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SameGame
"SameGame" was originally created as "Chain Shot!" in 1985 by Kuniaki Moribe. It was distributed for Fujitsu's FM-8 and FM-7 platforms in a Japanese monthly personal computer magazine called "Gekkan ASCII". In 1992, the game was ported as "SameGame" to Unix platforms by Eiji Fukumoto, and to the NEC PC-9801 s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28762 |
Sather
"For people with the surname, see Sather (surname)."
Sather is an object-oriented programming language. It originated circa 1990 at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at the University of California, Berkeley, developed by an international team led by Steve Omohundro. It supports garbage collec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28763 |
Serotonin
Serotonin () or 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) is a monoamine neurotransmitter. It has a popular image as a contributor to feelings of well-being and happiness, though its actual biological function is complex and multifaceted, modulating cognition, reward, learning, memory, and numerous physiological processes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28764 |
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, (; born Lourens Alma Tadema ; 8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912) was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship. Born in Dronryp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. A c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28765 |
Surrealism
Surrealism was a cultural movement which developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I and was largely influenced by Dada. The movement is best known for its visual artworks and writings and the juxtaposition of uncommon imagery. Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes, sometimes with photographic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28766 |
Statics
Statics is the branch of mechanics that is concerned with the analysis of loads (force and torque, or "moment") acting on physical systems that do not experience an acceleration ("a"=0), but rather, are in static equilibrium with their environment. The application of Newton's second law to a system gives:
Whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28767 |
Maritime transport
Maritime/Ocean transport, fluvial transport, or more generally waterborne transport is the transport of people (passengers) or goods (cargo) via waterways. Freight transport by sea has been widely used throughout recorded history. The advent of aviation has diminished the importance of sea travel fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28769 |
St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda
St. John's is the capital and largest city of Antigua and Barbuda, in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea and with a population of 22,219, St. John's is the commercial centre of the nation and the chief port of the island of Antigua.
The settlement of St. John's has been the administr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28771 |
Sigtuna Municipality
Sigtuna Municipality ("Sigtuna kommun") is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Märsta, approximately north of the Swedish capital, Stockholm.
The municipality is a part of Metropolitan Stockholm.
The municipality consists of several forme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28779 |
Self-similarity
In mathematics, a self-similar object is exactly or approximately similar to a part of itself (i.e., the whole has the same shape as one or more of the parts). Many objects in the real world, such as coastlines, are statistically self-similar: parts of them show the same statistical properties at many ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28782 |
Sovereignty
Sovereignty is the full right and power of a governing body over itself, without any interference from outside sources or bodies. In political theory, sovereignty is a substantive term designating supreme legitimate authority over some polity. In international law, sovereignty is the exercise of power by a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28791 |
Democratic Left Alliance
Democratic Left Alliance (since February 2020 officially known as the New Left) (, NL) is a social-democratic political party in Poland. It was formed in 1991 as an electoral alliance of centre-left parties, and became a single party on 15 April 1999. The party is a member of the Party of Euro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28800 |
Steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a cylinder. This pushing force is transformed, by a connecting rod and flywheel, into rotational force for work.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27692 |
Satan
Satan, also known as the Devil, is an entity in the Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin or falsehood. In Christianity and Islam, he is usually seen as either a fallen angel or a genie, who used to possess great piety and beauty, but rebelled against God, who nevertheless allows him temporary power o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27694 |
Structured programming
Structured programming is a programming paradigm aimed at improving the clarity, quality, and development time of a computer program by making extensive use of the structured control flow constructs of selection (if/then/else) and repetition (while and for), block structures, and subroutines.
