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Proteinoid
Proteinoids, or thermal proteins, are protein-like, often cross-linked molecules formed abiotically from amino acids. Sidney W. Fox initially proposed that they may have been precursors to the first living cells (protocells). The term was also used in the 1960s to describe peptides that are shorter than twe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24959 |
Permanent Court of International Justice
The Permanent Court of International Justice, often called the World Court, existed from 1922 to 1946. It was an international court attached to the League of Nations. Created in 1920 (although the idea of an international court was several centuries old), the Court was initial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24960 |
Prince Albert (genital piercing)
The Prince Albert (PA) is one of the most common male genital piercings. The PA is "a ring-style piercing that extends along the underside of the glans from the urethral opening to where the glans meets the shaft of the penis." The related "reverse Prince Albert piercing" enters throug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24961 |
Paint Your Wagon (musical)
Paint Your Wagon is a Broadway musical comedy, with book and lyrics by Alan J. Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story centers on a miner and his daughter and follows the lives and loves of the people in a mining camp in Gold Rush-era California. Popular songs from the show included "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24962 |
Pacific Overtures
Pacific Overtures is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by John Weidman.
The show is set in Japan beginning in 1853 and follows the difficult westernization of Japan, told from the point of view of the Japanese. In particular, the story focuses on the lives of two friend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24965 |
Peter Stuyvesant
Peter Stuyvesant (English pronunciation () in Dutch also "Pieter" and "Petrus" Stuyvesant); (1592–1672) served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York. He was a major figur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24968 |
Phish
Phish is an American rock band that formed in Burlington, Vermont, in 1983. The band is known for musical improvisation, extended jams, blending of genres, and a dedicated fan base. The band consists of guitarist Trey Anastasio, bassist Mike Gordon, drummer Jon Fishman, and keyboardist Page McConnell, all of who... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24969 |
PA-RISC
PA-RISC is an instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Hewlett-Packard. As the name implies, it is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture, where the PA stands for Precision Architecture. The design is also referred to as HP/PA for Hewlett Packard Precision Architecture.
The architecture... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24970 |
Preacher (comics)
Preacher is an American comic book series published by Vertigo, an imprint of DC Comics. The series was created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon with painted covers by Glenn Fabry.
The series consists of 75 issues in total – 66 regular, monthly issues, five one-shot specials, and a four... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24971 |
Preacher
A preacher is a person who delivers sermons or homilies on religious topics to an assembly of people. Less common are preachers who preach on the street, or those whose message is not necessarily religious, but who preach components such as a moral or social worldview or philosophy.
Preachers are common thro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24972 |
Prime time
The prime time or the peak time is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for television programming. It is used by the major television networks to broadcast their season's nightly programming.
The term "prime time" is often defined in terms of a fixed time period... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24973 |
Pelton wheel
A Pelton wheel is an impulse-type water turbine invented by Lester Allan Pelton in the 1870s. The Pelton wheel extracts energy from the impulse of moving water, as opposed to water's dead weight like the traditional overshot water wheel. Many earlier variations of impulse turbines existed, but they were l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24974 |
Piezoelectricity
Piezoelectricity is the electric charge that accumulates in certain solid materials (such as crystals, certain ceramics, and biological matter such as bone, DNA and various proteins) in response to applied mechanical stress. The word "piezoelectricity" means electricity resulting from pressure and lat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24975 |
Product (mathematics)
In mathematics, a product is the result of multiplying, or an expression that identifies factors to be multiplied. Thus, for instance, 30 is the product of 6 and 5 (the result of multiplication), and formula_1 is the product of formula_2 and formula_3 (indicating that the two factors should be mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24977 |
4-polytope
In geometry, a 4-polytope (sometimes also called a polychoron, polycell, or polyhedroid) is a four-dimensional polytope. It is a connected and closed figure, composed of lower-dimensional polytopal elements: vertices, edges, faces (polygons), and cells (polyhedra). Each face is shared by exactly two cells.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24979 |
Punctuated equilibrium
In evolutionary biology, punctuated equilibrium (also called punctuated equilibria) is a theory that proposes that once a species appears in the fossil record, the population will become stable, showing little evolutionary change for most of its geological history. This state of little or no mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24980 |
Pioneer 11
Pioneer 11 (also known as Pioneer G) is a robotic space probe launched by NASA on April 6, 1973 to study the asteroid belt, the environment around Jupiter and Saturn, solar wind and cosmic rays. It was the first probe to encounter Saturn and the second to fly through the asteroid belt and by Jupiter. Therea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24981 |
