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Replicant
A replicant is a fictional bioengineered being in the 1982 film "Blade Runner", and in its 2017 sequel "Blade Runner 2049". The Nexus-series of replicants are virtually identical to adult humans but have superior strength, speed, agility, resilience, and intelligence, to varying degrees depending on the mode... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26473 |
Roman Jakobson
Roman Osipovich Jakobson (; October 11, 1896 – July 18, 1982) was a Russian-American linguist and literary theorist.
A pioneer of structural linguistics, Jakobson was one of the most celebrated and influential linguists of the twentieth century. With Nikolai Trubetzkoy, he developed revolutionary new t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26474 |
Rudolph Pariser
Rudolph Pariser (born December 8, 1923) is a physical and polymer chemist. He was born in Harbin, China to merchant parents, Ludwig Jacob Pariser and Lia Rubinstein. He attended the Von Hindenburg Schule in Harbin, an American Missionary School in Beijing and American School in Japan in Tokyo. He left ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26475 |
Rendezvous with Rama
Rendezvous with Rama is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1973. Set in the 2130s, the story involves a cylindrical alien starship that enters the Solar System. The story is told from the point of view of a group of human explorers who intercept the ship ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26476 |
Rust
Rust is an iron oxide, a usually reddish brown oxide formed by the reaction of iron and oxygen in the presence of water or air moisture. Several forms of rust are distinguishable both visually and by spectroscopy, and form under different circumstances. Rust consists of hydrated iron(III) oxides Fe2O3·"n"H2O and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26477 |
Real analysis
In mathematics, real analysis is the branch of mathematical analysis that studies the behavior of real numbers, sequences and series of real numbers, and real functions. Some particular properties of real-valued sequences and functions that real analysis studies include convergence, limits, continuity, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26478 |
Richie Benaud
Richard Benaud (; 6 October 1930 – 10 April 2015) was an Australian cricketer who, after his retirement from international cricket in 1964, became a highly regarded commentator on the game.
Benaud was a Test cricket all-rounder, blending leg spin bowling with lower-order batting aggression. Along with f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26479 |
Religious pluralism
Religious pluralism is an attitude or policy regarding the diversity of religious belief systems co-existing in society. It can indicate one or more of the following:
Religious pluralism, to paraphrase the title of a recent academic work, goes beyond mere toleration. Chris Beneke, in "Beyond Tole... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26484 |
Calendar-based contraceptive methods
Calendar-based methods are various methods of estimating a woman's likelihood of fertility, based on a record of the length of previous menstrual cycles. Various methods are known as the Knaus–Ogino method and the rhythm method. The standard days method is also considered a calenda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26485 |
Roulette
Roulette is a casino game named after the French word meaning "little wheel". In the game, players may choose to place bets on either a single number, various groupings of numbers, the colors red or black, whether the number is odd or even, or if the numbers are high (19–36) or low (1–18).
To determine the w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26487 |
Reference counting
In computer science, reference counting is a programming technique of storing the number of references, pointers, or handles to a resource, such as an object, a block of memory, disk space, and others.
In garbage collection algorithms, reference counts may be used to deallocate objects which are no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26490 |
Red-eye effect
The red-eye effect in photography is the common appearance of red pupils in color photographs of the eyes of humans and several other animals. It occurs when using a photographic flash that is very close to the camera lens (as with most compact cameras) in ambient low light.
In flash photography the li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26491 |
Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 2
Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 2, also known as herpes zoster oticus, is a disorder that is caused by the reactivation of varicella zoster virus in the geniculate ganglion, a nerve cell bundle of the facial nerve.
Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 2 typically presents with inability to move many facial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26492 |
Race and intelligence
Discussions of race and intelligence, as well as claims of genetic differences in intelligence along racial lines, have appeared in both popular science and academic research since the inception of IQ testing in the early 20th century. The concept of "race" is a social construct, and "intelligenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26494 |
Retirement
Retirement is the withdrawal from one's position or occupation or from one's active working life. A person may also semi-retire by reducing work hours.
