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Roman Republic
The Roman Republic ( ) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, traditionally dated to 509 BC, and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire. It was during this period that Rome's control expanded from the city's immediate surroundin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25816 |
Rickenbacker
Rickenbacker International Corporation is a string instrument manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California. The company is credited as the first known maker of electric guitars—in 1932—and eventually produced a range of electric guitars and bass guitars. Rickenbacker twelve string guitars were favored by T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25819 |
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with "Hamlet", is one of his most frequently perfor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25821 |
Rube Goldberg
Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970), known best as Rube Goldberg, was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor.
Goldberg is best known for his popular cartoons depicting complicated gadgets performing simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. The car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25822 |
Robert Stickgold
Robert Stickgold is a full professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. A sleep researcher, his work focuses on the relationship between sleep and learning. His articles in the popular press are intended to illustrate the dangers of sleep deprivat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25823 |
Religion and mythology
Mythology is the main component of Religion. It refers to systems of concepts that are of high importance to a certain community, making statements concerning the supernatural or sacred. Religion is the broader term, besides mythological system, it includes ritual. A given mythology is almost al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25824 |
Red
Red is the color at the end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and the CMYK color model, and is the complementary color of cyan. Reds range from the brilliant yellow-tin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25825 |
Ragnarök
In Norse mythology, () is a series of events, including a great battle, foretold to lead to the death of a number of great figures (including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdallr, and Loki), natural disasters and the submersion of the world in water. After these events, the world will resurface anew and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25829 |
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, often referred to as just Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, is an absurdist, existential tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966. The play expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from Shakespea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25830 |
RC4
In cryptography, RC4 (Rivest Cipher 4 also known as ARC4 or ARCFOUR meaning Alleged RC4, see below) is a stream cipher. While it is remarkable for its simplicity and speed in software, multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in RC4, rendering it insecure. It is especially vulnerable when the beginning of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25831 |
Symmetric group
In abstract algebra, the symmetric group defined over any set is the group whose elements are all the bijections from the set to itself, and whose group operation is the composition of functions. In particular, the finite symmetric group S"n" defined over a finite set of "n" symbols consists of the per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28901 |
Short Message Peer-to-Peer
Short Message Peer-to-Peer (SMPP) in the telecommunications industry is an open, industry standard protocol designed to provide a flexible data communication interface for the transfer of short message data between External Short Messaging Entities (ESMEs), Routing Entities (REs) and SMSC.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28904 |
Suburb
A suburb or suburban area is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city. Suburbs might have their own political jurisdiction, especially in the United States, but this is not always the case, especia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28908 |
Shōnen manga
The kanji characters (少年) literally mean "boy" or "youth", and the characters (漫画) means "comic". Thus, the complete phrase means "young person's comic", or simply "boys' comic"; its female equivalent is "shōjo" manga. "Shōnen" manga is the most popular and best-selling form of manga.
"Shōnen" manga is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28910 |
Srebrenica
Srebrenica (, ) is a town and municipality located in the easternmost part of Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a small mountain town, with its main industry being salt mining and a nearby spa. As of 2013, the town has a population of 2,607 inhabitants, while the municipality has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28912 |
Steve Bracks
Stephen Phillip Bracks AC (born 15 October 1954) is a former Australian politician and the 44th Premier of Victoria. He first won the electoral district of Williamstown in 1994 for the Labor Party and was party leader and premier from 1999 to 2007.
Bracks led Labor in Victoria to minority government at t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28913 |
Small Isles
The Small Isles ("") are a small archipelago of islands in the Inner Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland. They lie south of Skye and north of Mull and Ardnamurchan – the most westerly point of mainland Scotland.
The islands form part of the Lochaber area of the Highland council area. Until 1891 Cann... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28915 |
Shetland
Shetland ( ; ; ), also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, is a subarctic archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated in the Northern Atlantic, between Great Britain, the Faroe Islands and Norway.