Psychometrics
Psychometrics is a field of study concerned with the theory and technique of psychological measurement. As defined by the US National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), psychometrics refers to psychological measurement. Generally, it refers to the field in psychology and education that is devote... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24982 |
Philosophy of education
The philosophy of education examines the goals, forms, methods, and meaning of education. The term is used to describe both fundamental philosophical analysis of these themes and the description or analysis of particular pedagogical approaches. Considerations of how the profession relates to br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24983 |
Statistical hypothesis testing
A statistical hypothesis, sometimes called confirmatory data analysis, is a hypothesis that is testable on the basis of observing a process that is modeled via a set of random variables. A statistical hypothesis test is a method of statistical inference. Commonly, two statistical data se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30284 |
The Hobbit
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the "New York Herald Tribune" for best juvenile fiction. The book remains popu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30292 |
Tax Freedom Day
Tax Freedom Day is the first day of the year in which a nation as a whole has theoretically earned enough income to pay its taxes. Every dollar that is officially considered income by the government is counted, and every payment to the government that is officially considered a tax is counted. Taxes at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30296 |
Tax
A tax is a compulsory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed upon a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund government spending and various public expenditures. A failure to pay, along with evasion of or resistance to taxation, is punishable by law. Tax... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30297 |
Transhumanism
Transhumanism is a philosophical movement that advocates for the transformation of the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellect and physiology.
Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of emerging techn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30299 |
TARDIS
TARDIS (; "Time And Relative Dimension In Space") is a fictional time machine and spacecraft that appears in the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who" and its various spin-offs.
The TV show "Doctor Who" mainly features a single TARDIS used by the central character the Doctor. However, in the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30302 |
The X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter. The original television series aired from September 10, 1993 to May 19, 2002 on Fox. The program spanned nine seasons, with 202 episodes. A short tenth season consisting of six episodes premiered on January 24, 2016... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30304 |
Third World
The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. The United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Western European nations and their allies represented the First World, while the post-Soviet Union countries, China, Cuba, and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30305 |
Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks is an American surreal mystery horror drama television series created by Mark Frost and David Lynch that premiered on April 8, 1990, on ABC, running until its cancellation after its second season in 1991. The show gained a devoted cult following and has been referenced in a wide variety of media.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30307 |
Thallium
Thallium is a chemical element with the symbol Tl and atomic number 81. It is a gray post-transition metal that is not found free in nature. When isolated, thallium resembles tin, but discolors when exposed to air. Chemists William Crookes and Claude-Auguste Lamy discovered thallium independently in 1861, in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30309 |
Text editor
A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. Such programs are sometimes known as "notepad" software, following the naming of Microsoft Notepad. Text editors are provided with operating systems and software development packages, and can be used to change files such as configuration fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30310 |
Tennis court
A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the centre. The same surface can be used to play both doubles and singles matches. A variety of surfaces can be used to create a tennis court, each with its own characteristics... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30311 |
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (), is an 1848 political document by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London just as the Revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the "Manifest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30312 |
Trier
Trier ( , ; ), formerly known in English as Treves ( ; ) and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany. It lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of red sandstone in the west of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, near the border with Luxembourg and with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30317 |
Ton
The ton is a unit of measure. It has a long history and has acquired a number of meanings and uses over the years. It is used principally as a unit of mass. Its original use as a measurement of volume has continued in the capacity of cargo ships and in terms such as the freight ton. Recent specialised uses include... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30318 |
Talk (software)
talk is a Unix text chat program, originally allowing messaging only between the users logged on to one multi-user computer—but later extended to allow chat to users on other systems.
