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Power law
In statistics, a power law is a functional relationship between two quantities, where a relative change in one quantity results in a proportional relative change in the other quantity, independent of the initial size of those quantities: one quantity varies as a power of another. For instance, considering th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24522 |
PH
In chemistry, pH () (abbr. power of hydrogen or potential for hydrogen) is a scale used to specify how acidic or basic a water-based solution is. Acidic solutions have a lower pH, while basic solutions have a higher pH. At room temperature (25°C or 77°F), pure water is neither acidic nor basic and has a pH of 7.
T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24530 |
Pastel
A pastel (, ) is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are similar to those used to produce some other colored visual arts media, such as oil paints; the binder is of a neutral hue and low saturation. The color effect of pastels is closer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24533 |
Pen pal
Pen pals (or penpals, pen-pals, penfriends or pen friends) are people who regularly write to each other, particularly via postal mail. Pen pals are usually strangers whose relationship is based primarily, or even solely, on their exchange of letters. Occasionally pen pals may already have a relationship that i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24537 |
Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been described as "minimal music", having similar qualities to other "minimalist" composers such as La Monte Young, Steve Reic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24540 |
Phenotype
Phenotype () is the term used in genetics for the composite observable characteristics or traits of an organism. The term covers the organism's morphology or physical form and structure, its developmental processes, its biochemical and physiological properties, its behavior, and the products of behavior. An ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24543 |
Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organisms' activities. This chemical energy is stored in carbohydrate molecules, such as sugars, which are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water – hence ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24544 |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir ( ; ; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919), was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24546 |
Poll tax
A poll tax, also known as head tax or capitation, is a tax levied as a fixed sum on every liable individual.
Head taxes were important sources of revenue for many governments from ancient times until the 19th century. In the United Kingdom, poll taxes were levied by the governments of John of Gaunt in the 14... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24547 |
Patriotism
Patriotism or national pride is the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to a homeland and alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment. This attachment can be a combination of many different feelings relating to one's own homeland, including ethnic, cultural, political or historic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24552 |
Protein biosynthesis
Protein biosynthesis (or protein synthesis) is a core biological process, occurring inside cells, balancing the loss of cellular proteins (via degradation or export) through the production of new proteins. Proteins perform a variety of critical functions as enzymes, structural proteins or hormones... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24553 |
Photosynthetic pigment
A photosynthetic pigment (accessory pigment; chloroplast pigment; antenna pigment) is a pigment that is present in chloroplasts or photosynthetic bacteria and captures the light energy necessary for photosynthesis.
Plants pigments (in order of increasing polarity):
Chlorophyll "a" is the most ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24555 |
Peter J. Carroll
Peter James Carroll (born 8 January 1953, in Patching, England) is a modern occultist, author, cofounder of the Illuminates of Thanateros, and practitioner of chaos magic theory.
Carroll studied science at the University of London and graduated with a "precisely calculated minimum pass". After univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24557 |
Intact dilation and extraction
Intact dilation and extraction (D&X, IDX, intact D&E) is a surgical procedure that removes an intact fetus from the uterus. The procedure is used both after miscarriages and for abortions in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy.
It is also known as intact dilation and evacuation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24560 |
Plutocracy
A plutocracy (, ', 'wealth' + , ', 'power') or plutarchy is a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income. The first known use of the term in English dates from 1631. Unlike systems such as democracy, capitalism, liberalism, socialism or anarchism, plutocracy is not rooted in an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24561 |
Pareto principle
The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few, or the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.
