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Pi
The number () is a mathematical constant. It is defined as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, and it also has various equivalent definitions. It appears in many formulas in all areas of mathematics and physics. It is approximately equal to 3.14159. It has been represented by the Greek letter "" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23601 |
Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late 20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism, marking a departure from modernism. The term has been more generally applied to describe a historical era said to follow after modernity and the tendencies of this e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23603 |
Photography
Photography is the art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed in many fields of science, man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23604 |
Postmodern philosophy
Postmodern philosophy is a philosophical movement that arose in the second half of the 20th century as a critical response to assumptions allegedly present in modernist philosophical ideas regarding culture, identity, history, or language that were developed during the 18th-century Enlightenment.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23612 |
Postmodern music
Postmodern music is music in the art music tradition produced in the postmodern era. It also describes any music that follows aesthetical and philosophical trends of postmodernism. As an aesthetic movement it was formed partly in reaction to modernism but is not primarily defined as oppositional to mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23613 |
Pump
A pump is a device that moves fluids (liquids or gases), or sometimes slurries, by mechanical action, typically converted from electrical energy into Hydraulic energy. Pumps can be classified into three major groups according to the method they use to move the fluid: "direct lift", "displacement", and "gravity" p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23617 |
Pressure
Pressure (symbol: "p" or "P") is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed. Gauge pressure (also spelled "gage" pressure) is the pressure relative to the ambient pressure.
Various units are used to express pressure. Some of these derive fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23619 |
Polygon
In geometry, a polygon () is a plane figure that is described by a finite number of straight line segments connected to form a closed polygonal chain or "polygonal circuit". The solid plane region, the bounding circuit, or the two together, may be called a polygon.
The segments of a polygonal circuit are call... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23621 |
Player character
A player character (also known as PC and playable character) is a fictional character in a video game or tabletop role-playing game whose actions are directly controlled by a player of the game rather than the rules of the game. The characters that are not controlled by a player are called non-player ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23622 |
Parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or more curates, and who operates from a parish church. Historically, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23623 |
Procopius
Procopius of Caesarea ( "Prokópios ho Kaisareús"; ; ) was a prominent late antique Byzantine Greek scholar from Palaestina Prima. Accompanying the Byzantine general Belisarius in Emperor Justinian's wars, Procopius became the principal Byzantine historian of the 6th century, writing the "History of the Wars"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23624 |
Property
Property in the abstract is what belongs to or with something, whether as an attribute or as a component of said thing. In the context of this article, it is one or more components (rather than attributes), whether physical or incorporeal, of a person's estate; or so belonging to, as in being owned by, a pers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23626 |
Police
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23627 |
PDP-10
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)'s PDP-10, later marketed as the DECsystem-10, is a mainframe computer family manufactured beginning in 1966 and discontinued in 1983. 1970s models and beyond were marketed under the DECsystem-10 name, especially as the TOPS-10 operating system became widely used.
The PDP-10'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23628 |
DECSYSTEM-20
The DECSYSTEM-20 was a 36-bit Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-10 mainframe computer running the TOPS-20 operating system (products introduced in 1977).
PDP-10 computers running the TOPS-10 operating system were labeled "DECsystem-10" as a way of differentiating them from the PDP-11. Later on, those sys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23629 |
Programmed Data Processor
Programmed Data Processor (PDP), referred to by some customers, media and authors as "Programmable Data Processor, is a term used by the Digital Equipment Corporation from 1957 to 1990 for several lines of minicomputers. The name "PDP" intentionally avoids the use of the term "computer" becau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23630 |
Platonic idealism
Platonic idealism usually refers to Plato's theory of forms or doctrine of ideas. It holds that only ideas encapsulate the true and essential nature of things, in a way that the physical form cannot. We recognise a tree, for instance, even though its physical form may be most untree-like. The treelik... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23632 |
Protein
Proteins are large biomolecules, or macromolecules, consisting of one or more long chains of amino acid residues. Proteins perform a vast array of functions within organisms, including catalysing metabolic reactions, DNA replication, responding to stimuli, providing structure to cells, and organisms, and trans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23634 |
Physical chemistry
Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics, analytical dynamics and chemical equilibrium.
