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Statistical assumption
Statistics, like all mathematical disciplines, does not infer valid conclusions from nothing. Inferring interesting conclusions about real statistical populations almost always requires some background assumptions. Those assumptions must be made carefully, because incorrect assumptions can gener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27592 |
Independence (probability theory)
This is a fundamental notion in probability theory, as in statistics and the theory of stochastic processes.
Two events are independent, statistically independent, or stochastically independent if the occurrence of one does not affect the probability of occurrence of the other (equiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27593 |
Sherrié Austin
Sherrie Veronica Krenn (born 28 August 1970), known professionally as Sherrié Austin, is an Australian actress and country music singer. Active as a singer since her teenage years, Austin initially recorded as one half of the duo Colourhaus, which also featured Phil Radford. After leaving Colourhaus, sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27595 |
Stratified sampling
In statistics, stratified sampling is a method of sampling from a population which can be partitioned into subpopulations.
In statistical surveys, when subpopulations within an overall population vary, it could be advantageous to sample each subpopulation (stratum) independently. Stratification is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27596 |
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc., or SFWA ( or ) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization of professional science fiction and fantasy writers. While SFWA is based in the United States, its membership is open to writers worldwide. The organization was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27600 |
Soul Coughing
Soul Coughing was an American alternative rock band composed of vocalist/guitarist Mike Doughty (also known as M. Doughty), keyboardist/sampler Mark Degli Antoni, bassist Sebastian Steinberg, and drummer Yuval Gabay. Soul Coughing developed a devout fanbase and garnered largely positive response from cri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27606 |
Science fiction on television
Science fiction first appeared in television programming in the late 1930s, during what is called the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary world not limited by the constraints of real... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27608 |
Skeleton
The skeleton is the body part that provides support, shape and protection to the soft tissues and delicate organs of animals. There are several different skeletal types: the exoskeleton, which is the stable outer shell of an organism, the endoskeleton, which forms the support structure inside the body, the hy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27609 |
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Sarah Michelle Prinze (née Gellar; born April 14, 1977) is an American actress. After being spotted by an agent at the age of four in New York City, she made her acting debut in the made-for-television film "An Invasion of Privacy" (1983). Following a role in the teen drama series "Swans Crossing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27611 |
Sonic screwdriver
The sonic screwdriver is a multifunctional fictional tool in the British science fiction television programme "Doctor Who" and its spin-offs, used by the Doctor. Like the TARDIS, it has become one of the icons of the programme, and spin-off media such as "The Sarah Jane Adventures" and "Torchwood" ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27612 |
Pasta
Pasta (, ; ) is a type of food typically made from an unleavened dough of wheat flour mixed with water or eggs, and formed into sheets or other shapes, then cooked by boiling or baking. Rice flour, or legumes such as beans or lentils, are sometimes used in place of wheat flour to yield a different taste and text... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23871 |
Polymerization
In polymer chemistry, polymerization (American English, or polymerisation (British English), is a process of reacting monomer molecules together in a chemical reaction to form polymer chains or three-dimensional networks. There are many forms of polymerization and different systems exist to categorize t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23872 |
Pat Cadigan
Pat Cadigan (born September 10, 1953) is an American science fiction author, whose work is most often identified with the cyberpunk movement. Her novels and short stories all share a common theme of exploring the relationship between the human mind and technology.
Cadigan was born in Schenectady, New York... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23873 |
Phoenix (TV series)
Phoenix is an Australian police drama television series. Phoenix screened as two thirteen-part series on Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1992 and 1993.
At the APRA Music Awards of 1993, the soundtrack won Television or Film Theme of the Year.
The first series of "Phoenix" in 1992 recounted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23875 |
Penguin
Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, with only one species, the Galápagos penguin, found north of the equator. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage and fli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23878 |
Psycho (1960 film)
Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by Joseph Stefano. It stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles, and Martin Balsam, and was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film centers on an enc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23880 |
Protocol stack
The protocol stack or network stack is an implementation of a computer networking protocol suite or protocol family. Some of these terms are used interchangeably but strictly speaking, the "suite" is the definition of the communication protocols, and the "stack" is the software implementation of them.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23882 |
Pilsner
Pilsner (also pilsener or simply pils) is a type of pale lager. It takes its name from the Czech city of Pilsen, where it was first produced in 1842 by Bavarian brewer Josef Groll. The world's first blond lager, the original Pilsner Urquell, is still produced there today.
