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Pope John XXI
Pope John XXI (; – 20 May 1277), born Peter Juliani (; ), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 September 1276 to his death. Apart from Damasus I (from Roman Lusitania), he has been the only Portuguese pope. He is sometimes identified with the logician and herbalist Peter ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23830 |
Pope Adrian VI
Pope Adrian VI (; ), born Adriaan Florensz Boeyens (2 March 1459 – 14 September 1523), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 January 1522 until his death on 14 September 1523. The only Dutchman so far to become pope, he was the last non-Italian pope until John Paul II, 455... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23831 |
List of Pokémon
The "Pokémon" franchise revolves around 896 fictional species of collectible monsters, each having unique designs and skills. Conceived by Satoshi Tajiri in early 1989, Pokémon are creatures that inhabit the fictional Pokémon World. The designs for the multitude of species can draw inspiration from any... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23840 |
Planets beyond Neptune
Following the discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846, there was considerable speculation that another planet might exist beyond its orbit. The search began in the mid-19th century and continued at the start of the 20th with Percival Lowell's quest for Planet X. Lowell proposed the Planet X hypo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23842 |
Plutino
In astronomy, the plutinos are a dynamical group of trans-Neptunian objects that orbit in 2:3 mean-motion resonance with Neptune. This means that for every two orbits a plutino makes, Neptune orbits three times. The dwarf planet Pluto is the largest member as well as the namesake of this group. Plutinos are na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23843 |
Prague
Prague (; , , ) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 13th largest city in the European Union and the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated on the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of 2.7 million. The ci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23844 |
Peace of Westphalia
The Peace of Westphalia () was a series of peace treaties that were signed between May and October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster. They largely ended the European wars of religion, including the Thirty Years' War. They closed a calamitous period of European history that kil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23850 |
Pope Damasus I
Pope Damasus I (; c. 305 – 11 December 384) was the bishop of Rome from October 366 to his death. He presided over the Council of Rome of 382 that determined the canon or official list of sacred scripture. He spoke out against major heresies in the church (including Apollinarianism and Macedonianism) an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23851 |
Pope Honorius II
Pope Honorius II (9 February 1060 – 13 February 1130), born Lamberto Scannabecchi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 21 December 1124 to his death in 1130.
Although from a humble background, his obvious intellect and outstanding abilities saw him promoted up through t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23853 |
Pope Honorius III
Pope Honorius III (1150 – 18 March 1227), born Cencio Savelli, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 18 July 1216 to his death. A canon at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, he came to hold a number of important administrative positions, including that of Camerleng... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23854 |
Pope Honorius IV
Pope Honorius IV (c. 1210 – 3 April 1287), born Giacomo Savelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 2 April 1285 to his death in 1287. During his pontificate he largely continued to pursue the pro-French political policy of his predecessor, Martin IV.
Giacomo Savelli w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23855 |
Paulinus of Nola
Paulinus of Nola (; ; , ; also Anglicized as Pauline of Nola; – June 22, 431), born Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus, was a Roman poet, writer, and senator who attained the ranks of suffect consul () and governor of Campania (–1) but—following the assassination of the emperor Gratian and under the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23856 |
Plymouth Argyle F.C.
Plymouth Argyle Football Club is a professional football club based in the city of Plymouth, Devon, England. As of the 2020–21 season, the team will compete in League One, the third tier of English football. They have played at Home Park, known as the "Theatre of Greens", since 1901. Argyle are on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23857 |
Mutley Plain
Mutley Plain is a street in Plymouth, Devon, England. Although Mutley Plain is the main street of the dense suburb called Mutley, the term is often applied to the whole area. The road is a busy dual-carriageway, the B3250, with eight sets of traffic lights/pelican crossings. It was built as a smart tree-l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23858 |
Python (programming language)
Python is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. Created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991, Python's design philosophy emphasizes code readability with its notable use of significant whitespace. Its language constructs and object-oriented approach a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23862 |
Pyridine
Pyridine is a basic heterocyclic organic compound with the chemical formula C5H5N. It is structurally related to benzene, with one methine group (=CH−) replaced by a nitrogen atom. It is a highly flammable, weakly alkaline, water-miscible liquid with a distinctive, unpleasant fish-like smell. Pyridine is colo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23863 |
Production car racing
Production car racing, showroom stock racing, street Stock, pure stock, and U-car racing are all categories of auto racing where unmodified (or very lightly modified) production cars race each other, outright and also in classes.