P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23635 |
Perimeter
A perimeter is a path that encompasses/surrounds a two-dimensional shape. The term may be used either for the path, or its length—in one dimension. It can be thought of as the length of the outline of a shape. The perimeter of a circle or ellipse is called its circumference.
Calculating the perimeter has s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23636 |
Phase (matter)
In the physical sciences, a phase is a region of space (a thermodynamic system), throughout which all physical properties of a material are essentially uniform. Examples of physical properties include density, index of refraction, magnetization and chemical composition. A simple description is that a ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23637 |
Outline of physical science
Physical science is a branch of natural science that studies non-living systems, in contrast to life science. It in turn has many branches, each referred to as a "physical science", together called the "physical sciences".
Physical science can be described as all of the following:
Histor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23638 |
Gasoline
Gasoline or petrol (see the etymology for naming differences) is a clear petroleum-derived flammable liquid that is used primarily as a fuel in most spark-ignited internal combustion engines. It consists mostly of organic compounds obtained by the fractional distillation of petroleum, enhanced with a variety ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23639 |
Pentose
In chemistry, a pentose is a monosaccharide (simple sugar) with five carbon atoms. The chemical formula of all pentoses is , and their molecular weight is 150.13 g/mol.
Pentoses are very important in biochemistry. Ribose is a constituent of RNA, and the related molecule, deoxyribose, is a constituent of DNA. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23640 |
Propane
Propane () is a three-carbon alkane with the molecular formula . It is a gas at standard temperature and pressure, but compressible to a transportable liquid. A by-product of natural gas processing and petroleum refining, it is commonly used as a fuel. Discovered in 1857 by the French chemist Marcellin Berthel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23643 |
Precambrian
The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pЄ, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon. The Precambrian is so named because it preceded the Cambrian, the first period of the Phanerozoic eon, which is named after Cambria, the Latinised name... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23645 |
Polymerase chain reaction
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a method widely used to rapidly make millions to billions of copies of a specific DNA sample, allowing scientists to take a very small sample of DNA and amplify it to a large enough amount to study in detail. PCR was invented in 1984 by the American biochemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23647 |
Polymerase
A polymerase is an enzyme (EC 2.7.7.6/7/19/48/49) that synthesizes long chains of polymers or nucleic acids. DNA polymerase and RNA polymerase are used to assemble DNA and RNA molecules, respectively, by copying a DNA template strand using base-pairing interactions or RNA by half ladder replication.
A DNA ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23648 |
Pacific Scandal
The Pacific Scandal was a political scandal in Canada involving bribes being accepted by 150 members of the Conservative government in the attempts of private interests to influence the bidding for a national rail contract. As part of British Columbia's 1871 agreement to join the Canadian Confederation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23649 |
Primer (molecular biology)
A primer is a short single-stranded nucleic acid utilized by all living organisms in the initiation of DNA synthesis. The enzymes responsible for DNA replication, DNA polymerases, are only capable of adding nucleotides to the 3’-end of an existing nucleic acid, requiring a primer be bound to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23650 |
Purine
Purine is a heterocyclic aromatic organic compound that consists of a two rings in their structure. It is water-soluble. Purine also gives its name to the wider class of molecules, purines, which include substituted purines and their tautomers. They are the most widely occurring nitrogen-containing heterocycles... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23652 |
Pyrimidine
Pyrimidine is an aromatic heterocyclic organic compound similar to pyridine. One of the three diazines (six-membered heterocyclics with two nitrogen atoms in the ring), it has the nitrogen atoms at positions 1 and 3 in the ring. The other diazines are pyrazine (nitrogen atoms at the 1 and 4 positions) and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23653 |
Play-by-mail game
Play-by-mail games (also known as PBM games and turn-based games) are games played through postal mail, email or other digital media. Correspondence chess and Go are among the first PBM games. "Diplomacy" has been played by mail since 1963, introducing a multi-player aspect to PBM games. Flying Buffa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23654 |
Philip K. Dick Award
The Philip K. Dick Award is an American science fiction award given annually at Norwescon and sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and (since 2005) the Philip K. Dick Trust. Named after science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, it has been awarded since 1983, the year after his death... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23658 |
Plug-in (computing)
In computing, a plug-in (or plugin, add-in, addin, add-on, or addon) is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program. When a program supports plug-ins, it enables customization.
