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Nial
Nial (from "Nested Interactive Array Language") is a high-level array programming language developed from about 1981 by Mike Jenkins of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Jenkins co-created the Jenkins–Traub algorithm.
Nial combines a functional programming notation for arrays based on an array theor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21571 |
Niels Henrik Abel
Niels Henrik Abel (; ; 5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829) was a Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields. His most famous single result is the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals. This question was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21573 |
Nationality
Nationality is a legal relationship between an individual person and a state. Nationality affords the state jurisdiction over the person and affords the person the protection of the state. What these rights and duties are varies from state to state. This relationship generally enables intervention by a Sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21583 |
Nereid
In Greek mythology, the Nereids ( ; "Nereides", sg. "Nereis") are sea nymphs (female spirits of sea waters), the 50 daughters of Nereus and Doris, sisters to their brother Nerites. They often accompany Poseidon, the god of the sea, and can be friendly and helpful to sailors (such as the Argonauts in their searc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21586 |
Netball
Netball is a ball sport played by two teams of seven players. Netball is most popular in many Commonwealth nations, specifically in schools, and is predominantly played by women. According to the INF, netball is played by more than 20 million people in more than 80 countries. Major domestic leagues in the spor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21592 |
Njörðr
In Norse mythology, Njörðr is a god among the Vanir. Njörðr, father of the deities Freyr and Freyja by his unnamed sister, was in an ill-fated marriage with the goddess Skaði, lives in Nóatún and is associated with the sea, seafaring, wind, fishing, wealth, and crop fertility.
Njörðr is attested in the "Poetic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21594 |
Niger–Congo languages
The Niger–Congo languages are the world's third largest language family in terms of number of speakers and Africa's largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers, and number of distinct languages. It is generally considered to be the world's largest language family in terms of number ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21601 |
Napo River
The Napo River () is a tributary to the Amazon River that rises in Ecuador on the flanks of the east Andean volcanoes of Antisana, Sinchulawa and Cotopaxi.
The total length is . The river drains an area of . The mean annual discharge is per second.
Before it reaches the plains it receives a great number of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21606 |
Nine-ball
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game is traceable to origins in the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle of each long side. Using a cue stick, players must strike the white c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21609 |
Nostradamus
Michel de Nostredame (depending on the source, 14 or 21 December 1503 – 1 or 2 July 1566), usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, physician and reputed seer, who is best known for his book "Les Prophéties", a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events. The boo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21615 |
List of multi-level marketing companies
This is a list of companies which use multi-level marketing (also known as network marketing, direct selling, referral marketing, and pyramid selling) for most of their sales. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21619 |
Noah Webster
Noah Webster Jr. (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education". His "Blue-backed Speller" books taught five generati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21620 |
Stonewall riots
The Stonewall riots (also referred to as the Stonewall uprising or the Stonewall rebellion) were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29383 |
Sheffer stroke
In Boolean functions and propositional calculus, the Sheffer stroke denotes a logical operation that is equivalent to the negation of the conjunction operation, expressed in ordinary language as "not both". It is also called nand ("not and") or the alternative denial, since it says in effect that at lea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29388 |
Stalactite
A stalactite (, ; from the Greek "stalasso", (σταλάσσω), "to drip", and meaning "that which drips") is a type of formation that hangs from the ceiling of caves, hot springs, or manmade structures such as bridges and mines. Any material that is soluble, can be deposited as a colloid, or is in suspension, or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29390 |
Strangers in Paradise
Strangers in Paradise is a long-running, mostly self-published black-and-white comic book that was written and drawn by Terry Moore. Essentially the story of a love triangle between two women and one man, "Strangers in Paradise" is a slice-of-life dramedy that veered into the crime genre.
The fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29391 |
Summer
Summer is the hottest of the four temperate seasons, falling after spring and before autumn. At or around the summer solstice (about 3 days before Midsummer Day), the earliest sunrise and latest sunset occurs, the days are longest and the nights are shortest, with day length decreasing as the season progresses ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29392 |
Screwdriver (cocktail)
A screwdriver is a popular alcoholic highball drink made with orange juice and vodka. While the basic drink is simply the two ingredients, there are many variations. Many of the variations have different names in different parts of the world.
