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Firearm
A firearm is a gun (a barreled ranged weapon) designed to be readily carried and used by a single individual. It inflicts damage on targets by launching one or more projectiles driven by rapidly expanding high-pressure gas produced by exothermic combustion (deflagration) of chemical propellant. If gas pressuri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11966 |
History of Iraq
Iraq is the name of the state that currently partially encompasses the territory of the civilization of ancient Mesopotamia. This civilization came into being between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. These rivers flow into the Persian Gulf, through the State of Iraq. The Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq, also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14664 |
Geography of Iraq
The geography of Iraq is diverse and falls into five main regions: the desert (west of the Euphrates), Upper Mesopotamia (between the upper Tigris and Euphrates rivers), the northern highlands of Iraq, Lower Mesopotamia, and the alluvial plain extending from around Tikrit to the Persian Gulf.
The mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14665 |
Demographics of Iraq
The Iraqi people (, , Syriac: ܥܡܐ ܥܝܪܩܝܐ, ) are people identified with the country of Iraq.
Iraqi Arabs are the largest Semitic people in Iraq, while Kurds are the largest non-Semitic ethnic group and largest ethnic minority. Iraqi Turkmen are the third largest ethnic group in the country. Studie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14666 |
Politics of Iraq
The politics of Iraq take place in a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic. It is a multi-party system whereby the executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers as the head of government, as well as the President of Iraq, and legislati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14667 |
Economy of Iraq
The economy of Iraq is dominated by the oil sector, which has provided about 99.7% of foreign exchange earnings in modern times. Iraq's hitherto agrarian economy underwent rapid development following the 14 July Revolution overthrowing the Hashemite Iraqi monarchy, becoming the third-largest economy in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14668 |
Transport in Iraq
Transport in Iraq consists of railways, highways, waterways, pipelines, ports and harbors, marines and airports.
"total:"
2,272 km
"standard gauge:"
2,272 km
For more than two decades there have been plans for building a metro system in Baghdad. It is possible that part of the tunnels have been bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14670 |
Foreign relations of Iraq
Since 1980, the foreign relations of Iraq were influenced by a number of controversial decisions by the Saddam Hussein administration. Hussein had good relations with the Soviet Union and a number of western countries such as France and Germany, who provided him with advanced weapons systems.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14672 |
Demographics of the Republic of Ireland
The Republic of Ireland had a population of 4,761,865 at the 2016 census.
The island of Ireland, throughout most of its history, had a small population, comparable to that of other regions of similar area in Europe. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, Ireland experienced a ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14676 |
Politics of the Republic of Ireland
Ireland is a parliamentary, representative democratic republic and a member state of the European Union. While the head of state is the popularly elected President of Ireland, it is a largely ceremonial position, with real political power being vested in the Taoiseach, who is nomina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14677 |
Telecommunications in the Republic of Ireland
Telecommunications in Ireland operate in a regulated competitive market that provides customers with a wide array of advanced digital services. This article explores Ireland's telecommunications infrastructure including: fixed and mobile networks, voice, data and Internet ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14679 |
Transport in Ireland
Most of the transport system in Ireland is in public hands, either side of the Irish border. The Irish road network has evolved separately in the two jurisdictions into which Ireland is divided, while the Irish rail network was mostly created prior to the partition of Ireland.