A theme or skin is a preset package containing additional or changed graphical appe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23659 |
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( (); 1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit Catholic priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of the Peking Man. He conceived the vitalist idea of the Omega Point (a maximum level of comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23660 |
Phutball
Phutball (short for Philosopher's Football) is a two-player abstract strategy board game described in Elwyn Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, and Richard K. Guy's "Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays".
Phutball is played on the intersections of a 19×15 grid using one white stone and as many black stones as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23661 |
Papyrus
Papyrus ( ) is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface. It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, "Cyperus papyrus", a wetland sedge. "Papyrus" (plural: "papyri") can also refer to a document written on sheets of such material, joined together side by side an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23664 |
Pixel
In digital imaging, a pixel, pel, or picture element is a physical point in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in an all points addressable display device; so it is the smallest controllable element of a picture represented on the screen.
Each pixel is a sample of an original image; more sample... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23665 |
Prime number
A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers. A natural number greater than 1 that is not prime is called a composite number. For example, 5 is prime because the only ways of writing it as a product, or , involve 5 itself.
However, 4 i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23666 |
Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born 6 August 1934 in Oxford, England) is an English-American author in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his set in the fictional realm of Xanth.
Many of his books have appeared on "The New York Times" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23669 |
Perfect number
In number theory, a perfect number is a positive integer that is equal to the sum of its positive divisors, excluding the number itself. For instance, 6 has divisors 1, 2 and 3 (excluding itself), and 1 + 2 + 3 = 6, so 6 is a perfect number.
The sum of divisors of a number, excluding the number itself,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23670 |
Parthenon
The Parthenon (; ; , , ) is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their patron. Construction began in 447 BC when the Athenian Empire was at the peak of its power. It was completed in 438 BC, although decoration of the buildin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23672 |
Pachomius the Great
Pachomius (; ; ; c. 292 – 9 May 348 A.D.), also known as Pachome and Pakhomios, is generally recognized as the founder of Christian cenobitic monasticism. Coptic churches celebrate his feast day on 9 May, and Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches mark his feast on 15 May or 28 May. In the Lu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23673 |
Philosophical Investigations
Philosophical Investigations () is a work by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. The book was published posthumously in 1953. Wittgenstein discusses numerous problems and puzzles in the fields of semantics, logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of action, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23674 |
Poul Anderson
Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author who began his career in the 1940s and continued to write into the 21st century. Anderson authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and short stories. His awards include seven Hugo Awards and three... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23677 |
Panspermia
Panspermia () is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by space dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets, planetoids, and also by spacecraft carrying unintended contamination by microorganisms. Distribution may have occurred spanning galaxies, and so may not be restricted to the li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23678 |
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom
"There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom: An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics" was a lecture given by physicist Richard Feynman at the annual American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959. Feynman considered the possibility of direct manipulation of indiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23680 |
Philately
Philately (; ) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection, appreciation and research activities on stamps and other philatelic products. Philately involves more than just stamp collecting or the study of postage; it is possible to be a philatelist without owning any s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23681 |
Puget Sound
Puget Sound () is a sound of the Pacific Northwest, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and part of the Salish Sea. It is located along the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington. It is a complex estuarine system of interconnected marine waterways and basins, with one major and two minor connections... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23682 |
Rhenium
Rhenium is a chemical element with the symbol Re and atomic number 75. It is a silvery-gray, heavy, third-row transition metal in group 7 of the periodic table. With an estimated average concentration of 1 part per billion (ppb), rhenium is one of the rarest elements in the Earth's crust. Rhenium has the third... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25603 |