An increasing number of individuals are choosing to put off this point of total retirement, by selecting to exist in the emerging state of pre-tirement. So... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26495 |
Boeing RC-135
The Boeing RC-135 is a family of large reconnaissance aircraft built by Boeing and modified by a number of companies, including General Dynamics, Lockheed, LTV, E-Systems, and L3 Technologies, and used by the United States Air Force and Royal Air Force to support theater and national level intelligence c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26501 |
Rumiko Takahashi
Rumiko Takahashi was born in Niigata, Japan. Although she showed little interest in manga during her childhood, she was said to occasionally doodle in the margins of her papers while attending Niigata Chūō High School. Takahashi's interest in manga did not start until later. In an interview in 2000, T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26502 |
Reverse Polish notation
Reverse Polish notation (RPN), also known as Polish postfix notation or simply postfix notation, is a mathematical notation in which operators "follow" their operands, in contrast to Polish notation (PN), in which operators "precede" their operands. It does not need any parentheses as long as e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26513 |
Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He has also published plays and poetry. He is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York.
Hoffmann was born... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26514 |
Rhotic consonant
In phonetics, rhotic consonants, or "R-like" sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically by symbols derived from the Greek letter rho, including , in the Latin script and , in the Cyrillic script. They are transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet by uppe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26515 |
Richard Hell
Richard Lester Meyers (born October 2, 1949), better known by his stage name Richard Hell, is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist and writer.
Richard Hell was an innovator of punk music and fashion. He was one of the first to spike his hair and wear torn, cut and drawn-on shirts, often held to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26517 |
Referential transparency
Referential transparency and referential opacity are properties of parts of computer programs. An expression is called referentially transparent if it can be replaced with its corresponding value without changing the program's behavior. This requires that the expression be pure, that is to say... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26526 |
Reaganomics
Reaganomics (; a portmanteau of "[Ronald] Reagan" and "economics" attributed to Paul Harvey), or Reaganism, refers to the economic policies promoted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. These policies are commonly associated with and characterized as supply-side economics, trickle-down economi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26529 |
Roland Corporation
Roland has manufactured numerous instruments that have had lasting impacts on music, such as the Juno-106 synthesizer, TB-303 bass synthesizer, and TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines. Roland was also instrumental in the development of MIDI, a standardized means of synchronizing electronic instruments m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26531 |
Rhys ap Gruffydd
Rhys ap Gruffydd or ap Gruffudd (often anglicised to "Griffith"; 1132 – 28 April 1197) was the ruler of the kingdom of Deheubarth in south Wales from 1155 to 1197. Today, he is commonly known as The Lord Rhys, in Welsh "Yr Arglwydd Rhys", although this title may have not been used in his lifetime. He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26532 |
Rachel Summers
Rachel Anne Summers (also known as Rachel Grey) is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne.
In her first appearance, the character's surname was not revealed; later publica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26534 |
Richard of Saint Victor
Richard of Saint Victor (died 1173) was a Medieval Scottish philosopher and theologian and one of the most influential religious thinkers of his time. A canon regular, he was a prominent mystical theologian, and was prior of the famous Augustinian Abbey of Saint Victor in Paris from 1162 until ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26535 |
Rose
A rose is a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be erect shrubs, climbing, or trailing, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26537 |
Roman Curia
The Roman Curia comprises the administrative institutions of the Holy See and the central body through which the affairs of the Catholic Church are conducted. It acts in the Pope's name and with his authority for the good and for the service of the particular churches and provides the central organization ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26538 |
Repo Man (film)
Repo Man is a 1984 American science fiction black comedy film written and directed by Alex Cox in his directorial debut. It stars Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez, with Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash, Sy Richardson, Vonetta McGee, Fox Harris and Dick Rude among the supporting cast. Set in Los Angele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26541 |
Ruth Benedict
Ruth Fulton Benedict (June 5, 1887 – September 17, 1948) was an American anthropologist and folklorist.
