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Rail transport modelling
Railway modelling (UK, Australia and Ireland) or model railroading (US and Canada) is a hobby in which rail transport systems are modelled at a reduced scale.
The scale models include locomotives, rolling stock, streetcars, tracks, signalling and landscapes including: countryside, roads, brid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20542 |
Morphophonology
Morphophonology (also morphophonemics or morphonology) is the branch of linguistics that studies the interaction between morphological and phonological or phonetic processes. Its chief focus is the sound changes that take place in morphemes (minimal meaningful units) when they combine to form words.
M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20544 |
Mirror
A mirror or reflector is an object such that each narrow beam of light that incides on its surface bounces (is reflected) in a single direction. This property, called specular reflection, distinguishes a mirror from objects that scatter light in many directions (such as flat-white paint), let it pass through th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20545 |
Mindanao
Mindanao (), also commonly known as Southern Philippines, is the second-largest island in the Philippines. Mindanao and the smaller islands surrounding it make up the island group of the same name. Located in the southern region of the archipelago, as of the 2010 census, the main island was inhabited by 20,28... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20546 |
Moveable feast
A moveable feast or movable feast is an observance in a Christian liturgical calendar that occurs on a different date (relative to the dominant civil or solar calendar) in different years.
The most important set of moveable feasts are a fixed number of days before or after Easter Sunday, which varies ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20547 |
Mark McGwire
Mark David McGwire (born October 1, 1963), nicknamed Big Mac, is an American former professional baseball first baseman. His Major League Baseball (MLB) playing career spanned from 1986 to 2001 while playing for the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals, winning one World Series championship each ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20548 |
Manufacturing Consent
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is a 1988 book by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, in which the authors propose that the mass communication media of the U.S. "are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda functio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20549 |
Maeshowe
Maeshowe (or Maes Howe; ) is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. It was probably built around . In the archaeology of Scotland, it gives its name to the Maeshowe type of chambered cairn, which is limited to Orkney. Maeshowe is a significant example of Neolithic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20550 |
Montevideo Convention
The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States is a treaty signed at Montevideo, Uruguay, on December 26, 1933, during the Seventh International Conference of American States. The Convention codifies the declarative theory of statehood as accepted as part of customary international ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20551 |
Macrolide
The macrolides are a class of natural products that consist of a large macrocyclic lactone ring to which one or more deoxy sugars, usually cladinose and desosamine, may be attached. The lactone rings are usually 14-, 15-, or 16-membered. Macrolides belong to the polyketide class of natural products. Some mac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20553 |
Meta element
Meta elements are tags used in HTML and XHTML documents to provide structured metadata about a Web page.
They are part of a web page's codice_1 section. Multiple Meta elements with different attributes can be used on the same page. Meta elements can be used to specify page description, keywords and any o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20556 |
Mecha
The term may refer to both scientific ideas and science fiction genres that center on giant robots or machines (mechs) controlled by people. Mechas are typically depicted as humanoid mobile robots. The term was first used in Japanese ("meka") after shortening the English loanword "mekanikaru" ('mechanical'), but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20559 |
Macro (computer science)
A macro (short for "macroinstruction", from Greek 'long') in computer science is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence (often a sequence of characters) should be mapped to a replacement output sequence (also often a sequence of characters) according to a defined procedu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20560 |
Malleus Maleficarum
The Malleus Maleficarum, usually translated as the Hammer of Witches, is the best known treatise on witchcraft. It was written by the Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer (under his Latinized name "Henricus Institoris") and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486. It endorses exterminati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20561 |
Mandy Patinkin
Mandel Bruce Patinkin (; born November 30, 1952) is an American actor and singer.
