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Horse tack
Tack is equipment or accessories equipped on horses and other equines in the course of their use as domesticated animals. Saddles, stirrups, bridles, halters, reins, bits, harnesses, martingales, and breastplates are all forms of horse tack. Equipping a horse is often referred to as tacking up. A room to st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14215 |
Hausa language
Hausa (; /) is a Chadic language spoken by the Hausa people, the largest ethnic group in Sub-Saharan Africa, mainly within the territories of Southern Niger and Northern Nigeria. Historically, it has also developed into a lingua franca across much of Western Africa for purposes of trade.
Hausa is a me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14216 |
History of mathematics
The area of study known as the history of mathematics is primarily an investigation into the origin of discoveries in mathematics and, to a lesser extent, an investigation into the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14220 |
Hydrogen atom
A hydrogen atom is an atom of the chemical element hydrogen. The electrically neutral atom contains a single positively charged proton and a single negatively charged electron bound to the nucleus by the Coulomb force. Atomic hydrogen constitutes about 75% of the baryonic mass of the universe.
In everyd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14225 |
Elagabalus
Elagabalus ( ) or Heliogabalus ( ; 204 – 11 March 222) was Roman emperor from 218 to 222. A member of the Severan dynasty, he was the second son of Julia Soaemias and Sextus Varius Marcellus. In his early youth he served the god Elagabalus as a priest in Emesa, Syria, the hometown of his mother's family, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14227 |
Homeopathy
Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine. It was created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann. Its practitioners, called homeopaths, believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy people would cure similar symptoms in sick people; this doctrine is called "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14229 |
Hate speech
Hate speech is defined by Cambridge Dictionary as "public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation". Hate speech is "usually thought to include communications of animosity or disparagement of an individ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14233 |
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include "Brand", "Peer Gynt",... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14236 |
Hawaiian language
The Hawaiian language (Hawaiian: ", ) is a Polynesian language that takes its name from Hawaii, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed. Hawaiian, along with English, is an official language of the State of Hawaii. King Kamehameha III established the first Hawa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14240 |
Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, commonly known as interwar Poland, refers to the country of Poland in the period between the two World wars (1918–1939). Officially known as the Republic of Poland (), the Polish state was re-established in 1918, in the aftermath of World War I. The Second Republic ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14245 |
Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, was made famous by Keller's autobiography, "The Story of My Life", and its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14254 |
Haddocks' Eyes
Haddocks' Eyes is a song sung by The White Knight from Lewis Carroll's 1871 novel "Through the Looking-Glass", .
"Haddocks' Eyes" is an example used to elaborate on the symbolic status of the concept of "name": a name as identification marker may be assigned to anything, including another name, thus i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14257 |
Hoosier
Hoosier is the official demonym for a resident of the U.S. state of Indiana. The origin of the term remains a matter of debate within the state, but "Hoosier" was in general use by the 1840s, having been popularized by Richmond resident John Finley's 1833 poem "The Hoosier's Nest". Anyone born in Indiana or a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14260 |
Horner's method
In mathematics, the term Horner's rule (or Horner's method, Horner's scheme etc) refers to a method for approximating the roots of polynomials that was described by William George Horner in 1819. It gave a convenient way for implementing the Newton–Raphson method for polynomials that was suitable for e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14263 |
Hapworth 16, 1924
"Hapworth 16, 1924" was the last original work J. D. Salinger published in his lifetime. It appeared in the June 19, 1965, edition of "The New Yorker", infamously taking up almost the entire magazine. It is the "youngest" of Salinger's Glass family stories, in the sense that the narrated events happe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14268 |
Hypnotic
Hypnotic (from Greek "Hypnos", sleep), or soporific drugs, commonly known as sleeping pills, are a class of psychoactive drugs whose primary function is to induce sleep and to be used in the treatment of insomnia (sleeplessness), or for surgical anesthesia.
This group is related to sedatives. Whereas the ter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14269 |
HMS Dunraven
HMS "Dunraven" was a Q-Ship of the Royal Navy during World War I.