Management consultant Joseph M. Juran suggested the principle and named it after Italian economist ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24562 |
Prefix
A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word. Adding it to the beginning of one word changes it into another word. For example, when the prefix "un-" is added to the word "happy", it creates the word "unhappy". Particularly in the study of languages, a prefix is also called a preformative, bec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24564 |
Palaeography
Palaeography (UK) or paleography (US; ultimately from , "palaiós", "old", and , "gráphein", "to write") is the study of ancient and historical handwriting (that is to say, of the forms and processes of writing; not the textual content of documents). Included in the discipline is the practice of decipherin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24566 |
Pollutant
A pollutant is a substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effects, or adversely affects the usefulness of a resource. A pollutant may cause long- or short-term damage by changing the growth rate of plant or animal species, or by interfering with human amenities, comfort, health,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24567 |
Pepsi
Pepsi is a carbonated soft drink manufactured by PepsiCo. Originally created and developed in 1893 by Caleb Bradham and introduced as Brad's Drink, it was renamed as Pepsi-Cola in 1898, and then shortened to Pepsi in 1961.
Pepsi was first introduced as "Brad's Drink" in New Bern, North Carolina, United States, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24573 |
Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach
Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach (14 November 177529 May 1833) was a German legal scholar. His major achievement was a reform of the Bavarian penal code which led to the abolition of torture and became a model for several other countries. He is also well-known for his wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24576 |
Pub
A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term "public house" first appeared in the late 17th century, and was used to differentiate private houses from those which were, quite literally, open to the public as 'alehouses', 'taverns' and 'inn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24578 |
Pelvic inflammatory disease
Pelvic inflammatory disease, also known as pelvic inflammatory disorder (PID), is an infection of the upper part of the female reproductive system, namely the uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries, and inside of the pelvis. Often, there may be no symptoms. Signs and symptoms, when present, m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24579 |
Technology in Star Trek
The technology in "Star Trek" has borrowed freely from the scientific world to provide storylines. Episodes are replete with references to tachyon beams, baryon sweeps, quantum fluctuations and event horizons. Many of the technologies created for the "Star Trek" universe were done so out of sim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24583 |
Impulse drive
In the fictional "Star Trek" universe, the impulse drive is the method of propulsion that starships and other spacecraft use when they are travelling below the speed of light. Typically powered by deuterium fusion reactors, impulse engines let ships travel interplanetary distances readily. Unlike the war... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24586 |
Punk subculture
The punk subculture includes a diverse array of ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature and film. It is largely characterised by anti-establishment views, the promotion of individual freedom, DIY ethics, and is centred on a loud, aggressive genre of rock music ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24589 |
Polyamory
Polyamory (from Greek ', "many, several", and Latin ', "love") is the practice of, or desire for, intimate relationships with more than one partner, with the informed consent of all partners involved. It has been described as "consensual, ethical, and responsible non-monogamy". People who identify as polyamo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24591 |
Pope Theodore II
Pope Theodore II (; 840 – December 897) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States for twenty days in December 897. His short reign occurred during a period of partisan strife in the Catholic Church, which was entangled with a period of violence and disorder in central Italy. His main act as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24592 |
Proteolysis
Proteolysis is the breakdown of proteins into smaller polypeptides or amino acids. Uncatalysed, the hydrolysis of peptide bonds is extremely slow, taking hundreds of years. Proteolysis is typically catalysed by cellular enzymes called proteases, but may also occur by intra-molecular digestion. Low pH or hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24594 |
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most prevalent, potentially lethal, monogenic human disorder. It is associated with large interfamilial and intrafamilial variability, which can be explained to a large extent by its genetic heterogeneity and modif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24595 |
Potsdamer Platz
Potsdamer Platz (, literally "Potsdam Square") is an important public square and traffic intersection in the center of Berlin, Germany, lying about south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag (German Parliament Building), and close to the southeast corner of the Tiergarten park. It is named after t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24597 |
Pointing device
A pointing device is an input interface (specifically a human interface device) that allows a user to input spatial (i.e., continuous and multi-dimensional) data to a computer. CAD systems and graphical user interfaces (GUI) allow the user to control and provide data to the computer using physical gest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24598 |
Pete Best
Randolph Peter Best (né Scanland; 24 November 1941) is an English musician known as having been the Beatles' drummer prior to their achieving worldwide fame. After he was dismissed from the group in 1962, he started his own band, the Pete Best Four, and later joined many other bands over the years. He is one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24600 |
Port Adelaide Football Club
Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia. The club's senior team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), where they are nicknamed the Power, whilst its reserves team competes in the South Australian National Footb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24602 |
Proteasome
Proteasomes are protein complexes which degrade unneeded or damaged proteins by proteolysis, a chemical reaction that breaks peptide bonds. Enzymes that help such reactions are called proteases.