Patinkin is well known for his portrayal of Inigo Montoya in Rob Reiner's 1987 film "The Princess Bride." His other film credits include Miloš Forman's "Ragtime" (1981), Barbra Streisand's "Yentl" (1983), "Alien Nation" (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20566 |
Mel Smith
Melvin Kenneth Smith (3 December 1952 – 19 July 2013) was an English comedian and film director. Smith worked on the sketch comedy shows "Not the Nine O'Clock News" and "Alas Smith and Jones" with his comedy partner, Griff Rhys Jones. Smith and Jones founded Talkback, which grew to be one of the UK's largest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20567 |
Mesolithic
The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, "mesos" "middle"; λίθος, "lithos" "stone") is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic is often used synonymously, especially for outside northern Europe, and for the corresponding period in the Levant and Cauc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20568 |
Mary Robinson
Mary Therese Winifred Robinson (; ; born 21 May 1944) is an Irish Independent politician who served as the seventh President of Ireland from December 1990 to September 1997, becoming the first woman to hold this office. She also served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 200... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20571 |
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. Alth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20572 |
Motion
In physics, motion is the phenomenon in which an object changes its position over time. Motion is mathematically described in terms of displacement, distance, velocity, acceleration, speed, and time. The motion of a body is observed by attaching a frame of reference to an observer and measuring the change in po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20580 |
Malpractice
In the law of torts, malpractice, also known as professional negligence, is an "instance of negligence or incompetence on the part of a professional".
Professionals who may become the subject of malpractice actions include:
Professional negligence actions require a professional relationship between the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20581 |
Mediation
Mediation is a dynamic, structured, interactive process where an impartial third party assists disputing parties in resolving conflict through the use of specialized communication and negotiation techniques. All participants in mediation are encouraged to actively participate in the process. Mediation is a "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20582 |
Misdemeanor
A misdemeanor (American English, spelled misdemeanour in British English) is any "lesser" criminal act in some common law legal systems. Misdemeanors are generally punished less severely than more serious felonies, but theoretically more so than administrative infractions (also known as minor, petty, or su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20583 |
Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor and film narrator. Freeman won an Academy Award in 2005 for Best Supporting Actor with "Million Dollar Baby" (2004) and has received Oscar nominations for his performances in "Street Smart" (1987), "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989), "The Shawshank Redemp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20584 |
Mathematical model
A mathematical model is a description of a system using mathematical concepts and language. The process of developing a mathematical model is termed mathematical modeling. Mathematical models are used in the natural sciences (such as physics, biology, earth science, chemistry) and engineering discip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20590 |
Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Lesser Poland Voivodeship or Lesser Poland Province (in ), also known as Małopolska, is a voivodeship (province), in southern Poland. It has an area of , and a population of 3,267,731 (2006).
It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Kraków, Tarnów, Nowy Sącz and parts of Bielsko-Bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20593 |
Man'yōshū
The is the oldest extant collection of Japanese "waka" (poetry in Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period. The anthology is one of the most revered of Japan's poetic compilations. The compiler, or the last in a series of compilers, is today widely believed to be Ōtomo no Ya... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20595 |
Mieszko II Lambert
Mieszko II Lambert (; c. 990 – 10/11 May 1034) was King of Poland from 1025–1031, and Duke from 1032 until his death.
He was the second son of Bolesław I the Brave, but the eldest born from his third wife Emnilda of Lusatia. He was probably named after his paternal grandfather, Mieszko I. His secon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20596 |
Mieszko I of Poland
Mieszko I (; – 25 May 992) was the ruler of Poland from about 960 until his death in 992 AD. A member of the Piast dynasty, he was a son of Siemomysł, and a grandson of Lestek. He was the father of Bolesław I the Brave (the first crowned king of Poland) and of Gunhild of Wenden. Most sources make M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20597 |
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, reigned over Scotland from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567.
Mary, the only surviving legitimate child of King James V of Scotland, was six days old when her father died and she acceded to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20603 |
Macbeth, King of Scotland
Macbeth (Medieval Gaelic: "Mac Bethad mac Findlaích"; Modern Gaelic: "MacBheatha mac Fhionnlaigh"; English: "Macbeth son of Findlay" nicknamed "", "the Red King"; – 15 August 1057) was King of Scots from 1040 until his death. He ruled over only a portion of present-day Scotland.