On 8 August 1917, 130 miles southwest of Ushant in the Bay of Biscay, disguised as the collier "Boverton" and commanded by Gordon Campbell, VC, "Dunraven" spotted , commanded by "Oberleutnant zur See" Reinhold Saltzwedel. Saltzwedel believ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14273 |
Hacker ethic
Hacker ethic is a term for the moral values and philosophy that are common in hacker culture. Practitioners of the hacker ethic believe that sharing information and data responsibly is beneficial and helpful. Whilst the philosophy originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1950s–1960s,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14275 |
Hotel
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a refrigerator and other kitchen facilities, upholstered chairs, a flat scree... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14276 |
Michael Milken
Michael Robert Milken (born July 4, 1946) is an American financier and philanthropist. He is noted for his role in the development of the market for high-yield bonds ("junk bonds"), and his conviction and sentence following a guilty plea on felony charges for violating U.S. securities laws. Since his re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20813 |
Musical keyboard
A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave. Depre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20816 |
Musical tuning
In music, there are two common meanings for tuning:
Tuning is the process of adjusting the pitch of one or many tones from musical instruments to establish typical intervals between these tones. Tuning is usually based on a fixed reference, such as A = 440 Hz. The term ""out of tune"" refers to a pitch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20817 |
Miller–Urey experiment
The Miller–Urey experiment (or Miller experiment) was a chemical experiment that simulated the conditions thought at the time (1952) to be present on the early Earth and tested the chemical origin of life under those conditions. The experiment at the time supported Alexander Oparin's and J. B. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20821 |
Majority function
In Boolean logic, the majority function (also called the median operator) is a function from "n" inputs to one output. The value of the operation is false when "n"/2 or more arguments are false, and true otherwise.
Alternatively, representing true values as 1 and false values as 0, we may use the for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20823 |
Modula
The Modula programming language is a descendant of the Pascal language. It was developed in Switzerland, at ETH Zurich, in the mid-1970s by Niklaus Wirth, the same person who designed Pascal. The main innovation of Modula over Pascal is a module system, used for grouping sets of related declarations into progra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20824 |
Monolithic kernel
A monolithic kernel is an operating system architecture where the entire operating system is working in kernel space. The monolithic model differs from other operating system architectures (such as the microkernel architecture) in that it alone defines a high-level virtual interface over computer har... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20825 |
Mithraism
Mithraism, also known as the Mithraic mysteries, was a Roman mystery religion centered on the god Mithras. The religion was inspired by Iranian worship of the Zoroastrian Angelic Divinity ("yazata") Mithra, though the Greek "Mithras" was linked to a new and distinctive imagery, and the level of continuity be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20826 |
Minivan
Minivan is a van for vehicles designed to transport passengers in the rear seating row(s), with reconfigurable seats in two or three rows. The equivalent terms in British English are multi-purpose vehicle (MPV), people carrier and people mover. Minivans often have a 'one-box' or 'two-box' body configuration, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20828 |
Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore (December 29, 1936 – January 25, 2017) was an American stage, film, and television actress, as well as a producer and social advocate. She was widely known for her prominent television sitcom roles in "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961–1966) and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (1970–1977).
H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20833 |
Mason Remey
Charles Mason Remey (May 15, 1874 – February 4, 1974) was a prominent and controversial American Baháʼí who was appointed in 1951 a Hand of the Cause, and president of the International Baháʼí Council. He was the architect for the Baháʼí Houses of Worship in Uganda and Australia, and Shoghi Effendi approve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20835 |
Minimalism
In visual arts, music, and other mediums, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Robert Morris, An... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20836 |
Ignition magneto
An ignition magneto, or high tension magneto, is a magneto that provides current for the ignition system of a spark-ignition engine, such as a petrol engine. It produces pulses of high voltage for the spark plugs. The older term "tension" means "voltage".
