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Tritium
Tritium ( or ) or hydrogen-3 (symbol T or 3H) is a rare and radioactive isotope of hydrogen. The nucleus of tritium (sometimes called a triton) contains one proton and two neutrons, whereas the nucleus of the common isotope hydrogen-1 (protium) contains just one proton, and that of hydrogen-2 (deuterium) conta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31306 |
Rudy Giuliani
Rudolph William Louis Giuliani (, ; born May 28, 1944) is an American politician, attorney, cybersecurity consultant and public speaker who acts as an attorney to President Donald Trump. Politically first a Democrat, then an Independent in the 1970s, and a Republican since the 1980s, Giuliani served as U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25938 |
Renaissance dance
Renaissance dances belong to the broad group of historical dances. During the Renaissance period, there was a distinction between country dances and court dances. Court dances required the dancers to be trained and were often for display and entertainment, whereas country dances could be attempted by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25944 |
Rem Koolhaas
Remment Lucas Koolhaas (; born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He is often cited as a representative of Deconstructivism and is the author of ‘Delirio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25945 |
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano ( , ; born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect. His notable buildings include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers, 1977), The Shard in London (2012), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (2015) and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25946 |
Refraction
In physics, refraction is the change in direction of a wave passing from one medium to another or from a gradual change in the medium. Refraction of light is the most commonly observed phenomenon, but other waves such as sound waves and water waves also experience refraction. How much a wave is refracted is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25948 |
Recreational drug use
Recreational drug use is the use of a psychoactive drug to induce an altered state of consciousness for pleasure, by modifying the perceptions, feelings, and emotions of the user. When a psychoactive drug enters the user's body, it induces an intoxicating effect. Generally, recreational drugs are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25949 |
Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25951 |
Rotary dial
A rotary dial is a component of a telephone or a telephone switchboard that implements a signaling technology in telecommunications known as pulse dialing. It is used when initiating a telephone call to transmit the destination telephone number to a telephone exchange.
On the rotary phone dial, the digits... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25960 |
Revolution
In political science, a revolution (Latin: "revolutio", "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts against the government, typically due to perceived oppression (political, social, economic) or politic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25964 |
Roland TB-303
The Roland TB-303 Bass Line is a synthesizer released by the Roland Corporation in 1982. Designed to simulate bass guitars, it was a commercial failure and was discontinued in 1984. However, cheap second-hand units were adopted by electronic musicians, and its "squelching" or "chirping" sound became a fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25969 |
RCA
The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded as the Radio Corporation of America in 1919. It was initially a wholly owned subsidiary of General Electric (GE). In 1932, RCA became an independent company after GE was required to divest its ownership as part of the settlement of a g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25970 |
Rubik's Cube
The Rubik's Cube is a 3-D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the Magic Cube, the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp. in 1980 via businessman Tibor Laczi and Seven Towns founder Tom Kremer. Rubik's Cub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25971 |
Red Army Faction
The Red Army Faction (RAF; , ), also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group or Baader–Meinhof Gang (, ), was a West German far-left militant organization founded in 1970. Key early figures included Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler and Ulrike Meinhof, among others. Ulrike Meinhof was involved in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25973 |
Radiosity (computer graphics)
In 3D computer graphics, radiosity is an application of the finite element method to solving the rendering equation for scenes with surfaces that reflect light diffusely. Unlike rendering methods that use Monte Carlo algorithms (such as path tracing), which handle all types of light paths... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25974 |
Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror, or commonly The Terror (), was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First French Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and spurious accusations of trea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25975 |
Ideal (ring theory)
In ring theory, a branch of abstract algebra, an ideal is a special subset of a ring. Ideals generalize certain subsets of the integers, such as the even numbers or the multiples of 3. Addition and subtraction of even numbers preserves evenness, and multiplying an even number by any other integer r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25977 |
Reversi
Reversi is a strategy board game for two players, played on an 8×8 uncheckered board. It was invented in 1883. Othello, a variant with a change to the board's initial setup, was patented in 1971.
