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North Korea
North Korea (Korean: , MR: "Chosŏn"; literally , MR: "Pukchosŏn", or /, RR: "Bukhan" in South Korean usage), officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK or DPR Korea; Korean: , "Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk"), is a country in East Asia constituting the northern part of the Korean Penins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21255 |
History of North Korea
The history of North Korea began at the end of World War II in 1945. The surrender of Japan led to the division of Korea at the 38th parallel, with the Soviet Union occupying the north, and the United States occupying the south. The Soviet Union and the United States failed to agree on a way to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21256 |
Geography of North Korea
North Korea is located in East Asia on the Northern half of the Korean Peninsula.
North Korea shares a border with three countries; China along the Amnok River, Russia along the Tumen River, and South Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The Yellow Sea and the Korea Bay are off th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21257 |
Demographics of North Korea
The demographics of North Korea are known through national censuses and international estimates. The Central Bureau of Statistics of North Korea conducted the most recent census in 2008, where the population reached 24 million inhabitants. The population density is 199.54 inhabitants per sq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21258 |
Politics of North Korea
The politics of North Korea (officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea or DPRK) takes place within the framework of the official state philosophy, "Juche", a concept created by Hwang Jang-yop and later attributed to Kim Il-sung. The "Juche" theory is the belief that only through self... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21259 |
Economy of North Korea
The economy of North Korea is a centrally planned system, where the role of market allocation schemes is limited, although increasing. , North Korea continues its basic adherence to a centralized command economy. There has been some economic liberalization, particularly after Kim Jong-un assumed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21260 |
Telecommunications in North Korea
Telecommunications in North Korea refers to the communication services available in North Korea. North Korea has not fully adopted mainstream Internet technology due to its isolationist policies.
North Korea has an adequate telephone system, with 1.18 million fixed lines available in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21261 |
Transport in North Korea
Transport in North Korea is constrained by economic problems and government restrictions. Public transport predominates, and most of it is electrified.
Travel to North Korea is tightly controlled. The standard route to and from North Korea is by plane or train via Beijing. Transport directly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21262 |
Korean People's Army
The Korean People's Army (KPA; , ) is the "de facto" military forces of North Korea and the armed wing of the Workers' Party of Korea. Under the "Songun" policy, it is the central institution of North Korean society. Kim Jong-un serves as Supreme Commander and the chairman of the Central Military ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21263 |
Foreign relations of North Korea
The foreign relations of North Korea – officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) – have been shaped by its conflict with capitalist countries like South Korea and its historical ties with world communism. Both the government of North Korea and the government of South ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21264 |
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ; Ulster-Scots: "") is variously described as a country, province or region which is part of the United Kingdom. Located in the northeast of the island of Ireland, Northern Ireland shares a border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland. In 2011, its population was 1,810,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21265 |
Nasreddin
Nasreddin or Nasreddin Hodja or Mullah Nasreddin Hooja () or Mullah Nasruddin was a Seljuq satirist, born in Hortu Village in Sivrihisar, Eskişehir Province, present-day Turkey and died in 13th century in Akşehir, near Konya, a capital of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, in today's Turkey. He is considered a pop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21269 |
Neutron
The neutron is a subatomic particle, symbol or , with no electric charge and a mass slightly greater than that of a proton. Protons and neutrons constitute the nuclei of atoms. Since protons and neutrons behave similarly within the nucleus, and each has a mass of approximately one atomic mass unit, they are bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21272 |
Neon
Neon is a chemical element with the symbol Ne and atomic number 10. It is a noble gas. Neon is a colorless, odorless, inert monatomic gas under standard conditions, with about two-thirds the density of air. It was discovered (along with krypton and xenon) in 1898 as one of the three residual rare inert elements r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21273 |
Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element with the symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel belongs to the transition metals and is hard and ductile. Pure nickel, powdered to maximize the reactive surface area, shows a significant chemical activity, but larger p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21274 |
Niobium
Niobium, also known as columbium, is a chemical element with the symbol Nb (formerly Cb) and atomic number 41. Niobium is a light grey, crystalline, and ductile transition metal. Pure niobium has a hardness similar to that of pure titanium, and it has similar ductility to iron. Niobium oxidizes in the earth's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21275 |
Neodymium
Neodymium is a chemical element with the symbol Nd and atomic number 60. Neodymium belongs to the lanthanide series and is a rare-earth element. It is a hard, slightly malleable silvery metal that quickly tarnishes in air and moisture. When oxidized, neodymium reacts quickly to produce pink, purple/blue and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21276 |
Neptunium
Neptunium is a chemical element with the symbol Np and atomic number 93. A radioactive actinide metal, neptunium is the first transuranic element. Its position in the periodic table just after uranium, named after the planet Uranus, led to it being named after Neptune, the next planet beyond Uranus. A neptun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21277 |
Nobelium
Nobelium is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol No and atomic number 102. It is named in honor of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and benefactor of science. A radioactive metal, it is the tenth transuranic element and is the penultimate member of the actinide series. Like all elements with ato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21278 |
Norwegian Sea
The Norwegian Sea () is a marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean, northwest of Norway between the North Sea and the Greenland Sea, adjoining the Barents Sea to the northeast. In the southwest, it is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a submarine ridge running between Iceland and the Faroe Islands. To the nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21281 |
Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze (; ; 18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of "Capitalism and Schizophrenia": "Anti-Oedipus" (1972) and "A Thousand Pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12557 |
Galaxy
A galaxy is a gravitationally bound system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter. The word galaxy is derived from the Greek "" (), literally "milky", a reference to the Milky Way. Galaxies range in size from dwarfs with just a few hundred million () stars to giants with one hundred... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12558 |
Gene Hackman
Eugene Allen Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and novelist. In a career that spanned more than six decades, Hackman won two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and two BAFTAs.
Nominated for five Academy Awards, Hackman won Best Actor for his role ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12561 |
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel (; ; 20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was a scientist, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno, Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was born in a German-speaking family in the Silesian part of the Austrian Empire (today's Czech Republic) and gained posthumous recognition as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12562 |
Grappling
Grappling, in hand-to-hand combat, is a sport that consists of gripping or seizing the opponent. Similarly to wrestling, grappling is used at close range to gain a physical advantage over an opponent such as imposing a position, or to cause injury to the opponent. Grappling covers techniques used in many dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12564 |
George Mason University
George Mason University (Mason, GMU, or George Mason) is a public research university located in Fairfax County near Fairfax City in Virginia. In 1956, the Commonwealth of Virginia authorized the establishment of a Northern Virginia branch of the University of Virginia and the institution that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12566 |
Grammar
In linguistics, grammar (from Ancient Greek ) is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases and words in a natural language. The term refers also to the study of such rules and this field includes phonology, morphology and syntax, often complemented by phonetics, semantics and pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12569 |
Gigabyte
The gigabyte () is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix "giga" means 109 in the International System of Units (SI). Therefore, one gigabyte is one billion bytes. The unit symbol for the gigabyte is GB.
