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B'Elanna Torres
B'Elanna Torres is a main character in "" played by Roxann Dawson. She is portrayed as a half-human half-Klingon born in 2346 on the Federation colony Kessik IV. She was admitted to Starfleet academy but dropped out before graduating. Torres joined the Maquis in 2370 and was serving on the "Val Jean" w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27084 |
Chakotay
Chakotay is a fictional character who appears in each of the seven seasons of the American science fiction television series "". Portrayed by Robert Beltran, he is First Officer aboard the Starfleet starship USS "Voyager". The character was suggested at an early stage of the development of the series. He is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27085 |
Maquis (Star Trek)
In the "Star Trek" science fiction franchise, the Maquis are a 24th-century paramilitary organization-terrorist group (like the World War II Maquis in the French Resistance and the Spanish Maquis that emerged in the Spanish Civil War) first introduced in the 1994 episode "The Maquis" of the televisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27086 |
Kes (Star Trek)
Kes is a fictional character on the American science fiction television show "". She is portrayed by actress Jennifer Lien. Set in the 24th century of the "Star Trek" universe, the series follows the crew of the starship USS "Voyager", stranded far from home and struggling to get back to Earth. Kes is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27087 |
List of Star Trek: The Original Series episodes
Created by Gene Roddenberry, the science fiction television series "" (which eventually acquired the retronym "Star Trek: The Original Series") starred William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock, and DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27090 |
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Star Trek: The Animated Series (TAS), originally aired as Star Trek and as The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek, is an American animated science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. It originally aired from September 8, 1973 to October 12, 1974 on NBC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27092 |
Tom Paris
Thomas Eugene "Tom" Paris, played by Robert Duncan McNeill, is a character in the American science fiction television series "". In that show, which aired on UPN between 1995 and 2001, Paris serves as the chief helmsman and an auxiliary medic aboard the United Federation of Planets starship USS "Voyager", wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27094 |
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: First Contact is a 1996 American science fiction film directed by Jonathan Frakes (in his motion picture directorial debut) and based on the franchise "Star Trek". It is the eighth film in the "Star Trek" film series, as well as the second to star the cast of "". In the film, the cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27097 |
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Nicholas Meyer and based on the television series "". It is the second film in the "Star Trek" film series, and is a sequel to "" (1979). The plot features Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27098 |
Q (Star Trek)
Q is a fictional character as well as the name of a race in "Star Trek" appearing in the "", "", and "" series, and in related media. The most familiar Q is portrayed by John de Lancie. He is an extra-dimensional being of unknown origin who possesses immeasurable power over time, space, the laws of physi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27100 |
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Voyager is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, and Jeri Taylor. It originally aired from January 1995 to May 2001 on UPN, lasting for 172 episodes over seven seasons. The fifth series in the "Star Trek" franchise, it served as the fourth s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27102 |
Beverly Crusher
Beverly Crusher is a character in the fictional "Star Trek" franchise. Debuting in the television series, "", Gates McFadden portrayed the character for all but the second of its seven seasons, as well as its spin-off feature films, "Star Trek Generations", "", "", and "".
She was the chief medical of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27103 |
Leonard McCoy
Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy is a character in the American science fiction franchise "Star Trek". McCoy was most famously portrayed by actor DeForest Kelley in the from 1966 to 1969, and he also appears in the , six "Star Trek" movies, the pilot episode of "", and in numerous books, comics, and video games.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27105 |
Deanna Troi
Deanna Troi is a main character in the science-fiction television series "" and related TV series and films, portrayed by actress Marina Sirtis. Troi is half-human, half-Betazoid and has the psionic ability to sense emotions. She serves as the ship's counselor on USS "Enterprise"-D. Throughout most of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27107 |
Geordi La Forge
Geordi La Forge is a fictional character who appeared in all seven seasons of the American science fiction television series "" and its four feature films. Portrayed by LeVar Burton, he served as helmsman of the USS "Enterprise"-D in the , then occupied the role of the chief engineer for the rest of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27108 |
Hoshi Sato
Hoshi Sato , played by Korean American actress Linda Park, is a fictional character in the science fiction television series "".