Cars usually have a protective roll cage and run race tires (eith... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23864 |
Phenols
In organic chemistry, phenols, sometimes called phenolics, are a class of chemical compounds consisting of one or more hydroxyl groups (—OH) bonded directly to an aromatic hydrocarbon group. The simplest is phenol, . Phenolic compounds are classified as simple phenols or polyphenols based on the number of phen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23865 |
Pompey
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (; 29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), translated as Gnaeus Pompey the Great (), was a leading Roman general and statesman, whose career was significant in Rome's transformation from a republic to empire. He was for a time a political ally and later enemy of Julius Caesar. A member... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23867 |
Nazareth
Nazareth (; , "an-Nāṣira"; , "Natzrat"; , "Naṣrath") is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. Nazareth is known as "the Arab capital of Israel". In its population was . The inhabitants are predominantly Arab citizens of Israel, of whom 69% are Muslim and 30.9% Christian. Nof HaGalil (formerly N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21702 |
Noah
In Abrahamic religions, Noah ( ) was the tenth and last of the pre-Flood patriarchs. His story is contained in the Hebrew Bible, in the Book of Genesis, chapters 5–9 and in the Qur'an. The Genesis flood narrative is among the best-known stories of the Bible. Noah is also portrayed as "the first tiller of the soil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21703 |
Norwegian language
Norwegian () is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is the official language. Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a dialect continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional varieties; some Norwegian and Swedish dialects, in particular, are very cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21704 |
Nonstandard analysis
The history of calculus is fraught with philosophical debates about the meaning and logical validity of fluxions or infinitesimal numbers. The standard way to resolve these debates is to define the operations of calculus using epsilon–delta procedures rather than infinitesimals. Nonstandard analys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21708 |
Nation of Islam
The Nation of Islam (NOI) is an African American political and new religious movement, founded in Detroit, Michigan, United States, by Wallace Fard Muhammad on July 4, 1930. Its stated goals are to improve the spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of African Americans. Critics have describe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21709 |
Nerve agent
Nerve agents, sometimes also called nerve gases, are a class of organic chemicals that disrupt the mechanisms by which nerves transfer messages to organs. The disruption is caused by the blocking of acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter.
Poisonin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21710 |
Neon Genesis Evangelion
"Evangelion" is set fifteen years after a worldwide cataclysm, particularly in the futuristic fortified city of Tokyo-3. The protagonist is Shinji, a teenage boy who was recruited by his father Gendo to the shadowy organization Nerv to pilot a giant bio-machine mecha called an "Evangelion" into... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21711 |
Nijmegen
Nijmegen ( , ;, Nijmeegs: "Nimwèège" ) is a city in the Netherlands' province of Gelderland, on the Waal river close to the German border.
Nijmegen is the oldest city in the Netherlands, the second to be recognized as such in Roman times, and in 2005 celebrated 2,000 years of existence.
The municipality is p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21713 |
North Africa
North Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania in the west, to Egypt's Suez Canal and the Red Sea in the east. Others have limited it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21714 |
New England Patriots
The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area. The Patriots compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team plays its home games at Gillette Stadium in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21719 |
New Orleans Saints
The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans. The Saints compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The team was founded by John W. Mecom Jr., David Dixon, and the city of New O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21720 |
New York Jets
The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Jets compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team is headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey. The Jets pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21721 |
Nonlinear optics
Nonlinear optics (NLO) is the branch of optics that describes the behaviour of light in "nonlinear media", that is, media in which the polarization density P responds non-linearly to the electric field E of the light. The non-linearity is typically observed only at very high light intensities (values ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21723 |
Normandy
Normandy (; ; ; from Old French , plural of "Normant", originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is the northwesternmost of the 18 regions of France, roughly referring to the historical Duchy of Normandy.
