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Guilt (emotion)
Guilt is an emotional experience that occurs when a person believes or realizes—accurately or not—that they have compromised their own standards of conduct or have violated universal moral standards and bear significant responsibility for that violation.
Guilt is closely related to the concept of remor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12239 |
Gold
Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from ) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. In a pure form, it is a bright, slightly reddish yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal. Chemically, gold is a transition metal and a group 11 element. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12240 |
Gallium
Gallium is a chemical element with the symbol Ga and atomic number 31. Elemental gallium is a soft, silvery blue metal at standard temperature and pressure; however in its liquid state it becomes silvery white. If too much force is applied, the gallium may fracture conchoidally. It is in group 13 of the period... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12241 |
Germanium
Germanium is a chemical element with the symbol Ge and atomic number 32. It is a lustrous, hard-brittle, grayish-white metalloid in the carbon group, chemically similar to its group neighbours silicon and tin. Pure germanium is a semiconductor with an appearance similar to elemental silicon. Like silicon, ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12242 |
Gadolinium
Gadolinium is a chemical element with the symbol Gd and atomic number 64. Gadolinium is a silvery-white metal when oxidation is removed. It is only slightly malleable and is a ductile rare-earth element. Gadolinium reacts with atmospheric oxygen or moisture slowly to form a black coating. Gadolinium below i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12243 |
Alliance 90/The Greens
Alliance 90/The Greens, often simply Greens ( or ""; ), is a green political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 as the merger of The Greens, formed in West Germany in 1980, and Alliance 90, formed in East Germany in 1990. The Greens had itself merged with the East German Green Party after G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12246 |
Gheorghe Zamfir
Gheorghe Zamfir (; born April 6, 1941) is a Romanian nai (pan flute) musician.
Zamfir is known for playing an expanded version of normally 20-pipe nai, with 22, 25, 28 or even 30 pipes, to increase its range, and obtaining as many as eight overtones (additional to the fundamental tone) from each pipe ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12248 |
Georg Henrik von Wright
Georg Henrik von Wright (; 14 June 1916 – 16 June 2003) was a Finnish philosopher.
On the retirement of Ludwig Wittgenstein as professor at the University of Cambridge in 1948, von Wright was elected to his chair at the age of 32. He published in English, Finnish, German, and Swedish, having b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12250 |
Gaudy Night
Gaudy Night (1935) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the tenth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third including Harriet Vane.
The dons of Harriet Vane's "alma mater", the all-female Shrewsbury College, Oxford (based on Sayers' own Somerville College), have invited her back to attend the annual ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12253 |
G
G or g is the seventh letter of the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is "gee" (pronounced ), plural "gees".
The letter 'G' was introduced in the Old Latin period as a variant of 'C' to distinguish voiced from voiceless . The recorded originator of 'G' is freedman Spurius Carvilius Ruga, the first Roman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12255 |
Gamma
Gamma (uppercase , lowercase ; "gámma") is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 3. In Ancient Greek, the letter gamma represented a voiced velar stop . In Modern Greek, this letter represents either a voiced velar fricative or a voiced palatal fricative.
In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12257 |
Goitre
A goitre, or goiter, is a swelling in the neck resulting from an enlarged thyroid gland. A goitre can be associated with a thyroid that is not functioning properly.
Worldwide, over 90% of goitre cases are caused by iodine deficiency. The term is from the Latin "gutturia", meaning throat. Most goitres are of a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12265 |
George Washington
George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American political leader, military general, statesman, and founding father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Previously, he led Patriot forces to victory in the nation's War for Independence. He presided at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11968 |
Gulf Coast of the United States
The Gulf Coast of the United States is the coastline along the Southern United States where they meet the Gulf of Mexico. The coastal states that have a shoreline on the Gulf of Mexico are Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, and these are known as the "Gulf States".
Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11969 |
Galaxy formation and evolution
The study of galaxy formation and evolution is concerned with the processes that formed a heterogeneous universe from a homogeneous beginning, the formation of the first galaxies, the way galaxies change over time, and the processes that have generated the variety of structures observed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11971 |
Generation X
Generation X (or Gen X for short) is the demographic cohort following the baby boomers and preceding the millennials. The generation is generally defined as people born from 1965 to 1980. By this definition and U.S. Census data, there are 65.2 million Gen Xers in the United States as of 2019. Most members... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11973 |
Guam
Guam (; ) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean. It is the westernmost point and territory of the United States, along with the Northern Mariana Islands. The capital city of Guam is Hagåtña and the most populous city is Dededo. Guam has been a me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11974 |
Game Boy family
The Game Boy family is a line of handheld game consoles developed, manufactured, released and marketed by Nintendo, consisting of the Game Boy and its revisions, the Game Boy Color and the Game Boy Advance family. The product line has sold over 200 million units worldwide.
The original Game Boy (ゲームボー... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11979 |
Gemini 10
Gemini 10 (officially Gemini X) was a 1966 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the 8th crewed Gemini flight, the 16th crewed American flight, and the 24th spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over ).
Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin had originally been named the backup crew, but after C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11982 |
Gardening
Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture. In gardens, ornamental plants are often grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance; useful plants, such as root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits, and herbs, are grown for consumption, for use as dyes, or for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11984 |
Graffiti
Graffiti (both singular and plural; the singular graffito is very rare in English except in archeology) is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view. Graffiti ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings, and has existed since ancien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11985 |
Godzilla
Godzilla is depicted as an enormous, destructive, prehistoric sea monster awakened and empowered by nuclear radiation. With the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the "Lucky Dragon 5" incident still fresh in the Japanese consciousness, Godzilla was conceived as a metaphor for nuclear weapons. As t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11986 |
King Kong vs. Godzilla
The project began with a story outline that featured King Kong battling a giant Frankenstein monster, written by Willis H. O'Brien. O'Brien handed the outline to producer John Beck for development. Behind O'Brien's back and without his knowledge, Beck would eventually take the project to Toho to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11988 |
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
During its development, "Ebirah, Horror of the Deep" was intended to feature King Kong, but the character was replaced by Godzilla. The film was released to theaters in Japan on December 17, 1966, and was released directly to television in the United States in 1968 under the title "Godzilla ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11992 |
Destroy All Monsters
In the film, humans have achieved world peace by the year 1999, and various giant monsters are confined to an area known as Monsterland. The monsters are freed from the area and are mind-controlled by aliens known as Kilaaks, who send them to attack major cities. When the monsters are freed from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11994 |
Godzilla vs. Megalon
"Godzilla vs. Megalon" was released theatrically in Japan on March 17, 1973. It received a theatrical release in the United States in the summer of 1976 by Cinema Shares.
In the first part of 1971 (197X in the Japanese version), the most recent underground nuclear test, set off near the Aleutians... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11998 |
Godzilla vs. Biollante
In the film, Godzilla battles a monster born from the cells of a plant and a woman, as corporations struggle for control over Godzilla cells. The idea originated from a public story-writing contest, and set a trend common to all Heisei era movies, in which Godzilla faces off against opponents ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12000 |
Terror of Mechagodzilla
Terror of Mechagodzilla, released in Japan as is a 1975 Japanese "kaiju" film directed by Ishirō Honda, written by Yukiko Takayama, and produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka and Henry G. Saperstein, with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano. The film was produced and distributed by Toho; it is the 15th fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12001 |
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
The production crew of "Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah" remained largely unchanged from that of the previous film in the series, "Godzilla vs. Biollante". Because the previous installment was a box office disappointment, due to a lack of child viewership and alleged competition with the "Back to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12002 |
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Originally conceived as a standalone Mothra film entitled "Mothra vs. Bagan", the film is notable for its return to a more fantasy-based, family-oriented atmosphere, evocative of older "Godzilla" films. Although he did not return as director, Ōmori continued his trend of incorporating Hollywood ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12003 |
Godzilla (1954 film)
"Godzilla" entered production after a Japanese-Indonesian co-production collapsed. Tsuburaya originally opted for a giant octopus before the filmmakers decided on a dinosaur-inspired creature. "Godzilla" pioneered a form of special effects called suitmation, in which a stunt performer wearing a su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12004 |
The Return of Godzilla
"The Return of Godzilla" stars Ken Tanaka, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Yosuke Natsuki, and Keiju Kobayashi, with Kenpachiro Satsuma as Godzilla. The film serves as both a sequel to the original 1954 film and a reboot of the franchise that ignores the events of every Shōwa era film aside from the original ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12005 |
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (; ; 19 May 1762 – 29 January 1814) was a German philosopher who became a founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant. Recently, philosophers and scholars have begun to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12007 |
Great Lakes
The Great Lakes (), or the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes in the upper mid-east part of North America, on the Canada–United States border, that connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River. They comprise lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12010 |
Girth (graph theory)
In graph theory, the girth of a graph is the length of a shortest cycle contained in the graph. If the graph does not contain any cycles (i.e. it's an acyclic graph), its girth is defined to be infinity.
