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Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov
Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov ( "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov", originally the name of the fifth ) is an aircraft carrier (heavy aircraft cruiser in Russian classification) serving as the flagship of the Russian Navy. It was built by the Blac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29307 |
Subaru Forester
The Subaru Forester (Japanese: スバル•フォレスター "Subaru Foresutā") is a compact crossover SUV (sport utility vehicle) that's been manufactured since 1997 by Subaru. Available in Japan from 1997, the Forester shares its platform with the Impreza. It has been awarded "Motor Trend's" 2009 and 2014 SUV of the Ye... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29311 |
Second-system effect
The second-system effect (also known as second-system syndrome) is the tendency of small, elegant, and successful systems to be succeeded by over-engineered, bloated systems, due to inflated expectations and overconfidence.
The phrase was first used by Fred Brooks in his book "The Mythical Man-Mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29313 |
Sandinista National Liberation Front
The Sandinista National Liberation Front (, FSLN) is a socialist political party in Nicaragua. Its members are called Sandinistas in both English and Spanish. The party is named after Augusto César Sandino, who led the Nicaraguan resistance against the United States occupation of N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29316 |
Streptococcus
Streptococcus is a genus of gram-positive ' (plural ) or spherical bacteria that belongs to the family Streptococcaceae, within the order Lactobacillales (lactic acid bacteria), in the phylum Firmicutes. Cell division in streptococci occurs along a single axis, so as they grow, they tend to form pairs or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29318 |
SignWriting
Sutton SignWriting, or simply, SignWriting, is a system of writing sign languages. It is highly featural and visually iconic, both in the shapes of the characters, which are abstract pictures of the hands, face, and body, and in their spatial arrangement on the page, which does not follow a sequential orde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29322 |
Suez Canal
The Suez Canal ( "") is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. It is often considered to define the border between Africa and Asia. Constructed by the Suez Canal Company between 1859 and 1869, it officially opened on 17 Novembe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29323 |
Signal processing
Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analysing, modifying, and synthesizing signals such as sound, images, and scientific measurements. Signal processing techniques can be used to improve transmission, storage efficiency and subjective quality and to also emphasize ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29324 |
Six-Day War
The Six-Day War (, "Milhemet Sheshet Ha Yamim"; Arabic: , "an-Naksah", "The Setback" or , "Ḥarb 1967", "War of 1967"), also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between 5 and 10 June 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt (known at the time as the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29328 |
Spectrum
A spectrum (plural "spectra" or "spectrums") is a condition that is not limited to a specific set of values but can vary, without steps, across a continuum. The word was first used scientifically in optics to describe the rainbow of colors in visible light after passing through a prism. As scientific understa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29329 |
Social dynamics
Social dynamics (or sociodynamics) can refer to the behavior of groups that results from the interactions of individual group members as well to the study of the relationship between individual interactions and group level behaviors. The field of social dynamics brings together ideas from Economics, So... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29330 |
Social evolution
Social evolution is a subdiscipline of evolutionary biology that is concerned with social behaviors that have fitness consequences for individuals other than the actor. It is also a subdiscipline of sociology that studies evolution of social systems.
Social behaviors can be categorized according to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29333 |
Systemic functional grammar
Systemic functional grammar (SFG) is a form of grammatical description originated by Michael Halliday. It is part of a social semiotic approach to language called "systemic functional linguistics". In these two terms, "systemic" refers to the view of language as "a network of systems, or in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29336 |
Starfleet
Starfleet is a fictional organization in the "Star Trek" media franchise. Within this fictional universe, Starfleet is a uniformed space force maintained by the United Federation of Planets ("the Federation") as the principal means for conducting deep space exploration, research, defense, peacekeeping, and d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29340 |
Superheterodyne receiver
A superheterodyne receiver, often shortened to superhet, is a type of radio receiver that uses frequency mixing to convert a received signal to a fixed intermediate frequency (IF) which can be more conveniently processed than the original carrier frequency. It was invented by US engineer Edwin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29341 |
Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as the villain of the Victorian penny dreadful serial "The String of Pearls" (1846–47).