The use of ignition magnetos is now confined ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20837 |
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (abbreviated as MST3K) is an American television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and currently produced by Alternaversal Productions, LLC. The show premiered on KTMA-TV (now WUCW) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 24, 1988. It later aired on The Come... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20840 |
Music radio
Music radio is a radio format in which music is the main broadcast content. After television replaced old time radio's dramatic content, music formats became dominant in many countries. Radio drama and comedy continue, often on public radio.
Music drives radio technology, including wide-band FM, modern di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20841 |
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a video game that combines aspects of a role-playing video game and a massively multiplayer online game.
As in all role-playing games (RPGs), the player assumes the role of a character (often in a fantasy world... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20844 |
Multiplication
Multiplication (often denoted by the cross symbol ', by the mid-line dot operator ', by juxtaposition, or, on computers, by an asterisk ) is one of the four elementary mathematical operations of arithmetic, with the others being addition, subtraction and division. The result of a multiplication operat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20845 |
Malt
Malt is germinated cereal grain that has been dried in a process known as "malting". The grain is made to germinate by soaking in water and is then halted from germinating further by drying with hot air.
Malting grain develops the enzymes (α-amylase, β-amylase) required for modifying the grains' starches into v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20853 |
Masonry
Masonry is the building of structures from individual units, which are often laid in and bound together by mortar; the term "masonry" can also refer to the units themselves. The common materials of masonry construction are brick, building stone such as marble, granite, and limestone, cast stone, concrete block... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20857 |
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse is a cartoon character and the mascot of The Walt Disney Company. He was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at the Walt Disney Studios in 1928. An anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves, Mickey is one of the world's most recognizable chara... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20859 |
Meher Baba
Meher Baba (born Merwan Sheriar Irani; 25 February 1894 – 31 January 1969) was an Indian spiritual master who claimed he was an Avatar — God in human form.
Merwan Sheriar Irani was born in 1894 in Poona, India, to Irani Zoroastrian parents. His spiritual transformation began when he was 19 years old and l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20860 |
Cavity magnetron
The cavity magnetron is a high-powered vacuum tube that generates microwaves using the interaction of a stream of electrons with a magnetic field while moving past a series of open metal cavities (cavity resonators). Electrons pass by the openings to these cavities and cause microwaves to oscillate wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20861 |
Manorialism
Manorialism or seignorialism was an organizing principle of rural economies which vested legal and economic power in a lord of the manor. If the core feudalism is defined as a set of legal and military relationships among nobles, manorialism extended this system to the legal and economic relationships betw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20862 |
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel "Gone with the Wind", for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20864 |
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation. Some insects, fish, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, cnidarians, echinoderms... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20866 |
Monoamine oxidase inhibitor
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) are a class of drugs that inhibit the activity of one or both monoamine oxidase enzymes: monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) and monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B). They are best known as highly efficacious anti-depressants, as well as effective therapeutic agents for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20869 |
Mycology
Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans as a source for tinder, traditional medicine, food, and entheogens, as well as their dangers, such as toxicity or infection.
A biologist specializin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20874 |
Melancholia
Melancholia (from ' "black bile", "blackness of the bile" also Latin "lugere" lugubriousness to mourn, Latin "morosus" moroseness of self-will or fastidious habit, and old English "wist wistfulness" of intent or saturnine) is a mental condition characterized by extreme depression, bodily complaints, and so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20875 |
Mimosa
Mimosa is a genus of about 400 species of herbs and shrubs, in the mimosoid clade of the legume family Fabaceae. The generic name is derived from the Greek word ("mimos"), an "actor" or "mime", and the feminine suffix -"osa", "resembling", suggesting its 'sensitive leaves' which seem to 'mimic conscious life'.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20876 |
Manhattan (cocktail)
A Manhattan is a cocktail made with whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters. While rye is the traditional whiskey of choice, other commonly used whiskies include Canadian whisky, bourbon, blended whiskey, and Tennessee whiskey. The cocktail is usually stirred then strained into a cocktail glass and g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20879 |
Mira
Mira (), designation Omicron Ceti (ο Ceti, abbreviated Omicron Cet, ο Cet), is a red giant star estimated to be 200–400 light-years from the Sun in the constellation Cetus.
