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Screaming Lord Sutch
David Edward Sutch (10 November 1940 – 16 June 1999), also known as 3rd Earl of Harrow, or Screaming Lord Sutch, was an English musician and serial parliamentary candidate. He was the founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party and served as its leader from 1983 to 1999, during which time h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28690 |
Persians
The Persians are an Iranian ethnic group that make up over half the population of Iran. They share a common cultural system and are native speakers of the Persian language, as well as languages closely related to Persian.
The ancient Persians were originally an ancient Iranian people who migrated to the regi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24607 |
List of Polish painters
Note: Names that cannot be confirmed in Wikipedia database nor through given sources are subject to removal. If you would like to add a new name please consider writing about the artist first.
"This is an alphabetical listing of Polish painters. This list is incomplete. If a notable Polish pain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24608 |
Procedural law
Procedural law, adjective law, in some jurisdictions referred to as remedial law, or rules of court comprises the rules by which a court hears and determines what happens in civil, lawsuit, criminal or administrative proceedings. The rules are designed to ensure a fair and consistent application of due ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24612 |
Pantoum
The pantoum is a poetic form derived from the pantun, a Malay verse form: specifically from the "pantun berkait", a series of interwoven quatrains.
The pantoum is a form of poetry similar to a villanelle in that there are repeating lines throughout the poem. It is composed of a series of quatrains; the second... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24613 |
Pope Sylvester II
Pope Sylvester II (–12 May 1003), originally known as Gerbert of Aurillac, was a French-born scholar and teacher who served as the bishop of Rome and ruled the Papal States from 999 to his death. He endorsed and promoted study of Arab and Greco-Roman arithmetic, mathematics, and astronomy, reintroduc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24614 |
Pottery
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard, durable form. Major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made by a "potter" is also called ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24619 |
Pacta sunt servanda
Pacta sunt servanda (Latin for "agreements must be kept"), a brocard, is a basic principle of civil law, canon law, and international law.
In its most common sense, the principle refers to private contracts, stressing that contained clauses are law between the parties, and implies that nonfulfillm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24622 |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio to parents who were enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began to write stories and verse as a child and publ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24623 |
Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern forms in the United States and the United Kingdom during the mid-1950s. The terms "popular music" and "pop music" are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many diverse styles. "Pop"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24624 |
Paul Wertico
Paul Wertico (born January 5, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American drummer. He gained recognition as a member of the Pat Metheny Group from 1983 until 2001, leaving the group to spend more time with his family and to pursue other musical interests.
After Pat Metheny heard the Simon and Bard Group wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24625 |
Porsche 356
The Porsche 356 is a sports car which was first produced by Austrian company Porsche Konstruktionen GesmbH (1948–1949), and then by German company Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche GmbH (1950–1965). It was Porsche's first production automobile. Earlier cars designed by the Austrian company include Cisitalia Grand ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24626 |
Pedro Martínez
Pedro Jaime Martínez (born October 25, 1971) is a Dominican former professional baseball starting pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from to , for five teams—most notably the Boston Red Sox from to .