Sato, born in Kyoto, Japan on July 9, 2129, is the communications officer aboard the starship "Enterprise (NX-01)", and also a linguist who can speak more than forty languages (p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27109 |
Romulan
The Romulans () are a fictional extraterrestrial race in the American science fiction franchise "Star Trek". They first appeared in the series "" (1966–1969). They have appeared in most subsequent "Star Trek" releases, including: "", "", "", "", "" and "". They have also appeared in the "Star Trek" feature fil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27110 |
Starship Enterprise
Enterprise or USS "Enterprise (often referred to as the "Starship "Enterprise") is the name of several fictional spacecraft, some of which are the main craft and setting for various television series and films in the "Star Trek" science fiction franchise. The most notable were Captain James T. Kirk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27112 |
Secularism
Secularism may refer to any worldview or principle which defines the secular at a given context, and prioritizes, justifies or promotes it over the non-secular.
Secularism has a broad range of meaning. While its definition as the separation of religion from civic affairs and the state is the most common, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27113 |
Silicon
Silicon is a chemical element with the symbol Si and atomic number 14. It is a hard, brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic lustre, and is a tetravalent metalloid and semiconductor. It is a member of group 14 in the periodic table: carbon is above it; and germanium, tin, and lead are below it. It ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27114 |
Scandium
Scandium is a chemical element with the symbol Sc and atomic number 21. A silvery-white metallic d-block element, it has historically been classified as a rare-earth element, together with yttrium and the lanthanides. It was discovered in 1879 by spectral analysis of the minerals euxenite and gadolinite from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27116 |
Selenium
Selenium is a chemical element with the symbol Se and atomic number 34. It is a nonmetal (more rarely considered a metalloid) with properties that are intermediate between the elements above and below in the periodic table, sulfur and tellurium, and also has similarities to arsenic. It rarely occurs in its el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27117 |
Strontium
Strontium is the chemical element with the symbol Sr and atomic number 38. An alkaline earth metal, strontium is a soft silver-white yellowish metallic element that is highly chemically reactive. The metal forms a dark oxide layer when it is exposed to air. Strontium has physical and chemical properties simi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27118 |
Silver
Silver is a chemical element with the symbol Ag (from the Latin "", derived from the Proto-Indo-European "h₂erǵ": "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27119 |
Samarium
Samarium is a chemical element with the symbol Sm and atomic number 62. It is a moderately hard silvery metal that slowly oxidizes in air. Being a typical member of the lanthanide series, samarium usually assumes the oxidation state +3. Compounds of samarium(II) are also known, most notably the monoxide SmO, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27121 |
Sámi people
The Sámi people (; also spelled Sami or Saami) are an indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula within the Murmansk Oblast of Russia. The Sámi have historically been known in English as Lapps or Laplanders.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27122 |
Saarland
Saarland (, also , ; ) is a state of Germany in the west of the country. With an area of and population of 995,600 in 2015, it is the smallest German state in both area and population apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg. Saarbrücken is the state capital and largest city; other cities incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27123 |
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein () is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig. Its capital city is Kiel; other notable cities are Lübeck and Flensburg.
Also known in more dated English as Sleswick-Ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27126 |
Sulfur
Sulfur (in British English, sulphur) is a chemical element with the symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundant, multivalent, and nonmetallic. Under normal conditions, sulfur atoms form cyclic octatomic molecules with a chemical formula S8. Elemental sulfur is a bright yellow, crystalline solid at room temper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27127 |
SAMPA
The Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) is a computer-readable phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters, based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
It was originally developed in the late 1980s for six European languages by the EEC ESPRIT information technology research an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27129 |
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actress. Her music incorporates elements of pop, rock, country, jazz, and blues. She has released ten studio albums, four compilations, two live albums, and has contributed to a number of film soundtracks. Her mos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27152 |
Structuralist film theory
Structuralist film theory is a branch of film theory that is rooted in structuralism, itself based on structural linguistics.
