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Segmentation fault
In computing, a segmentation fault (often shortened to segfault) or access violation is a fault, or failure condition, raised by hardware with memory protection, notifying an operating system (OS) the software has attempted to access a restricted area of memory (a memory access violation). On standa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28803 |
Signal separation
Source separation, blind signal separation (BSS) or blind source separation, is the separation of a set of source signals from a set of mixed signals, without the aid of information (or with very little information) about the source signals or the mixing process. It is most commonly applied in digita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28804 |
Stephen Cole Kleene
Stephen Cole Kleene ( ; January 5, 1909 – January 25, 1994) was an American mathematician. One of the students of Alonzo Church, Kleene, along with Rózsa Péter, Alan Turing, Emil Post, and others, is best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory, which subseq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28805 |
Shabbat
Shabbat ( or ; , "rest" or "cessation"), Shabbos (, Ashkenazi Hebrew and ), or the Sabbath, is Judaism's day of rest and seventh day of the week. On this day, religious Jews, Samaritans and certain Christians (such as Seventh-day Adventists, the Church of God (Seventh-Day) and Seventh Day Baptists) remember th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28809 |
Saki
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars as a master of the sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28810 |
Static program analysis
Static program analysis is the analysis of computer software that is performed without actually executing programs, in contrast with dynamic analysis, which is analysis performed on programs while they are executing. In most cases the analysis is performed on some version of the source code, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28811 |
Samuel Mudd
Samuel Alexander Mudd Sr. (December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883) was an American physician who was imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
Mudd worked as a doctor and tobacco farmer in Southern Maryland. The Civil War seriously damaged his busine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28812 |
Secure Shell
Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network. Typical applications include remote command-line, login, and remote command execution, but any network service can be secured with SSH.
SSH provides a secure channel over an unsecured... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28814 |
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead
"Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" is a catchphrase that originated in 1975 during the first season of "NBC's Saturday Night" (now called "Saturday Night Live", or "SNL") and which mocked the weeks-long media reports of the impending death of Francisco Franco. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28819 |
Sex worker
A sex worker is a person who is employed in the sex industry. The term is used in reference to all those in all areas of the sex industry, including those who provide direct sexual services as well as the staff and management of such industries. Some sex workers are paid to engage in sex acts or sexually ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28822 |
Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé ( , ; 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), pen name of Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28824 |
Submarine
A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability. It is also sometimes used historically or colloquially to refer to remotely operated vehicles and robots, as well as medium-sized or smaller vessels, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28825 |
Second Epistle to the Thessalonians
The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, commonly referred to as Second Thessalonians or 2 Thessalonians is a book from the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is traditionally attributed to Paul the Apostle, with Timothy as a co-author. Modern biblical scholarship is divided o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28827 |
Poetry slam
A poetry slam is a competition arts event, in which poets perform spoken word poetry before a live audience and a panel of judges. Culturally, poetry slams are a break with the past image of poetry as an elitist or rigid art form. While formats can vary, slams are often loud and lively, with audience parti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28828 |
Sestina
A sestina (Italian: "sestina", from "sesto", sixth; Old Occitan: "cledisat" ; also known as "sestine", "sextine", "sextain") is a fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi. The words that end each line of the first stanza are used as line endings in e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28829 |
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English: "Sir Gawayn and þe Grene Knyȝt") is a late 14th-century Middle English chivalric romance. It is one of the best known Arthurian stories, with its plot combining two types of folk motifs, the beheading game and the exchange of winnings. Wr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28833 |
Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood
Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood ("SI") (;) born 1940; is a Pakistani nuclear engineer and a scholar of Islamic studies. He was the subject of a criminal investigation launched by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) over unauthorized travel in Afghanistan prior to the September 11 attacks in 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28834 |
Siege tower
A siege tower or breaching tower (or in the Middle Ages, a belfry) is a specialized siege engine, constructed to protect assailants and ladders while approaching the defensive walls of a fortification. The tower was often rectangular with four wheels with its height roughly equal to that of the wall or som... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28837 |
