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Telecommunications in Singapore
The telecommunication infrastructure of Singapore spans the entire city-state. Its development level is high, with close accessibility to the infrastructure from nearly all inhabited parts of the island and for all of the population, with exceptions. Today, the country is considered an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27324 |
Transport in Singapore
Transport within Singapore is mainly land-based. Many parts of Singapore, including islands such as Sentosa and Jurong Island are accessible by road. The other major form of transportation within Singapore is rail: the Mass Rapid Transit which runs the length and width of Singapore, and the Ligh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27325 |
History of Slovakia
This article discusses the history of the territory of Slovakia.
Discovery of ancient tools made by the Clactonian technique near Nové Mesto nad Váhom attests that Slovakia's territory was inhabited in the Palaeolithic. Other prehistoric discoveries include the Middle Palaeolithic stone tools foun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27328 |
Geography of Slovakia
Slovakia is a landlocked Central European country with mountainous regions in the north and flat terrain in the south.
Land use:
"agricultural land": 40.1%
"arable land": 28.9%; permanent crops: 0.4%; permanent pasture: 10.8%
"forest": 40.2%
"other": 19.7% (2011 est.)
Natural resources:
Li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27329 |
Demographics of Slovakia
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Slovakia, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. The demographic statistics are from the Statistical Offic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27330 |
Politics of Slovakia
Politics of Slovakia takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, with a multi-party system. Legislative power is vested in the parliament and it can be exercised in some cases also by the government or directly by citizens.
Executive power is exercised by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27331 |
Economy of Slovakia
The economy of Slovakia is based upon Slovakia becoming an EU member state in 2004, and adopting the euro at the beginning of 2009. Its capital, Bratislava, is the largest financial centre in Slovakia. As of 2018 (1.Q.), the unemployment rate was 5.72%.
Due to the Slovak GDP growing very strongly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27332 |
Telecommunications in Slovakia
Telecommunications in Slovakia includes fixed and mobile telephones, radio, television, and the Internet.
Slovak Telecom Inc. (former Slovenské Telekomunikácie, a.s.) was privatised on 18 July 2000. The 51% package of shares was purchased by the German Deutsche Telecom AG for 1 bln. EUR... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27333 |
Transport in Slovakia
Transport in Slovakia is possible by rail, road, air or rivers. Slovakia is a developed Central European country with a well-developed rail network (3,662 km) and a highway system (225.25 km). Main international airport is the M. R. Štefánik Airport in the capital, Bratislava. Most important wate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27334 |
Slovak Armed Forces
The Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic were divided from Czechoslovak army after dissolution of Czechoslovakia on January 1, 1993. Slovakia joined NATO on 29 March 2004. From 2006 the army transformed into a fully professional organization and compulsory military service was abolished. Slovak arme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27335 |
Foreign relations of Slovakia
Slovak Republic has been a member of European Union since 2004. Slovakia has been an active participant in U.S.- and NATO-led military actions. There is a joint Czech-Slovak peacekeeping force in Kosovo. After the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on the United States, the government op... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27336 |
Steven Soderbergh
Steven Andrew Soderbergh (; born January 14, 1963) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor. An early pioneer of modern independent cinema, Soderbergh is an acclaimed and prolific filmmaker.
Soderbergh's directorial breakthrough—indie drama "Sex, Lies, and V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27337 |
Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: "RS"), is a country located in Europe at the crossroads of main European cultural and trade routes.