Radon
Radon is a chemical element with the symbol Rn and atomic number 86. It is a radioactive, colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas. It occurs naturally in minute quantities as an intermediate step in the normal radioactive decay chains through which thorium and uranium slowly decay into lead and various other sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25604 |
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
KTH Royal Institute of Technology (")," abbreviated KTH, is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education within engineering and technology, and is Sweden's largest technical university. Currently, KTH consists of five schools with five campuse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25609 |
Rescuing Prometheus
Rescuing Prometheus: Four Monumental Projects That Changed the Modern World is a book by Thomas P. Hughes. The book uses four extremely large engineering projects of the late 20th century as examples to explore how the limits of modern system engineering are stressed by real life projects. It also ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25610 |
Random access
Random access (more precisely and more generally called direct access) is the ability to access an arbitrary element of a sequence in equal time or any datum from a population of addressable elements roughly as easily and efficiently as any other, no matter how many elements may be in the set. In compute... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25612 |
Racism
Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to physical appearance and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another. It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against other people because they are of a different race o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25613 |
R
R or r is the 18th letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is "ar" (pronounced ), plural "ars", or in Ireland "or" .
The original Semitic letter may have been inspired by an Egyptian hieroglyph for "tp", "head". It was used for by Semites because in their language... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25618 |
Richard Bachman
Richard Bachman is a pen name used by horror fiction author Stephen King.
At the beginning of Stephen King's career, the general view among publishers was that an author was limited to one book per year, since publishing more would be unacceptable to the public. King therefore wanted to write under an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25622 |
Roberto Baggio
Roberto Baggio (; born 18 February 1967) is an Italian former professional footballer who mainly played as a second striker, or as an attacking midfielder, although he was capable of playing in several offensive positions. He is the former president of the technical sector of the Italian Football Federa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25624 |
Richard Matheson
Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres.
He is best known as the author of "I Am Legend", a 1954 science fiction horror novel that has been adapted for the screen three times, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25625 |
Demographics of Réunion
This article concerns the demography of Réunion. People of Réunion are "Réunionese". The official language is French, and Réunionese Creole is widely spoken. The population of Réunion is as of .
As of , estimates put the population of Réunion at , with a growth rate of 1.63%. The birth rate wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25629 |
Telecommunications in Réunion
Réunion has a number of systems for communication, including telephony, Internet and radio. The island is connected to the SAFE undersea cable system.
As of 2001, there were 300,000 main-line telephones and, in 2005, there were 610,000 mobile phones. The telephone system has its centre i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25632 |
Transport in Réunion
Réunion possesses a network of highways, which cover a total distance of 2,784km. Of that length, 2,187 km of the road system is paved. There are no roads going into the cirque of Mafate, thus transportation there has to take place by foot or helicopter.
A system of motorways that run between the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25633 |
History of Romania
34,950-year-old remains of modern humans with a possible Neanderthalian trait were discovered in present-day Romania when the "Peștera cu Oase" ("Cave with Bones") was uncovered in 2002. In 2011, older modern human remains were identified in the UK (Kents Cavern 41,500 to 44,200 years old) and Italy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25636 |
Geography of Romania
With an area of , Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe. Located in Southeastern Europe, bordering on the Black Sea, the country is halfway between the equator and the North Pole and equidistant from the westernmost part of Europe—the Atlantic Coast—and the most easterly—the Ural Mounta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25637 |
Demographics of Romania
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Romania, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
About 88.9% of the people of Romania are ethnic Romanians,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25638 |
Politics of Romania
Romania's political framework is a semi-presidential representative democratic republic where the Prime Minister is the head of government while the President represents the country internationally, signs some decrees, approves laws promulgated by parliament and nominations as head of state. Romani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25639 |
Economy of Romania
The economy of Romania is a fast developing, high-income mixed economy with a very high Human Development Index and a skilled labour force, ranked 15th in the European Union by total nominal GDP and 10th largest when adjusted by purchasing power parity.
