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Demographics of Kiribati
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Kiribati, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
The following demographic statistics are from the CIA Wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16677 |
Politics of Kiribati
Politics of Kiribati takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Kiribati is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16678 |
Telecommunications in Kiribati
Mobile telecomunications are available only on Tarawa and Kiritimati and radio phones are used elsewhere. Kiribati has 2 newspapers (one private).
Telephones - main lines in use:
3,800 (1999)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
20,000 (2G 10,00) (3G/4G 10,000).
Telephone system:
"domestic:... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16680 |
Transport in Kiribati
The following article outlines transport in Kiribati.
There are 670 km of highways in Kiribati (1996 est.) of which 27 km are paved in South Tarawa (2001). The longest stretch of road travels from South Tarawa to North Tarawa.
Ports and harbours include Banaba, Betio, English Harbor, and Kanton... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16681 |
Foreign relations of Kiribati
Kiribati is a full member of The Commonwealth, the IMF and the World Bank, and became a full member of the United Nations in 1999. Kiribati hosted the Thirty-First Pacific Islands Forum in October 2000. Kiribati has Least Developed Country Status and its interests rarely extend beyond the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16683 |
History of Kuwait
Kuwait is a country in the Arabian Peninsula, surrounding the Gulf of Kuwait at the head of the Persian Gulf. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Kuwait was a prosperous trade port.
During the Ubaid period (6500 BC), Kuwait was the central site of interaction between the peoples of Mesopotam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16685 |
Demographics of Kuwait
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Kuwait ().
Expatriates account for around 70% of Kuwait's total population, with Kuwaitis constituting 28%-32% of the total population. The government and some Kuwaiti citizens consider the proportion of expatriates (which has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16687 |
Government of Kuwait
Kuwait is a constitutional emirate with a semi-democratic political system. The hybrid political system is divided between an elected parliament and appointed government.
The Constitution of Kuwait, approved and promulgated in November 1962, calls for direct elections to a unicameral parliament ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16688 |
Economy of Kuwait
The economy of Kuwait is a small but wealthy petroleum-based economy. The Kuwaiti dinar is the highest-valued unit of currency in the world. Non-petroleum industries include financial services. According to the World Bank, Kuwait is the fourth richest country in the world per capita. Kuwait is the se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16689 |
Telecommunications in Kuwait
Telecommunications in Kuwait provides information about the telephone, Internet, radio, and television infrastructure in Kuwait.
Telephones - main lines in use:
514,700 (2011), 510,300 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
4.9 million (2011), 2.7 million (2007)
Telephone system:
Radio b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16690 |
Transport in Kuwait
As an oil rich nation, transport in Kuwait is largely road-based with one car for every 2.25 people. Bus services make up Kuwait's entire public transport network as the country currently has no rail infrastructure. Several railways have been planned for many years but no plans have materialized, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16691 |
Kuwait Military Forces
The Kuwait Military Forces consists of several joint forming defense forces. The governing bodies are the Kuwait Ministry of Defense, the Kuwait Ministry of Interior, the Kuwait National Guard and the Kuwait Fire Service Directorate. The Emir of Kuwait is the commander-in-chief of all defense fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16692 |
History of Kyrgyzstan
The history of the Kyrgyz people and the land now called Kyrgyzstan goes back more than 3,000 years. Although geographically isolated by its mountainous location, it had an important role as part of the historical Silk Road trade route. In between periods of self-government it was ruled by Göktür... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16695 |
Geography of Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked nation in Central Asia, west of the People's Republic of China. Less than a seventh the size of Mongolia, at 199,951 square kilometers, Kyrgyzstan is one of the smaller Central Asian states. The national territory extends about from east to west and from north to sout... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16696 |
Demographics of Kyrgyzstan
The Demographics of Kyrgyzstan is about the demographic features of the population of Kyrgyzstan, including population growth, population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population. The name Kyrgyz, both for the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16697 |
Politics of Kyrgyzstan
The Politics of Kyrgyzstan, officially known as the Kyrgyz Republic takes place in the framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the President is head of state and the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan is head of government. Executive power is exercised by the governmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16698 |
Economy of Kyrgyzstan
The economy of Kyrgyzstan is heavily dependent on the agricultural sector. Cotton, tobacco, wool, and meat are the main agricultural products, although only tobacco and cotton are exported in any quantity. According to Healy Consultants, Kyrgyzstan's economy relies heavily on the strength of indu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16699 |
Telecommunications in Kyrgyzstan
Telecommunications in Kyrgyzstan include fixed and mobile telephones and the Internet.