It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and the Adriatic Sea to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27338 |
History of Slovenia
The history of Slovenia chronicles the period of the Slovenian territory from the 5th century BC to the present. In the Early Bronze Age, Proto-Illyrian tribes settled an area stretching from present-day Albania to the city of Trieste. Slovenian territory was part of the Roman Empire, and it was de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27339 |
Geography of Slovenia
Slovenia is situated at the crossroads of central and southeast Europe, touching the Alps and bordering the Adriatic Sea. The Alps—including the Julian Alps, the Kamnik-Savinja Alps and the Karawank chain, as well as the Pohorje massif—dominate northern Slovenia along its long border to Austria. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27340 |
Demographics of Slovenia
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Slovenia, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
With 101 inhabitants per square kilometre (262/sq mi), S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27341 |
Politics of Slovenia
The politics of Slovenia takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Slovenia is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the Government of Slovenia. Legislative power is vested in the N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27342 |
Thyme
Thyme () is the herb (dried aerial parts) of some members of the genus "Thymus" of aromatic perennial evergreen herbs in the mint family Lamiaceae. Thymes are relatives of the oregano genus "Origanum". They have culinary, medicinal, and ornamental uses, and the species most commonly cultivated and used for culin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29968 |
Tea
Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of the "Camellia sinensis", an evergreen shrub (bush) native to East Asia. After water, it is the most widely consumed drink in the world. There are many different types of tea; some, like Darjeeling and Chines... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29969 |
Tank
A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat. Tanks have heavy firepower, strong armour, and good battlefield manoeuvrability provided by tracks and a powerful engine; usually their main armament is mounted in a turret. They are a mainstay of modern 20th and 21st century ground forces and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29970 |
Herbal tea
Herbal teas—less commonly called tisanes (UK and US , US also )—are beverages made from the infusion or decoction of herbs, spices, or other plant material in hot water. The term "herbal tea" is often used in contrast to true teas (e.g., black, green, white, yellow, oolong), which are prepared from the cure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29972 |
Turmeric
Turmeric (pronounced , also or ) is a flowering plant, "Curcuma longa" of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae, the roots of which are used in cooking. The plant is a perennial, rhizomatous, herbaceous plant native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, that requires temperatures between and a considerabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29973 |
Total war
Total war, as opposed to limited war, is used to describe warfare that mobilizes all of the resources of society to fight the war, including any and all civilian-associated resources and infrastructure, and gives priority to what the state requires for warfare over the needs of non-combatant. The term emerge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29974 |
Time constraint
In law, time constraints are placed on certain actions and filings in the interest of speedy justice, and additionally to prevent the evasion of the ends of justice by waiting until a matter is moot. The penalty for violating a legislative or court-imposed time constraint may be anything from a small f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29980 |
Taurus (constellation)
Taurus (Latin for "the Bull") is one of the constellations of the zodiac and is located in the Northern celestial hemisphere. Taurus is a large and prominent constellation in the northern hemisphere's winter sky. It is one of the oldest constellations, dating back to at least the Early Bronze Ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29984 |
Taco
A taco (, , ) is a traditional Mexican dish consisting of a small hand-sized corn or wheat tortilla topped with a filling. The tortilla is then folded around the filling and eaten by hand. A taco can be made with a variety of fillings, including beef, pork, chicken, seafood, vegetables, and cheese, allowing great... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29985 |
The Penguins
The Penguins were an American doo-wop group of the 1950s and early 1960s, best remembered for their only Top 40 hit, "Earth Angel", which was one of the first rhythm and blues hits to cross over to the pop charts. The song peaked at #8 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart, but had a three-week run at #1 on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29987 |
Tenochtitlan
Tenochtitlan ( ; ), also known as Mexica-Tenochtitlan ( ; ), was a large Mexica altepetl in what is now the center of Mexico City. The exact date of the founding of the city is unclear. The date 13 March 1325 was chosen in 1925 to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the city. The city was built on an islan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29988 |
Triassic
The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.9 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period Mya. The Triassic is the first and shortest period of the Mesozoic Era. Both the start and end of the period are marked by m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29989 |
Titanic Thompson
Alvin Clarence Thomas (November 30, 1893 – May 19, 1974) was an American gambler, golfer and hustler better known as Titanic Thompson.
Thompson traveled the country wagering at cards, dice games, golf, shooting, billiards, horseshoes and proposition bets of his own devising. As an ambidextrous golfer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29990 |
The Shockwave Rider
The Shockwave Rider is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word "worm" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29991 |
Turkish language
Turkish (), also referred to as Istanbul Turkish ("İstanbul Türkçesi") or Turkey Turkish ("Türkiye Türkçesi"), is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 70 to 80 million speakers, mostly in Turkey. Outside its native country, significant smaller groups of speakers exist in Germany... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29992 |
The Shining (novel)
The Shining is a horror novel by American author Stephen King. Published in 1977, it is King's third published novel and first hardback bestseller: the success of the book firmly established King as a preeminent author in the horror genre. The setting and characters are influenced by King's persona... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29999 |
Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver is a 1976 American neo-noir psychological thriller drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris and Albert Brooks. Set in a decaying and morally bankrupt New York City fol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30000 |
Theory of relativity
The theory of relativity usually encompasses two interrelated theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity. Special relativity applies to all physical phenomena in the absence of gravity. General relativity explains the law of gravitation and its relation to other forces ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30001 |
Telephone
A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into electronic signals that are transmitted via cables and other communication cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30003 |
Telia Company
Telia Company AB is a Swedish multinational telecommunications company and mobile network operator present in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
It also runs an international IP backbone network which is ranked number one Dyn in the world through Telia Carrier.