At the time of his retirement as an active player, his career record of 219 wins and 10... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24630 |
Picts
The Picts were a confederation of Celtic-speaking peoples who lived in what is today eastern and northern Scotland during the Late British Iron Age and Early Medieval periods. Where they lived and what their culture was like can be inferred from early medieval texts and Pictish stones. Their Latin name, "Picti",... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24632 |
Permutation group
In mathematics, a permutation group is a group "G" whose elements are permutations of a given set "M" and whose group operation is the composition of permutations in "G" (which are thought of as bijective functions from the set "M" to itself). The group of "all" permutations of a set "M" is the symme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24634 |
Protein kinase
A protein kinase is a kinase enzyme that modifies other proteins by chemically adding phosphate groups to them (phosphorylation). Phosphorylation usually results in a functional change of the target protein (substrate) by changing enzyme activity, cellular location, or association with other proteins. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24635 |
Pisa
Pisa ( , or ) is a city and "comune" in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower (the bell tower of the city's cathedral), the city of over 91,104 residents (arou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24636 |
Pentium FDIV bug
The Pentium FDIV bug is a hardware bug affecting the floating point unit (FPU) of the early Intel Pentium processors. Because of the bug, the processor might return incorrect binary floating point results when dividing a number. The bug was discovered in 1994 by Professor Thomas R. Nicely at Lynchburg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24637 |
Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. The percussion family is believed to include the oldest musical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24638 |
Press Gang
Press Gang is a British children's television comedy-drama consisting of 43 episodes across five series that were broadcast from 1989 to 1993. It was produced by Richmond Film & Television for Central, and screened on the ITV network in its regular weekday afternoon children's strand, Children's ITV, typica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24639 |
Pope Innocent VII
Pope Innocent VII (; 1339 – 6 November 1406), born Cosimo de' Migliorati, was the Roman claimant to the headship of the Catholic Church from 17 October 1404 to his death. He was pope during the period of the Western Schism (1378–1417), and was opposed by Benedict XIII at Avignon. Despite good intenti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24642 |
Pope Innocent VIII
Pope Innocent VIII (; 1432 – 25 July 1492), born Giovanni Battista Cybo (or Cibo), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 August 1484 to his death. Son of the viceroy of Naples, Battista spent his early years at the Neapolitan court. He became a priest in the retinue o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24643 |
Pope Innocent IX
Pope Innocent IX (; 20 July 1519 – 30 December 1591), born Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 October to 30 December 1591.
Prior to his short papacy, he had been a canon lawyer, diplomat, and chief administrator during the reign of Pope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24644 |
Pope Innocent X
Pope Innocent X (; 6 May 1574 – 7 January 1655), born Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (or Pamphili), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 September 1644 to his death in 1655.
Born in Rome of a family from Gubbio in Umbria who had come to Rome during the pontificate of Pope ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24645 |
Property law
Property law is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership in real property (land) and personal property. Property refers to legally protected claims to resources, such as land and personal property, including intellectual property. Property can be exchanged through contract law, and if p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24647 |
Plea
In legal terms, a plea is simply an answer to a claim made by someone in a criminal case under common law using the adversarial system. Colloquially, a plea has come to mean the assertion by a defendant at arraignment, or otherwise in response to a criminal charge, whether that person pleaded or pled guilty, not ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24649 |
Pope Innocent XI
Pope Innocent XI (; 16 May 1611 – 12 August 1689), born Benedetto Odescalchi, was Pope from 21 September 1676 to his death on August 12, 1689. He is known in Budapest as the "Saviour of Hungary".
Much of his reign was concerned with tension with Louis XIV of France. He lowered taxes in the Papal Stat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24650 |
Pantograph
A pantograph (Greek roots παντ- "all, every" and γραφ- "to write", from their original use for copying writing) is a mechanical linkage connected in a manner based on parallelograms so that the movement of one pen, in tracing an image, produces identical movements in a second pen. If a line drawing is trace... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24651 |
Princess Mononoke
"Princess Mononoke" is set in the late Muromachi period (approximately 1336 to 1573) of Japan with fantasy elements. The story follows the young Emishi prince Ashitaka's involvement in a struggle between the gods of a forest and the humans who consume its resources. The term or is not a name, but a J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24653 |
Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese, also known as Modern Standard Mandarin, Standard Mandarin, Modern Standard Mandarin Chinese (MSMC), or simply Mandarin, is a standard variety of Chinese that is one of the official languages of the People's Republic of China. Its pronunciation is based on the Beijing dialect, its voc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24657 |
Privatization
Privatization (or privatisation in British English) can mean different things including moving something from the public sector into the private sector. It is also sometimes used as a synonym for deregulation when a heavily regulated private company or industry becomes less regulated. Government function... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24661 |
Passage grave
A passage grave or passage tomb consists of one or more burial chambers covered in earth or with stone, and having a narrow access passage made of large stones. These structures usually date from the Neolithic Age, and are found largely in Western Europe. When covered in earth, a passage grave is a type ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24663 |
P-group
In mathematics, specifically group theory, given a prime number "p", a "p"-group is a group in which the order of every element is a power of "p". That is, for each element "g" of a "p"-group "G", there exists a nonnegative integer "n" such that the product of "pn" copies of "g", and not fewer, is equal to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24664 |
Pope Innocent XII
Pope Innocent XII (; 13 March 1615 – 27 September 1700), born Antonio Pignatelli, was Pope from 12 July 1691 to his death in 1700.
