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Romare Bearden
Romare Bearden (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988) was an American artist, author, and songwriter. He worked with many types of media including cartoons, oils, and collages. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden grew up in New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from New York Uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26157 |
REO Motor Car Company
The REO Motor Car Company was a Lansing, Michigan-based company that produced automobiles and trucks from 1905 to 1975. At one point the company also manufactured buses on its truck platforms.
Ransom E. Olds was an entrepreneur who founded multiple companies in the automobile industry. In 1897 O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26158 |
Rehavam Ze'evi
20 June 1926 – 17 October 2001) was an Israeli general and politician who founded the right-wing nationalist Moledet party, mainly advocating population transfer.
He was assassinated by Hamdi Quran of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in retaliation for Israel's assassination of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26159 |
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 25, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat; the first was called (later "Clermont"). In 1807 that steamboat traveled on the Hudson River with passengers, from New York City to Alban... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26161 |
Real Time Streaming Protocol
The Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) is a network control protocol designed for use in entertainment and communications systems to control streaming media servers. The protocol is used for establishing and controlling media sessions between end points. Clients of media servers issue VHS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26162 |
Real-time Transport Protocol
The Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) is a network protocol for delivering audio and video over IP networks. RTP is used in communication and entertainment systems that involve streaming media, such as telephony, video teleconference applications including WebRTC, television services and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26163 |
Robert Calvert
Robert Newton Calvert (9 March 1945 – 14 August 1988) was a South African writer, poet, and musician. He is principally known for his role as lyricist and member of the space rock band Hawkwind.
Calvert was born in Pretoria, South Africa and moved with his parents to England when he was two. He attende... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26167 |
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26168 |
René Laennec
René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec (; 17 February 1781 – 13 August 1826) was a French physician and musician. His skill of carving his own wooden flutes led him to invent the stethoscope in 1816, while working at the Hôpital Necker. He pioneered its usage in diagnosing various chest conditions.
He became a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26169 |
Ramadan
Ramadan (, also , ;) or Ramazan ( ; also spelled "Ramzan", "Ramadhan", or "Ramathan") is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting ("sawm"), prayer, reflection and community. A commemoration of Muhammad's first revelation, the annual observance of Ramadan is r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26173 |
Rainhill Trials
The Rainhill Trials were an important competition run in October 1829, to test George Stephenson's argument that locomotives would provide the best motive power for the then nearly-completed Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR). Five locomotives were entered, running along a length of level track at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26175 |
Rayleigh scattering
Rayleigh scattering ( ), named after the nineteenth-century British physicist Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt), is the predominantly elastic scattering of light or other electromagnetic radiation by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the radiation. For light frequencies well below the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26176 |
Ron Popeil
Ronald M. Popeil (; born May 3, 1935) is an American inventor and marketing personality, best known for his direct response marketing company Ronco. He is well known for his appearances in infomercials for the Showtime Rotisserie and the coined phrase "Set it, and forget it!" as well as popularizing the phr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26179 |
REO Speedwagon
REO Speedwagon (originally stylized as R.E.O. Speedwagon) is an American rock band from Champaign, Illinois. Formed in 1967, the band cultivated a following during the 1970s and achieved significant commercial success throughout the 1980s. The group's best-selling album, "Hi Infidelity" (1980), containe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26180 |
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (; August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. He worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction.
Predominantly known for writing the iconic dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451" (1953), and his science-fiction and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26181 |
Radio Row
Radio Row is a nickname for an urban street or district specializing in the sale of radio and electronic equipment and parts. Radio Rows arose in many cities with the 1920s rise of broadcasting and declined after the middle of the 20th century.
