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QCD (disambiguation)
QCD, or Quantum chromodynamics, is the theory of the strong interaction between quarks and gluons.
QCD may also refer to: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25327 |
Quartet
In music, a quartet or quartette (, , , , ) is an ensemble of four singers or instrumental performers; or a musical composition for four voices or instruments.
In Classical music, one of the most common combinations of four instruments in chamber music is the string quartet. String quartets most often consist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25330 |
Quantum entanglement
Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon that occurs when a pair or group of particles is generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in a way such that the quantum state of each particle of the pair or group cannot be described independently of the state of the others, including when the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25336 |
Quasi-War
The Quasi-War () was an undeclared war fought almost entirely at sea between the United States and France from 1798 to 1800, which broke out during the beginning of John Adams's presidency. After the French Monarchy was abolished in September 1792, the United States refused to continue repaying its large deb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25343 |
Quality management system
A quality management system (QMS) is a collection of business processes focused on consistently meeting customer requirements and enhancing their satisfaction. It is aligned with an organization's purpose and strategic direction (ISO9001:2015). It is expressed as the organizational goals and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25345 |
QSIG
QSIG is an ISDN based signaling protocol for signaling between private branch exchanges (PBXs) in a private integrated services network (PISN). It makes use of the connection-level Q.931 protocol and the application-level ROSE protocol. ISDN "proper" functions as the physical link layer.
QSIG was originally deve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25349 |
Quasicrystal
A quasiperiodic crystal, or quasicrystal, is a structure that is ordered but not periodic. A quasicrystalline pattern can continuously fill all available space, but it lacks translational symmetry. While crystals, according to the classical crystallographic restriction theorem, can possess only two-, thre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25350 |
Recreation
Recreation is an activity of leisure, leisure being discretionary time. The "need to do something for recreation" is an essential element of human biology and psychology. Recreational activities are often done for enjoyment, amusement, or pleasure and are considered to be "fun".
The term "recreation" appea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25381 |
Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider, also known as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider between 2001 and 2007, is a media franchise that originated with an action-adventure video game series created by British gaming company Core Design. Formerly owned by Eidos Interactive, then by Square Enix after their acquisition of Eidos in 2009, the fra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30361 |
Transition metal
In chemistry, the term transition metal (or transition element) has three possible definitions:
English chemist Charles Bury (1890–1968) first used the word "transition" in this context in 1921, when he referred to a "transition series of elements" during the change of an inner layer of electrons (f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30364 |
Torr
The torr (symbol: Torr) is a unit of pressure based on an absolute scale, defined as exactly of a standard atmosphere (101325 Pa). Thus one torr is exactly (≈ ).
Historically, one torr was intended to be the same as one "millimeter of mercury", but subsequent redefinitions of the two units made them slightly dif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30366 |
Trigonometric functions
In mathematics, the trigonometric functions (also called circular functions, angle functions or goniometric functions) are real functions which relate an angle of a right-angled triangle to ratios of two side lengths. They are widely used in all sciences that are related to geometry, such as na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30367 |
Thermochemistry
Thermochemistry is the study of the heat energy which is associated with chemical reactions and/or physical transformations. A reaction may release or absorb energy, and a phase change may do the same, such as in melting and boiling. Thermochemistry focuses on these energy changes, particularly on the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30369 |
London Eye
The London Eye, or the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is Europe's tallest cantilevered observation wheel, and is the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over 3 million visitors annually, and has made many ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30372 |
Taekwondo
Taekwondo, Tae Kwon Do or Taekwon-Do (Korean , , ) is a Korean martial art, characterized by its emphasis on head-height kicks, jumping spinning kicks, and fast kicking techniques with kicks and striking being above waist height only.
Taekwondo is a combative sport and was developed during the 1940s and 195... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30374 |
Targum
The targumim (singular targum, ; interpretation, translation, version) were originally spoken translations of the Jewish scriptures (also called the Tanakh) that a "meturgeman" (professional interpreter) would give in the common language of the listeners when that was not Hebrew. This had become necessary near ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30377 |
Tosefta
The Tosefta (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: תוספתא "supplement, addition") is a compilation of the Jewish oral law from the late 2nd century, the period of the Mishnah.
