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Old fashioned (cocktail)
The old fashioned is a cocktail made by muddling sugar with bitters, adding whiskey or, less commonly, brandy, and garnishing with a twist of citrus rind and a cocktail cherry. It is traditionally served in an old fashioned glass (also known as rocks glass), which predated the cocktail.
Devel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22775 |
Omnipotence
Omnipotence is the quality of having fully unlimited power. Monotheistic religions generally attribute omnipotence only to the deity of their faith. In the monotheistic philosophies of Abrahamic religions, omnipotence is often listed as one of a deity's characteristics among many, including omniscience, om... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22776 |
Octopus
The octopus (plural octopuses) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda (, ). Around 300 species are recognised, and the order is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids. Like other cephalopods, the octopus is bilaterally symmetric with two eyes and a be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22780 |
Original Chip Set
The Original Chip Set (OCS) is a chipset used in the earliest Commodore Amiga computers and defined the Amiga's graphics and sound capabilities. It was succeeded by the slightly improved Enhanced Chip Set (ECS) and greatly improved Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA).
The original chipset appeared ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22784 |
Optic neuritis
Optic neuritis is a demyelinating inflammation of the optic nerve. It is also known as optic papillitis (when the head of the optic nerve is involved), neuroretinitis when there is a combined involvement of optic disc and surrounding retina in the macular area and retrobulbar neuritis (when the posterio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22786 |
List of organizations with .int domain names
This is a list of organizations with INT domain names, in alphabetical order of the second-level domain name. The list is not comprehensive. As of June 2012, the INT domain consists of 166 subdomain delegations.
These organizations are generally international organizations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22787 |
Organization of American States
The Organization of American States (, , ), or the OAS or OEA, is a continental organization that was founded on 30 April 1948, for the purposes of solidarity and cooperation among its member states within the Western Hemisphere. During the Cold War, the United States hoped the OAS woul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22788 |
World Organisation for Animal Health
The World Organisation for Animal Health, formerly the (OIE) is an intergovernmental organization coordinating, supporting and promoting animal disease control.
The main objective of the OIE is to control epizootic diseases and thus to prevent their spread. Other objectives consis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22789 |
Ozzie Smith
Osborne Earl "Ozzie" Smith (born December 26, 1954) is an American former baseball shortstop who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals from 1978 to 1996. Nicknamed "The Wizard" for his defensive brilliance, Smith set major league records for career assists (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22790 |
Boeing OC-135B Open Skies
The OC-135B Open Skies United States Air Force observation aircraft supports the Treaty on Open Skies. The aircraft, a modified WC-135B, flies unarmed observation flights over participating parties of the treaty. Three OC-135B aircraft were modified by the Aeronautical Systems Center's 4950th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22791 |
Treaty on Open Skies
The Treaty on Open Skies entered into force on January 1, 2002, and currently has 35 party states. It establishes a program of unarmed aerial surveillance flights over the entire territory of its participants. The treaty is designed to enhance mutual understanding and confidence by giving all part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22792 |
Limited overs cricket
Limited overs cricket, also known as one-day cricket, is a version of the sport of cricket in which a match is generally completed in one day, which includes List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket. The name reflects the rule that in the match each team bowls a set maximum number of overs, usually be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22794 |
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the world's largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, promotion of human rights, freedom of the press, and fair elections. It employs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22796 |
Omri
Omri (, "‘Omri"; fl. 9th century BC) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the sixth king of Israel. He was a successful military campaigner who extended the northern kingdom of Israel. Other monarchs from the House of Omri are Ahab, Ahaziah, Joram, and Athaliah. Like his predecessor, king Zimri, who ruled for only... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22798 |
Oxycodone
Oxycodone, sold under the brand name OxyContin among others, is an opioid medication used for treatment of moderate to severe pain, and a common drug of abuse. It is usually taken by mouth, and is available in immediate-release and controlled-release formulations. Onset of pain relief typically begins within... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22799 |
Occidental College
Occidental College (informally Oxy) is a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1887 by clergy and members of the Presbyterian Church, it is now a non-sectarian institution and one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the West Coast of the United States.