The screwdriver is mentioned in 1944: "A Screwdriver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29396 |
Single-stage-to-orbit
A single-stage-to-orbit (or SSTO) vehicle reaches orbit from the surface of a body using only propellants and fluids and without expending tanks, engines, or other major hardware. The term usually, but not exclusively, refers to reusable vehicles. To date, no Earth-launched SSTO launch vehicles h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29398 |
Structural biology
Structural biology is a branch of molecular biology, biochemistry, and biophysics concerned with the molecular structure of biological macromolecules (especially proteins, made up of amino acids, RNA or DNA, made up of nucleotides, membranes, made up of lipids) how they acquire the structures they h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29400 |
Sikhs
Sikhs ( or ; , ', ) are people associated with Sikhism, a monotheistic religion that originated in the 15th century, in the Punjab region in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak. The term "Sikh" has its origin in the words शिष्य ('), meaning a "disciple" or a "stude... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29405 |
Superworld
Superworld is a superhero-themed role-playing game published by Chaosium in 1983. Written by "Basic Role-Playing" and "RuneQuest" author Steve Perrin, "Superworld" began as one third of the "Worlds of Wonder" product, which also included a generic fantasy setting, "Magic World", and a generic science fictio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29407 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29408 |
Spica
Spica , designated α Virginis (Latinised to Alpha Virginis, abbreviated Alpha Vir, α Vir), is the brightest object in the constellation Virgo and one of the 20 brightest stars in the night sky. Analysis of its parallax shows that it is located 250 ± 10 light years from the Sun. It is a spectroscopic binary star ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29409 |
Stuart Little
Stuart Little is a 1945 American children's novel by E. B. White, his first book for children, and is widely recognized as a classic in children's literature. "Stuart Little" was illustrated by the subsequently award-winning artist Garth Williams, also his first work for children. It is a realistic fanta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29414 |
Statite
A statite (a portmanteau of "static" and "satellite") is a hypothetical type of artificial satellite that employs a solar sail to continuously modify its orbit in ways that gravity alone would not allow. Typically, a statite would use the solar sail to "hover" in a location that would not otherwise be availabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29417 |
Solar sail
Solar sails (also called light sails or photon sails) are a method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight on large mirrors. Based on the physics, a number of spaceflight missions to test solar propulsion and navigation have been proposed since the 1980s.
A useful analogy to s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29420 |
Sabellianism
In Christianity, Sabellianism is the eastern Church heresy equivalent to the western historic Patripassianism, which are both forms of theological modalism. Sabellianism is the belief that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three different "modes" or "aspects" of God, as opposed to a Trinitarian view of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29425 |
Sino-Indian War
The Sino-Indian War, also known as the Indo-China War and Sino-Indian Border Conflict, was a war between China and India that occurred in 1962. A Chinese disputed Himalayan border was the main cause of the war. There had been a series of violent border skirmishes between the two countries after the 195... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29426 |
Simple module
In mathematics, specifically in ring theory, the simple modules over a ring "R" are the (left or right) modules over "R" that are non-zero and have no non-zero proper submodules. Equivalently, a module "M" is simple if and only if every cyclic submodule generated by a non-zero element of "M" equals "M". ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29430 |
Sonar
Sonar (sound navigation ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels. Two types of technology share the name "sonar": "passive" sonar is essentially ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29438 |
Skylab
Skylab was the first United States space station, launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974. It was operated by three separate three-astronaut crews: SL-2, SL-3 and SL-4. Major operations included an orbital workshop, a solar observatory, Earth observation, and hundreds of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29441 |
StrongARM
The StrongARM is a family of computer microprocessors developed by Digital Equipment Corporation and manufactured in the late 1990s which implemented the ARM v4 instruction set architecture. It was later sold to Intel in 1997, who continued to manufacture it before replacing it with the XScale in the early 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29445 |