New York City's Radio Row, which existed from 1921 to 1966, was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26184 |
Ralph Cudworth
The Rev. Prof. Ralph Cudworth (1617 – 26 June 1688) was an English Anglican clergyman, Christian Hebraist, classicist, theologian and philosopher, and a leading figure among the Cambridge Platonists. From a family background embedded in the early nonconformist environment of Emmanuel College where he st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26185 |
Roswell, New Mexico
Roswell is a city in, and the seat of, Chaves County in the U.S. state of New Mexico, the county forms the entirety of the Roswell micropolitan area. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 48,411, making it the fifth-largest city in New Mexico. It is home of New Mexico Military Institute (NMM... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26186 |
Red Sea
The Red Sea (, Hebrew: Yam Soof ים סוף) is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. To the north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez (leading to the Suez C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26191 |
Josh Kirby
Ronald William "Josh" Kirby (27 November 1928 – 23 October 2001) was a commercial artist born on the outskirts of Liverpool in the UK. Over a career spanning 60 years, he was the artist for the covers many science fiction books including those of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
He was born in 27 Novemb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26192 |
Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of Wadham College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.
Penr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26193 |
Restriction enzyme
A restriction enzyme, restriction endonuclease, or " restrictase " is an enzyme that cleaves DNA into fragments at or near specific recognition sites within molecules known as restriction sites. Restriction enzymes are one class of the broader endonuclease group of enzymes. Restriction enzymes are c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26194 |
RNA virus
An RNA virus is a virus that has RNA (ribonucleic acid) as its genetic material. This nucleic acid is usually single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) but may be double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). Notable human diseases caused by RNA viruses include the common cold, influenza, SARS, COVID-19, hepatitis C, hepatitis E, West Nil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26195 |
Radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.
The method was developed in the late 1940s at the University of Chicago by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26197 |
Roald Amundsen
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (, ; 16 July 1872 – ) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions and a key figure of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. He led the first expedition to traverse the Northwest Passage by sea, from 1903 to 1906, and the first expedition to the South Pole in 1911. He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26199 |
Richard Lovelace
Richard Lovelace (pronounced , homophone of "loveless") (9 December 1617 – 1657) was an English poet in the seventeenth century. He was a cavalier poet who fought on behalf of the king during the Civil War. His best known works are "To Althea, from Prison", and "To Lucasta, Going to the Warres".
Rich... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26200 |
Reduced instruction set computer
A reduced instruction set computer, or RISC (), is a computer with a small, highly-optimized set of instructions, rather than the more specialized set often found in other types of architecture, such as in a complex instruction set computer (CISC).
The main distinguishing feature of R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26201 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26202 |
Women in Judaism
The role of women in Judaism is determined by the Hebrew Bible, the Oral Law (the corpus of rabbinic literature), by custom, and by cultural factors. Although the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature mention various female role models, religious law treats women differently in various circumstances.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26204 |
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. The RICO Act focuses specifically on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26211 |
Rhombicuboctahedron
In geometry, the rhombicuboctahedron, or small rhombicuboctahedron, is an Archimedean solid with eight triangular and eighteen square faces. There are 24 identical vertices, with one triangle and three squares meeting at each one. (Note that six of the squares only share vertices with the triangles... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26213 |
Reverse transcriptase
A reverse transcriptase (RT) is an enzyme used to generate complementary DNA (cDNA) from an RNA template, a process termed reverse transcription. Reverse transcriptases are used by retroviruses to replicate their genomes, by retrotransposon mobile genetic elements to proliferate within the host g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26214 |
Riemann mapping theorem
In complex analysis, the Riemann mapping theorem states that if "U" is a non-empty simply connected open subset of the complex number plane C which is not all of C, then there exists a biholomorphic mapping "f" (i.e. a bijective holomorphic mapping whose inverse is also holomorphic) from "U" on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26215 |
Rhodesia
Rhodesia (, ) was an unrecognised state in southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was the "de facto" successor state to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia, which had been self-governing since achieving responsible government in 1923. A landlocked nation, R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26219 |
Relational model
The relational model (RM) for database management is an approach to managing data using a structure and language consistent with first-order predicate logic, first described in 1969 by English computer scientist Edgar F. Codd, where all data is represented in terms of tuples, grouped into relations. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26220 |
Rathaus Schöneberg
Rathaus Schöneberg is the city hall for the borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg in Berlin. From 1949 until 1990 it served as the seat of the state senate of West Berlin and from 1949 until 1991 as the seat of the Governing Mayor.