Little is kn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20604 |
Millbridge, Plymouth
Millbridge is a small neighbourhood of Plymouth, on the boundary of what used to be the towns of Plymouth and Devonport, in the English county of Devon.
What was originally a self-standing village (which has now been subsumed within the city) lies to the north of the toll bridge, originally built... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20606 |
ML (programming language)
ML ("Meta Language") is a general-purpose functional programming language. It has roots in Lisp, and has been characterized as "Lisp with types". ML is a statically-scoped functional programming language like Scheme. It is known for its use of the polymorphic Hindley–Milner type system, which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20607 |
Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock (; January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.
He was widely noticed for his technique of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface ('drip technique'), enabling him to view and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16307 |
Jet Li
Li Lianjie (courtesy name Yangzhong; born 26 April 1963), better known by his stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese film actor, film producer, martial artist, and retired Wushu champion who was born in Beijing. He is a naturalized Singaporean citizen.
After three years of training with acclaimed Wushu teacher Wu Bin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16308 |
Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet (; October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875) was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career he became in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16312 |
Jacques Callot
Jacques Callot (; – 1635) was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine (an independent state on the north-eastern border of France, southwestern border of Germany and overlapping the southern Netherlands). He is an important person in the development of the old master print. He made... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16313 |
Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. Campbell's best-known work is his book "The Hero with a Thousand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16315 |
John Dowland
John Dowland (1563 – buried 20 February 1626) was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep", "Come again", "Flow my tears", "I saw my Lady weepe" and "In darkness let me dwell", but his instrumental music has undergon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16316 |
John James Audubon
John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin; April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was an American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. His combined interests in art and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictoral record of all the bird species of North America. He was notable for his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16317 |
John Masefield
John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels "The Midnight Folk" and "The Box of Delights", and the poems "The Everlasting Mercy" and "Sea-Fever".
Masefield was born in Le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16319 |
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16321 |
John Hancock
John Hancock ( – October 8, 1793) was an American merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is remembered for his large and stylish signature... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16324 |
John W. Campbell
John Wood Campbell Jr. (June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971) was an American science fiction writer and editor. He was editor of "Astounding Science Fiction" (later called "Analog Science Fiction and Fact") from late 1937 until his death and was part of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Campbell wrote super... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16326 |
Joule
The joule ( ; symbol: J) is a derived unit of energy in the International System of Units. It is equal to the energy transferred to (or work done on) an object when a force of one newton acts on that object in the direction of the force's motion through a distance of one metre (1 newton metre or N⋅m). It is also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16327 |
John Chrysostom
John Chrysostom (; ; – 14 September 407), Archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father. He is known for his preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, the "Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom", and his as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16329 |
James Heckman
James Joseph Heckman (born 1944) is a Nobel Prize winning American economist who is currently at the University of Chicago, where he is The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College; Professor at the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies; Director of the Center ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16333 |
Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-Super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is an English novelist, former politician, convicted perjurer, and peer of the realm. Before becoming an author, Archer was a Member of Parliament (1969–1974), but did not seek re-election after a financial scandal that left h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16336 |
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna. His reputation and status as a composer are such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Seb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16339 |
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16340 |
John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones (born John Paul; July 6, 1747 July 18, 1792) was the United States' first well-known naval commander in the American Revolutionary War. He made many friends and enemies—who accused him of piracy—among America's political elites, and his actions in British waters during the Revolution ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16341 |
Boulting brothers
John Edward Boulting (21 December 1913 – 17 June 1985) and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting (21 December 1913 – 5 November 2001), known collectively as the Boulting brothers, were English filmmakers and identical twins who became known for their popular series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16343 |
John Frankenheimer
John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002) was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. Among his credits were "Birdman of Alcatraz" (1962), "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), "Seven Days in May" (1964), "The Train" (1965), "Secon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16345 |
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, (5 December 1859 – 20 November 1935) was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 during the First World War. His... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16346 |
Sandy Woodward
Admiral Sir John Forster "Sandy" Woodward, (1 May 1932 – 4 August 2013) was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the Task Force of the Falklands War.
