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Pope Clement III
Pope Clement III (; 1130 – 20 March 1191), born Paulino (or Paolo) Scolari, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 December 1187 to his death.
A Roman by birth, Pope Alexander III appointed him in succession archpriest of the patriarchal Liberian Basilica, cardinal-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24100 |
Pope Clement V
Pope Clement V (; c. 1264 – 20 April 1314), born Raymond Bertrand de Got (also occasionally spelled "de Guoth" and "de Goth"), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 5 June 1305 to his death. He is remembered for suppressing the order of the Knights Templar and allowing the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24102 |
Pope Clement VI
Pope Clement VI (; 1291 – 6 December 1352), born Pierre Roger, was head of the Catholic Church from 7 May 1342 to his death in 1352. He was the fourth Avignon pope. Clement reigned during the first visitation of the Black Death (1348–1350), during which he granted remission of sins to all who died of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24103 |
Peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application. They are said to form a peer-to-peer network of nodes.
Peers make a portion of their resources, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24107 |
Prime minister
A prime minister is the head of a cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state of their respective state nor a monarch, rather they are the head of government, serving typica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24109 |
President (government title)
The president is a common title for the head of state in most republics. In politics, president is a title given to leaders of republican states.
The functions exercised by a president vary according to the form of government. In parliamentary republics, they are usually, but not always, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24110 |
President of the United States
The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The President directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.
In contemporary times, the Presid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24113 |
Religious affiliations of presidents of the United States
The religious affiliations of presidents of the United States can affect their electability, shape their stances on policy matters and their visions of society and also how they want to lead it. Speculation of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and William Howa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24115 |
Peer review
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review methods are used to maintain quality standards, improve performan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24116 |
Prime Minister of Australia
The prime minister of Australia is the head of government of Australia. The prime minister is the leader of the federal government and is also accountable to federal parliament under the principles of responsible government. The incumbent prime minister is Scott Morrison, who took office in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24117 |
Passive management
Passive management (also called passive investing) is an investing strategy that tracks a market-weighted index or portfolio. Passive management is most common on the equity market, where index funds track a stock market index, but it is becoming more common in other investment types, including bond... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24118 |
Pope Clement VII
Pope Clement VII (; ) (26 May 1478 – 25 September 1534), born Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 November 1523 to his death on 25 September 1534.
“The most unfortunate of the Popes,” Clement VII’s reign was marked by a rapid succession ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24119 |
Pope Clement VIII
Pope Clement VIII (; 24 February 1536 – 5 March 1605), born Ippolito Aldobrandini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 2 February 1592 to his death in 1605. Born in Fano, Italy to a prominent Florentine family, he initially came to prominence as a canon lawyer before be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24120 |
Peloponnesian War
The Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC) was an ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Historians have traditionally divided the war into three phases. In the first phase, the Archidamian War, Sparta launched repeated invasions of Attica,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24121 |
Pope Clement IX
Pope Clement IX (; 28 January 1600 – 9 December 1669), born Giulio Rospigliosi, was Pope from 20 June 1667 to his death in 1669.
Giulio Rospigliosi was born in 1600 to the Rospigliosi family, a noble family of Pistoia in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany to Giacomo and Caterina Rospigliosi. He studied at the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24122 |
Pope Clement X
Pope Clement X (; 13 July 1590 – 22 July 1676), born Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, was Pope from 29 April 1670 to his death in 1676.
Emilio Boneventura Altieri was born in Rome in 1590, the son of Lorenzo Altieri and Victoria Delfin, a noble Venetian lady, sister of Flaminio Delfin, commander general of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24123 |
Pope Clement XI
Pope Clement XI (; 23 July 1649 – 19 March 1721), born Giovanni Francesco Albani, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 23 November 1700 to his death in 1721.