The company... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30004 |
Telefónica
Telefónica, S.A. () is a Spanish multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Madrid, Spain. It is one of the largest telephone operators and mobile network providers in the world. It provides fixed and mobile telephony, broadband and subscription television, operating in Europe and the America... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30005 |
The Silence of the Lambs (film)
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror film directed by Jonathan Demme from a screenplay written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas Harris' 1988 novel of the same name. The film stars Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, and Anthony Heald. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30006 |
The Matrix
The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis. It stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano in supporting roles and is the first installment in the "Matrix" franchise. It depicts a dystopian future in which humanity i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30007 |
Telegraphy
Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of textual messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus flag semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas pigeon post is not. Ancient signalling systems, although som... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30010 |
Transistor
A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power. It is composed of semiconductor material usually with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit. A voltage or current applied to one pair of the transistor's terminals controls the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30011 |
Time
Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30012 |
Tifinagh
Tifinagh (; in Tamazight Latin: ; in Neo-Tifinagh: ; in Tuareg Tifinagh: or ) is an abjad script used to write the Tamazight languages.
Neo-Tifinagh, a modern alphabetical derivative of the traditional script, was reintroduced in the 20th century. A slightly-modified version of the traditional script, called... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30015 |
Turkic languages
The Turkic languages are a language family of at least 35 documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples of Eurasia from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and West Asia all the way to North Asia (particularly in Siberia) and East Asia. The Turkic languages originated in a region of East A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30018 |
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers". Set in Austria on the eve of the "Anschluss" in 1938, the musical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30019 |
Trip hop
Trip hop (sometimes used synonymously with "downtempo") is a musical genre that originated in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol. It has been described as "a fusion of hip hop and electronica until neither genre is recognizable", and may incorporate a variety of styles, including funk, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30021 |
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe ( ; born Tyge Ottesen Brahe; 14 December 154624 October 1601) was a Danish nobleman, astronomer, and writer known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical observations. He was born in the then Danish peninsula of Scania. Tycho was well known in his lifetime as an astronomer, astrologer, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30027 |
The A-Team
The A-Team is an American action-adventure television series that ran on NBC from 1983 to 1987 about former members of a fictitious United States Army Special Forces unit. The members, after being court-martialed "for a crime they didn't commit", escaped from military prison and, while still on the run, wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30028 |
Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English humorist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his "Discworld" series of 41 novels.
Pratchett's first novel, "The Carpet People", was published in 1971. The first "Discworl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30029 |
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles () was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919 in Versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30030 |
Mort
Mort is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett. Published in 1987, it is the fourth "Discworld" novel and the first to focus on the character Death, who only appeared as a side character in the previous novels. The title is the name of its main character, and is also a play on words: in French, "mort" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30033 |
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English engineer and computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30034 |
The Legend of Zelda
The series centers on various incarnations of Link, the player character and chief protagonist. Link is often given the task of rescuing Princess Zelda and the kingdom of Hyrule from Ganon, an evil warlord turned demon who is the principal antagonist of the series; however, other settings and antag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30035 |
Tor Nørretranders
Tor Nørretranders (born June 20, 1955) is a Danish author of popular science. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His books and lectures have primarily been focused on light popular science and its role in society, often with Nørretranders' own advice about how society should integrate new findings i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30036 |
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico () and in previous centuries called Porto Rico in English, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately southeast of Miami, Florida.
Puerto Rico is an archipelago among t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23041 |
Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that are claimed to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method. Pseudoscience is often characterized by contradictory, exaggerated or unfalsifiable claims; reliance on confirmation bias rather than rigorous at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23047 |
Prion
Prions are misfolded proteins with the ability to transmit their misfolded shape onto normal variants of the same protein. They characterize several fatal and transmissible neurodegenerative diseases in humans and many other animals. It is not known what causes the normal protein to misfold, but the abnormal thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23048 |
Periodic table
The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of elements, is a tabular display of the chemical elements, which are arranged by atomic number, electron configuration, and recurring chemical properties. The structure of the table shows periodic trends. The seven rows of the table, called periods, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23053 |
Potassium
Potassium is a chemical element with the symbol K (from Neo-Latin "kalium") and atomic number19. Potassium is a silvery-white metal that is soft enough to be cut with a knife with little force. Potassium metal reacts rapidly with atmospheric oxygen to form flaky white potassium peroxide in only seconds of ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23055 |
Pope
The Pope ( from "pappas", "father"), also known as the Supreme Pontiff ("Pontifex Maximus"), or the Roman pontiff ("Romanus Pontifex"), is the bishop of Rome, chief pastor of the worldwide Catholic Church, and head of state or sovereign of the Vatican City State. Since 1929, the pope has official residence in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23056 |
Passover
Passover or Pesach (; "") is a major Jewish holiday that occurs in the spring on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan. One of the biblically ordained Three Pilgrimage Festivals, Passover is traditionally celebrated in the Land of Israel for seven days and for eight days among many Jews in the Diaspora, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23059 |
Post Office Protocol
In computing, the Post Office Protocol (POP) is an application-layer Internet standard protocol used by e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a mail server.