I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27695 |
Semiconductor device fabrication
Semiconductor device fabrication is the process used to manufacture semiconductor devices, typically the metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) devices used in the integrated circuit (IC) chips that are present in everyday electrical and electronic devices. It is a multiple-step sequence of p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27696 |
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; , ) is an Indo-Aryan or Indic language of the ancient Indian subcontinent with a 3,500-year history. It is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism and the predominant language of most works of Hindu philosophy as well as some of the principal texts of Buddhism and Jainism. Sanskrit, in its var... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27698 |
Sign language
Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulations in combination with non-manual elements. Sign languages are full-fledged natural languages with their own grammar and lexicon. Sig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27699 |
String (computer science)
In computer programming, a string is traditionally a sequence of characters, either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable. The latter may allow its elements to be mutated and the length changed, or it may be fixed (after creation). A string is generally considered as a data type a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27701 |
Satanism
Satanism is a group of ideological and philosophical beliefs based on Satan. Contemporary religious practice of Satanism began with the founding of the Church of Satan in 1966, although a few historical precedents exist. Prior to the public practice, Satanism existed primarily as an accusation by various Chri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27706 |
Socialist law
Socialist law or Soviet law denotes a general type of legal system which has been (and continues to be) used in socialist and formerly socialist states. It is based on the civil law system, with major modifications and additions from Marxist-Leninist ideology. There is controversy as to whether socialist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27707 |
Semiconductor
A semiconductor material has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as metallic copper, and an insulator, such as glass. Its resistance falls as its temperature rises; metals are the opposite. Its conducting properties may be altered in useful ways by introducing impur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27709 |
Starch
Starch or amylum is a polymeric carbohydrate consisting of numerous glucose units joined by glycosidic bonds. This polysaccharide is produced by most green plants as energy storage. It is the most common carbohydrate in human diets and is contained in large amounts in staple foods like potatoes, maize (corn), r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27711 |
Sugar
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Table sugar, granulated sugar, or regular sugar, refers to sucrose, a disaccharide composed of glucose and fructose.
Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose, fructose, and galactose. Compound ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27712 |
Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek Pinault (, ; born Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez; September 2, 1966) is a Mexican and American film actress and producer. She began her career in Mexico starring in the telenovela "Teresa" and starred in the film "El Callejón de los Milagros" ("Miracle Alley") for which she was nominated for an A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27717 |
Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL) played in early February. It is the culmination of a regular season that begins in the late summer of the previous year.
The game was created as part of the merger agreement between the NFL and its rival the American Footb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27718 |
Surface area
The surface area of a solid object is a measure of the total area that the surface of the object occupies. The mathematical definition of surface area in the presence of curved surfaces is considerably more involved than the definition of arc length of one-dimensional curves, or of the surface area for po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27725 |
Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian – also called Serbo-Croat , Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27730 |
Saint Kitts
Saint Kitts, also known more formally as Saint Christopher Island, is an island in the West Indies. The west side of the island borders the Caribbean Sea, and the eastern coast faces the Atlantic Ocean. Saint Kitts and the neighbouring island of Nevis constitute one country: the Federation of Saint Kitts a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27737 |
Shogi
Shogi was the earliest chess variant to allow captured pieces to be returned to the board by the capturing player. This drop rule is speculated to have been invented in the 15th century and possibly connected to the practice of 15th century mercenaries switching loyalties when captured instead of being killed.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27739 |
Solar energy
Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of ever-evolving technologies such as solar heating, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy, solar architecture, molten salt power plants and artificial photosynthesis.
It is an essential source of renewable energy, and its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27743 |
Standard conditions for temperature and pressure
Standard temperature and pressure are standard sets of conditions for experimental measurements to be established to allow comparisons to be made between different sets of data. The most used standards are those of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27745 |
Script kiddie
In programming and hacking cultures, a script kiddie, skiddie, or skid is an unskilled individual who uses scripts or programs, such as a web shell, developed by others to attack computer systems and networks and deface websites. It is generally assumed that most script kiddies are juveniles who lack the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27750 |
Scalable Vector Graphics
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics with support for interactivity and animation. The SVG specification is an open standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since 1999.