Woodward was born on 1 May 1932 at Penzance, Cornwall, to a bank clerk. He was educated at Stubbington House School, preparatory school in Stubbingt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16347 |
James Blaylock
James Paul Blaylock (born September 20, 1950) is an American fantasy author. He is noted for a distinctive, humorous style, as well as being one of the pioneers of the steampunk genre of science fiction. Blaylock has cited Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16355 |
Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Eugene Pournelle (; August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American polymath: scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he worked in the aerospace industry... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16356 |
Barlaam and Josaphat
Barlaam and Josaphat are legendary Christian martyrs and saints. Their life story is likely to have been based on the life of the Gautama Buddha. It tells how an Indian king persecuted the Christian Church in his realm. When astrologers predicted that his own son would some day become a Christian,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16360 |
Jaggies
"Jaggies" is the informal name for artifacts in raster images, most frequently from aliasing, which in turn is often caused by non-linear mixing effects producing high-frequency components, or missing or poor anti-aliasing filtering prior to sampling.
Jaggies are stair-like lines that appear where there shoul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16362 |
Jury instructions
Jury instructions, directions to the jury, or judge's charge are legal rules that jurors should follow when deciding a case. They are a type of jury control procedure to support a fair trial.
Jury instructions are the set of legal rules governing how jurors should behave when deciding a case, often ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16365 |
Jurisprudence
Jurisprudence or legal theory is the theoretical study of law. Scholars of jurisprudence seek to explain the nature of law in its most general form and provide a deeper understanding of legal reasoning, legal systems, legal institutions, and the role of law in society.
Modern jurisprudence began in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16366 |
Jury trial
A jury trial, or trial by jury, is a lawful proceeding in which a jury makes a decision or findings of fact. It is distinguished from a bench trial in which a judge or panel of judges makes all decisions.
Jury trials are used in a significant share of serious criminal cases in many but not all common law j... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16367 |
Justice
Justice, in its broadest sense is the principle that people receive that which they deserve; with the interpretation of what then constitutes "deserving" being impacted upon by numerous fields, with many differing viewpoints and perspectives, including the concepts of moral correctness based on ethics, rationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16369 |
Jacob Abbott
Jacob Abbott (November 14, 1803 – October 31, 1879) was an American writer of children's books.
On November 14, 1803, Abbott was born in Hallowell, Maine. He attended the Hallowell Academy.
Abbott graduated from Bowdoin College in 1820. At some point during his years there, he supposedly added the sec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16371 |
John Stevens Cabot Abbott
John Stevens Cabot Abbott (September 19, 1805 – June 17, 1877), an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott.
He was a brother of Jacob Abbott, and was associated with him in the management of Abbott's Institute, New York City... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16372 |
J. E. B. Stuart
James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart (February 6, 1833May 12, 1864) was a United States Army officer from Virginia who became a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. He was known to his friends as "Jeb", from the initials of his given names. Stuart was a cavalry commander known for h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16376 |
John Hanson
John Hanson ( – November 15, 1783) was a merchant and public official from Maryland during the era of the American Revolution. In 1779, Hanson was elected as a delegate to the Continental Congress after serving in a variety of roles for the Patriot cause in Maryland. He signed the Articles of Confederation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16378 |
Jedi
The Jedi () are leaders and peacekeepers in the "Star Wars" universe. The Jedi Order are depicted as an ancient monastic, academic, meritocratic and quasi-militaristic organization whose origin dates back approximately 25,000 years before the events of the first film released in the franchise. It has been confirm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16379 |
James Tobin
James Tobin (March 5, 1918 – March 11, 2002) was an American economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisers and consulted with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Harvard and Yale Universities. He developed the ideas of Keynesian economics, and advocated government... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16380 |
Julian Lennon
John Charles Julian Lennon (born 8 April 1963) is an English singer, musician, photographer and philanthropist. He is the founder of the White Feather Foundation.