Occidental Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22800 |
1986 United States bombing of Libya
The 1986 United States bombing of Libya, code-named Operation El Dorado Canyon, comprised air strikes by the United States against Libya on Tuesday 15 April 1986. The attack was carried out by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps via air strikes, in retaliation for th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22801 |
Operational amplifier
An operational amplifier (often op-amp or opamp) is a DC-coupled high-gain electronic voltage amplifier with a differential input and, usually, a single-ended output. In this configuration, an op-amp produces an output potential (relative to circuit ground) that is typically hundreds of thousands... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22804 |
Oh Hell
Oh Hell is a trick-taking card game in which the object is to take exactly the number of tricks bid. Unlike contract bridge and spades, taking more tricks than bid is a loss. It was first described by B. C. Westall around 1930.
The game of Oh Hell explores the idea of taking an exact number of tricks specifie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22807 |
On War
Vom Kriege () is a book on war and military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and published posthumously by his wife Marie von Brühl in 1832. It has been translated into English several times as On War. "On War" is an u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22808 |
Orange Alternative
The Orange Alternative (Polish: "Pomarańczowa Alternatywa") is a Polish anti-communist underground movement, started in Wrocław, a city in south-west Poland and led by Waldemar Fydrych (sometimes misspelled as Frydrych), commonly known as "Major (Commander of Festung Breslau)" in the 1980s. Its main... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22810 |
Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Otto IV (1175 – 19 May 1218) was one of two rival kings of Germany from 1198 on, sole king from 1208 on, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1209 until he was forced to abdicate in 1215. The only German king of the Welf dynasty, he incurred the wrath of Pope Innocent III and was excommunicated in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22811 |
Outcome-based education
Outcome-based education or outcomes-based education (OBE) is an educational theory that bases each part of an educational system around goals (outcomes). By the end of the educational experience, each student should have achieved the goal. There is no single specified style of teaching or asses... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22816 |
Olga of Kiev
Saint Olga (, in the baptism — Elena; born c. 890–925, in Pskov – died 969 AD in Kiev) was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Svyatoslav from 945 until 960. Due to the imperfect transliteration between Old East Slavic and the English language, the name Olga is synonymous with Olha. The baptism of Olga to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22817 |
Olympus Mons
Olympus Mons (; Latin for Mount Olympus) is a very large shield volcano on the planet Mars. The volcano has a height of nearly 22 km (13.6 mi or 72,000 ft) as measured by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA). Olympus Mons is about two and a half times Mount Everest's height above sea level. It is one o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22818 |
Object database
An object database is a database management system in which information is represented in the form of objects as used in object-oriented programming. Object databases are different from relational databases which are table-oriented. Object-relational databases are a hybrid of both approaches.
Object d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22826 |
Orgy of the Dead
Orgy of the Dead is a 1965 erotic horror film directed by Stephen C. Apostolof (under the alias A. C. Stephen). The screenplay was written by cult film director Edward D. Wood Jr., who adapted the screenplay into a novel.
The film belongs to the genre of nudie cuties, narrative-based films featuring ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22829 |
Ostwald process
The Ostwald process is a chemical process used for making nitric acid (HNO3). Wilhelm Ostwald developed the process, and he patented it in 1902. The Ostwald process is a mainstay of the modern chemical industry, and it provides the main raw material for the most common type of fertilizer production. Hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22830 |
Oliver Heaviside
Oliver Heaviside FRS (; 18 May 1850 – 3 February 1925) was an English self-taught electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invented mathematical techniques for the solution of differential equations (equivalent to Laplace transf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22831 |
Ozone layer
The ozone layer or ozone shield is a region of Earth's stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation. It contains high concentration of ozone (O3) in relation to other parts of the atmosphere, although still small in relation to other gases in the stratosphere. The ozone layer contains ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22834 |
Public Enemy (band)
Public Enemy Radio (also known as Public Enemy) is an American hip hop group consisting of Chuck D and DJ Lord. Formed in Long Island, New York, in 1985, they are famous for their music with a heavy political message alongside extreme criticism of the media of the United States, with many of their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22841 |
Closings and cancellations following the September 11 attacks
Many closings and cancellations followed the September 11, 2001 attacks, including major landmarks, buildings, restrictions on access to Lower Manhattan, and postponement or cancellation of major sporting and other events. Landmarks were closed primarily be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28046 |
Memorials and services for the September 11 attacks
The first memorials to the victims of the September 11 attacks in 2001 began to take shape online, as hundreds of webmasters posted their own thoughts, links to the Red Cross and other rescue agencies, photos, and eyewitness accounts. Numerous online September 11 mem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28047 |
Airport security repercussions due to the September 11 attacks
After the September 11 attacks, questions were raised regarding the effectiveness of airport security at the time, as all 19 hijackers involved in 9/11 managed to pass existing checkpoints and board the airplanes without incident. In the months and years f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28051 |
U.S. government response to the September 11 attacks
After the September 11, 2001 attacks, the U.S. government responded with immediate action (including rescue operations at the site of the World Trade Center and grounding civilian aircraft), and long-term action, including investigations, legislative changes, milita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28061 |
Financial assistance following the September 11 attacks
Charities and relief agencies raised over $657 million in the three weeks following the September 11, 2001 attacks, the vast bulk going to immediate survivors and victims' families.