The original tale became a staple of Victorian melodrama and London urban legend. A barber from Fleet Street, Todd murders his customers with a straight razor an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29349 |
Selection sort
In computer science, selection sort is an in-place comparison sorting algorithm. It has an O("n"2) time complexity, which makes it inefficient on large lists, and generally performs worse than the similar insertion sort. Selection sort is noted for its simplicity and has performance advantages over more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29352 |
Syracuse University
Syracuse University (Syracuse, 'Cuse, or SU) is a private research university in Syracuse, New York. The institution's roots can be traced to the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded in 1831 by the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lima, New York. After several years of debate over relocating the college... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29353 |
Snake oil
Snake oil is a euphemism for deceptive marketing and health care fraud. It refers to the petroleum-based mineral oil or "snake oil" that used to be sold as a cure-all elixir for many kinds of physiological problems. Many 19th-century United States and 18th-century European entrepreneurs advertised and sold m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29354 |
Send In the Clowns
"Send In the Clowns" is a song written by Stephen Sondheim for the 1973 musical "A Little Night Music", an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 1955 film "Smiles of a Summer Night". It is a ballad from Act Two, in which the character Desirée reflects on the ironies and disappointments of her life. Among o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29357 |
Sinhalese people
The Sinhalese ( "Sinhala Jathiya"), also known as "Hela" () are an ethnic group native to the island of Sri Lanka. They constitute about 75% of the Sri Lankan population and number greater than 16.2 million. The Sinhalese identity is based on language, historical heritage and religion. The Sinhalese p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29359 |
Spiel des Jahres
The Spiel des Jahres (, "Game of the Year") is an award for board and card games, created in 1978 with the stated purpose of rewarding excellence in game design, and promoting top-quality games in the German market. It is thought that the existence and popularity of the award is one of the major drive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29364 |
Synthetic element
A synthetic element is one of 24 chemical elements that do not occur naturally on Earth: they have been created by human manipulation of fundamental particles in a nuclear reactor, a particle accelerator, or the explosion of an atomic bomb; thus, they are called "synthetic", "artificial", or "man-mad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29365 |
Shoghi Effendi
Shoghí Effendí Rabbání (1 March 1897 – 4 November 1957), better known as Shoghi Effendi (), was the Guardian and appointed head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957. Shoghi Effendi spent his early life in ʻAkká (Acre). His education was directed to serving as secretary and translator to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29366 |
Slope
In mathematics , the slope or gradient of a line is a number that describes both the "direction" and the "steepness" of the line. Slope is often denoted by the letter "m"; there is no clear answer to the question why the letter "m" is used for slope, but its earliest use in English appears in O'Brien (1844) who ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29368 |
Sex organ
A sex organ (or reproductive organ) is any part of an animal's body that is involved in sexual reproduction. The reproductive organs together constitute the reproductive system. The testis in the male, and the ovary in the female, are called the "primary sex organs". All others are called "secondary sex orga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29369 |
Snake
Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29370 |
Steam turbine
A steam turbine is a device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft. Its modern manifestation was invented by Charles Parsons in 1884.
The steam turbine is a form of heat engine that derives much of its improvement in thermodynamic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29374 |
Sardinia
Sardinia ( ; ; or ; ; ; ; ) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the 20 regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia and eastern Algeria, and immediately south of the French island of Corsica.
It is one of the five Italian regions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29376 |
Scrooge McDuck
Scrooge McDuck is a fictional character created in 1947 by Carl Barks for The Walt Disney Company, appearing in Disney comics. Scrooge is an elderly Scottish anthropomorphic Pekin duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a red or blue frock coat, top hat, pince-nez glasses, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29378 |
Shiva (Judaism)
Shiva (, literally "seven") is the week-long mourning period in Judaism for first-degree relatives. The ritual is referred to as "sitting shiva" in English. The "shiva" period lasts for seven days following the burial. Following the initial period of despair and lamentation immediately after the death,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29379 |
Semi-trailer truck
A semi-tractor-trailer truck is the combination of a tractor unit and one, or more, semi-trailers to carry freight. A semi-trailer attaches to the tractor with a type of hitch called a fifth-wheel.