Sharia
Sharia (, ), Islamic law, or redundantly Sharia law is a religious law forming part of the Islamic tradition. It is derived from the religious precepts of Islam, particularly the Quran and the hadith. In Arabic, the term "sharīʿah" refers to God's immutable divine law and is contrasted with "fiqh", which refers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28840 |
Sunnah
Sunnah (, , plural ), also sunna or sunnat, is the Arabic word for traditional customs and practices; in the Islamic community it refers to the traditions and practices of the Prophet Muhammad, that constitute a model for Muslims to follow. According to classical Islamic theories of Sunnah they are documented b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28841 |
Safe sex
Safe sex is sexual activity using methods or devices (such as condoms) to reduce the risk of transmitting or acquiring sexually transmitted infections (STIs), especially HIV. "Safe sex" is also sometimes referred to as safer sex or protected sex to indicate that some safe sex practices do not completely elimi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28845 |
Scabies
Scabies, also known as the seven-year itch, is a contagious skin infestation by the mite "Sarcoptes scabiei". The most common symptoms are severe itchiness and a pimple-like rash. Occasionally, tiny burrows may be seen in the skin. In a first-ever infection a person will usually develop symptoms in between two... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28848 |
Shiva
Shiva (; , ISO: , ), also known as Mahadeva (), is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. He is the supreme being within Shaivism, one of the major traditions within contemporary Hinduism.
Shiva is known as "The Destroyer" within the Trimurti, the Hindu trinity that includes Brahma and Vishnu. In Shaivism tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28849 |
Syphilis
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium "Treponema pallidum" subspecies "pallidum". The signs and symptoms of syphilis vary depending in which of the four stages it presents (primary, secondary, latent, and tertiary). The primary stage classically presents with a single chancre (a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28852 |
Smiling Buddha
Smiling Buddha (MEA designation: Pokhran-I) was the assigned code name of India's first successful nuclear bomb test on 18 May 1974. The bomb was detonated on the Pokhran Test Range (PTR), in Rajasthan, by the Indian Army under the supervision of several key .
"Pokhran-I" was also the first confirmed n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28853 |
Shea Stadium
Shea Stadium (; formally known as William A. Shea Municipal Stadium) was a stadium in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, New York City. Built as a multi-purpose stadium, it was the home park of Major League Baseball's New York Mets for 45 seasons as well as the New York Jets football team from 1964 to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28855 |
Signal transduction
Signal transduction is the process by which a chemical or physical signal is transmitted through a cell as a series of molecular events, most commonly protein phosphorylation catalyzed by protein kinases, which ultimately results in a cellular response. Proteins responsible for detecting stimuli ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28857 |
Stone–Weierstrass theorem
In mathematical analysis, the Weierstrass approximation theorem states that every continuous function defined on a closed interval can be uniformly approximated as closely as desired by a polynomial function. Because polynomials are among the simplest functions, and because computers can dire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28858 |
Serengeti
The Serengeti ( ) ecosystem is a geographical region in Africa, spanning northern Tanzania. The protected area within the region includes approximately of land, including the Serengeti National Park and several game reserves. The Serengeti hosts the second largest terrestrial mammal migration in the world, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28861 |
Saint John, New Brunswick
Saint John is a seaport city of the Atlantic Ocean located on the Bay of Fundy in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. Saint John is the oldest incorporated city in Canada, established by royal charter on May 18, 1785, during the reign of King George III. The port is Canada's third largest ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28866 |
Sigyn
In Norse mythology, Sigyn (Old Norse "victorious girl-friend") is a goddess and is the wife of Loki. Sigyn is attested in the "Poetic Edda", compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the "Prose Edda", written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In the "Poetic Edda", little informati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28867 |
Solidarity (Polish trade union)
Solidarity (, ; full name: Independent Self-governing Trade Union "Solidarity"—"Niezależny Samorządny Związek Zawodowy "Solidarność"" ) is a trade union founded in August–September 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland. Subsequently, it was the first independent union in a Warsaw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28869 |
Surtsey
Surtsey ("Surtr's island" in Icelandic, ) is a volcanic island located in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago off the southern coast of Iceland. At , Surtsey is the southernmost point of Iceland. It was formed in a volcanic eruption which began below sea level, and reached the surface on 14 November 1963. The erupt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28876 |
Software Engineering Body of Knowledge
The Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) is an international standard ISO/IEC TR 19759:2005 specifying a guide to the generally accepted Software Engineering Body of Knowledge.
The Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK Guide) has been created thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28878 |
Scottish National Party
The Scottish National Party (SNP; , ) is a Scottish nationalist, social-democratic political party in Scotland. The SNP supports and campaigns for Scottish independence within the European Union, with a platform based on civic nationalism. The SNP is the third-largest political party by members... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28887 |
Snowy Mountains
The Snowy Mountains, known informally as "The Snowies", is an IBRA subregion and the highest mountain range on the continent of mainland Australia. It contains the Australian mainland's highest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko, which reaches to a height of above sea level. The range also contains the five hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28891 |
Skara Brae
Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. Consisting of eight clustered houses, it was occupied from roughly 3180 BC to about 2500 BC and is Europe's most complete Neolithic village.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28892 |
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is a sermon written by British Colonial Christian theologian Jonathan Edwards, preached to his own congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts, to unknown effect, and again on July 8, 1741 in Enfield, Connecticut. Like Edwards' other works, it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28893 |
Scottish Highlands
The Highlands (; , 'the place of the Gaels') is a historic region of Scotland. Culturally, the Highlands and the Lowlands diverged from the later Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands. The term is also used for the area north ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28894 |
Scotch whisky
Scotch whisky (; often simply called whisky or Scotch) is malt whisky or grain whisky (or a blend of the two), made in Scotland. Scotch whisky must be made in a manner specified by law. As of 2018, there were 133 Scotch whisky distilleries operating in Scotland.
All Scotch whisky was originally made fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28896 |
Special drawing rights
Special drawing rights (SDRs) are supplementary foreign exchange reserve assets defined and maintained by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). SDRs are units of account for the IMF, and not a currency "per se". They represent a claim to currency held by IMF member countries for which they may ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28897 |
Special Operations Executive
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British World War II organisation. It was officially formed on 22 July 1940 under Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton, from the amalgamation of three existing secret organisations. Its purpose was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28898 |
System request
System request (often abbreviated SysRq or Sys Req) is a key on personal computer keyboards that has no standard use. Introduced by IBM with the PC/AT, it was intended to be available as a special key to directly invoke low-level operating system functions with no possibility of conflicting with any exi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28899 |
Split infinitive
In the English language, a split infinitive or cleft infinitive is a grammatical construction in which a word or phrase comes between the "to" and the bare infinitive of the "to" form of the infinitive verb. Usually, an adverb or an adverbial phrase comes between them. The opening sequence of the "Sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28900 |
Samurai
In Japanese, they are usually referred to as , meaning 'warrior', or . According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning 'to wait upon', 'accompany persons' in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, "saburau". I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28288 |
Slackware
Slackware is a Linux distribution created by Patrick Volkerding in 1993. Originally based on Softlanding Linux System, Slackware has been the basis for many other Linux distributions, most notably the first versions of SUSE Linux distributions, and is the oldest distribution that is still maintained.
Slackw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28290 |
Short story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood.
The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28296 |
Soul
The soul, in many religious, philosophical, and mythological traditions, is the incorporeal essence of a living being. Soul or psyche (Ancient Greek: ψυχή "psykhḗ", of ψύχειν "psýkhein", "to breathe") comprises the mental abilities of a living being: reason, character, feeling, consciousness, memory, perception, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28297 |
Steradian
The steradian (symbol: sr) or square radian is the SI unit of solid angle. It is used in three-dimensional geometry, and is analogous to the radian, which quantifies planar angles. Whereas an angle in radians, projected onto a circle, gives a "length" on the circumference, a solid angle in steradians, projec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28299 |
String theory
In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. It describes how these strings propagate through space and interact with each other. On distance scales larger than the string scale, a string... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28305 |
Sin
In a religious context, sin is a transgression against divine law. Each culture has its own interpretation of what it means to commit a sin. While sins are generally actions, any thought, word, or act considered immoral, selfish, shameful, harmful, or alienating might be termed "sinful".