In many ways, the Tosefta acts as a supplement to the Mishnah ("tosefta" means "supplement, addition"). The Mishnah () is the basic compilation o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30378 |
The Evolution of Cooperation
The Evolution of Cooperation is a 1984 book by political scientist Robert Axelrod that expanded a highly influential paper of the same name, and popularized the study upon which the original paper had been based. Since 2006, reprints of the book have included a foreword by Richard Dawkins ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30384 |
The Machinery of Freedom
The Machinery of Freedom is a nonfiction book by David D. Friedman which advocates an anarcho-capitalist society from a utilitarian/consequentialist perspective.
The book was published in 1973, with a second edition in 1989 and a third edition in 2014.
The book aims to show that law and its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30385 |
Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as "Arcadia", "The Coast of Utopia", "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour", "Professional Foul", "The Real Thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30387 |
Thylacine
The thylacine ( , or , also ;) ("Thylacinus cynocephalus"), now extinct, is one of the largest known carnivorous marsupials, evolving about 4 million years ago. The last known live animal was captured in 1933 in Tasmania. It is commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger because of its striped lower back, or the T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30388 |
Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno (; ; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German philosopher, sociologist, psychologist, musicologist, and composer known for his critical theory of society.
He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30391 |
Thermophile
A thermophile is an organism—a type of extremophile—that thrives at relatively high temperatures, between . Many thermophiles are archaea. Thermophilic eubacteria are suggested to have been among the earliest bacteria.
Thermophiles are found in various geothermally heated regions of the Earth, such as hot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30393 |
Tennessee
Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a state in the southeastern United States. Tennessee is the 36th largest by area and the 16th most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by eight states, with Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alaba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30395 |
Torque
Torque, moment, moment of force, rotational force or "turning effect" is the rotational equivalent of linear force. The concept originated with the studies by Archimedes of the usage of levers. Just as a linear force is a push or a pull, a torque can be thought of as a twist to an object around a specific axis.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30400 |
Theory of computation
In theoretical computer science and mathematics, the theory of computation is the branch that deals with how efficiently problems can be solved on a model of computation, using an algorithm. The field is divided into three major branches: automata theory and formal languages, computability theory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30402 |
Turing machine
A Turing machine is a mathematical model of computation that defines an abstract machine, which manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. Despite the model's simplicity, given any computer algorithm, a Turing machine capable of simulating that algorithm's logic can be constru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30403 |
Trail riding
Trail riding is riding outdoors on trails, bridle paths, and forest roads, but not on roads regularly used by motorised traffic. A trail ride can be of any length, including a long distance, multi-day trip. It originated with horse riding, and in North America, the equestrian form is usually called "trail... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30404 |
Terry Gilliam
Terrence Vance Gilliam (; born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor, comedian and former member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.
Gilliam has directed 13 feature films, including "Time Bandits" (1981), "Brazil" (1985), "The Adventures of Baron Munch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30410 |
Tetromino
A tetromino is a geometric shape composed of four squares, connected orthogonally (i.e. at the edges and not the corners). This, like dominoes and pentominoes, is a particular type of polyomino. The corresponding polycube, called a tetracube, is a geometric shape composed of four cubes connected orthogonally... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30411 |
List of highest-grossing films in the United States and Canada
The following is a list of the highest-grossing films in the United States and Canada, a market known in the film industry as the "North American box office" and the "domestic box office", and where "gross" is defined in US dollars.
This is a list of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30417 |
The Marriage of Figaro
The Marriage of Figaro (, ), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786. The opera's libretto is based on a stage comedy by Pierre ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30418 |
The Clash
The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 as a key player in the original wave of British punk rock. They also contributed to the and new wave movements that emerged in the wake of punk and employed elements of a variety of genres including reggae, dub, funk, ska, and rockabilly. For most ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30423 |
Total internal reflection
Total internal reflection (TIR) is the optical phenomenon in which the surface of the water in a fish-tank (for example) when viewed from below the water level, reflects the underwater scene like a mirror, with no loss of brightness (Fig.1). In general, TIR occurs when waves in one medium rea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30426 |
The Inklings
The Inklings were an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949. The Inklings were literary enthusiasts who praised the value of narrative in fiction and encouraged the writing of fantasy.
