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Pai gow poker
Pai gow poker (also called double-hand poker) is a version of pai gow that is played with playing cards, instead of traditional pai gow's Chinese dominoes. The game of pai gow poker was created in 1985 in the United States by Sam Torosian, owner of the Bell Card Club.
The game is played with a standard 5... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24239 |
Protoscience
In philosophy of science, there are several definitions of protoscience.
Its simplest meaning (most closely reflecting its roots of "proto-" + "science") involves the earliest eras of the history of science, when the scientific method was still nascent.
Another meaning extends this idea into the present... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24241 |
Pickelhaube
The Pickelhaube (plural "Pickelhauben"; from the German "Pickel", "point" or "pickaxe", and "Haube", "bonnet", a general word for "headgear"), also Pickelhelm, is a spiked helmet worn in the 19th and 20th centuries by Prussian and German military, firefighters and police. Although typically associated with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24243 |
Pope Gregory XIII
Pope Gregory XIII (; 7 January 1502 – 10 April 1585), born Ugo Boncompagni, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 May 1572 to his death in 1585. He is best known for commissioning and being the namesake for the Gregorian calendar, which remains the internationally acce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24244 |
Pankration
Pankration (; ) was a sporting event introduced into the Greek Olympic Games in 648 BC and was an empty-hand submission sport with scarcely any rules. The athletes used boxing and wrestling techniques, but also others, such as kicking and holds, locks and chokes on the ground.
The term comes from the Greek ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24245 |
Province of Canada
The Province of Canada (or the United Province of Canada or the United Canadas) was a British colony in North America from 1841 to 1867. Its formation reflected recommendations made by John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham in the Report on the Affairs of British North America following the Rebellions of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24247 |
Polish Corridor
The Polish Corridor (; ), also known as the Danzig Corridor, Corridor to the Sea or Gdańsk Corridor, was a territory located in the region of Pomerelia (Pomeranian Voivodeship, eastern Pomerania, formerly part of West Prussia), which provided the Second Republic of Poland (1920–1939) with access to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24250 |
Persephone
In Greek mythology, Persephone ( ; ), also called Kore ( ; ; "the maiden"), is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She becomes the queen of the underworld through her abduction by Hades, the god of the underworld. The myth of her abduction represents her function as the personification of vegetation, which sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24253 |
Pandemic
A pandemic (from Greek , , "all" and , , "people") is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of people. A widespread endemic disease with a stable number of infected people is not a pandemic. Wid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24255 |
Pervez Musharraf
Born in Delhi during the British Raj, Musharraf was raised in Karachi and Istanbul. He studied mathematics at Forman Christian College in Lahore and was also educated at the Royal College of Defence Studies in the United Kingdom. Musharraf entered the Pakistan Military Academy in 1961 and was commissi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24260 |
Pomerania
Pomerania (; German, Low German and North Germanic languages: "Pommern"; Kashubian: "Pòmòrskô") is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany. The largest Pomeranian city is Gdańsk followed by Szczecin, both located in Poland.
Outside its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24261 |
Progeny Linux Systems
Progeny Linux Systems was a company which provided Linux platform technology. Their Platform Services technology supported both Debian and RPM-based distributions for Linux platforms. Progeny Linux Systems was based in Indianapolis. Ian Murdock, the founder of Debian, was the founder and Chairman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24264 |
Ping (networking utility)
Ping is a computer network administration software utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. It is available for virtually all operating systems that have networking capability, including most embedded network administration software.
Ping measures... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24265 |
Profinite group
In mathematics, profinite groups are topological groups that are in a certain sense assembled from finite groups. They share many properties with their finite quotients: for example, both Lagrange's theorem and the Sylow theorems generalise well to profinite groups.
A non-compact generalization of a p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24266 |
Paul Whitehouse
Paul Julian Whitehouse (born 17 May 1958) is a Welsh actor, writer and comedian. He was one of the main stars of the BBC sketch comedy series "The Fast Show", and has also starred with Harry Enfield in the shows "Harry & Paul" and "Harry Enfield & Chums". In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24267 |
Pawnbroker
A pawnbroker is an individual or business (pawnshop or pawn shop) that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral. The items having been "pawned" to the broker are themselves called "pledges" or "pawns", or simply the collateral. While many items can be pawned, pawnsh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24268 |
House of Romanov
The House of Romanov (; also Romanoff; , "Románovy", ) was the reigning imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917.