The islands lie some to the northeast of Orkney, from the Scottish mainland and west o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28916 |
Storytelling game
A storytelling game is a game where two or more persons collaborate on telling a spontaneous story. Usually, each player takes care of one or more characters in the developing story. Some games in the tradition of role-playing games require one participant to take the roles of the various supporting ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28918 |
Scorpion
Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones. They have eight legs and are easily recognized by the pair of grasping pedipalps and the narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back, ending with a venomous stinger. Scorpions range in size from 9 mm / 0.3 in.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28922 |
Shriners
Shriners International, also commonly known as The Shriners or formerly known as the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, (AAONMS) is a Masonic society established in 1870 and is headquartered in Tampa, Florida.
Shriners International describes itself as a fraternity based on fun, fellows... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28923 |
Science fiction fandom
Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is a community or fandom of people interested in science fiction in contact with one another based upon that interest. SF fandom has a life of its own, but not much in the way of formal organization (although clubs such as the Futurians (1937–1945) are a recog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28925 |
Stellar classification
In astronomy, stellar classification is the classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics. Electromagnetic radiation from the star is analyzed by splitting it with a prism or diffraction grating into a spectrum exhibiting the rainbow of colors interspersed with spectral lines. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28927 |
SN 1987A
SN 1987A was a type II supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy satellite of the Milky Way. It occurred approximately from Earth and was the closest observed supernova since Kepler's Supernova. 1987A's light reached Earth on February 23, 1987, and as the earliest supernova discovered that year,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28930 |
Standard Oil
Standard Oil Co. Inc. was an American oil producing, transporting, refining, marketing company. Established in 1870, by John D. Rockefeller and Henry Flagler as a corporation in Ohio, it was the largest oil refiner in the world of its time. Its history as one of the world's first and largest multinational... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28931 |
Seismology
Seismology (; from Ancient Greek σεισμός ("seismós") meaning "earthquake" and -λογία ("-logía") meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or through other planet-like bodies. The field also includes studies of earthquake environmental e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28935 |
Cyanoacrylate
Cyanoacrylates are a family of strong fast-acting adhesives with industrial, medical, and household uses. They are various esters of cyanoacrylic acid. The acryl groups in the resin rapidly polymerize in the presence of water to form long, strong chains. They have some minor toxicity.
Specific cyanoacryl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28936 |
Shell script
A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by the Unix shell, a command-line interpreter. The various dialects of shell scripts are considered to be scripting languages. Typical operations performed by shell scripts include file manipulation, program execution, and printing text. A script whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28938 |
Solder
Solder (, or in North America ) is a fusible metal alloy used to create a permanent bond between metal workpieces. Solder is melted in order to adhere to and connect the pieces together after cooling, which requires that an alloy suitable for use as solder have a lower melting point than the pieces being joined... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28942 |
Shogun
The shoguns officials were collectively referred to as the "bakufu," or "tent government"; they were the ones who carried out the actual duties of administration, while the Imperial court retained only nominal authority. The tent symbolized the shoguns role as the military's field commander, but also denoted th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28943 |
Short-term memory
Short-term memory (or "primary" or "active memory") is the capacity for holding, but not manipulating, a small amount of information in mind in an active, readily available state for a short period of time. For example, short-term memory can be used to remember a phone number that has just been recit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28944 |
State supreme court
In the United States, a state supreme court (known by other names in some states) is the highest court in the state judiciary of a U.S. state. On matters of state law, the judgment of a state supreme court is considered final and binding in both state and federal courts. Decisions on state supreme ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28945 |
Spyware
Spyware is a type of malware that aims to gather information about a person or organization, without their knowledge, and send such information to hack another entity without the consumer's consent. Furthermore, spyware asserts control over a device without the consumer's knowledge, sending confidential inform... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28951 |
William Jones (philologist)
Sir William Jones FRS FRSE (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Europea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28952 |
Stephen, King of England
Stephen (1092/6 – 25 October 1154), often referred to as Stephen of Blois, was King of England from 22 December 1135 to his death. He was Count of Boulogne from 1125 until 1147 and Duke of Normandy from 1135 until 1144. His reign was marked by the Anarchy, a civil war with his cousin and rival... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28953 |
Space Battleship Yamato
It is one of the most influential anime series in Japan due to its theme and story, marking a turn towards more complex serious works and influencing works such as "Mobile Suit Gundam", "Neon Genesis Evangelion" and "Super Dimension Fortress Macross" as well as video games such as "Space Invade... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28954 |
Southern blot
A Southern blot is a method used in molecular biology for detection of a specific DNA sequence in DNA samples. Southern blotting combines transfer of electrophoresis-separated DNA fragments to a filter membrane and subsequent fragment detection by probe hybridization.