There are sixty-four identical game pieces called "disks" (often spelled "discs"), which are light on one side and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25978 |
Radix sort
In computer science, radix sort is a non-comparative sorting algorithm. It avoids comparison by creating and distributing elements into buckets according to their radix. For elements with more than one significant digit, this bucketing process is repeated for each digit, while preserving the ordering of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25980 |
Tug of war
Tug of war (also known as tug o' war, tug war, rope war, rope pulling, or tugging war) is a sport that pits two teams against each other in a test of strength: teams pull on opposite ends of a rope, with the goal being to bring the rope a certain distance in one direction against the force of the opposing t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25982 |
Regular semantics
Regular semantics is a computing term which describes one type of guarantee provided by a data register shared by several processors in a parallel machine or in a network of computers working together. Regular semantics are defined for a variable with a single writer but multiple readers. These seman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25983 |
Ray Kurzweil
Raymond Kurzweil ( ; born February 12, 1948) is an American inventor and futurist. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health, artificial intelligence (AI... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25984 |
Rutherford scattering
Rutherford scattering is the elastic scattering of charged particles by the Coulomb interaction. It is a physical phenomenon explained by Ernest Rutherford in 1911 that led to the development of the planetary Rutherford model of the atom and eventually the Bohr model. Rutherford scattering was fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25985 |
Robert Langlands
Robert Phelan Langlands, (; born October 6, 1936) is an American-Canadian mathematician. He is best known as the founder of the Langlands program, a vast web of conjectures and results connecting representation theory and automorphic forms to the study of Galois groups in number theory, for which he r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25986 |
Rickets
Rickets is a condition that results in weak or soft bones in children. Symptoms include bowed legs, stunted growth, bone pain, large forehead, and trouble sleeping. Complications may include bone fractures, muscle spasms, an abnormally curved spine, or intellectual disability.
The most common cause of rickets ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25987 |
RGB color model
The RGB color model is an additive color model in which red, green, and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. The name of the model comes from the initials of the three additive primary colors, red, green, and blue.
The main purpose of the RGB color model ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25989 |
Richard Garfield
Richard Channing Garfield (born June 26, 1963) is an American mathematician, inventor, and game designer. Garfield created "", which is considered to be the first modern collectible card game (CCG). "Magic" debuted in 1993 and its success spawned many imitations. Garfield oversaw the successful growth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25991 |
Roman legion
A Roman legion (Latin "legio", "military levy, conscription", from "legere" "to choose") was the largest military unit of the Roman army.
A legion was roughly of brigade size, composed of 4,200 infantry and 300 cavalry in the republican period, extended to 5,200 infantry and 120 auxilia in the imperial p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25994 |
Reciprocating engine
A reciprocating engine, also often known as a piston engine, is typically a heat engine (although there are also pneumatic and hydraulic reciprocating engines) that uses one or more reciprocating pistons to convert pressure into a rotating motion. This article describes the common features of all ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25995 |
Radical feminism
Radical feminism is a perspective within feminism that calls for a radical reordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts.
Radical feminists view society as fundamentally a patriarchy in which men dominate and oppress women. Radical feminists seek to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25998 |
Ray tracing (graphics)
In computer graphics, ray tracing is a rendering technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light as pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of its encounters with virtual objects. The technique is capable of producing a high degree of visual realism, more so than typic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26000 |
Ron Carter
Ronald Levin Carter (born May 4, 1937) is an American jazz double bassist. His appearances on 2,221 recording sessions make him the most-recorded jazz bassist in history.