The long-term goal of the government's information and communications technology strategy is for the telecommunications sector to contribute 5 percent to gross domestic product by 2010. The June 200... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16700 |
Transport in Kyrgyzstan
Transport in Kyrgyzstan is severely constrained by the country's alpine topography. Roads have to snake up steep valleys, cross passes of altitude and more, and are subject to frequent mud slides and snow avalanches. Winter travel is close to impossible in many of the more remote and high-altit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16701 |
Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic
The Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic, originally formed from former Soviet forces of the Turkestan Military District stationed in newly independent Kyrgyzstan, includes the Army, the Air Force, the Northern and Southern Groups of Forces, Internal Troops, Agency of National Securi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16702 |
Kool Keith
Keith Matthew Thornton (born October 7, 1963), better known by his stage name Kool Keith, is an American rapper and record producer from The Bronx, New York known for his surreal, abstract and often profane or incomprehensible lyrics. Kool Keith has recorded prolifically both as a solo artist and in group c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16705 |
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the guitarist, primary songwriter and frontman of the rock band Nirvana. Through his angst fueled songwriting and anti-establishment persona, Cobain's compositions widened the thematic conve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16707 |
Kent Beck
Kent Beck (born 1961) is an American software engineer and the creator of extreme programming, a software development methodology that eschews rigid formal specification for a collaborative and iterative design process. Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto, the founding document... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16708 |
Swedish krona
The krona (; plural: "kronor"; sign: kr; code: SEK) is the official currency of Sweden. Both the ISO code "SEK" and currency sign "kr" are in common use; the former precedes or follows the value, the latter usually follows it but, especially in the past, it sometimes preceded the value. In English, the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16709 |
Music
Music is an art form, and cultural activity, whose medium is sound. General definitions of music include common elements such as pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics (loudness and softness), and the sonic qualities of timbre and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18839 |
Mouse
A mouse, plural mice, is a small rodent characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail, and a high breeding rate. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse ("Mus musculus"). It is also a popular pet. In some places, certain kinds of field mice are locally com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18845 |
Multics
Multics ("Multiplexed Information and Computing Service") was an influential early time-sharing operating system based on the concept of a single-level memory. Multics "has influenced all modern operating systems since, from microcomputers to mainframes."
Initial planning and development for Multics started i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18847 |
Marxist film theory
Marxist film theory is one of the oldest forms of film theory.
Sergei Eisenstein and many other Soviet filmmakers in the 1920s expressed ideas of Marxism through film. In fact, the Hegelian dialectic was considered best displayed in film editing through the Kuleshov Experiment and the development... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18849 |
Morpheme
A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in a language. A morpheme is not identical to a word. The main difference between them is that a morpheme sometimes does not stand alone, but a word, by definition, always stands alone. The linguistics field of study dedicated to morphemes is called morphology. When ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18852 |
MTV
MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel, launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks division of ViacomCBS, also headquartered in New York City.
