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Guru Meditation
The Guru Meditation is an error notice displayed by early versions of the Commodore Amiga computer when they crashed. It is analogous to the "Blue Screen of Death" in Microsoft Windows operating systems, or a kernel panic in Unix. It has later been used as a message for unrecoverable errors in software... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13050 |
Gnumeric
Gnumeric is a spreadsheet program that is part of the GNOME Free Software Desktop Project. Gnumeric version 1.0 was released on 31 December 2001. Gnumeric is distributed as free software under the GNU GPL license; it is intended to replace proprietary spreadsheet programs like Microsoft Excel. Gnumeric was cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13051 |
GNU Debugger
The GNU Debugger (GDB) is a portable debugger that runs on many Unix-like systems and works for many programming languages, including Ada, C, C++, Objective-C, Free Pascal, Fortran, Go, and partially others.
GDB was first written by Richard Stallman in 1986 as part of his GNU system, after his GNU Emacs ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13052 |
Galeon
Galeon is a discontinued Gecko-based web browser that was created by Marco Pesenti Gritti with the goal of delivering a consistent browsing experience to GNOME desktop environment. It gained some popularity in the early 2000s due to its speed, flexibility in configuration and features.
The disagreement over th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13055 |
Gatling gun
The Gatling gun is one of the best-known early rapid-fire spring loaded, hand cranked weapons, and a forerunner of the modern machine gun and rotary cannon. Invented by Richard Gatling, it saw occasional use by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s, which was the first time it was emp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13057 |
East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; , ), was a state that existed from 1949 to 1990, the period when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. Commonly described as a communist state in English usage, it described itself as a socialist "work... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13058 |
Granville, New South Wales
Granville is a suburb in western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Granville is located west of the Sydney central business district, split between the local government areas of Cumberland Council and the City of Parramatta.
South Granville is a separate suburb. Lisgar, Re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13060 |
Georg Philipp Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann ( – 25 June 1767) () was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13062 |
Granville rail disaster
The Granville rail/train disaster occurred on Tuesday 18 January 1977 at Granville, New South Wales, a western suburb of Sydney, when a crowded commuter train derailed, running into the supports of a road bridge that collapsed onto two of the train's passenger carriages. It remains the worst ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13064 |
George Gershwin
George Gershwin (; born Jacob Bruskin Gershowitz, September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned both popular and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions "Rhapsody in Blue" (1924) and "An American in Paris" (1928)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13066 |
LGBT social movements
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) social movements are social movements that advocate for LGBT people in society. Social movements may focus on equal rights, such as the 2000s movement for marriage equality, or they may focus on liberation, as in the gay liberation movement of the 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13070 |
Great Victoria Desert
The Great Victoria Desert is a sparsely-populated desert ecoregion and interim Australian bioregion in Western Australia and South Australia.
The Great Victoria is the largest desert in Australia and consists of many small sandhills, grassland plains, areas with a closely packed surface of pebble... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13072 |
GNU Lesser General Public License
The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The license allows developers and companies to use and integrate a software component released under the LGPL into their own (even proprietary) software without bei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13073 |
Gosford
Gosford is a New South Wales suburb located in the heart of the Central Coast Region, about north of the Sydney CBD. The suburb is situated at the northern extremity of Brisbane Water, an extensive northern branch of the Hawkesbury River estuary and Broken Bay.
The suburb is the administrative centre and CBD ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13075 |
Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 2007. Brown was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 2015, first for Dunfermline East ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13076 |
Galileo (spacecraft)
Galileo was an American uncrewed spacecraft that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies. Named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, it consisted of an orbiter and an entry probe. It was delivered into Earth orbit on October 18, 1989 by . "Ga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13077 |
Glottis
The glottis is the opening between the vocal folds (the rima glottidis).
As the vocal folds vibrate, the resulting vibration produces a "buzzing" quality to the speech, called voice or voicing or pronunciation.