He took a hard stance against nepotism in the church, continuing the policies of Pope Innocent XI, who started the battle against nepotism but which did not gain tractio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24666 |
Protein phosphatase
A protein phosphatase is a phosphatase enzyme that removes a phosphate group from the phosphorylated amino acid residue of its substrate protein. Protein phosphorylation is one of the most common forms of reversible protein posttranslational modification (PTM), with up to 30% of all proteins being ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24667 |
P5 (microarchitecture)
The first Pentium microprocessor was introduced by Intel on March 22, 1993. Its P5 microarchitecture, also sometimes referred to as i586, was the fifth generation for Intel, and the first superscalar IA-32 microarchitecture. As a direct extension of the 80486 architecture, it included dual integ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24668 |
Pauli exclusion principle
The Pauli exclusion principle is the quantum mechanical principle which states that two or more identical fermions (particles with half-integer spin) cannot occupy the same quantum state within a quantum system simultaneously. This principle was formulated by Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24669 |
Primate (bishop)
Primate () is a title or rank bestowed on some important archbishops in certain Christian churches. Depending on the particular tradition, it can denote either jurisdictional authority (title of authority) or (usually) ceremonial precedence (title of honour).
In the Western Church, a Primate is an Ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24672 |
Penny Arcade
Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The comic debuted in 1998 on the website "loonygames.com". Since then, Holkins and Krahulik have established their own site, which is typically updated with a new comic stri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24673 |
Permanent Way Institution
The Permanent Way Institution is a technical Institution which aims to provide technical knowledge, advice and support to all those engaged in rail infrastructure systems worldwide.
Permanent Way is used to describe the course of a railway line, including the components that form the track, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24675 |
President of Ireland
The president of Ireland () is the head of state of Ireland and the supreme commander of the Irish Defence Forces.
The president holds office for seven years, and can be elected for a maximum of two terms. The president is directly elected by the people, although there is no poll if only one cand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24676 |
Premier of Western Australia
The Premier of Western Australia is the head of the executive branch of government in the Australian state of Western Australia. The Premier has similar functions in Western Australia to those performed by the Prime Minister of Australia at the national level, subject to the different Cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24680 |
Pigeonhole sort
Pigeonhole sorting is a sorting algorithm that is suitable for sorting lists of elements where the number of elements ("n") and the length of the range of possible key values ("N") are approximately the same. It requires O("n" + "N") time. It is similar to counting sort, but differs in that it "moves i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24681 |
Pope Innocent XIII
Pope Innocent XIII (; 13 May 1655 – 7 March 1724), born as Michelangelo dei Conti, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 May 1721 to his death in 1724. He is the last pope to date to take the pontifical name of "Innocent" upon his election.
Pope Innocent XIII was refo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24683 |
Pope Julius I
Pope Julius I was the bishop of Rome from 6 February 337 to his death on 12 April 352. He is notable for asserting the authority of the pope over the Arian Eastern bishops, as well as setting 25 December as the official birthdate of Jesus.
Julius was a native of Rome and was chosen as successor of Pope ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24684 |
Pope Julius III
Pope Julius III (; 10 September 1487 – 23 March 1555), born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 February 1550 to his death in 1555.
After a career as a distinguished and effective diplomat, he was elected to the papacy as a compromise ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24685 |
Pope Eugene I
Pope Eugene I (; died 2 June 657) was the bishop of Rome from 10 August 654 to his death. He was chosen to become pope after the deposition and banishment of Martin I by Emperor Constans II over the dispute about Monothelitism.