MTV was originally first tested on December 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18856 |
Mustelidae
The Mustelidae (; from Latin "mustela", weasel) are a family of carnivorous mammals, including weasels, badgers, otters, ferrets, martens, minks, and wolverines, among others. Mustelids () are a diverse group and form the largest family in the order Carnivora, suborder Caniformia. Mustelidae comprises about... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18857 |
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the eastern United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state's largest city is Baltimore, and its capital is Annapoli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18858 |
Michigan
Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States. Its name comes from the Ojibwe word "mishigami", meaning "large water" or "large lake". With a population of approximately 10 million, Michigan is the tenth most populous of the 50 United States, the 11th most extensive by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18859 |
Minimum wage
A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their workers—the price floor below which workers may not sell their labor. Most countries had introduced minimum wage legislation by the end of the 20th century.
Supply and demand models suggest that there may be welfare and employ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18862 |
Macbeth
Macbeth (; full title The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18866 |
Minor Threat
Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band, formed in 1980 in Washington, D.C. by vocalist Ian MacKaye and drummer Jeff Nelson. MacKaye and Nelson had played in several other bands together, and recruited bassist Brian Baker and guitarist Lyle Preslar to form Minor Threat. They added a fifth member, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18870 |
Mental event
A mental event is any event that happens within the mind of a conscious individual. Examples include thoughts, feelings, decisions, dreams, and realizations.
Some believe that mental events are not limited to human thought but can be associated with animals and artificial intelligence as well. Whether me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18875 |
Monopoly
A monopoly (from Greek and ) exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity. This contrasts with a monopsony which relates to a single entity's control of a market to purchase a good or service, and with oligopoly which consists of a few sellers dominating a market.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18878 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The institute is a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant university, with an urban campus that extends more than a mile (1.6 km) alongside the Charles River. The institute al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18879 |
Monopolistic competition
Monopolistic competition is a type of imperfect competition such that many producers sell products that are differentiated from one another (e.g. by branding or quality) and hence are not perfect substitutes. In monopolistic competition, a firm takes the prices charged by its rivals as given a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18880 |
Mathematical induction
Mathematical induction is a mathematical proof technique. It is essentially used to prove that a statement "P"("n") holds for every natural number "n" = 0, 1, 2, 3, . . . ; that is, the overall statement is a sequence of infinitely many cases "P"(0), "P"(1), "P"(2), "P"(3), . . . . Informal meta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18881 |
Matrix
Matrix or MATRIX may refer to: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18884 |
Morton Downey Jr.
Sean Morton Downey (December 9, 1932 – March 12, 2001), better known as Morton Downey Jr., was an American television talk show host of the late-1980s who pioneered the "trash TV" format on his program "The Morton Downey Jr. Show".
Downey's parents were also in show business; his father, Morton Down... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18885 |
Metaphilosophy
Metaphilosophy (sometimes called philosophy of philosophy) is "the investigation of the nature of philosophy". Its subject matter includes the aims of philosophy, the boundaries of philosophy, and its methods. Thus, while philosophy characteristically inquires into the nature of being, the reality of ob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18887 |
Mandolin
A mandolin ( ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum. It commonly has four courses of doubled metal strings tuned in unison (8 strings), although five (10 strings) and six (12 strings) course versions also exist. The courses are t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18888 |
Microphotonics
Microphotonics is a branch of technology that deals with directing light on a microscopic scale and is used in optical networking. Particularly, it refers to the branch of technology that deals with wafer-level integrated devices and systems that emit, transmit, detect, and process light along with othe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18889 |
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows, commonly referred to as Windows, is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families, all of which are developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. Active Microsoft Windows families include Windows NT and W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18890 |
Matt Groening
Matthew Abraham Groening ( ; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, and animator. He is the creator of the comic strip "Life in Hell" (1977–2012) and the television series "The Simpsons" (1989–present), "Futurama" (1999–2003, 2008–2013), and "Disenchantment" (2018–present). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18894 |
Metaphysics
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the fundamental nature of reality. Originally meaning the study of "being as such" (now known as ontology), "first causes", or "unchanging things", it now has a much wider scope. Metaphysics studies questions related to existence, what it is for somethi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18895 |
Human spaceflight
Human spaceflight (also referred to as crewed spaceflight or manned spaceflight) is spaceflight with a crew or passengers aboard a spacecraft. Spacecraft carrying people may be operated directly, by human crew, or it may be either remotely operated from ground stations on Earth or be autonomous, able... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18896 |
Mendelevium
Mendelevium is a synthetic element with the symbol Md (formerly Mv) and atomic number 101. A metallic radioactive transuranic element in the actinide series, it is the first element by atomic number that currently cannot be produced in macroscopic quantities through neutron bombardment of lighter elements.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18899 |
Modus ponens
In propositional logic, modus ponens () (MP), also known as modus ponendo ponens (Latin for "mode that by affirming affirms") or implication elimination, is a deductive argument form and rule of inference. It can be summarized as ""P implies Q" and "P" is true, therefore "Q" must be true."