Normandy is divided into five administrative departments: Calvados, Eur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21724 |
Neuromancer
Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson. It is one of the best-known works in the cyberpunk genre and the first novel to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. It was Gibson's debut novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy. Se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21725 |
New York Mets
The New York Mets are a Major League Baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) East division. They are one of two MLB teams based in New York City, the other being the New York Yankees of the Americ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21728 |
Nursery rhyme
A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term only dates from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes.
From the mid-16th century nursery rhymes begin to be recorded in En... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21731 |
Ninja Tune
Ninja Tune is an English independent record label based in London. It has a satellite office in Los Angeles. It was founded by Matt Black and Jonathan More, better known as Coldcut and managed by Peter Quicke and others.
Inspired by a visit to Japan, Black and More primarily created Ninja Tune in 1990 as a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21732 |
Nazi Party
The National Socialist German Workers' Party (abbreviated in German as NSDAP), commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party, was a far-right political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945, that created and supported the ideology of National Socialism. Its precursor, the German Workers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21736 |
New Age
New Age is a term applied to a range of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that grew rapidly in the Western World during the 1970s. Precise scholarly definitions of the New Age differ in their emphasis, largely as a result of its highly eclectic structure. Although analytically often considered to be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21742 |
Naoko Takeuchi
She has won several awards, including the 1993 Kodansha Manga Award for "Sailor Moon".
Takeuchi is married to Yoshihiro Togashi, the author of "Yu Yu Hakusho" and "Hunter x Hunter".
Takeuchi was born in Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan, to parents Kenji and Ikuko Takeuchi. She has a younger brother, Shingo. She... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21745 |
Nolo contendere
In criminal trials in certain United States jurisdictions, it is a plea where the defendant neither admits nor disputes a charge, serving as an alternative to a pleading of guilty or not guilty. A no-contest plea, while not technically a guilty plea, has the same immediate effect as a guilty plea and i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21746 |
Nationalism
Nationalism is an ideology and movement that promotes the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people) especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation's sovereignty (self-governance) over its homeland. Nationalism holds that each nation should govern itself, free from outside in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21748 |
Nation
A nation is a stable community of humans formed on the basis of a common language, territory, history, ethnicity, or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture. A nation is more overtly political than an ethnic group; it has been described as "a fully mobilized or institutionalized ethnic group". Some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21754 |
Northern Sotho language
Northern Sotho ("Sesotho sa Leboa"), also known by the name of its standardised dialect Pedi ("Sepedi"), is a Sotho-Tswana language of the Bantu family group. According to the 2011 census, Northern Sotho is the first language of over 4,6 million people and is the 5th most spoken language in Sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21756 |
New York Giants
The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. The team plays its home games at MetLife Stadium in East Rut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21757 |
New Malden
New Malden is a suburb of south-west London, England. It is located mainly within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, with a small part in the London Borough of Merton, and is from Charing Cross.
New Malden forms part of the Royal borough of Kingston upon Thames, a London borough. New Malden was onc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21765 |
Air Force Space Surveillance System
The AN/FPS-133 Air Force Space Surveillance System, colloquially known as the Space Fence, was a U.S. government multistatic radar system built to detect orbital objects passing over America. It is a component of the US space surveillance network, and according to the US Navy was ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21768 |
Nominative case
The nominative case (abbreviated ), subjective case, straight case or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb or the predicate noun or predicate adjective, as opposed to its object or other verb arguments. Generally, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21774 |
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial terrestrial radio and television network that is the flagship property of the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21780 |
Nociception
Nociception (also nocioception, from Latin "nocere" 'to harm or hurt') is the sensory nervous system's process of encoding noxious stimuli. In nociception, intense chemical (e.g., cayenne powder), mechanical (e.g., cutting, crushing), or thermal (heat and cold) stimulation of sensory nerve cells called noc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21781 |
Nova
A nova (plural novae or novas) is a transient astronomical event that causes the sudden appearance of a bright, apparently "new" star, that slowly fades over several weeks or many months. Causes of the dramatic appearance of a nova vary, depending on the circumstances of the two progenitor stars. All observed nov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21784 |
Economy of Peru
The economy of Peru is an upper middle income economy as classified by the World Bank and is the 47th largest in the world by total GDP. Peru was one of the world's fastest-growing economies in 2012, with a GDP growth rate of 6.3%. As of 2018 the GDP growth rate has slowed to 3.99%. It currently has a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23435 |
Telecommunications in Peru
Telecommunications in Peru include radio and television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
The technical regulator of communications in Peru is the Presidency of the Minister Council, through the "Organismo Supervisor de la Inversión Privada en Telecomunicaciones" (OSIPTEL) in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23436 |
Transport in Peru
The transport in Peru.