ο Ceti is a binary stellar system, consisting of a variable red giant (Mira A) along with a white dwarf companion (Mira B). Mira A is a puls... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20880 |
MV Virginian (T-AK 9205)
MV "Virginian" (T-AK 9205), formerly named the MV "Strong Virginian" (T-AKR-9205), is a combination container, heavy lift, and roll-on/roll-off ship. Owned and operated by Sealift Incorporated of Oyster Bay, New York, the ship is one of seventeen containerroll-on/roll-off ships in use by the M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20881 |
Mojito
Mojito (; ) is a traditional Cuban highball. Traditionally, a mojito is a cocktail that consists of five ingredients: white rum, sugar (traditionally sugar cane juice), lime juice, soda water, and mint. Its combination of sweetness, citrus, and herbaceous mint flavors is intended to complement the rum, and has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20883 |
Mohammed Zahir Shah
Mohammed Zahir Shah (, ; 15 October 1914 – 23 July 2007) was the last King of Afghanistan, reigning from 8 November 1933 until he was deposed on 17 July 1973. He expanded Afghanistan's diplomatic relations with many countries, including with both Cold War sides. In the 1950s, Zahir Shah began moder... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20886 |
Miso
Typically, "miso" is salty, but its flavor and aroma depend on various factors in the ingredients and fermentation process. Different varieties of miso have been described as salty, sweet, earthy, fruity, and savory.
The origin of the miso of Japan is not completely clear.
In the Kamakura period (1192–1333), a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20889 |
Malcolm III of Scotland
Malcolm III (; c. 26 March 1031 – 13 November 1093 (age 63)) was King of Scots from 1058 to 1093. He was later nicknamed "Canmore" ("ceann mòr", Gaelic for "Great Chief": "ceann" denotes "leader", "head" (of state) and "mòr" denotes "pre-eminent", "great", and "big"). Malcolm's long reign of 35... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20892 |
Maximum transmission unit
In computer networking, the maximum transmission unit (MTU) is the size of the largest protocol data unit (PDU) that can be communicated in a single network layer transaction. The MTU relates to, but is not identical to the maximum frame size that can be transported on the data link layer, e.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20894 |
MV Buffalo Soldier (T-AK-9301)
MV "Buffalo Soldier" (T-AK-9301) is a roll-on/roll-off ship, formerly of the French Government Line (now merged into CMA CGM). She was sold and reflagged US, renamed to honor Buffalo Soldiers, and chartered by the United States Navy Military Sealift Command as a Maritime Prepositioning s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20895 |
Mount Baker
Mount Baker (Lummi: '; or '), also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is a active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington in the United States. Mount Baker has the second-most thermally active crater in the Cascade Range after Mount Saint Hel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20897 |
Strategic sealift ships
Strategic sealift ships are part of the United States Military Sealift Command's (MSC) prepositioning program. There are currently 49 ships in the program, strategically positioned around the world to support the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Defense Logistics Agency. Most are named a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20898 |
Mathias Rust
Mathias Rust (born 1 June 1968) is a German aviator known for his illegal flight that ended with a landing near Red Square in Moscow on 28 May 1987. An amateur pilot, the then-teenager flew from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow, being tracked several times by Soviet air defence and interceptor aircraft. The S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20900 |
Malware
Malware (a portmanteau for malicious software) is any software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server, client, or computer network (by contrast, software that causes "unintentional" harm due to some deficiency is typically described as a software bug). A wide variety of types of malware e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20901 |
Muttiah Muralitharan
Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan (, ; also spelt Muralidaran; born 1972) is a Sri Lankan cricket coach and former cricketer. Averaging over six wickets per Test, Muralitharan is one of the most successful bowlers ever.