The Romanovs achieved prominence as "boyars" of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and later the Tsardom of Russia under the reigning Rurik dynasty, which became extinct upon the death of Tsar F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26240 |
Robert Bloch
Robert Albert Bloch (; April 5, 1917September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is best known as the writer of "Psycho" (1959), the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock. His fondness for a pun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26243 |
Recorder (musical instrument)
The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments in the group known as "internal duct flutes"—flutes with a whistle mouthpiece, also known as fipple flutes. A recorder can be distinguished from other duct flutes by the presence of a thumb-hole for the upper hand and seven finger-h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26244 |
Received Pronunciation
Received Pronunciation (RP) is the accent traditionally regarded as the standard for British English. For over a century there has been argument over such issues as the definition of RP, whether it is geographically neutral, how many speakers there are, whether sub-varieties exist, how appropria... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26247 |
Ryan Lackey
Ryan Donald Lackey (born March 17, 1979) is an entrepreneur and computer security professional. He was a co-founder of HavenCo, the world's first data haven. He also speaks at numerous conferences and trade shows, including DEF CON, RSA Data Security Conference, on various topics in the computer security f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26252 |
Revised Julian calendar
The Revised Julian calendar, also known as the Milanković calendar, or, less formally, new calendar, is a calendar proposed by the Serbian scientist Milutin Milanković in 1923, which effectively discontinued the 340 years of divergence between the naming of dates sanctioned by those Eastern Ort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26253 |
Reform of the date of Easter
A reform of the date of Easter has been proposed several times because the current system for determining the date of Easter is seen as presenting two significant problems:
There have been controversies about the "correct" date of Easter since antiquity, leading to schisms and excommunic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26254 |
Robert Lowth
Robert Lowth (; 27 November 1710 – 3 November 1787) was a Bishop of the Church of England, Oxford Professor of Poetry and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar.
Lowth was born in Hampshire, Great Britain, the son of Dr William Lowth, a clergyman and Biblical commentator. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26255 |
Robert Askin
Sir Robert William Askin, GCMG (4 April 1907 – 9 September 1981), was an Australian politician and the 32nd Premier of New South Wales from 1965 to 1975, the first representing the Liberal Party. He was born in 1907 as Robin William Askin, but always disliked his first name and changed it by deed poll in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26259 |
Redshift
In physics, redshift is a phenomenon where electromagnetic radiation (such as light) from an object undergoes an increase in wavelength. Whether or not the radiation is visible, "redshift" means an increase in wavelength, equivalent to a decrease in wave frequency and photon energy, in accordance with, respec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26262 |
Rob Reiner
Robert Norman Reiner (born March 6, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. As an actor, Reiner first came to national prominence with the role of Michael Stivic on the CBS sitcom "All in the Family" (1971–1979), a performance that earned him two Primetime Emmy Awards.
As a director, Reiner w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26264 |
Robin Wright
Robin Gayle Wright (born April 8, 1966) is an American actress and director. She is the recipient of eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations and has earned a Golden Globe Award and a Satellite Award for her work in television.
Wright first gained attention for her role in the NBC Daytime soap opera "Santa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26265 |
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Sakamoto began his career while at university in the 1970s as a session musician, producer, and arranger. His first major success came in 1978 as co-founder of YMO. He concurrently pursued a solo career, releasing the experimental electronic fusion album "Thousand Knives" in 1978. Two years later, he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26272 |
Roger the Dodger
Roger the Dodger, whose real name is Roger Dawson, is a fictional character featured regularly in the UK comic "The Beano". His strip consists solely of Roger's basic remit to avoid doing chores and homework which usually involves him concocting complex and ultimately disastrous plans, the undoing of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26273 |
Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick (; November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher. He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University, and was president of the American Philosophical Association. He is best known for his books "Philosophical Explanations" (1981), which included... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26275 |
Richard III of England
Richard III (2 October 145222 August 1485) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. His defeat and death at the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last decisive battle of the Wars of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26284 |
Restriction fragment length polymorphism
In molecular biology, restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) is a technique that exploits variations in homologous DNA sequences, known as polymorphisms, in order to distinguish individuals, populations, or species or to pinpoint the locations of genes within a sequenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26285 |
Rocket-propelled grenade
A rocket-propelled grenade (often abbreviated RPG) is a shoulder-fired missile weapon that launches rockets equipped with an explosive warhead. Most RPGs can be carried by an individual soldier, and are frequently used as anti-tank weapons. These warheads are affixed to a rocket motor which pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26286 |
Roy Jenkins
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, (11 November 1920 – 5 January 2003) was a British politician who served as President of the European Commission from 1977 to 1981. He was at various times a member of the Labour Party, Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Democrats.