Proteasomes are part of a major mechanism by which cells regulate the concentration of particular proteins and d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24603 |
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31067 |
Analogy of the divided line
The analogy of the divided line () is presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in the "Republic" (509d–511e). It is written as a dialogue between Glaucon and Socrates, in which the latter further elaborates upon the immediately preceding Analogy of the Sun at the former's request. Socrates ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31068 |
Themistocles
Themistocles (; "Themistoklẽs"; "Glory of the Law"; c. 524–459 BC) was an Athenian politician and general. He was one of a new breed of non-aristocratic politicians who rose to prominence in the early years of the Athenian democracy. As a politician, Themistocles was a populist, having the support of lowe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31069 |
Toonie
The toonie (also spelled twonie or twoonie), formally the Canadian two-dollar coin (, nicknamed or ), was introduced on February 19, 1996, by Minister of Public Works Diane Marleau. , it possesses the highest monetary value of any circulating Canadian coin. The toonie is a bi-metallic coin which on the reverse ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31074 |
Tirana
Tirana (; ; ) is the capital and largest city by area and population of the Republic of Albania. It is located in the center of Albania enclosed by mountains and hills with Mount Dajt elevating on the east and a slight valley on the northwest overlooking the Adriatic Sea in the distance. Due to its location at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31075 |
The Wedding Planner
The Wedding Planner is a 2001 American romantic comedy film directed by Adam Shankman, written by Michael Ellis and Pamela Falk, and starring Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey.
Ambitious San Francisco wedding planner Mary Fiore is re-introduced to childhood acquaintance Massimo by her father ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31079 |
The Seekers
The Seekers are an Australian folk-influenced pop quartet, originally formed in Melbourne in 1962. They were the first Australian pop music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States. They were popular during the 1960s with their best-known configuration as: ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31085 |
Timothy Leary
Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and writer known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. Opinions of Leary are polarized, ranging from bold oracle to publicity hound. He was "a hero of American consciousness," according to Allen Ginsberg, and Tom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31088 |
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants (often abbreviated as TMBG) is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell. During TMBG's early years, Flansburgh and Linnell frequently performed as a duo, often accompanied by a drum machine. In the early 1990s, TMBG expanded to inclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31089 |
Titanite
Titanite, or sphene (from the Greek "sphenos" (σφηνώ), meaning wedge), is a calcium titanium nesosilicate mineral, CaTiSiO5. Trace impurities of iron and aluminium are typically present. Also commonly present are rare earth metals including cerium and yttrium; calcium may be partly replaced by thorium.
The I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31091 |
Time management
Time management is the process of planning and exercising conscious control of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity. It involves a juggling act of various demands upon a person relating to work, social life, family, hobbies, personal inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31092 |
Turing Award
The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to an individual selected for contributions "of lasting and major technical importance to the computer field". The Turing Award is generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science.
The a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31093 |
The Damned (band)
The Damned are an English rock band formed in London, England in 1976 by lead vocalist Dave Vanian, guitarist Brian James, bassist (and later guitarist) Captain Sensible, and drummer Rat Scabies. They were the first punk rock band from the United Kingdom to release a single, "New Rose" (1976), releas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31098 |
Tupolev Tu-144
The Tupolev Tu-144 (; NATO reporting name: Charger) is a Soviet supersonic passenger airliner designed by Tupolev in operation from 1968 to 1999.
The Tu-144 was the world's first commercial supersonic transport aircraft with its prototype's maiden flight from Zhukovsky Airport on 31 December 1968, thre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31102 |
Turing (programming language)
Turing is a Pascal-like programming language developed in 1982 by Ric Holt and James Cordy, then of University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Turing is a descendant of Euclid, Pascal and SP/k that features a clean syntax and precise machine-independent semantics.