She was born in New York City, attended Vassar College and graduated in 1909. After studying anthropology at the New School of Social Research under Elsie Clews Parsons, she entered graduate studies a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26542 |
Rosmalen
Rosmalen () is a town in the province of North Brabant, in the south of the Netherlands. The town is located 6 kilometers east of the city of 's-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch) and has been part of that municipality since 1996. Its population is around 35,000. In 2005 the town began construction of a new neighbourh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26543 |
Ruslan Khasbulatov
Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov (, ) (born November 22, 1942) is a Russian economist and politician and the Chairman of Parliament of Russia of Chechen descent who played a central role in the events leading to the 1993 constitutional crisis in the Russian Federation.
Khasbulatov was born in Tolstoy-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26546 |
Six Nations Championship
The Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Six Nations for sponsorship reasons) is an annual international men's rugby union competition between the teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, and Wales. The current champions are Wales, who won the 2019 tournament.
The Six Na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26547 |
Reconquista
The (Portuguese and Spanish for "reconquest") was a period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula of about 780 years between the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711, the expansion of the Christian kingdoms throughout Iberia, and the fall of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada in 1492.
The beginning of the "" i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26550 |
Raku ware
The Western version of raku was developed in the 20th century by studio potters. Typically wares are fired at a high temperature, and after removing pieces from the kiln, the wares are placed in an open-air container filled with combustible material, which is not a traditional Raku practice in Japan. The Wes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26551 |
Roy Orbison
Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician known for his impassioned singing style, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. His music was described by critics as operatic, earning him the nicknames "the Caruso of Rock" and "the Big ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26552 |
Ragtime
Ragtime – also spelled rag-time or rag time – is a musical style that enjoyed its peak popularity between 1895 and 1919. Its cardinal trait is its syncopated or "ragged" rhythm.
The style has its origins in African-American communities in cities such as St. Louis.
Ben Harney, a Kentucky native, wrote "You've... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26553 |
Rashi
Shlomo Yitzchaki (; ; , 22 February 1040 – 13 July 1105), today generally known by the acronym Rashi (, RAbbi SHlomo Itzhaki), was a medieval French rabbi and author of a comprehensive commentary on the Talmud and commentary on the "Tanakh". Acclaimed for his ability to present the basic meaning of the text in a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26555 |
Redmond, Washington
Redmond is a city in King County, Washington, United States, located east of Seattle. The population was 54,144 at the 2010 census and an estimated 71,929 in 2019. Redmond is commonly recognized as the home of Microsoft and Nintendo of America. With an annual bike race on city streets and the state... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26558 |
Rise of the Triad
Rise of the Triad: Dark War is a first-person shooter video game, developed and published by Apogee Software (3D Realms) in 1995. The player can choose one of five different characters to play as, each bearing unique attributes such as height, speed, and endurance. Its remake was designed by Intercep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26559 |
Rurik
Rurik (also Riurik; Old Church Slavonic "Rjurikŭ"; 830 – 879), according to the 12th-century "Primary Chronicle", was a Varangian chieftain of the Rus' who in the year 862 gained control of Ladoga, and built Novgorod in the same year. This legendary figure was considered by later rulers to be the founder of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26560 |
Rank (linear algebra)
In linear algebra, the rank of a matrix formula_1 is the dimension of the vector space generated (or spanned) by its columns. This corresponds to the maximal number of linearly independent columns of formula_1. This, in turn, is identical to the dimension of the vector space spanned by its rows. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26561 |
Marine archaeology in the Gulf of Cambay
Marine archeology in the Gulf of Khambhat - earlier known as Gulf of Cambay - centers around controversial findings made in December 2000 by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) under the Gulf of Khambhat, a bay on the Arabian Sea on the west coast of India. The st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26563 |
Robert Siodmak
Robert Siodmak (; 8 August 1900 – 10 March 1973) was a German film director who also worked in the United States. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for a series of stylish, unpretentious Hollywood films noirs he made in the 1940s, such as "The Killers" (1946).