total: 2,374 km
standard gauge: 1,608 km, gauge
narrow gauge: 380 km, gauge
There are two unconnected principal railways in Peru.
The Ferrocarril Central Andino (FCCA; the former Ferrocarril Central del Perú) runs inland from Callao and Lima across the Andes watershed to La ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23437 |
Peruvian Armed Forces
The Peruvian Armed Forces () are the military services of Peru, comprising independent Army, Navy and Air Force components. Their primary mission is to safeguard the country's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity against any threat. As a secondary mission they participate in econom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23438 |
Philippines
The Philippines (; or "Filipinas" ), officially the Republic of the Philippines (), is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Situated in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands that are broadly categorized under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visaya... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23440 |
History of the Philippines
The history of the Philippines is believed to have begun with the arrival of the first humans using rafts or boats at least 709,000 years ago as suggested by the discovery of Pleistocene stone tools and butchered animal remains associated with hominin activity. "Homo luzonensis", a species o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23441 |
Geography of the Philippines
The Philippines is an archipelago that comprises 7,641 islands with a total land area of . It is the world's 5th largest island country. The eleven largest islands contain 95% of the total land area. The largest of these islands is Luzon at about . The next largest island is Mindanao at ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23442 |
Demographics of the Philippines
Demography of the Philippines records the human population, including its population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects. The Philippines annualised population growth rate between the years 2010–2015 was 1.72%. Accordin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23443 |
Politics of the Philippines
The politics of the Philippines take place in an organized framework of a presidential, representative, and democratic republic whereby the president is both the head of state and the head of government within a pluriform multi-party system. This system revolves around three separate and so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23444 |
Economy of the Philippines
The economy of the Philippines is the world's 36th largest economy by nominal GDP according to the 2019 estimate of the International Monetary Fund's statistics, it is the 13th largest economy in Asia, and the 3rd largest economy in the ASEAN after Indonesia and Thailand. The Philippines is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23445 |
Telecommunications in the Philippines
Telecommunications in the Philippines are well-developed due to the presence of modern infrastructure facilities. The industry was deregulated in 1995 when President Fidel Ramos signed Republic Act 7925 (The Public Telecommunications Policy Act of the Philippines). This law opened... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23446 |
Transportation in the Philippines
Transportation in the Philippines is relatively underdeveloped partly due to the country's mountainous terrain and archipelagic state and as a result of the government's underspending on infrastructure. In recent years however, the Government of the Philippines has been improving tran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23447 |
Armed Forces of the Philippines
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP; ; ) are the military forces of the Philippines. It consists of the three main service branches; the Army, the Navy (including the Marine Corps) and the Air Force. The President of the Philippines is the Commander-in-Chief of the AFP and forms mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23448 |
Pitcairn Islands
The Pitcairn Islands (; Pitkern: '), officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean. The four islands—Pitcairn proper, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno—are scattered ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23450 |
Politics of the Pitcairn Islands
The Pitcairn Islands are a British Overseas Territory in the South Pacific Ocean, with a population of about 50. The politics of the islands takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic dependency, whereby the Mayor is the head of government. The territory's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23454 |
Geography of Puerto Rico
The geography of Puerto Rico consists of an archipelago located between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of the Dominican Republic, west of the Virgin Islands and north of Venezuela. The main island of Puerto Rico is the smallest and most eastern of the Greater Antilles. Wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23461 |
Demographics of Puerto Rico
The population of Puerto Rico has been shaped by Amerindian settlement, European colonization especially under the Spanish Empire, slavery and economic migration. This article is about the demographic features of the population of Puerto Rico, including population density, ethnicity, educat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23462 |
Politics of Puerto Rico
The politics of Puerto Rico take place in the framework of a democratic republic form of government that is under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United States as an organized unincorporated territory. Since the 1898 invasion of Puerto Rico by the United States during the Spanish–Americ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23463 |
Telecommunications in Puerto Rico
Telecommunications in Puerto Rico includes radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Broadcasting in Puerto Rico is regulated by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Hurricane Maria destroyed the internet systems in Puerto Rico in September 2017... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23465 |
Transportation in Puerto Rico
Transportation in Puerto Rico includes a system of roads, highways, freeways, airports, ports and harbors, and railway systems, serving a population of approximately 4 million year-round. It is funded primarily with both local and federal government funds.