The method is named after the Briti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28957 |
Standard-gauge railway
A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of . The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge after George Stephenson, International gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge and European gauge in Europe. It is the most widely used railway track gauge across the world, wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28961 |
Sodium laureth sulfate
Sodium laureth sulfate (SLES), an accepted contraction of sodium lauryl ether sulfate (SLES), is an anionic detergent and surfactant found in many personal care products (soaps, shampoos, toothpaste, etc.). SLES is an inexpensive and very effective foaming agent. SLES, sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28962 |
Silesian Voivodeship
Silesian Voivodeship, or Silesia Province ( ; ; ) is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centered on the historic region known as Upper Silesia ("), with Katowice serving as its capital.
Despite the Silesian Voivodeship's name, most of the historic Silesia region lies outside the pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28969 |
SECD machine
The SECD machine is a highly influential ("See: #Landin's contribution") virtual machine and abstract machine intended as a target for functional programming language compilers. The letters stand for Stack, Environment, Control, Dump, the internal registers of the machine. The registers Stack, Control, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28970 |
Stratego
Stratego ( ) is a strategy board game for two players on a board of 10×10 squares. Each player controls 40 pieces representing individual officer and soldier ranks in an army. The pieces have Napoleonic insignia. The objective of the game is to find and capture the opponent's "Flag", or to capture so many ene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28971 |
Sindh
Sindh (; ; , ) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southeast of the country, it is the historical home of the Sindhi people. Sindh is the third largest province of Pakistan by area, and second largest province by population after Punjab. Sindh is bordered by Balochistan province to the west,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28972 |
Super Bowl III
Super Bowl III was the third AFL–NFL Championship Game in professional American football, and the first to officially bear the trademark name "Super Bowl". Played on January 12, 1969, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, the game is regarded as one of the greatest upsets in both American football histo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28975 |
Super Bowl XX
Super Bowl XX was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Chicago Bears and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1985 season. The Bears defeated the Patriots by the scor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28976 |
Salute
A salute is a gesture or other action used to display respect. Salutes are primarily associated with armed forces and law enforcement, but other organizations and civilians also use salutes.
