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Geography of Spain
Spain is a country located in southwestern Europe occupying most (about 82 percent) of the Iberian Peninsula. It also includes a small exclave inside France called Llívia, as well as the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off northwest Africa, and five pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27390 |
Demographics of Spain
As of 1 January 2020, Spain had a total population of 47,431,256, which represents a 0.9% increase since 2019. The CIA Factbook (2011) gives a racial description of "composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types" under "ethnic groups" instead of the usual breakdown of ethnic composition. This refle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27391 |
Politics of Spain
The politics of Spain takes place under the framework established by the Constitution of 1978. Spain is established as a social and democratic sovereign country wherein the national sovereignty is vested in the people, from which the powers of the state emanate.
The form of government in Spain is a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27392 |
Economy of Spain
The economy of Spain is the world's thirteenth-largest by nominal GDP as well as one of the largest in the world by purchasing power parity. The country is a member of the European Union, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the World Trade Organization. Spain has a capitalis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27393 |
Transport in Spain
Transport in Spain is characterised by an extensive network of roads, railways (including the world's second longest high speed rail network), rapid transit, air routes, and ports. Its geographic location makes it an important link between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Major forms of transit gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27395 |
Foreign relations of Spain
After the return of democracy following the death of General Franco in 1975, Spain's foreign policy priorities were to break out of the diplomatic isolation of the Franco years and expand diplomatic relations, enter the European Community, and define security relations with NATO, later joini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27397 |
Spratly Islands
The Spratly Islands (, , , ("Nánshā Qúndǎo")), Dusun: "Kopulohon Dibut" are a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea. Composed of islands, islets and cays and more than 100 reefs, sometimes grouped in submerged old atolls, the archipelago lies off the coasts of the Philippines, Malaysia, and south... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27401 |
History of Sri Lanka
The history of Sri Lanka is intertwined with the history of the broader Indian subcontinent and the surrounding regions, comprising the areas of South Asia, Southeast Asia and Indian Ocean.
The earliest human remains found on the island of Sri Lanka date to about 125,000 years ago (Balangoda Man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27411 |
Geography of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, formerly called "Ceylon", is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, southeast of the Indian subcontinent, in a strategic location near major Indian Ocean sea lanes. The nation has a total area of 65,610 km², with 62,705 km² of land and 2,905 km² of water. Its coastline is
Adam's Brid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27412 |
Demographics of Sri Lanka
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Sri Lanka, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Sri Lanka is an island in the Indian Ocean, also calle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27413 |
Politics of Sri Lanka
Politics of Sri Lanka takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Sri Lanka is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27414 |
Economy of Sri Lanka
The free-market economy of Sri Lanka is worth $92.111 billion by nominal gross domestic product (GDP) and $321.856 billion by purchasing power parity (PPP). The country has experienced an annual growth of 6.4 percent from 2003 to 2012, well above its regional peers. With an income per capita of 12... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27415 |
Telecommunications in Sri Lanka
Telecommunications in Sri Lanka commenced in 1958 after the first telegraphic circuit between Colombo and Galle was commenced. The sector continues to grow in the modern times.
Landlines in use: 2,484,616 (December, 2018)
Mobile Phones in use: 32,528,104 (December, 2018)
Excellent d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27416 |
Transport in Sri Lanka
Transport in Sri Lanka is based on its road network, which is centred on the country's commercial capital Colombo. A rail network handles a portion of Sri Lanka's transport needs. There are navigable waterways, harbours and three international airports: in Katunayake, north of Colombo, in Hamban... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27417 |
Sudan
Sudan (; "as-Sūdān"), officially the Republic of the Sudan ( "Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān"), is a country in Northeast Africa. Bordered by Egypt to the north, Libya to the northwest, Chad to the west, the Central African Republic to the southwest, South Sudan to the south, Ethiopia to the southeast, Eritrea to the east... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27421 |
History of Sudan
The history of Sudan includes that of both the territory that composes Republic of the Sudan, South Sudan as well as that of a larger region known by the term "Sudan". The term is derived from "bilād as-sūdān", or "land of the black people", and can be used more loosely of West and Central Africa in g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27422 |
Demographics of Sudan
Sudanese people () and the demographic features of the population of Sudan, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
In Sudan's 1993 census, the population was calculated at 30 m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27424 |
Politics of Sudan
Officially, the politics of Sudan takes place in the framework of a presidential representative democratic, representative democracy is a type of Indirect democracy consociationalist republic, where the President of Sudan is head of state, head of government and commander-in-chief of the Sudanese Arm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27425 |
Economy of Sudan
The economy of Sudan has boomed on the back of increases in oil production, high oil prices, and large inflows of foreign direct investment until the second half of 2002. GDP growth registered more than 10% per year in 2006 and 2007. From 1997 to date, Sudan has been working with the IMF to implement ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27426 |
Telecommunications in Sudan
Telecommunications in Sudan includes fixed and mobile telephones, the Internet, radio, and television. Approximately 5 million out of 45 million people in Sudan uses internet.