Siodmak was born in Dresd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26565 |
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a first-person shooter video game published by Activision, released on November 19, 2001 for Microsoft Windows and subsequently for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Linux and Macintosh. The game serves as both a remake and a reboot to the "Wolfenstein" series. It was de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26569 |
Red Faction (video game)
Red Faction is a first-person shooter video game developed by Volition and published by THQ for PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows in 2001, and Macintosh platforms in 2002. A version for the Nokia N-Gage was developed by Monkeystone Games, and the mobile version was developed by Blue Beck. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26570 |
Ragnar Frisch
Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (3 March 1895 – 31 January 1973) was a Norwegian economist and the co-recipient of the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969 (with Jan Tinbergen). He is known for being one of the founders of the discipline of econometrics, and for coining the widely used term... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26571 |
Rennet
Rennet is a complex set of enzymes produced in the stomachs of ruminant mammals. Chymosin, its key component, is a protease enzyme that curdles the casein in milk. In addition to chymosin, rennet contains other enzymes, such as pepsin and a lipase.
Rennet is used to separate milk into solid curds (for cheesema... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26572 |
Rabbit
Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha (along with the hare and the pika). "Oryctolagus cuniculus" includes the European rabbit species and its descendants, the world's 305 breeds of domestic rabbit. "Sylvilagus" includes 13 wild rabbit species, among them the seven types of c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26573 |
The Hunt for Red October
The Hunt for Red October is the debut novel by Tom Clancy, first published on October 1, 1984 by the Naval Institute Press. It depicts Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius as he seemingly goes rogue with his country's cutting-edge ballistic missile submarine "Red October", and marks the first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30761 |
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
The Cardinal of the Kremlin is an espionage thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and released on May 20, 1988. A direct sequel to "The Hunt for Red October" (1984), it features CIA analyst Jack Ryan as he extracts CARDINAL, the agency's highest placed agent in the Soviet government who is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30762 |
Debt of Honor
Debt of Honor is a techno-thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and released on August 17, 1994. A direct sequel to "The Sum of All Fears" (1991), Jack Ryan becomes the National Security Advisor when a secret cabal of Japanese industrialists seize control of their country’s government and wage war on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30763 |
Jack Ryan (character)
John Patrick Ryan, Sr. is a fictional character created by author Tom Clancy and featured in his Ryanverse novels, which have consistently topped the "New York Times" bestseller list over 30 years. Since Clancy's death in 2013, four other authors have continued the Ryan franchise and its other co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30765 |
John Clark (Tom Clancy character)
John T. Clark (real name John Terence Kelly) is a fictional character created by Tom Clancy. Clark is Clancy’s second most famous character after Jack Ryan, and has been featured in many of his Ryanverse novels. Although he first appeared in "The Cardinal of the Kremlin" (1987), his o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30766 |
The Troubles
The Troubles () were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict it is sometimes described as an "irregular war" or "low-level war". The conflict began in the late 1960s and is usually deemed to have ended wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30770 |
Theoretical ecology
Theoretical ecology is the scientific discipline devoted to the study of ecological systems using theoretical methods such as simple conceptual models, mathematical models, computational simulations, and advanced data analysis. Effective models improve understanding of the natural world by revealin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30773 |
Thomas Nast
Thomas Nast (; ; September 27, 1840 – December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist often considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon". He was a critic of Democratic Representative "Boss" Tweed and the Tammany Hall Democratic party political machine. Among his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30775 |
Teutonic Order
The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem (official names: , ), commonly the Teutonic Order (', ' or ""), is a Catholic religious order founded as a military order 1192 in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem.
The Teutonic Order was formed to aid Christians on their pilgrimages to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30776 |
Universe of The Legend of Zelda
"The Legend of Zelda" is a video game franchise created by Japanese video game developer Shigeru Miyamoto.
The universe depicted in the "Legend of Zelda" series consists of a variety of lands, the most predominant being .