In the Republic of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14680 |
Foreign relations of Ireland
The foreign relations of Ireland are substantially influenced by its membership of the European Union, although bilateral relations with the United States and United Kingdom are also important to the state. It is one of the group of smaller nations in the EU, and has traditionally followed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14682 |
Geography of Israel
The geography of Israel is very diverse, with desert conditions in the south, and snow-capped mountains in the north. Israel is located at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea in Western Asia. It is bounded to the north by Lebanon, the northeast by Syria, the east by Jordan and the West Bank, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14687 |
Demographics of Israel
The demographics of Israel are monitored by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. The State of Israel has a population of approximately 9,152,100 inhabitants as of January 2020. Some 74.24% are Jews of all backgrounds (about 6,697,000 individuals), 20.95% are Arab of any religion other than J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14688 |
Economy of Israel
The economy of Israel is a highly advanced free-market, primarily knowledge-based economy. Israel ranks 22 on the latest report of the UN's Human Development Index, which places it in the category of "Very Highly Developed", allowing the country to enjoy a higher standard of living than many other We... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14690 |
Israeli Declaration of Independence
The Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel (), was proclaimed on 14 May 1948 (5 Iyar 5708) by David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization, Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14696 |
Geography of Italy
Italy is located in southern Europe and comprises the long, boot-shaped Italian Peninsula, the southern side of Alps, the large plain of the Po Valley and some islands including Sicily and Sardinia. Corsica, although belonging to the Italian geographical region, has been a part of France since 1769.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14699 |
Demographics of Italy
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Italy, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
At the beginning of 2020, Italy had an estimated population of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14700 |
Politics of Italy
The politics of Italy are conducted through a parliamentary republic with a multi-party system. Italy has been a democratic republic since 2 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished by popular referendum and a constituent assembly was elected to draft a constitution, which was promulgated on 1 Janu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14701 |
Economy of Italy
The economy of Italy is the 3rd-largest national economy in the European Union, the 8th-largest by nominal GDP in the world, and the 12th-largest by GDP (PPP). Italy has a major advanced economy and is a founding member of the European Union, the Eurozone, the OECD, the G7 and the G20; it is the eight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14702 |
Telecommunications in Italy
Telephones - main lines in use:
20.031 million (2008)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
88.58 million (2008)
Telephone system:
modern, well-developed, fast; fully automated telephone, telex, and data services
"domestic:"
high-capacity cable and microwave radio relay trunks
"international:"
sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14703 |
Transport in Italy
Italy has a well developed transport infrastructure.
The Italian rail network is extensive, especially in the north, and it includes a high-speed rail network that joins the major cities of Italy from Naples through northern cities such as Milan and Turin.
Italy has 2,507 people and 12.46 km2 per ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14704 |
Italian Armed Forces
The Italian Armed Forces () encompass the Italian Army, the Italian Navy and the Italian Air Force. A fourth branch of the armed forces, known as the Carabinieri, take on the role as the nation's military police and are also involved in missions and operations abroad as a combat force. Despite not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14705 |
Foreign relations of Italy
Foreign relations of the Italian Republic are the Italian government's external relations with the outside world. Located in Europe, Italy has been considered a major Western power since its unification in 1861. Its main allies are the NATO countries and the EU states, two entities of which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14706 |
Italian language
Italian ("italiano", or , ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family. Italian descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire and, together with Sardinian, is by most measures the Romance language closest to it. Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland (where it is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14708 |
Ice-T
Tracy Lauren Marrow (born February 16, 1958), better known by his stage name Ice-T, is an American musician, rapper, songwriter, actor, record producer, and author. He began his career as an underground rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987, when he released his debut album "Rhyme Pays"; the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14709 |
Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Chalcolithic) and the Bronze Age. The concept has been mostly applied to Europe and the Ancient Near East, and, by analogy, also t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14711 |
EFnet
EFnet or Eris-Free network is a major Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network, with more than 35,000 users. It is the modern-day descendant of the original IRC network.
Initially, most IRC servers formed a single IRC network, to which new servers could join without restriction, but this was soon abused by people who ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14712 |
Undernet
The Undernet is the fourth largest publicly monitored Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network, c. 2016, with about 19 client servers serving 17,444 users in 6621 channels at any given time.
IRC clients can connect to Undernet via the global round robin irc.undernet.org, the region-specific round robins us.undernet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14713 |
DALnet
DALnet is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network made up of 33 servers, with a stable population of approximately 8,000 users in about 7,000 channels.