On September 21, 2001, the Congress approved a bill to aid the airline industry ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28064 |
Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center
The local, state, federal and global reaction to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center was considerable. The events of that day elicited a large response of local emergency and rescue personnel to assist in the evacuation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28066 |
Communication during the September 11 attacks
Communication problems and successes played an important role in the September 11, 2001, attacks and their aftermath. Systems were variously destroyed or overwhelmed by loads greater than they were designed to carry, or failed to operate as intended or desired.
The organiz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28070 |
Strategic Air Command
Strategic Air Command (SAC) was both a United States Department of Defense (DoD) Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command (MAJCOM), responsible for Cold War command and control of two of the three components of the U.S. military's strategic nuclear strike forces, the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28118 |
Scheme (programming language)
Scheme is a minimalist dialect of the Lisp family of programming languages. Scheme consists of a small standard core with powerful tools for language extension.
Scheme was created during the 1970s at the MIT AI Lab and released by its developers, Guy L. Steele and Gerald Jay Sussman, via... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28119 |
Society for Psychical Research
The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) is a nonprofit organisation in the United Kingdom. Its stated purpose is to understand events and abilities commonly described as psychic or paranormal. It describes itself as the "first society to conduct organised scholarly research into human e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28122 |
Sniper
A sniper is a military/paramilitary marksman who engages targets from positions of concealment or at distances exceeding the target's detection capabilities. Snipers generally have specialized training and are equipped with high-precision rifles and high-magnification optics, and often also serve as scouts/obse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28123 |
Sign
A sign is an object, quality, event, or entity whose presence or occurrence indicates the probable presence or occurrence of something else. A natural sign bears a causal relation to its object—for instance, thunder is a sign of storm, or medical symptoms a sign of disease. A conventional sign signifies by agreem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28130 |
Standard Alphabet by Lepsius
The Standard Alphabet is a Latin-script alphabet developed by Karl Richard Lepsius. Lepsius initially used it to transcribe Egyptian hieroglyphs and extended it to write African languages, published in 1854 and 1855, and in a revised edition in 1863. The alphabet was comprehensive but was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28131 |
Sidehill gouger
In American folklore, a Sidehill gouger is a fearsome critter adapted to living on hillsides by having legs on one side of their body shorter than the legs on the opposite side. This peculiarity allows them to walk on steep hillsides, although only in one direction; when lured or chased into the plain,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28132 |
Second Vatican Council
The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the or , addressed relations between the Catholic Church and the modern world. The Council, through the Holy See, was formally opened under the pontificate of Pope John XXIII on 11 October 1962 and was closed under Pope Paul VI on t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28134 |
Slovene language
Slovene ( or ), or alternatively Slovenian (; "slovenski jezik" or "slovenščina"), is a South Slavic language spoken by the Slovenes. It is spoken by about 2.5 million speakers worldwide, the majority of whom live in Slovenia, where it is the official language. As Slovenia is part of the European Unio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28135 |
Slovak language
Slovak () or alternatively Slovakian, is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group. Spoken by approximately 5 million people as a native language, it serves as the official language of Slovakia and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union.