Structuralist film theory emphasizes how films convey meaning through the use of codes and conventions not dissimilar to the way languages are used to construct mean... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27153 |
Epileptic seizure
A seizure, formally known as an epileptic seizure, is a period of symptoms due to abnormally excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. Outward effects vary from uncontrolled shaking movements involving much of the body with loss of consciousness (tonic-clonic seizure), to shaking movem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27154 |
Svenska Akademiens ordlista
Svenska Akademiens ordlista (), abbreviated SAOL, is a glossary published every few years by the Swedish Academy. It is a single volume that is considered the final arbiter of Swedish spelling. Traditionally it carries the motto of the Swedish Academy, "Snille och Smak" ("Talent and Taste")... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27155 |
Stockholm School of Economics
The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE; , HHS) is one of Europe's leading business schools. SSE offers BSc, MSc and MBA programs, along with highly regarded PhD- and Executive Education programs.
SSE's Master program in Finance is ranked no.18 worldwide as of 2018. The Masters in Managem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27156 |
Stockholm University
Stockholm University () is a public university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, it is one of the largest universities in Scandinavia.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27157 |
Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, the territorial police force responsible for policing all 32 boroughs of London, excluding the City of London.
The name derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27158 |
Satire
Satire is a genre of literature and performing arts, usually fiction and less frequently in non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. Although satire is usua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26791 |
List of science fiction and fantasy artists
This is a list of science fiction and fantasy artists, notable and well-known 20th- and 21st-century artists who have created book covers or interior illustrations for books, or who have had their own books or comic books of fantastic art with science fiction or fantasy them... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26794 |
Saxophone
The saxophone (referred to colloquially as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece. Although most saxophones are made from brass, they are categorized as woodwind instruments, because sound is produced by an oscillating reed (traditionally m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26795 |
Sackbut
A sackbut is a type of trombone from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, characterised by a telescopic slide that is used to vary the length of the tube to change pitch. Unlike the earlier slide trumpet from which it evolved, the sackbut possesses a U-shaped slide, with two parallel sliding tubes, which allows f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26797 |
Saxhorn
The saxhorn is a family of valved brass instruments that have conical bores and deep cup-shaped mouthpieces. The saxhorn family was developed by Adolphe Sax, who is also known for creating the saxophone family. The sound of the saxhorn has a characteristic mellow tone quality and blends well with other brass.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26798 |
Sonic Team
The initial team, formed in 1990, was composed of staff from Sega's Consumer Development division, including programmer Yuji Naka, artist Naoto Ohshima, and level designer Hirokazu Yasuhara. The team took the name Sonic Team in 1991 with the release of their first game, "Sonic the Hedgehog," for the Sega Ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26800 |
Sex
Organisms of many species are specialized into male and female varieties, each known as a sex. Sexual reproduction involves the combining and mixing of genetic traits: specialized cells known as gametes combine to form offspring that inherit traits from each parent. The gametes produced by an organism define its s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26805 |
Star
A star is an astronomical object consisting of a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its own gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye from Earth during the night, appearing as a multitude of fixed luminous points in the sky due to their immense distance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26808 |
StarCraft (video game)
StarCraft is a 1998 military science fiction real-time strategy game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows. The game spawned the StarCraft franchise, and became the first game of the video game series. A Classic Mac OS version was released in 1999, and a Nintend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26809 |
Skepticism
Skepticism (American English and Canadian English) or scepticism (British English and Australian English) is generally a questioning attitude or doubt towards one or more items of putative knowledge or belief or dogma. It is often directed at domains, such as the supernatural, morality (moral skepticism), t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26810 |
Stagflation
In economics, stagflation or recession-inflation is a situation in which the inflation rate is high, the economic growth rate slows, and unemployment remains steadily high. It presents a dilemma for economic policy, since actions intended to lower inflation may exacerbate unemployment.
The term, a portman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26818 |
Soundness
In logic, more precisely in deductive reasoning, an argument is sound if it is both valid in form and its premises are true. Soundness also has a related meaning in mathematical logic, wherein logical systems are sound if and only if every formula that can be proved in the system is logically valid with resp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26819 |
Syllabary
In the linguistic study of written languages, a syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words.