He is the son of The Beatles member John Lennon and his first wife Cynthia, and was the direct inspiration for three Beatles' songs: "Lucy in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16382 |
FIFA World Cup Trophy
The World Cup is a gold trophy that is awarded to the winners of the FIFA World Cup association football tournament. Since the advent of the World Cup in 1930, two trophies have been used: the Jules Rimet Trophy from 1930 to 1970, and the FIFA World Cup Trophy from 1974 to the present day.
The f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16383 |
John Belushi
John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American actor, comedian and singer, and one of the seven original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live" ("SNL"). Throughout his career, Belushi had a close personal and artistic partnership with his fellow "SNL" star D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16384 |
Johann Philipp Abelin
Johann Philipp Abelin was a German chronicler whose career straddled the 16th and 17th centuries. He was born, probably, at Strasbourg, and died there between 1634 and 1637. He wrote numerous histories under the pseudonyms of Abeleus, Philipp Arlanibäus, Johann Ludwig Gottfried and Gotofredus.
H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16385 |
Java virtual machine
A Java virtual machine (JVM) is a virtual machine that enables a computer to run Java programs as well as programs written in other languages that are also compiled to Java bytecode. The JVM is detailed by a specification that formally describes what is required in a JVM implementation. Having a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16389 |
John Abercrombie (physician)
John Abercrombie (10 October 1780 – 14 November 1844) was a Scottish physician and philosopher. The "Chambers Biographical Dictionary" says of him that after James Gregory's death, he was "recognized as the first consulting physician in Scotland".
He was the official physician to Heriot's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16390 |
Judgement of Paris
The Judgement of Paris is a story from Greek mythology, which was one of the events that led up to the Trojan War and (in slightly later versions of the story) to the foundation of Rome.
As with many mythological tales, details vary depending on the source. The brief allusion to the Judgement in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16391 |
Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction (from Latin "" 'law' + "" 'declaration') is the practical authority granted to a legal body to administer justice, as defined by the kind of case, and the location of the issue (its situs). In federations like the United States, areas of jurisdiction apply to local, state, and federal levels.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16392 |
John Abernethy (surgeon)
John Abernethy FRS (3 April 1764 – 20 April 1831) was an English surgeon. He is popularly remembered today for having given his name to the Abernethy biscuit, a coarse-meal baked good meant to aid digestion.
He was a grandson of the Reverend John Abernethy. He was born in Coleman Street in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16393 |
Jacques Maroger
Jacques Maroger (; 1884–1962) was a painter and the technical director of the Louvre Museum's laboratory in Paris. He devoted his life to understanding the oil-based media of the Old Masters. He emigrated to the United States in 1939 and became an influential teacher. His book, "The Secret Formulas and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16397 |
Joseph Greenberg
Joseph Harold Greenberg (May 28, 1915 – May 7, 2001) was an American linguist, known mainly for his work concerning linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.