Sound production that involves moving the vocal folds close together is called "glottal". English ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13079 |
Geneva College
Geneva College is a Christian liberal arts college in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1848, in Northwood, Ohio, the college moved to its present location in 1880, where it continues to educate a student body of about 1400 traditional undergraduates in over 30 majors, as well as graduate students ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13082 |
Gorillaz
Gorillaz are a British virtual band created in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett. The band primarily consists of four animated members: Stuart "2-D" Pot, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle, and Russel Hobbs. Their fictional universe is presented in music videos, interviews and short cartoons. In real... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13084 |
GW-BASIC
GW-BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language developed by Microsoft from IBM BASICA. It is functionally identical to BASICA, but is a fully self-contained executable and does not need the Cassette BASIC ROM. It was bundled with MS-DOS operating systems on IBM PC compatibles by Microsoft. Microsoft ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13087 |
Granite
Granite () is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture. Granites can be predominantly white, pink, or gray in color, depending on their mineralogy. The word "granite" comes from the Latin "granum", a grain, in reference to the coarse-grained structure of such a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13088 |
Global Climate Coalition
The Global Climate Coalition (GCC) (1989–2001) was an international lobbyist group of businesses that opposed action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and publicly challenged the science behind global warming. The GCC was the largest industry group active in climate policy and the most promin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13089 |
Gotham City
Gotham City ( ), or simply Gotham, is a fictional city appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, best known as the home of Batman. The city was first identified as Batman's place of residence in "Batman" #4 (December 1940) and has since been the primary setting for stories featuring the cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13090 |
Charles Goren
Charles Henry Goren (March 4, 1901 – April 3, 1991) was an American bridge player and writer who significantly developed and popularized the game. He was the leading American bridge personality in the 1950s and 1960s – or 1940s and 1950s, as "Mr. Bridge" – as Ely Culbertson had been in the 1930s. Culbert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13092 |
Galactus
Galactus () is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Formerly a mortal man, Galactus is a cosmic entity who originally consumed planets to sustain his life force, and serves a functional role in the upkeep of the primary Marvel continuity. Galactus was created by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13095 |
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference comprising eight private universities in the Northeastern United States. The term "Ivy League" is typically used beyond the sports context to refer to the eight schools as a group of elite colleges with connotations of academic excellence, selecti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14975 |
Ithaca Hours
The Ithaca HOUR is a local currency used in Ithaca, New York and is the oldest and largest local currency system in the United States that is still operating, although its use is reported to be in decline. It has inspired other similar systems in Madison, Wisconsin; Santa Barbara, California,
Corvallis, O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14976 |
Interstellar cloud
An interstellar cloud is generally an accumulation of gas, plasma, and dust in our and other galaxies. Put differently, an interstellar cloud is a denser-than-average region of the interstellar medium, (ISM), the matter and radiation that exists in the space between the star systems in a galaxy. Dep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14979 |
Imhotep
Imhotep (; Egyptian: "ỉỉ-m-ḥtp" "*jā-im-ḥātap", in Unicode hieroglyphs: 𓇍𓅓𓊵:𓏏*𓊪, "the one who comes in peace"; fl. late 27th century BC) was an Egyptian chancellor to the pharaoh Djoser, probable architect of the Djoser's step pyramid, and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis. Very little is known ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14980 |
Ictinus
Ictinus (; , "Iktinos") was an architect active in the mid 5th century BC. Ancient sources identify Ictinus and Callicrates as co-architects of the Parthenon. He co-wrote a book on the project – which is now lost – in collaboration with Carpion.