A symbol in a syllabary, called a syllabogram, typically represents an (optional) consonant sound (simple onset) followed by a vowel sound (nucl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26820 |
Steve Reich
Stephen Michael Reich ( ; born October 3, 1936) is an American composer known for his contribution to the development of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.
Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons. His innovations include using tape loops to create pha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26822 |
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk-rock duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel. One of the best-selling music groups of the 1960s, their biggest hits—including "The Sound of Silence" (1965), "Mrs. Robinson" (1968), "The Boxer" (1969), and "Bridge over Troubled Wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26823 |
State Street Corporation
State Street Corporation is an American financial services and bank holding company headquartered at One Lincoln Street in Boston with operations worldwide. It is the second-oldest continually operating United States bank; its predecessor, Union Bank, was founded in 1792. State Street is ranke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26824 |
Spanish language
Spanish (), or Castilian (, ), is a Romance language that originated in the Iberian Peninsula and today is a global language with more than 483 million native speakers, mainly in Spain and the Americas. It is the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese, and the world's fourt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26825 |
Sodium
Sodium is a chemical element with the symbol Na (from Latin "natrium") and atomic number 11. It is a soft, silvery-white, highly reactive metal. Sodium is an alkali metal, being in group 1 of the periodic table. Its only stable isotope is 23Na. The free metal does not occur in nature, and must be prepared from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26826 |
Suriname
Suriname (, , sometimes spelled Surinam), officially known as the Republic of Suriname ( ), is a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, French Guiana to the east, Guyana to the west and Brazil to the south. At just under , it is the smal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26828 |
Category of sets
In the mathematical field of category theory, the category of sets, denoted as Set, is the category whose objects are sets. The arrows or morphisms between sets "A" and "B" are the total functions from "A" to "B", and the composition of morphisms is the composition of functions.
Many other categories... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26829 |
Slovakia
Slovakia (; ), officially the Slovak Republic (, ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the southwest, and Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's territory spans about and is mostly mountainous. The popula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26830 |
Scientific method
The scientific method is an empirical method of acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century. It involves careful observation, applying rigorous skepticism about what is observed, given that cognitive assumptions can distort how one interprets ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26833 |
Shotgun
A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug. Shotguns come in a wide variety of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26838 |
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan (; ) is a prairie and boreal province in western Canada, the only province without a natural border. It has an area of , nearly 10 percent of which () is fresh water, composed mostly of rivers, reservoirs, and the province's 100,000 lakes.
Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26840 |
Socialism
Socialism is a political, social, and economic philosophy encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production and workers' self-management of enterprises. It includes the political theories and movements associated with such systems. Social ownersh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26847 |
Sabine River (Texas–Louisiana)
The Sabine River () is a river, long, in the Southern U.S. states of Texas and Louisiana. From the 32nd parallel north and downstream, it serves as part of the boundary between the two states and empties into Sabine Lake, an estuary of the Gulf of Mexico. Over the first half of the 19th ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26849 |
Synergy
Synergy is the creation of a whole that is greater than the simple sum of its parts. The term "synergy" comes from the Attic Greek word συνεργία ' from ', , meaning "working together".