Puerto Rico has a total of 30 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23466 |
Military of Puerto Rico
The military defense of Puerto Rico is the responsibility of the United States as part of the Treaty of Paris. Locally, Puerto Rico has its own National Guard, the Puerto Rico National Guard, and its own state defense force, the Puerto Rico State Guard, which, by local law, is under the authori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23467 |
Polyhedron
In geometry, a polyhedron (plural polyhedra or polyhedrons) is a three dimensional shape with flat polygonal faces, straight edges and sharp corners or vertices. The word polyhedron comes from the Classical Greek πολύεδρον, as "poly-" (stem of πολύς, "many") + "-hedron" (form of ἕδρα, "base" or "seat").
A ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23470 |
Polytope
In elementary geometry, a polytope is a geometric object with "flat" sides. It is a generalization in any number of dimensions of the three-dimensional polyhedron. Polytopes may exist in any general number of dimensions "n" as an "n"-dimensional polytope or "n"-polytope. Flat sides mean that the sides of a ("... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23471 |
Problem of universals
The problem of universals is an ancient question from metaphysics which has inspired a range of philosophical topics and disputes. Should the properties an object has in common with other objects, such as colour and shape, be considered to exist beyond those objects? And if a property exists sepa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23474 |
Plea bargain
A plea bargain (also plea agreement or plea deal) is any agreement in a criminal case between the prosecutor and defendant whereby the defendant agrees to plead guilty or "nolo contendere" to a particular charge in return for some concession from the prosecutor. This may mean that the defendant will plead... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23476 |
Protest song
A protest song is a song that is associated with a movement for social change and hence part of the broader category of "topical" songs (or songs connected to current events). It may be folk, classical, or commercial in genre.
Among social movements that have an associated body of songs are the abolition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23477 |
Professor Griff
Richard Griffin (born August 1, 1960), better known by his stage name Professor Griff, is an American rapper, spoken word artist, and lecturer currently residing in Atlanta. He was a member of the hip hop group Public Enemy, serving as the group's 'Minister of Information' before departing due to a con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23478 |
Physicalism
In philosophy, physicalism is the metaphysical thesis that "everything is physical", that there is "nothing over and above" the physical, or that everything supervenes on the physical. Physicalism is a form of ontological monism—a "one substance" view of the nature of reality as opposed to a "two-substance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23479 |
Philosophy of perception
The philosophy of perception is concerned with the nature of perceptual experience and the status of perceptual data, in particular how they relate to beliefs about, or knowledge of, the world. Any explicit account of perception requires a commitment to one of a variety of ontological or metap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23483 |
Proper name (philosophy)
In the philosophy of language, a proper name, for example a name of a specific person or place, is a name which is ordinarily taken to uniquely identify its referent in the world. As such it presents particular challenges for theories of meaning and it has become a central problem in analytica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23484 |
Prolog
Prolog is a logic programming language associated with artificial intelligence and computational linguistics.