Shaul Mofaz
Lieutenant General Shaul Mofaz (; 4 November 1948) is an Israeli former soldier and politician. He joined the Israel Defense Forces in 1966 and served in the Paratroopers Brigade. He fought in the Six-Day War, Yom Kippur War, 1982 Lebanon War, and Operation Entebbe with the paratroopers and Sayeret Matkal,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29450 |
Stasi
The Ministry for State Security (, MfS) or State Security Service (, SSD), commonly known as the (), was the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). It has been described as one of the most effective and repressive intelligence and secret police agencies ever to have exi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29452 |
Sandra Bullock
Sandra Annette Bullock (; born July 26, 1964) is an American-German actress, producer, and philanthropist. She was the highest paid actress in the world in 2010 and 2014. In 2015, Bullock was chosen as "People's" Most Beautiful Woman and was included in "Time" 100 most influential people in the world in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29455 |
Smallfilms
Smallfilms is a British television production company that made animated TV programmes for children from 1959 until the 1980s. In 2014 the company began operating again, producing a new series of its most famous show, "The Clangers". It was originally a partnership between Oliver Postgate (writer, animator ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29458 |
Sabotage
Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a polity, effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, disruption, or destruction. One who engages in sabotage is a "saboteur". Saboteurs typically try to conceal their identities because of the consequences of their actions and to avoid Invoking ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29462 |
Scabbard
A scabbard is a sheath for holding a sword, knife, or other large blade. As well, rifles may be stored in a scabbard by horse riders. Military cavalry and cowboys had scabbards for their saddle ring carbine rifles and lever action rifles on their horses for storage and protection. Scabbards have been made of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29463 |
Spinel
Spinel () is the magnesium/aluminium member of the larger spinel group of minerals. It has the formula MgAl2O4 in the cubic crystal system. Its name comes from the Latin word "spinella", which means "spine" in reference to its pointed crystals.
Spinel crystallizes in the isometric system; common crystal forms ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29467 |
Speech recognition
Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers. It is also known as automatic speech recognition (ASR), computer s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29468 |
Sapphire
Sapphire is a precious gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum, consisting of aluminum oxide () with trace amounts of elements such as iron, titanium, chromium, vanadium, or magnesium. It is typically blue, but natural "fancy" sapphires also occur in yellow, purple, orange, and green colors; "parti sapphi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29469 |
Salvation
Salvation is being saved or protected from harm or being saved or delivered from a dire situation. In religion, salvation generally refers to the saving of the soul from sin and its consequences.
The academic study of salvation is called soteriology.
In religion, salvation is the saving of the soul from si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29473 |
Lockheed S-3 Viking
The Lockheed S-3 Viking is a 4-crew, twin-engine turbofan-powered jet aircraft that was used by the U.S. Navy (USN) primarily for anti-submarine warfare. In the late 1990s, the S-3B's mission focus shifted to surface warfare and aerial refueling. The Viking also provided electronic warfare and surf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29475 |
Kaman SH-2 Seasprite
The Kaman SH-2 Seasprite is a ship-based helicopter originally developed and produced by American manufacturer Kaman Aircraft Corporation. It has been typically used as a compact and fast-moving rotorcraft for utility and anti-submarine warfare missions.
Development of the Seasprite had been init... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29476 |
Stop consonant
In phonetics, a stop, also known as a plosive or oral occlusive, is a consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.
The occlusion may be made with the tongue tip or blade (, ) tongue body (, ), lips (, ), or glottis (). Stops contrast with nasals, where the vocal tract is bl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29480 |
Stayman convention
Stayman is a bidding convention in the card game contract bridge. It is used by a partnership to find a 4-4 or 5-3 trump fit in a suit after making a one (1NT) opening bid and it has been adapted for use after a 2NT opening, a 1NT overcall, and many other natural notrump bids.