The more regular membe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30428 |
Treaty
A treaty is a formal written agreement entered into by actors in international law, namely sovereign states and international organizations. A treaty may also be known as an international agreement, protocol, covenant, convention, pact, or exchange of letters, among other terms. Regardless of terminology, only ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30432 |
Transaction Processing Facility
Transaction Processing Facility (TPF) is an IBM real-time operating system for mainframe computers descended from the IBM System/360 family, including zSeries and System z9.
TPF delivers fast, high-volume, high-throughput transaction processing, handling large, continuous loads of esse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30433 |
Theory of everything
A theory of everything (TOE or ToE), final theory, ultimate theory, or master theory is a hypothetical single, all-encompassing, coherent theoretical framework of physics that fully explains and links together all physical aspects of the universe. Finding a TOE is one of the major unsolved problem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30436 |
Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun (, ), Egyptological pronunciation Tutankhamen (British ) ( 1342c. 1325 BC), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who was the last of his royal family to rule during the end of the 18th dynasty (ruled c. 1334 – 1325 BC in the conventional chronology) during the New Kingdom of Egyptian history. His fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30437 |
Totalitarianism
Totalitarianism is a term for a political system or form of government that prohibits opposition parties, restricts individual opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life. It is regarded as the most extreme and complete form of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30439 |
Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," published in 1751.
Gray was an extremely self-critical writer who published only 13 poems i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30440 |
Taylor series
In mathematics, the Taylor series of a function is an infinite sum of terms that are expressed in terms of the function's derivatives at a single point. For most common functions, the function and the sum of its Taylor series are equal near this point. Taylor's series are named after Brook Taylor who int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30448 |
TECO (text editor)
TECO (Tee'koh / ), Text Editor & Corrector is both a character-oriented text editor and a programming language, that was developed in 1962 for use on Digital Equipment Corporation computers, and has since become available on PCs and Unix. Dan Murphy developed TECO while a student at the Massachusett... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30449 |
Topological space
In topology and related branches of mathematics, a topological space may be defined as a set of points, along with a set of neighbourhoods for each point, satisfying a set of axioms relating points and neighbourhoods. The definition of a topological space relies only upon set theory and is the most g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30450 |
Talking Heads
Talking Heads were an American rock band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band was composed of David Byrne (lead vocals, guitar), Chris Frantz (drums), Tina Weymouth (bass), and Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar). Described by the critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine as "one of the mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30456 |
Transfinite induction
Transfinite induction is an extension of mathematical induction to well-ordered sets, for example to sets of ordinal numbers or cardinal numbers.