Although largely superseded by IRC and other modern systems, it is still included with most Unix-like systems today, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30319 |
Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians. Although their initial career lasted just two and a half years and produced only four sing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30320 |
Transcendental number
In mathematics, a transcendental number is a complex number that is not algebraic—that is, not a root (i.e., solution) of a nonzero polynomial equation with integer or equivalently rational coefficients. The most popular transcendental numbers are and "e".
Though only a few classes of transcend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30325 |
The Terminator
The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction film directed by James Cameron. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, a cyborg assassin sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose son will one day become a savior against machines in a post-apocalyptic f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30327 |
Total order
In mathematics, a total order, simple order, linear order, connex order, or full order is a binary relation on some set formula_1, which is antisymmetric, transitive, and a connex relation. A set paired with a total order is called a chain, a totally ordered set, a simply ordered set, a linearly ordered se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30330 |
Tactical voting
In voting methods, tactical voting (or strategic voting, sophisticated voting or insincere voting) occurs in elections with more than two candidates, when a voter supports another candidate more strongly than their "sincere preference" in order to prevent an undesirable outcome.
For example, in a simp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30332 |
Thesaurus
A thesaurus (plural "thesauri" or "thesauruses") or synonym dictionary is a reference work for finding synonyms and sometimes antonyms of words. They are often used by writers to help find the best word to express an idea:
Synonym dictionaries have a long history. The word 'thesaurus' was used in 1852 by Pet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30334 |
Trial of Socrates
The trial of Socrates (399 BC) was held to determine the philosopher’s guilt of two charges: "asebeia" (impiety) against the pantheon of Athens, and corruption of the youth of the city-state; the accusers cited two impious acts by Socrates: "failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30337 |
Tetris
Tetris ( ) is a tile-matching video game created by Russian software engineer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984. It has been published by several companies, most prominently during a war for the appropriation of the game's rights in the late 1980s. After a significant period of publication by Nintendo, the rights reverte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30339 |
Pre-Socratic philosophy
Pre-Socratic philosophy is ancient Greek philosophy before Socrates and schools contemporary to Socrates that were not influenced by him. In Classical antiquity, the pre-Socratic philosophers were called "physiologoi" (; in English, physical or natural philosophers). Their inquiries spanned the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30340 |
Torah
Torah (; , "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") has a range of meanings. It can most specifically mean the first five books (Pentateuch or five books of Moses) of the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible. This is commonly known as the Written Torah. It can also mean the continued narrative from all the 24 books, from the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30343 |
Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible, which is also called the Tanakh (; , or ; also "Tenakh", "Tenak", "Tanach"), or sometimes the Miqra (מִקְרָא), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, including the Torah. These texts are almost exclusively in Biblical Hebrew, with a few passages in Biblical Aramaic instead (in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30344 |
Talmud
The Talmud (; ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law ("halakha") and Jewish theology. Until the advent of modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the centerpiece of Jewish cultural life and was foundational to "all Jewish thought and aspirati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30345 |
Trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet with the highest register in the brass family, to the bass trumpet, which is pitched one octave below the standard B or C Trumpet.
Trumpet-like instruments have historically been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30353 |
Tricky (musician)
Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws (born 27 January 1968), better known by his stage name Tricky, is an English record producer, rapper and actor. Born and raised in Bristol, he began his career as an early collaborator of Massive Attack before embarking on a solo career with his debut album, "Maxinquaye... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30354 |
Thelema
Thelema () is an occult social or spiritual philosophy developed in the early 1900s by Aleister Crowley, an English writer, mystic, and ceremonial magician. The word "thelema" is the English transliteration of the Koine Greek noun θέλημα (), "will", from the verb ("thélō"): "to will, wish, want or purpose".