Clement XI was a patron of the arts and of science. He was also a great benefactor of the Vatican Library, his int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24124 |
Pan flute
Pan Flute (also known as panpipes or syrinx) is a musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth). Multiple varieties of pan flutes have been popular as folk instruments. The pipes are typically made from bambo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24126 |
Energy storage
Energy storage is the capture of energy produced at one time for use at a later time.
A device that stores energy is generally called an accumulator or battery.
Energy comes in multiple forms including radiation, chemical, gravitational potential, electrical potential, electricity, elevated temperatur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24130 |
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994; the PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group. PHP originally stood for "Personal Home Page", but it now stands for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24131 |
Principia Mathematica
The Principia Mathematica (often abbreviated PM) is a three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics written by the philosophers Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell and published in 1910, 1912, and 1913. In 1925–27, it appeared in a second edition with an important "Introduction to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24133 |
Prime Minister of Canada
The prime minister of Canada () is the head of government, chair of the Cabinet, and primary minister of the Crown. Canadian prime ministers are styled as "The Right Honourable" (), a privilege maintained for life.
Justin Trudeau is the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada. He took offic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24135 |
Process theology
Process theology is a type of theology developed from Alfred North Whitehead's (1861–1947) process philosophy, most notably by Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) and John B. Cobb (b. 1925). Process theology and process philosophy are collectively referred to as "process thought".
For both Whitehead and H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24136 |
Proton decay
In particle physics, proton decay is a hypothetical form of particle decay in which the proton decays into lighter subatomic particles, such as a neutral pion and a positron. The proton decay hypothesis was first formulated by Andrei Sakharov in 1967. Despite significant experimental effort, proton decay ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24138 |
Paul the Apostle
Paul the Apostle (; ; ; c. 5 – c. 64 or 67), commonly known as Saint Paul and also known by his Hebrew name Saul of Tarsus (; ), was an apostle (although not one of the Twelve Apostles) who taught the gospel of Christ to the first-century world. Paul is generally considered one of the most important f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24140 |
Perestroika
Perestroika (; ) was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s and is widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "openness") policy reform. The literal meaning of perestroika is "restructuring", referring to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24143 |
Polyphony
Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice, monophony, or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords, homophony.
Within the context of the Western musical tradition, the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24144 |
Pun
The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or figurative language. A pun differs from a m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24145 |
Pope Clement XII
Pope Clement XII (; 7 April 16526 February 1740), born Lorenzo Corsini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 July 1730 to his death in 1740.
Clement presided over the growth of a surplus in the papal finances. He thus became known for building the new façade of the Ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24146 |
Palindrome
A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward, such as "madam", "racecar". There are also numeric palindromes, including date/time stamps using short digits "11/11/11 11:11" and long digits "02/02/2020." Sentence-length palindromes may be wr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24147 |
Pope Clement XIII
Pope Clement XIII (; 7 March 1693 – 2 February 1769), born Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 July 1758 to his death in 1769. He was installed on 16 July 1758.
His pontificate was overshadowed by the constant pressure to suppress the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24148 |
Pope Clement XIV
Pope Clement XIV (; 31 October 1705 – 22 September 1774), born Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 May 1769 to his death in 1774. At the time of his election, he was the only Franciscan friar in the College of Cardinals. To date, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24149 |
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (informally abbreviated to PM) is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister directs both the executive and the legislature, and together with their Cabinet is accountable to the monarch, to Parliament, to their party, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24150 |
Flatworm
The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, Plathelminthes, or platyhelminths (from the Greek πλατύ, "platy", meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), "helminth-", meaning "worm") are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates. Unlike other bilaterians, they are acoelom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24151 |
Pueblo, Colorado
Pueblo is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Pueblo County, Colorado, United States. The population was 106,595 in 2010 census, making it the 267th most populous city in the United States and the 9th largest in Colorado. Pueblo is the heart of the Pueblo Met... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24158 |
Paul Desmond
Paul Desmond (born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, November 25, 1924 – May 30, 1977) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer, best known for his work with the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for composing that group's biggest hit, "Take Five". He was one of the most popular musicians to come out of the cool ja... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24159 |
Piper (plant)
Piper, the pepper plants or pepper vines, is an economically and ecologically important genus in the family Piperaceae.