Turing 4.1.0 i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31105 |
Trackball
A trackball is a pointing device consisting of a ball held by a socket containing sensors to detect a rotation of the ball about two axes—like an upside-down mouse with an exposed protruding ball. Users roll the ball to position the on-screen pointer, using their thumb, fingers, or commonly the palm of the h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31106 |
Tape drive
A tape drive is a data storage device that reads and writes data on a magnetic tape. Magnetic tape data storage is typically used for offline, archival data storage. Tape media generally has a favorable unit cost and a long archival stability.
A tape drive provides sequential access storage, unlike a hard ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31109 |
Tesseract
In geometry, the tesseract is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube; the tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to the square. Just as the surface of the cube consists of six square faces, the hypersurface of the tesseract consists of eight cubical cells. The tesseract is one of the six convex regular 4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31112 |
Top-level domain
A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last label of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31115 |
Temple of Set
The Temple of Set is an occult initiatory order founded in 1975. A new religious movement and form of Western esotericism, the Temple espouses a religion known as Setianism, whose practitioners are called Setians. This is sometimes identified as a form of Satanism, although this term is not often embrace... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31117 |
Tate Modern
Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group (together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives and Tate Online). It is based in the former Bankside Power Station, in the Bankside area of the Lond... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31119 |
Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31126 |
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI) was a United Nations trust territory in Micronesia administered by the United States from 1947 to 1994.
Spain initially claimed the islands that later comprised the territory of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31127 |
Theobromine
Theobromine, formerly known as xantheose, is a bitter alkaloid of the cacao plant, with the chemical formula C7H8N4O2. It is found in chocolate, as well as in a number of other foods, including the leaves of the tea plant, and the kola nut. It is classified as a xanthine alkaloid, others of which include t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31128 |
Thuringia
Thuringia (; ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of Germany.
Thuringia is located in central Germany covering an area of and a population of 2.15 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest German state by area and the fifth smallest by population. Erfurt is the state capital and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31130 |
Theodosius I
Theodosius I (Flavius Theodosius Augustus; ; 11 January 347 – 17 January 395), also known as Theodosius the Great, was a Roman Emperor from 379 to 395. On accepting his elevation, he campaigned against Goths and other barbarians who had invaded the Empire. His resources were not sufficient to destroy them... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31131 |
Tswana language
The Tswana language () is a Bantu language spoken in Southern Africa by about five million speakers. It is a Bantu language belonging to the Niger–Congo language family within the Sotho-Tswana branch of Zone S (S.30), and is closely related to the Northern and Southern Sotho languages, as well as the K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31133 |
Nikolai Trubetzkoy
Prince Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy (; 16 April 1890 – 25 June 1938) was a Russian linguist and historian whose teachings formed a nucleus of the Prague School of structural linguistics. He is widely considered to be the founder of morphophonology. He was also associated with the Russian Eurasiani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31134 |
Trekkies (film)
Trekkies is a 1997 documentary film directed by Roger Nygard about the devoted fans of Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek". It is the first film released by Paramount Vantage, then known as Paramount Classics, and stars Denise Crosby (best known for her portrayal of Security Chief Tasha Yar on the first sea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31136 |
The Goodies
The Goodies were a trio of British comedians: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie. The trio created, wrote for and performed in their eponymous television comedy show from 1970 until 1982, combining sketches and situation comedy.
The three actors met each other as undergraduates at Cambridge ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31139 |
Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy ( ) is a long Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered to be the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31140 |
Transport for London
Transport for London (TfL) is a local government body responsible for the transport system in Greater London, England.