For example, a 4-cycle (square) has girth 4. A grid has girth 4 as well, and a triangular mesh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12013 |
Gun safety
Gun safety rules and practice recommendations are intended to avoid accidental discharge or negligent discharge, or the consequences of firearm malfunctions. Their purpose is to eliminate or minimize the risks of unintentional death, injury or property damage caused by improper possession, storage or handli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12015 |
Go Down Moses
"Go Down Moses" is a spiritual phrase that describes events in the Old Testament of the Bible, specifically Exodus 8:1: "And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me", in which God commands Moses to demand the release of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12021 |
General relativity
General relativity (GR), also known as the general theory of relativity (GTR), is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 and the current description of gravitation in modern physics. General relativity generalizes special relativity and refines Newton's law of unive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12024 |
Genealogy
Genealogy (from "" "the making of a pedigree") is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12025 |
Gabon
Gabon (; ), officially the Gabonese Republic (), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, Gabon is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west. It has an area of nearly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12027 |
History of Gabon
Little is known of the history of Gabon prior to European contact. Bantu migrants settled the area beginning in the 14th century. Portuguese explorers and traders arrived in the area in the late 15th century. The coast subsequently became a center of the slave trade with Dutch, English, and French tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12028 |
Demographics of Gabon
The Demographics of Gabon is the makeup of the population of Gabon. As of , Gabon has a population of . Gabon's population is relatively young with 35.5% of its population under 15 years of age and only 4.3% of its population over 65 years old. Gabon has a nearly even split between males and fema... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12030 |
Politics of Gabon
Politics of Gabon takes place in a framework of a republic whereby the President of Gabon is head of state and in effect, also the head of government, since he appoints the prime minister and his cabinet. The government is divided into three branches: the Executive headed by the prime minister (altho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12031 |
Economy of Gabon
The economy of Gabon is characterized by strong links with France, large foreign investments, dependence on skilled foreign labor, and decline of agriculture. Gabon enjoys a per capita income four times that of most nations of sub-Saharan Africa, its reliance on resource extraction industry releasing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12032 |
Telecommunications in Gabon
Telecommunications in Gabon include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Radio stations:
Radios:
208,000 (1997).
Television stations:
Television sets:
63,000 (1997).
There are two main broadcasters in Gabon. The state broadcaster, Radiodiffusion Télévision ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12033 |
Transport in Gabon
Modes of transport in Gabon include rail, road, water, and air. The one rail link, the Trans-Gabon Railway, connects the port of Owendo with the inland town of Franceville. Most but not all of the country is connected to the road network, much of which is unpaved, and which centres on seven "nationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12034 |
Foreign relations of Gabon
Gabon has followed a non-aligned policy, advocating dialogue in international affairs and recognizing both parts of divided countries. Since 1973, the number of countries establishing diplomatic relations with Gabon has doubled. In inter-African affairs, Gabon espouses development by evoluti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12036 |
Gaza Strip
The Gaza Strip (; ' ), or simply Gaza"', is a self-governing Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, that borders Egypt on the southwest for and Israel on the east and north along a border. Gaza and the West Bank are claimed by the "de jure" sovereign State of Palestine.
The te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12047 |
Geography of Georgia (country)
Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region. Situated at the juncture of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the east by Azerbaijan. Georgia covers an area of .
Georgia is located... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12059 |
Demographics of Georgia (country)
The demographic features of the population of Georgia include population growth, population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population.