Pausanias identifies Ictinus as architect of the Temple of Apoll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14981 |
Isidore of Miletus
Isidore of Miletus (; Medieval Greek pronunciation: ; ) was one of the two main Byzantine Greek architects (Anthemius of Tralles was the other) that Emperor Justinian I commissioned to design the cathedral Hagia Sophia in Constantinople from 532 to 537. The creation of an important compilation of Ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14982 |
International Atomic Energy Agency
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. The IAEA was established as an autonomous organisation on 29 July 1957.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14984 |
International Civil Aviation Organization
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO; ; ) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It changes the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14985 |
International Maritime Organization
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) (French: "Organisation Maritime Internationale" (OMI)), known as the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO) until 1982, is a specialised agency of the United Nations responsible for regulating shipping. The IMO was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14986 |
International Labour Organization
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice through setting international labour standards. Founded in 1919 under the League of Nations, it is the first and oldest specialised agency of the UN. The ILO ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14987 |
International English
International English is the concept of the English language as a global means of communication in numerous dialects, and the movement towards an international standard for the language. It is also referred to as Global English, World English, Common English, Continental English, General English,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14996 |
International African Institute
The International African Institute (IAI) was founded (as the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures - IIALC) in 1926 in London for the study of African languages. Frederick Lugard was the first chairman (1926 to his death in 1945); Diedrich Hermann Westermann (1926 t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14997 |
Insulin-like growth factor
The insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) are proteins with high sequence similarity to insulin. IGFs are part of a complex system that cells use to communicate with their physiologic environment. This complex system (often referred to as the IGF "axis") consists of two cell-surface receptors (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15000 |
Islamism
Islamism is a concept whose meaning has been debated in both public and academic contexts. The term can refer to diverse forms of social and political activism advocating that public and political life should be guided by Islamic principles or more specifically to movements which call for full implementation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15012 |
Instructional theory
An instructional theory is "a theory that offers explicit guidance on how to better help people learn and develop." It provides insights about what is likely to happen and why with respect to different kinds of teaching and learning activities while helping indicate approaches for their evaluation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15014 |
ISO/IEC 8859-1
ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998, "Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1", is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. ISO 8859-1 encodes what it refers to as "Latin alphabet no. 1", ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15019 |
ISO/IEC 8859
ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint ISO and IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings. The series of standards consists of numbered parts, such as ISO/IEC 8859-1, ISO/IEC 8859-2, etc. There are 15 parts, excluding the abandoned ISO/IEC 8859-12. The ISO working group maintaining this series of standards ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15020 |
Infrared
Infrared (IR), sometimes called infrared light, is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than those of visible light. It is therefore generally invisible to the human eye, although IR at wavelengths up to 1050 nanometers (nm)s from specially pulsed lasers can be seen by humans under certain ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15022 |
Icosidodecahedron
In geometry, an icosidodecahedron is a polyhedron with twenty (icosi) triangular faces and twelve (dodeca) pentagonal faces. An icosidodecahedron has 30 identical vertices, with two triangles and two pentagons meeting at each, and 60 identical edges, each separating a triangle from a pentagon. As suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15023 |
ISO 8601
ISO 8601 "Data elements and interchange formats – Information interchange – Representation of dates and times" is an international standard covering the exchange of date- and time-related data. It was issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and was first published in 1988. The purpo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15024 |
International Seabed Authority
The International Seabed Authority (ISA) () is an intergovernmental body based in Kingston, Jamaica, that was established to organize, regulate and control all mineral-related activities in the international seabed area beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, an area underlying most ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15028 |
Industry Standard Architecture
Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) is the 16-bit internal bus of IBM PC/AT and similar computers based on the Intel 80286 and its immediate successors during the 1980s. The bus was (largely) backward compatible with the 8-bit bus of the 8088-based IBM PC, including the IBM PC/XT as wel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15029 |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations that is dedicated to providing the world with objective, scientific information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of the
risk of human-induced climate change, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15030 |
IBM Personal Computer
The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It is IBM model number 5150 and was introduced on August 12, 1981. It was created by a team of engineers and designers under the direction of Don Estridge in Boca Raton, Fl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15032 |
Counties of Ireland
The counties of Ireland (; Ulster-Scots: "coonties o Airlann") are sub-national divisions that have been, and in some cases continue to be, used to geographically demarcate areas of local government. These land divisions were formed following the Norman invasion of Ireland in imitation of the count... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15033 |
Information Sciences Institute
The USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) is a component of the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering, and specializes in research and development in information processing, computing, and communications technologies. It is located in Marina del Rey, Ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15034 |
Information security
Information security, sometimes shortened to infosec, is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. It typically involves preventing or at least reducing the probability of unauthorized/inappropriate access to data, or the unl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15036 |
Income
Income is the consumption and saving opportunity gained by an entity within a specified timeframe, which is generally expressed in monetary terms.