Eugene was a Roman from the Aventine, son of Rufinianus. He was brought up i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24686 |
Pope Eugene II
Pope Eugene II (; died 27 August 827) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 6 June 824 to his death. A native of Rome, he was chosen by nobles to succeed Paschal I as pope despite the clergy and the people favoring Zinzinnus. The influence of the Carolingian Franks on the selection o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24687 |
Pope Eugene III
Pope Eugene III (; c. 1080 – 8 July 1153), born Bernardo Pignatelli, or possibly Paganelli, called Bernardo da Pisa, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 February 1145 to his death in 1153. He was the first Cistercian to become pope. In response to the fall of Edessa to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24688 |
Plaintiff
A plaintiff (Π in legal shorthand) is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an "action") before a court. By doing so, the plaintiff seeks a legal remedy; if this search is successful, the court will issue judgment in favor of the plaintiff and make the appropriate court order (e.g., an order for d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24690 |
Philosophy of law
Philosophy of law is a branch of philosophy that examines the nature of law and law's relationship to other systems of norms, especially ethics and political philosophy. It asks questions like "What is law?", "What are the criteria for legal validity?", and "What is the relationship between law and m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24694 |
Personal property
Personal property is property that is movable. In common law systems, personal property may also be called chattels or personalty. In civil law systems, personal property is often called movable property or movables – any property that can be moved from one location to another.
Personal property can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24695 |
Prima facie
Prima facie (; ) is a Latin expression meaning "on its first encounter" or "at first sight". The literal translation would be "at first face" or "at first appearance", from the feminine forms of "primus" ("first") and "facies" ("face"), both in the ablative case. In modern, colloquial and conversational En... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24696 |
Product liability
Product liability is the area of law in which manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers, and others who make products available to the public are held responsible for the injuries those products cause. Although the word "product" has broad connotations, product liability as an area of law is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24697 |
Proximate cause
In law, a proximate cause is an event sufficiently related to an injury that the courts deem the event to be the cause of that injury. There are two types of causation in the law: cause-in-fact, and proximate (or legal) cause. Cause-in-fact is determined by the "but for" test: But for the action, the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24698 |
Peace
Peace is a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such as war) and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups. Throughout history leaders have used peacemaking and diplomacy to est... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24702 |
Portland Vase
The Portland Vase is a Roman cameo glass vase, which is dated to between AD 1 and AD 25, though low BC dates have some scholarly support. It is the best known piece of Roman cameo glass and has served as an inspiration to many glass and porcelain makers from about the beginning of the 18th century onward... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24703 |
Pyrenees
The Pyrenees (; , ; , ; ; , ; , ; , ) is a mountain range between the Iberian Peninsula and France. Reaching a height of altitude at the peak of Aneto, it extends for about from its union with Cantabrian Mountains to the Mediterranean Sea (Cap de Creus).
For the most part, the main crest forms a divide betwe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24707 |
Planetary nomenclature
Planetary nomenclature, like terrestrial nomenclature, is a system of uniquely identifying features on the surface of a planet or natural satellite so that the features can be easily located, described, and discussed. Since the invention of the telescope, astronomers have given names to the surf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24709 |
North American P-51 Mustang
The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts. The Mustang was designed in April 1940 by a design team headed by James Kindelberger of North American Aviation (NAA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24710 |
Precession
Precession is a change in the orientation of the rotational axis of a rotating body. In an appropriate reference frame it can be defined as a change in the first Euler angle, whereas the third Euler angle defines the rotation itself. In other words, if the axis of rotation of a body is itself rotating about... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24714 |
Punjab
Punjab (, , , ; native pronunciation: ), also spelled and romanised as Panjāb, is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of eastern Pakistan and northern India. The boundaries of the region are ill-defined and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24717 |
Ring system
A ring system is a disc or ring orbiting an astronomical object that is composed of solid material such as dust and moonlets, and is a common component of satellite systems around giant planets. A ring system around a planet is also known as a planetary ring system.
The most prominent and most famous plan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24718 |
P-code machine
In computer programming, a p-code machine, or portable code machine is a virtual machine designed to execute p-code (the assembly language of a hypothetical CPU). This term is applied both generically to all such machines (such as the Java Virtual Machine and MATLAB precompiled code), and to specific im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24722 |
Proton-pump inhibitor
Proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) are members of a class of medications whose main action is a profound and prolonged reduction of stomach acid production. Within the class of medications, there is no clear evidence that one agent works better than another.