The son of a Welsh coal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26287 |
Rajasthan
Rajasthan ( ; literally, "Land of Kings") is a state in northern India. The state covers an area of or 10.4 percent of the total geographical area of India. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. Rajasthan is located on the northwestern side of India, where it comprises... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26291 |
Reflux suppressant
A reflux suppressant is any one of a number of drugs used to combat oesophageal reflux. Commonly, following ingestion a 'raft' of alginic acid is created, floating on the stomach contents by carbon dioxide released by the drug. This forms a mechanical barrier to further reflux. Some preparations als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26294 |
Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War () was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the two Russian Revolutions of 1917, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. The two largest combatant groups were the Red Army, fighting for the Bolshevik form of socialism led b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26295 |
Ralph Abercromby
Sir Ralph Abercromby (sometimes spelt Abercrombie) (7 October 173428 March 1801) was a Scottish soldier and politician. He twice served as MP for Clackmannanshire, rose to the rank of lieutenant-general in the British Army, was appointed Governor of Trinidad, served as Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26296 |
Radiometric dating
Radiometric dating, radioactive dating or radioisotope dating is a technique which is used to date materials such as rocks or carbon, in which trace radioactive impurities were selectively incorporated when they were formed. The method compares the abundance of a naturally occurring radioactive isot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26298 |
Rocket
A rocket (from ) is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle that obtains thrust from a rocket engine. Rocket engine exhaust is formed entirely from propellant carried within the rocket. Rocket engines work by action and reaction and push rockets forward simply by expelling their exhaust in the opposite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26301 |
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (brand name Kew) is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,100 staff. Its board of trustees is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26304 |
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal "The Southern Review" with Cleanth Brooks in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26307 |
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work.
Kipling's works of fiction include "The Jungle Book" (1894), "Kim" (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26308 |
Regency dance
Regency dance is the term for historical dances of the period ranging roughly from 1790 to 1825. Some feel that the popular use of the term "Regency dance" is not technically correct, as the actual English Regency (the future George IV ruling on behalf of mad King George III) lasted only from 1811 until ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26309 |
Reproduction
Reproduction (or procreation or breeding) is the biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – are produced from their "parents". Reproduction is a fundamental feature of all known life; each individual organism exists as the result of reproduction. There are two forms of reproducti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26310 |
Racial segregation
Racial segregation is the systemic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. Segregation can involve the spatial separation of the races, and mandatory use of different institutions, such as schools and hospitals by people of different races. Specifically, it may be appl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26316 |
Roslagen
Roslagen is the name of the coastal areas of Uppland province in Sweden, which also constitutes the northern part of the Stockholm archipelago.
Historically, it was the name for all the coastal areas of the Baltic Sea, including the eastern parts of lake Mälaren, belonging to Svealand. The name was first men... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26318 |
Ramjet
A ramjet, sometimes referred to as a flying stovepipe or an athodyd (aero thermodynamic duct), is a form of airbreathing jet engine that uses the engine's forward motion to compress incoming air without an axial compressor or a centrifugal compressor. Because ramjets cannot produce thrust at zero airspeed, they... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26321 |
Ranma ½
"Ranma ½" has a comedic formula and a sex-changing main character, who often willfully transforms into a girl to advance his goals. The series also contains many other characters, whose intricate relationships with each other, unusual characteristics, and eccentric personalities drive most of the stories. Alth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26324 |
Royal Australian Navy
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force. Following the Federation of Australia in 1901, the ships and resources of the separate colonial navies were integrated into a national force, called the Commonwealth Naval Forces. Originally intended for local de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26327 |
Royal Australian Air Force
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), formed in March 1921, is the aerial warfare branch of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). It operates the majority of the ADF's fixed wing aircraft, although both the Australian Army and Royal Australian Navy also operate aircraft in various roles. It d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26328 |
Responsible government
Responsible government is a conception of a system of government that embodies the principle of parliamentary accountability, the foundation of the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy. Governments (the equivalent of the executive branch) in Westminster democracies are responsible to pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26329 |
Rural flight
Rural flight (or rural exodus) is the migratory pattern of peoples from rural areas into urban areas. It is urbanization seen from the rural perspective.
In modern times, it often occurs in a region following the industrialization of agriculture—when fewer people are needed to bring the same amount of ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26332 |
Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic or Palæolithic (), also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory distinguished by the original development of stone tools that covers 99% of the time period of human technological prehistory. It extends from the earliest known use of stone tools by hominins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22860 |
Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the president of the United States to recognize people who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22873 |
Planet
A planet is an astronomical body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.