The city of Pilsen began brewing in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23884 |
Phlogiston theory
The phlogiston theory is a superseded scientific theory that postulated that a fire-like element called phlogiston () is contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion. The name comes from the Ancient Greek φλογιστόν "phlogistón" ("burning up"), from φλόξ "phlóx" ("flame"). It was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23886 |
Poltergeist
In ghostlore, a poltergeist ( or ; German for "noisy ghost" or "noisy spirit") is a type of ghost or spirit that is responsible for physical disturbances, such as loud noises and objects being moved or destroyed. They are purportedly capable of pinching, biting, hitting, and tripping people. Most accounts ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23888 |
Pulley
A pulley is a wheel on an axle or shaft that is designed to support movement and change of direction of a taut cable or belt, or transfer of power between the shaft and cable or belt. In the case of a pulley supported by a frame or shell that does not transfer power to a shaft, but is used to guide the cable or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23889 |
Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty
The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, also known as the Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, or the Madrid Protocol, is part of the Antarctic Treaty System. It provides for comprehensive protection of the Antarctic environment and de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23890 |
Particle radiation
Particle radiation is the radiation of energy by means of fast-moving subatomic particles. Particle radiation is referred to as a particle beam if the particles are all moving in the same direction, similar to a light beam.
Due to the wave–particle duality, all moving particles also have wave chara... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23891 |
Partizan Press
Partizan Press is a publisher of military history, especially about the English Civil War. They are the publishing division of Caliver Books — which is based in Leigh-on-Sea and Newthorpe. They also published Valkyrie Quarterly magazine and distribute miniature figurines for wargaming and role-playing. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23896 |
Pastaza River
The Pastaza River (, formerly known as the Sumatara) is a large tributary to the Marañón River in the northwestern Amazon Basin of South America.
It has its headwaters in the Ecuadorian province of Cotapaxi, flowing off the northwestern slopes of the volcano Cotopaxi and known as the Patate River. The P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23899 |
Polytope compound
A polyhedral compound is a figure that is composed of several polyhedra sharing a common centre. They are the three-dimensional analogs of polygonal compounds such as the hexagram.
The outer vertices of a compound can be connected to form a convex polyhedron called the convex hull. The compound is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23901 |
Platonic solid
In three-dimensional space, a Platonic solid is a regular, convex polyhedron. It is constructed by congruent (identical in shape and size), regular (all angles equal and all sides equal), polygonal faces with the same number of faces meeting at each vertex. Five solids meet these criteria:
Geometers ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23905 |
Peterborough
Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 202,110 in 2017. Historically part of Northamptonshire, it is north of London, on the River Nene which flows into the North Sea to the north-east. The railway station is an important stop on the East Coast Main Line betwe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23906 |
Polyphemus
Polyphemus (; "Polyphēmos") is the one-eyed giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's "Odyssey". His name means "abounding in songs and legends". Polyphemus first appeared as a savage man-eating giant in the ninth book of the "Odyssey". The satyr play of E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23914 |
Portuguese language
Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a Western Romance language originating in the Iberian Peninsula. It is the sole official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe. It also has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23915 |
Paul Reubens
Paul Reubens (; né Rubenfeld; born August 27, 1952) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is best known for his character Pee-wee Herman. Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe The Groundlings in the 1970s, and started his career as an improvisational comedian and stage actor. In 1982, R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23916 |
Prismatoid
In geometry, a prismatoid is a polyhedron whose vertices all lie in two parallel planes. Its lateral faces can be trapezoids or triangles. If both planes have the same number of vertices, and the lateral faces are either parallelograms or trapezoids, it is called a prismoid.