They are the most potent inhibitors of aci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24723 |
Pan-Slavism
Pan-Slavism, a movement which crystallized in the mid-19th century, is the political ideology concerned with the advancement of integrity and unity for the Slavic-speaking peoples. Its main impact occurred in the Balkans, where non-Slavic empires had ruled the South Slavs for centuries. These were mainly t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24724 |
Positron
The positron or antielectron is the antiparticle or the antimatter counterpart of the electron. The positron has an electric charge of +1 "e", a spin of 1/2 (the same as the electron), and has the same mass as an electron. When a positron collides with an electron, annihilation occurs. If this collision occur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24731 |
Phencyclidine
Phencyclidine or phenylcyclohexyl piperidine (PCP), also known as angel dust among other names, is a drug used for its mind-altering effects. PCP may cause hallucinations, distorted perceptions of sounds, and violent behavior. As a recreational drug, it is typically smoked, but may be taken by mouth, sno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24733 |
Product of group subsets
In mathematics, one can define a product of group subsets in a natural way. If "S" and "T" are subsets of a group "G", then their product is the subset of "G" defined by
The subsets "S" and "T" need not be subgroups for this product to be well defined. The associativity of this product follows... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24734 |
4-Phenyl-4-(1-piperidinyl)cyclohexanol
4-Phenyl-4-(1-piperidinyl)cyclohexanol, also known as PPC, is an organic chemical which is a metabolite of phencyclidine (PCP). It can be detected in the hair of PCP users.
PPC has been shown to cause increases in locomotor activity in lab mice. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24737 |
Piperidine
Piperidine is an organic compound with the molecular formula (CH2)5NH. This heterocyclic amine consists of a six-membered ring containing five methylene bridges (–CH2–) and one amine bridge (–NH–). It is a colorless liquid with an odor described as objectionable, and typical of amines. The name comes from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24739 |
Political question
In United States constitutional law, the political question doctrine is closely linked to the concept of justiciability, as it comes down to a question of whether or not the court system is an appropriate forum in which to hear the case. This is because the court system only has authority to hear an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24740 |
Paul Dirac
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (; 8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English theoretical physicist who is regarded as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century.
Dirac made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. Among other... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24742 |
Shamanism
Shamanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner, a shaman, who is believed to interact with a spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance. The goal of this is usually to direct these spirits or spiritual energies into the physical world, for healing or some other purpo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26861 |
Sexology
Sexology is the scientific study of human sexuality, including human sexual interests, behaviors, and functions. The term "sexology" does not generally refer to the non-scientific study of sexuality, such as political science or social criticism.
Sexologists apply tools from several academic fields, such as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26862 |
List of leaders of the Soviet Union
During its sixty-nine-year history, the Soviet Union usually had a "de facto" leader who would not necessarily be head of state, but would lead while holding an office such as Premier or General Secretary. Under the 1977 Constitution, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26865 |
Seafood
Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including fish and shellfish. Shellfish include various species of molluscs (e.g. bivalve molluscs such as clams, oysters, and mussels and cephalopods such as octopus and squid), crustaceans (e.g. shrimp, crabs, and lobster), and echinoder... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26866 |
SI base unit
The SI base units are the standard units of measurement defined by the International System of Units (SI) for the seven base quantities of what is now known as the International System of Quantities: they are notably a basic set from which all other SI units can be derived. The units and their physical qu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26872 |
Second
The second (symbol: s, abbreviation: sec) is the base unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) (French: Système International d’unités), commonly understood and historically defined as of a day – this factor derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes and finally t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26873 |
Metric prefix
A metric prefix is a unit prefix that precedes a basic unit of measure to indicate a multiple or fraction of the unit. While all metric prefixes in common use today are decadic, historically there have been a number of binary metric prefixes as well. Each prefix has a unique symbol that is prepended to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26874 |
Split (poker)
In poker it is sometimes necessary to split, or divide the pot among two or more players rather than awarding it all to a single player. This can happen because of ties, and also by playing intentional split-pot poker variants (the most typical of these is high-low split poker, where the high hand and lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26882 |
Superconductivity
Superconductivity is the set of physical properties observed in certain materials where electrical resistance vanishes and magnetic flux fields are expelled from the material. Any material exhibiting these properties is a superconductor. Unlike an ordinary metallic conductor, whose resistance decreas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26884 |
Geography of Sweden
Sweden is a country in Northern Europe on the Scandinavian Peninsula. It borders Norway to the west; Finland to the northeast; and the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Bothnia to the south and east. At , Sweden is the 55th largest country in the world. It is the fifth largest in Europe and the largest in Nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26889 |
Demographics of Sweden
The total resident population of Sweden was 10,343,403 in March 2020. The population exceeded 10 million for the first time on Friday 20 January 2017. The three largest cities are Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. Sweden's population has become much more ethnically, religiously and linguistically... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26890 |
Telecommunications in Sweden
This article covers telecommunications in Sweden.