The words "synergy" and "synergetic" have been used in the field of physiology since at least the middle of the 19th century:... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26859 |
Syntax
In linguistics, syntax () is the set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences (sentence structure) in a given language, usually including word order. The term "syntax" is also used to refer to the study of such principles and processes. The goal of many syntacticians is to disc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26860 |
Pole weapon
A pole weapon or pole arm is a close combat weapon in which the main fighting part of the weapon is fitted to the end of a long shaft, typically of wood, thereby extending the user's effective range and striking power. Because many pole weapons were adapted from agricultural implements or other tools in fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24873 |
Personal jurisdiction
Personal jurisdiction is a court's jurisdiction over the "parties" to a lawsuit, as opposed to subject-matter jurisdiction, which is jurisdiction over the "law and facts" involved in the suit. If a court does not have "personal" jurisdiction over a party, its rulings or decrees cannot be enforced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24875 |
Pell's equation
Pell's equation (also called the Pell–Fermat equation) is any Diophantine equation of the form
where "n" is a given positive nonsquare integer and integer solutions are sought for "x" and "y". In Cartesian coordinates, the equation has the form of a hyperbola; solutions occur wherever the curve passes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24877 |
Telephone card
A telephone card, calling card or phonecard for short, is a credit card-size plastic or paper card, used to pay for telephone services (often international or long-distance calling). It is not necessary to have the physical card except with a stored-value system; knowledge of the access telephone number... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24879 |
CD-i
The Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-I, later CD-i) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was mostly developed and marketed by Dutch company Philips. It was created as an extension of CDDA and CD-ROM and specified in the "Green Book", co-developed by Philips and Sony, to combine audio, text and graphics.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24883 |
Peppered moth
The peppered moth ("Biston betularia") is a temperate species of night-flying moth. Peppered moth evolution is an example of population genetics and natural selection.
The caterpillars of the peppered moth not only mimic the form but also the colour of a twig. Recent research indicates that the caterpil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24884 |
Power Macintosh
The Power Macintosh, later Power Mac, is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. as part of its Macintosh brand from March 1994 until August 2006.
Described by MacWorld Magazine as "The most important technical evolution of the Macintosh since the Mac II... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24886 |
Promoter (genetics)
In genetics, a promoter is a sequence of DNA to which proteins bind that initiate transcription of a single RNA from the DNA downstream of it. This RNA may encode a protein, or can have a function in and of itself, such as tRNA, mRNA, or rRNA. Promoters are located near the transcription start site... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24888 |
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Inc. for Windows and macOS. It was originally created in 1988 by Thomas and John Knoll. Since then, the software has become the industry standard not only in raster graphics editing, but in digital art as a whole. The software... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24893 |
PaintShop Pro
PaintShop Pro (PSP) is a raster and vector graphics editor for Microsoft Windows. It was originally published by Jasc Software. In October 2004, Corel purchased Jasc Software and the distribution rights to Paint Shop Pro. PSP functionality can be extended by Photoshop-compatible plugins.
The X-numbered ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24894 |
Persuasion
Persuasion is an umbrella term of influence. Persuasion can attempt to influence a person's beliefs, attitudes, intentions, motivations, or behaviors.
In business,
persuasion is a process aimed at changing a person's (or a group's) attitude or behaviour toward some event, idea, object, or other person(s),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24897 |
Prime Minister of Israel
The prime minister of Israel (, "Rosh HaMemshala", "lit." Head of the Government, Hebrew acronym: ; , "Ra'īs al-Ḥukūma") is the head of government and chief executive of Israel.
Israel is a republic with a president as head of state. However, the president's powers are largely ceremonial; the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24898 |
President of France
The president of France, officially the president of the French Republic (, ), is the head of state of France in the French Fifth Republic. In French terms, the presidency is the supreme magistracy of the country.
The powers, functions and duties of prior presidential offices, as well as their rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24899 |
Plastic explosive
Plastic explosive is a soft and hand-moldable solid form of explosive material. Within the field of explosives engineering, plastic explosives are also known as putty explosives.
Plastic explosives are especially suited for explosive demolition. Common plastic explosives include Semtex and C-4. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24900 |
Post-structuralism
Post-structuralism is the literary and philosophical work that both builds upon and rejects ideas within the intellectual project that preceded it: structuralism.
Structuralism proposes that one may understand human culture by means of a structure modeled on language (structural linguistics). This ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24902 |
Peace process
A peace process is the set of sociopolitical negotiations, agreements and actions that aim to solve a specific armed conflict.