Let formula_1 be a property defined for all ordinals formula_2. Suppose that whenever formula_3 is true for all formula_4, then formula_1 is also true... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30461 |
Triple point
In thermodynamics, the triple point of a substance is the temperature and pressure at which the three phases (gas, liquid, and solid) of that substance coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium. It is that temperature and pressure at which the sublimation curve, fusion curve and the vaporisation curve meet. Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30462 |
Taxonomy (biology)
In biology, taxonomy () is the science of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped together into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given a taxonomic rank; groups of a given rank can be agg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30463 |
Tyrannosaurus
Tyrannosaurus is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur. The species Tyrannosaurus rex ("rex" meaning "king" in Latin), often called T. rex or colloquially T-Rex, is one of the most well-represented of the large theropods. "Tyrannosaurus" lived throughout what is now western North America, on what w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30467 |
Tollund Man
Tollund Man is a naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 4th century BCE, during the period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age. He was found in 1950, preserved as a bog body, on the Jutland peninsula, in Denmark. The man's physical features were so well preserved that h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30468 |
Ted Turner
Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American media proprietor, producer, and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30475 |
Tanka
Originally, in the time of the "Man'yōshū" (latter half of the eighth century AD), the term "tanka" was used to distinguish "short poems" from the longer . In the ninth and tenth centuries, however, notably with the compilation of the "Kokinshū", the short poem became the dominant form of poetry in Japan, and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30476 |
Civic Platform
Civic Platform (, PO) is a liberal-conservative political party in Poland. Civic Platform came to power following the 2007 general election as the major coalition partner in Poland's government, with party leader Donald Tusk as Prime Minister of Poland. Tusk was re-elected as Prime Minister in the 2011 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23998 |
Paris, Texas
Paris is a city and county seat of Lamar County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 25,171. It is situated in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods, and northeast of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. Physiographically, these regions are part of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24001 |
Paraffin wax
Paraffin wax (or petroleum wax) is a soft colorless solid derived from petroleum, coal or shale oil that consists of a mixture of hydrocarbon molecules containing between twenty and forty carbon atoms. It is solid at room temperature and begins to melt above approximately , and its boiling point is above ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24006 |
Pearl
A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is composed of calcium carbonate (mainly aragonite or a mixture of aragonite and calcite) in minute c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24007 |
Pope Benedict VI
Pope Benedict VI (; died June 974) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 19 January 973 to his death in 974. His brief pontificate occurred in the political context of the establishment of the Holy Roman Empire, during the transition between the reigns of Otto I and Otto II, incorp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24012 |
Pope Benedict VII
Pope Benedict VII (; died October 983) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from October 974 to his death.
Benedict was born in Rome, the son of David or Deodatus and nephew of Alberic II of Spoleto. He was also connected to the Conti family. Before his accession to the papacy, he se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24013 |
Pope Benedict IX
Pope Benedict IX (; c. 1012 – c. 1056), born Theophylactus of Tusculum in Rome, was bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States on three occasions between October 1032 and July 1048. Aged approximately 20 at his first election, he is one of the youngest popes in history. He is the only man to have be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24015 |
Pope Benedict XI
Pope Benedict XI (; 1240 – 7 July 1304), born Nicola Boccasini (Niccolò of Treviso), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 22 October 1303 to his death in 1304.
Boccasini entered the Order of Preachers in his native Trevino. He studied at Venice and Milan before becoming... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24017 |
Pope Benedict XII
Pope Benedict XII (; 1285 – 25 April 1342), born Jacques Fornier, was head of the Catholic Church from 30 December 1334 to his death in April 1342. He was the third Avignon pope. Benedict was a careful pope who reformed monastic orders and opposed nepotism. Unable to remove his capital to Rome or Bol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24018 |
Pope Benedict XIII
Pope Benedict XIII (; 2 February 1649 – 21 February 1730), born Pietro Francesco Orsini and later called Vincenzo Maria Orsini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 May 1724 to his death in 1730.
A Dominican friar, Orsini focused on his religious responsibilities as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24019 |
Pope Benedict XIV
Pope Benedict XIV (; 31 March 1675 – 3 May 1758), born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was head of the Catholic Church from 17 August 1740 to his death in 1758.
Perhaps one of the best scholars to sit on the papal throne, yet often overlooked, he promoted scientific learning, the baroque arts, reinvigo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24020 |
Place of articulation
In articulatory phonetics, the place of articulation (also point of articulation) of a consonant is the point of contact where an obstruction occurs in the vocal tract between an articulatory gesture, an active articulator (typically some part of the tongue), and a passive location (typically som... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24021 |
Physical therapy
Physical therapy (PT), also known as physiotherapy, is one of the allied health professions that, by using evidence-based kinesiology, electrotherapy, shockwave modality, exercise prescription, joint mobilization and health education, treats conditions such as chronic or acute pain, soft tissue injuri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24022 |
Polygyny
Polygyny (; from Neoclassical Greek πολυγυνία from - "poly-" "many", and "gyne" "woman" or "wife") is the most common and accepted form of polygamy, entailing the marriage of a man with several women. Polyandry is another form of polygamy in which women practice having two or more husbands. Most countries tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24025 |
Proteome
The proteome is the entire set of proteins that is, or can be, expressed by a genome, cell, tissue, or organism at a certain time. It is the set of expressed proteins in a given type of cell or organism, at a given time, under defined conditions. Proteomics is the study of the proteome.