It contains about 1,000-2,000 species of shrubs, herbs, and lianas, many of which are dominant species in their native habitat. The diversification of this taxon is of interest to unde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24160 |
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is a romantic novel of manners written by Jane Austen in 1813. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24162 |
Human rights in Sudan
Sudan's human rights record has been widely condemned. Some human rights organizations have documented a variety of abuses and atrocities carried out by the Sudanese government over the past several years under the rule of Omar al-Bashir. The 2009 Human Rights Report by the United States Departme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27431 |
Economy of Suriname
The economy of Suriname was largely dependent upon the exports of aluminium oxide and small amounts of aluminium produced from bauxite mined in the country. However after the departure of Alcoa, the economy depended on the exports of Crude oil and gold. Suriname was ranked the 124th safest investme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27436 |
Telecommunications in Suriname
Telecommunications in Suriname includes radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Internet access is common and widely available in major cities, but less common in remote areas of the interior with limited bandwidth and often no access to electricity.
There... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27437 |
Transport in Suriname
The Republic of Suriname () has a number of forms of transport. Transportation emissions are an increasing part of Suriname's contributions to climate change, as part of the Nationally Determined Contributions for the Paris Agreement, Suriname has committed to emissions controls for vehicles and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27438 |
Suriname National Army
After the creation of the Statute of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Royal Netherlands Army was entrusted with the defence of Suriname, while the defence of the Netherlands Antilles was the responsibility of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The army set up a separate "Troepenmacht in Suriname" (F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27439 |
Foreign relations of Suriname
As part of the foreign relations of Suriname, the country is a participant in numerous international organizations. International tensions have arisen due to Suriname's status as a trans-shipment point for South American recreational drugs destined mostly for Europe.
The country claims a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27440 |
Svalbard
Svalbard ( , ; prior to 1925 known as Spitsbergen, or Spitzbergen, ) is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Situated north of mainland Europe, it is about midway between continental Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range from 74° to 81° north latitude, and from 10° to 35° east long... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27441 |
Geography of Svalbard
Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean roughly centered on
78° north latitude and 20° east longitude. The archipelago is the northernmost part of the Kingdom of Norway. The three main islands in the group consist of Spitsbergen (the largest island), Nordaustlandet and Edgeøya. There are a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27443 |
Eswatini
Eswatini ( ; ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini () and also known as Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its north, west, and south. At no more than north to south and east to west, Eswatini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27451 |
Geography of Eswatini
Eswatini is a country in Southern Africa, lying between Mozambique and South Africa. The country is located at the geographic coordinates . Eswatini has an area of 17,363 square kilometres, of which 160 are water. The major regions of the country are Lowveld, Midveld and Highveld.
The climate of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27453 |
Demographics of Eswatini
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Eswatini, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
The majority of Eswatini's population is ethnic Swazi, mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27454 |
Politics of Eswatini
Eswatini is an absolute monarchy with constitutional provisions and Swazi law and Custom. The head of state is the king or "Ngwenyama" (lit. "Lion"), currently King Mswati III, who ascended to the throne in 1986 after the death of his father King Sobhuza II in 1982 and a period of regency. Accordi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27455 |
Economy of Eswatini
The economy of Eswatini is fairly diversified. Agriculture, forestry and mining account for about 13 percent of Eswatini's GDP whereas manufacturing (textiles and sugar-related processing) represent 37 percent of GDP. Services – with government services in the lead – constitute the other 50 percent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27456 |
Telecommunications in Eswatini
Telecommunications in Eswatini includes radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Eswatini is one of the last countries in the world to abolish an almost complete monopoly in all sectors of its telecommunications market. Until 2011 the state-owned operator, Eswat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27457 |
Transport in Eswatini
Public transport is the main means of transportation in Eswatini. Car ownership is low, at 32 cars per 1,000 people. The National Road Network has 1500 km of main roads and 2270 km of district roads.