DALnet is accessible by connecting with an IRC client to an active DALnet server on ports 6660 through 6669, and 7000. SSL users can connect on port 6697 as well.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14715 |
BitchX
BitchX is a free IRC client and has been considered to be the most popular ircII-based IRC client. The initial implementation, written by "Trench" and "HappyCrappy", was a script for the IrcII chat client. It was converted to a program in its own right by panasync (Colten Edwards). BitchX 1.1 final was released... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14716 |
MIRC
mIRC is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for Windows, created in 1995. It is a fully functional chat utility, and its integrated scripting language makes it extensible and versatile.
mIRC has been described as "one of the most popular IRC clients available for Windows." It has been downloaded over 40 million ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14717 |
HexChat
HexChat is an Internet Relay Chat client, forked from XChat. It has a choice of a tabbed document interface or tree interface, support for multiple servers, and numerous configuration options. Both command-line and graphical versions were available.
The client is available for Unix-like systems; derivatives w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14718 |
IRC takeover
An IRC channel takeover is an acquisition of IRC channel operator status by someone other than the channel's owner. It has largely been eliminated due to the increased use of services on IRC networks.
The most common variety of channel takeover uses disconnections caused by a netsplit; this is called rid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14720 |
Irssi
Irssi ( (audio)) is an IRC client program for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Microsoft Windows. It was originally written by Timo Sirainen, and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License in January 1999.
Irssi is written in the C programming language and in normal operation uses a text-mode user inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14722 |
Intellectual property
Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and some countries recognize more than others. The most well-known types are copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. Early pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14724 |
Great Famine (Ireland)
The Great Famine ( ), or the Great Hunger, was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1849. With the most severely affected areas in the west and south of Ireland, where the Irish language was dominant, the period was contemporaneously known in Irish as , loosely transla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14726 |
Isle of Man
The Isle of Man ( , also ), also known as Mann , is a self-governing British Crown dependency situated in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland. The head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, holds the title of Lord of Mann and is represented by a lieutenant governor. The United Kingdom has responsibilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14727 |
Italic languages
The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken in the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC. The most important of the ancient languages was Latin, the official language of the Roman Empire, which conquered the other Italic peop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14729 |
Internet Relay Chat
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an application layer protocol that facilitates communication in the form of text. The chat process works on a client/server networking model. IRC clients are computer programs that users can install on their system or web based applications running either locally in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14730 |
Ideogram
An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek "idea" and "to write") is a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept, independent of any particular language, and specific words or phrases. Some ideograms are comprehensible only by familiarity with prior convention; others convey their meaning through pictorial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14731 |
Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) () was an Irish republican revolutionary paramilitary organisation. The ancestor of many groups also known as the Irish Republican Army, and distinguished from them as the Old IRA, it was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14732 |
Iron
Iron () is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ) and atomic number 26. It is a metal that belongs to the first transition series and group 8 of the periodic table. It is by mass the most common element on Earth, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14734 |
IEEE 802.15
IEEE 802.15 is a working group of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) IEEE 802 standards committee which specifies wireless personal area network (WPAN) standards. There are 10 major areas of development, not all of which are active.
The number of Task Groups in IEEE 802.15 varie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14735 |
IEEE 802
IEEE 802 is a family of IEEE standards dealing with local area networks and metropolitan area networks.
The IEEE 802 standards are restricted to networks carrying variable-size packets, unlike cell relay networks, for example, where data is transmitted in short, uniformly sized units called cells. Isochronou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14736 |
IEEE 802.11
IEEE 802.11 is part of the IEEE 802 set of local area network (LAN) protocols, and specifies the set of media access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) protocols for implementing wireless local area network (WLAN) Wi-Fi computer communication in various frequencies, including but not limited to 2.4 GHz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14739 |
Irn-Bru
Irn-Bru ( "iron brew") is a Scottish carbonated soft drink, often described as "Scotland's other national drink" (after whisky). It is produced in Westfield, Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, by A.G. Barr of Glasgow, since moving out of their Parkhead factory in the mid-2000s. In 2011, Irn-Bru closed their facto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14741 |
Internet Standard
In computer network engineering, an Internet Standard is a normative specification of a technology or methodology applicable to the Internet. Internet Standards are created and published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
Engineering contributions to the IETF start as an Internet Draft, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14742 |
ITU-T
The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) coordinates standards for telecommunications and Information Communication Technology such as X.509 for cybersecurity, Y.3172 for machine learning, and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC for video compression, between its Member States, Private Sector Members, and Academia ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14744 |
Internalization
Internalization (or internalisation) is the process of making something internal, with more specific meanings in various fields. It is the opposite of externalization.