Carter is also a cellist who has recorded numerous times on that instrument. Some of his studio albums as a leader include: "Blues Farm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26002 |
Radian
The radian (symbol: rad) is the SI unit for measuring angles, and is the standard unit of angular measure used in many areas of mathematics. The length of an arc of a unit circle is numerically equal to the measurement in radians of the angle that it subtends; one radian is just under 57.3 degrees (expansion at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26003 |
Redshift (disambiguation)
Redshift is a phenomenon in physics, especially astrophysics
Redshift or red shift may also refer to: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26004 |
Mass racial violence in the United States
Mass racial violence in the United States, also called race riots, can include such disparate events as:
In the latter half of the 19th century California state and Federal authorities, incited aided and financed miners, settlers, ranchers and people's militias to enslave,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26007 |
Robert Johnson
Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911August 16, 1938) was an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians. He is now recognized as a master... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26010 |
Receptive aphasia
Wernicke's aphasia, also known as receptive aphasia, sensory aphasia or posterior aphasia, is a type of aphasia in which individuals have difficulty understanding written and spoken language. Patients with Wernicke's aphasia demonstrate fluent speech, which is characterized by typical speech rate, in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26011 |
Rehoboam
Rehoboam (; Hebrew: רְחַבְעָם, "Reḥav'am"; Greek: Ροβοαμ, "Rovoam"; ) was the first king of the Kingdom of Judah. He was a son of and the successor to Solomon and a grandson of David. In the account of I Kings and II Chronicles, he was initially king of the United Monarchy of Israel, but after the ten northe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26022 |
RS-232
In telecommunications, RS-232, Recommended Standard 232 is a standard originally introduced in 1960 for serial communication transmission of data. It formally defines signals connecting between a "DTE" ("data terminal equipment") such as a computer terminal, and a "DCE" ("data circuit-terminating equipment" or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26023 |
Running
Running is a method of terrestrial locomotion allowing humans and other animals to move rapidly on foot. Running is a type of gait characterized by an aerial phase in which all feet are above the ground (though there are exceptions). This is in contrast to walking, where one foot is always in contact with the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26032 |
René Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte (; 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian Surrealist artist. He became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers' preconditioned perc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26034 |
Rudolf Diesel
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel ( (); 18 March 1858 – 29 September 1913) was a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the Diesel engine, and for his suspicious death at sea. Diesel was the namesake of the 1942 film "Diesel".
Diesel was born in the house Rue Notre Dame de Nazar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26035 |
Reform Judaism
Reform Judaism (also known as Liberal Judaism or Progressive Judaism) is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of the faith, the superiority of its ethical aspects to the ceremonial ones, and belief in a continuous revelation, closely intertwined with human reason and intellect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26036 |
Reconstructionist Judaism
Reconstructionist Judaism is a modern Jewish movement that views Judaism as a progressively evolving civilization and is based on the conceptions developed by Mordecai Kaplan (1881–1983). The movement originated as a semi-organized stream within Conservative Judaism and developed from the lat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26037 |
Photek
Rupert Parkes (born 6 September 1971), known as Photek, is a Los Angeles–based, British record producer, film and TV composer, and electronic music DJ. Photek was born and raised in Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
Photek has contributed music to several film, TV and video game productions, such as "Blade" in 1998. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26039 |
Homosexuality and religion
The relationship between religion and homosexuality has varied greatly across time and place, within and between different religions and denominations, with regard to different forms of homosexuality and bisexuality. Generally speaking as well as by denomination, the present-day doctrines of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26040 |
RPGnet
RPGnet is a role-playing game website. It includes sections on wargames, tabletop games and video games, as well as columns on gaming topics.
RPGnet was founded in 1996 by Emma and Sandy Antunes, Shawn Althouse (etrigan) and Brian David Phillips, as a way to unify a number of transient game sites. In 2001 it w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26041 |
Szczecin
Szczecin ( , , ; ; ; known also by other alternative names) is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major seaport and Poland's seventh-largest city. As of December 2019, the population was 401,907.
S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28456 |
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) was a neutrino observatory located 2100 m underground in Vale's Creighton Mine in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The detector was designed to detect solar neutrinos through their interactions with a large tank of heavy water.
The detector was turned on in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28462 |
Super-Kamiokande
Super-Kamiokande (abbreviation of Super-Kamioka Neutrino Detection Experiment, also abbreviated to Super-K or SK; ) is a neutrino observatory located under Mount Ikeno near the city of Hida, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It is located underground in the Mozumi Mine in Hida's Kamioka area. The observatory wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28464 |
Stimulated emission
Stimulated emission is the process by which an incoming photon of a specific frequency can interact with an excited atomic electron (or other excited molecular state), causing it to drop to a lower energy level. The liberated energy transfers to the electromagnetic field, creating a new photon with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28469 |
Siberian Husky
The Siberian Husky (, tr. ) is a medium-sized working dog breed. The breed belongs to the Spitz genetic family. It is recognizable by its thickly furred double coat, erect triangular ears, and distinctive markings, and is smaller than a very similar-looking dog, the Alaskan Malamute.