Joseph Greenberg was born on May 28, 1915 to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York. His first great interest was music. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16399 |
Justin Martyr
Justin Martyr (), an early Christian apologist, is regarded as the foremost exponent of the Divine Word, the Logos, in the second century. He was martyred, alongside some of his students, and is venerated as saint by the Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Oriental ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16403 |
George S. Kaufman
George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. In addition to comedies and political satire, he wrote several musicals for the Marx Brothers and others. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the musical "Of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13015 |
Gilbert N. Lewis
Gilbert Newton Lewis (October 25 (or 23), 1875 – March 23, 1946) was an American physical chemist and a former Dean of the College of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley. Lewis was best known for his discovery of the covalent bond and his concept of electron pairs; his Lewis dot structure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13017 |
Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) and to the works they jointly created. The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which "H.M.S. Pinafore"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13021 |
Garfield
Garfield is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis. Originally published locally as "Jon" in 1976, then in nationwide syndication from 1978 as "Garfield", it chronicles the life of the title character, Garfield the cat; Jon Arbuckle, his human owner; and Odie, the dog. As of 2013, it was syndicated in r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13022 |
Graham Chapman
Graham Arthur Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was an English comedian, writer, actor, author, and one of the six members of the British surreal comedy group Monty Python. He played authority figures such as the Colonel and the lead role in two Python films, "Holy Grail" (1975) and "Life of Bri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13024 |
Gray whale
The gray whale ("Eschrichtius robustus"), also known as the grey whale, gray back whale, Pacific gray whale, or California gray whale, is a baleen whale that migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly. It reaches a length of , a weight of up to 45 tons, (90,000 lbs) and lives between 55 and 70 yea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13026 |
Gary Busey
William Gary Busey (; born June 29, 1944) is an American actor. As a character actor, Busey has appeared in over 150 films, including "Lethal Weapon" (1987), "Predator 2" (1990), "Point Break" (1991), "Under Siege" (1992), "The Firm" (1993), "Carried Away" (1996), "Black Sheep" (1996), "Lost Highway" (1997)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13030 |
-gry puzzle
The "-gry" puzzle is a popular word puzzle that asks for the third English word that ends with the letters "-gry" other than "angry" and "hungry". Specific wording varies substantially, but the puzzle has no clear answer, as there are no other common English words that end in "-gry". Interpretations of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13031 |
Geyser
A geyser (, ) is a spring characterized by an intermittent discharge of water ejected turbulently and accompanied by steam. As a fairly rare phenomenon, the formation of geysers is due to particular hydrogeological conditions that exist only in a few places on Earth. Generally all geyser field sites are located... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13034 |
Gaussian elimination
Gaussian elimination, also known as row reduction, is an algorithm in linear algebra for solving a system of linear equations. It is usually understood as a sequence of operations performed on the corresponding matrix of coefficients. This method can also be used to find the rank of a matrix, to c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13035 |
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (), officially known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB, (also called GTMO because of the abbreviation of "Guantanamo" or Gitmo because of the common pronunciation of this word by the U.S. military) is a United States military base and detention camp located on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13037 |
Gladstone Gander
Gladstone Gander is a Walt Disney fictional character created in 1948 by comic artist and writer Carl Barks. He is an anthropomorphic male goose (or gander) who possesses exceptional good luck that grants him anything he desires as well as protecting him from any harm. This is in contrast to his cousi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13038 |
Gordon Michael Woolvett
Gordon Michael Woolvett (born 1970) is a Canadian actor from Hamilton, Ontario.
Woolvett's most enduring role was as Seamus Zelazny Harper on the television series "Andromeda" (2000–2005). Prior to "Andromeda" he starred in another science fiction television series, "Deepwater Black". He was a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13039 |
Gypsum
Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO4·2H2O. It is widely mined and is used as a fertilizer and as the main constituent in many forms of plaster, blackboard/sidewalk chalk, and drywall. A massive fine-grained white or lightly tinted variety of gyp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13040 |
Growth factor
A growth factor is a naturally occurring substance capable of stimulating cellular growth, proliferation, healing, and cellular differentiation. Usually it is a protein or a steroid hormone. Growth factors are important for regulating a variety of cellular processes.
Growth factors typically act as sign... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13041 |
Giuseppe Peano
Giuseppe Peano (; ; 27 August 1858 – 20 April 1932) was an Italian mathematician and glottologist. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed much notation. The standard axiomatization of the natural numbers is named the Peano ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13043 |
Gin and tonic
A gin and tonic is a highball cocktail made with gin and tonic water poured over a large amount of ice. The ratio of gin to tonic varies according to taste, strength of the gin, other drink mixers being added, etc., with most recipes calling for between a 1:1 to 1:3 ratio. It is usually garnished with a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13044 |
Geometric mean
In mathematics, the geometric mean is a mean or average, which indicates the central tendency or typical value of a set of numbers by using the product of their values (as opposed to the arithmetic mean which uses their sum). The geometric mean is defined as the th root of the product of numbers, i.e., ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13046 |
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, "Adam Bede" (1859), "The Mill on the Floss" (1860)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13049 |
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