Prolog has its roots in first-order logic, a formal logic, and unlike many other programming languages, Prolog is intended primarily as a declarative programming language: the program logic is expresse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23485 |
Phil Zimmermann
Philip R. "Phil" Zimmermann (born 1954) is an American computer scientist and cryptographer. He is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world. He is also known for his work in VoIP encryption protocols, notably ZRTP and Zfone. Zimmermann is co-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23486 |
Political spectrum
A political spectrum is a system to characterize and classify different political positions in relation to one another. These positions sit upon one or more geometric axes that represent independent political dimensions. The expressions political compass and political map are used to refer to the po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23490 |
Pregnancy (mammals)
In mammals, pregnancy is the period of reproduction during which a female carries one or more live offspring from implantation in the uterus through gestation. It begins when a fertilized zygote implants in the female's uterus, and ends once it leaves the uterus.
During copulation, the male insemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23496 |
Rooster
A rooster, also known as a cockerel or cock, is a male gallinaceous bird, with cockerel being younger and rooster being an adult male chicken ("Gallus gallus domesticus").
The term "rooster" originated in the United States as a puritan euphemism to avoid the sexual connotation of the original English "cock",... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26574 |
Robert Moog
Robert Arthur Moog ( ; May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American engineer and pioneer of electronic music. He was the founder of Moog Music and the inventor of the first commercial synthesizer, the Moog synthesizer, debuted in 1964. This was followed in 1970 by a more portable model, the Minimoog, de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26581 |
Robert the Bruce
Robert I (11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329), popularly known as Robert the Bruce (Medieval Gaelic: '; modern Scottish Gaelic: '; Norman French: ' or '; Early Scots: "Robert Brus"; ), was King of Scots from 1306 until his death in 1329. Robert was one of the most famous warriors of his generation, and eventu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26582 |
Rhythm guitar
In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drumkit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26587 |
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers (commonly abbreviated as RHCP) are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1983. Their music incorporates elements of alternative rock, funk, punk rock and psychedelic rock. The band consists of vocalist Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Flea, and dru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26589 |
Relay
A relay is an electrically operated switch. It consists of a set of input terminals for a single or multiple control signals, and a set of operating contact terminals. The switch may have any number of contacts in multiple contact forms, such as make contacts, break contacts, or combinations thereof.
Relays are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26590 |
Spain
Spain (, ), officially the Kingdom of Spain (), is a country in Southwestern Europe with some pockets of territory across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Atlantic Ocean. Its continental European territory is situated on the Iberian Peninsula. Its territory also includes two archipelagos: the Canary Islands off t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26667 |
Sumba
Sumba () is an island in eastern Indonesia. It is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands and is in the province of East Nusa Tenggara. Sumba has an area of , and the population was estimated to be 755,849 in 2015. To the northwest of Sumba is Sumbawa, to the northeast, across the Sumba Strait (Selat Sumba), is Flores, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26668 |
Sabbath in Christianity
Sabbath in Christianity is the inclusion or adoption in Christianity of a sabbath in the sense of a day set aside for rest and worship. This practice was established within Judaism through Mosaic Law, as expressed through the commandment to "remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy" and God's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26671 |
SHA-1
In cryptography, SHA-1 (Secure Hash Algorithm 1) is a cryptographic hash function which takes an input and produces a 160-bit (20-byte) hash value known as a message digest – typically rendered as a hexadecimal number, 40 digits long. It was designed by the United States National Security Agency, and is a U.S. F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26672 |
Shannon Elizabeth
Shannon Elizabeth Fadal (born ) is an American actress and former fashion model. Elizabeth has appeared in comedy films such as "American Pie", "Scary Movie" and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back". She has also appeared in horror films such as "Jack Frost", "Thirteen Ghosts", "Cursed", and "Night of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26675 |
Star Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space-opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon. The franchise has been expanded into various films and other media, including television series, video games, novels, comic books,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26678 |
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick (; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer and photographer. He is frequently cited as one of the most influential filmmakers in cinematic history. His films, which are mostly adaptations of novels or short stories, cover a wide range of genr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26683 |
Statistics
Statistics is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, industrial, or social problem, it is conventional to begin with a statistical population or a statistical model to be studied. Populations can b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26685 |
Swedish language
Swedish ( ) is a North Germanic language spoken natively by 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden (as the sole official language) and in parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish, although the degree of mutual i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26689 |
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