The term "planet" is ancient, with ties to history, astrology, science, myt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22915 |
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio and subsidiary of ViacomCBS. It is the fifth oldest film studio in the world, the second oldest film studio in the United States, and the sole member of the "Big Five" film studios still located in the city li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22918 |
Psychology
Psychology is the science of behavior and mind. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought. It is an academic discipline of immense scope. Psychologists seek an understanding of the emergent properties of brains, and all the variety of phenomena link... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22921 |
PhpWiki
PhpWiki is a web-based wiki software application.
It began as a clone of WikiWikiWeb and was the first wiki written in PHP.
PhpWiki has been used to edit and format paper books for publication.
The first version, by Steve Wainstead, was released in December 1999. It was the first Wiki written in PHP to be pub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22923 |
Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek "poiesis", "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.
Poetry has a long history – dating back t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22926 |
Probability
Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning numerical descriptions of how likely an event is to occur or how likely it is that a proposition is true. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and 1, where, roughly speaking, 0 indicates impossibility of the event and 1 indicates certainty. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22934 |
Poland
Poland ( ), officially the Republic of Poland ( ), is a country located in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative subdivisions, covering an area of , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With a population of nearly 38.5 million people, Poland is the fifth most populous member state of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22936 |
Performing arts
Performing arts refers to forms of art in which artists use their voices, bodies or inanimate objects to convey artistic expression. It is different from visual arts, which is when artists use paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Performing arts include a range o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22938 |
Physics
Physics (from , from "phýsis" 'nature') is the natural science that studies matter, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. Physics is one of the most fundamental scientific disciplines, and its main goal is to understand how the universe behaves.
Physics ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22939 |
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG; , ; ; ), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea (; ), is a sovereign state in Oceania that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Its capital, locat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22943 |
Poseidon
Poseidon (; , ) was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth, god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and
horses. In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, he was venerated as a chief deity at Pylos and Thebes. His Roman equivalent is Neptune.
Poseidon was protector of seafarers, and of many Helle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22948 |
Population
In biology, a population is all the organisms of the same group or species who live in a particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22949 |
Psychological egoism
Psychological egoism is the view that humans are always motivated by self-interest and selfishness, even in what seem to be acts of altruism. It claims that, when people choose to help others, they do so ultimately because of the personal benefits that they themselves expect to obtain, directly or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22951 |
Plato
Plato ( ; "Plátōn", in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
He is widely considered the pivotal figu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22954 |
Sample space
In probability theory, the sample space (also called sample description space or possibility space) of an experiment or random trial is the set of all possible outcomes or results of that experiment. A sample space is usually denoted using set notation, and the possible ordered outcomes are listed as elem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22958 |
Elementary event
In probability theory, an elementary event (also called an atomic event or sample point) is an event which contains only a single outcome in the sample space. Using set theory terminology, an elementary event is a singleton. Elementary events and their corresponding outcomes are often written intercha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22960 |
Event (probability theory)
In probability theory, an event is a set of outcomes of an experiment (a subset of the sample space) to which a probability is assigned. A single outcome may be an element of many different events, and different events in an experiment are usually not equally likely, since they may include v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22961 |
Pig Latin
Pig Latin is a language game or argot in which words in English are altered, usually by adding a fabricated suffix or by moving the onset or initial consonant or consonant cluster of a word to the end of the word and adding a vocalic syllable to create such a suffix. For example, "Wikipedia" would become "Ik... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22973 |
Polish language
Polish (, , , or simply , ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group. It is spoken primarily in Poland and serves as the native language of the Poles. In addition to being an official language of Poland, it is also used by Polish minorities in other countries. There are over 50 million Polish-la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22975 |
Pulp magazine
Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the late 1950s. The term "pulp" derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. In contrast, magazines printed on higher-quality paper were called "glossies" o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22977 |
Phoneme
In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme is a unit of sound that distinguishes one word from another in a particular language.
For example, in most dialects of English, with the notable exception of the west midlands and the north-west of England, the sound patterns ("sin") and ("sing") are two separate words ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22980 |
Primate
A primate ( ) (from Latin "primat-", from "primus": "prime, first rank") is a eutherian mammal constituting the taxonomic order Primates. Primates arose 85–55 million years ago first from small terrestrial mammals, which adapted to living in the trees of tropical forests: many primate characteristics represent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22984 |
Politics
Politics (from ,
) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations between individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The academic study of politics is referred to as political science.
Politics is a multifaceted word. It may... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22986 |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,150,271 residents as of 2020, in an area of . Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, science and arts. The City of Paris is the centre and seat of go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22989 |
Paul Cohen
Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 – March 23, 2007) was an American mathematician. He is best known for his proofs that the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice are independent from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, for which he was awarded a Fields Medal.
Cohen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, into ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22994 |
Presbyterianism
Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism, which traces its origins to Great Britain, particularly Scotland.