"Modus ponens"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18900 |
Modus tollens
In propositional logic, modus tollens () (MT), also known as modus tollendo tollens (Latin for "mode that by denying denies") and denying the consequent, is a deductive argument form and a rule of inference. "Modus tollens" takes the form of "If P, then Q. Not Q. Therefore, not P." It is an application o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18901 |
Mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
One of the earliest known mathematicians was Thales of Miletus (c. 624–c.546... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18902 |
Microfluidics
Microfluidics refers to the behaviour, precise control, and manipulation of fluids that are geometrically constrained to a small scale (typically sub-millimeter) at which capillary penetration governs mass transport. It is a multidisciplinary field that involves engineering, physics, chemistry, biochemis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18906 |
Mersenne prime
In mathematics, a Mersenne prime is a prime number that is one less than a power of two. That is, it is a prime number of the form for some integer . They are named after Marin Mersenne, a French Minim friar, who studied them in the early 17th century.
The exponents which give Mersenne primes are 2, 3,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18908 |
Magnesium
Magnesium is a chemical element with the symbol Mg and atomic number 12. It is a shiny gray solid which bears a close physical resemblance to the other five elements in the second column (group 2, or alkaline earth metals) of the periodic table: all group 2 elements have the same electron configuration in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18909 |
Markup language
In computer text processing, a markup language is a system for annotating a document in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from the text, meaning when the document is processed for display, the markup language is not shown, and is only used to format the text. The idea and terminology evolved ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18910 |
Demographics of Guatemala
The demographics of Guatemala are diverse; the population, 14,901,286 strong, (2018 census) historically comprises primarily of Mestizos (60%), then Amerindians (30%) and people of European descent (10%). The population is divided almost evenly between rural and urban areas.
About 65% of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12159 |
Politics of Guatemala
Politics of Guatemala takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, where by the President of Guatemala is both head of state, head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12160 |
Economy of Guatemala
The economy of Guatemala is a less-developed economy that is dependent on traditional crops such as coffee, sugar, and bananas. Guatemala's GDP per capita is roughly one-third of Brazil's. The 1996 peace accords ended 36 years of civil war and removed a major obstacle to foreign investment. Since ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12161 |
Telecommunications in Guatemala
Telecommunications in Guatemala include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Guatemala's incumbent telephone company is TELGUA, which won the bidding for the privatization of the government run GUATEL.
In 2011 the OpenNet Initiative reported no evidence... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12162 |
Transport in Guatemala
Transportation in Guatemala includes roads, waterways, and airports. It formerly included railways.
Chicken buses, recycled and often colorfully painted former US school buses, are popular within cities and for short-distance trips. There are a number of Guatemalan bus and van transport compani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12163 |
Armed Forces of Guatemala
The Guatemalan Armed Forces consists of the National Army of Guatemala ("Ejercito Nacional de Guatemala", ENG), the Guatemalan National Defense Navy ("Marina de la Defensa Nacional", includes Marines), the Guatemalan Air Force ("Fuerza Aerea Guatemalteca", FAG), the Guatemalan Militia ("An Mh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12164 |
Guernsey
Guernsey (; Guernésiais: "Guernési") is an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy, and is one of the British Channel Islands. It lies roughly north of Saint-Malo and to the west of Jersey and the Cotentin Peninsula. With several smaller nearby islands, it forms a jurisdiction within the Baili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12166 |
History of Guernsey
The history of Guernsey stretches back to evidence of prehistoric habitation and settlement and encompasses the development of its modern society.