Slovak is closely related to Czech, to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28136 |
Supercluster
A supercluster is a large group of smaller galaxy clusters or galaxy groups; it is among the largest known structures of the universe. The Milky Way is part of the Local Group galaxy group (which contains more than 54 galaxies), which in turn is part of the Virgo Supercluster, which is part of the Laniake... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28142 |
Salicylic acid
Salicylic acid (from Latin "salix", "willow tree") is a lipophilic monohydroxybenzoic acid, a type of phenolic acid, and a beta hydroxy acid (BHA). It has the formula C7H6O3. This colorless crystalline organic acid is widely used in organic synthesis and functions as a plant hormone. It is derived from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28143 |
Seaborgium
Seaborgium is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Sg and atomic number 106. It is named after the American nuclear chemist Glenn T. Seaborg. As a synthetic element, it can be created in a laboratory but is not found in nature. It is also radioactive; the most stable known isotope, 269Sg, has a half... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28144 |
Serpens
Serpens ("the Serpent", Greek ) is a constellation of the northern hemisphere. One of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, it remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union. It is unique among the modern constellations in being split i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28149 |
Sculptor Group
The Sculptor Group is a loose group of galaxies visible near the south galactic pole. The group is one of the closest groups of galaxies to the Local Group; the distance to the center of the group from the Milky Way is approximately .
The Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253) and a few other galaxies form a gravit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28150 |
State (polity)
A state is a polity under a system of governance. There is no undisputed definition of a state. A widely used definition from the German sociologist Max Weber is that a "state" is a polity that maintains a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, although other definitions are not uncommon.
Some sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28151 |
Stevia
Stevia () is a sweetener and sugar substitute derived from the leaves of the plant species "Stevia rebaudiana", native to Brazil and Paraguay. The active compounds are steviol glycosides (mainly stevioside and rebaudioside), which have 30 to 150 times the sweetness of sugar, are heat-stable, pH-stable, and not ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28152 |
Search for extraterrestrial intelligence
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a collective term for scientific searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life, for example, monitoring electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other planets.
Scientific investigation be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28153 |
Sextans
Sextans is a minor equatorial constellation which was introduced in 1687 by Johannes Hevelius. Its name is Latin for the astronomical sextant, an instrument that Hevelius made frequent use of in his observations.
Sextans as a constellation covers a rather dim, sparse region of the sky. It has only one star ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28154 |
List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs
Some 52 stellar systems beyond our own, the Solar System, currently lie within of the Sun. These systems contain a total of 63 stars, of which 50 are red dwarfs, by far the most common type of star in the Milky Way. Much more massive stars, such as our own, make up the remaining ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28162 |
Sagitta
Sagitta is a dim but distinctive constellation in the northern sky. Its name is Latin for "arrow", and it should not be confused with the significantly larger constellation Sagittarius, the archer. Although Sagitta is an ancient constellation, it has no star brighter than 3rd magnitude and has the third-smalle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28163 |
Sharable Content Object Reference Model
Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a collection of standards and specifications for web-based electronic educational technology (also called e-learning). It defines communications between client side content and a host system (called "the run-time environment"),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28165 |
Sejm
The Sejm (English: – ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland.
The Sejm has been the highest governing body of the Third Polish Republic since the transition of government in 1989. Along with the upper house of parliament, the Senate, it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28167 |
Stock exchange
A stock exchange, securities exchange, or bourse is a facility where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell securities, such as shares of stock and bonds and other financial instruments. Stock exchanges may also provide facilities for the issue and redemption of such securities and instruments and ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28168 |
Saint Boniface
Boniface (; 675 – 5 June 754 AD), born Winfrid (also spelled Winifred, Wynfrith, Winfrith or Wynfryth) in the Devon town of Crediton in Anglo-Saxon England, was a leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of the Frankish Empire during the 8th century. He organised significant found... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28172 |
Data storage
Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium. DNA and RNA, handwriting, phonographic recording, magnetic tape, and optical discs are all examples of storage media. Recording is accomplished by virtually any form of energy. Electronic data storage requires electrical po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28174 |
Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin ( , ; ) is a centre-left to left-wing Irish republican political party active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, but has split substantially on a number of occasions since then—notably giving rise to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28175 |
Willis Tower
The Willis Tower (Formerly and informally: Sears Tower, its name for 36 years) is a 110-story, skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. At completion in 1973, it surpassed the World Trade Center in New York City to become the tallest building in the world, a title that it held for nearly 25 years; it was also the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28176 |
Samaritans
The Samaritans (; Samaritan Hebrew: , "" (, 'Guardians/Keepers/Watchers (of the Torah)'; , "al-Sāmiriyyūn") are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Israelites (or Hebrews) of the Ancient Near East.