If the areas of the two paralle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23917 |
Phantom kangaroo
A phantom kangaroo is a report of kangaroos, wallabies, or their accompanying footprints in areas where there is no native population. Some explanations put forth are escaped zoo or circus animals (as in the UK), or publicity stunts by local businesses using photographs from Australia. Others suggest ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23920 |
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the Ameri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23922 |
Passenger pigeon
The passenger pigeon or wild pigeon ("Ectopistes migratorius") is an extinct species of pigeon that was endemic to North America. Its common name is derived from the French word "passager", meaning "passing by", due to the migratory habits of the species. The scientific name also refers to its migrato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23924 |
PHP-Nuke
PHP-Nuke is a web-based automated news publishing and content management system based on PHP and MySQL originally written by Francisco Burzi. The system is controlled using a web-based user interface. PHP-Nuke was originally a fork of the Thatware news portal system by David Norman.
PHP-Nuke was originally r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23929 |
Palace
A palace is a grand residence, especially a royal residence, or the home of a head of state or some other high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop. The word is derived from the Latin name "palātium", for Palatine Hill in Rome which housed the Imperial residences. Most European languages have a ver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23931 |
Patrick White
Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was an Australian writer who published 12 novels, three short-story collections, and eight plays, from 1935 to 1987.
White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, shifting narrative vantage points and stream of consciousness techniques. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23932 |
Pope Martin IV
Pope Martin IV (; c. 1210/1220 – 6 March 1285), born Simon de Brion, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 22 February 1281 to his death. He was the last French pope to have held court in Rome; all subsequent French popes held court in Avignon (the Avignon Papacy).
Simo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23936 |
Perl
Perl is a family of two high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages. "Perl" refers to Perl 5, but from 2000 to 2019 it also referred to its redesigned "sister language", Perl 6, before the latter's name was officially changed to Raku in October 2019.
Though Perl is not officially an a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23939 |
Proto-Human language
The Proto-Human language (also Proto-Sapiens, Proto-World) is the hypothetical direct genetic predecessor of all the world's languages.
The concept is speculative and not amenable to analysis in historical linguistics. It presupposes a monogenetic origin of language, i.e. the derivation of all na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23940 |
Palestinian Christians
Palestinian Christians () are Christian citizens of the State of Palestine. In the wider definition of Palestinian Christians, including the Palestinian refugees, diaspora and people with full or partial Palestinian Christian ancestry this can be applied to an estimated 500,000 people worldwide ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23949 |
Pope Marinus II
Pope Marinus II (died May 946) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 30 October 942 to his death. He has also been mistakenly called Martinus. He ruled during the "Saeculum obscurum".
Marinus was born in Rome, and prior to becoming pope he was attached to the Church of Saint Cyriac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23957 |
Pope Marcellus I
Pope Marcellus I (6 January 255 – 16 January 309) was the bishop of Rome from May or June 308 to his death. He succeeded Marcellinus after a considerable interval. Under Maxentius, he was banished from Rome in 309, on account of the tumult caused by the severity of the penances he had imposed on Chris... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23958 |
Pope Marcellus II
Pope Marcellus II (6 May 1501 – 1 May 1555), born Marcello Cervini degli Spannochi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 April 1555 until his death 22 days later on 1 May 1555.
He succeeded Pope Julius III. Before his accession as pope he had been Cardinal-Priest of "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23959 |
Pope Miltiades
Pope Miltiades (, "Miltiádēs") or Melchiades was the bishop of Rome from 311 to his death on 10 or 11 January 314. It was during his pontificate that Emperor Constantine the Great issued the Edict of Milan (313), giving Christianity legal status within the Roman Empire. The pope also received the palace... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23960 |
Phylogenetics
In biology, phylogenetics (Greek: φυλή, φῦλον – "phylé", "phylon" = tribe, clan, race + γενετικός – "genetikós" = origin, source, birth) is a part of systematics that addresses the inference of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms (e.g. species, or more inclusive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23962 |
Phenetics
In biology, phenetics ( - to appear) , also known as taximetrics, is an attempt to classify organisms based on overall similarity, usually in morphology or other observable traits, regardless of their phylogeny or evolutionary relation. It is closely related to numerical taxonomy which is concerned with the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23963 |
PlayStation (console)
The PlayStation (officially abbreviated as PS and commonly known as the PS1 or its codename PSX) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was first released on 3 December 1994 in Japan, on 9 September 1995 in North America, on 29 September 1995 in Eur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23964 |
PDP-1
The PDP-1 ("Programmed Data Processor-1") is the first computer in Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP series and was first produced in 1959. It is famous for being the computer most important in the creation of hacker culture at MIT, BBN and elsewhere. The PDP-1 is the original hardware for playing history's fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23965 |
PCR (disambiguation)
PCR, or polymerase chain reaction is a biochemical technology in molecular biology.