The kingdom of , a medieval-inspired fantasy land, is the main ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30778 |
Tulsa race massacre
The Tulsa race massacre (also called the Tulsa race riot, the Greenwood Massacre, or the Black Wall Street Massacre) took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It has been called "the sing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30785 |
Tuatara
Tuatara are reptiles endemic to New Zealand. Although resembling most lizards, they are part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia. Their name derives from the Māori language, and means "peaks on the back". The single species of tuatara is the sole surviving member of its order, which originated in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30786 |
Polytetrafluoroethylene
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene that has numerous applications. The well-known brand name of PTFE-based formulas is Teflon by Chemours. Chemours was a spin-off from DuPont, which originally discovered the compound in 1938. Another popular brand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30791 |
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain) ( – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution and inspired the patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30795 |
Tyre, Lebanon
Tyre ( Ṣūr) is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, though in medieval times for some centuries by just a tiny population. It was one of the earliest Phoenician metropolises and the legendary birthplace of Europa, her brothers Cadmus and Phoenix, as well as Carthage's founder Dido... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30796 |
Tarja Halonen
Tarja Kaarina Halonen (; born 24 December 1943) is a Finnish politician who served as the 11th President of Finland, and the first woman to hold the position, from 2000 to 2012. She first rose to prominence as a lawyer with the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK), and as the Prime Minister... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30797 |
Truso
Truso, situated on Lake Drużno, was an Old Prussian (Pomesanian) town near the Baltic Sea just east of the Vistula River. It was one of the trading posts on the Amber Road, and is thought to be the antecedent of the city of Elbląg (Elbing). In the words of Marija Gimbutas, "the name of the town is the earliest k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30801 |
Tragedy of the commons
The tragedy of the commons is a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users, acting independently according to their own self-interest, behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling the shared resource through their collective action. The theory origin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30802 |
Tape bias
Tape bias is the term for two techniques, AC bias and DC bias, that improve the fidelity of analogue tape recorders. DC bias is the addition of direct current to the audio signal that is being recorded. AC bias is the addition of an inaudible high-frequency signal (generally from 40 to 150 kHz) to the audio ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30805 |
Tree (data structure)
In computer science, a tree is a widely used abstract data type (ADT) that simulates a hierarchical tree structure, with a root value and subtrees of children with a parent node, represented as a set of linked nodes.
A tree data structure can be defined recursively as a collection of nodes (star... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30806 |
Tangent space
In mathematics, the tangent space of a manifold facilitates the generalization of vectors from affine spaces to general manifolds, since in the latter case one cannot simply subtract two points to obtain a vector that gives the displacement of the one point from the other.
In differential geometry, one ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30807 |
Tao
Tao (, ) or Dao ( ; from ) is a Chinese word signifying the "way", "path", "route", "road" or sometimes more loosely "doctrine", "principle" or "holistic beliefs". In the context of East Asian philosophy and East Asian religions, Tao is the natural order of the universe whose character one's human intuition must ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30808 |
The Thing (1982 film)
The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter and written by Bill Lancaster. Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella "Who Goes There?", it tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", a parasitic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30809 |
Troff
troff (, short for "typesetter roff") is the major component of a document processing system developed by AT&T Corporation for the Unix operating system.
"troff" features commands to designate fonts, spacing, paragraphs, margins, footnotes and more. Unlike many other text formatters, "troff" can position charac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30811 |
The Onion
The Onion is an American satirical digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes articles on international, national, and local news. The company is based in Chicago but originated as a weekly print publication on August 29, 1988 in Madison, Wisconsin. "The Onion" began publishing online in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30813 |
Tree rotation
In discrete mathematics, tree rotation is an operation on a binary tree that changes the structure without interfering with the order of the elements. A tree rotation moves one node up in the tree and one node down. It is used to change the shape of the tree, and in particular to decrease its height by m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30816 |
The New York Times Company
The New York Times Company is an American mass media company which publishes its namesake newspaper, "The New York Times". Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. has served as chairman since 1997. It is headquartered in Manhattan, New York.
