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Natacha Atlas
Natacha Atlas (; born 20 March 1964) is an Egyptian-British singer known for her fusion of Arabic and Western music, particularly hip-hop. She once termed her music ""cha'abi moderne"" (modern popular music). Her music has been influenced by many styles including Maghrebain, hip hop, drum and bass and re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21466 |
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (; ; ; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21473 |
Natural number
In mathematics, the natural numbers are those used for counting (as in "there are "six" coins on the table") and ordering (as in "this is the "third" largest city in the country"). In common mathematical terminology, words colloquially used for counting are "cardinal numbers" and words connected to orde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21474 |
Natural logarithm
The natural logarithm of a number is its logarithm to the base of the mathematical constant , where is an irrational and transcendental number approximately equal to . The natural logarithm of is generally written as , , or sometimes, if the base is implicit, simply . Parentheses are sometimes added ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21476 |
Neogene
The Neogene ( ) (informally Upper Tertiary or Late Tertiary) is a geologic period and system that spans 20.45 million years from the end of the Paleogene Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the present Quaternary Period Mya. The Neogene is sub-divided into two epochs, the earlier Miocene and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21477 |
Steve Ballmer
Steven Anthony Ballmer (; born March 24, 1956) is an American businessman and investor who was the chief executive officer of Microsoft from January 13, 2000, to February 4, 2014, and is the current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). , his personal wealth is e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29656 |
Salamander
Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by a lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults. All present-day salamander families are grouped together under the order Uro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29657 |
State terrorism
State terrorism refers to acts of terrorism which a state conducts against another state or against its own citizens.
There is neither an academic nor an international legal consensus regarding the proper definition of the word "terrorism". Some scholars believe the actions of governments can be label... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29660 |
Supply and demand
In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market. It postulates that, holding all else equal, in a competitive market, the unit price for a particular good, or other traded item such as labor or liquid financial assets, will vary until it settles at a point... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29664 |
State capitalism
State capitalism is an economic system in which the state undertakes business and commercial economic activity (i.e. for-profit) and where the means of production are organized and managed as state-owned enterprises (including the processes of capital accumulation, centralized management and wage labo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29665 |
Syringomyelia
Syringomyelia is a generic term referring to a disorder in which a cyst or cavity forms within the spinal cord. This cyst, called a syrinx, can expand and elongate over time, destroying the spinal cord. The damage may result in loss of feeling, paralysis, weakness, and stiffness in the back, shoulders, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29666 |
Sergio Aragonés
Sergio Aragonés Domenech (; born September 6, 1937) is a Spanish/Mexican cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to "Mad" magazine and creating the comic book "Groo the Wanderer".
Among his peers and fans, Aragonés is widely regarded as "the world's fastest cartoonist". "The Comics Jour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29669 |
Trade
Trade involves the transfer of goods or services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market.
An early form of trade, barter, saw the direct exchange of goods and services for other goods and services. Barter involves t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29678 |
Tambourine
The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all. Tambourines are often us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29680 |
Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The obje... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29773 |
Tiffani Thiessen
Tiffani Amber Thiessen (born January 23, 1974) is an American actress. She is known for starring as Kelly Kapowski on NBC's "Saved by the Bell" (1989–93) and as Valerie Malone on Fox's "Beverly Hills, 90210" (1994–98). Thiessen has also starred in other TV series such as Fox's "Fastlane" (2002–03), AB... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29774 |
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29778 |
Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid (; 7 May (O.S. 26 April) 1710 – 7 October 1796) was a religiously trained Scottish philosopher. He was the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense and played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment. In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. A contemporary o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29780 |
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American slasher film directed by Tobe Hooper and written and co-produced by Hooper and Kim Henkel. It stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow and Gunnar Hansen, who respectively portray Sally Hardesty, Franklin Hardesty, the hitc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29781 |
The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski () is a 1998 crime comedy film written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler. He is assaulted as a result of mistaken identity, after which The Dude learns that a millionaire (also na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29782 |
The Rock (film)
The Rock is a 1996 American action-thriller film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, and written by David Weisberg and Douglas S. Cook. The film stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris, with William Forsythe and Michael Biehn co-starring. It is dedicated to Si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29785 |
Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of touri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29789 |
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings is an epic high-fantasy novel written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 fantasy novel "The Hobbit", but eventually developed into a much larger work. Written in stages between 1937 and 1949, "The Lord of the Rings" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29798 |
The Doors
The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore. They were among the most controversial and influential rock acts of the 1960s, mostly because of Morrison's lyrics and voice along with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29801 |