This definition is used in all contexts of science, engineering, business, and m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12570 |
Galaxy groups and clusters
Galaxy groups and clusters are the largest known gravitationally bound objects to have arisen thus far in the process of cosmic structure formation. They form the densest part of the large-scale structure of the Universe. In models for the gravitational formation of structure with cold dark ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12571 |
Grus (constellation)
Grus (, or colloquially ) is a constellation in the southern sky. Its name is Latin for the crane, a type of bird. It is one of twelve constellations conceived by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman. Grus first appeared on a celestial globe pub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12572 |
Galba
Galba (; Servius Galba Caesar Augustus; ; 24 December 3 BC – 15 January AD 69) was Roman emperor from 68 to 69, the first emperor in the Year of the Four Emperors. He was known as Lucius Livius Galba Ocella prior to taking the throne as a result of his adoption by his stepmother, Livia Ocellina. The governor of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12576 |
George Stephenson
George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Renowned as the "Father of Railways", Stephenson was considered by the Victorians a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement. Self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12578 |
Glass
Glass is a non-crystalline, often transparent amorphous solid, that has widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optics. Glass is most often formed by rapid cooling (quenching) of the molten form; some glasses such as volcanic glass are naturally occur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12581 |
Gel electrophoresis
Gel electrophoresis is a method for separation and analysis of macromolecules (DNA, RNA and proteins) and their fragments, based on their size and charge. It is used in clinical chemistry to separate proteins by charge or size (IEF agarose, essentially size independent) and in biochemistry and mole... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12582 |
Gary Lineker
Gary Winston Lineker (; born 30 November 1960) is an English former professional footballer and current sports broadcaster. He is regarded as one of the greatest English strikers. Lineker's media career began with the BBC, where he has presented the flagship football programme "Match of the Day" since the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12583 |
Golgi apparatus
The Golgi apparatus, also known as the Golgi complex, Golgi body, or simply the Golgi, is an organelle found in most eukaryotic cells. Part of the endomembrane system in the cytoplasm, it packages proteins into membrane-bound vesicles inside the cell before the vesicles are sent to their destination. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12584 |
Grace Hopper
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper ( December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. She popularized the idea ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12590 |
GNU Manifesto
The GNU Manifesto is a call-to-action by Richard Stallman encouraging participation and support of the GNU Project's goal in developing the GNU free computer operating system. The GNU Manifesto was published in March 1985 in "Dr. Dobb's Journal of Software Tools". It is held in high regard within the fre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12592 |
Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced in a specific time period.
GDP (nominal) per capita does not, however, reflect differences in the cost of living and the inflation rates of the countries; therefore using a basis ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12594 |
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (; ; August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher and an important figure of German idealism. He achieved recognition in his day and—while primarily influential in the continental tradition of philosophy—has become increasingly influential in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12598 |
Grid network
A grid network is a computer network consisting of a number of computer systems connected in a grid topology.
In a regular grid topology, each node in the network is connected with two neighbors along one or more dimensions. If the network is one-dimensional, and the chain of nodes is connected to form a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12600 |
Governor-General of Australia
The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative of the Australian monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II. As the Queen is concurrently the monarch of 15 other Commonwealth realms, and resides in the United Kingdom, she, on the advice of her Australian prime mini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12601 |
Glasnost
In the Russian language the word glasnost (; , ) has several general and specific meanings. It has been used in Russian to mean "openness and transparency" since at least the end of the eighteenth century.
In the Russian Empire of the late-19th century, the term was particularly associated with reforms of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12607 |
Geodesy
Geodesy () is the Earth science of accurately measuring and understanding Earth's geometric shape, orientation in space and gravitational field. The field also incorporates studies of how these properties change over time and equivalent measurements for other planets (known as planetary geodesy). Geodynamical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12608 |
Eurogame
A Eurogame, also called a German-style board game, German game, or Euro-style game, is a class of tabletop games that generally has indirect player interaction and abstract physical components. Eurogames are sometimes contrasted with American-style board games, which generally involve more luck, conflict, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12609 |
Grand Unified Theory
A Grand Unified Theory (GUT) is a model in particle physics in which, at high energies, the three gauge interactions of the Standard Model that define the electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions, or forces, are merged into a single force. Although this unified force has not been directly ob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12610 |
GTE
GTE Corporation, formerly General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (1955–1982), was the largest independent telephone company in the United States during the days of the Bell System. The company operated from 1926, with roots tracing further back than that, until 2000, when it was acquired by Bell Atlantic; the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12611 |
General aviation
General aviation (GA) represents all civil aviation "aircraft operation other than a commercial air transport or an aerial work operation".
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) defines civil aviation aircraft operations in three categories: General Aviation (GA), Aerial Work (AW) and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12612 |
Gracchi
The Gracchi brothers, Tiberius and Gaius, were Romans who both served as tribunes of the plebs between 133 and 121 BC. They attempted to redistribute the occupation of the "ager publicus"—the public land hitherto controlled principally by aristocrats—to the urban poor and veterans, in addition to other social ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12615 |
Gossip
Gossip is a mass medium or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others; the act is also known as dishing or tattling.