The convention is nam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29482 |
Saks Fifth Avenue
Saks Fifth Avenue is an American chain of luxury department stores owned, since 1867, by the oldest commercial corporation in North America, the Hudson's Bay Company. Its main flagship store is located on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
Saks Fifth Avenue is the successor of a busin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29483 |
Seabee
United States Naval Construction Battalions, better known as the Navy Seabees, form the U.S. Naval Construction Force (NCF). The Seabee nickname is a heterograph of the first letters "C B" from the words Construction Battalion. Depending upon how the word is used "Seabee" can refer to one of three things: all e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29484 |
Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a continuously habitable high-rise building that has over 40 floors and is taller than . Historically, the term first referred to buildings with 10 to 20 floors in the 1880s. The definition shifted with advancing construction technology during the 20th century. Skyscrapers may host offices, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29485 |
Sagas of Icelanders
The sagas of Icelanders (), also known as family sagas, are one genre of Icelandic sagas. They are prose narratives mostly based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland in the ninth, tenth, and early eleventh centuries, during the so-called Saga Age. They are the best-known specimens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29486 |
Staind
Staind ( ) is an American rock band formed in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1995. The original lineup consisted of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Aaron Lewis, lead guitarist Mike Mushok, bassist and backing vocalist Johnny April, and drummer Jon Wysocki. The lineup has been stable outside of the 2011 depar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29489 |
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (; Arabic: ""; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was the fifth President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organization the Ira... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29490 |
Oceania
Oceania (, , ) is a geographic region that includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Spanning the eastern and western hemispheres, Oceania has a land area of and a population of over 41 million. When compared to continents, the region of Oceania is the smallest in land area and the second smal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22621 |
Combined oral contraceptive pill
The combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP), often referred to as the birth control pill or colloquially as "the pill", is a type of birth control that is designed to be taken orally by women. It includes a combination of an estrogen (usually ethinylestradiol) and a progestogen (specif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22623 |
Organized crime
Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for profit. Some criminal organizations, such as terrorist groups, are politically motivated. Sometimes criminal organizations for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22625 |
One Foot in the Grave
One Foot in the Grave is a British television sitcom written by David Renwick. There were six series and seven Christmas specials over a period of eleven years from early 1990 to late 2000. The first five series were broadcast between January 1990 and January 1995. For the next five years, the sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22626 |
Ottoman Turks
The Ottoman Turks (or Osmanlı Turks, ) were the Turkish-speaking people of the Ottoman Empire ( 1299–1922/1923). Reliable information about the early history of Ottoman Turks remains scarce, but they take their Turkish name, "Osmanlı" ("Osman" became corrupted in some European languages as "Ottoman"), fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22629 |
Object Management Group
The Object Management Group (OMG) is a computer industry standards consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a range of technologies.
The goal of the OMG was a common portable and interoperable object model with methods and data that work using all types of devel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22637 |
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP). It traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to scholars and academic researchers, as well as des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22641 |
Ottonian dynasty
The Ottonian dynasty () was a Saxon dynasty of German monarchs (919–1024), named after three of its kings and Holy Roman Emperors named Otto, especially its first Emperor Otto I. It is also known as the Saxon dynasty after the family's origin in the German stem duchy of Saxony. The family itself is al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22644 |
Orkney
Orkney (; ), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated off the north coast of the island of Great Britain. Orkney is 10 miles (16 km) north of the coast of Caithness and has about 70 islands, of which 20 are inhabited. The largest island, Mainland, is often ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22645 |
Hoy
Hoy (from Norse "Háey" meaning "high island") is an island in Orkney, Scotland, measuring — ranked largest in the archipelago after Mainland. A natural causeway, "the Ayre", links to much smaller South Walls; the two islands are treated as one entity by the UK census.
The Dwarfie Stane lies in the north of the Ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22647 |
Rousay
Rousay ( meaning Rolf's Island) is a small, hilly island about north of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. It has been nicknamed "Egypt of the north", due to its archaeological diversity and importance.