Texas
Texas (, ; or "Tejas", ) is a state in the South Central Region of the United States. It is the second largest U.S. state by both area (after Alaska) and population (after California). Texas shares borders with the states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29810 |
Kra–Dai languages
The Kra–Dai languages (also known as Tai–Kadai, Daic and Kadai) are a language family of tonal languages found in Mainland Southeast Asia, southern China, and Northeast India. They include Thai and Lao, the national languages of Thailand and Laos respectively. Around 93 million people speak Kra–Dai l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29811 |
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With a line-up comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they are regarded as the most influential band of all time. The group were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and popular music's recog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29812 |
Tort
A tort, in common law jurisdiction, is a civil wrong that causes a claimant to suffer loss or harm, resulting in legal liability for the person who commits a tortious act. It can include the intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, financial losses, injuries, invasion of privacy, and many other t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29813 |
Technology
Technology ("science of craft", from Greek , "techne", "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and , "-logia") is the sum of techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation. Technology can be the knowledge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29816 |
The Doors (album)
The Doors is the debut album by the American rock band the Doors. Recorded in 1966 at Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California, it was produced by Paul A. Rothchild and released on January 4, 1967. The album features their breakthrough single "Light My Fire" and the lengthy song "The End" with i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29818 |
The Doors of Perception
The Doors of Perception is a book by Aldous Huxley. Published in 1954, it elaborates on his psychedelic experience under the influence of mescaline in May 1953. Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, ranging from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision", and reflects on their philoso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29821 |
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes (; sometimes known as Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), was an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book "Leviathan", in which he expounds an influential formulation of social ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29823 |
Terraforming
Terraforming or terraformation (literally, "Earth-shaping") of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to the environment of Earth to make it habitable by Earth-like life.
The concept of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29824 |
Trial de novo
In law, the expression trial de novo means a "new trial" by a different tribunal ("de novo" is a Latin expression meaning "afresh", "anew", "beginning again", hence the literal meaning "new trial"). A "trial de novo" is usually ordered by an appellate court when the original trial failed to make a determ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29826 |
Tim Burton
Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American filmmaker, animator, and artist. He is best known for his gothic fantasy and horror films such as "Beetlejuice" (1988), "Edward Scissorhands" (1990), "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993), "Ed Wood" (1994), "Sleepy Hollow" (1999), "Corpse Bride" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31501 |
Tod Browning
Tod Browning (born Charles Albert Browning Jr.; July 12, 1880 – October 6, 1962) was an American film actor, film director, screenwriter and vaudeville performer. Browning's career spanned the silent film and sound film eras. Best known as the director of "Dracula" (1931), "Freaks" (1932), and silent film... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31502 |
Taitō
As of May 1, 2015, the ward has an estimated population of 186,276, and a population density of 18,420 persons per km2. The total area is . This makes Taito ward the smallest of Tokyo's wards in area, and third-smallest in population.
The ward was founded on March 15, 1947 with the merger of the old Asakusa and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31504 |
Taito
Taito is recognized as an important player in the early days of video games, producing several hit games such as "Space Invaders", "Bubble Bobble", "Arkanoid", and "Darius". Alongside Konami, Namco and Sega, it is one of the most prominent video game companies from Japan and the first that exported its games int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31505 |
Hulk
The Hulk is a fictional superhero appearing in publications by the American publisher Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in the debut issue of "The Incredible Hulk" (May 1962). In his comic book appearances, the character is both the Hulk, a green-skinned... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31509 |
Champion of the Universe
The Champion of the Universe (Tryco Slatterus) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is not necessarily a villain but has played the role in the past through his impetuous and arrogant actions.
He first appeared in "Marvel Two-in-One Annual"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31513 |
Beyonder
The Beyonder () is a fictional cosmic entity appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Jim Shooter and artist Mike Zeck, the Beyonder first appeared in "Secret Wars" #1 (May 1984) as an unseen, claimed to be omnipotent being who kidnapped the heroes and villains of the Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31514 |
Tibet
Tibet (; ; ) is a region in East Asia covering much of the Tibetan Plateau spanning about 2.5 million km2. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpa, Tamang, Qiang, Sherpa, and Lhoba peoples and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han Chin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31516 |
Flash (comics)
The Flash (or simply Flash) is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Harry Lampert, the original Flash first appeared in "Flash Comics" #1 (cover date January 1940/release month November 1939). Nicknamed the "Sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31519 |
Hellfire Club
Hellfire Club was a name for several exclusive clubs for high-society rakes established in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century. The name is most commonly used to refer to Sir Francis Dashwood's Order of the Friars of St. Francis of Wycombe. Such clubs were rumoured to be the meeting places of "person... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31520 |
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan (September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity.