C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30356 |
Tiber
The Tiber (; ; ) is the third-longest river in Italy, rising in the Apennine Mountains in Emilia-Romagna and flowing through Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio, where it is joined by the river Aniene, to the Tyrrhenian Sea, between Ostia and Fiumicino. It drains a basin estimated at . The river has achieved lasting fame ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30359 |
TrueType
TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the most common format for fonts on the classic Mac OS, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
The primary strength of TrueType was originally that it o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31187 |
THX 1138
THX 1138 is a 1971 American social science fiction film directed by George Lucas in his feature film directorial debut. It is set in a dystopian future in which the populace is controlled through android police and mandatory use of drugs that suppress emotions. Produced by Francis Ford Coppola and written by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31193 |
Tuning fork
A tuning fork is an acoustic resonator in the form of a two-pronged fork with the prongs (tines) formed from a U-shaped bar of elastic metal (usually steel). It resonates at a specific constant pitch when set vibrating by striking it against a surface or with an object, and emits a pure musical tone once t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31198 |
Trireme
A trireme (; derived from Latin: "trirēmis" "with three banks of oars"; "triērēs", literally "three-rower") was an ancient vessel and a type of galley that was used by the ancient maritime civilizations of the Mediterranean, especially the Phoenicians, ancient Greeks and Romans.
The trireme derives its name f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31199 |
Traveling Wilburys
The Traveling Wilburys (sometimes shortened to the Wilburys) were an English–American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. Originating from an idea discussed by Harrison and Lynne during the sessions for Harrison's 1987 album "Cloud Nine", the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31206 |
Tumor suppressor
A tumor suppressor gene, or anti-oncogene, is a gene that regulates a cell during cell division and replication. If the cell grows uncontrollably, it will result in cancer. When a tumor suppressor gene is mutated, it results in a loss or reduction in its function; in combination with other genetic mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31207 |
The Angry Brigade
The Angry Brigade was a far-left militant group responsible for a series of bomb attacks in England between 1970 and 1972. Using small bombs, they targeted banks, embassies, a BBC Outside Broadcast vehicle, and the homes of Conservative MPs. In total, police attributed 25 bombings to the Angry Brigad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31208 |
Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem
In mathematics, specifically in real analysis, the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, named after Bernard Bolzano and Karl Weierstrass, is a fundamental result about convergence in a finite-dimensional Euclidean space R"n". The theorem states that each bounded sequence in R"n" has a convergent su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31211 |
Tabula rasa
Tabula rasa (; 'blank slate') is the theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content, and, therefore all knowledge comes from experience or perception. Epistemological proponents of "tabula rasa" disagree with the doctrine of innatism which holds that the mind is born already in possession... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31212 |
Typography
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing (leading), and letter-spacing (tracking), and adjusting the space between pairs of let... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31217 |
Template (C++)
Templates are a feature of the C++ programming language that allows functions and classes to operate with generic types. This allows a function or class to work on many different data types without being rewritten for each one.
Templates are of great utility to programmers in C++, especially when combi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31218 |
Theodoric the Great
Theodoric the Great (454 – 30 August 526), also spelled Theoderic or called Theodoric the Amal (; , , ""), was king of the Ostrogoths (471–526), and ruler of the independent Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy between 493–526, regent of the Visigoths (511–526), and a patrician of the East Roman Empire. As... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31222 |
Truth serum
"Truth serum" is a colloquial name for any of a range of psychoactive drugs used in an effort to obtain information from subjects who are unable or unwilling to provide it otherwise. These include ethanol, scopolamine, 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate, midazolam, flunitrazepam, sodium thiopental, and amobarbital,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31231 |
Tripoli
Tripoli (; , ) is the capital city and the largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.165 million people in 2018. It is located in the northwest of Libya on the edge of the desert, on a point of rocky land projecting into the Mediterranean Sea and forming a bay. It includes the port of Tripoli and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31232 |
Tower of Babel
The Tower of Babel (, "Migdal Bavel") narrative in Genesis 11:1–9 is an origin myth meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages.