"total:" 3,594 km
"paved:" 1,078 km
"unpaved:" 2,516 km (2002)
Amongst its roadway network, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27458 |
History of Switzerland
Since 1848 the Swiss Confederation has been a federal republic of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of confederacy that goes back more than 700 years, putting them among the world's oldest surviving republics.
The early history of the region is tied to that of Alpine c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27461 |
Geography of Switzerland
The geography of Switzerland encompasses the geographical features of Switzerland, a mountainous and landlocked country located in Western and Central Europe. Switzerland is world-famous for the beauty and uniqueness of its landscapes. It is surrounded by 5 countries: Austria and Liechtenstein... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27462 |
Demographics of Switzerland
This article is about the demographic features of the population of the Swiss Confederation, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Switzerland had a population of 8.57 m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27463 |
Politics of Switzerland
Switzerland is a semi-direct democratic federal republic. The federal legislative power is vested in the two chambers of the Federal Assembly, the National Council and the Council of States. The Federal Council holds the executive power and is composed of seven power-sharing Federal Councillors... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27464 |
Economy of Switzerland
The economy of Switzerland is one of the world's most advanced free market economies. The service sector has come to play a significant economic role, particularly the Swiss banking industry and tourism. The economy of Switzerland ranks first in the world in the 2015 Global Innovation Index and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27465 |
Telecommunications in Switzerland
Extensive telecommunication facilities exist in Switzerland. They include the telephone system, internet, and broadcast media.
In 2007 there were 5 million fixed telephone lines in use and 8,096,000 mobile phones, more than one per capita.
The telephone system is described as provid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27466 |
Transport in Switzerland
Switzerland has a dense network of roads and railways. The Swiss public transport network has a total length of 24,500 kilometers and has more than 2600 stations and stops.
The crossing of the Alps is an important route for European transportation, as the Alps separate Northern Europe from So... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27467 |
Swiss Armed Forces
The Swiss Armed Forces (German: "Schweizer Armee," French: "Armée suisse," Italian: "Esercito svizzero," Romanisch: "Armada svizra)" operates on land and in the air. Under the country's militia system, regular soldiers constitute a small part of the military and the rest are conscripts or volunteers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27468 |
Foreign relations of Switzerland
The foreign relations of Switzerland are the primary responsibility of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). Some international relations of Switzerland are handled by other departments of the federal administration of Switzerland.
Article 54 of the Swiss Constitution of 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27469 |
Languages of Switzerland
The four national languages of Switzerland are German, French, Italian and Romansh. All but Romansh maintain equal status as official languages at the national level within the Federal Administration of the Swiss Confederation. In some situations, Latin is used, particularly as a single langua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27470 |
Geography of Syria
Syria is located in Western Asia, north of the Arabian Peninsula, at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Lebanon and Israel to the west and southwest, Iraq to the east, and Jordan to the south. It consists of mountain ranges in the west and a steep area i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27473 |
Demographics of Syria
Syria's estimated population is about 22 ±.5 million (pre–Syrian Civil War 2011) permanent inhabitants, which include
21,124,000 Syrians, Iraqi refugees, Palestinian refugees, and those from Somalia. The war makes an accurate count of the Syrian population difficult, as the numbers of Syrian refu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27474 |
Politics of Syria
Politics in the Syrian Arab Republic takes place in the framework of a semi-presidential republic with multiparty representation. President Bashar al-Assad's family and his Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party have remained dominant forces in the country's politics since a 1970 coup.