Siberian Huskies o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28475 |
Skiing
Skiing is a means of transport using skis to glide on snow. Variations of purpose include basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport. Many types of competitive skiing events are recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Ski... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28478 |
Spice Girls
The Spice Girls are an English pop girl group formed in 1994. The group comprises Melanie Brown, also known as Mel B ("Scary Spice"), Melanie Chisholm, also known as Mel C ("Sporty Spice"), Emma Bunton ("Baby Spice"), Geri Halliwell ("Ginger Spice"), and Victoria Beckham ("Posh Spice"). They were signed to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28480 |
Statistical mechanics
Statistical mechanics, one of the pillars of modern physics, describes how macroscopic observations (such as temperature and pressure) are related to microscopic parameters that fluctuate around an average. It connects thermodynamic quantities (such as heat capacity) to microscopic behavior, wher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28481 |
Solstice
A solstice is an event occurring when the Sun appears to reach its most northerly or southerly excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere. Two solstices occur annually, around June 21 and December 21. In many countries, the seasons of the year are determined by reference to the solsti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28483 |
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 ( or ; "Satellite-1", or "PS-1", Простейший Спутник-1 or "Prosteyshiy Sputnik-1", "Elementary Satellite 1") was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957 where it orbited for three weeks before its batteries died, then si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28484 |
Steve Jackson Games
Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and (until 2019) the gaming magazine "Pyramid".
Founded in 1980, six years after the birth of "Dungeons & Dragons", and before the height of role-playi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28485 |
Stella Artois
Stella Artois ( ) is a Belgian pilsner of between 4.8 and 5.2 percent ABV which was first brewed by Brouwerij Artois (the Artois Brewery) in Leuven, Belgium, in 1926. Since 2008, a 4.8 percent ABV version has also been sold in Britain, Ireland, Canada and Australia. Stella Artois is now owned by Interbre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28486 |
Suebi
The Suebi (or Suebians, also spelled Suevi, Suavi, ) were a large group of Germanic peoples originally from the Elbe river region in what is now Germany and Czechia. In the early Roman era they included many peoples with their own names such as the Marcomanni, Quadi, Hermunduri, Semnones, and Lombards. New group... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28487 |
Ski
A ski is a narrow strip of semi-rigid material worn underfoot to glide over snow. Substantially longer than wide and characteristically employed in pairs, skis are attached to ski boots with ski bindings, with either a free, lockable, or partially secured heel. For climbing slopes, ski skins (originally made of se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28489 |
Swedish cuisine
Swedish cuisine is the traditional food of the Swedish. Due to Sweden's large north-to-south expanse, there are regional differences between the cuisine of North and South Sweden.
Historically, in the far north, meats such as reindeer, and other (semi-)game dishes were eaten, some of which have their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28490 |
Submachine gun
A submachine gun, abbreviated SMG, is a magazine-fed, automatic carbine designed to shoot handgun cartridges. The term "submachine gun" was coined by John T. Thompson, the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun.