The sandstone building was constructed between 1911 and 1914, when it rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26221 |
Rædwald of East Anglia
Rædwald ( , 'power in counsel'), also written as Raedwald or Redwald, was a king of East Anglia, an Anglo-Saxon kingdom which included the present-day English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. He was the son of Tytila of East Anglia and a member of the Wuffingas dynasty (named after his grandfath... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26225 |
Rhyme
A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually, exactly the same sound) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words. Most often, this kind of perfect rhyming is consciously used for effect in the final positions of lines of poems and songs. More broadly, a rhyme may also ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26226 |
Rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek , "rhythmos", "any regular recurring motion, symmetry" ) generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions" . This general meaning of regular recurrence or pattern in time can apply to a wide variety of cyclical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26227 |
Riboflavin
Riboflavin, also known as vitamin B2, is a vitamin found in food and used as a dietary supplement. It is required by the body for cellular respiration.
Food sources include eggs, green vegetables, milk and other dairy product, meat, mushrooms, and almonds. Some countries require its addition to grains.
As... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26229 |
Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum (; ) is a Dutch national museum dedicated to arts and history in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Concertgebouw.
The Rijksmuseum was founded in The Hague on 19 Novembe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26230 |
Ruhollah Khomeini
Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini ( , ; ; 24 September 19023 June 1989), also known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian politician, revolutionary, and cleric. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which saw the overthrow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26232 |
Tensor product
In mathematics, the tensor product of two vector spaces and (over the same field) is itself a vector space, endowed with the operation of bilinear composition, denoted by , from ordered pairs in the Cartesian product to in a way that generalizes the outer product.
Essentially the difference between a t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30844 |
Tiramisu
Tiramisu (from the Italian language, spelled "tiramisù", , meaning "pick me up" or "cheer me up") is a coffee-flavoured Italian dessert. It is made of ladyfingers (savoiardi) dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of eggs, sugar and mascarpone cheese, flavoured with cocoa. The recipe has been adapte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30845 |
Toronto Blue Jays
The Toronto Blue Jays are a Canadian professional baseball team based in Toronto, Ontario. The Blue Jays compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. The team plays its home games at Rogers Centre.
The name "Blue Jays" originates from the bird of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30847 |
Turbine
A turbine ( or ) (from the Latin "turbo", a vortex, related to the Greek , "tyrbē", meaning "turbulence") is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work. The work produced by a turbine can be used for generating electrical power when combined with a genera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30848 |
Toledo, Ohio
Toledo () is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, United States. A major Midwestern United States port city, Toledo is the fourth-most-populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio, after Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, and according to the 2010 census, the 71st-largest city in the United S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30849 |
Toledo War
The Toledo War (1835–36), also known as the Michigan-Ohio War or Ohio-Michigan War, was an almost bloodless boundary dispute between the U.S. state of Ohio and the adjoining territory of Michigan.
Poor geographical understanding of the Great Lakes helped produce conflicting state and federal legislation b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30850 |
Transylvania
Transylvania is a historical region that is located in central Romania. Bound on the east and south by its natural borders, the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended westward to the Apuseni Mountains. The term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also parts of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30853 |
Theodore Judah
Theodore Dehone Judah (March 4, 1825 – November 2, 1863) was an American railroad and civil engineer who was a central figure in the original promotion, establishment, and design of the First Transcontinental Railroad. He found investors for what became the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR). As chief engi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30854 |
Towpath
A towpath is a road or trail on the bank of a river, canal, or other inland waterway. The purpose of a towpath is to allow a land vehicle, beasts of burden, or a team of human pullers to tow a boat, often a barge. This mode of transport was common where sailing was impractical due to tunnels and bridges, unfav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30855 |
Texas Rangers (baseball)
The Texas Rangers are an American professional baseball team based in Arlington, Texas, located in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division. In 2020, they will move to the new Globe Life Field after ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30857 |