In military traditions of various times and places, there have been numerous methods of performing salutes, using hand g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28977 |
Hyoscine
Hyoscine, also known as scopolamine, is a medication used to treat motion sickness and postoperative nausea and vomiting. It is also sometimes used before surgery to decrease saliva. When used by injection, effects begin after about 20 minutes and last for up to 8 hours. It may also be used by mouth and as a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28979 |
Society for Creative Anachronism
The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is an international living history group with the aim of studying and recreating mainly Medieval European cultures and their histories before the 17th century. A quip often used within the SCA describes it as a group devoted to the Middle Ages... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28981 |
Snowball Earth
The Snowball Earth hypothesis proposes that during one or more of Earth's icehouse climates, Earth's surface became entirely or nearly entirely frozen, sometime earlier than 650 Mya (million years ago) during the Cryogenian period. Proponents of the hypothesis argue that it best explains sedimentary dep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28982 |
S.S. Lazio
Società Sportiva Lazio (; "Lazio Sport Club"), commonly referred to as Lazio (), is an Italian professional sports club based in Rome, most known for its football activity. The society, founded in 1900, plays in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football. Lazio have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28984 |
Standard Generalized Markup Language
The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML; ISO 8879:1986) is a standard for defining generalized markup languages for documents. ISO 8879 Annex A.1 states that generalized markup is "based on two postulates":
DocBook SGML and LinuxDoc are examples which were used almost exclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28994 |
Speciation
Speciation is the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species. The biologist Orator F. Cook coined the term in 1906 for cladogenesis, the splitting of lineages, as opposed to anagenesis, phyletic evolution within lineages. Charles Darwin was the first to describe the role of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29000 |
SQL
SQL ( "S-Q-L", "sequel"; Structured Query Language) is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS). It is particularly useful in handling structu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29004 |
Strait of Hormuz
The Strait of Hormuz ( "Tangeh-ye Hormoz" "Maḍīq Hurmuz" ) is a strait between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. It provides the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and is one of the world's most strategically important choke points. On the north coast lies Iran, and on the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29005 |
Space telescope
A space telescope or space observatory is a telescope located in outer space to observe distant planets, galaxies and other astronomical objects. Space telescopes avoid the filtering of ultraviolet frequencies, X-rays and gamma rays; the distortion (scintillation) of electromagnetic radiation; as well ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29006 |
Saint David
Saint David (; ; ) was a Welsh bishop of Mynyw (now St Davids) during the 6th century. He is the patron saint of Wales. David was a native of Wales, and a relatively large amount of information is known about his life. His birth date, however, is uncertain: suggestions range from 462 to 512. He is traditio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29007 |
History of South Korea
The history of South Korea formally begins with its establishment on 15 August 1948.
Korea was administratively partitioned in 1945, at the end of World War II. As Korea was under Japanese rule during World War II, Korea was officially a belligerent against the Allies by virtue of being Japanes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27020 |
Geography of South Korea
South Korea is located in East Asia, on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula located out from the far east of the Asian landmass. The only country with a land border to South Korea is North Korea, lying to the north with of the border running along the Korean Demilitarized Zone. South Kor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27021 |
Demographics of South Korea
This article is about the demographic features of the population of South Korea, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
In June 2012, South Korea's population reached 50 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27022 |
Politics of South Korea
The politics of the Republic of Korea takes in place in the framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President is the head of state, and of a multi-party system. The government exercises Executive power and Legislative power is vested in both the government an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27023 |
Economy of South Korea
The economy of South Korea is a highly developed mixed economy dominated by family-owned conglomerates called chaebols. It is the 4th largest GDP in Asia and the 12th largest in the world. South Korea is known for its spectacular rise from one of the poorest countries in the world to a developed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27024 |
Telecommunications in South Korea
In South Korea, Telecommunications services improved dramatically in the 1980s with the assistance of foreign partners and as a result of the development of the electronics industry. The number of telephones in use in 1987 reached 9.2 million, a considerable increase from 1980, when t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27025 |
Transport in South Korea
Transportation in South Korea is provided by extensive networks of railways, highways, bus routes, ferry services and air routes that criss-cross the country. South Korea is the third country in the world to operate a commercial maglev train.