SVG images and thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27751 |
Spectroscopy
Spectroscopy is the study of the interaction between matter and electromagnetic radiation (via electron spectroscopy, atomic spectroscopy, etc). Historically, spectroscopy originated through the study of visible light dispersed according to its wavelength, by a prism. Later the concept was expanded greatl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27752 |
List of science fiction themes
The following is a list of articles about recurring themes in science fiction. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27753 |
Samaritanism
The Samaritan religion, also known as Samaritanism, is the national religion of the Samaritans. The Samaritans adhere to the Samaritan Torah, which they believe is the original, unchanged Torah, as opposed to the Torah used by Jews. In addition to the Samaritan Torah, Samaritans also revere their version ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27754 |
Statute of Anne
The Statute of Anne, also known as the Copyright Act 1710 (cited either as 8 Ann. c. 21 or as 8 Ann. c. 19), is an act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1710, which was the first statute to provide for copyright regulated by the government and courts, rather than by private parties.
Prior t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27760 |
School choice
"School choice" is a term for pre-college public education options, describing a wide array of programs offering students and their families voluntary alternatives to publicly provided schools, to which students are generally assigned by the location of their family residence. In the United States, the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27761 |
Star Frontiers
Star Frontiers is a science fiction role-playing game produced by TSR beginning in 1982. The game offered a space opera action-adventure setting.
"Star Frontiers" takes place near the center of a spiral galaxy (the setting does not specify whether the galaxy is our own Milky Way).
A previously undisco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27762 |
Structuralism
In sociology, anthropology, and linguistics, structuralism is the methodology that implies elements of human culture must be understood by way of their relationship to a broader, overarching system or structure. It works to uncover the structures that underlie all the things that humans do, think, percei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27763 |
Systems engineering
Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their life cycles. At its core, systems engineering utilizes systems thinking principles to organize this body of knowledge. The indi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27764 |
Sam & Max
Sam & Max is a media franchise focusing on the titular fictional characters, the Freelance Police. The characters, who occupy a universe that parodies American popular culture, were created by Steve Purcell in his youth, and later debuted in a 1987 comic book series. The characters have since been the subjec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27766 |
Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments (clasts) or organic material.
Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) because they are the most resistant minerals to weathering processes at the Earth's surfa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27772 |
Scanning tunneling microscope
A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is an instrument for imaging surfaces at the atomic level. Its development in 1981 earned its inventors, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer (at IBM Zürich), the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986. For an STM, good resolution is considered to be 0.1 nm latera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27774 |
Stem cell
In multicellular organisms, stem cells are undifferentiated or partially differentiated cells that can differentiate into various types of cells and divide indefinitely to produce more of the same stem cell. They are the earliest type of cell in a cell lineage. They are found in both embryonic and adult orga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27783 |
Sappho
Sappho (; "Sapphō" ; Aeolic Greek "Psápphō"; c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by a lyre. In ancient times, Sappho was widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets and was given names such as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27784 |
Simon bar Kokhba
Simon ben Kosevah, or Cosibah, known to posterity as Bar Kokhba (; died 135 CE), was a Jewish military leader who led the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman Empire in 132 CE. The revolt established a three-year-long independent Jewish state in which Bar Kokhba ruled as "Nasi" ("Prince"). Some of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27786 |
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental illness characterized by continuous or relapsing episodes of psychosis. Major symptoms include hallucinations (often hearing voices), delusions (having beliefs not shared by others), and disorganized thinking. Other symptoms include social withdrawal, decreased emotional express... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27790 |
Tau Ceti
Tau Ceti, Latinized from τ Ceti, is a single star in the constellation Cetus that is spectrally similar to the Sun, although it has only about 78% of the Sun's mass. At a distance of just under from the Solar System, it is a relatively nearby star and the closest solitary G-class star. The star appears stable... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31307 |
Tim Berra
Dr. Tim M. Berra is Academy Professor and Professor Emeritus of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University. He received the Ph.D. in Biology from Tulane University in 1969. He is a three-time recipient of Fulbright Fellowships to Australia in 1969,1979, and 2009. He taught at the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31322 |