Gossip has been researched in terms of its origins in evolutionary psychology, which has found gossip to be an important means for people to monitor cooperative reputation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12616 |
Gothic fiction
Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance. Its origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel "The Castle of Otranto", subtitled (in its seco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12622 |
Gospel
Gospel originally meant the Christian message, but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out; in this sense it includes both the four canonical gospels and various apocryphal gospels dating from the 2nd century and later.
The four canonical gospels of Matthew, M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12627 |
GIMP
GIMP ( ; GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks.
GIMP is released under GPLv3+ licenses and is available for Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12628 |
Global illumination
Global illumination (shortened as GI), or indirect illumination, is a group of algorithms used in 3D computer graphics that are meant to add more realistic lighting to 3D scenes. Such algorithms take into account not only the light that comes directly from a light source ("direct illumination"), bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12629 |
Geometric series
In mathematics, a geometric series is a series with a constant ratio between successive terms. For example, the series
is geometric, because each successive term can be obtained by multiplying the previous term by 1/2.
Geometric series are among the simplest examples of infinite series with finite s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12630 |
List of islands of Greece
Greece has many islands, with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200 to 6,000, depending on the minimum size to take into account. The number of inhabited islands is variously cited as between 166 and 227.
The largest Greek island by area is Crete, located at the southern edge of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12634 |
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (, also , ; also Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was, also and even more prominently, the leading sculptor of his age, credited with creating the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12635 |
German literature
German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol in Italy and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12636 |
Galilee
Galilee (, "HaGalil"; ) is a region mainly located in northern Israel. The term "Galilee" traditionally refers to the mountainous part, divided into Upper Galilee () and Lower Galilee ().
In modern, common usage, as well at different times in history, "Galilee" referred and refers to all of the area that is n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12639 |
Goths
The Goths (; ) were a Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of Medieval Europe. They were first definitely reported by Graeco-Roman authors in the 3rd century AD, living north of the Danube in what is now Ukraine, Moldova and Romania. Later, many moved ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12641 |
Glycolysis
Glycolysis (from "glycose", an older term for glucose + "-lysis" degradation) is the metabolic pathway that converts glucose C6H12O6, into pyruvate, CH3COCOO− (pyruvic acid), and a hydrogen ion, H+. The free energy released in this process is used to form the high-energy molecules ATP (adenosine triphosphat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12644 |
Guernica
Guernica (, ), official name (reflecting the Basque language) Gernika (), is a town in the province of Biscay, in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain. The town of Guernica is one part (along with neighbouring Lumo) of the municipality of Gernika-Lumo (, whose population is 16,224 .
Gernika ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12646 |
Gerrit Rietveld
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (; 24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect. One of the principal members of the Dutch artistic movement called De Stijl, Rietveld is famous for his Red and Blue Chair and for the Rietveld Schröder House, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12648 |
Gary, Indiana
Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States, from downtown Chicago, Illinois. Gary is adjacent to the Indiana Dunes National Park and borders southern Lake Michigan. Gary was named after lawyer Elbert Henry Gary, who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation. The city is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12650 |
Gregory the Illuminator
Gregory the Illuminator (classical ; "Grigor Lusavorich") ( – ) is the patron saint and first official head of the Armenian Apostolic Church. He was a religious leader who is credited with converting Armenia from paganism to Christianity in 301. Armenia thus became the first nation to adopt Chr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12651 |
God Emperor of Dune
God Emperor of Dune is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert published in 1981, the fourth in his "Dune" series of six novels. It was ranked as the No. 11 hardcover fiction best seller of 1981 by "Publishers Weekly".