Sudan had telecommunication services as early as 1897. All of the organizations established to deliver telecommuni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27427 |
Transport in Sudan
Transport in Sudan during the early 1990s included an extensive railroad system that served the more important populated areas except in the far south, a meager road network (very little of which consisted of all-weather roads), a natural inland waterway—the Nile River and its tributaries—and a nati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27428 |
Sudanese Armed Forces
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF; "Al-Quwwat al-Musallaha as-Sudaniyah") are the military forces of the Republic of the Sudan. During the 39-month transition to democracy that started in September 2019, the August 2019 Draft Constitutional Declaration defines the Supreme Commander of the Sudanese A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27429 |
The Band
The Band were a roots rock group consisting of four Canadians and one American: Rick Danko (bass guitar, vocals, fiddle), Garth Hudson (keyboards, accordion, saxophone), Richard Manuel (keyboards, drums, vocals), Robbie Robertson (guitar, vocals), and Levon Helm (drums, vocals, mandolin, guitar). Between 1958... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30965 |
Tempo
In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for "time") is the speed or pace of a given piece. In classical music, tempo is typically indicated with an instruction at the start of a piece (often using conventional Italian terms) and is usually measured in beats per minute (or bpm). In modern classical compositions, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30967 |
Tommy James and the Shondells
Tommy James and the Shondells are an American rock band, formed in Niles, Michigan in 1964. They had two No. 1 singles in the U.S., "Hanky Panky" (July 1966, their only RIAA Certified Gold record) and "Crimson and Clover" (February 1969), and also charted twelve other Top 40 hits, includi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30969 |
Tunnel in the Sky
Tunnel in the Sky is a juvenile science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1955 by Scribner's as one of the Heinlein juveniles. The story describes a group of students sent on a survival test to an uninhabited planet, who soon realise they are stranded there. The themes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30971 |
Jupiter trojan
The Jupiter trojans, commonly called Trojan asteroids or simply Trojans, are a large group of asteroids that share the planet Jupiter's orbit around the Sun. Relative to Jupiter, each Trojan librates around one of Jupiter's stable Lagrange points: either ', lying 60° ahead of the planet in its orbit, or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30972 |
Theorem
In mathematics, a theorem is a non-self-evident statement that has been proven to be true, either on the basis of generally accepted statements such as axioms or on the basis of previously established statements such as other theorems. A theorem is hence a logical consequence of the axioms, with a proof of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30977 |
Tool (band)
Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles. Formed in 1990, the group's line-up includes drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, and vocalist Maynard James Keenan. Justin Chancellor has been the band's bassist since 1995, replacing their original bassist Paul D'Amour. Tool has won four Grammy Awards... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30978 |
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Six Million Dollar Man is an American science fiction and action television series, running from 1973 to 1978, about a former astronaut, USAF Colonel Steve Austin, portrayed by Lee Majors. Austin has superhuman strength, speed, and vision due to bionic implants and is employed as a secre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30979 |
Tory
A Tory () is a person who holds a political philosophy known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalism and conservatism, which upholds the supremacy of social order as it has evolved in the English culture throughout history. The Tory ethos has been summed up with the phrase "God, Queen, and Countr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30980 |
Toronto Transit Commission
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is the public transport agency that operates bus, subway, streetcar, and paratransit services in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the oldest and largest of the urban transit service providers in the Greater Toronto Area, with numerous connections to system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30981 |
Testosterone
Testosterone is the primary male sex hormone and anabolic steroid. In male humans, testosterone plays a key role in the development of male reproductive tissues such as testes and prostate, as well as promoting secondary sexual characteristics such as increased muscle and bone mass, and the growth of body... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30983 |
Toyota
Toyota is the global market leader in sales of hybrid electric vehicles, and one of the largest companies to encourage the mass-market adoption of hybrid vehicles across the globe. Toyota is also a market leader in hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles. Cumulative global sales of Toyota and Lexus hybrid passenger car mod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30984 |
Tabloid (newspaper format)
A tabloid is a newspaper with a compact page size smaller than broadsheet. There is no standard size for this newspaper format.