Until the early stages o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27475 |
Economy of Syria
The economy of Syria has deteriorated considerably since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War Moreover, Syria's economic history has been turbulent. In 1963, the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party came to power, and instituted socialist policies of nationalization and land reform. In 1970, General Hafez al-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27476 |
Telecommunications in Syria
The Syrian Ministry of Communications retains governmental authority over the internet in Syria. Prior to the Syrian civil war, telecommunications in Syria were slowly moving towards liberalization, with a number of licenses awarded and services launched in the Internet service provision ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27477 |
Syrian Armed Forces
The Syrian Arab Armed Forces () are the military forces of the Syrian Arab Republic. They consist of the Syrian Arab Army, Syrian Arab Air Force, Syrian Arab Navy, Syrian Arab Air Defense Force, and several paramilitary forces, such as the National Defence Force. According to the Syrian constitutio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27479 |
Foreign relations of Syria
Ensuring national security, increasing influence among its Arab neighbours and securing the return of the Golan Heights, have been the primary goals of the Syrian Arab Republic's foreign policy. At many points in its history, Syria has seen virulent tension with its geographically cultural n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27480 |
Section 508 Amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
In 1998 the US Congress amended the Rehabilitation Act to require Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. Section 508 was enacted to eliminate barriers in information technology, to make availab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27481 |
Slartibartfast
Slartibartfast is a character in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", a comedy/science fiction series created by Douglas Adams. The character appears in the first and third novels, the first and third radio series (and the LP adaptation of the first radio series), the 1981 television series and the 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27485 |
Split screen (video production)
In film and video production, split screen is the visible division of the screen, traditionally in half, but also in several simultaneous images, rupturing the illusion that the screen's frame is a seamless view of reality, similar to that of the human eye. There may or may not be an ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27487 |
Software documentation
Software documentation is written text or illustration that accompanies computer software or is embedded in the source code. The documentation either explains how the software operates or how to use it, and may mean different things to people in different roles.
Documentation is an important pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27488 |
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; "By A Lady" appears on the title page where the author's name might have been. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) and Marianne (age 16 1/2) as they come of age. They have an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27490 |
Sanity
Sanity (from ) refers to the soundness, rationality, and health of the human mind, as opposed to insanity. A person is sane if they are rational. In modern society, the term has become exclusively synonymous with compos mentis (, having mastery of, and , mind), in contrast with "non compos mentis", or insanity,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27491 |
Sprouts (game)
Sprouts is a paper-and-pencil game that can be enjoyed simply by both adults and children. Yet it also can be analyzed for its significant mathematical properties. It was invented by mathematicians John Horton Conway and Michael S. Paterson at Cambridge University in the early 1960s. Setup is even simpl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27541 |
Supermarine
Supermarine was a British aircraft manufacturer that produced the Spitfire fighter plane, and a range of seaplanes and flying boats. The company had successes in the Schneider Trophy for seaplanes, with three wins in a row of 1927, 1929 and 1931.
The company was founded in 1913 as Pemberton-Billing Ltd on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27548 |
Set theory
Set theory is a branch of mathematical logic that studies sets, which informally are collections of objects. Although any type of object can be collected into a set, set theory is applied most often to objects that are relevant to mathematics. The language of set theory can be used to define nearly all math... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27553 |
Sabine Baring-Gould
The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (; 28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1240 publications, though this list continues to gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27557 |
Salt (chemistry)
In chemistry, a salt is a chemical compound consisting of an ionic assembly of cations and anions. Salts are composed of related numbers of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negatively charged ions) so that the product is electrically neutral (without a net charge). These component ions ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27558 |
Solar deity
A solar deity (also sun goddess or sun god) is a sky deity who represents the Sun, or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived power and strength. Solar deities and Sun worship can be found throughout most of recorded history in various forms. The Sun is sometimes referred to by its Latin name "Sol" or by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27560 |
Soad Hosny
Soad Hosny (, ; January 26, 1943 – June 21, 2001) was an Egyptian actress born in Cairo. She was known as the "Cinderella of Egyptian cinema" and one of the most influential actresses in the Middle East and the Arab world. She ascended to stardom at the end of the 1950s, performing in more than 83 films bet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27563 |
Summer Olympic Games