Muralitharan's career was beset by controversy over his bowling action for much... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20905 |
Mole Day
Mole Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated among chemists, chemistry students and chemistry enthusiasts on October 23, between 6:02 a.m. and 6:02 p.m., | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20906 |
Motörhead
Motörhead () were an English rock band formed in June 1975 by bassist, singer, and songwriter Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, who was the sole constant member, guitarist Larry Wallis and drummer Lucas Fox. The band are often considered a precursor to the new wave of British heavy metal, which re-energised heavy metal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20907 |
Multiverse
The multiverse is a hypothetical group of multiple universes. Together, these universes comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and the physical laws and constants that describe them. The different universes within the multiverse are called "parallel univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20911 |
Molotov cocktail
A Molotov cocktail, also known as a petrol bomb, gasoline bomb (United States), bottle bomb, poor man's grenade, Molotovin koktaili (Finnish), polttopullo (Finnish), fire bomb (not to be confused with an actual fire bomb), fire bottle or just Molotov, sometimes shortened as Molly, is a generic name us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20922 |
Matzo
Matzo, matzah, or matza ( "matsoh", "matsa"; plural matzot; matzos of Ashkenazi Jewish dialect) is an unleavened flatbread that is part of Jewish cuisine and forms an integral element of the Passover festival, during which "chametz" (leaven and five grains that, per Jewish Law, can be leavened) is forbidden.
As... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20923 |
Michel Tremblay
Michel Tremblay, CQ (born 25 June 1942) is a French Canadian novelist, and playwright.
He was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he grew up in the French-speaking neighbourhood of Plateau Mont-Royal; at the time of his birth a neighbourhood with a working-class character and joual dialect - something tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20925 |
Supervised learning
Supervised learning is the machine learning task of learning a function that maps an input to an output based on example input-output pairs. It infers a function from "" consisting of a set of "training examples". In supervised learning, each example is a "pair" consisting of an input object (typic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20926 |
Martin Helwig
Martin Helwig () (5 November 1516 – 26 January 1574) was a German cartographer of and from Silesia and
pedagogue. He was born in Neisse and died in Breslau, Holy Roman Empire.
A former pupil of an eminent German scholar and educationist Valentin Friedland, Martin Helwig went on to study at the Universit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20932 |
Macro virus
In computing terminology, a macro virus is a virus that is written in a macro language: a programming language which is embedded inside a software application (e.g., word processors and spreadsheet applications). Some applications, such as Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint allow macro programs to be embe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20934 |
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Access is a database management system (DBMS) from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. It is a member of the Microsoft Office suite of applications, included in the Professional and higher editio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20935 |
Metabolic pathway
In biochemistry, a metabolic pathway is a linked series of chemical reactions occurring within a cell. The reactants, products, and intermediates of an enzymatic reaction are known as metabolites, which are modified by a sequence of chemical reactions catalyzed by enzymes. In most cases of a metaboli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20941 |
Malthusian catastrophe
A Malthusian catastrophe (also known as Malthusian check, Malthusian crisis, Malthusian spectre or Malthusian crunch) occurs when population growth outpaces agricultural production.
In 1798, Thomas Malthus wrote:
The dramatic imagery of the final sentence should not obscure the force of the ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20942 |
Millennialism
Millennialism (from millennium, Latin for "a thousand years") or chiliasm (from the Greek equivalent), is a belief advanced by some religious denominations that a Golden Age or Paradise will occur on Earth prior to the final judgment and future eternal state of the "World to Come".
Christianity and Juda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20943 |
Might and Magic
Might and Magic is a series of role-playing video games from New World Computing, which in 1996 became a subsidiary of The 3DO Company. The original "Might and Magic" series ended with the closure of the 3DO Company. The rights to the "Might and Magic" name were purchased for US$1.3 million by Ubisoft,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20945 |
Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the fingers/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting (pressing the strings against the frets) with the fingers of the ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11846 |
Gnutella
Gnutella is a large peer-to-peer network. It was the first decentralized peer-to-peer network of its kind, leading to other, later networks adopting the model. It celebrated two decades of existence on March 14, 2020, and has a user base in the millions for peer-to-peer file sharing.