TfL has responsibility for London's network of principal road routes, for various rail networks including the London Underground, London Overground, Docklands Light Railway and T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31145 |
Transfer function
In engineering, a transfer function (also known as system function or network function) of an electronic or control system component is a mathematical function which theoretically models the device's output for each possible input. In its simplest form, this function is a two-dimensional graph of an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31146 |
Twiglets
Twiglets are a wheat-based snack with a "distinctive knobbly shape" similar to that of a small twig. The taste of Twiglets derives from the yeast extract used in its coating, and has been compared to that of Marmite. They are marketed in the United Kingdom and packaged in 24 g, 45 g, 105 g and 150 g bags, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31149 |
Lagrange's theorem (group theory)
Lagrange's theorem, in the mathematics of group theory, states that for any finite group "G", the order (number of elements) of every subgroup "H" of "G" divides the order of "G". The theorem is named after Joseph-Louis Lagrange.
This can be shown using the concept of left cosets of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31150 |
The Princess Bride (film)
The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner, starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, and Christopher Guest. Adapted by William Goldman from his 1973 novel "The Princess Br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31153 |
Taxil hoax
The Taxil hoax was an 1890s hoax of exposure by Léo Taxil intended to mock not only Freemasonry but also the Catholic Church's opposition to it.
Léo Taxil was the pen name of Marie Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès, who had been accused earlier of libel regarding a book he wrote called "The Secret Loves o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31155 |
Taiwan independence movement
The Taiwan independence movement is a political and social movement that aims to establish an officially independent sovereign state and new country on the archipelagic territory of "Formosa and Pescadores", based on a unique "Taiwanese national identity".
Currently, Taiwan's political st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31156 |
Trident (missile)
The Trident missile is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) equipped with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRV). Originally developed by Lockheed Missiles and Space Corporation, the missile is armed with thermonuclear warheads and is launched from nuclear-powered ballisti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31158 |
Tsunami
A ( ) is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (including detonations, landslides, glacier calvings, meteorite impacts and other disturbances) above or belo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31161 |
Tower of London
The Tower of London, officially Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which is separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of Lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31165 |
Thar Desert
The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is a large arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of and forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan. It is the world's 17th largest desert, and the world's 9th largest subtropical desert.
About 85... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31174 |
Tobin tax
A Tobin tax was originally defined as a tax on all spot conversions of one currency into another. It was suggested by James Tobin, an economist who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Tobin's tax was originally intended to penalize short-term financial round-trip excursions into another curren... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31175 |
The Parent Trap (1961 film)
The Parent Trap is a 1961 Walt Disney Technicolor romantic comedy film directed by David Swift. It stars Hayley Mills (in a dual role), Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith in a story about teenage twins on a quest to reunite their divorced parents. The screenplay by the film's director David Swi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31176 |
Torpoint Ferry
The Torpoint Ferry is a car and pedestrian chain ferry connecting the A374 which crosses the Hamoaze, a stretch of water at the mouth of the River Tamar, between Devonport in Plymouth and Torpoint in Cornwall. The service was established in 1791 and chain ferry operations were introduced by James Meadow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31177 |
Tarot
The tarot (, first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarock) is a pack of playing cards, used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play games such as Italian tarocchini, French tarot and Austrian Königrufen, many of which are still played today. In the late 18th century, some tarot dec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31178 |
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Hideyoshi rose from a peasant background as a retainer of the prominent lord Oda Nobunaga to become one of the most powerful men in Japan. Hideyoshi succeeded Nobunaga after the Honnō-ji Incident in 1582 and continued Nobunaga's campaign to unite Japan that led to the closing of the Sengoku period. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31182 |
Tokugawa Ieyasu
He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Son of a minor daimyo, Tokugawa once lived as a hostage, on behalf of his father, under another Daimyo. He later succeeded as daimyo after his father's death, serving as vassal and genera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31183 |
Tonne
The tonne ( or ; symbol: t) is a non-SI metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms. It is commonly referred to as a metric ton in the United States. It is equivalent to approximately pounds, or approximately 0.984 long tons (UK). The official SI unit is the megagram (symbol: Mg), a less common way to express t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31185 |
Neutron activation analysis
Neutron activation analysis (NAA) is the nuclear process used for determining the concentrations of elements in a vast amount of materials. NAA allows discrete sampling of elements as it disregards the chemical form of a sample, and focuses solely on its nucleus. The method is based on neut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21933 |
Nondeterministic Turing machine
In theoretical computer science, a nondeterministic Turing machine (NTM) is a theoretical model of computation whose governing rules specify more than one possible action when in some given situations. That is, an NTM's next state is "not" completely determined by its action and the cur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21935 |
Nitrogen narcosis
Narcosis while diving (also known as nitrogen narcosis, inert gas narcosis, raptures of the deep, Martini effect) is a reversible alteration in consciousness that occurs while diving at depth. It is caused by the anesthetic effect of certain gases at high pressure. The Greek word (narkōsis), "the act... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21937 |
Neoproterozoic
The Neoproterozoic Era is the unit of geologic time from .