Prior to an armed conflict occurring, peace processes can include the prevention of an intra-state or inter-state dispute from escalating into military conflict. The United Nati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24903 |
Product topology
In topology and related areas of mathematics, a product space is the Cartesian product of a family of topological spaces equipped with a natural topology called the product topology. This topology differs from another, perhaps more obvious, topology called the box topology, which can also be given to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24910 |
Playdia
The (developed under the codename "BA-X") is a fifth-generation home video game console released exclusively in Japan in 1994 at the initial price of ¥24,800. It was intended for a young audience and, like many consoles of the era (e.g. the LaserActive and the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer), was marketed more as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24913 |
People's Liberation Army Navy
The People's Liberation Army Navy (), also known as the Chinese Navy, PLA Navy or PLAN, is the naval warfare branch of the People's Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of China and, by default, the national armed forces of the People's Republic of China. The PLAN can tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24918 |
Patrick Macnee
Daniel Patrick Macnee (6 February 1922 – 25 June 2015) was a British-American film and television actor. He played the role of secret agent John Steed in the British television series "The Avengers."
The elder of two sons, Macnee was born in Paddington, London, England on 6 February 1922; to Daniel Mac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24921 |
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Pembroke College (officially "The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College or Hall of Valence-Mary") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over seven hundred students and fellows. Physically, it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24927 |
Prime ideal
Primitive ideals are prime, and prime ideals are both primary and semiprime.
An ideal of a commutative ring is prime if it has the following two properties:
This generalizes the following property of prime numbers: if is a prime number and if divides a product of two integers, then divides or divides . ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24928 |
PC-FX
The is a 32-bit home video game console made by NEC Home Electronics. It was released in Japan on December 23, 1994, just weeks after Sony's PlayStation and a month after the Sega Saturn. It is the successor to the PC Engine, known as TurboGrafx-16 in North America.
Unlike its predecessor, the PC-FX was only re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24929 |
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy (psychological therapy or talking therapy) is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction with adults, to help a person change behavior and overcome problems in desired ways. Psychotherapy aims to improve an individual's well-being and mental he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24931 |
Polywater
Polywater was a hypothesized polymerized form of water that was the subject of much scientific controversy during the late 1960s. By 1969 the popular press had taken notice and sparked fears of a "polywater gap" in the US.
Increased press attention also brought with it increased scientific attention, and as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24933 |
Pathological science
Pathological science is an area of research where "people are tricked into false results ... by subjective effects, wishful thinking or threshold interactions." The term was first used by Irving Langmuir, Nobel Prize–winning chemist, during a 1953 colloquium at the Knolls Research Laboratory. Lang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24935 |
Pneumatic tube
Pneumatic tubes (or capsule pipelines; also known as pneumatic tube transport or PTT) are systems that propel cylindrical containers through networks of tubes by compressed air or by partial vacuum. They are used for transporting solid objects, as opposed to conventional pipelines, which transport fluid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24936 |
Patrilineality
Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage. It generally involves the inheritance of property, rights, names or titles by persons related... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24942 |
Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics (from the , from the ) is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere, since tectonic processes began on Earth between 3.3 and 3.5 billion years ago. The model builds on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24944 |
Philips Videopac+ G7400
The Philips Videopac+ G7400 is a third-generation home video game console released in limited quantities in 1983, and only in Europe; an American release as the Odyssey³ Command Center was planned but never occurred. The G7400 was the successor to the Philips Videopac G7000, the European counte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24946 |
Pong
Pong is a table tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics, manufactured by Atari and originally released in 1972. It was one of the earliest arcade video games and created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell. Bushnell based the game's concep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24947 |
Post office
A post office is a public facility that provides mail services, including accepting of letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may also offer additional services, which vary by country. These include providing and accepting gover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24949 |
PlayStation 3
The PlayStation 3 (officially abbreviated as PS3) is a home video game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the successor to PlayStation 2, and is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006 in Japan, November 17, 2006 in North America, and Mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24951 |
Pelé
Edson Arantes do Nascimento (; born 23 October 1940), known as Pelé (), is a Brazilian retired professional footballer who played as a forward. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, he was among the most successful and popular sports figures of the 20th century. During his playing days, Pelé... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24953 |
Pacifism
Pacifism is opposition to war, militarism or violence. The word "pacifism" was coined by the French peace campaigner Émile Arnaud (1864–1921) and adopted by other peace activists at the tenth Universal Peace Congress in Glasgow in 1901. A related term is "ahimsa" (to do no harm), which is a core philosophy in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24956 |
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