In June 2005, Gnutella's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11856 |
George Lucas
George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and entrepreneur. Lucas is best known for creating the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" franchises and founding Lucasfilm, LucasArts, and Industrial Light & Magic. He served as chairman of Lucasfilm before sel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11857 |
Gothenburg
Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has a population of approximately 570,000 in the city proper and about 1 million inhabitants i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11861 |
Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally NAVSTAR GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) that provides geolocation and time informat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11866 |
Germany
Germany (, ), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (, ), is a country in Central and Western Europe. Covering an area of , it lies between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11867 |
Guatemala City
Guatemala City (), locally known as Guatemala or Guate, officially New Guatemala of the Assumption (), is the capital and largest city of Guatemala, and the most populous urban area in Central America. The city is located in the south-central part of the country, nestled in a mountain valley called Vall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11874 |
GNU
GNU () is an operating system and an extensive collection of computer software. GNU is composed wholly of free software, most of which is licensed under the GNU Project's own General Public License (GPL).
"GNU" is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix!", chosen because GNU's design is Unix-like, but differs fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11875 |
Gradualism
Gradualism, from the Latin "gradus" ("step"), is a hypothesis, a theory or a tenet assuming that change comes about gradually or that variation is gradual in nature and happens over time as opposed to in large steps. Uniformitarianism, incrementalism, and reformism are similar concepts.
In the natural scie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11877 |
Germanic languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, English, is the world's most widely spoken language with an est... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11883 |
German language
German (, ) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol in Italy, the German-speaking Community of Belgium, and Liechtenstein. It is one of the three official languag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11884 |
Greek language
Greek () is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Albania and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. It has the longest documented history of any living Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,500 years of written records. Its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11887 |
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
As a writer,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11891 |
Gambling
Gambling (also known as betting) is the wagering of money or something of value (referred to as "the stakes") on an event with an uncertain outcome, with the primary intent of winning money or material goods. Gambling thus requires three elements to be present: consideration (an amount wagered), risk (chance)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11921 |
Game theory
Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interaction among rational decision-makers. It has applications in all fields of social science, as well as in logic, systems science and computer science. Originally, it addressed zero-sum games, in which each participant's gains or losses are e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11924 |
Demographics of Germany
The demography of Germany is monitored by the "Statistisches Bundesamt" (Federal Statistical Office of Germany). According to the first census since reunification, Germany's population was 80,219,695 (9 May 2011), making it the sixteenth-most populous country in the world and the most populous ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11929 |
Economy of Germany
The economy of Germany is a highly developed social market economy. It has the largest national economy in Europe, the fourth-largest by nominal GDP in the world, and fifth by GDP (PPP). In 2017, the country accounted for 28% of the euro area economy according to the IMF. Germany is a founding membe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11930 |
Transport in Germany
As a densely populated country in a central location in Europe and with a developed economy, Germany has a dense and modern transport infrastructure.
The first highway system to have been built, the extensive German Autobahn network famously has no general speed limit for light vehicles (although... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11932 |
Foreign relations of Germany
The Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) is a Central European country and member of the European Union, G4, G8, the G20, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It maintains a network of 229 diplomatic missions abroad and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11934 |
Politics of Germany
Germany is a democratic, federal parliamentary republic, where federal legislative power is vested in the Bundestag (the parliament of Germany) and the Bundesrat (the representative body of the Länder, Germany's regional states).
The multilateral system has, since 1949, been dominated by the Chris... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11935 |
History of geometry
Geometry (from the ; "geo-" "earth", "-metron" "measurement") arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers (arithmetic).
Classic geometry was focused in compass and straightedg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11953 |
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12, 1924November 30, 2018) was an American politician and businessman who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. A member of the Republican Party, Bush also served in the U.S. House of Representatives, as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11955 |
G. E. Moore
George Edward Moore (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958), usually cited as G. E. Moore, was an English philosopher. He was, with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and (before them) Gottlob Frege, one of the founders of the analytic tradition in philosophy. Along with Russell, he led the turn away from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11959 |
Genus–differentia definition
A genus–differentia definition is a type of intensional definition, and it is composed of two parts:
For example, consider these two definitions:
Those definitions can be expressed as one genus and two "differentiae":
The use of genus and differentia in constructing definitions goes back... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11964 |
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