Type IX submarine
The Type IX U-boat was designed by Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine" in 1935 and 1936 as a large ocean-going submarine for sustained operations far from the home support facilities. Type IX boats were briefly used for patrols off the eastern United States in an attempt to disrupt the stream of troops and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31331 |
International Obfuscated C Code Contest
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest (abbreviated IOCCC) is a computer programming contest for the most creatively obfuscated C code. Held annually in the years 1984–1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004–2006, 2011–2015 and then in 2018, it is described as "celebrating [C's] synta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31332 |
Territorial integrity
Territorial integrity is the principle under international law that prohibits states from the use of force against the "territorial integrity or political independence" of another state. It is enshrined in of the UN Charter and has been recognized as customary international law. Conversely it sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31335 |
Tachi
A was a type of traditionally made Japanese sword worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan. Tachi and katana generally differ in length, degree of curvature, and how they were worn when sheathed, the latter depending on the location of the "mei", or signature, on the tang. The tachi style of swords preceded the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31337 |
The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin ( ) is a series of 24 "bande dessinée" albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé. The series was one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. By 2007, a century after Hergé's birth in 1907, "Tintin" had been p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31338 |
Tecumseh, Michigan
Tecumseh is a city in Lenawee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated where M-50 crosses the River Raisin, a few miles east of M-52. Tecumseh is about southwest of Detroit, south of Ann Arbor, and north of Toledo, Ohio.
As of the 2010 census, the city has a population of 8,521. The cit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31339 |
The Mythical Man-Month
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks first published in 1975, with subsequent editions in 1982 and 1995. Its central theme is that "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later". This idea is k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31340 |
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur ( ; born Lesane Parish Crooks, 16 June 197113 September 1996), popularly known by his stage name 2Pac, was an American rapper and actor. Considered by many to be one of the most influential rappers of all time, much of Shakur's work has been noted for addressing contemporary social issu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31341 |
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of "Lippincott's Monthly Magazine". Fearing the story was indecent, prior to publication the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words without Wilde's kno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31342 |
Trilogy
A trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connected and can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, and video games, and are less common in other art forms. Three-part works that are considered components of a larger work also exist, su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31347 |
Tyrosine
Tyrosine (symbol Tyr or Y) or 4-hydroxyphenylalanine is one of the 20 standard amino acids that are used by cells to synthesize proteins. It is a non-essential amino acid with a polar side group. The word "tyrosine" is from the Greek "tyrós", meaning "cheese", as it was first discovered in 1846 by German chem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31349 |
Thabo Mbeki
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki (; born 18 June 1942) is a South African politician who served as the second president of South Africa from 16 June 1999 to 24 September 2008. On 20 September 2008, with about nine months left in his second term, Mbeki announced his resignation after being recalled by the National Exec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31350 |
The Straight Story
The Straight Story is a 1999 biographical road drama film directed by David Lynch. The film was edited and produced by Mary Sweeney, Lynch's longtime partner and collaborator. She also co-wrote the script with John E. Roach. The film is based on the true story of Alvin Straight's 1994 journey across... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31351 |
Theophan the Recluse
Theophan the Recluse, also known as Theophan Zatvornik or Theophanes the Recluse (Russian: Феофа́н Затво́рник; January 10, 1815 – January 6, 1894) is a well-known saint in the Russian Orthodox Church.
Theophan the Recluse, also known as Theophan Zatvornik or Theophanes the Recluse or (in the Libr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31352 |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (sometimes referred to as HG2G, HHGTTG, H2G2, or tHGttG) is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, including stage shows, novel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31353 |
The Art of Computer Programming
The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) is a comprehensive monograph written by computer scientist Donald Knuth that covers many kinds of programming algorithms and their analysis.
Knuth began the project, originally conceived as a single book with twelve chapters, in 1962. The first t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31358 |
Tapas
A tapa () is an appetizer or snack in Spanish cuisine and translates to small portion of any kind of Spanish cuisine.