In psychology, internalization is the outcome of a conscious mind reasoning about a specific subject; the subject is internalized, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14746 |
Indium
Indium is a chemical element with the symbol In and atomic number 49. Indium is the softest metal that is not an alkali metal. It is a silvery-white metal that resembles tin in appearance. It is a post-transition metal that makes up 0.21 parts per million of the Earth's crust. Indium has a melting point higher ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14749 |
Iodine
Iodine is a chemical element with the symbol I and atomic number 53. The heaviest of the stable halogens, it exists as a lustrous, purple-black non-metallic solid at standard conditions that melts to form a deep violet liquid at 114 degrees Celsius, and boils to a violet gas at 184 degrees Celsius. However, it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14750 |
IKEA
IKEA ( , ) is a Swedish-origin Dutch-headquartered multinational group that designs and sells , kitchen appliances and home accessories, among other useful goods and occasionally home services. Founded in Sweden in 1943 by 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA has been the world's largest furniture retailer since 2008... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14751 |
Jonathan Meades
Jonathan Turner Meades (born 21 January 1947) is an English writer and film-maker, primarily on the subjects of place, culture, architecture and food. His work spans journalism, fiction, essays, memoir and over fifty highly idiosyncratic television films, and has been described as "brainy, scabrous, mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16135 |
Joe Pass
Joe Pass (born Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalaqua; January 13, 1929 – May 23, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist of Sicilian descent. He is considered one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 20th century. He created possibilities for jazz guitar through his style of chord-melody, his knowledge of chord inv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16139 |
Jazz guitar
The term jazz guitar may refer to either a type of electric guitar or to the variety of guitar playing styles used in the various genres which are commonly termed "jazz". The jazz-type guitar was born as a result of using electric amplification to increase the volume of conventional acoustic guitars.
Conc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16141 |
James Watt
James Watt (; 30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16142 |
John Locke
John Locke (; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism." Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Sir Francis ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16143 |
Jewish holidays
Jewish holidays, also known as Jewish festivals or Yamim Tovim (, or singular , in transliterated Hebrew []), are holidays observed in Judaism and by Jews throughout the Hebrew calendar. They include religious, cultural and national elements, derived from three sources: biblical "mitzvot" ("commandment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16147 |
John Engler
John Mathias Engler (born October 12, 1948) is an American businessman and member of the Republican Party who was elected to serve three terms as the 46th Governor of Michigan from 1991 to 2003. He later worked for Business Roundtable, where "The Hill" called him one of the country's top lobbyists.
Engle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16148 |
Jacques Lacan
Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (; ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced many leading French intellectuals in the 1960s and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16153 |
Jupiter Ace
The Jupiter Ace by Jupiter Cantab was a British home computer of the early 1980s. The Ace differed from other microcomputers of the time in that its programming environment used Forth instead of the more popular BASIC.
After Jupiter Cantab ceased trading, the brand was acquired by Boldfield Computing Ltd ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16154 |
Jacksonville Jaguars
The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional football franchise based in Jacksonville, Florida. The Jaguars compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) South division. The team plays its home games at TIAA Bank Field.