According to the story, a united human race in the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating eastward (or from th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31235 |
Thomas Vinterberg
Thomas Vinterberg (; born 19 May 1969) is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production. He is best known for the films "The Celebration" (1998), "Submarino" (2010), "The Hunt" (2012) and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31236 |
Tomahawk (missile)
The Tomahawk () Land Attack Missile (TLAM) is a long-range, all-weather, jet-powered, subsonic cruise missile that is primarily used by the United States Navy and Royal Navy in ship- and submarine-based land-attack operations.
It was designed and initially produced in the 1970s by General Dynamics... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31238 |
Trigun
Both manga were adapted into an anime television series in 1998. Madhouse animated the TV series which aired on TV Tokyo from April 1, 1998 to September 30, 1998, totaling 26 episodes. The show aired in the United States starting in 2003, as part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block.
An animated f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31241 |
Tenchi Muyo!
A fourth OVA series was produced in Japan, with the first collection released on November 30, 2016. The following episodes were planned to be released with an interval of three months each, and the final part of the series arrived August 30, 2017.
On July 12, 2019, it was announced that a fifth OVA serie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31242 |
Teleprinter
A teleprinter (teletypewriter, teletype or TTY) is an electromechanical device that can be used to send and receive typed messages through various communications channels, in both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint configurations. Initially they were used in telegraphy, which developed in the late 1830... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31247 |
Travelling salesman problem
The travelling salesman problem (also called the travelling salesperson problem or TSP) asks the following question: "Given a list of cities and the distances between each pair of cities, what is the shortest possible route that visits each city and returns to the origin city?" It is an NP-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31248 |
Total Access Communication System
Total Access Communication System (TACS) and ETACS are mostly-obsolete variants of Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) which was announced as the choice for the first two UK national cellular systems in February 1983, less than a year after the UK government announced the T&Cs for the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31249 |
Time-division multiple access
Time-division multiple access (TDMA) is a channel access method for shared-medium networks. It allows several users to share the same frequency channel by dividing the signal into different time slots. The users transmit in rapid succession, one after the other, each using its own time sl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31250 |
The Prisoner
The Prisoner is a 1967 British science fiction-allegorical television series about an unnamed British intelligence agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a mysterious coastal village, where his captors try to find out why he abruptly resigned from his job. It was created by Patrick McGoohan and George Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31253 |
Tax law
Tax law or revenue law is an area of legal study which deals with the constitutional, common-law, statutory, tax treaty, and regulatory rules that constitute the law applicable to taxation.
Primary taxation issues facing the governments world over include;
In law schools, "tax law" is a sub-discipline and ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31256 |
Tadoma
Tadoma is a method of communication used by deafblind individuals, in which the deafblind person places their thumb on the speaker's lips and their fingers along the jawline. The middle three fingers often fall along the speaker's cheeks with the little finger picking up the vibrations of the speaker's throat. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31257 |
Toruń
Toruń (, , ; ) is a historical city on the Vistula River in north-central Poland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its population was 201,447 as of December 2019. Previously, it was the capital of the Toruń Voivodeship (1975–1998) and the Pomeranian Voivodeship (1921–1945). Since 1999, Toruń has been a seat of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31258 |
Tigris
The Tigris () (Turkish: "Dicle)" is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq and empties into the Persian Gulf.