Leto II Atreides, the God Emperor, has ruled the universe as a tyrant for 3,50... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12653 |
Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station
Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station is a large radiocommunication site located on Goonhilly Downs near Helston on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, England. Owned by Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd under a 999-year lease from BT Group plc, it was at one time the largest satellite earth stat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12654 |
Godwin's law
Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule of Hitler analogies) is an Internet adage asserting that "as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1". That is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12656 |
General-purpose machine gun
A general-purpose machine gun (GPMG) is an air-cooled, fully automatic weapon that can be adapted to light machine gun and medium machine gun roles. A GPMG weapon will typically feature a quick-change barrel, configuration for mounting on bipods, tripods, and vehicles as infantry support we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12664 |
Gdynia
Gdynia ( , ; ; , 1939-1945 "Gotenhafen") is a city in northern Poland. Located on Gdańsk Bay on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, it is the second largest city in Pomeranian Voivodeship after Gdańsk and a major seaport. Gdynia has a population of c. 246,000, which makes it the twelfth-largest city in Poland... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12665 |
Gluon
A gluon () is an elementary particle that acts as the exchange particle (or gauge boson) for the strong force between quarks. It is analogous to the exchange of photons in the electromagnetic force between two charged particles. In layman's terms, they "glue" quarks together, forming hadrons such as protons and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12666 |
Foreign relations of Lithuania
Lithuania is a country on the south-eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, a member of the United Nations Organisation, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the World Trade Organisation. Currently, Lithuania mainta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17828 |
History of Luxembourg
The history of Luxembourg consists of the history of the country of Luxembourg and its geographical area.
Although its recorded history can be traced back to Roman times, the history of Luxembourg proper is considered to begin in 963. Over the following five centuries, the powerful House of Luxe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17830 |
Geography of Luxembourg
Luxembourg is a small country located in the Low Countries, part of North-West Europe It borders Belgium for to the west and north, France () to the south, and Germany () to the east. Luxembourg is landlocked, separated from the North Sea by Belgium.
The topography of the country is divided ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17831 |
Demographics of Luxembourg
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Luxembourg, including population density, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
The following is an overview of the demographics of Luxembourg.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17832 |
Politics of Luxembourg
The politics of Luxembourg takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic monarchy, whereby the Prime Minister of Luxembourg is the head of government, and the multi-party system. Executive power is under the constitution of 1868, as amended, exercised by the government,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17833 |
Economy of Luxembourg
The economy of Luxembourg is largely dependent on the banking, steel, and industrial sectors. Luxembourgers enjoy the highest per capita gross domestic product in the world (CIA 2018 est.). Luxembourg is seen as a diversified industrialized nation, contrasting the oil boom in Qatar, the major mon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17834 |
Transport in Luxembourg
Transport in Luxembourg is ensured principally by road, rail and air. There are also services along the River Moselle which forms the border with Germany. The road network has been significantly modernised in recent years with motorways to adjacent countries. The advent of the high-speed TGV li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17836 |
Luxembourg Army
The Luxembourg Army is the national military force of Luxembourg. The army has been a fully volunteer military since 1967. As of December 2018, it has 414 personnel.
The army is under civilian control, with the Grand Duke as Commander-in-Chief. The Minister for Defence, currently François Bausch, over... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17837 |
London Underground
The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.
The Underground has its origins in the Metropolitan ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17839 |
Large technical system
A large technical system (LTS) is a system or network of enormous proportions or complexity. The study of LTSs is a subdiscipline of history of science and technology.
The book "Rescuing Prometheus" by Thomas P. Hughes documents the development of four such systems, including the Boston central... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17841 |
Lund University
Lund University () is a university in Sweden and one of northern Europe’s oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the province of Scania, Sweden. It arguably traces its roots back to 1425, when a Franciscan studium generale was founded in Lund next to the Lund Cathedral. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17843 |
Lord Peter Wimsey
Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh). A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective. Lord Pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17844 |
Letter (message)
A letter is a written message conveyed from one person to another person through a medium. Letters can be formal and informal. Besides a means of communication and a store of information, letter writing has played a role in the reproduction of writing as an art throughout history. Letters have been se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17845 |
Lesbian
A lesbian is a homosexual woman. The word "lesbian" is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with female homosexuality or same-sex attraction.