It is the last era of the Precambrian Supereon and the Proterozoic Eon; it is subdivided into the Tonian, Cryogenian, and Ediacaran Periods. It is preceded by the Mesoproterozoic era and succeeded by the Paleozoic era of the Phanerozoic eon.
T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21938 |
National Security Agency
The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence. The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21939 |
Nervous system
The nervous system is a highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its actions and sensory information by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body. The nervous system detects environmental changes that impact the body, then works in tandem with the endocrine system to respond ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21944 |
Nutcracker
A nutcracker is a tool designed to open nuts by cracking their shells. There are many designs, including levers, screws, and ratchets. A well-known type portrays a person whose mouth forms the jaws of the nutcracker, though many of these are meant for decoration.
Nuts were historically opened using a hamme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21946 |
Nicolai Abildgaard
Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard (September 11, 1743 – June 4, 1809) was a Danish neoclassical and royal history painter, sculptor, architect, and professor of painting, mythology, and anatomy at the New Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. Many of his works were in the royal Christiansborg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21949 |
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (often abbreviated KP or KPK) ( ; ), formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) (), is one of the four administrative provinces of Pakistan, located in the northwestern region of the country along the International border with Afghanistan.
It was previously known a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21950 |
Naiad (moon)
Naiad , also known as Neptune III, is the innermost satellite of Neptune, named after the naiads of Greek legend.
Naiad was discovered sometime before mid-September 1989 from the images taken by the "Voyager 2" probe. The last moon to be discovered during the flyby, it was designated S/1989 N 6. The disc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21952 |
Nilo-Saharan languages
The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by some 50–60 million people, mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet. The languages extend through 17 nations in the norther... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21953 |
Nuclear pore
A nuclear pore is a part of a large complex of proteins, known as a nuclear pore complex that spans the nuclear envelope, which is the double membrane surrounding the eukaryotic cell nucleus. There are approximately 1,000 nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) in the nuclear envelope of a vertebrate cell, but it v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21957 |
Nucleolus
The nucleolus (, plural: nucleoli ) is the largest structure in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells. It is best known as the site of ribosome biogenesis. Nucleoli also participate in the formation of signal recognition particles and play a role in the cell's response to stress. Nucleoli are made of proteins, DNA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21958 |
Nucleon
In chemistry and physics, a nucleon is either a proton or a neutron, considered in its role as a component of an atomic nucleus. The number of nucleons in a nucleus defines an isotope's mass number (nucleon number).
Until the 1960s, nucleons were thought to be elementary particles, not made up of smaller part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21961 |
Nicotinamide
Nicotinamide (NAM) is a form of vitamin B3 found in food and used as a dietary supplement and medication. As a supplement, it is used by mouth to prevent and treat pellagra (niacin deficiency). While nicotinic acid (niacin) may be used for this purpose, nicotinamide has the benefit of not causing skin flu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21968 |
Virtual Boy
The Virtual Boy is a 32-bit tabletop portable video game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. Released in 1995, it was marketed as the first console capable of displaying stereoscopic "3D" graphics. The player uses the console like a head-mounted display, placing their head against the eyepiece ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21970 |
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