The demographic situation in Georgia, like that of some other former ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12060 |
Politics of Georgia (country)
Politics in Georgia involve a parliamentary representative democratic republic with a multi-party system. The President of Georgia is the ceremonial head of state and the Prime Minister of Georgia is the head of government. The President and the Government wield executive power. Legislati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12061 |
Economy of Georgia (country)
The economy of Georgia is an emerging free market economy. Its gross domestic product fell sharply following the collapse of the Soviet Union but recovered in the mid-2000s, growing in double digits thanks to the economic and democratic reforms brought by the peaceful Rose Revolution. Geor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12062 |
Telecommunications in Georgia (country)
Telecommunications in Georgia include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
The TLC sector in Georgia comprised 6.88% of the GDP, mostly due to mobile telephony (63%), followed by fixed telephony (29%) and broadcasting (7.7%).
There are three cell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12063 |
Transport in Georgia (country)
For Soviet transportation, see Transport in the Soviet Union.
"total:"
1,683 km in common carrier service; does not include industrial lines
"broad gauge:"
1,583 km of gauge (1993)
"narrow gauge:"
100 km of gauge.
City with metro system: Tbilisi (see Tbilisi Metro).
The road netwo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12064 |
Defense Forces of Georgia
The Defense Forces of Georgia (), or Georgian Defense Forces, known as the Georgian Armed Forces () until December 2018, are the combined military forces of Georgia, tasked with the defense of the nation’s independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. They consist of the Land Force, A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12065 |
Levellers
The Levellers were a political movement during the English Civil War (1642–1651) committed to popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law and religious tolerance. The hallmark of Leveller thought was its populism, as shown by its emphasis on equal natural rights, and their practice of rea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30558 |
Glossary of topology
This is a glossary of some terms used in the branch of mathematics known as topology. Although there is no absolute distinction between different areas of topology, the focus here is on general topology. The following definitions are also fundamental to algebraic topology, differential topology an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30562 |
Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon (; born Edward Hamilton Waldo, February 26, 1918 – May 8, 1985) was an American fiction author of primarily fantasy, science fiction and horror, as well as a critic. He wrote approximately 400 reviews and more than 120 short stories, 11 novels and several Star Trek scripts.
Sturgeo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30564 |
The Yellow Kid
The Yellow Kid is an American comic strip character that appeared from 1895 to 1898 in Joseph Pulitzer's "New York World", and later William Randolph Hearst's "New York Journal". Created and drawn by Richard F. Outcault in the comic strip "Hogan's Alley" (and later under other names as well), it was one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30565 |
The Little Bears
The Little Bears is an American comic strip created by Jimmy Swinnerton, regarded as a progenitor of the funny animal genre, as well as one of the first American comic strips with recurring characters – the titular bears. The feature emerged from a series of spot illustrations of a bear cub that began... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30566 |
Týr
Týr (; Old Norse: "Týr", ), Tíw (Old English), and Ziu (Old High German) is a god in Germanic mythology. Stemming from the Proto-Germanic deity "*Tīwaz" and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European chief deity *"Dyeus", little information about the god survives beyond Old Norse sources. Due to the etymology of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30569 |
Trajan
Trajan ( ; ; born Marcus Ulpius Traianus; 18 September 538August 117) was Roman emperor from 98 to 117. Officially declared by the Senate "optimus princeps" ("best ruler"), Trajan is remembered as a successful soldier-emperor who presided over the greatest military expansion in Roman history, leading the empire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30570 |
12 Monkeys
12 Monkeys, also known as Twelve Monkeys, is a 1995 American science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam, inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 short film "La Jetée", starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and Brad Pitt, with Christopher Plummer and David Morse in supporting roles. After Universal Studios acq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30575 |
The Sixth Sense
The Sixth Sense is a 1999 American supernatural psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The film tells the story of Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), a boy who is able to see and talk to the dead, and Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis), a child psychologist who tries to help him.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30582 |
Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War was a war fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648. It resulted in the deaths of over 8 million people, including 20 percent of the German population, making it one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. Initially a war between the Protestant and Cat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30583 |
Table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth across a table using small rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net. Except for the initial serve, the rules are generally as follows: players must all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30589 |
Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
The Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) is the abbreviated name of the 1963 Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, which prohibited all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted underground. It is also abbreviated as the Li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30592 |
Tribune
Tribune () was the title of various elected officials in ancient Rome. The two most important were the tribunes of the plebs and the military tribunes. For most of Roman history, a college of ten tribunes of the plebs acted as a check on the authority of the senate and the annual magistrates, holding the power... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30594 |
Train
A train is a form of rail transport consisting of a series of connected vehicles that generally run along a railroad (or railway) track to transport passengers or cargo (also known as "freight" or "goods"). The word "train" comes from the Old French "trahiner", derived from the Latin "trahere" meaning "to pull" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30598 |
Tunnels & Trolls
Tunnels & Trolls (abbreviated "T&T") is a fantasy role-playing game designed by Ken St. Andre and first published in 1975 by Flying Buffalo. The second modern role-playing game published, it was written by Ken St. Andre to be a more accessible alternative to "Dungeons & Dragons" and is suitable for so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30600 |
Trombetas River
The Trombetas is a large river on the northern side of the Amazon River.