Development of modern infrastructure began with th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27026 |
Republic of Korea Armed Forces
The Republic of Korea Armed Forces (, ), also known as the ROK Armed Forces, are the armed forces of South Korea. The ROK Armed Forces is one of the largest standing armed forces in the world with a reported personnel strength of 3,699,000 in 2018 (599,000 active and 3,100,000 reserve). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27027 |
Foreign relations of South Korea
South Korea maintains diplomatic relations with 191 countries. The country has also been a member of the United Nations since 1991, when it became a member state at the same time as North Korea. South Korea has also hosted major international events such as the 1988 Summer Olympics and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27028 |
Schoolly D
Jesse Bonds Weaver Jr. (born June 22, 1962), better known by the stage name Schoolly D (sometimes spelled Schooly D), is an American rapper from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Schoolly D teamed up with DJ Code Money in the mid-1980s. His lyrics reflected urban realism, violence, and sexual bravado, making Sch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27031 |
Rock paper scissors
Rock paper scissors (also known by other permutations such as scissors paper rock, scissors paper stone or ro-sham-bo) is a hand game usually played between two people, in which each player simultaneously forms one of three shapes with an outstretched hand. These shapes are "rock" (a closed fist), ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27032 |
Sardinian language
Sardinian or Sard ("sardu"/"sadru" , "limba sarda" or "lìngua sarda" ) is a Romance language spoken by the Sardinians on the Western Mediterranean island of Sardinia.
Many Romance linguists consider it the language that is closest to Latin, among all the genealogical descendants of Latin. However, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27034 |
Stop motion
Stop motion is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames is played back. Any kind of object can thus be animated, but pu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27036 |
Screwball comedy
Screwball comedy is a subgenre of the romantic comedy genre that became popular during the Great Depression, originating in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1940s. It is widely known for satirizing the traditional love story. Many secondary characteristics of this genre are similar to film... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27037 |
Lists of science fiction films
Science fiction films
This is a list of science fiction films organized chronologically. These films have been released to a cinema audience by the commercial film industry and are widely distributed with reviews by reputable
critics. (The exception are the films on the made-for-TV list,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27038 |
Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylized as "ᛋᛋ" with Armanen runes; ; literally 'Protection Squadron') was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II. It began with a small guard unit known ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27040 |
New Wave science fiction
The New Wave is a movement in science fiction produced in the 1960s and 1970s and characterized by a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, a "literary" or artistic sensibility, and a focus on "soft" as opposed to hard science. New Wave writers often saw themselves as par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27045 |
Administrative division
An administrative division, unit, entity, area or region, also referred to as a subnational entity, constituent unit, or country subdivision, is a portion of a country or other region delineated for the purpose of administration. Administrative divisions are granted a certain degree of autonomy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27052 |
Scott Adams
Scott Raymond Adams (born June 8, 1957) is the creator of the "Dilbert" comic strip, and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, and business.
His "Dilbert" series came to national prominence through the downsizing period in 1990s America and was then distributed worldwide. Adams work... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27057 |
Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron with typically a few percent of carbon to improve its strength and fracture resistance compared to iron. Many other additional elements may be present or added. Stainless steels are corrosion and oxidation resistant need typically an additional 11% chromium. Because of its high tensile ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27058 |
Stainless steel
Stainless steel is a family of iron-based alloys that contain a minimum of approximately 11% chromium, a composition that prevents the iron from rusting, as well as providing heat-resistant properties. Different types of stainless steel include the elements carbon (from 0.03% to greater than 1.00%), ni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27059 |
Stig Anderson
Stig Erik Leopold Anderson (25 January 1931 – 12 September 1997), better known as , was a Swedish music manager, lyricist and music publisher. He was the co-founder of Polar Music, and is best known for managing the Swedish pop band ABBA.