The term "tabloid journalism" refers to an emphasis on such topics as sensational crime stories, astrology, celebrity gossip and television, and is not a reference... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30985 |
Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (also Indo-Tibetan Buddhism) is the form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet where it is the dominant philosophy. It is also found in the regions surrounding the Himalayas (such as Bhutan, Ladakh, and Sikkim), much of Central Asia, the Southern Siberian regions such as Tuva, as well as Mon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30988 |
Thermocouple
A thermocouple is an electrical device consisting of two dissimilar electrical conductors forming an electrical junction. A thermocouple produces a temperature-dependent voltage as a result of the thermoelectric effect, and this voltage can be interpreted to measure temperature. Thermocouples are a widely... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30990 |
Thermistor
A thermistor is a type of resistor whose resistance is dependent on temperature, more so than in standard resistors. The word is a combination of "thermal" and "resistor". Thermistors are widely used as inrush current limiters, temperature sensors (negative temperature coefficient or NTC type typically), se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30992 |
Thermometer
A thermometer is a device that measures temperature or a temperature gradient (the degree of hotness or coldness of an object) A thermometer has two important elements: (1) a temperature sensor (e.g. the bulb of a mercury-in-glass thermometer or the pyrometric sensor in an infrared thermometer) in which so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30993 |
Theravada
Theravāda (; Pāli, lit. "School of the Elders") is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school. The school's adherents, termed Theravādins, have preserved their version of Gautama Buddha's teaching in the Pāli Canon. The Pāli Canon is the only complete Buddhist canon surviving in a c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30994 |
Outline of theatre
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to theatre:
Theatre – the generic term for the performing arts and a collaborative form of fine art involving live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event (such as a story) through acting, singing, and/or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31001 |
Phenotypic trait
A phenotypic trait, simply trait, or character state is a distinct variant of a phenotypic characteristic of an organism; it may be either inherited or determined environmentally, but typically occurs as a combination of the two. For example, eye color is a character of an organism, while blue, brown ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31006 |
Trabant
The Trabant (, ; ) is an automobile which was produced from 1957 to 1990 by former East German car manufacturer VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau. It is often seen as symbolic of the former East Germany and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in general. The Trabant had a duroplast body mounted on a one-piec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31010 |
There Is No Cabal
There Is No Cabal (abbreviated TINC) is a catchphrase and running joke found on Usenet. The journalist Wendy M. Grossman writes that its appearance on the "alt.usenet.cabal" FAQ reflects conspiracy accusations as old as the Internet itself. The anthropologist Gabriella Coleman writes that the joke re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31011 |
Teletubbies
Teletubbies is a British children's television series created by Ragdoll Productions' Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport for BBC. The programme focuses on four multi-coloured creatures known as "Teletubbies", named after the television screens implanted in their abdomens. Recognised throughout popular culture ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31015 |
Terrestrial Time
Terrestrial Time (TT) is a modern astronomical time standard defined by the International Astronomical Union, primarily for time-measurements of astronomical observations made from the surface of Earth.
