ; – ) was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Emperor Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.
Rasputin was born to a peasant family in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12804 |
Gemstone
A gemstone (also called a gem, fine gem, jewel, precious stone, or semi-precious stone) is a piece of mineral crystal which, in cut and polished form, is used to make jewelry or other adornments. However, certain rocks (such as lapis lazuli and opal) and occasionally organic materials that are not minerals (s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12806 |
Gerard David
Gerard David (c. 1460 – 13 August 1523) was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color. Only a bare outline of his life survives, although some facts are known. He may have been the Meester gheraet van brugghe who became a master of the Antwerp guild in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12807 |
GSM
The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets. It was first deployed in Finland in Decemb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12808 |
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kimovich Kasparov (, ; born Garik Kimovich Weinstein, 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist, whom many consider to be the greatest chess player of all time. From 1986 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. 1 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12810 |
Flag of Greenland
The flag of Greenland was designed by Greenland native Thue Christiansen. It features two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red with a large disk slightly to the hoist side of centre. The top half of the disk is red, the bottom half is white. The top half of the flag bears a slight resemblanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12815 |
Gustav Radbruch
Gustav Radbruch (21 November 1878 – 23 November 1949) was a German legal scholar and politician. He served as Minister of Justice of Germany during the early Weimar period. Radbruch is also regarded as one of the most influential legal philosophers of the 20th century.
Born in Lübeck, Radbruch studied... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12816 |
Greek fire
Greek fire was an incendiary weapon used by the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire beginning . Used to set light to enemy ships, it consisted of a combustible compound emitted by a flame-throwing weapon. Greek fire was first used by the Romans besieged in Constantinople (673–78). Some historians believe it co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12822 |
Garbage in, garbage out
In computer science, garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) is the concept that flawed, or nonsense input data produces nonsense output or "garbage". In the UK the term sometimes used is rubbish in, rubbish out (RIRO).
The specific phrase is accredited by FOLDOC to the late Wilf Hey, who is also accre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12823 |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is a legal agreement between many countries, whose overall purpose was to promote international trade by reducing or eliminating trade barriers such as tariffs or quotas. According to its preamble, its purpose was the "substantial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12831 |
G protein-coupled receptor
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), also known as seven-(pass)-transmembrane domain receptors, 7TM receptors, heptahelical receptors, serpentine receptor, and G protein-linked receptors (GPLR), constitute a large protein family of receptors that detect molecules outside the cell and activat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12832 |
GTPase
GTPases are a large family of hydrolase enzymes that bind to the nucleotide guanosine triphosphate (GTP) and hydrolyze it to guanosine diphosphate (GDP). The GTP binding and hydrolysis takes place in the highly conserved G domain common to many GTPases.
GTPases function as molecular switches or timers in many ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12833 |
Galla Placidia
Galla Placidia (388-89 / 392-93 – 27 November 450), daughter of the Roman emperor Theodosius I, was regent to Valentinian III from 423 until his majority in 437, and a major force in Roman politics for most of her life. She was queen consort to Ataulf, king of the Visigoths from 414 until his death in 4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12835 |
Galicia (Spain)
Galicia (; , ; ) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law. Located in the northwest Iberian Peninsula, it includes the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra.
Galicia is bordered by Portugal to the south, the Spanish autonomous communities of Castile ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12837 |
G protein
G proteins, also known as guanine nucleotide-binding proteins, are a family of proteins that act as molecular switches inside cells, and are involved in transmitting signals from a variety of stimuli outside a cell to its interior. Their activity is regulated by factors that control their ability to bind to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12841 |
Gary Gygax
Ernest Gary Gygax ( ; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game "Dungeons & Dragons" ("D&D") with Dave Arneson.
In the 1960s, Gygax created an organization of wargaming clubs and founded the Gen Con gaming convention.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12848 |
Governor of New South Wales
The Governor of New South Wales is the viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, in the state of New South Wales. In an analogous way to the Governor-General of Australia at the national level, the Governors of the Australian states perform constitutional and c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12850 |
Governor of Victoria
The Governor of Victoria is the representative in the Australian state of Victoria of its monarch, Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia and is one of the Governors of the Australian states. The governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the Governor-G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12851 |
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (; 26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12855 |
Galvanization
Galvanization or galvanizing (also spelled galvanisation or galvanising) is the process of applying a protective zinc coating to steel or iron, to prevent rusting. The most common method is hot-dip galvanizing, in which the parts are submerged in a bath of molten hot zinc.
Galvanizing protects the under... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12858 |
Golden Rule
The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as you want to be treated. It is a maxim that is found in many religions and cultures. It can be considered an ethic of reciprocity in some religions, although different religions treat it differently.
The maxim may appear as a positive or negative injun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12859 |
Glasnevin
Glasnevin (, also known as "Glas Naedhe", meaning "stream of O'Naeidhe" after a local stream and an ancient chieftain) is a neighbourhood of Dublin, Ireland, situated on the River Tolka. While primarily residential, Glasnevin is also home to the National Botanic Gardens, national meteorological office and a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12862 |
George Abbot (author)
George Abbot or Abbott (1604 — 2 February 1649) was an English lay writer, known as "The Puritan", and a politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1649. He is known also for his part in defending Caldecote House against royalist forces in the early days of the Eng... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12863 |
Globular cluster
A globular cluster is a spherical collection of stars that orbits a galactic core. Globular clusters are very tightly bound by gravity, which gives them their spherical shapes, and relatively high stellar densities toward their centers. The name of this category of star cluster is derived from the Lat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12866 |
George Vancouver
Captain George Vancouver (22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a British officer of the Royal Navy best known for his 1791–95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what are now the American states of Alaska, Washington, and Oregon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12867 |
Great Vowel Shift
The Great Vowel Shift was a series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place primarily between 1400 and 1700, beginning in southern England and today having influenced effectively all dialects of English. Through this vowel shift, the pronunciation of all Middle English ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12872 |
Gilbert Arthur à Beckett
Gilbert Arthur à Beckett (1837 – October 15, 1891) was an English writer.
Beckett was born at Portland House Hammersmith, on 7 April 1837, the eldest son of the civil servant and humorist Gilbert Abbott à Beckett and the composer Mary Anne à Beckett, daughter of Joseph Glossop, clerk of the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12874 |
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, (28 January 178414 December 1860), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British statesman, diplomat and Scottish landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite politician and specialist in foreign affairs. He ser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12879 |
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