It is variously known as a transport truck, semi-trailer truck, tractor-trailer truck, semi-tractor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29381 |
Economy of Taiwan
The economy of Taiwan is a developed capitalist economy that ranks as the seventh largest in Asia and 22nd-largest in the world by purchasing power parity (PPP). It is included in the advanced economies group by the International Monetary Fund and gauged in the high-income economies group by the Worl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30092 |
Republic of China Armed Forces
The Republic of China Armed Forces, commonly known as the Taiwanese Armed Forces, are the armed forces of the Republic of China now on Taiwan, encompassing the Army, Navy (including the Republic of China Marine Corps), Air Force and Military Police Force. It is a military establishment, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30095 |
Foreign relations of Taiwan
The Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan, has formal diplomatic relations with 14 out of 193 United Nations member states, as well as the Holy See. Historically, the ROC has required its diplomatic allies to recognise it as the sole legitimate government of China, but since the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30096 |
Thump Records
Thump Records is a record label specialized in various genres of music. Founded by Bill Walker and Al Lopez for $10,000. In 1997 Bill Walker became its sole C.E.O. and President. Thump's success was ignited by the popularity of its Old School and Low Rider compilation series (co-branded with Low Rider Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30098 |
Problem of evil
The problem of evil is the question of how to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God. As the first known presentation by the Greek philosopher Epicurus, as attributed and made popular by David Hume, puts it: "Is God willing to prevent evil, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30104 |
Theodicy
Theodicy () means vindication of God. It is to answer the question of why a good God permits the manifestation of evil, thus resolving the issue of the problem of evil. Some theodicies also address the evidential problem of evil by attempting "to make the existence of an all-knowing, all-powerful and all-good... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30106 |
Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; , ; Russian:Таджикистан), officially the Republic of Tajikistan (, "Jumhurii Tojikiston"), is a mountainous, landlocked country in Central Asia with an area of and an estimated population of 9,537,645 people. It is bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30108 |
History of Tajikistan
Tajikistan harkens to the Samanid Empire (875–999). The Tajik people came under Russian rule in the 1860s. The Basmachi revolt broke out in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and was quelled in the early 1920s during the Russian Civil War. In 1924 Tajikistan became an Autonomous Soviet So... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30109 |
Geography of Tajikistan
Tajikistan is nestled between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan to the north and west, China to the east, and Afghanistan to the south. Mountains cover 93 percent of Tajikistan's surface area. The two principal ranges, the Pamir Mountains and the Alay Mountains, give rise to many glacier-fed streams an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30110 |
Demographics of Tajikistan
The Demographics of Tajikistan is about the demographic features of the population of Tajikistan, including population growth, population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population.
Tajikistan's main ethnic group... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30111 |
Politics of Tajikistan
The politics of Tajikistan takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. Legislative power is vested in both the executive branch and the two chambers of parliament.
The August 1991 putsch ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30112 |
Economy of Tajikistan
The economy of Tajikistan is dependent upon agriculture and services. Since independence, Tajikistan has gradually followed the path of transition economy, reforming its economic policies. With foreign revenue precariously dependent upon exports of cotton and aluminium, the economy is highly vuln... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30113 |
Telecommunications in Tajikistan
The spread of telecommunications services in Tajikistantelephony, radio, television and internethas not been as extensive as in many other countries.
The conventional telephone system is in poor condition because it has received little investment in the post-Soviet era. there were 34... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30114 |
Transport in Tajikistan
Most of rugged Tajikistan's transportation system was built during the Soviet era, and since that time the system has deteriorated badly because of insufficient investment and maintenance. In 2013, Tajikistan, like many of the other Central Asian countries, was experiencing major development in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30115 |
Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan
The Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan (Tajik: Қувваҳои Мусаллаҳи Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, "Quvvahoi Musallahi Çumhurii Toçikiston"), also known as the Tajik National Army () is the national military of the Republic of Tajikistan. It consists of National Army, Mobile Forc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30116 |
Tanzania
Tanzania (, ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania (), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda, Bur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30118 |
History of Tanzania
The African Great Lakes nation of Tanzania dates formally from 1964, when it was formed out of the union of the much larger mainland territory of Tanganyika and the coastal archipelago of Zanzibar. The former was a colony and part of German East Africa from the 1880s to 1919’s when, under the Leagu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30119 |
Geography of Tanzania
Tanzania comprises many lakes, national parks, and Africa's highest point, Mount Kilimanjaro (). Northeast Tanzania is mountainous, while the central area is part of a large plateau covered in grasslands. The country also contains the southern portion of Lake Victoria on its northern border with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30120 |
Demographics of Tanzania
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Tanzania, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population.