The term has been app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24026 |
Pope John Paul I
Pope John Paul I (; ; born Albino Luciani ; 17 October 191228 September 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City from 26 August 1978 to his death 33 days later. He was the first pope to have been born in the 20th century. His reign is among the shortest in papal history,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24027 |
Pope Paul VI
Pope Paul VI (; ; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, ; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his death in 1978. Succeeding John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatican Council which he closed in 1965, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24028 |
Peptide
Peptides (from Greek language πεπτός, "peptós" "digested"; derived from πέσσειν, "péssein" "to digest") are short chains of between two and fifty amino acids, linked by peptide bonds. Chains of less than ten or fifteen amino acids are called oligopeptides, and include dipeptides, tripeptides, and tetrapeptides... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24029 |
Positron emission tomography
Positron emission tomography (PET) is an imaging technique that uses radioactive substances to visualize and measure metabolic processes in the body. PET is mainly used in the area of medical imaging for detecting or measuring changes in physiological activities like metabolism, blood flow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24032 |
Percival Lowell
Percival Lawrence Lowell (; March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars. He founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24033 |
Project management
Project management is the practice of leading the work of a team to achieve goals and meet success criteria at a specified time. The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documenta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24042 |
Phase (waves)
In physics and mathematics, the phase of a periodic function formula_1 of some real variable formula_2 (such as time) is an angle representing the number of periods spanned by that variable. It is denoted formula_3 and expressed in such a scale that it varies by one full turn as the variable formula_2 go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24047 |
Particle in a box
In quantum mechanics, the particle in a box model (also known as the infinite potential well or the infinite square well) describes a particle free to move in a small space surrounded by impenetrable barriers. The model is mainly used as a hypothetical example to illustrate the differences between cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24048 |
Peter F. Hamilton
Peter F. Hamilton (born 2 March 1960) is a British author. He is best known for writing space opera. As of the publication of his 10th novel in 2004, his works had sold over 2 million copies worldwide.
Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland, England on 2 March 1960. He did not attend university. He s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24050 |
The Night's Dawn Trilogy
British author Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy consists of three science fiction novels: "The Reality Dysfunction" (1996), "The Neutronium Alchemist" (1997), and "The Naked God" (1999). A collection of short stories, "A Second Chance at Eden", shares the same universe, and "The Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24052 |
Pope Boniface VIII
Pope Boniface VIII (; born Benedetto Caetani, c. 1230 – 11 October 1303) was pope from 24 December 1294 to his death in 1303. Caetani was of baronial origin with family connections to the papacy.
He succeeded Pope Celestine V, a Benedictine, who had resigned from the papal throne. Boniface spent his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24060 |
Peroxisome
A peroxisome () is a membrane-bound organelle (formerly known as a microbody), found in the cytoplasm of virtually all eukaryotic cells. Peroxisomes are oxidative organelles. Frequently, molecular oxygen serves as a co-substrate, from which hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is then formed. Peroxisomes owe their nam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24062 |
Peter Handke
Peter Handke (; born 6 December 1942) is a Nobel laureate novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter from Austria. Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019.
In the late 1960s, he was recognized for the play "Publikumsbeschimpfung" ("Offending the Audience") an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24064 |
Population inversion
In science, specifically statistical mechanics, a population inversion occurs while a system (such as a group of atoms or molecules) exists in a state in which more members of the system are in higher, excited states than in lower, unexcited energy states. It is called an "inversion" because in ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24065 |
Paolo Uccello
Paolo Uccello ( , ; 1397 – 10 December 1475), born Paolo di Dono, was a Florentine painter and mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. In his book "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects", Giorgio Vasari wrote that Uccello was obsessed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24067 |
Pope Pius II
Pope Pius II (, ), born Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini (; 18 October 1405 – 14 August 1464) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 August 1458 to his death. He was born at Corsignano in the Sienese territory of a noble but impoverished family. His longest and most enduri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24069 |
Phoebe Hearst
Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson Hearst (December 3, 1842 – April 13, 1919) was an American philanthropist, feminist and suffragist. She was the mother of William Randolph Hearst and wife of George Hearst.