Around 6000 BC, rising sea created the English Channel and separated the Norman promontories that became the bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey from con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12167 |
Politics of Guernsey
Politics of Guernsey take place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic British Crown dependency.
The Lieutenant Governor is the appointed unelected representative of "the Crown in right of the "république" of the Bailiwick of Guernsey". The official residence of the Lieutenan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12170 |
Guinea
Guinea (), officially the Republic of Guinea (), is a west-coastal country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea (), the modern country is sometimes referred to as Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from other countries with "Guinea" in the name and the eponymous region, such as Guinea-Bissau and Equato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12176 |
History of Guinea
The modern state of Guinea did not come into existence until 1958, but the history of the area stretches back well before European colonization. Its current boundaries were determined during the colonial period by the Berlin Conference (1884–1885) and the French, who ruled Guinea until 1958.
What is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12177 |
Demographics of Guinea
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Guinea, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Demographics of Guinea describes the condition and overview ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12179 |
Economy of Guinea
The economy of Guinea is dependent largely on agriculture and other rural activities. Guinea is richly endowed with minerals, possessing an estimated quarter of the world's proven reserves of bauxite, more than 1.8 billion tonnes (2.0 billion short tons) of high-grade iron ore, significant diamond an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12181 |
Telecommunications in Guinea
Telecommunications in Guinea include radio, television, fixed and mobile radio, and the Internet.
The people of Guinea are among the poorest in West Africa and this reality is reflected in the development of the country's telecommunications environment. Radio is the most important source ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12182 |
Transport in Guinea
Transport in Guinea is composed by a variety of systems that people in the country use to get around as well as to and from domestic and international destinations.
The railway from Conakry to Kankan ceased operating in the mid-1980s.
Domestic air services are intermittent. Most vehicles in Guine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12183 |
Republic of Guinea Armed Forces
The Republic of Guinea Armed Forces () are the armed forces of Guinea. They are responsible for the territorial security of Guinea's border and the defence of the country against external attack and aggression.
Guinea's armed forces are divided into five branches — army, navy, air forc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12184 |
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau (; ), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau ( ), is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of . It borders Senegal to the north and Guinea to the south-east.
Guinea-Bissau was once part of the kingdom of Kaabu, as well as part of the Mali Empire. Parts of this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12186 |
History of Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau was dominated by Portugal from the 1450s to the 1970s; since independence, the country has been primarily controlled by a single-party system.
Amílcar Cabral was assassinated in Conakry in 1973, and party leadership fell to Aristides Pereira, who later became the first president... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12187 |
Demographics of Guinea-Bissau
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Guinea-Bissau, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
The population of Guinea-Bissau is ethnically ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12189 |
Politics of Guinea-Bissau
The politics of Guinea-Bissau take place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, with a multi-party system, wherein the President is head of state and the Prime Minister is head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12190 |
Economy of Guinea-Bissau
The economy of Guinea-Bissau comprises a mixture of state-owned and private companies. Guinea-Bissau is among the world's least developed nations and one of the 10 poorest countries in the world, and depends mainly on agriculture and fishing. Cashew crops have increased remarkably in recent ye... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12191 |
Telecommunications in Guinea-Bissau
Telecommunications in Guinea-Bissau include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Guinea-Bissau is one of the poorest countries in the world. This reality is reflected in the state of the country's telecommunications development. It is estimated that in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12192 |
Transport in Guinea-Bissau
Transport infrastructure in Guinea-Bissau is basic, with most roads outside the capital Bissau being unpaved.
There are no railways in Guinea-Bissau. At the Port of Bissau, there was a small cargo railway working from the late 19th century into the 1940s.