The word derives from "Ol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28307 |
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth was an American rock band based in New York City, formed in 1981. Founding members Thurston Moore (guitar, vocals), Kim Gordon (bass, vocals, guitar) and Lee Ranaldo (guitar, vocals) remained together for the entire history of the band, while Steve Shelley (drums) followed a series of short-ter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28309 |
SCSI
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI, ) is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices. The SCSI standards define commands, protocols, electrical, optical and logical interfaces. SCSI is most commonly used for hard disk drives and tape drives, but i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28313 |
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), also known as the Super NES or Super Nintendo, is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Australasia (Oceania), and 1993 in S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28314 |
Smalltalk
Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed reflective programming language. Smalltalk was created as the language underpinning the "new world" of computing exemplified by "human–computer symbiosis". It was designed and created in part for educational use, specifically for constructionist learning, at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28319 |
Steve Biko
Bantu Stephen Biko (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. His id... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28320 |
Survivor: Africa
Survivor: Africa is the third season of the American CBS competitive reality television series "Survivor". The season was filmed from July 11, 2001 through August 18, 2001 in Kenya's Shaba National Reserve on the African continent, and aired weekly from October 11, 2001 until the live finale on Januar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28322 |
Samhain
Samhain (; ) is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year. Traditionally, it is celebrated from 31 October to 1 November, as the Celtic day began and ended at sunset. This is about halfway between the autumn equinox and the winter solst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28323 |
Stargate (film)
Stargate is a 1994 science fiction adventure film released through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Carolco Pictures. Written by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, the film is the first release in the "Stargate" franchise. Directed by Emmerich, the film stars Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Alexi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28327 |
Solomon
Solomon (; , "Shlomoh)," also called Jedidiah (Hebrew "Yedidyah"), was, according to the Hebrew Bible, Old Testament, Quran, and Hadiths, a fabulously wealthy and wise king of the United Kingdom of Israel who succeeded his father, King David. The conventional dates of Solomon's reign are about 970 to 931 BCE, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28329 |
Saul
Saul (; – "Šāʾūl", , meaning "asked for, prayed for"), according to the Hebrew Bible, was the first king of the United Kingdom of Israel (Israel and Judah). His reign, traditionally placed in the late 11th century BC, supposedly marked a transition from a tribal society to statehood.
Saul's life and reign are de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28330 |
Samaria
Samaria (; , Standard ', Tiberian "Šōmərôn"; , ' – also known as "", "Nablus Mountains") is a historical and biblical name used for the central region of the ancient Land of Israel, bordered by Galilee to the north and Judaea to the south. For the beginning of the Common Era, Josephus set the Mediterranean Sea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28333 |
Sennacherib
Sennacherib (Assyrian: "Sîn-ahhī-erība" or "Sîn-aḥḥē-erība", meaning "Sîn has replaced the brothers") was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father Sargon II in 705BC to his own death in 681BC. The second king of the Sargonid dynasty, Sennacherib is among the most famous of all Assyr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28334 |
Saaremaa
Saaremaa ( , ; German and ) is the largest island in Estonia, measuring . The main island of Saare County, it is located in the Baltic Sea, south of Hiiumaa island and west of Muhu island, and belongs to the West Estonian Archipelago. The capital of the island is Kuressaare, which in January 2018 had 13,276 i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28338 |
Single-shot
Single-shot firearms are firearms that hold only a single round of ammunition, and must be reloaded after each shot. The history of firearms began with single-shot designs, and many centuries passed before multi-shot repeater designs became commonplace. Single-shot designs are less complex than revolvers o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28340 |
Simon the Sorcerer
Simon the Sorcerer is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Adventure Soft in 1993 for Amiga and MS-DOS formats. The first instalment in the "Simon the Sorcerer" series, the game follows a boy named Simon, who is transported to a parallel universe to embark on a mission to resc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28341 |
South African Republic
The South African Republic (; the ZAR; also known as the Transvaal Republic) was an independent and internationally recognised state located in what is now South Africa, from 1852 to 1902.