The population distribution in Tanzania is extremely un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30121 |
Politics of Tanzania
The politics of Tanzania takes place in a framework of a unitary presidential democratic republic, whereby the President of Tanzania is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30122 |
Economy of Tanzania
Tanzania is a lower-middle income economy. Tanzania is largely dependent on agriculture for employment, accounting for about half of the employed workforce. The economy has been transitioning from a command economy to a market economy since 1985. Although total GDP has increased since these reforms... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30123 |
Telecommunications in Tanzania
Telecommunications in Tanzania include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet available in mainland Tanzania and the semiautonomous Zanzibar archipelago.
In 2005, mainland Tanzania, but not the semiautonomous Zanzibar archipelago, modified its licensing system ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30124 |
Transport in Tanzania
Transport in Tanzania includes road, rail, air and maritime networks. The road network is long, of which is classified as trunk road and as regional road. The rail network consists of of track. Commuter rail service is in Dar es Salaam only. There are 28 airports, with Julius Nyerere Internationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30125 |
Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a country in Southeast Asia. Located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, it is composed of 76 provinces, and covers an area of 513,120 square kilometres (198,120 sq mi), and a population of over 66 million people. Thailand is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30128 |
History of Thailand
The Tai ethnic group migrated into mainland Southeast Asia over a period of centuries. The word "Siam" ( ) may have originated from Pali ("suvaṇṇabhūmi", "land of gold") or Sanskrit श्याम ("śyāma", "dark") or Mon ရာမည ("rhmañña", "stranger"), probably the same root as Shan and Ahom. was the name fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30129 |
Geography of Thailand
Thailand is in the middle of mainland Southeast Asia. It has a total size of which is the 50th largest in the world. The land border is long with Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Malaysia. The nation's axial position influenced many aspects of Thailand's society and culture. It controls the only land ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30130 |
Demographics of Thailand
The demographics of Thailand paint a statistical portrait of the national population. It includes such measures as population density and distribution, ethnicity, educational levels, public health metrics, fertility, economic status, religious affiliation, and other national characteristics.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30131 |
Politics of Thailand
Until 22 May 2014, the politics of Thailand were conducted within the framework of a constitutional monarchy, whereby the prime minister is the head of government and a hereditary monarch is head of state. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislative branches.
Following the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30132 |
Economy of Thailand
The economy of Thailand is dependent on exports, which accounts for more than two-thirds of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). Thailand itself is a newly industrialized country, with a GDP of 16.316 trillion baht (US$505 billion) in 2018, the 8th largest economy of Asia, according to the W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30133 |
Telecommunications in Thailand
Modern telecommunications in Thailand began in 1875 with the deployment of the first telegraph service. Historically, the development of telecommunication networks in Thailand were in the hands of the public sector. Government organisations were established to provide telegraph, telephon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30134 |
Transport in Thailand
Transport in Thailand is varied, with no one dominant means of transport. For long distance travel, bus transport dominates. Low-speed rail travel has long been a rural long-distance transport mechanism, though plans are underway to expand services with high-speed rail lines extending to several ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30135 |
Royal Thai Armed Forces
The Royal Thai Armed Forces (; ) is the name of the military of the Kingdom of Thailand.
The nominal head of the Thai Armed Forces (จอมทัพไทย; ) is the King of Thailand. The armed forces are managed by the Ministry of Defense of Thailand, which is headed by the minister of defence and commande... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30136 |
Foreign relations of Thailand
The foreign relations of Thailand are handled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand.