Romania's economy ranks 40th in the world, wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25640 |
Mass media in Romania
The mass media in Romania refers to mass media outlets based in Romania. Television, magazines, and newspapers are all operated by both state-owned and for-profit corporations which depend on advertising, subscription, and other sales-related revenues. The Constitution of Romania guarantees freed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25641 |
Transport in Romania
As a densely populated country in a central location in Central-Southeastern Europe and with a developed economy, Romania has a dense and modern transportation infrastructure.
Transportation infrastructure in Romania is the property of the state, and is administered by the Ministry of Transport a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25642 |
Rwanda
Rwanda (; ), formerly Ruanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda (; Swahili: "Jamhuri ya Rwanda"; ["République Rwandaise" until 2003]), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley where the African Great Lakes region and East Africa converge. One of the smallest countries on the African mainland, its capita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25645 |
Demographics of Rwanda
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Rwanda, including population density, ethnicity, education higher level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Rwanda's population density, even after the 1994 genoc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25648 |
Politics of Rwanda
The Politics of Rwanda reflect Belgian and German civil law systems and customary law takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential republic, whereby the President of Rwanda is the head of state with significant executive power, with the Prime Minister of Rwanda being the constitutional head of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25649 |
Economy of Rwanda
The economy of Rwanda has undergone rapid industrialisation due to a successful governmental policy. Since the early-2000s, Rwanda has witnessed an economic boom improving the living standards of many Rwandans. The Government's progressive visions have been the catalyst for the fast transforming econ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25650 |
Telecommunications in Rwanda
Telecommunications in Rwanda include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Two government-appointed regulatory bodies, the Rwanda Information Technology Authority under the Rwanda Development Board, and the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency (RURA), supervise t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25651 |
Transport in Rwanda
The transport system in Rwanda centres primarily around the road network. Paved roads lie between the capital, Kigali, and most other major cities and towns in the country. Rwanda is also linked by road with other countries in the African Great Lakes, via which the majority of the country's imports... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25652 |
Foreign relations of Rwanda
Rwanda has been the center of much international attention since the war and genocide of 1994. The country is an active member of the United Nations, having presided over the Security Council during part of 1995 and again in 2013–2014. The UN assistance mission in Rwanda, a UN Chapter 6 pea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25654 |
Rockall
Rockall () is an uninhabitable granite islet in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the United Kingdom, situated in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is claimed by the United Kingdom as its territory. This claim is not recognised by its neighbours.
Its approximate distances from the closest islands in each direct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25655 |
Roman numerals
Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers in this system are represented by combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet. Modern usage employs seven symbols, each with a f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25657 |
Rammstein
Rammstein () is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band formed in Berlin in 1994. The band's lineup—consisting of lead vocalist Till Lindemann, lead guitarist Richard Kruspe, rhythm guitarist Paul Landers, bassist Oliver Riedel, drummer Christoph Schneider, and keyboardist Christian "Flake" Lorenz—has remained unc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25661 |
Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Falcon Scott (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the "Discovery" expedition of 1901–1904 and the ill-fated "Terra Nova" expedition of 1910–1913. On the first expedition, he set a new southern record by march... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25662 |
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25663 |
Rosaceae
Rosaceae, the rose family, is a medium-sized family of flowering plants, including 4,828 known species in 91 genera.
The name is derived from the type genus "Rosa". Among the most species-rich genera are "Alchemilla" (270), "Sorbus" (260), "Crataegus" (260), "Cotoneaster" (260), "Rubus" (250), and "Prunus" (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25665 |
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader (; born February 27, 1934) is an American political activist, author, lecturer, attorney, and presidential candidate, noted for his involvement in consumer protection, environmentalism and government reform causes.