Sweden liberalized its telecommunications industry starting in 1980s and being formally liberalized in 1993. This was three years ahead of USA and five years before the European common policy introduced in January 1998 allowed for an open ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26893 |
Transport in Sweden
Transportation in Sweden is carried out by car, bus, train, tram, boat or aeroplane.
Rail transport is operated by SJ, DSBFirst, Green Cargo, Vy Tåg and more. Most counties have companies that do ticketing, marketing and financing of local passenger rail, but the actual operation are done by the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26894 |
Swedish Armed Forces
The Swedish Armed Forces (, literally “the Defense Force”) is the government agency that forms the military forces of Sweden, and which is tasked with defense of the country, as well as promoting Sweden's wider interests, supporting international peacekeeping efforts, and providing humanitarian ai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26895 |
Foreign relations of Sweden
The foreign policy of Sweden is based on the premise that national security is best served by staying free of alliances in peacetime in order to remain a neutral country in the event of war. In 2002, Sweden revised its security doctrine. The security doctrine still states that "Sweden pursu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26896 |
Spice
A spice is a seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance primarily used for flavoring, coloring or preserving food. Spices are distinguished from herbs, which are the leaves, flowers, or stems of plants used for flavoring or as a garnish. Many spices have antimicrobial properties, which may explain why spi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26897 |
Spearmint
Spearmint, also known as garden mint, common mint, lamb mint and mackerel mint, is a species of mint, Mentha spicata, native to Europe and southern temperate Asia, extending from Ireland in the west to southern China in the east. It is naturalized in many other temperate parts of the world, including norther... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26899 |
Solar System
The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the objects that orbit it, either directly or indirectly. Of the objects that orbit the Sun directly, the largest are the eight planets, with the remainder being smaller objects, the dwarf planets and small Solar System bodies. Of the obj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26903 |
Silurian
The Silurian ( ) is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya. The Silurian is the shortest period of the Paleozoic Era. As with other geologic periods, the rock beds that define the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26904 |
Siege
A siege is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition, or a well-prepared assault. This derives from . Siege warfare is a form of constant, low-intensity conflict characterized by one party holding a strong, static, defensive position. Consequently, an opportunity for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26905 |
Saint Lawrence Seaway
The Saint Lawrence Seaway () is a system of locks, canals, and channels in Canada and the United States that permits oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America, as far inland as Duluth, Minnesota at the western end of Lake Superior. The seaway is name... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26908 |
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi ( , ; born 29 September 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who has served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since July 2019.
Berlusconi is the controlling shareholder of Mediaset and owned the Ita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26909 |
Sprung rhythm
Sprung rhythm is a poetic rhythm designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech. It is constructed from feet in which the first syllable is stressed and may be followed by a variable number of unstressed syllables. The British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins said he discovered this previously unnamed poetic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26911 |
Solanales
The Solanales are an order of flowering plants, included in the asterid group of dicotyledons. Some older sources used the name Polemoniales for this order.
Under the older Cronquist system, the latter three families were placed elsewhere, and a number of others were included:
In the classification system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26913 |
Sheepshead (card game)
Sheepshead or Sheephead is an American trick-taking card game derived from Bavaria's national card game, Schafkopf. Sheepshead is most commonly played by five players, but variants exist to allow for two to eight players. There are also many other variants to the game rules, and many slang terms... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26914 |
Linguistic relativity
The hypothesis of linguistic relativity, part of relativism, also known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis , the Whorf hypothesis, or Whorfianism is a principle claiming that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition, and thus people's perceptions are relative to their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26915 |
Statute of limitations
A statute of limitations, known in civil law systems as a prescriptive period, is a law passed by a legislative body to set the maximum time after an event within which legal proceedings may be initiated.
When the time specified in a statute of limitations passes, a claim might no longer be fil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26917 |
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