The Summer Olympic Games () or the Games of the Olympiad, first held in 1896, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The most recent Summer Olympics were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) organises the Games and overs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27566 |
Shareware
Shareware is a type of proprietary software which is initially provided free of charge to users, who are allowed and encouraged to make and share copies of the program. Shareware is often offered as a download from a website or on a compact disc included with a magazine. Shareware differs from freeware, whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27567 |
Substance theory
Substance theory, or substance–attribute theory, is an ontological theory about objecthood positing that a "substance" is distinct from its properties. A "thing-in-itself" is a property-bearer that must be distinguished from the properties it bears. The corresponding concept in Eastern philosophy is s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27568 |
Superfluid helium-4
Superfluid helium-4 is the superfluid form of helium-4, an isotope of the element helium. A superfluid is a state of matter in which matter behaves like a fluid with zero viscosity. The substance, which looks like a normal liquid, flows without friction past any surface, which allows it to continue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27573 |
Statistical regularity
Statistical regularity is a notion in statistics and probability theory that random events exhibit regularity when repeated enough times or that enough sufficiently similar random events exhibit regularity. It is an umbrella term that covers the law of large numbers, all central limit theorems a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27575 |
Statistical model
A statistical model is a mathematical model that embodies a set of statistical assumptions concerning the generation of sample data (and similar data from a larger population). A statistical model represents, often in considerably idealized form, the data-generating process.
A statistical model is u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27576 |
Statistical inference
Statistical inference is the process of using data analysis to deduce properties of an underlying distribution of probability. Inferential statistical analysis infers properties of a population, for example by testing hypotheses and deriving estimates. It is assumed that the observed data set is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27577 |
Survey sampling
In statistics, survey sampling describes the process of selecting a sample of elements from a target population to conduct a survey.
The term "survey" may refer to many different types or techniques of observation. In survey sampling it most often involves a questionnaire used to measure the character... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27578 |
Statistical theory
The theory of statistics provides a basis for the whole range of techniques, in both study design and data analysis, that are used within applications of statistics. The theory covers approaches to statistical-decision problems and to statistical inference, and the actions and deductions that satisf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27579 |
Statistical unit
In statistics, a unit is one member of a set of entities being studied. It is the main source for the mathematical abstraction of a "random variable". Common examples of a unit would be a single person, animal, plant, manufactured item, or country that belongs to a larger collection of such entities b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27580 |
Statistical assembly
In statistics, for example in statistical quality control, a statistical assembly is a collection of parts or components which makes up a statistical unit. Thus a statistical unit, which would be the prime item of concern, is made of discrete components like organs or machine parts. The reliabilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27581 |
Stimulus–response model
The stimulus–response model is a characterization of a statistical unit (such as a neuron). The model allows the prediction of a quantitative response to a quantitative stimulus, for example one administered by a researcher. In psychology, stimulus response theory concerns forms of classical co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27582 |
Statistical population
In statistics, a population is a set of similar items or events which is of interest for some question or experiment. A statistical population can be a group of existing objects (e.g. the set of all stars within the Milky Way galaxy) or a hypothetical and potentially infinite group of objects co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27585 |
Sample (statistics)
In statistics and quantitative research methodology, a sample is a set of individuals or objects collected or selected from a statistical population by a defined procedure. The elements of a sample are known as sample points, sampling units or observations.
Typically, the population is very large,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27586 |
Summary statistics
In descriptive statistics, summary statistics are used to summarize a set of observations, in order to communicate the largest amount of information as simply as possible. Statisticians commonly try to describe the observations in
A common collection of order statistics used as summary statistics a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27587 |
Range (statistics)
In statistics, the range of a set of data is the difference between the largest and smallest values. It can give you a rough idea of how the outcome of the data set will be before you look at it actually
Difference here is specific, the range of a set of data is the result of subtracting the smalle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27588 |
Standard deviation
In statistics, the standard deviation is a measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values. A low standard deviation indicates that the values tend to be close to the mean (also called the expected value) of the set, while a high standard deviation indicates that the values are s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27590 |
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