For households and individuals, "income is the sum of all the wages, salaries, profits, interest payments, rents, and other forms of earnings received in a given p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15037 |
Iona
Iona (, sometimes simply "Ì") is a small island in the Inner Hebrides off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of Scotland. It is mainly known for Iona Abbey, though there are other buildings on the island. Iona Abbey was a centre of Gaelic monasticism for three centuries and is today known for its relative tran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15039 |
Ido
Ido (, sometimes ) is a constructed language, derived from Reformed Esperanto, created to be a universal second language for speakers of diverse backgrounds. Ido was specifically designed to be grammatically, orthographically, and lexicographically regular, and above all easy to learn and use. In this sense, Ido i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15040 |
Improvisational theatre
Improvisational theatre, often called improvisation or improv, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted: created spontaneously by the performers. In its purest form, the dialogue, action, story, and characters are created collabo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15041 |
International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is a modular space station (habitable artificial satellite) in low Earth orbit. The ISS program is a multi-national collaborative project between five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15043 |
IA-32
IA-32 (short for "Intel Architecture, 32-bit", sometimes also called i386) is the 32-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture, designed by Intel and first implemented in the 80386 microprocessor in 1985. IA-32 is the first incarnation of x86 that supports 32-bit computing; as a result, the "IA-32" ter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15046 |
Internalism and externalism
Internalism and externalism are two opposing ways of explaining various subjects in several areas of philosophy. These include human motivation, knowledge, justification, meaning, and truth. The distinction arises in many areas of debate with similar but distinct meanings.
Internalism is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15047 |
Isolationism
Isolationism is a category of foreign policies institutionalized by leaders who assert that nations' best interests are best served by keeping the affairs of other countries at a distance. One possible motivation for limiting international involvement is to avoid being drawn into dangerous and otherwise u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15048 |
Indianapolis Colts
The Indianapolis Colts are an American football team based in Indianapolis. The Colts compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) South division. Since the 2008 season, the Colts have played their games in Lucas Oil Stadium. Previ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15049 |
Immigration to the United States
Immigration to the United States is the international movement of non-U.S. nationals in order to reside permanently in the country. Immigration has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of the U.S. history. Because the United States is a settler c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15051 |
Image and Scanner Interface Specification
Image and Scanner Interface Specification (ISIS) is an industry standard interface for image scanning technologies, developed by Pixel Translations in 1990 (which became EMC Corporation's Captiva Software and later acquired by OpenText).
ISIS is an open standard for scanner c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15052 |
Ivo Caprino
Ivo Caprino (17 February 1920 – 8 February 2001) was a Norwegian film director and writer, best known for his puppet films. His most famous film is "Flåklypa Grand Prix" ("Pinchcliffe Grand Prix"), made in 1975.
In the mid-1940s, Caprino helped his mother design puppets for a puppet theatre, which inspire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15053 |
Intel 80286
The Intel 80286 (also marketed as the iAPX 286 and often called Intel 286) is a 16-bit microprocessor that was introduced on February 1, 1982. It was the first 8086-based CPU with separate, non-multiplexed address and data buses and also the first with memory management and wide protection abilities. The 8... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15054 |
Kerameikos
Kerameikos (, ) also known by its Latinized form Ceramicus, is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and outside the ancient city walls, on both sides of the Dipylon (Δίπυλον) Gate and by the banks of the Eridanos River. It was the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16928 |
Kabir Bedi
Kabir Bedi (born 16 January 1946) is an Indian film actor. His career has spanned three continents covering India, the United States and especially Italy among other European countries in three media: film, television and theatre. He is noted for his role as Emperor Shah Jahan in "" and the villainous Sanja... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16930 |
Kamov Ka-25
The Kamov Ka-25 (NATO reporting name "Hormone") was a naval helicopter, developed for the Soviet Navy in the USSR from .