Presbyterian churches derive their name from the presbyterian form of church government, which is governed by representative assemblies of elders. A great number ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24403 |
Parliament
In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries. The term is similar to the idea of a senate, synod or congress, and is com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24406 |
Polar bear
The polar bear ("Ursus maritimus") is a hypercarnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It is a large bear, approximately the same size as the omnivorous Kodiak bear ("Ursus arctos middendorffi")... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24408 |
Punic Wars
The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC. At the time, they were some of the largest wars that had ever taken place. The term "Punic" comes from the Latin word "Punicus" (or "Poenicus"), meaning "Carthaginian", with reference to the Carthaginians' Pho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24417 |
Peter Carey (novelist)
Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey is one of only five writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24419 |
Punched card
A punched card or punch card is a piece of stiff paper that can be used to contain digital data represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. Digital data can be used for data processing applications or used to directly control automated machinery.
Punched cards were widely use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24420 |
Philippi
Philippi (; , "Philippoi") was a major Greek city northwest of the nearby island, Thasos. Its original name was Crenides (, "Krenides" "Fountains") after its establishment by Thasian colonists in 360/359 BC. The city was renamed by Philip II of Macedon in 356 BC and abandoned in the 14th century after the Ott... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24425 |
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Västergötland (Victoria Ingrid Alice Désirée, born 14 July 1977) is the heir apparent to the Swedish throne, as the eldest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf. If she ascends to the throne as expected, she would be Sweden's fourth queen regnan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24427 |
Pope Zosimus
Pope Zosimus was the bishop of Rome from 18 March 417 to his death on 26 December 418. He was born in Mesoraca, Calabria. Zosimus took a decided part in the protracted dispute in Gaul as to the jurisdiction of the See of Arles over that of Vienne, giving energetic decisions in favour of the former, but wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24429 |
Pope Innocent IV
Pope Innocent IV (; c. 1195 – 7 December 1254), born Sinibaldo Fieschi, was the head of the Catholic Church from 25 June 1243 to his death in 1254.
Fieschi was born in Genoa and studied at the universities of Parma and Bologna. Considered a fine canonist, he served in the Curia for Pope Honorius III.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24430 |
Paranasal sinuses
Paranasal sinuses are a group of four paired air-filled spaces that surround the nasal cavity. The maxillary sinuses are located under the eyes; the frontal sinuses are above the eyes; the ethmoidal sinuses are between the eyes and the sphenoidal sinuses are behind the eyes. The sinuses are named for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24437 |
PAL
Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a colour encoding system for analogue television used in broadcast television systems in most countries broadcasting at 625-line / 50 field (25 frame) per second (576i). It was one of three major analogue colour television standards, the others being NTSC and SECAM.
Almost all of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24438 |
Polo
Polo is a horseback mounted team sport. It is one of the world's oldest known team sports.
The concept of the game and its variants date back from the 6th century BC to the 1st century AD. The sport originated from equestrian games played by nomadic Iranian and Turkic peoples. Polo was at first a training game f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24443 |
Page description language
In digital printing, a page description language (PDL) is a computer language that describes the appearance of a printed page in a higher level than an actual output bitmap (or generally raster graphics). An overlapping term is printer control language, which includes Hewlett-Packard's Printe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24444 |
Pope Felix I
Pope Felix I was the bishop of Rome from 5 January 269 to his death on 30 December 274.
A Roman by birth, Felix was chosen to be pope on 5 January 269, in succession to Dionysius, who had died on 26 December 268.
Felix was the author of an important dogmatic letter on the unity of Christ's Person. He re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24445 |
Peptide bond
A peptide bond is an amide type of covalent chemical bond linking two consecutive alpha-amino acids from C1 (carbon number one) of one alpha-amino acid and N2 (nitrogen number two) of another, along a peptide or protein chain.
It can also be called an eupeptide bond to separate it from an isopeptide bond... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24446 |
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
The Privy Council of the United Kingdom is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. Its membership mainly comprises senior politicians who are current or former members of either the House of Commons or the House of Lords.
The Privy Council formally advises... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24451 |
Prime Minister of India
The Prime Minister of India (IAST: "Bhārat ke Pradhānamantrī") is the leader of the executive of the Government of India. The Prime Minister is the chief adviser to the President of India and the head of the Union Council of Ministers. They can be a member of any of the two houses of the Parlia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24452 |
Paraphyly
In taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's last common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor excluding a few—typically only one or two—monophyletic subgroups. The group is said to be paraphyletic "with respect to" the excluded subgroups. The arrangement of the members of a par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24454 |
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