In 1998 an agreement was signed b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12193 |
Military of Guinea-Bissau
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of the People () or FARP are the national military of Guinea-Bissau. They consist of an Army, Navy, Air Force and paramilitary forces. A 2008 United Nations Development Programme census estimated that there were around 4,000 personnel in the Armed Forces. An ear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12194 |
Politics of Guyana
The politics of Guyana takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Guyana is the head of government and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the President, advised by a cabinet. Legislative power is vested in both the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12199 |
Transport in Guyana
The transport sector comprises the physical infrastructure, docks and vehicle, terminals, fleets, ancillary equipment and service delivery of all the various modes of transport operating in Guyana. The transport services, transport agencies providing these services, the organizations and people who... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12202 |
Geology
Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, "gē" ("earth") and -λoγία, "-logia", ("study of", "discourse")) is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Geology can also include the study of the solid features of any terrestria... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12207 |
Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American actor, dancer, stage, and television, singer, film director, producer, screenwriter, comedian and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks, and the likable characters that he played on sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12209 |
Gleichschaltung
The apex of the Nazification of Germany was in the resolutions approved during the Nuremberg Rally of 1935, when the symbols of the Nazi Party and the State were fused (see Flag of Germany) and German Jews were deprived of their citizenship (see Nuremberg Laws).
The Nazis used the word "Gleichschaltun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12213 |
Georg Cantor
Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor ( , ; – January 6, 1918) was a German mathematician. He created set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of one-to-one correspondence between the members of two sets, defined infinite and well-ordered sets, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12216 |
University of Gothenburg
The University of Gothenburg () is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg.
The University is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 staff members it is one of the largest universities in the Nordic countries.
With its eight fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12218 |
Film genre
A film genre is a motion-picture category based (for example) on similarities either in the narrative elements or in the emotional response to the film (namely: serious, comic, etc.). Most theories of film genre borrow from literary-genre criticism. Each film genre is associated with "conventions, iconograp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12221 |
Great man theory
The great man theory is a 19th-century idea according to which history can be largely explained by the impact of great men, or heroes; highly influential and unique individuals who, due to their natural attributes, such as superior intellect, heroic courage, or divine inspiration, have a decisive hist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12223 |
Great Pyramid of Giza
The Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza pyramid complex bordering present-day Giza in Greater Cairo, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12224 |
GURPS
The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system designed to allow for play in any game setting. It was created by Steve Jackson Games and first published in 1986 at a time when most such systems were story- or genre-specific.
Players control their in-game characters ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12228 |
Government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, often a state, but also other entities like for example companies, especially in the case of colonial companies.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12229 |
Gary Coleman
Gary Wayne Coleman (February 8, 1968 – May 28, 2010) was an American actor, comedian, and writer whom VH1 rated first on a list of "100 Greatest Kid Stars" on television. He won and was nominated for several awards throughout his career, including receiving nominations from the Young Artist Awards and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12230 |
Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American singer and songwriter. His integration of rock and pop elements into the country genre has earned him popularity, particularly in the United States with success on the country music single and album charts, multi-platinum recordings and record-bre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12231 |
Gustave Eiffel
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (born Bonickhausen dit Eiffel; ; ; 15 December 1832 – 27 December 1923) was a French civil engineer and architect. A graduate of the prestigious École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures of France, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway network, most famously... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12232 |
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 55 countries and an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Greenpeace was founded in 1971 by Irving Stowe and Dorothy Stowe, Canadian and US ex-pat environmental activists. Greenpeace states its goal is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12233 |
George Whipple
George Hoyt Whipple (August 28, 1878 – February 1, 1976) was an American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their discoveri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12234 |
Göktürks
The Göktürks, Celestial Turks or Blue Turks (; "Tūjué") were a nomadic confederation of Turkic peoples in medieval Inner Asia. The Göktürks, under the leadership of Bumin Qaghan (d. 552) and his sons, succeeded the Rouran Khaganate as the main power in the region and established the Turkic Khaganate, one of s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12235 |
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