The Trombetas is long, and is navigable by 500 ton vessels for a stretch of . The Trombetas river gives birth to very many rivers, including the Anamu river.
It is formed by the junction of the Poana and Anuma rivers on the borde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30601 |
Tetrahedron
In geometry, a tetrahedron (plural: tetrahedra or tetrahedrons), also known as a triangular pyramid, is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, six straight edges, and four vertex corners. The tetrahedron is the simplest of all the ordinary convex polyhedra and the only one that has fewer than 5 fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30606 |
Track cycling
Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using track bicycles.
Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it was held on velodromes similar to the ones used today. These velodromes consisted of two ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30611 |
Team pursuit
The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome.
Both men's and women's events are competed over a distance of 4 km, by a team of 4 riders. Prior to the start of the 2012–13... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30614 |
Track time trial
In the track time trial, a track cycling event, cyclists compete individually against the clock to record the fastest time over the specified distance from a standing start.
Track time trial bikes differ from normal track bikes in two major ways; firstly they have disc or 3–5 spoked wheels and second... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30615 |
Points race
A points race is a mass start track cycling event involving large numbers of riders simultaneously on track. It was an Olympic event for men between 1984–2008 and for women 1996–2008. Starting in 2012, the points race is one of the omnium events in the Olympics.
This race can be one of the more confusing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30616 |
Madison (cycling)
The madison is a relay race event in track cycling, named after the first Madison Square Garden in New York, and known as the "American race" in French ("course à l'américaine") and in Italian and Spanish as "Americana".
The madison is a race where each team must complete more laps than any of the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30617 |
Sprint (track cycling)
The sprint or match sprint is a track cycling event involving between two and four riders, though it is usually run as a one-on-one match race between opponents who, unlike in the individual pursuit, start next to each other. Men's sprint has been an Olympic event at every games except 1904 (whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30618 |
Keirin
Riders use brakeless fixed-gear bicycles.
Races are typically long: 6 laps on a track, 4 laps on a track, or 4 laps on a track. Lots are drawn to determine starting positions for the sprint riders behind the pacer, which is usually a motorcycle, but can be a derny, electric bicycle or tandem bicycle. Riders mus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30619 |
Turing completeness
In computability theory, a system of data-manipulation rules (such as a computer's instruction set, a programming language, or a cellular automaton) is said to be Turing-complete or computationally universal if it can be used to simulate any Turing machine. This means that this system is able to re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30621 |
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption". It tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30625 |
The Residents
The Residents are an American art collective best known for their avant-garde music and multimedia works. Since their first official release, "Meet the Residents" (1974), the group has released over sixty albums, numerous music videos and short films, three CD-ROM projects, and ten DVDs. They have undert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30629 |
Tacitus on Christ
The Roman historian and senator Tacitus referred to Christ, his execution by Pontius Pilate, and the existence of early Christians in Rome in his final work, "Annals" (written "ca." AD 116), .
The context of the passage is the six-day Great Fire of Rome that burned much of the city in AD 64 during t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30632 |
The Fantasy Trip
The Fantasy Trip (TFT) is a role-playing game designed by Steve Jackson and originally published by Metagaming Concepts. In 2019, "TFT" was revived by Steve Jackson Games.