Like its neighbours Egilsay and Wyre, it can be reached by ro-ro ferry from Tin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22648 |
Observation
Observation is the active acquisition of information from a primary source. In living beings, observation employs the senses. In science, observation can also involve the perception and recording of data via the use of scientific instruments. The term may also refer to any data collected during the scienti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22649 |
Oftel
The Office of Telecommunications (Oftel) ("the telecommunications regulator") was a department in the United Kingdom government, under civil service control, charged with promoting competition and maintaining the interests of consumers in the UK telecommunications market. It was set up under the Telecommunicatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22652 |
Ohio-class submarine
The "Ohio" class of nuclear-powered submarines includes the United States Navy's 14 ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) and its four cruise missile submarines (SSGNs). Each displacing 18,750 tons submerged, the "Ohio"-class boats are the largest submarines ever built for the U.S. Navy. They are t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22654 |
Ossian
Ossian (; Irish Gaelic/Scottish Gaelic: "Oisean") is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson from 1760. Macpherson claimed to have collected word-of-mouth material in Scottish Gaelic, said to be from ancient sources, and that the work was his tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22655 |
Operand
In mathematics an operand is the object of a mathematical operation, i.e., it is the object or quantity that is operated on.
The following arithmetic expression shows an example of operators and operands:
In the above example, '+' is the symbol for the operation called addition.
The operand '3' is one of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22656 |
Order of magnitude
An order of magnitude is an approximation of the logarithm of a value relative to some contextually understood reference value, usually ten, interpreted as the base of the logarithm and the representative of values of magnitude one. Logarithmic distributions are common in nature and
considering the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22657 |
Occam (programming language)
occam is a programming language which is concurrent and builds on the communicating sequential processes (CSP) process algebra, and shares many of its features. It is named after philosopher William of Ockham after whom Occam's razor is named.
occam is an imperative procedural language (s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22660 |
October Revolution
The October Revolution (commonly referred to as the Bolshevik Revolution, the October Uprising, or Red October), officially known in Soviet historiography as the Great October Socialist Revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was instrumental in the l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22661 |
Opole Voivodeship
Opole Voivodeship, or Opole Province ( , , ), is the smallest and least populated voivodeship (province) of Poland. The province's name derives from that of the region's capital and largest city, Opole. It is part of Upper Silesia. A relatively large German minority, with representatives in the Sejm,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22665 |
Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlements from about the 7th to the 15th centuries.
The Proto-Norse language developed into Old Norse by the 8th century, and Old Norse began to develop into the modern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22666 |
Old English
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th century, and the first Old English literary works date from the mid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22667 |
Open cluster
An open cluster is a group of up to a few thousand stars that were formed from the same giant molecular cloud and have roughly the same age. More than 1,100 open clusters have been discovered within the Milky Way Galaxy, and many more are thought to exist. They are loosely bound by mutual gravitational at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22669 |
Orimulsion
Orimulsion is a registered trademark name for a bitumen-based fuel that was developed for industrial use by Intevep, the Research and Development Affiliate of Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), following earlier collaboration on oil emulsions with BP.
Like coal and oil, bitumen occurs naturally and is obta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22673 |
Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship
The Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship contends that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote the plays and poems traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare. Though literary scholars reject all alternative authorship candidates, including Oxford, interest in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22676 |
Oxymoron
An oxymoron (usual plural oxymorons, more rarely oxymora) is a rhetorical device that uses an ostensible self-contradiction to illustrate a rhetorical point or to reveal a paradox.
A more general meaning of "contradiction in terms" (not necessarily for rhetoric effect) is recorded by the "OED" for 1902..
The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22677 |
Office of Strategic Services
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a wartime intelligence agency of the United States during World War II, and a predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22679 |
Oda Nobunaga
Nobunaga was head of the powerful Oda clan of Owari Province and launched a war against other "samurai" to unify Japan in the 1560s. Nobunaga emerged as the most powerful "daimyō" in Japan, overthrowing the nominally ruling "shōgun" Ashikaga Yoshiaki and dissolved the Ashikaga Shogunate in 1573, conquerin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22680 |
Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich
Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (December 11, 1806July 1, 1886) was a German mineralogist and geologist. Full member of St Petersburg Academy of Sciences (hon. member since 1866).
He was born in Berlin and educated at the local university. His earliest scientific work is related to spine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22684 |
Organization of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The organization of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was nominally based on the principles of democratic centralism.