POP version 3 (POP3) is the version in common use.
The Post Office Protocol provides access via an Internet Protocol (IP) network for a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23062 |
Punch (magazine)
Punch; or, The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23069 |
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
At in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23070 |
Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island (PEI) is a province of Canada and one of the three Maritime provinces. It is the smallest province of Canada in both land area and population, but the most densely populated. Part of the traditional lands of the Mi'kmaq, it became a British colony in the 1700s and was federate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23071 |
Pretty Good Privacy
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, e-mails, files, directories, and whole disk partitions and to increase the security of e-mail communications. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23080 |
Playing card
A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs. Often the front (face) and back of each card has a finish to make handling easier. They are most commonly used for p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23083 |
Paleontology
Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology (), is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study interactions with each other ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23084 |
Plotter
A plotter produces vector graphics drawings. Plotters draw lines on paper using a pen.
In the past, plotters were used in applications such as computer-aided design, as they were able to produce line drawings much faster and of a higher quality than contemporary conventional printers, and small desktop plotter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23085 |
Blind (poker)
The blinds are forced bets posted by players to the left of the dealer button in flop-style poker games. The number of blinds is usually two, but it can range from none to three.
The small blind is placed by the player to the left of the dealer button and the big blind is then posted by the next player ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23124 |
Check-raise
A check-raise in poker is a common deceptive play in which a player checks early in a betting round, hoping someone else will open. The player who checked then raises in the same round.
This might be done, for example, when the first player believes that an opponent has an inferior hand and will not call ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23134 |
Stripped deck
A stripped deck (US) or shortened pack (UK) is a set of playing cards from which some cards have been removed. The removed cards are usually the pip cards. Many card games use stripped decks, and stripped decks for popular games are commercially available.
When playing cards first arrived in Europe duri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23145 |
Declaration (poker)
There are several actions in poker called declaration, in which a player formally expresses his intent to take some action (which he may perform at a later point).
For example, one may verbally declare an action (fold, call, raise) while in turn, which obligates the player to complete that action.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23151 |
Protection (poker)
Protection in poker is a bet made with a strong but vulnerable hand, such as top pair when straight or flush draws are possible. The bet forces opponents with draws to either call with insufficient pot odds, or to fold, both of which are profitable for the betting player. By contrast, if he failed t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23159 |
Draw (poker)
A poker player is drawing if they have a hand that is incomplete and needs further cards to become valuable. The hand itself is called a draw or drawing hand. For example, in seven-card stud, if four of a player's first five cards are all spades, but the hand is otherwise weak, they are "drawing to" a flu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23160 |
Out (poker)
In a poker game with more than one betting round, an out is any unseen card that, if drawn, will improve a player's hand to one that is likely to win. Knowing the number of outs a player has is an important part of poker strategy. For example, in draw poker, a hand with four diamonds has nine outs to make ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23162 |
Pot odds
In poker, pot odds are the ratio of the current size of the pot to the cost of a contemplated call. Pot odds are often compared to the probability of winning a hand with a future card in order to estimate the call's expected value.
Odds are most commonly expressed as ratios, but converting them to percentage... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23163 |
Position (poker)
Position in poker refers to the order in which players are seated around the table and the related poker strategy implications. Players who act first are in "early position"; players who act later are in "late position"; players who act in between are in "middle position". A player "has position" on o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23165 |
Dead money (poker)
In poker, dead money is the amount of money in the pot other than the equal amounts bet by active remaining players in that pot. Examples of dead money include money contributed to the pot by players who have folded, a dead blind posted by a player returning to a game after missing blinds, or an odd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23169 |
Freeroll
In poker, a freeroll tournament is a tournament with no entry fee, and a freeroll hand is where a player is guaranteed to at least split the pot with his opponent, with a chance they can win the whole pot if certain final cards are dealt.