The Tigris is 1,750 km long, rising in the Taurus Mountains of eastern ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31259 |
Titration
Titration (also known as titrimetry and volumetric analysis) is a common laboratory method of quantitative chemical analysis to determine the concentration of an identified analyte (a substance to be analyzed). A reagent, termed the "titrant" or "titrator", is prepared as a standard solution of known concent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31260 |
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is a popular English lullaby. The lyrics are from an early-19th-century English poem by Jane Taylor, The Star. The poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in "Rhymes for the Nursery", a collection of poems by Taylor and her sister Ann. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31261 |
TurboGrafx-16
The TurboGrafx-16, known in Japan and France as the , is a cartridge-based home video game console manufactured and marketed by NEC Home Electronics and designed by Hudson Soft. It was released in Japan on October 30, 1987, and in the United States on August 29, 1989. The Japanese model was imported and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31268 |
Traffic engineering
Traffic engineering can mean: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31270 |
Tocharian languages
Tocharian, also spelled Tokharian ( or ), is an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family. It is known from manuscripts dating from the 5th to the 8th century AD, which were found in oasis cities on the northern edge of the Tarim Basin (now part of Xinjiang in northwest China) and the Lop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31273 |
Trie
In computer science, a trie, also called digital tree or prefix tree, is a kind of search tree—an ordered tree data structure used to store a dynamic set or associative array where the keys are usually strings. Unlike a binary search tree, no node in the tree stores the key associated with that node; instead, its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31274 |
The Age of Reason
The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a work by English and American political activist Thomas Paine, arguing for the philosophical position of deism. It follows in the tradition of 18th-century British deism, and challenges institutionalized religion and the legi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31275 |
The Bell Curve
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is a 1994 book by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray, in which the authors argue that human intelligence is substantially influenced by both inherited and environmental factors and that it is a bette... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31277 |
House of Tudor
The House of Tudor was an English royal house of Welsh origin, descended from the Tudors of Penmynydd. Tudor monarchs ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms, including their ancestral Wales and the Lordship of Ireland (later the Kingdom of Ireland) from 1485 until 1603, with five monarchs in that p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31278 |
Typee
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is the first book by American writer Herman Melville, published first in London, then New York, in 1846. Considered a classic in travel and adventure literature, the narrative is partly based on the author's actual experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31279 |
Truncated icosahedron
In geometry, the truncated icosahedron is an Archimedean solid, one of 13 convex isogonal nonprismatic solids whose 32 faces are two or more types of regular polygons.
It has 12 regular pentagonal faces, 20 regular hexagonal faces, 60 vertices and 90 edges.
It is the Goldberg polyhedron GPV(1,1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31282 |
The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man is a 1981 book by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The book is both a history and critique of the statistical methods and cultural motivations underlying biological determinism, the belief that “the social and economic differences between human groups—primarily races, class... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31283 |
Taliban treatment of women
While in power in Afghanistan, the Taliban became notorious internationally for their sexism and violence against women. Their stated motive was to create a "secure environment where the chastity and dignity of women may once again be sacrosanct", reportedly based on Pashtunwali beliefs abou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31285 |
Theft
Theft is the taking of another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it. The word "theft" is also used as an informal shorthand term for some crimes against property, such as burglary, embezzlement, larceny, looting, robbery, sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31287 |
Treason
In law, treason is criminal disloyalty, typically to the state. It is a crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's nation or sovereign. This usually includes things such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31292 |
Type VII submarine
Type VII U-boats were the most common type of German World War II U-boat. 703 boats were built by the end of the war. The lone surviving example, , is on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial located in Laboe, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
The Type VII was based on earlier German submarine designs goi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31294 |
Three-age system
The three-age system is the periodization of history into three time periods;
for example: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age; although it also refers to other tripartite divisions of historic time periods. In history, archaeology and physical anthropology, the three-age system is a metho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31295 |
Tachyon
A tachyon () or tachyonic particle is a hypothetical particle that always travels faster than light. Most physicists believe that faster-than-light particles cannot exist because they are not consistent with the known laws of physics. If such particles did exist, they could be used to build a tachyonic antitel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31296 |
The Starlost
The Starlost is a Canadian-produced science fiction television series created by writer Harlan Ellison and broadcast in 1973 on CTV in Canada and syndicated to local stations in the United States. The show's setting is a huge generational colony spacecraft called "Earthship Ark", which has gone off course... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31298 |
Taiga
Taiga (; ; relates to Mongolic and Turkic languages), generally referred to in North America as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches.
The taiga or boreal forest is the world's largest land biome. In North America, it covers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31302 |
Type II submarine
The Type II U-boat was designed by Nazi Germany as a coastal U-boat, modeled after the CV-707 submarine, which was designed by the Dutch dummy company NV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw Den Haag (I.v.S) (set up by Germany after World War I in order to maintain and develop German submarine technolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31304 |
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