"TFT" was developed from Metagaming's tactical combat MicroGames "Melee" and "Wizard", also designed by Jackson, which provided t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30633 |
Taliban
The Taliban (, ' "students") or Taleban, who refer to themselves as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), are a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist political movement and military organization in Afghanistan currently waging war (an insurgency, or jihad) within that country. Since 2016, the Taliban's leader is Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30635 |
Terrorism
Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentional violence for political or religious purposes. It is used in this regard primarily to refer to violence during peacetime or in the context of war against non-combatants (mostly civilians and neutral military personnel). The terms "terrorist" and "ter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30636 |
Thomas Malory
Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1415 – 14 March 1471) was an English writer, the author or compiler of "Le Morte d'Arthur", the classic English-language chronicle of the Arthurian legend, published by William Caxton in 1485. Malory’s identity has never been confirmed, but the likeliest candidate is Sir Thomas Malo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30638 |
Golden Brown
"Golden Brown" is a song by the English rock band the Stranglers. It was released as a 7" single, on Liberty, in December 1981 in the United States and in January 1982 in the United Kingdom. It was the second single released from the band's sixth album "La folie". It peaked at No. 2 in the UK Singles Char... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30644 |
Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed in Bolton, England in 1976 by singer-songwriter-guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter Howard Devoto. They are regarded as a seminal influence on the Manchester music scene, the independent record label movement, punk rock, power pop, and pop punk. They ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30645 |
Tidal acceleration
Tidal acceleration is an effect of the tidal forces between an orbiting natural satellite (e.g. the Moon), and the primary planet that it orbits (e.g. Earth). The acceleration causes a gradual recession of a satellite in a prograde orbit away from the primary, and a corresponding slowdown of the pri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30647 |
Timor
Timor is an island at the southern end of Maritime Southeast Asia, north of the Timor Sea. The island is divided between the sovereign states of East Timor on the eastern part and Indonesia on the western part. The Indonesian part, also known as West Timor, constitutes part of the province of East Nusa Tenggara.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30648 |
Tetracycline
Tetracycline, sold under the brand name Sumycin among others, is an antibiotic used to treat a number of infections. This includes acne, cholera, brucellosis, plague, malaria, and syphilis. It is taken by mouth.
Common side effects include vomiting, diarrhea, rash, and loss of appetite. Other side effects... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30649 |
Transposable element
A transposable element (TE, transposon, or jumping gene) is a DNA sequence that can change its position within a genome, sometimes creating or reversing mutations and altering the cell's genetic identity and genome size. Transposition often results in duplication of the same genetic material. Barb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30651 |
Trypsin
Trypsin () is a serine protease from the PA clan superfamily, found in the digestive system of many vertebrates, where it hydrolyzes proteins. Trypsin is formed in the small intestine when its proenzyme form, the trypsinogen produced by the pancreas, is activated. Trypsin cleaves peptide chains mainly at the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30652 |
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by "Mycobacterium tuberculosis" (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, in which case it is known as latent tuberculosis. About 10% of latent infection... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30653 |
Triangle
A triangle is a polygon with three edges and three vertices. It is one of the basic shapes in geometry. A triangle with vertices "A", "B", and "C" is denoted formula_1.
In Euclidean geometry any three points, when non-collinear, determine a unique triangle and simultaneously, a unique plane (i.e. a two-dimen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30654 |
Torino scale
The Torino Scale is a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets.
It is intended as a communication tool for astronomers and the public to assess the seriousness of collision predictions, by combining probability statistics and known ki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30656 |
Terabyte
The terabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix "tera" represents the fourth power of 1000, and means 1012 in the International System of Units (SI), and therefore one terabyte is one trillion (short scale) bytes. The unit symbol for the terabyte is TB.
A related unit, the teb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30657 |
Romani people
The Romani (also spelled Romany , ), colloquially known as Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants living mostly in Europe, and diaspora populations in the Americas. The Romani as a people originate from the northern Indian subcontinent, from the Rajasthan, Haryana, and Pun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26152 |
Roman Inquisition
The Roman Inquisition, formally the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition, was a system of tribunals developed by the Holy See of the Roman Catholic Church, during the second half of the 16th century, responsible for prosecuting individuals accused of a wide array of crim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26154 |
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