The republic defeated the British Empire in what is often referred to as the First Boer War and remained i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28343 |
Sling (weapon)
A sling is a projectile weapon typically used to throw a blunt projectile such as a stone, clay, or lead "sling-bullet". It is also known as the shepherd's sling. Someone who specialises in using slings is called a slinger.
A sling has a small cradle or "pouch" in the middle of two lengths of cord. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28347 |
Stock car racing
Stock car racing is a form of automobile racing found mainly and most prominently in the United States and Canada, with New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Great Britain and Brazil also having forms of stock car auto racing. Traditionally, races are run on oval tracks measuring approximately . The world's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28349 |
Sociology of religion
Sociology of religion is the study of the beliefs, practices and organizational forms of religion using the tools and methods of the discipline of sociology. This objective investigation may include the use of both quantitative methods (surveys, polls, demographic and census analysis) and qualita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28352 |
Samuel
Samuel is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the period of the biblical judges to the institution of a kingdom under Saul, and again in the transition from Saul to David. He is venerated as a prophet by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. In addition to his r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28354 |
Square (video game company)
Square originated in October 1983 as a computer game software division of Den-Yu-Sha, a power line construction company owned by the father of Masafumi Miyamoto, the eventual founder of Square Co Ltd in 1986. While at the time game development was usually conducted by only one programmer, M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28355 |
Symplectic manifold
In differential geometry, a subject of mathematics, a symplectic manifold is a smooth manifold, formula_1, equipped with a closed nondegenerate differential 2-form formula_2, called the symplectic form. The study of symplectic manifolds is called symplectic geometry or symplectic topology. Symplect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28356 |
Sid James
Sidney James (born Solomon Joel Cohen; 8 May 1913 – 26 April 1976) was a British character and comic actor born into a Jewish family in South Africa.
Appearing in British films from 1947, he was cast in numerous small and supporting roles into the 1950s. In 1951 he starred alongside Alec Guinness in "The La... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28360 |
Freight transport
Freight transport is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo. The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea but in American English, it has been extended to refer to transport by land or air (International English: "carriage") as well. "Logistics",... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28362 |
Sidon
Sidon, known locally as Sayda or Saida (), is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located in the South Governorate, of which it is the capital, on the Mediterranean coast. Tyre to the south and Lebanese capital Beirut to the north are both about away. Sidon has a population of about 80,000 within city limit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28366 |
Spam (food)
Spam (stylized as SPAM) is a brand of canned cooked pork made by Hormel Foods Corporation. It was introduced by Hormel in 1937 and gained popularity worldwide after its use during World War II. By 2003, Spam was sold in 41 countries on six continents and trademarked in over 100 countries (excluding Middle ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28367 |
Spamming
Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send an unsolicited message (spam) to large numbers of recipients for the purpose of commercial advertising, for the purpose of non-commercial proselytizing, or for any prohibited purpose (especially the fraudulent purpose of phishing). While the most widely recogni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28368 |
Siddur
A siddur ( ; plural siddurim , ) is a Jewish prayer book, containing a set order of daily prayers. The word "siddur" comes from the Hebrew root meaning "order".
The earliest parts of Jewish prayer book are the "Shema Yisrael" ("Hear O Israel") (Deuteronomy 6:4 "et seq"), and the Priestly Blessing (Numbers 6:24... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28370 |
Santorini
Santorini (, ), officially Thira (Greek: Θήρα ) and classic Greek Thera (English pronunciation ), is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast of Greece's mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago, which bears the same name and is the remnant of a volcani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28377 |
Sandler O'Neill and Partners
Sandler O'Neill + Partners, L.P., (Sandler O'Neill) was a full-service investment banking firm and broker-dealer specializing in the financial services sector. It was headquartered in New York City, and had offices in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta. The firm also operated a mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28379 |
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (, tr. ; 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films "Strike" (1925), "Battleship Potemkin" (1925) and "" (1928), as well as the historical epics "Alexand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28380 |
Poincaré conjecture
In mathematics, the Poincaré conjecture (, , ) is a theorem about the characterization of the 3-sphere, which is the hypersphere that bounds the unit ball in four-dimensional space.