PCR may also refer to: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23968 |
Pilus
A pilus (Latin for 'hair'; plural: "pili") is a hair-like appendage found on the surface of many bacteria and archaea. The terms "pilus" and "fimbria" (Latin for 'fringe'; plural: "fimbriae") can be used interchangeably, although some researchers reserve the term "pilus" for the appendage required for bacterial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23971 |
Porsche 928
The Porsche 928 is a luxury grand tourer produced by Porsche AG of Germany from 1978 to 1995. Originally intended to replace the company's iconic 911, the 928 combined the power, poise, and handling of a sports car with the refinement, comfort, and equipment of a luxury sedan. Porsche executives believed s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23972 |
Plasmid
A plasmid is a small, extrachromosomal DNA molecule within a cell that is physically separated from chromosomal DNA and can replicate independently. They are most commonly found as small circular, double-stranded DNA molecules in bacteria; however, plasmids are sometimes present in archaea and eukaryotic organ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23974 |
Parallelepiped
In geometry, a parallelepiped, parallelopiped or parallelopipedon is a three-dimensional figure formed by six parallelograms (the term "rhomboid" is also sometimes used with this meaning). By analogy, it relates to a parallelogram just as a cube relates to a square. In Euclidean geometry, the four conce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23975 |
Plant cell
Plant cells are eukaryotic cells present in green plants, photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Their distinctive features include primary cell walls containing cellulose, hemicelluloses and pectin, the presence of plastids with the capability to perform photosynthesis and store starch, a large ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23977 |
Polysaccharide
Polysaccharides () are long chains of carbohydrate molecules, specifically polymeric carbohydrates composed of monosaccharide units bound together by glycosidic linkages. This carbohydrate can react with water (hydrolysis) using amylase enzymes at catalyst, which produces constituent sugars (monosacchar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23978 |
Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (; , "Klaúdios Ptolemaîos" ; ; ) was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, geographer and astrologer. He lived in the city of Alexandria in the Roman province of Egypt under the rule of the Roman Empire, had a Latin name (which several historians have taken to imply he was also a Roman citizen), ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23979 |
Pyxis
Pyxis is a small and faint constellation in the southern sky. Abbreviated from Pyxis Nautica, its name is Latin for a mariner's compass (contrasting with Circinus, which represents a draftsman's compasses). Pyxis was introduced by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in the 18th century, and is counted among the 88 modern ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23984 |
Parasitic computing
Parasitic computing is programming technique where a program in normal authorized interactions with another program manages to get the other program to perform computations of a complex nature. It is, in a sense, a security exploit in that the program implementing the parasitic computing has no aut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23985 |
Pegasus
Pegasus (, "Pḗgasos"; ) is a mythical winged divine horse, and one of the most recognized creatures in Greek mythology. Usually depicted as pure white, Pegasus is the offspring of the Olympian god Poseidon. He was foaled by the Gorgon Medusa upon her death, when the hero Perseus decapitated her. Pegasus is the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23986 |
Party-list proportional representation
Party-list proportional representation systems are a family of voting systems emphasizing proportional representation in elections in which multiple candidates are elected (e.g., elections to parliament) through allocations to an electoral list. They can also be used as part of m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23987 |
Piscis Austrinus
Piscis Austrinus is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere. The name is Latin for "the southern fish", in contrast with the larger constellation Pisces, which represents a pair of fishes. Prior to the 20th century, it was also known as Piscis Notius. Its only star brighter than 4th magni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23992 |
Ptolemaic dynasty
The Ptolemaic dynasty (; , "Ptolemaioi"), sometimes also known as the Lagids () or Lagidae (; , "Lagidai", after Lagus, Ptolemy I's father), was a Macedonian Greek royal family, which ruled the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt during the Hellenistic period. Their rule lasted for 275 years, from 305 to 30 B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23994 |