Tex-Mex
Tex-Mex cuisine (from "Texan" and "Mexican") is an American regional cuisine that derives from the culinary creations of the Tejano people of Texas. It has spread from border states such as Texas and others in the Southwestern United States to the rest of the country as well as Canada. Tex-Mex is most popular ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30859 |
Trick-or-treating
Trick-or-treating is a Halloween ritual custom for children and adults in some countries. Children in costumes travel from house to house, asking for treats with the phrase "Trick or treat". The "treat" is usually some form of candy, although in some cultures money is given instead. The "trick" refer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30861 |
Test cricket
Test cricket is the form of the sport of cricket with the longest match duration, and is considered the game's highest standard. Test matches are played between national representative teams that have been granted Test status, as determined and conferred by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The ter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30863 |
Thucydides
Thucydides (; "" ; BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His "History of the Peloponnesian War" recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" by those who accept his claims to have applied strict standard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30864 |
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like restorative justice body assembled in South Africa after the end of apartheid. Witnesses who were identified as victims of gross human rights violations were invited to give statements about their experien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30865 |
Tatting
Tatting is a technique for handcrafting a particularly durable lace from a series of knots and loops. Tatting can be used to make lace edging as well as doilies, collars, accessories such as earrings and necklaces, and other decorative pieces. The lace is formed by a pattern of rings and chains formed from a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30867 |
Tesla turbine
The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by Nikola Tesla in 1913. It is referred to as a "bladeless turbine". The Tesla turbine is also known as the "boundary-layer turbine", "cohesion-type turbine", and "Prandtl-layer turbine" (after Ludwig Prandtl) because it uses the "boundar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30869 |
Transport in Afghanistan
Transport in Afghanistan is limited and in the developing stage. Much of the nation's road network was built during the 1960s but left to ruin during the 1980s and 90s wars. New national highways, roads, and bridges have been rebuilt in the last decade to help increase travel as well as trade ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30870 |
The Cramps
The Cramps were an American punk rock band formed in 1976 and active until 2009. The band split after the death of lead singer Lux Interior. Their line-up rotated frequently during their existence, with the husband-and-wife duo of Interior and lead guitarist and occasional bass guitarist Poison Ivy comprisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30872 |
The Stems
The Stems are an alternative rock band formed in Perth, Western Australia in late 1983. They were founded by Dom Mariani in late 1983. The Stems are heavily influenced by 1960s garage rock and 1970s power pop. The band initially broke up in August 1987 and reformed in 2003 releasing a new album in 2007. Alth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30873 |
Theocracy
Theocracy is a form of government in which a deity of some type is recognized as the supreme ruling authority, giving divine guidance to human intermediaries that manage the day-to-day affairs of the government.
The word "theocracy" originates from the Greek θεοκρατία meaning "the rule of God". This in turn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30875 |
Tékumel
Tékumel is a fantasy world created by M. A. R. Barker over the course of several decades from around 1940. In this imaginary world, huge, tradition-bound empires with medieval levels of technology vie for control using magic, large standing armies, and ancient technological devices. In time, Barker created the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30877 |
Chicken or the egg
The chicken or the egg causality dilemma is commonly stated as the question, "which came first: the chicken or the egg?" The dilemma stems from the observation that all chickens hatch from eggs and all chicken eggs are laid by chickens. "Chicken-and-egg" is a metaphoric adjective describing situatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30878 |
Tuscarora people
The Tuscarora (in Tuscarora "Skarù:ręˀ", "hemp gatherers" or "Shirt-Wearing People") are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government of the Iroquoian-language family, with members today in North Carolina, New York, and Ontario. They coalesced as a people around the Great Lakes, likely ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30881 |
Turbocharger
A turbocharger, colloquially known as a turbo, is a turbine-driven, forced induction device that increases an internal combustion engine's efficiency and power output by forcing extra compressed air into the combustion chamber.
This improvement over a naturally aspirated engine's power output is due to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30886 |
Thomas Hare (political scientist)
Sir Thomas Hare (28 March 1806 in England – 6 May 1891) was a British proponent of electoral reform.
He was born on 28 March 1806, was the only son of A Hare of Leigh, Dorset.