The Jaguars and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16156 |
Jewish prayer
Jewish prayer (, ; plural ; , plural ; Yinglish: davening from Yiddish 'pray') is the prayer recitations and Jewish meditation traditions that form part of the observance of Rabbinic Judaism. These prayers, often with instructions and commentary, are found in the "siddur", the traditional Jewish prayer b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16161 |
Jewish eschatology
Jewish eschatology is the area of Jewish philosophy and theology concerned with events that will happen in the end of days and related concepts. This includes the ingathering of the exiled diaspora, the coming of a Jewish Messiah, afterlife, and the revival of the dead Tzadikim. In Judaism, the end ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16162 |
John Macleod (physiologist)
John James Rickard Macleod, FRS FRSE LLD (6 September 1876 – 16 March 1935) was a Scottish biochemist and physiologist. He devoted his career to diverse topics in physiology and biochemistry, but was chiefly interested in carbohydrate metabolism. He is noted for his role in the discovery an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16164 |
Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, officially the City of Jackson, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is one of two county seats of Hinds County, along with Raymond, Mississippi. The city of Jackson also includes around 3,000 acres comprising Jackson-Medgar Evers International Airpor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16167 |
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Lopez (born July 24, 1969), also known by her nickname J.Lo, is an American actress, singer, dancer, fashion designer, producer, and businesswoman. In 1991, Lopez began appearing as a Fly Girl dancer on "In Living Color", where she remained a regular until she decided to pursue an acting c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16175 |
Jock Taylor
Jock Taylor (9 March 1954 – 15 August 1982) was a Scottish World Champion motorcycle sidecar racer.
John Robert (Jock) Taylor was born in Pencaitland, East Lothian, and entered his first sidecar race at the age of 19, as the passenger to Kenny Andrews (1974). The following year he took part in his first r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16182 |
Homosexuality and Judaism
The subject of homosexuality and Judaism dates back to the Torah. The book of Vayikra (Leviticus) is traditionally regarded as classifying sexual intercourse between males as a "to'eivah" (something abhorred or detested) that can be subject to capital punishment by the currently non-existent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16186 |
John Dewey
John Dewey (; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He is regarded as one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
The overriding theme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16187 |
Jackal
Jackals are medium-sized omnivorous mammals of the genus "Canis", a genus which also includes wolves and the domestic dog. While the word "jackal" has historically been used for many small canids, in modern use it most commonly refers to three species: the closely related black-backed jackal and side-striped ja... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16188 |
Jumping the broom
Jumping the broom (or jumping the besom) is a phrase and custom relating to a wedding ceremony where the couple jumps over a broom.
It has been suggested that the custom is based on an 18th-century idiomatic expression for "sham marriage", "marriage of doubtful validity"; it was popularized in the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16190 |
Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on Apr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16193 |
JPEG Network Graphics
JPEG Network Graphics (JNG, ) is a JPEG-based graphics file format which is closely related to PNG: it uses the PNG file structure (with a different signature) as a container format to wrap JPEG-encoded image data.
JNG was created as an adjunct to the MNG animation format, but may be used as a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16194 |
Jane Shore
Elizabeth "Jane" Shore ("née" Lambert) (c. 1445 – c. 1527) was one of the many mistresses of King Edward IV of England. She became the best-known to history through being later accused of conspiracy by the future King Richard III, and compelled to do public penance. She was also a sometime mistress of other... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16196 |
Jack Kemp
Jack French Kemp (July 13, 1935 – May 2, 2009) was an American politician and a professional player in both American football and Canadian football. A member of the Republican Party from New York, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, having pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16200 |
Jihad
Jihad (; "" ) is an Arabic word which literally means "striving" or "struggling", especially with a praiseworthy aim. In an Islamic context, it can refer to almost any effort to make personal and social life conform with God's guidance, such as struggle against one's evil inclinations, proselytizing, or efforts ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16203 |
James G. Blaine
James Gillespie Blaine (January 31, 1830January 27, 1893) was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the United States Senate fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16208 |
Justinian I
Justinian I (; ; ; 482 14 November 565), also known as Justinian the Great, was the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565.