For example, the Astronomical Almanac uses TT for its tables of positions (ephemerides) of the Sun,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31016 |
The Vision of Escaflowne
The series follows a teenage high school girl named Hitomi, who finds herself pulled from Earth to the planet Gaea when a boy named Van appears on the high school track while battling a dragon. In Gaea, she is caught in the middle of a war as the Zaibach Empire attempts to take over Gaea. Van ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31030 |
Protein tertiary structure
Protein tertiary structure is the three dimensional shape of a protein. The tertiary structure will have a single polypeptide chain "backbone" with one or more protein secondary structures, the protein domains. Amino acid side chains may interact and bond in a number of ways. The interaction... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31032 |
Great Molasses Flood
The Great Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster or the Great Boston Molasses Flood, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. A large storage tank filled with weighing approximately of molasses burst, and the resultant wave of molas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31033 |
Ted Hughes
Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation, and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 and held the office until his dea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31034 |
Thomas Wolsey
Thomas Wolsey (c. March 1473 – 29 November 1530) was an English archbishop, statesman and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. When Henry VIII became King of England in 1509, Wolsey became the King's almoner. Wolsey's affairs prospered, and by 1514 he had become the controlling figure in virtually all matt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31035 |
Triode
A triode is an electronic amplifying vacuum tube (or "valve" in British English) consisting of three electrodes inside an evacuated glass envelope: a heated filament or cathode, a grid, and a plate (anode). Developed from Lee De Forest's 1906 Audion, a partial vacuum tube that added a grid electrode to the ther... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31036 |
Flower Pot Men
Flower Pot Men was a British children's programme, produced by BBC television, first transmitted in 1952, and repeated regularly for more than twenty years. A reboot of the show called Bill and Ben was produced in 2001.
Originally, the programme was part of a BBC children's television series titled "Wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31038 |
Turboprop
A turboprop engine is a turbine engine that drives an aircraft propeller.
In its simplest form a turboprop consists of an intake, compressor, combustor, turbine, and a propelling nozzle. Air is drawn into the intake and compressed by the compressor. Fuel is then added to the compressed air in the combustor,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31039 |
Trust law
A trust is a three-party fiduciary relationship in which the first party, the trustor or settlor, transfers ("settles") a property (often but not necessarily a sum of money) upon the second party (the trustee) for the benefit of the third party, the beneficiary.
A "testamentary trust" is created by a will a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31043 |
Tone row
In music, a tone row or note row ( or '), also series or set"', is a non-repetitive ordering of a set of pitch-classes, typically of the twelve notes in musical set theory of the chromatic scale, though both larger and smaller sets are sometimes found.
Tone rows are the basis of Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31045 |
Time transfer
Time transfer is a scheme where multiple sites share a precise reference time. Time transfer solves problems such as astronomical observatories correlating observed flashes or other phenomena with each other, as well as cell phone towers coordinating handoffs as a phone moves from one cell to another.
M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31049 |
Trakehner
Trakehner is a light warmblood breed of horse, originally developed at the East Prussian state stud farm in the town of Trakehnen from which the breed takes its name. The state stud () was established in 1731 and operated until 1944, when the fighting of World War II led to the annexing of East Prussia by Ru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31052 |
Tempera
Tempera (), also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk. Tempera also refers to the paintings done in this medium. Tempera paintings are very long-lasting, and example... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31053 |
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The first stable line-up consisted of bandleader Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica, keyboards), Mick Jagger (lead vocals, harmonica), Keith Richards (guitar, vocals), Bill Wyman (bass guitar), Charlie Watts (drums), and Ian Stewart (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31056 |
Tipu Sultan
Tipu Sultan (born Sultan Fateh Ali Sahab Tipu, 20 November 1750 – 4 May 1799), also known as "Tipu Sahab" or the Tiger of Mysore, was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore and a pioneer of rocket artillery. He introduced a number of administrative innovations during his rule, including a new coinage system an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31058 |
Telnet
Telnet is an application protocol used on the Internet or local area network to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection. User data is interspersed in-band with Telnet control information in an 8-bit byte oriented data connection over the Trans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31062 |
The Star-Spangled Banner
"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics come from the Defence of Fort M'Henry, a poem written on September 14, 1814, by 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by British ships of the Roya... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31064 |
The Third Culture
The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution is a 1995 book by John Brockman which discusses the work of several well-known scientists who are directly communicating their new, sometimes provocative, ideas to the general public. John Brockman has continued the themes of 'The Third Culture' in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31066 |
Palace of Westminster
The Palace of Westminster serves as the meeting place for both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Informally known as the Houses of Parliament after its occupants, the Palace lies on the north bank of the River Thames in the City o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24170 |
Plautus
Titus Maccius Plautus (; c. 254 – 184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by the innovator of Latin literature, Livius Andronicus. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24171 |
Pythagorean triple
A Pythagorean triple consists of three positive integers , , and , such that . Such a triple is commonly written , and a well-known example is . If is a Pythagorean triple, then so is for any positive integer . A primitive Pythagorean triple is one in which , and are coprime (that is, they have no c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24172 |
Pattern welding
Pattern welding is the practice in sword and knife making of forming a blade of several metal pieces of differing composition that are forge-welded together and twisted and manipulated to form a pattern. Often mistakenly called Damascus steel, blades forged in this manner often display bands of slightl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24175 |
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (, , ; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the inve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24176 |
Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four canonical Gospels. Palm Sunday marks the first day of Holy Week, the last week of the Christian solemn season of Lent that p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24178 |
Per Hasselberg
Per Hasselberg (1850-1894), until 1870 "Karl Petter Åkesson", was a Swedish sculptor. He has received critical acclaim mainly for his delicate and allegorical nudes, copies of which are widely distributed in public places and private homes in Sweden.