On 14 November 1828 he was admitted a student of the Inner Temple, and was called to the bar on 22 November... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30889 |
Time zone
A time zone is a region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries of countries and their subdivisions instead of strictly following longitude because it is convenient for areas in close commercial or other communicat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30890 |
Truro
Truro (; ) is a cathedral city and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK. It is Cornwall's county town and only city, as well as being its centre for administration, leisure and retail. Its population was recorded as 18,766 in the 2011 census. People from Truro are known as Truronians. Truro grew as a centre of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30892 |
Tom Burnett
Thomas Edward Burnett Jr. (May 29, 1963 – September 11, 2001) was an American who was the vice-president and chief operating officer of Thoratec Corporation, a medical devices company based in Pleasanton, California. He resided in San Ramon, California. On September 11, 2001, Burnett was a passenger on boa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30895 |
Tommy Franks
Tommy Ray Franks (born June 17, 1945) is a retired general in the United States Army. His last army post was as the Commander of the United States Central Command, overseeing United States military operations in a 25-country region, including the Middle East. Franks succeeded General Anthony Zinni to this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30896 |
Treaty of Verdun
The Treaty of Verdun, signed in August 843, was the first of the treaties that divided the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms among the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious, who was the son of Charlemagne. The treaty, signed in Verdun-sur-Meuse, ended the three-year Carolingian Civil War.
Foll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30898 |
Trance music
Trance is a genre of electronic music that emerged from the British new-age music scene and the early 1990s German techno and hardcore scenes. At the same time trance music was developing in Europe, the genre was also gathering a following in the Indian state of Goa.
Trance music is characterized by a te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30900 |
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (, ; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For "Gravity'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30903 |
Transformer
A transformer is a passive electrical device that transfers electrical energy from one electrical circuit to another, or multiple circuits. A varying current in any one coil of the transformer produces a varying magnetic flux in the transformer's core, which induces a varying electromotive force across any... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30906 |
Thomas Brackett Reed
Thomas Brackett Reed (October 18, 1839 – December 7, 1902), was an American politician from the state of Maine, and was a member of the Republican Party. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives 12 times, first in 1876, and served as Speaker of the House, from 1889–1891 and aga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30908 |
Thunderbird and Whale
"Thunderbird and Whale" is an indigenous myth belonging to the mythological traditions of a number of tribes from the Pacific Northwest.
Whale was a monster, killing other whales and depriving the Quileute tribe of meat and oil. Thunderbird, a benevolent supernatural being, saw from its home hig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30913 |
Triage
Triage () is the process of determining the priority of patients' treatments by the severity of their condition or likelihood of recovery with and without treatment. This rations patient treatment efficiently when resources are insufficient for all to be treated immediately; influencing the order and priority o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30919 |
Tolstoy family
Tolstoy, or Tolstoi (), is a family of Russian gentry that acceded to the high aristocracy of the Russian Empire. The name Tolstoy (Russian "Толстой") is itself derived from the Russian adjective "толстый" ("thick, stout, fat"). They are the descendants of Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy ("the Fat"), who m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30925 |
Tom Daschle
Thomas Andrew Daschle (; born December 9, 1947) is a retired American politician and lobbyist who served as a United States senator from South Dakota from 1987 to 2005. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Daschle obtained a degree at South Dakota State University, and also served in the United States ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30930 |
Throughput
In general terms, throughput is the rate of production or the rate at which something is processed.