Ancestrally, Samaritans claim descent from the tribe of Ephraim and tribe of Manasseh (two sons of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28179 |
Seneca Lake (New York)
Seneca Lake is the largest of the glacial Finger Lakes of the U.S. state of New York, and the deepest lake entirely within the state. It is promoted as being the lake trout capital of the world, and is host of the National Lake Trout Derby. Because of its depth and relative ease of access, the U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28180 |
Strait of Gibraltar
The Strait of Gibraltar (; , Archaic: Pillars of Hercules), also known as the Straits of Gibraltar, is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Gibraltar and Peninsular Spain in Europe from Morocco in Africa.
The two continents are separated by of oce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28181 |
Social epistemology
Social epistemology refers to a broad set of approaches that can be taken in epistemology (the study of knowledge) that construes human knowledge as a collective achievement. Another way of characterizing social epistemology is as the evaluation of the social dimensions of knowledge or information.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28182 |
Sound card
A sound card (also known as an audio card) is an internal expansion card that provides input and output of audio signals to and from a computer under control of computer programs. The term "sound card" is also applied to external audio interfaces used for professional audio applications.
Sound functionalit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28184 |
Symmetry group
In group theory, the symmetry group of a geometric object is the group of all transformations under which the object is invariant, endowed with the group operation of composition. Such a transformation is an invertible mapping of the ambient space which takes the object to itself, and which preserves al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28186 |
Singular they
Singular "they" is the use in English of the pronoun "they" or its inflected or derivative forms, "them", "their", "theirs", and "themselves" (or "themself"), as an epicene (gender-neutral) singular pronoun. It typically occurs with an unspecified antecedent, as in sentences such as:
The singular "they"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28187 |
Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system that was operated from 1981 to 2011 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28189 |
Snow
Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes. It consists of frozen crystalline water throughout its life cycle, starting when, under suitable conditions, the ice crystals form ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28191 |
Symbolics
Symbolics refers to two companies: a defunct computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc., and a privately held company that acquired the assets of the former company and continues to sell and maintain the Open Genera Lisp system and the Macsyma computer algebra system.
The symbolics.com domain was originally regi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28195 |
Pessimism
Pessimism is a negative mental attitude in which an undesirable outcome is anticipated from a given situation. Pessimists tend to focus on the negatives of life in general. A common question asked to test for pessimism is "Is the glass half empty or half full?"; in this situation a pessimist is said to see t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24743 |
Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe (December 18, 1899 – October 12, 1990) was a Norwegian metaphysician, author, lawyer and mountaineer. He is often noted for his philosophically pessimistic and fatalistic view of human existence—his system of philosophy in line with the work of the earlier philosopher Arthur Sch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24744 |
Franc Poincaré
The Franc Poincaré is a unit of account that was used in the international regulation of liability. It is defined as 65.5 milligrams of gold of millesimal fineness .900. Formerly it was identical to the French franc, although it has not been so since the 1920s.
Practice on its conversion to national cu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24745 |
PCX
PCX, standing for "PiCture eXchange", is an image file format developed by the now-defunct ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia, United States. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted DOS imaging standards, although it has since been succeeded by more sophistic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24746 |
Permian–Triassic extinction event
The Permian–Triassic extinction event, also known as the P–Tr extinction, the P–T extinction, the End-Permian Extinction, and colloquially as the Great Dying, formed the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geologic periods, as well as between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras, app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24749 |
Porter Blanchard
Porter George Blanchard (1886–1973) was an American silversmith living and working in Pacoima, California. He is considered to be part of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Blanchard learned the trade of the silversmith from his father, George Porter Blanchard in Gardner, Massachusetts. In 1923, Blanchard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24750 |
Punjab, Pakistan
Punjab (Urdu & (), ; ) is Pakistan's most populous province, with an estimated population of 110,012,442 as of 2017. Forming the bulk of the transnational Punjab region, it is bordered by the Pakistani provinces of Sindh, Balochistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the enclave of Islamabad, and Azad Kashmir.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24751 |
Pope Julius II
Pope Julius II (; ) (5 December 1443 – 21 February 1513), born Giuliano della Rovere, was Pope and ruler of the Papal States from 1503 to his death in 1513. Nicknamed the "Warrior Pope" or the "Fearsome Pope", he chose his papal name not in honour of Pope Julius I but in emulation of Julius Caesar. One ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24755 |
Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf () is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia. The body of water is an extension of the Indian Ocean (Gulf of Oman) through the Strait of Hormuz and lies between Iran to the northeast and the Arabian Peninsula to the southwest. The Shatt al-Arab river delta forms the northwest shoreline.