In the late 1950s there was an urgent demand for anti-submarine helicopters for deployment on new ships equipped with helicopter platforms entering service with the Soviet Navy. Kamov's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16932 |
KAIST
KAIST (formally the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) is a national research university located in Daedeok Innopolis, Daejeon, South Korea. KAIST was established by the Korean government in 1971 as the nation's first research-oriented science and engineering institution. KAIST also has been int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16934 |
Kaolinite
Kaolinite () is a clay mineral, part of the group of industrial minerals with the chemical composition Al2Si2O5(OH)4. It is a layered silicate mineral, with one tetrahedral sheet of silica () linked through oxygen atoms to one octahedral sheet of alumina () octahedra. Rocks that are rich in kaolinite are kno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16938 |
Kawasaki Ki-56
The Kawasaki Ki-56 (一式貨物輸送機, Type 1 Freight Transport) was a Japanese two-engine light transport aircraft used during World War II. It was known to the Allies by the reporting name "Thalia". 121 were built between 1940 and 1943.
The Kawasaki Ki-56 was derived from the Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra ai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16941 |
MV Wilhelm Gustloff
MV "Wilhelm Gustloff" was a German armed military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by in the Baltic Sea while evacuating German civilian refugees from East Prussia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Estonia and military personnel from Gotenhafen (Gdynia) as the Red Army advanced. By one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16942 |
Kerberos (protocol)
Kerberos () is a computer-network authentication protocol that works on the basis of "tickets" to allow nodes communicating over a non-secure network to prove their identity to one another in a secure manner. The protocol was named after the character "Kerberos" (or "Cerberus") from Greek mythology... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16947 |
Ketamine
Ketamine is a medication mainly used for starting and maintaining anesthesia. It induces a trance-like state while providing pain relief, sedation, and memory loss. Other uses include sedation in intensive care and treatment of pain and depression. Heart function, breathing, and airway reflexes generally rema... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16948 |
Katyusha rocket launcher
The Katyusha multiple rocket launcher () is a type of rocket artillery first built and fielded by the Soviet Union in World War II. Multiple rocket launchers such as these deliver explosives to a target area more quickly than conventional artillery, but with lower accuracy and requiring a long... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16959 |
Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 – November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer. She was influenced by the Black Mountain School poets, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, French critical theory, Carolee Schneeman, Eleanor Antin, and by philosophy, myst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16960 |
Koh-i-Noor
The Koh-i-Noor (Persian: کوه نور, ; "Mountain of light"), also spelt Kohinoor and Koh-i-Nur, is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world, weighing . It is part of the British Crown Jewels.
Mined in Kollur Mine, subcontinent, during the period of the Delhi Sultanate, there is no record of its original w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16966 |
Kvass
Kvass (see List of names below) is a traditional fermented Slavic and Baltic beverage commonly made from rye bread, which is known in many Central and Eastern European and Asian countries as "black bread". The colour of the bread used contributes to the colour of the resulting drink. Kvass is classified as a "no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16971 |
Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem
The Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser (KAM) theorem is a result in dynamical systems about the persistence of quasiperiodic motions under small perturbations. The theorem partly resolves the small-divisor problem that arises in the perturbation theory of classical mechanics.
The problem is wheth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16972 |
Knapsack problem
The knapsack problem is a problem in combinatorial optimization: Given a set of items, each with a weight and a value, determine the number of each item to include in a collection so that the total weight is less than or equal to a given limit and the total value is as large as possible. It derives it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16974 |
Ketoprofen
Ketoprofen is one of the propionic acid class of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) with analgesic and antipyretic effects. It acts by inhibiting the body's production of prostaglandin.
It was patented in 1967 and approved for medical use in 1980.
As of 2015 the cost for a typical month of medicat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16978 |
Korea Institute for Advanced Study
The Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) is an advanced research institute in South Korea. It is located on a campus in Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul.