The governing body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was the Party Congress, which initially met annually but whose meetin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22685 |
Oromo people
The Oromo people (pron. or ; Oromo: "Oromoo") are a Cushitic ethnic group and nation native to Ethiopia who speak the Oromo language. They are the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia and represent 34.5% of Ethiopia's population. Oromos speak the Oromo language as their mother tongue (also called "Afaan Orom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22686 |
Oral history
Oral history is the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. These interviews are conducted with people who participated in or observed past events and whose memorie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22687 |
Oncogene
An oncogene is a gene that has the potential to cause cancer. In tumor cells, these genes are often mutated, or expressed at high levels.
Most normal cells will undergo a programmed form of rapid cell death (apoptosis) when critical functions are altered and malfunctioning. Activated oncogenes can cause thos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22689 |
Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
In telecommunications, orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is a type of digital transmission and a method of encoding digital data on multiple carrier frequencies. OFDM has developed into a popular scheme for wideband digital communication, used in applications ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22691 |
Operator overloading
In computer programming, operator overloading, sometimes termed "operator ad hoc polymorphism", is a specific case of polymorphism, where different operators have different implementations depending on their arguments. Operator overloading is generally defined by a programming language, a programm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22693 |
Omphalos hypothesis
The omphalos hypothesis is one attempt to reconcile the scientific evidence that the universe is billions of years old with a literal interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative, which implies that the Earth is only a few thousand years old. It is based on the religious belief that the univers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22700 |
Origen
Origen of Alexandria ( 184 – 253), also known as Origen Adamantius, was an early Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria. He was a prolific writer who wrote roughly 2,000 treatises in multiple branches of theology, including textual criticism,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22702 |
Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
The "Oliver Hazard Perry" class is a class of guided-missile frigates named after the U.S. Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of the naval Battle of Lake Erie. Also known as the "Perry" or FFG-7 (commonly "fig seven") class, the warships were designed in the United States in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22703 |
Ottawa Senators
The Ottawa Senators () are a professional ice hockey team based in Ottawa. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. The Senators play their home games at the 18,652-seat Canadian Tire Centre, which opened in 1996 as the Palladium.
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Orchestra
An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as the violin, viola, cello, and double bass, brass instruments such as the horn, trumpet, trombone and tuba, woodwinds such as the flute,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22706 |
Oolong
Oolong (; ) is a traditional semi-oxidized Chinese tea ("Camellia sinensis)" produced through a process including withering the plant under strong sun and oxidation before curling and twisting. Most oolong teas, especially those of fine quality, involve unique tea plant cultivars that are exclusively used for p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22707 |
Okapi
The okapi (; "Okapia johnstoni"), also known as the forest giraffe, Congolese giraffe, or zebra giraffe, is an artiodactyl mammal native to the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa. Although the okapi has striped markings reminiscent of zebras, it is most closely related to the gir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22709 |
Ovary
The ovary is an organ found in the female reproductive system that produces an ovum. When released, this travels down the fallopian tube into the uterus, where it may become fertilized by a sperm. There is an ovary () found on each side of the body. The ovaries also secrete hormones that play a role in the menst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22710 |
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist specialising in comparative anatomy. He is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
The stories regarding Huxley's famous debate in 1860 with Samuel Wilberforce ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30038 |
Triumph of the Will
Triumph of the Will () is a 1935 Nazi propaganda film directed, produced, edited, and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, which was attended by more than 700,000 Nazi supporters. The film contains excerpts from speeches given by Nazi leaders at t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30039 |
Titanium
Titanium is a chemical element with the symbol Ti and atomic number 22. It is a lustrous transition metal with a silver color, low density, and high strength. Titanium is resistant to corrosion in sea water, aqua regia, and chlorine.
Titanium was discovered in Cornwall, Great Britain, by William Gregor in 17... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30040 |
Technetium
Technetium is a chemical element with the symbol Tc and atomic number 43. It is the lightest element whose isotopes are all radioactive; none are stable other than the fully ionized state of 97Tc. Nearly all available technetium is produced as a synthetic element, and only about 18,000 tons are estimated to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30041 |
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