The submachine gun was developed during World War I (1914–1918). At its peak during World ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28491 |
Squirrel
Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-size rodents. The squirrel family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots (including groundhogs), flying squirrels, and prairie dogs amongst other rodents. Squirrels are indigenous to the Americas, Eura... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28492 |
Shooting
Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, sling, slingshot, crossbow, or bow). Even the acts of launching/discharging artillery, arrows, darts, grenades, rockets, and guided missiles can be considered acts of shooting. When using a firearm, the act of shoo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28495 |
Shooting sports
Shooting sports is a collective group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using various types of ranged weapons, mainly referring to man-portable guns (firearms and airguns, in forms such as handguns, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28498 |
Sake
Sake, also spelled "saké" ( , also referred to as "Japanese rice wine)", is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting rice that has been polished to remove the bran. Despite the name, unlike wine, in which alcohol is produced by fermenting sugar that is naturally present in fruit (typically grapes), sake, and inde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28500 |
Scuba set
A scuba set is any breathing apparatus that is carried entirely by an underwater diver and provides the diver with breathing gas at the ambient pressure. Scuba is an anacronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. Although strictly speaking the scuba set is only the diving equipment which is req... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28502 |
Subtractive synthesis
Subtractive synthesis is a method of sound synthesis in which partials of an audio signal (often one rich in harmonics) are attenuated by a filter to alter the timbre of the sound. While subtractive synthesis can be applied to any source audio signal, the sound most commonly associated with the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28503 |
San Diego
San Diego (, ; ) is a city in the U.S. state of California on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, approximately south of Los Angeles and immediately adjacent to the border with Mexico. With an estimated population of 1,423,851 as of July 1, 2019, San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and seco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28504 |
Spacecraft propulsion
Spacecraft propulsion is any method used to accelerate spacecraft and artificial satellites. Space propulsion or in-space propulsion exclusively deals with propulsion systems used in the vacuum of space and should not be confused with launch vehicles. Several methods, both pragmatic and hypotheti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28506 |
Second-order predicate
In mathematical logic, a second-order predicate is a predicate that takes a first-order predicate as an argument. Compare higher-order predicate.
The idea of second order predication was introduced by the German mathematician and philosopher Frege. It is based on his idea that a predicate such ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28510 |
Shining Path
The Communist Party of Peru (PCP) – Shining Path (), more commonly known as the Shining Path (), is a revolutionary communist party and political organization in Peru following Marxism–Leninism–Maoism and Marxism–Leninism–Maoism–Gonzalo Thought.
When it first launched during the internal conflict in Peru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28521 |
St Albans
St Albans () is a cathedral city in Hertfordshire, England and the major urban area in the City and District of St Albans. It lies east of Hemel Hempstead and west of Hatfield, about north-north-west of central London, south-west of Welwyn Garden City and south-south-east of Luton. St Albans was the first ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28523 |
RNA splicing
RNA splicing, in molecular biology, is a form of RNA processing in which a newly made precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) transcript is transformed into a mature messenger RNA (mRNA). During splicing, introns (Non-coding regions) are removed and exons (Coding Regions) are joined together. For nuclear-encod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28524 |
Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada, with three campuses: Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, and Vancouver. The main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and comprises more than 30,000 stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28525 |
Solar wind
The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun, called the corona. This plasma mostly consists of electrons, protons and alpha particles with kinetic energy between . The composition of the solar wind plasma also includes a mixture of materials found in the sol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28538 |
Self-reference
Self-reference occurs in natural or formal languages when a sentence, idea or formula refers to itself. The reference may be expressed either directly—through some intermediate sentence or formula—or by means of some encoding. In philosophy, it also refers to the ability of a subject to speak of or refe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28545 |
Sokal affair
The Sokal affair, also called the Sokal hoax, was a demonstrative scholarly hoax performed by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College London. In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to "Social Text", an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies. The submission was a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28547 |
Sweet tea
Sweet tea is a popular style of iced tea commonly consumed in countries such as the United States (especially common in the Southern United States), and Indonesia. Sweet tea is most commonly made by adding sugar or simple syrup to black tea either while the tea is brewing or still hot, although artificial sw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28551 |
Cuisine of the Southern United States
The cuisine of the Southern United States developed in the traditionally defined American South. Tidewater, Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, Lowcountry, and Floribbean are examples of types of Southern cuisine. In recent history, elements of Southern cuisine have spread north, having a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28553 |
Second Coming
The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is a Christian, Islamic, and Baha'i belief regarding the return of Jesus after his ascension to heaven about two thousand years ago. The idea is based on messianic prophecies and is part of most Christian eschatologies.