The son of Lebanese immigrants to the United States, Nader was educated at Pri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25671 |
Richard Bach
Richard David Bach (born June 23, 1936) is an American writer widely known as the author of some of the 1970s' biggest sellers, including "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" (1970) and "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah" (1977). Bach has written numerous works of fiction, and also non-fiction fli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25674 |
Radar
Radar is a detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain. A radar system consists of a transmitter producing electromagnetic waves in the radio or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25676 |
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918. Following the Allied victory over the Central Powers in 1918, the RAF emerged as the largest air force in the world at the time. Since its formation, the RAF has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25679 |
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (in Russian: "Рабо́че-Крестья́нская Кра́сная Армия"), frequently shortened to Red Army, was the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The army was established immediately after th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25682 |
Random variable
In probability and statistics, a random variable, random quantity, aleatory variable, or stochastic variable is described informally as a variable whose values depend on outcomes of a random phenomenon. The formal mathematical treatment of random variables is a topic in probability theory. In that cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25685 |
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains ("") attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia".
Although commercially unsuccessful at first, FitzGerald's work was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25686 |
The Monkees
The Monkees are an American rock and pop band originally active between 1966 and 1971, with reunion albums and tours in the decades that followed. Their original line-up consisted of the American actor/musicians Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork with English actor/singer Davy Jones. The group w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31417 |
Thermobaric weapon
A thermobaric weapon, aerosol bomb, or vacuum bomb is a type of explosive that uses oxygen from the surrounding air to generate a high-temperature explosion. In practice, the blast wave typically produced by such a weapon is of a significantly longer duration than that produced by a conventional con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31418 |
Tabasco sauce
Tabasco is a brand of hot sauce made from tabasco peppers ("Capsicum frutescens" var. "tabasco"), vinegar, and salt. It is produced by McIlhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana.
According to company legend, Tabasco was first produced in 1868 by Edmund McIlhenny, a Maryland-born former banker who move... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31419 |
Talc
Talc is a clay mineral composed of hydrated magnesium silicate with the chemical formula Mg3Si4O10(OH)2. Talc in powdered form, often in combination with corn starch, is widely used as baby powder. This mineral is used as a thickening agent and lubricant, is an ingredient in ceramics, paint and roofing material, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31422 |
Tom Collins
The Tom Collins is a Collins cocktail made from gin, lemon juice, sugar, and carbonated water. First memorialized in writing in 1876 by Jerry Thomas, "the father of American mixology", this "gin and sparkling lemonade" drink is typically served in a Collins glass over ice. A "Collins mix" can be bought pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31423 |
Torpedo
A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, and with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target.
Historically, it was called an automotive, automobile, locomotive or fish torpedo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31424 |
Turkish cuisine
Turkish cuisine (Turkish: "Türk mutfağı") is largely the heritage of Ottoman cuisine, which can be described as a fusion and refinement of Central Asian, Middle Eastern, Eastern European, Armenian and Balkan cuisines. Turkish cuisine has in turn influenced those and other neighbouring cuisines, includi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31427 |
Tourmaline
Tourmaline (, - , ) is a crystalline boron silicate mineral compounded with elements such as aluminium, iron, magnesium, sodium, lithium, or potassium. Tourmaline is classified as a semi-precious stone and the gemstone can be found in a wide variety of colors.
According to the "Madras Tamil Lexicon" the na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31428 |
Twin paradox
In physics, the twin paradox is a thought experiment in special relativity involving identical twins, one of whom makes a journey into space in a high-speed rocket and returns home to find that the twin who remained on Earth has aged more. This result appears puzzling because each twin sees the other twin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31429 |
Summary of Decameron tales
This article contains summaries and commentaries of the 100 stories within Giovanni Boccaccio's "The Decameron".
Each story of the "Decameron" begins with a short heading explaining the plot of the story. The 1903 translation headings are used in many of these summaries. Commentary on the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31430 |
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