When used in the context of communication networks, such as Ethernet or packet radio, throughput or network throughput is the rate of "successful" message delivery over a communication channel. The data thes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30932 |
TiVo
TiVo ( ) is a digital video recorder (DVR) developed and marketed by Xperi (previously by TiVo Corporation and TiVo Inc.) and introduced in 1999. TiVo provides an on-screen guide of scheduled broadcast programming television programs, whose features include "Season Pass" schedules which record every new episode o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30936 |
Tacticity
Tacticity (from Greek τακτικός "taktikos" "of or relating to arrangement or order") is the relative stereochemistry of adjacent chiral centers within a macromolecule. The practical significance of tacticity rests on the effects on the physical properties of the polymer. The regularity of the macromolecular s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30941 |
Tobacco
Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the "Nicotiana" genus and the Solanaceae (nightshade) family, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of the tobacco plant. More than 70 species of tobacco are known, but the chief commercial crop is "N. tabacum". The more potent varia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30942 |
National anthem of South Africa
The national anthem of South Africa was adopted in 1997 and is a hybrid song combining new English lyrics with extracts of the 19th century hymn "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" (, ) and the Afrikaans song "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika" (), which was formerly used as the South African national anth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30944 |
The Undertones
The Undertones are a rock band formed in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1974. From 1975 to 1983, the Undertones consisted of Feargal Sharkey (vocals), John O'Neill (rhythm guitar, vocals), Damian O'Neill (lead guitar, vocals), Michael Bradley (bass, vocals) and Billy Doherty (drums). Much of the earlier Und... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30950 |
Tom Lehrer
Thomas Andrew Lehrer (; born April 9, 1928) is a retired American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater. He is best known for the pithy and humorous songs that he recorded in the 1950s and 1960s. His songs often parodied popular musical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30951 |
Tuatha Dé Danann
The Tuath(a) Dé Danann (, meaning "the folk of the goddess Danu"), also known by the earlier name Tuath Dé ("tribe of the gods"), are a supernatural race in Irish mythology. They are thought to represent the main deities of pre-Christian Gaelic Ireland. The Tuatha Dé Danann constitute a pantheon whose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30957 |
Time-sharing
In computing, time-sharing is the sharing of a computing resource among many users at the same time by means of multiprogramming and multi-tasking.
Its emergence as the prominent model of computing in the 1970s represented a major technological shift in the history of computing. By allowing many users to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30958 |
Tuba
The tuba (; ; ) is the lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, the sound is produced by lip vibration, or a buzz, into a large mouthpiece. It first appeared in the mid-19th century, making it one of the newer instruments in the modern orchestra and concert band. The t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30961 |
Star Trek: Enterprise
Star Trek: Enterprise, titled simply Enterprise for its first two seasons, is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. It originally aired from September 26, 2001, to May 13, 2005, on UPN, spanning . The sixth series in the "Star Trek" franchise, it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27074 |
List of Star Trek: Enterprise episodes
"" is an American science fiction television series that originally aired on the UPN network from September 26, 2001 to May 13, 2005. Until the episode "" towards the start of the , the series was called simply "Enterprise" without the "Star Trek" prefix. The series aired for 98 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27075 |
The Doctor (Star Trek: Voyager)
The Doctor, an Emergency Medical Hologram Mark I (or EMH for short), is a fictional character from the television series "", played by actor Robert Picardo. He is an artificial intelligence manifesting as a holographic projection, designed to act as a short-term supplement to the medica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27076 |
Worf
Worf, son of Mogh ( in the Klingon language) is a fictional character in the "Star Trek" franchise. He appears in the television series "" "(TNG)" and seasons four through seven of "" "(DS9)" as well as the feature films "Star Trek Generations" (1994), "" (1996), "" (1998), and "" (2002). Worf is the first Klingo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27078 |
Star Trek Generations
Star Trek Generations is a 1994 American science fiction film directed by David Carson and based on the franchise "Star Trek". It is the seventh film in the "Star Trek" film series, and brings together cast members from the 1960s television show "" and the 1987 spin-off show "", with Malcolm McDo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27079 |
Odo (Star Trek)
Odo , played by René Auberjonois, is a fictional character in the science fiction television series "". He is a member of a shapeshifting species called Changelings and serves as the head of security for the space station Deep Space Nine on which the show is set. Intelligent, observant and taciturn, Od... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27080 |
Cardassian
The Cardassians () are a fictional extraterrestrial species in the American science fiction franchise "Star Trek". They were devised in 1991 for the series "" before being used in the subsequent series "" and "".
The writers of "The Next Generation" introduced the Cardassians for the fourth season episode ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27081 |
Martok
Martok, son of Urthog is a recurring character in "", played by actor J. G. Hertzler. Martok is a high-ranking Klingon leader at the Federation-Bajoran space station in the late 2300s.
J. G. Hertzler made his first appearance in the franchise in the "" pilot episode, "", as a Vulcan Captain who is killed when ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27082 |
Kathryn Janeway
Kathryn Janeway is a fictional character in the "Star Trek" franchise. As the captain of the Starfleet starship USS "Voyager", she was the lead character on the television series "", and later a Starfleet admiral, as seen in the 2002 feature film "". Although other female captains had appeared in previ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27083 |
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