Hasselberg was born 1 January 1850 in the small vill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24182 |
Parma, Michigan
Parma is a village in Jackson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 769 at the 2010 census. The village is divided into three sections with boundaries in Parma Township and Sandstone Charter Township.
Parma was originally located a few miles east of its current location along the Mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24183 |
Infant baptism
Infant baptism is the practice of baptising infants or young children. In theological discussions, the practice is sometimes referred to as paedobaptism, or pedobaptism, from the Greek "pais" meaning "child". This can be contrasted with what is called "believer's baptism" (or credobaptism, from the Lati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24184 |
Pseudocode
In computer science, pseudocode is an informal high-level description of the operating principle of a computer program or other algorithm. It uses the structural conventions of a normal programming language, but is intended for human reading rather than machine reading. Pseudocode typically omits details th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24185 |
Pre-existence
Pre-existence, preexistence, beforelife, or premortal existence is the belief that each individual human soul existed before mortal conception, and at some point before birth enters or is placed into the body. Concepts of pre-existence can encompass either the belief that the soul came into existence at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24186 |
Prussian Confederation
The Prussian Confederation (, ) was an organization formed on 21 February 1440 at Marienwerder by a group of 53 nobles and clergy and 19 cities in Prussia, to oppose the arbitrariness of the Teutonic Knights. It was based on the basis of an earlier similar organization, the Lizard Union establis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24187 |
Parimutuel betting
Parimutuel betting (from French "Pari Mutuel", "mutual betting") is a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and the "house-take" or "vigorish" are deducted, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all winning bets. In some countri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24188 |
Possession (law)
In law, possession is the control a person intentionally exercises toward a thing. In all cases, to possess something, a person must have an intention to possess it. A person may be in possession of some property (although possession does not always imply ownership). Like ownership, the possession of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24189 |
Pope Gregory II
Pope Gregory II (; 669 – 11 February 731) was the bishop of Rome from 19 May 715 to his death. His defiance of Emperor Leo III the Isaurian as a result of the iconoclastic controversy in the Eastern Empire prepared the way for a long series of revolts, schisms and civil wars that eventually led to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24193 |
Pope Gregory III
Pope Gregory III (; died 28 November 741) was the bishop of Rome from 11 February 731 to his death. His pontificate, like that of his predecessor, was disturbed by Byzantine iconoclasm and the advance of the Lombards, in which he invoked the intervention of Charles Martel, although ultimately in vain.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24194 |
Pope Gregory IV
Pope Gregory IV (; died 25 January 844) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from October 827 to his death. His pontificate was notable for the papacy’s attempts to intervene in the quarrels between Emperor Louis the Pious and his sons. It also saw the breakup of the Carolingian Empire ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24195 |
Pope Gregory VI
Pope Gregory VI (; died 1048), born John Gratian in Rome (), was bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 1 May 1045 until his abdication at the Council of Sutri on 20 December 1046.