She was born Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson in St. Clair, Missouri, in Franklin County, the daughter of Drucil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24071 |
Pope Pius IV
Pope Pius IV (31 March 1499 – 9 December 1565), born Giovanni Angelo Medici, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 December 1559 to his death in 1565. Born in Milan, his family considered itself a branch of the House of Medici and used the same coat of arms. Although modern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24072 |
Pope Pius III
Pope Pius III (9 May 1439 – 18 October 1503), born Francesco Todeschini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 22 September 1503 to his death. He had one of the shortest pontificates in papal history.
Francesco was the nephew of Pope Pius II, who granted him the use of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24073 |
Pope Pius V
Pope Pius V (17 January 1504 – 1 May 1572), born Antonio Ghislieri (from 1518 called Michele Ghislieri, O.P.), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 January 1566 to his death in 1572. He is venerated as a saint of the Catholic Church. He is chiefly notable for his role in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24074 |
Peripheral Component Interconnect
Peripheral Component Interconnect is often called PCI, or Conventional PCI to differentiate from its successor PCI Express. PCI is a local computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer and is part of the PCI Local Bus standard. The PCI bus supports the functions found on a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24075 |
PDF
The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed by Adobe in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. Based on the PostScript language, each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24077 |
PostScript
PostScript (PS) is a page description language in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing business. It is a dynamically typed, concatenative programming language and was created at Adobe Systems by John Warnock, Charles Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft and Bill Paxton from 1982 to 1984.
The concepts o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24080 |
Pole vault
Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long flexible pole (which today is usually made either of fiberglass or carbon fiber) as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, Cretans and Celts. It has been a full medal event at the Olympic G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24082 |
Party of European Socialists
The Party of European Socialists (PES) is a social-democratic European political party.
The PES comprises national-level political parties from all member states of the European Union (EU) plus Norway and the United Kingdom. This includes major parties such as the Italian Democratic Party... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24083 |
Phenol
Phenol is an aromatic organic compound with the molecular formula C6H5OH. It is a white crystalline solid that is volatile. The molecule consists of a phenyl group (−C6H5) bonded to a hydroxy group (−OH). Mildly acidic, it requires careful handling because it can cause chemical burns.
Phenol was first extracte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24085 |
Protagoras
Protagoras (; ; ) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogue "Protagoras", Plato credits him with inventing the role of the professional sophist.
Protagoras also is believed to have created a major controversy during ancient times through his state... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24086 |
Puritans
The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries, who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant. Puritanism played a significant role in English history, especiall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24091 |
Palestinian National Authority
The Palestinian National Authority (PA or PNA; "") is the interim self-government body established in 1994 following the Gaza–Jericho Agreement to govern the Gaza Strip and Areas A and B of the West Bank, as a consequence of the 1993 Oslo Accords. Following elections in 2006 and the subs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24093 |
Diana, Princess of Wales
Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, the heir apparent to the British throne, and the mother of Prince William and Prince Harry. Diana's activism and gla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24095 |
Plough
A plough or plow (US; both ) is a farm tool for loosening or turning the soil before sowing seed or planting. Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses, but in modern farms are drawn by tractors. A plough may have a wooden, iron or steel frame, with a blade attached to cut and loosen the soil. It has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24096 |
Principle of bivalence
In logic, the semantic principle (or law) of bivalence states that every declarative sentence expressing a proposition (of a theory under inspection) has exactly one truth value, either true or false. A logic satisfying this principle is called a two-valued logic or bivalent logic.
In formal lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24097 |
Pope Clement II
Pope Clement II (; born Suidger von Morsleben; died 9 October 1047), was bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 25 December 1046 until his death in 1047. He was the first in a series of reform-minded popes from Germany. Suidger was the bishop of Bamberg. In 1046, he accompanied King Henry II... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24099 |
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