Morgan received his P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31522 |
The Avengers (TV series)
The Avengers is a British espionage television programme created in 1961. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel (Ian Hendry), aided by John Steed (Patrick Macnee). Hendry left after the first series; Steed then became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most fam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31523 |
Triathlon
A triathlon is a multisport race with three continuous and sequential endurance races. The word is of Greek origin, from τρεῖς or "treis" (three) and ἆθλος or "athlos" (competition).
While variations of the sport exist, the most common form includes swimming, cycling, and running over various distances. Tri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31524 |
Germs (band)
Germs were an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California, United States, originally active from 1976 to 1980. The band's main early lineup consisted of singer Darby Crash, guitarist Pat Smear, bassist Lorna Doom, and drummer Don Bolles. They released only one album, 1979's "(GI)", produced by Jo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31525 |
Tape-out
In electronics design, tape-out or tapeout is the final result of the design process for integrated circuits or printed circuit boards before they are sent for manufacturing. The tapeout is specifically the point at which the graphic for the photomask of the circuit is sent to the fabrication facility.
Hist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31527 |
The Fall (band)
The Fall were an English post-punk group, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. They underwent many line-up changes, with vocalist and founder Mark E. Smith as the only constant member. The Fall's long-term musicians included drummers Paul Hanley and Karl Burns; guitarists Marc Riley, Craig ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31529 |
Telstra
Telstra Corporation Limited is an Australian telecommunications company which builds and operates telecommunications networks and markets voice, mobile, internet access, pay television and other products and services.
Telstra has a long history in Australia, originating together with Australia Post as the Pos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31532 |
Timothy McVeigh
Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was an American domestic terrorist who carried out the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people and injured more than 680 others, and destroyed one third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The bombing was the deadliest act of terror... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31535 |
Transuranium element
The transuranium elements (also known as transuranic elements) are the chemical elements with atomic numbers greater than 92, which is the atomic number of uranium. All of these elements are unstable and decay radioactively into other elements.
Of the elements with atomic numbers 1 to 92, most ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31537 |
The Replacements (band)
The Replacements were an American rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1979. Initially a punk rock band, they are considered one of the pioneers of alternative rock. The band was composed of the guitarist and vocalist Paul Westerberg, guitarist Bob Stinson, bass guitarist Tommy Stinso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31539 |
Tyrrhenian Sea
The Tyrrhenian Sea (; , , , , , ) is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy. It is named for the Tyrrhenian people, identified since the 6th century BCE with the Etruscans of Italy.
The sea is bounded by the islands of Corsica and Sardinia (to the west), the Italian peninsula (reg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31549 |
Ted Nelson
Theodor Holm Nelson (born June 17, 1937) is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher and sociologist. He coined the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia" in 1963 and published them in 1965. Nelson coined the terms "transclusion", "virtuality", and "intertwingularity" (in "Literary Machines"),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31550 |
Triple J
Triple J (stylized in all lowercase) is a government-funded, national Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners of alternative music, which began broadcasting in January 1975. The station also places a greater emphasis on broadcasting Australian content compared to commercial stations.
Triple J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31552 |
The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges and starring Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn and Horst Buchholz. The film is an Old West–style remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film "Seven Sam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31556 |
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (, ) is a 1966 Italian epic Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood as "the Good", Lee Van Cleef as "the Bad", and Eli Wallach as "the Ugly". Its screenplay was written by Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni and Leone (wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31557 |
TRS-80 Color Computer
The RadioShack TRS-80 Color Computer (later marketed as the Tandy Color Computer and sometimes nicknamed the CoCo) is a line of home computers based on the Motorola 6809 processor. The Tandy Color Computer line started in 1980 with what is now called the CoCo 1 and ended in 1991 with the more pow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31562 |
Thomas Lovejoy
Thomas E. Lovejoy, "the Godfather of Biodiversity", is a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and university professor in the Environmental Science and Policy department at George Mason University. Lovejoy was the World Bank's chief biodiversity advisor and the lead specialist for environment ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31563 |
State of the World (book series)
The State of the World (SoW) is a series of books published annually since 1984 by the Worldwatch Institute. The series attempts to identify the planet's most significant environmental challenges.