Tapas may be cold (such as mixed olives and cheese) or hot (such as "chopitos", which are battered, fried baby squid).
In some bars and restaurants in Spain and across the globe, tapas have evo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31359 |
Toledo, Spain
Toledo (, , ) is a city and municipality located in central Spain; it is the capital of the province of Toledo in the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. Toledo was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 for its extensive monumental and cultural heritage.
Toledo is known as the "Imperia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31360 |
Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da Cunha (), colloquially Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying approximately off the coast of Cape Town in South Africa, from Saint Helena and off the coast of the Falkland Islands.
The terr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31361 |
Thomas R. Marshall
Thomas Riley Marshall (March 14, 1854 – June 1, 1925) was an American politician who served as the 28th vice president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 under President Woodrow Wilson. A prominent lawyer in Indiana, he became an active and well known member of the Democratic Party by stumping a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31362 |
Physiologus
The Physiologus is a didactic Christian text written or compiled in Greek by an unknown author, in Alexandria; its composition has been traditionally dated to the 2nd century AD by readers who saw parallels with writings of Clement of Alexandria, who is asserted to have known the text, though Alan Scott ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31364 |
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Started as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is now published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31365 |
T. H. White
Terence Hanbury "Tim" White (29 May 1906 – 17 January 1964) was an English author best known for his Arthurian novels, "The Once and Future King", first published together in 1958. One of his most memorable is the first of the series, "The Sword in the Stone", published as a stand-alone book in 1938.
He w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31368 |
The Lizard
The Lizard () is a peninsula in southern Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The most southerly point of the British mainland is near Lizard Point at SW 701115; Lizard village, also known as The Lizard, is the most southerly on the British mainland, and is in the civil parish of Landewednack, the most southe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31369 |
Seven Samurai
Since its release, "Seven Samurai" has consistently ranked highly in critics' lists of the greatest films, such as the BFI's "Sight & Sound" and Rotten Tomatoes polls. It was also voted the greatest foreign-language film in BBC's 2018 international critics' poll. It has remained highly influential, often... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31371 |
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky (; ; January 25, 1900 – December 18, 1975) was a prominent Russian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist, and a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the modern synthesis. Dobzhansky was born in Ukraine, then part of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31372 |
Tor (rock formation)
A tor, which is also known by geomorphologists as either a castle koppie or kopje, is a large, free-standing rock outcrop that rises abruptly from the surrounding smooth and gentle slopes of a rounded hill summit or ridge crest. In the South West of England, the term is commonly also used for the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31373 |
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a six-volume work by the English historian Edward Gibbon. It traces Western civilization (as well as the Islamic and Mongolian conquests) from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium. Volu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31375 |
Der Ring des Nibelungen
' (The Ring of the Nibelung), WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner. The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the "Nibelungenlied". The composer termed the cycle a "Bühnenfestspiel" (stage festival play), structured in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31381 |
True BASIC
True BASIC is a variant of the BASIC programming language descended from Dartmouth BASIC—the original BASIC. Both were created by college professors John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.
True BASIC traces its history to an offshoot of Dartmouth BASIC called Structured BASIC, or SBASIC for short. This was rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31382 |
Osmotic pressure
Osmotic Pressure is the minimum pressure which needs to be applied to a solution to prevent the inward flow of its pure solvent across a semipermeable membrane.