Views about ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28554 |
Serialization
In computing, serialization (or serialisation) is the process of translating data structures or object state into a format that can be stored (for example, in a file or memory buffer) or transmitted (for example, across a network connection link) and reconstructed later (possibly in a different computer ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28555 |
Separation of powers
The separation of powers is a representation for the governance of a state. Under this model, a state's government is divided into branches, each with separate, independent powers and responsibilities so that powers of one branch are not in conflict with those of the other branches. The typical di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28561 |
Second Punic War
The Second Punic War (spring 218 – 201 BC), also referred to as The Hannibalic War and by the Romans the War Against Hannibal, was the second of three Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage, with the participation of Macedonia and Syracuse polities and Numidian and Iberian forces on both s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28563 |
Stuttgart
Stuttgart ( , also ; ; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known locally as the "Stuttgart Cauldron". It lies an hour from the Swabian Jura and the Black Forest. Its area has a population of 634,83... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28565 |
Self-propelled artillery
Self-propelled artillery (also called mobile artillery or locomotive artillery) is artillery equipped with its own propulsion system to move towards its target. Within the terminology are the self-propelled gun, self-propelled howitzer, self-propelled mortar, and rocket artillery. They are hig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28566 |
Sinatra Doctrine
"Sinatra Doctrine" was the name that the Soviet government of Mikhail Gorbachev used jokingly to describe its policy of allowing neighboring Warsaw Pact states to determine their own internal affairs. The name alluded to the song "My Way" popularized by Frank Sinatra—the Soviet Union was allowing thes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28568 |
Simplified molecular-input line-entry system
The simplified molecular-input line-entry system (SMILES) is a specification in the form of a line notation for describing the structure of chemical species using short ASCII strings. SMILES strings can be imported by most molecule editors for conversion back into two-dimen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28569 |
Soweto
Soweto () is a township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for "South Western Townships". Formerly a separate municipality, it is now incorporated in the City of Johannesburg ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28573 |
Sampo
In Finnish mythology, the Sampo or Sammas was a magical artifact of indeterminate type constructed by Ilmarinen that brought riches and good fortune to its holder (akin to the Cornucopia of Greek mythology). When the Sampo was stolen, it is said that Ilmarinen's homeland fell upon hard times and he sent an exped... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28575 |
Sysop
A sysop (; an abbreviation of system operator) is an administrator of a multi-user computer system, such as a bulletin board system (BBS) or an online service virtual community. The phrase may also be used to refer to administrators of other Internet-based network services.
Co-sysops are users who may be grante... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28576 |
Skuld (Oh My Goddess!)
Skuld was one of a series of characters created by Kōsuke Fujishima, and is depicted as the younger sister of Belldandy, one of the two main protagonists of the series. Along with the characters of Belldandy, Urd and Keiichi Morisato, she is regarded as one of the four major characters in "Oh My... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28577 |
Psychosis
Psychosis is an abnormal condition of the mind that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not. Symptoms may include false beliefs (delusions) and seeing or hearing things that others do not see or hear (hallucinations). Other symptoms may include incoherent speech and behavior that is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24514 |
Paranoia
Paranoia is an instinct or thought process which is believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself (i.e. the American colloq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24515 |
Polybius
Polybius (; , "Polýbios"; – BC) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic period noted for his work , which covered the period of 264–146 BC in detail. The work describes the rise of the Roman Republic to the status of dominance in the ancient Mediterranean world. It includes his eyewitness account of the Sac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24516 |
Plutarch
Plutarch (; , "Ploútarkhos"; ; AD 46–after 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo. He is known primarily for his "Parallel Lives" and "Moralia". Upon becoming a Roman citizen, he was named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus ().
Plutarch was born to a p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24517 |
Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers, CBE (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English film actor, comedian and singer. He performed in the BBC Radio comedy series "The Goon Show", featured on a number of hit comic songs and became known to a worldwide audience through his many film roles, among... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24518 |
Project Runeberg
Project Runeberg () is a digital cultural archive initiative that publishes free electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries. Patterned after Project Gutenberg, it was founded by Lars Aronsson and colleagues at Linköping University and began archiving No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24519 |
Pico (text editor)
Pico (Pine composer) is a text editor for Unix and Unix-based computer systems. It is integrated with the Pine e-mail client, which was designed by the Office of Computing and Communications at the University of Washington.
From the Pine FAQ: "Pine's message composition editor is also available as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24521 |
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