KIAS was founded in 1996, aiming to become a world's leading research institute where international elite scholars gather and dedicate t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16984 |
Kabuki
In 2005, the "Kabuki theatre" was proclaimed by UNESCO as an intangible heritage possessing outstanding universal value. In 2008, it was inscribed in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
The individual kanji, from left to right, mean "sing" (), "dance" (), and "skill"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16985 |
Kent State University
Kent State University (KSU) is a public research university in Kent, Ohio. The university also includes seven regional campuses in Northeast Ohio and additional facilities in the region and internationally. Regional campuses are located in Ashtabula, Burton, East Liverpool, Jackson Township, New ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16986 |
Kelly Freas
Frank Kelly Freas (August 27, 1922 – January 2, 2005) was an American science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years. He was known as the "Dean of Science Fiction Artists" and he was the second artist inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
Born in Hornell, New York, Fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16987 |
Kangol
Kangol is an English clothing company famous for its headwear. The name Kangol reflects the original production where the K was for knitting, the ANG was for angora, and the OL was for wool. Although no Kangol hat has ever actually been manufactured in Australia, the Kangaroo logo was adopted by Kangol in 1983 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16989 |
Keith Moon
Keith John Moon (23 August 1946 – 7 September 1978) was an English drummer for the rock band the Who. He was noted for his unique style and his eccentric, often self-destructive behaviour.
Moon grew up in Alperton, a suburb of Wembley, in Middlesex, and took up the drums during the early 1960s. After playi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16991 |
Kerosene
Kerosene, also known as paraffin, lamp oil, and coal oil (an obsolete term), is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum. It is widely used as a fuel in aviation as well as households. Its name derives from ("keros") meaning "wax", and was registered as a trademark by Canadian geologis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16992 |
Kundalini
Kundalini (Sanskrit: "", , "coiled snake"), in Hinduism is a form of divine feminine energy (or "shakti") believed to be located at the base of the spine, in the "muladhara". It is an important concept in , where it is believed to be a force or power associated with the divine feminine. This energy, when cul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16995 |
Kohlrabi
Kohlrabi (from the German for cabbage turnip; "Brassica oleracea" Gongylodes Group), also called German turnip, is a biennial vegetable, a low, stout cultivar of wild cabbage. It is in the same family as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, Savoy cabbage, and gai lan.
It ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17001 |
Tettigoniidae
Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called katydids (in Australia, South Africa, Canada, and the United States), or bush crickets. They have previously been known as long-horned grasshoppers. More than 6,400 species are known. Part of the suborder Ensifera, the Tettigoniidae are the only ext... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17003 |
Kennelly–Heaviside layer
The Heaviside layer, sometimes called the Kennelly–Heaviside layer, named after Arthur E. Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside, is a layer of ionised gas occurring between roughly 90 and 150 km (56 and 93 mi) above the ground — one of several layers in the Earth's ionosphere. It is also known as the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17004 |
Knot
A knot is an intentional complication in cordage which may be useful or decorative. Practical knots may be classified as hitches, bends, or splices: a "hitch" fastens a rope to another object; a "bend" unites two rope ends; and a "splice" is a multi-strand bend or loop. A "knot" may also refer, in the strictest s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17006 |
Killer whale
The killer whale, or orca ("Orcinus orca"), is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family, of which it is the largest member. Killer whales have a diverse diet, although individual populations often specialize in particular types of prey. Some feed exclusively on fish, while others hunt marin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17011 |
Kim Philby
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. In 1963 he was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring which passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II and in the early stages of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17012 |
Kamacite
Kamacite is an alloy of iron and nickel, which is found on Earth only in meteorites. The proportion iron:nickel is between 90:10 and 95:5; small quantities of other elements, such as cobalt or carbon may also be present. The mineral has a metallic luster, is gray and has no clear cleavage although its crystal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17013 |
Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung City (; Mandarin Chinese: ; Wade–Giles: "Kao¹-hsiung²") is a special municipality in southern Taiwan. It ranges from the coastal urban centre to the rural Yushan Range with an area of .
Kaohsiung city has a population of approximately 2.77 million people and is Taiwan's third most populous city.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17015 |
Kashubians
The Kashubians (; ; ), also known as Cassubians or Kashubs, are a Lechitic (West Slavic) ethnic group native to the historical region of Eastern Pomerania called Pomerelia, in north-central Poland. Their settlement area is referred to as Kashubia. They speak the Kashubian language, which is classified eithe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17020 |
Karst
Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum. It is characterized by underground drainage systems with sinkholes and caves. It has also been documented for more weathering-resistant rocks, such as quartzite, given the right conditions. Subterranean dr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17022 |
Kellogg–Briand Pact
The Kellogg–Briand Pact (or Pact of Paris, officially General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy) is a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17023 |
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