The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24761 |
P53
Tumor protein p53, also known as p53, cellular tumor antigen p53 (UniProt name), the Guardian of the Genome, phosphoprotein p53, tumor suppressor p53, antigen NY-CO-13, or transformation-related protein 53 (TRP53), is any isoform of a protein encoded by homologous genes in various organisms, such as "TP53" (humans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24762 |
Pointless topology
In mathematics, pointless topology (also called point-free or pointfree topology, or locale theory) is an approach to topology that avoids mentioning points.
Traditionally, a topological space consists of a set of points together with a "topology", a system of subsets called open sets that with the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24764 |
Pizza
Pizza (, ) is a savory dish of Italian origin consisting of a usually round, flattened base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomatoes, cheese, and often various other ingredients (such as anchovies, mushrooms, onions, olives, pineapple, meat, etc.) which is then baked at a high temperature, traditionall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24768 |
Phase modulation
Phase modulation (PM) is a modulation pattern for conditioning communication signals for transmission. It encodes a message signal as variations in the instantaneous phase of a carrier wave. Phase modulation is one of the two principal forms of angle modulation, together with frequency modulation.
Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24772 |
Piston
A piston is a component of reciprocating engines, reciprocating pumps, gas compressors and pneumatic cylinders, among other similar mechanisms. It is the moving component that is contained by a cylinder and is made gas-tight by piston rings. In an engine, its purpose is to transfer force from expanding gas in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24776 |
Five precepts
The Five precepts (, ); or five rules of training (, ; ) is the most important system of morality for Buddhist lay people. They constitute the basic code of ethics to be undertaken by lay followers of Buddhism. The precepts are commitments to abstain from killing living beings, stealing, sexual misconduc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24780 |
Pente
Pente is a strategy board game for two or more players, created in 1977 by Gary Gabrel, a dishwasher at Hideaway Pizza, in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Customers played Pente at Hideaway Pizza on checkerboard tablecloths while waiting for their orders to arrive. Thirty years later, patrons are still playing Pente at Hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24782 |
Pompatus
Pompatus (or Pompitus) () is a nonce word coined by Steve Miller famously in his 1973 hit single "The Joker". The word is probably a corruption or imagined version of the word "puppetuse", an original coinage of the 14-year-old Vernon Green, and subsequently released in 1954 as the doo-wop song "The Letter" p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24783 |
UGM-27 Polaris
The UGM-27 Polaris missile was a two-stage solid-fueled nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile. As the United States Navy's first SLBM, it served from 1961 to 1996.
In the mid-1950s the Navy was involved in the Jupiter missile project with the U.S. Army, and had influenced the design by mak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24787 |
UGM-73 Poseidon
The UGM-73 Poseidon missile was the second US Navy nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) system, powered by a two-stage solid-fuel rocket. It succeeded the UGM-27 Polaris beginning in 1972, bringing major advances in warheads and accuracy. It was followed by Trident I in 1979, and T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24788 |
Private (rank)
A private is a soldier of the lowest military rank (equivalent to NATO Rank Grades OR-1 to OR-3 depending on the force served in).
In modern military writing, "private" is abridged to "Pte" in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth of Nations countries and to "Pvt" in the United States.
The term de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24795 |
Proclus
Proclus Lycaeus (; 8 February 412 – 17 April 485 AD), called the Successor (Greek , "Próklos ho Diádokhos"), was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major classical philosophers (see Damascius). He set forth one of the most elaborate and fully developed systems of Neoplatonism. He stands near the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24797 |
Prophet
In religion, a prophet is an individual who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on that entity's behalf, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people. The message that the prophet conveys is called... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24805 |
Pleading
In law as practiced in countries that follow the English models, a pleading is a formal written statement of a party's claims or defenses to another party's claims in a civil action. The parties' pleadings in a case define the issues to be adjudicated in the action.
The Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) govern ple... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24807 |
Personal Communications Service
At the most basic level, Personal Communications Service (PCS) describes a set of communications capabilities which allows some combination of terminal mobility, personal mobility, and service profile management. More specifically, PCS refers to any of several types of wireless voice or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24808 |
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