Thailand participates fully in international and regional organizations. It has developed close ties with other ASEAN members—Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Laos, Cambo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30137 |
Togo
Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (), is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. The country extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its capital Lomé is located. Togo covers , making it one of the smallest countries in Africa, with a popu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30138 |
History of Togo
The history of Togo can be traced to archaeological finds which indicate that ancient local tribes were able to produce pottery and process tin. During the period from the 11th century to the 16th century, the Ewé, the Mina, the Gun, and various other tribes entered the region. Most of them settled in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30139 |
Geography of Togo
Togo is a small Sub-Saharan state, comprising a long strip of land in West Africa. Togo's geographic coordinates are a latitude of 8° north and a longitude of 1°10′ east. It is bordered by three countries: Benin to the east, with of border; Burkina Faso to the north, with of border; and Ghana, with o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30140 |
Demographics of Togo
The demographics of Togo include ethnicity, population density, age, education level, health, economic status and religious affiliation.
Togo's population of /1e6 round 2 million people ( est.) is composed of about 21 ethnic groups, the two biggest being the Tèm in the Centre (Bafilo, Sokodé, Sot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30141 |
Politics of Togo
Politics of Togo takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of Togo is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament. Since independence the party system is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30142 |
Economy of Togo
The economy of Togo has struggled greatly. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) ranks it as the tenth poorest country in the world, with development undercut by political instability, lowered commodity prices, and external debts. While industry and services play a role, the economy is dependent on sub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30143 |
Telecommunications in Togo
Telecommunications in Togo include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Radio stations:
state-owned radio network with multiple stations; several dozen private radio stations and a few community radio stations; transmissions of multiple international broadcaster... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30144 |
Transport in Togo
This article refers to transportation in the country of Togo
"total:"
568 km (2008)
"narrow gauge:"
568 km of gauge
"total:"
7,520 km
"paved:"
2,376 km
"unpaved:"
5,144 km (2000)
The Trans–West African Coastal Highway crosses Togo, connecting it to Benin and Nigeria to the east, and Ghana and Ivor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30145 |
Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon (also called an atom bomb, nuke, atomic bomb, nuclear warhead, A-bomb, or nuclear bomb) is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb). Both bomb t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21785 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (; né Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.
He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. Hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21787 |
Nagasaki
During World War II, the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Nagasaki the second and, to date, last city in the world to experience a nuclear attack (at 11:02 am, August 9, 1945 'Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)').
, the city has an estimated population of 407,624 and a population density of 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21790 |
Nanjing
Nanjing (), alternatively romanized as Nanking and Nankin, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China and the second largest city in the East China region, with 11 districts, an administrative area of and a total population of 8,505,500 .
Situated in the Yangtze River Delta region, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21791 |
Ninth Fort
The Ninth Fort () is a stronghold in the northern part of Šilainiai elderate, Kaunas, Lithuania. It is a part of the Kaunas Fortress, which was constructed in the late 19th century. During the occupation of Kaunas and the rest of Lithuania by the Soviet Union, the fort was used as a prison and way-station f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21793 |
Nostratic languages
Nostratic is a hypothetical and controversial macrofamily, which includes many of the indigenous language families of Eurasia, although its exact composition and structure vary among proponents. It typically comprises Kartvelian, Indo-European, and Uralic languages; some languages from the disputed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21794 |
Namespace
In computing, a namespace is a set of symbols ("names") that are used to identify and refer to objects of various kinds. A namespace ensures that all of a given set of objects have unique names so that they can be easily identified.
Namespaces are commonly structured as hierarchies to allow reuse of names i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21796 |
Nahum
Nahum ( or ; "Naḥūm") was a minor prophet whose prophecy is recorded in the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. His book comes in chronological order between Micah and Habakkuk in the Bible. He wrote about the end of the Assyrian Empire, and its capital city, Nineveh, in a vivid poetic style.