In playing a particular hand of poker, a freeroll is a situation that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23172 |
Omaha hold 'em
Omaha hold 'em (also known as Omaha holdem or simply Omaha) is a community card poker game similar to Texas hold 'em, where each player is dealt four cards and must make his or her best hand using exactly two of them, plus exactly three of the five community cards. The exact origin of the game is unknow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23174 |
Shuffling
Shuffling is a procedure used to randomize a deck of playing cards to provide an element of chance in card games. Shuffling is often followed by a cut, to help ensure that the shuffler has not manipulated the outcome.
One of the easiest shuffles to accomplish after a little practice is the overhand shuffle.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23189 |
Cut (cards)
In many card games, to cut the cards (or "cut the deck") is to split the deck into two piles by lifting one pile from the top, before placing the lower pile on top of it. This is typically done after the cards have already been shuffled, and the procedure is used just prior to the cards being dealt to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23190 |
Philology
Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics. Philology is more commonly defined as the study of literary texts as well as oral and written records, the establishment of their authenticity ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23193 |
Phonetics
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans make and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Phoneticians—linguists who specialize in phonetics—study the physical properties of speech. The field of phonetics is traditionally divided into three subdi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23194 |
Petroleum
Petroleum (pronounced ) is a naturally occurring, yellowish-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface. It is commonly refined into various types of fuels. Components of petroleum are separated using a technique called fractional distillation, i.e. separation of a liquid mixture ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23195 |
Poultry
Poultry () are domesticated birds kept by humans for their eggs, their meat or their feathers. These birds are most typically members of the superorder Galloanserae (fowl), especially the order Galliformes (which includes chickens, quails, and turkeys).
Poultry also includes other birds that are killed for th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23197 |
Propaganda
Propaganda is communication that is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23203 |
Physical quantity
A physical quantity is a property of a material or system that can be quantified by measurement. A physical quantity can be expressed as the combination of a numerical value and a unit. For example, the physical quantity mass can be quantified as "n" kg, where "n" is the numerical value and kg is the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23204 |
Physical constant
A physical constant, sometimes fundamental physical constant or universal constant, is a physical quantity that is generally believed to be both universal in nature and have constant value in time. It is contrasted with a mathematical constant, which has a fixed numerical value, but does not directly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23205 |
Peppermint
Peppermint (Mentha" × "piperita, also known as "Mentha balsamea" Wild.) is a hybrid mint, a cross between watermint and spearmint. Indigenous to Europe and the Middle East, the plant is now widely spread and cultivated in many regions of the world. It is occasionally found in the wild with its parent specie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23209 |
Pseudorandomness
A pseudorandom process produces predictable outcomes given information which is typically difficult to acquire; absent such information, pseudorandom sequences of numbers exhibit statistical randomness.
In general, a random process generates unpredictable outcomes: for any single event any particular... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23210 |
Poales
The Poales are a large order of flowering plants in the monocotyledons, and includes families of plants such as the grasses, bromeliads, and sedges. Sixteen plant families are currently recognized by botanists to be part of Poales.
The flowers are typically small, enclosed by bracts, and arranged in infloresce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23212 |
Ploidy
Ploidy () is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes. Somatic cells, tissues, and individual organisms can be described according to the number of sets of chromosomes present (the "ploidy level"): monoploid (1 set), d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23219 |
IBM System/360
The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a family of mainframe computer systems that was announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, and delivered between 1965 and 1978. It was the first family of computers designed to cover the complete range of applications, from small to large, both commercial and scientific. The design... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29294 |
Spouse
A spouse is a significant other in a marriage, civil union, or common-law marriage. The term is gender neutral, whereas a male spouse is a husband and a female spouse is a wife. Although a spouse is a form of significant other, the latter term also includes non-marital partners who play a social role similar to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29298 |
Semiotics
Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the study of sign process (semiosis), which is any form of activity, conduct, or any process that involves signs, including the production of meaning. A sign is anything that communicates a meaning, that is not the sign itself, to the interpreter of the sign. The m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29301 |
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth (; born Isabella "Belle" Baumfree; November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29305 |
STOVL
A short take-off and vertical landing aircraft (STOVL aircraft) is a fixed-wing aircraft that is able to take off from a short runway (or take off vertically if it does not have a heavy payload) and land vertically (i.e. with no runway). The formal NATO definition (since 1991) is:
On aircraft carriers, non-cata... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29306 |
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