The concept of "lesbian" to differentiat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17846 |
Lamiaceae
The Lamiaceae ( )
or Labiatae are a family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint or deadnettle or sage family. Many of the plants are aromatic in all parts and include widely used culinary herbs like basil, mentha, rosemary, sage, savory, marjoram, oregano, hyssop, thyme, lavender, and perilla. Some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17856 |
Wide shot
In photography, filmmaking and video production, a wide shot (sometimes referred to as a full shot or long shot) typically shows the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surroundings. These are typically shot now using wide-angle lenses (an approximately 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17859 |
Logarithm
In mathematics, the logarithm is the inverse function to exponentiation. That means the logarithm of a given number is the exponent to which another fixed number, the "base" , must be raised, to produce that number . In the simplest case, the logarithm counts the number of occurrences of the same factor in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17860 |
L. Ron Hubbard
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy stories who founded the Church of Scientology. In 1950, Hubbard authored "" and established a series of organizations to promote Dianetics. In 1952, Hubbard lost the rights to Dianetics in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17862 |
Luddite
The Luddites were a secret oath-based organization of English textile workers in the 19th century, a radical faction which destroyed textile machinery as a form of protest. The group was protesting against manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17864 |
Anarcho-communism
Anarcho-communism, also referred to as anarchist communism, communist anarchism, free communism, libertarian communism and stateless communism, is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought which advocates the abolition of the state, capitalism, wage labour and private property (while ret... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17865 |
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in the south-east of England, at the head of its estuary leading to the North Sea, London has been a major settlement for two millennia. "Londinium" was founded by the Romans. The City of London, London's anci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17867 |
Lagâri Hasan Çelebi
Lagâri Hasan Çelebi was an Ottoman aviator who, according to the account written by traveller Evliya Çelebi, made a successful manned rocket flight.
Evliya Çelebi reported that in 1633, Lagari Hasan Çelebi launched in a 7-winged rocket using 50 okka (140 lbs) of gunpowder from Sarayburnu, the poin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17869 |
Letterboxing (filming)
Letterboxing is the practice of transferring film shot in a widescreen aspect ratio to standard-width video formats while preserving the film's original aspect ratio. The resulting videographic image has mattes (black bars) above and below it; these mattes are part of the image (i.e., of each fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17871 |
Ligament
A ligament is the fibrous connective tissue that connects bones to other bones. It is also known as "articular ligament", "articular larua", "fibrous ligament", or "true ligament". Other ligaments in the body include the:
Ligaments are similar to tendons as they are all made of connective tissue. The differe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17874 |
Loch Ness Monster
The Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie (), is a cryptid in cryptozoology and Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is often described as large, long-necked, and with one or more humps protruding from the water. Popular interest and belief in the creature have var... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17877 |
Laser science
Laser science or laser physics is a branch of optics that describes the theory and practice of lasers.
Laser science is principally concerned with quantum electronics, laser construction, optical cavity design, the physics of producing a population inversion in laser media, and the temporal evolution o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17878 |
Lincoln, England
Lincoln () is a cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire in the East Midlands of England. The non-metropolitan district of Lincoln had a 2012 population of 94,600. The 2011 census gave the urban area of Lincoln, which includes North Hykeham and Waddington, a population of 130,200. Roman "Lindum ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17880 |
Luftwaffe
The Luftwaffe () was the aerial warfare branch of the "Wehrmacht" during World War II. Germany's military air arms during World War I, the "Luftstreitkräfte" of the Imperial Army and the "Marine-Fliegerabteilung" of the Imperial Navy, had been disbanded in May 1920 as a result of the terms of the Treaty of V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17885 |
Lassa fever
Lassa fever, also known as Lassa hemorrhagic fever (LHF), is a type of viral hemorrhagic fever caused by the Lassa virus. Many of those infected by the virus do not develop symptoms. When symptoms occur they typically include fever, weakness, headaches, vomiting, and muscle pains. Less commonly there may b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17887 |
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