Little is known about N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21797 |
Newfoundland English
Newfoundland English is any of several accents and dialects of Atlantic Canadian English found in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Most of these differ substantially from the English commonly spoken elsewhere in Canada and the North Atlantic. Many Newfoundland dialects are influenced by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21803 |
National flag
A national flag is a flag that represents and symbolizes a given nation. It is flown by the government of that nation, but usually can also be flown by its citizens. A national flag is typically designed with specific meanings for its colours and symbols, which may also be used separately from the flag a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21804 |
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League (NHL; ) is a professional ice hockey league in North America, currently comprising 31 teams: 24 in the United States and seven in Canada. The NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the major professional sports leagu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21809 |
Northern Michigan University
Northern Michigan University (NMU) is a public university in Marquette, Michigan. The university was established in 1899. With enrollment of about 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students, Northern Michigan University is the Upper Peninsula's largest university.
NMU offers programs in un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21810 |
Naked News
Naked News is a Canadian news and entertainment program owned by Naked Broadcasting Network. It features nude female news presenters reading news bulletins derived from news wires. The show's production studio is located in Toronto, Canada. There are six daily news programs a week and they are approximately... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21813 |
National park
A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently, there is a comm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21818 |
Nuncio
An apostolic nuncio (also known as a papal nuncio or simply as a nuncio) is an ecclesiastical diplomat, serving as an envoy or a permanent diplomatic representative of the Holy See to a state or to an international organization. A nuncio is appointed by and represents the Holy See, and is the head of the diplom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21819 |
Newlyn School
The Newlyn School was an art colony of artists based in or near Newlyn, a fishing village adjacent to Penzance, on the south coast of Cornwall, from the 1880s until the early twentieth century. The establishment of the Newlyn School was reminiscent of the Barbizon School in France, where artists fled Par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21820 |
Natural Law Party
The Natural Law Party (NLP) is a transnational party founded in 1992 on "the principles of Transcendental Meditation", the laws of nature, and their application to all levels of government. At its peak, it was active in up to 74 countries; it continues in India and some parts of the United States. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21822 |
Naturalistic fallacy
In philosophical ethics, the term naturalistic fallacy was introduced by British philosopher G. E. Moore in his 1903 book "Principia Ethica". Moore argues it would be fallacious to explain that which is good reductively, in terms of natural properties such as "pleasant" or "desirable".
Moore's na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21826 |
Neapolitan ice cream
Neapolitan ice cream, also sometimes called Harlequin ice cream, is a type of ice cream composed of three separate flavors (vanilla, chocolate and strawberry) arranged side by side in the same container, usually without any packaging in between.
Neapolitan ice cream was named in the late 19th cen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21828 |
Nature
Nature, in the broadest sense, is the natural, physical, or material world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are part of nature, human activity is often understood... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21830 |
New moon
In astronomy, the new moon is the first lunar phase, when the Moon and Sun have the same ecliptic longitude. At this phase, the lunar disk is not visible to the unaided eye, except when silhouetted during a solar eclipse. Daylight outshines the earthlight that dimly illuminates the new moon. The actual phase ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21833 |
B-spline
In the mathematical subfield of numerical analysis, a B-spline or basis spline is a spline function that has minimal support with respect to a given degree, smoothness, and domain partition. Any spline function of given degree can be expressed as a linear combination of B-splines of that degree. Cardinal B-sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21834 |
North Pole
The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is (subject to the caveats explained below) defined as the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.
The North Pole is the northernmost point on the Earth, lying diametrically opp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21836 |
Nanometre
The nanometre (international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: nm) or nanometer (American spelling) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one billionth (short scale) of a metre ( m). The name combines the SI prefix "nano-" (from the Ancient Greek , ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21837 |
National Transportation Safety Board
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is an independent U.S. government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation. In this role, the NTSB investigates and reports on aviation accidents and incidents, certain types of highway crashes,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21840 |
Nucleosome
A nucleosome is the basic structural unit of DNA packaging in eukaryotes. The structure of a nucleosome consists of a segment of DNA wound around eight histone proteins and resembles thread wrapped around a spool. The nucleosome is the fundamental subunit of chromatin. Each nucleosome is composed of a littl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21843 |
Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery, or neurological surgery, is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, surgical treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, central and peripheral nervous system, and cerebrovascular system.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21848 |
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