His reign is marked by the ambitious but only partly realized "renovatio imperii", or "restoration of the Empire". Because of his restoration activities, Justinian has sometimes been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16209 |
John Martyn
Iain David McGeachy (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009), known professionally as John Martyn, was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Over a 40-year career, he released 23 studio albums, and received frequent critical acclaim. "The Times" described him as "an electrifying guitarist and singer whos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16211 |
John Milton
John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem "Parad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16215 |
Joris Ivens
Georg Henri Anton "Joris" Ivens (18 November 1898 – 28 June 1989) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker. Among the notable films he directed or co-directed are "A Tale of the Wind", "The Spanish Earth", "Rain", "...A Valparaiso", "Misère au Borinage" ("Borinage"), "", "The Seine Meets Paris", "Far from Vietnam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16216 |
Jaguar
The jaguar ("Panthera onca") is a large felid species and the only extant member of the genus "Panthera" native to the Americas. The jaguar's present range extends from Southwestern United States and Mexico in North America, across much of Central America, and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina in South A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16217 |
Moose
The moose (North America) or elk (Eurasia), "Alces alces", is a member of the New World deer subfamily and is the largest and heaviest extant species in the deer family. Most adult male moose have distinctive broad, palmate ("open-hand shaped") antlers; most other members of the deer family have antlers with a d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20501 |
Medieval warfare
Medieval warfare is the European warfare of the Middle Ages. Technological, cultural, and social developments had forced a severe transformation in the character of warfare from antiquity, changing military tactics and the role of cavalry and artillery (see military history). In terms of fortification... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20503 |
Magnetic tape
Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film. It was developed in Germany in 1928, based on magnetic wire recording. Devices that record and playback audio and video using magnetic tape are tape recorders and video tape rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20505 |
MeatballWiki
MeatballWiki was a wiki dedicated to online communities, network culture, and hypermedia.
According to founder Sunir Shah, it ran on "a hacked-up version of UseModWiki". In April 2013, after several spam attacks and a period of downtime, the site was made read-only.
MeatballWiki was started in 2000 by S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20512 |
Marrakesh
Marrakesh ( or ; "Murrākuš"; , ) is the fourth largest city in the Kingdom of Morocco. It is the capital of the mid-southwestern region of Marrakesh-Safi. It is west of the foothills of the Atlas Mountains. Marrakesh is southwest of Tangier, southwest of the Moroccan capital of Rabat, south of Casablanca, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20513 |
Mazar-i-Sharif
Mazār-i-Sharīf (Dari and ; ), also called Mazār-e Sharīf, or just Mazar, is the fourth-largest city of Afghanistan, with a 2015 UN–Habitat population estimate 427,600. It is the capital of Balkh province and is linked by highways with Kunduz in the east, Kabul in the southeast, Herat in the west and Ter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20517 |
Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. It may provide (or obscure) clarity or identify hidden similarities between two ideas. Metaphors are often compared with other types of figurative language, such as antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20518 |
Maasai Mara
Maasai Mara, also known as Masai Mara, and locally simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honor of the Maasai people, the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from the Nile Basin. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20522 |
Maasai people
The Maasai () are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They are among the best known local populations internationally due to their residence near the many game parks of the African Great Lakes, and their distinctive customs and dress. The Maasai s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20523 |
Medieval fortification
Medieval fortification refers to medieval military methods that cover the development of fortification construction and use in Europe, roughly from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the Renaissance. During this millennium, fortifications changed warfare, and in turn were modified to suit n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20524 |
Mark Whitacre
Mark Edward Whitacre (born May 1, 1957) is an American business executive who came to public attention in 1995 when, as president of the Decatur, Illinois-based BioProducts Division at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), he became the highest-level corporate executive in U.S. history to become a Federal Bureau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20527 |
Marrakesh Agreement
The Marrakesh Agreement, manifested by the Marrakesh Declaration, was an agreement signed in Marrakesh, Morocco, by 123 nations on 15 April 1994, marking the culmination of the 8-year-long Uruguay Round and establishing the World Trade Organization, which officially came into being on 1 January 199... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20531 |
Mainz
Mainz (; ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The city is located on the Rhine river at its confluence with the Main river, opposite Wiesbaden on the border with Hesse. Mainz is an independent city with a population of 217,118 (2018) and forms part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20537 |
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
Maria Feodorovna (26 November 1847 – 13 October 1928), known before her marriage as Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was a Danish princess and Empress of Russia as spouse of Emperor Alexander III (reigned 1881–1894). She was the second daughter and fourth child of King Christian IX of D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20540 |
Montauban
Montauban (, ; ) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France. It is the capital of the department and lies north of Toulouse. Montauban is the most populated town in Tarn-et-Garonne, and the sixth most populated of Occitanie behind Toulouse, Montpellier, Nîmes, P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20541 |
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