Party
A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration of a special occasion. A party will typically feature food and beverages, and often music and dancing or other forms of entertainment. In man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23995 |
Political party
A political party is an organized group of people who have the same ideology, or who otherwise have the same political positions, and who field candidates for elections, in an attempt to get them elected and thereby implement the party's agenda. They are a defining element of representative democracy.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23996 |
Slide guitar
Slide guitar is a particular technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues-style music. The technique involves placing an object against the strings while playing to create glissando effects and deep vibratos. It typically involves playing the guitar in the traditional position (flat agains... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27614 |
Steel guitar
A steel guitar is any type of guitar that is played by pressing and moving a hard object against the strings that allows the player to make an infinite smooth glissando or deep vibrato that is not possible with the fingers alone. The hard object was historically called a "steel" and this is the origin of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27615 |
Sunspot
Sunspots are temporary phenomena on the Sun's photosphere that appear as spots darker than the surrounding areas. They are regions of reduced surface temperature caused by concentrations of magnetic field flux that inhibit convection. Sunspots usually appear in pairs of opposite magnetic polarity. Their number... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27616 |
Sicily
Sicily ( ; ) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 20 regions of Italy. It is one of the five Italian autonomous regions and is officially referred to as "Regione Siciliana". It has 5 million inhabitants.
Sicily is located in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27619 |
Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was an American social psychologist, best known for his controversial experiment on obedience conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale.
Milgram was influenced by the events of the Holocaust, especially the trial of Adolf Eichmann, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27628 |
Senegal River
The Senegal River (, ) is a long river in West Africa that forms the border between Senegal and Mauritania. It has a drainage basin of 270,000 km2, a mean flow of 680 m3/s, and an annual discharge of 21.5 km3. Important tributaries are the Falémé River, Karakoro River, and the Gorgol River. The river div... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27629 |
Subset
In mathematics, a set "A" is a subset of a set "B", or equivalently "B" is a superset of "A", if "A" is contained in "B". That is, all elements of "A" are also elements of "B". "A" and "B" may be equal; if they are unequal, then "A" is a proper subset of "B". The relationship of one set being a subset of anothe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27631 |
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury. It consists of a ring of standing stones, each around high, wide, and weighing around 25 tons. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, includin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27633 |
Sima Qian
Sima Qian (; ; c. 145 – c. 86 BC) was a Chinese historian of the early Han dynasty (206AD220). He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for his "Records of the Grand Historian", a general history of China in the "Jizhuanti" style (紀傳體) covering more than two thousand years beginning from the ris... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27636 |
Structural geology
Structural geology is the study of the three-dimensional distribution of rock units with respect to their deformational histories. The primary goal of structural geology is to use measurements of present-day rock geometries to uncover information about the history of deformation (strain) in the rock... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27637 |
Spermatozoon
A spermatozoon (pronounced , alternate spelling spermatozoön; plural spermatozoa; from ("seed") and ("living being")) is a motile sperm cell, or moving form of the haploid cell that is the male gamete. A spermatozoon joins an ovum to form a zygote. (A zygote is a single cell, with a complete set of chromo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27638 |
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. A resident of Paris for most of his adult life, he wrote in both French and English.
Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragi-comic outlook on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27640 |
Sam Peckinpah
David Samuel Peckinpah (; February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984) was an American film director and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of the Western epic "The Wild Bunch" (1969). He was known for the visually innovative and explicit depiction of action and violence as well as his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27641 |
Shanghai
Shanghai (, , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four municipalities of the People's Republic of China. It is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze, with the Huangpu River flowing through it. With a population of 24.28 million , it is the most populous urban area in China and the second... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27643 |
Sinai Peninsula
The Sinai Peninsula or simply Sinai (now usually , also and ) is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia. It is situated between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south, and is a land bridge between Asia and Africa. Sinai has a land area of about (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27644 |
Spy fiction
Spy fiction, a genre of literature involving espionage as an important context or plot device, emerged in the early twentieth century, inspired by rivalries and intrigues between the major powers, and the establishment of modern intelligence agencies. It was given new impetus by the development of fascism ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27646 |
Star height problem
The star height problem in formal language theory is the question whether all regular languages can be expressed using regular expressions of limited star height, i.e. with a limited nesting depth of Kleene stars. Specifically, is a nesting depth of one always sufficient? If not, is there an algori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27647 |
William Crookes
Sir William Crookes (; 17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry in London, and worked on spectroscopy. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube which was made in 1875. This was a foundational discovery that eventual... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27648 |
Sonny Bono
Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono (; February 16, 1935 – January 5, 1998) was an American singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and politician who came to fame in partnership with his second wife Cher as the popular singing duo Sonny & Cher. He was mayor of Palm Springs, California from 1988 to 1992, and the Rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27655 |
Special administrative regions of China
The special administrative regions (SAR) are one type of provincial-level administrative divisions of China directly under Central People's Government. They possess the highest degree of autonomy.
The legal basis for the establishment of SARs, unlike the administrative division... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27658 |
Seattle Mariners
The Seattle Mariners are an American professional baseball team based in Seattle, Washington. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division. The team joined the American League as an expansion team in 1977 playing their home games in the Kingdom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27660 |
Source code
In computing, source code is any collection of code, possibly with comments, written using a "human-readable" programming language, usually as plain text. The source code of a program is specially designed to facilitate the work of computer programmers, who specify the actions to be performed by a computer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27661 |
Space
Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless four-dimensional continuum known as spacetime. The c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27667 |
Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela (or Saint James of Compostella in English) is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination of the Way of St. James,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27670 |
Sailing
Sailing
employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the "water" (sailing ship, sailboat, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on "ice" (iceboat) or on "land" (land yacht) over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation.
A course defined with respec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27672 |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a communication protocol for electronic mail transmission. As an Internet standard, SMTP was first defined in 1982 by , and updated in 2008 by to Extended SMTP additions, which is the protocol variety in widespread use today. Mail servers and ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27675 |
Soldering iron
A soldering iron is a hand tool used in soldering. It supplies heat to melt solder so that it can flow into the joint between two workpieces.
A soldering iron is composed of a heated metal tip and an insulated handle. Heating is often achieved electrically, by passing an electric current (supplied thro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27679 |
Supernova
A supernova ( plural: supernovae or supernovas, abbreviations: SN and SNe) is a powerful and luminous stellar explosion. This transient astronomical event occurs during the last evolutionary stages of a massive star or when a white dwarf is triggered into runaway nuclear fusion. The original object, called t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27680 |
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (; ; 27 April [O.S. 15 April] 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27681 |
Satellite
In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object that has been intentionally placed into orbit. These objects are called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as Earth's Moon.
On 4 October 1957 the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27683 |
Steampunk
Steampunk is a retrofuturistic subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. Although its literary origins are sometimes associated with the cyberpunk genre, steampunk works are often set in an al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27684 |
Spreadsheet
A spreadsheet is a computer application for organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form. Spreadsheets were developed as computerized analogs of paper accounting worksheets. The program operates on data entered in cells of a table. Each cell may contain either numeric or text data, or the res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27686 |
St. Louis
St. Louis () is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri, on the western bank of the Mississippi River, which forms the state line between Illinois and Missouri. The Missouri River merges with the Mississippi River 15 river miles north of Downtown St. Louis, forming the fourth-longest river system in the world. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27687 |
Social security
Social Security is "any government system that provides monetary assistance to people with an inadequate or no income". In the United States, this is usually called welfare or a social safety net, especially when talking about Canada and European countries.
Social security is asserted in Article 22 of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27691 |
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