The conjecture states: An equivalent form of the conjecture involves a coarser form of equivalence than homeomorphis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23798 |
Power set
In mathematics, the power set (or powerset) of any set is the set of all subsets of , including the empty set and itself, variously denoted as (), 𝒫(), ℘() (using the "Weierstrass p"), , , or, identifying the powerset of with the set of all functions from to a given set of two elements, . In axiomatic set t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23799 |
Procedural programming
Procedural programming is a programming paradigm, derived from structured programming, based on the concept of the "procedure call". Procedures, also known as routines, subroutines, or functions, simply contain a series of computational steps to be carried out. Any given procedure might be calle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23801 |
Pareto index
In economics the Pareto index, named after the Italian economist and sociologist Vilfredo Pareto, is a measure of the breadth of income or wealth distribution. It is one of the parameters specifying a Pareto distribution and embodies the Pareto principle. As applied to income, the Pareto principle is some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23802 |
Pope Leo III
Pope Leo III (; 12 June 816) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 26 December 795 to his death. Protected by Charlemagne from the supporters of his predecessor, Adrian I, Leo subsequently strengthened Charlemagne's position by crowning him emperor. The coronation was not approved in C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23803 |
Pope Adrian I
Pope Adrian I (; died 25 December 795) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 1 February 772 to his death. He was the son of Theodore, a Roman nobleman.
Adrian and his predecessors had to contend with periodic attempts by the Lombards to expand their holdings in Italy at the expense o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23804 |
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II (; ; ; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 to 2005. He was elected pope by the second papal conclave of 1978, which was called after Pope John Paul I, who had been elected in August ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23805 |
Patanjali
Amongst the more important authors called Patañjali are:
Patanjali continues to be honoured with invocations and shrines in some forms of modern postural yoga, such as Iyengar Yoga and Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga.
According to Monier Monier-Williams, the word "Patañjali" is a compound name from "patta" (Sanskrit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23806 |
Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII (; ; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, ; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 to his death in 1963; he was canonized on 27 April 2014. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was one of thirteen children born to a family... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23807 |
Pope Pius XII
Pope Pius XII (), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (; 2 March 18769 October 1958), was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 to 1958 when he died. Before his election to the papacy, he served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Eccle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23808 |
Pope Agatho
Pope Agatho (died January 681) served as the bishop of Rome from 27 June 678 until his death. He heard the appeal of Wilfrid of York, who had been displaced from his See by the division of the Archdiocese ordered by Theodore of Canterbury. During Agatho's tenure, the Sixth Ecumenical Council was convened w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23811 |
Pope Joan
Pope Joan ("Ioannes Anglicus"; 855–857) was, according to legend, a woman who reigned as pope for a few years during the Middle Ages. Her story first appeared in chronicles in the 13th century and subsequently spread throughout Europe. The story was widely believed for centuries, but most modern scholars reg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23815 |
Prospero Alpini
Prospero Alpini (also known as Prosper Alpinus, Prospero Alpinio and Latinized as Prosperus Alpinus) (23 November 15536 February 1617) was a Venetian physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23819 |
Prague Spring
The Prague Spring (, ) was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in
Czechoslovakia as a Communist state after World War II. It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), and continued until 21 Augus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23821 |
Princetown
Princetown is a village in the Dartmoor national park in the English county of Devon. It is the principal settlement of the civil parish of Dartmoor Forest.
The village has its origins in 1785, when Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, Secretary to the Prince of Wales, leased a large area of moorland from the Duchy of Cor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23823 |
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL (), also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance. It was originally named POSTGRES, referring to its origins as a successor to the Ingres database developed at the University of California, Berkeley. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23824 |
Pope Agapetus II
Pope Agapetus II (died 8 November 955) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 10 May 946 to his death. A nominee of the princeps of Rome, Alberic II of Spoleto, his pontificate occurred during the period known as the "Saeculum obscurum".
Agapetus was born to a Roman father (a desce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23827 |
Pope Adrian IV
Pope Adrian IV (; born Nicholas Breakspear (or Brekespear); 1 September 1159, also Hadrian IV), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 4 December 1154 to his death in 1159. Born in Hertfordshire, England, his father may have been a clerk and a monk called Robert, but his moth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23828 |
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