The 2010 edition discusses different ways of changing current cultures such that it feel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31564 |
Tavolara Island
Tavolara is a small island off the northeast coast of Sardinia, Italy. The island is a limestone massif long and wide, with steep cliffs except at its ends. Its highest point, Monte Cannone, is above sea level. A cove and beach can be found at each end of the island, Spalmatore di Fuori at the northeas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31567 |
Tactic (method)
A tactic is a conceptual action or short series of actions with the aim of achieving of a short-term goal. This action can be implemented as one or more specific tasks. The term is commonly used in business, protest and military contexts, as well as in chess, sports or other competitive activities. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31569 |
Battle of the River Plate
The Battle of the River Plate was the first naval battle in the Second World War and the first one of the Battle of the Atlantic in South American waters. The German heavy cruiser had sailed into the South Atlantic two weeks before the war began, and had been commerce raiding after receiving ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31570 |
Trillium
Trillium (trillium, wakerobin, tri flower, birthroot, birthwort) is a genus of about fifty flowering plant species in the family Melanthiaceae. "Trillium" species are native to temperate regions of North America and Asia, with the greatest diversity of species found in the southern Appalachian Mountains in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31571 |
Tim Curry
Timothy James Curry (born 19 April 1946) is an English actor and singer. He is known for working in a diverse range of theatre, film, and television, most often portraying villainous characters. Curry rose to prominence with his portrayal of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975), repri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31573 |
The Weakest Link (British game show)
The Weakest Link was a British television quiz show, mainly broadcast on BBC Two as well as BBC One. It was devised by Fintan Coyle and Cathy Dunning and developed for television by the BBC Entertainment Department. The game begins with a team of nine contestants, who take turns an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31574 |
Tandy Corporation
Tandy Corporation was an American family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Tandy Leather was founded in 1919 as a leather supply store and acquired a number of craft retail companies, including RadioShack in 1963. In 2000, the Tandy Corporation name was dropped an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31575 |
Tallinn
Tallinn (; ; names in other languages) is the capital, primate and the most populous city of Estonia. Located in the northern part of the country, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of 437,619 in 2020. Administratively a part of Harju "maakond" (county), Tallinn is the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31577 |
Flower of Scotland
"Flower of Scotland" (, ) is a Scottish song, frequently performed at special occasions and sporting events as an unofficial national anthem of Scotland.
The song was composed in the mid-1960s by Roy Williamson of the folk group the Corries. It was first heard publicly in a 1967 BBC television ser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31579 |
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves. Themes include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31584 |
Ty Cobb
Tyrus Raymond Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed The Georgia Peach, was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder. He was born in rural Narrows, Georgia. Cobb spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, the last six as the team's player-manager, and finished his career with the Philadel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31586 |
TAT-1
TAT-1 (Transatlantic No. 1) was the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system. It was laid between Oban, Scotland and Clarenville, Newfoundland. Two cables were laid between 1955 and 1956 with one cable for each direction. It was inaugurated on September 25, 1956. The cable was able to carry 35 simult... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31587 |
Time travel
Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space by an object or a person, typically with the use of a hypothetical device known as a time machine. Time travel is a widely recognized concept in philosophy and fiction. The idea of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31591 |
Tours
Tours ( , ) is the prefecture of the Indre-et-Loire department and largest city in the Centre-Val de Loire region of Western France, although it is not the regional prefecture, which is the region's second-largest city, Orléans. In 2012, the commune of Tours had 134,978 inhabitants; the population of the whole m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31593 |
Typhoid fever
Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a bacterial infection due to a specific type of "Salmonella" that causes symptoms. Symptoms may vary from mild to severe, and usually begin 6 to 30 days after exposure. Often there is a gradual onset of a high fever over several days. This is commonly accom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31596 |
Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published and based in New York City. It was first published in New York City on March 3, 1923 and for many years it was run by its influential co-founder Henry Luce. A European edition ("Time Europe", formerly known as "Time Atlantic") is publi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31600 |
Opium
Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: "Lachryma papaveris") is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy "Papaver somniferum". Approximately 12 percent of opium is made up of the analgesic alkaloid morphine, which is processed chemically to produce heroin and other synthetic opioids for me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22713 |
Online algorithm
In computer science, an online algorithm is one that can process its input piece-by-piece in a serial fashion, i.e., in the order that the input is fed to the algorithm, without having the entire input available from the start.
In contrast, an offline algorithm is given the whole problem data from th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22716 |
Ozone
Ozone (), or trioxygen, is an inorganic molecule with the chemical formula . It is a pale blue gas with a distinctively pungent smell. It is an allotrope of oxygen that is much less stable than the diatomic allotrope , breaking down in the lower atmosphere to (dioxygen). Ozone is formed from dioxygen by the acti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22718 |
Orchidaceae
The Orchidaceae are a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants, with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant, commonly known as the orchid family.
Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants. The Orchidaceae have about 28,000 currently accepted spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22719 |
Obsidian
Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed as an extrusive igneous rock.