Stig Anderson was born on 25 January 1931 in Hova, Sweden, the so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27060 |
Soft drink
A soft drink (see § Terminology for other names) is a drink that usually contains carbonated water (although some vitamin waters and lemonades are not carbonated), a sweetener, and a natural or artificial flavoring. The sweetener may be a sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, fruit juice, a sugar substitute (in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27061 |
Steve Crocker
Stephen D. Crocker (born October 15, 1944 in Pasadena, California, United States) is the inventor of the Request for Comments series, authoring the very first RFC and many more. He attended Van Nuys High School, as did Vint Cerf and Jon Postel. Crocker received his bachelor's degree (1968) and PhD (1977)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27064 |
Standardization
Standardization or standardisation is the process of implementing and developing technical standards based on the consensus of different parties that include firms, users, interest groups, standards organizations and governments. Standardization can help maximize compatibility, interoperability, safety... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27065 |
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is, geographically and ethnoculturally, the area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara. According to the United Nations, it consists of all African countries and territories that are fully or partially located south of the Sahara. While the United Nations geosch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27067 |
Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard ( , also , ; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christendom, morality, ethics, psychol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27069 |
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. It originally aired from September 28, 1987 to May 23, 1994, in syndication, spanning 178 episodes over seven seasons. The third series in the "Star Trek" franchise, it is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27070 |
Star Trek: The Original Series
Star Trek is an American science-fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew. It later acquired the retronym of Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) to distinguish the show within the media franchise that it began.
The s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27071 |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9) is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller. It originally aired from January 1993 to June 1999, in syndication, spanning 176 episodes over seven seasons. The fourth series in the "Star Trek" franchise, it served... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27073 |
Oberlin College
Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22506 |
Oliver North
Oliver Laurence North (born October 7, 1943) is an American political commentator, television host, military historian, author, and retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel.
A veteran of the Vietnam War, North was a National Security Council staff member during the Iran–Contra affair, a poli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22507 |
Odense
Odense () is the third-largest city in Denmark.
It has a population of 180,302 (1 January 2020), and is the main city of the island of Funen. By road, Odense is located north of Svendborg, to the south of Aarhus and to the southwest of Copenhagen. The city is the seat of Odense Municipality and was the seat of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22512 |
Ogg
Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The creators of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high-quality digital multimedia. Its name is derived from "ogging", jargon from the com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22513 |
Obelix
Obelix (; ) is a cartoon character in the French comic book series Asterix. He works as a menhir sculptor and deliveryman, and is Asterix's best friend. Obelix is noted for his fatness, the menhirs he carries around on his back and his superhuman strength. He fell into a cauldron of the Gauls' magic potion when... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22514 |
Orthodox Judaism
Orthodox Judaism is a collective term for the traditionalist branches of contemporary Rabbinic Judaism. Theologically, it is chiefly defined by regarding the Torah, both Written and Oral, as literally revealed by God on Mount Sinai and faithfully transmitted ever since.
Orthodox Judaism therefore adv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22518 |
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist, virtuoso and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, but simply "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won eight Grammy Awards, and received numerous other award... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22519 |
Orienteering
Orienteering is a group of sports that require navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they use to find con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22520 |
Oscillation
Oscillation is the repetitive variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of equilibrium) or between two or more different states. The term "vibration" is precisely used to describe mechanical oscillation. Familiar examples of oscillation include a swinging pendulum a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22522 |
Oakland Athletics
The Oakland Athletics, often referred to as the A's, are an American professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division. The team plays its home games at the Oakland Coliseum. They have won ni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22523 |
Organometallic chemistry
Organometallic chemistry is the study of organometallic compounds, chemical compounds containing at least one chemical bond between a carbon atom of an organic molecule and a metal, including alkaline, alkaline earth, and transition metals, and sometimes broadened to include metalloids like bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22526 |
Operating system advocacy
Operating system advocacy is the practice of attempting to increase the awareness and improve the perception of a computer operating system. The motivation behind this may be to increase the number of users of a system, to assert the superiority of one choice over another or out of brand loya... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22528 |
Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia is the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes. Such words are themselves also called "onomatopoeias". Common onomatopoeias include animal noises such as "oink", "meow" (or "miaow"), "roar" and "chirp". Onomatopoeia can differ ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22529 |
Odysseus
Odysseus (, " Ὀdysseús" ), also known by the Latin variant Ulysses (, ; ), is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the "Odyssey". Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's "Iliad" and other works in that same epic cycle.
Son of Laërtes and Anticlea, husband of Penelope, and fath... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22537 |
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