The company was founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30830 |
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. The Buccaneers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The club joined the NFL in as an expansion team, along with t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30837 |
Tennessee Titans
The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee. The Titans compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) South division. Previously known as the Houston Oilers, the team began play in 1960 in Houst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30839 |
Tetrarchy
The Tetrarchy is the term adopted to describe the system of government of the ancient Roman Empire instituted by Roman Emperor Diocletian in 293, marking the end of the Crisis of the Third Century and the recovery of the Roman Empire. This tetrarchy lasted until c. 313, when mutually destructive civil wars e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30840 |
South Dakota
South Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who compose a large portion of the population and historically dominated the territory. South Dakota is the seventeenth largest by area, but the fifth smalle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26746 |
Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a country situated in the confluence of Western, Central, and Southern Europe. It is a federal republic composed of 26 cantons, with federal authorities based in Bern. Switzerland is a landlocked country bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26748 |
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; '; "Ilaṅkai"), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean southwest of the Bay of Bengal and southeast of the Arabian Sea. It is geographically separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26750 |
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, with internal convective motion that generates a magnetic field via a dynamo process. It is by far the most important source of energy for life on Earth. Its diameter is about 1.39 million kilometers (864,000 miles)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26751 |
Smiley
A smiley, sometimes referred to as a smiley face, is a basic ideogram that represents a smiling face, which has become part of popular culture worldwide. In modern times, the smiley has mostly been known for its yellow face and has evolved from a simple smiling face to display a range of facial emotions. Drawin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26752 |
Signature
A signature (; from , "to sign") is a handwritten (and often stylized) depiction of someone's name, nickname, or even a simple "X" or other mark that a person writes on documents as a proof of identity and intent. The writer of a signature is a signatory or signer. Similar to a handwritten signature, a signa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26753 |
Sino-Tibetan languages
Sino-Tibetan, in a few sources also known as Trans-Himalayan, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese languages. Other Sino-Tibetan languages with large numbers of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26756 |
Slavic languages
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples or their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the Early Middle Ages, which in turn is thought to have descended fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26757 |
International System of Units
The International System of Units (SI, abbreviated from the French "") is the modern form of the metric system. It is the only system of measurement with an official status in nearly every country in the world. It comprises a coherent system of units of measurement starting with seven bas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26764 |
South America
South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It may also be considered a subcontinent of the Americas, which is how it is viewed in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions of the Americas. The refere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26769 |
Spindletop
Spindletop is an oil field located in the southern portion of Beaumont, Texas in the United States. The Spindletop dome was derived from the Louann Salt evaporite layer of the Jurassic geologic period. On January 10, 1901, a well at Spindletop struck oil ("came in"). The Spindletop gusher blew for 9 days at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26771 |
Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle (; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (, ; ), was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels "Le Rouge et le Noir" ("The Red and the Black", 1830) and "La Chartreuse de Parme" ("The Charterhouse of Parma", 1839), he is highly regarded for the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26773 |
Syndicalism
Syndicalism is a radical current in the labor movement that was most active in the early 20th century. Its main idea is the establishment of local worker-based organizations and the advancement of the demands and rights of workers through strikes. According to the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, it was pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26775 |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991 and was the largest country in the world. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, in practice its government and economy were highl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26779 |
Social science
Social science is the branch of science devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of society", established in the 19th century. In addition to sociology, it now en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26781 |
Statute
A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative authority that governs the legal entities of a city, state, or country by way of consent. Typically, statutes command or prohibit something, or declare policy. Statutes are rules made by legislative bodies; they are distinguished from case law or precede... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26783 |
Sarajevo
Sarajevo ( ; , ; "see ") is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area, including Sarajevo Canton, East Sarajevo and nearby municipalities, is home to 555,210 inhabitants. Nestled within the greater Sarajevo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26786 |
Science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to sci-fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. It has been called the "literatur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26787 |
Spirotrich
The spirotrichs are a large and diverse group of ciliate protozoa. They typically have prominent oral cilia in the form of a series of polykinetids, called the adoral zone of membranelles, beginning anterior to the oral cavity and running down to the left side of the mouth. There may also be one or two paro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26788 |
Sexual selection
Sexual selection is a mode of natural selection in which members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection), and compete with members of the same sex for access to members of the opposite sex (intrasexual selection). These two forms of selection mean that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26789 |
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