Obsidian is produced when felsic lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystal growth. It is commonly found within the margins of rhyolitic lava flows known as obsidian flows, where the chemical compositio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22721 |
Otaku
subculture is a central theme of various anime and manga works, documentaries and academic research. The subculture began in the 1980s as changing social mentalities and the nurturing of traits by Japanese schools combined with the resignation of such individuals to become social outcasts. The subculture's birth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22722 |
Object-modeling language
An object-modeling language is a standardized set of symbols used to model a software system using an object-oriented framework. The symbols can be either informal or formal ranging from predefined graphical templates to formal object models defined by grammars and specifications.
A modeling ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22723 |
On Fairy-Stories
"On Fairy-Stories" is an essay by J. R. R. Tolkien which discusses the fairy-story as a literary form. It was initially written (and entitled simply "Fairy Stories") for presentation by Tolkien as the Andrew Lang lecture at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, on 8 March 1939.
In the lecture, Tolk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22725 |
Otaku no Video
The story begins in "Otaku no Video 1982", where the main character is an everyman character, Ken Kubo, living with his girlfriend Yoshiko and as a member of his college's tennis team, until introduced by his former friend Tanaka to a club of enthusiasts: a female illustrator, an information geek, a mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22727 |
Original sin
Original sin, also called ancestral sin, is a Christian belief in a state of sin in which humanity has existed since the fall of man, stemming from Adam and Eve's rebellion in Eden, namely the sin of disobedience in consuming the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Theologians... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22735 |
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) was the official name used by the U.S. government for the Global War on Terrorism. On October 7, 2001, in response to the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush announced that airstrikes targeting Al Qaeda and the Taliban had begun in Afghanistan. Ope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22738 |
Obfuscation (software)
In software development, obfuscation is the deliberate act of creating source or machine code that is difficult for humans to understand. Like obfuscation in natural language, it may use needlessly roundabout expressions to compose statements. Programmers may deliberately obfuscate code to conce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22739 |
Ötzi
Ötzi, also called the Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3400 and 3100 BCE. The mummy was found in September 1991 in the Ötztal Alps, hence the nickname "Ötzi", near Similaun mountain and Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy.
Ötzi is believed to have been murdered; an arrowhea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22742 |
Operation Deadlight
Operation Deadlight was the code name for the Royal Navy operation to scuttle German U-boats surrendered to the Allies after the defeat of Germany near the end of World War II.
Of the 156 U-boats that surrendered to the allies at the end of the war, 116 were scuttled as part of Operation Deadlight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22743 |
OSI model
The Open Systems Interconnection model (OSI model) is a conceptual model that characterises and standardises the communication functions of a telecommunication or computing system without regard to its underlying internal structure and technology. Its goal is the interoperability of diverse communication sys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22747 |
Original Sin (2001 film)
Original Sin is a 2001 erotic thriller film starring Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie. It is based on the novel "Waltz into Darkness" by Cornell Woolrich, and is a remake of the 1969 François Truffaut film "Mississippi Mermaid". The movie was produced by actress Michelle Pfeiffer's producti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22751 |
Otto Jespersen
Jens Otto Harry Jespersen (; 16 July 1860 – 30 April 1943) was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English language.
Otto Jespersen was born in Randers in Jutland. He was inspired by the work of Danish philologist Rasmus Rask as a boy, and with the help of Rask's grammars taught him... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22756 |
List of object-oriented programming languages
This is a list of notable programming languages with object-oriented programming (OOP) features, which are also listed in . Note that, in some contexts, the definition of an "object-oriented programming language" is not exactly the same as that of a "programming language w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22758 |
Interlingue
Interlingue (; ISO 639 language codes "ie", "ile"), known until 1949 as Occidental (), is a planned international auxiliary language created by Edgar de Wahl, a Baltic German naval officer and teacher from Tallinn, Estonia, and published in 1922. The vocabulary is based on already existing words from vario... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22761 |
Osiris
Osiris (, from Egyptian "wsjr", Coptic ) is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22763 |
1
1 (one, also called unit, and unity) is a number, and a numerical digit used to represent that number in numerals. It represents a single entity, the unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of "unit length" is a line segment of length 1. 1 is the smallest positive integer. It is also sometimes c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22770 |
Oxidative phosphorylation
Oxidative phosphorylation (UK , US or electron transport-linked phosphorylation) is the metabolic pathway in which cells use enzymes to oxidize nutrients, thereby releasing the chemical energy of molecular oxygen, which is used to produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP). In most eukaryotes, thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22773 |
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