Gratian, the archpriest of St. John by the Latin Gate, was a man of great reputation for uprightness of charac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24197 |
Pope Gregory X
Pope Gregory X (; – 10 January 1276), born Teobaldo Visconti, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1 September 1271 to his death and was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order. He was elected at the conclusion of a papal election that ran from 1268 to 1271, the longest p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24199 |
Psalms
The Book of Psalms ( or ; , , "praises"), commonly referred to simply as Psalms, the Psalter or "the Psalms", is the first book of the "Ketuvim" ("Writings"), the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and thus a book of the Christian Old Testament. The title is derived from the Greek translation, , meaning "instru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24203 |
Philistines
The Philistines were an ancient people who lived on the south coast of Canaan between the 12th century BC and 604 BC when they were exiled to Mesopotamia by King Nebuchadnezzar II. They are known for their biblical conflict with the Israelites. The primary source of information about the Philistines is the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24204 |
Prometheus Award
The Prometheus Award is an award for libertarian science fiction novels given annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society. L. Neil Smith established the award in 1979, but it was not awarded regularly until the newly founded Libertarian Futurist Society revived it in 1982. The Society created a Hall ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24205 |
Paavo Lipponen
Paavo Tapio Lipponen () (born 23 April 1941) is a Finnish politician and former reporter. He was Prime Minister of Finland from 1995 to 2003, and Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1993 to 2005. He also served as Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2003 to 2007 and was his par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24206 |
Portsmouth
Portsmouth () is an English port city primarily built on Portsea Island in the county of Hampshire. It is also known as Pompey, a nickname shared with HMNB Portsmouth and the Portsmouth Football Club. The United Kingdom's only island city, it is south-west of London and south-east of Southampton. Portsmouth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24207 |
Parasailing
Parasailing, also known as parascending or parakiting, is a recreational kiting activity where a person is towed behind a vehicle (usually a boat) while attached to a specially designed canopy wing that resembles a parachute, known as a parasail wing. The manned kite's moving anchor may be a car, truck, or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24208 |
Pope Gregory IX
Pope Gregory IX (; born Ugolino di Conti; c. 1145 or before 1170 – 22 August 1241) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 March 1227 to his death. He is known for issuing the "Decretales" and instituting the Papal Inquisition in response to the failures of the episcopal i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24218 |
Pope Callixtus I
Pope Callixtus I, also called Callistus I, was the bishop of Rome (according to Sextus Julius Africanus) from c. 218 to his death c. 222 or 223. He lived during the reigns of the Roman Emperors Elagabalus and Alexander Severus. Eusebius and the Liberian catalogue gave him five years of episcopate (217... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24219 |
Pope Callixtus II
Pope Callixtus II or Callistus II (c. 1065 – 13 December 1124), born Guy of Burgundy, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1 February 1119 to his death in 1124. His pontificate was shaped by the Investiture Controversy, which he was able to settle through the Concordat o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24220 |
Pope Callixtus III
Pope Callixtus III (31 December 1378 – 6 August 1458), also known as Alfonso de Borgia (), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 April 1455 to his death. Borgia spent his early career as a professor of law at the University of Lleida; he later served as a diplomat for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24221 |
Public-key cryptography
Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is a cryptographic system that uses pairs of keys: "public keys", which may be disseminated widely, and "private keys", which are known only to the owner. The generation of such keys depends on cryptographic algorithms based on mathematical p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24222 |
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system, originating in the Computing Science Research Center (CSRC) at Bell Labs in the mid-1980s, and building on UNIX concepts first developed there in the late 1960s. The final official release was in early 2015.
Under Plan 9, UNIX's "everythin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24226 |
Pope Gregory XI
Pope Gregory XI (, born Pierre Roger de Beaufort; c. 1329 – 27 March 1378) was head of the Catholic Church from 30 December 1370 to his death in 1378. He was the seventh and last Avignon pope and the most recent French pope. In 1377, Gregory XI returned the Papal court to Rome, ending nearly 70 years o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24227 |
Pope Gregory XIV
Pope Gregory XIV (; 11 February 1535 – 15 October 1591), born Niccolò Sfondrato or Sfondrati, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 5 December 1590 to his death in 1591.
Niccolò Sfondrati was born at Somma Lombardo, then part of the Duchy of Milan, in the highest stratum ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24228 |
Parma
Parma (; ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its architecture, music, art, prosciutto (ham), cheese and surrounding countryside. It is home to the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world.
Parma is divided into two parts by the stream of the same name. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24231 |
Biological anthropology
Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a scientific discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their extinct hominin ancestors, and related non-human primates, particularly from an evolutionary perspective. This subfield of anthrop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24232 |
Power (physics)
In physics, power is the amount of energy transferred or converted per unit time. In the International System of Units, the unit of power is the watt, equal to one joule per second. In older works, power is sometimes called "activity". Power is a scalar quantity.
The output power of a motor is the pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24236 |
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