It is also defined as the measure of the tendency of a solution to take in pure solvent by osmosis. Potential osmotic pressure is the maximum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31383 |
Twilight: 2000
Twilight 2000 is a role-playing game set in the aftermath of World War III (the "Twilight War"). The premise is that the United States/NATO and the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact have fought a lengthy conventional war, followed by a (limited) nuclear war with all its consequences. Characters in the game are s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31384 |
Technical and further education
In Australia, technical and further education or TAFE () institutions provide a wide range of predominantly vocational courses, mostly qualifying courses under the National Training System/Australian Qualifications Framework/Australian Quality Training Framework. Fields covered include ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31386 |
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (also known as the Treaty of Brest in Russia) was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in Wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31388 |
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment center, and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. Brightly lit by numerous billboards and advertisements, it stretches from West 42nd to West 47th S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31389 |
Terry Riley
Terrence Mitchell Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of the minimalist school of composition. Influenced by jazz and Indian classical music, his music became notable for its innovative use of repetition, tape music techniques, and delay system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31390 |
Tasmanian devil
The Tasmanian devil ("Sarcophilus harrisii") is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It was once native to mainland Australia and is now found in the wild only on the island state of Tasmania, including tiny east-coast Maria Island where there is a conservation project with disease-free an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31392 |
Tantra
Tantra (; Sanskrit: तन्त्र, literally "loom, weave, system") denotes the esoteric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism that co-developed most likely about the middle of the 1st millennium AD. The term "tantra", in the Indian traditions, also means any systematic broadly applicable "text, theory, system, method, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31395 |
Twelve-step program
A twelve-step program is a set of guiding principles outlining a course of action for recovery from addiction, compulsion, or other behavioral problems. Originally proposed by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) as a method of recovery from alcoholism, the Twelve Steps were first published in the 1939 book "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31398 |
Tietze extension theorem
In topology, the Tietze extension theorem (also known as the Tietze–Urysohn–Brouwer extension theorem) states that continuous functions on a closed subset of a normal topological space can be extended to the entire space, preserving boundedness if necessary.
If "X" is a normal topological spa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31404 |
Thomas J. Watson
Thomas John Watson Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was an American businessman. He served as the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM). He oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM's management style and corporate cultu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31408 |
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck (Lo) is a serial of 12 comic book stories written and drawn by Don Rosa, lettered by Todd Klein (American editions), first published by the Danish publisher Egmont in the magazine "Anders And & Co." from 1992–94 and later in English in "Uncle Sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31409 |
Clan McDuck
File:Glasgow 1877 by Don Rosa.jpg|thumb|right|329px|"Glasgow 1877", Clan McDuck portrait by Don Rosa; left to right: Jake, Matilda, Downy, Fergus, Hortense, Scrooge (age 10), and Angus; wall portraits: Malcolm, Eider, Quackly, Roast, and Hugh (Clicking on a character will take you to their section.)
poly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31411 |
Topaz
Topaz is a silicate mineral of aluminium and fluorine with the chemical formula Al2SiO4(F, OH)2. Topaz crystallizes in the orthorhombic system, and its crystals are mostly prismatic terminated by pyramidal and other faces. It is one of the hardest naturally occurring minerals (Mohs hardness of 8) and is the hard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31415 |
Ted Raimi
Theodore Raimi (born December 14, 1965) is an American actor, director, comedian, and writer. He is known for his roles in the works of his brother Sam Raimi, including a fake Shemp in "The Evil Dead", possessed Henrietta in "Evil Dead II", and Ted Hoffman in the "Spider-Man" trilogy. He later reprised his r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31416 |
Panentheism
Panentheism (meaning "all-in-God", from the Greek "pân", "all", "en", "in" and "Theós", "God") is the belief that the divine pervades and interpenetrates every part of the universe and also extends beyond space and time. The term was coined by the German philosopher Karl Krause in 1828 to distinguish the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23591 |
Paraphilia
Paraphilia (previously known as sexual perversion and sexual deviation) is the experience of intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, situations, fantasies, behaviors, or individuals.
No consensus has been found for any precise border between unusual sexual interests and paraphilic ones. There is debat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23592 |
Pediatrics
Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends people be under pediatric care up to the age of 21 (though usually only minors are required to be under pediatric ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23593 |
Physiology
Physiology (; ) is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system. As a sub-discipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ systems, individual organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical and physical functions in a living system. According to the classes of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23597 |
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