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Kidney
The kidneys are two bean-shaped organs found in vertebrates. They are located on the left and right in the retroperitoneal space, and in adult humans are about in length. They receive blood from the paired renal arteries; blood exits into the paired renal veins. Each kidney is attached to a ureter, a tube that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17025 |
Kermit (protocol)
Kermit is a computer file transfer/management protocol and a set of communications software tools primarily used in the early years of personal computing in the 1980s. It provides a consistent approach to file transfer, terminal emulation, script programming, and character set conversion across many ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17027 |
Kermit the Frog
Kermit the Frog is a Muppet character created and originally performed by Jim Henson. Introduced in 1955, Kermit serves as the straight man protagonist of numerous Muppet productions, most notably "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show", as well as in other television series, feature films, specials, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17029 |
KHAD
Khadamat-e Aetla'at-e Dawlati (Pashto/) translates directly to English as: "State Intelligence Agency". However, this phrase is more precisely translated as "State Information Services", Khadamat-e Aetela'at-e Dawlati, almost always known by its acronym KHAD (or KhAD), is the main security agency and intelligence... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17031 |
Kantele
A kantele () is a traditional Finnish and Karelian plucked string instrument (chordophone) belonging to the south east Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery along with Estonian kannel, Latvian kokles, Lithuanian kanklės and Russian gusli.
Modern instruments with 15 or fewer strings are general... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17035 |
Kumquat
Kumquats (or cumquats in Australian English, ; Citrus japonica) are a group of small fruit-bearing trees in the flowering plant family Rutaceae. They were previously classified as forming the now-historical genus "Fortunella", or placed within "Citrus sensu lato".
The edible fruit closely resembles the orange... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17037 |
Kyanite
Kyanite is typically a blue aluminosilicate mineral, usually found in aluminium-rich metamorphic pegmatites and/or sedimentary rock. Kyanite in metamorphic rocks generally indicates pressures higher than four kilobars. It is commonly found in quartz.
Although potentially stable at lower pressure and low temper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17038 |
Kansas–Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 () was a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas, passed by the 33rd United States Congress, and signed into law by President Franklin Pierce. Douglas introduced the bill wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17042 |
Kaleidoscope
A kaleidoscope () is an optical instrument with two or more reflecting surfaces tilted to each other in an angle, so that one or more (parts of) objects on one end of the mirrors are seen as a regular symmetrical pattern when viewed from the other end, due to repeated reflection. The reflectors (or mirror... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17043 |
Common kestrel
The common kestrel ("Falco tinnunculus") is a bird of prey species belonging to the kestrel group of the falcon family Falconidae. It is also known as the European kestrel, Eurasian kestrel, or Old World kestrel. In Britain, where no other kestrel species occurs, it is generally just called "the kestrel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17044 |
Kalmia latifolia
Kalmia latifolia, commonly called mountain laurel, calico-bush, or spoonwood, is a broadleaved evergreen shrub in the heather family, Ericaceae, that is native to the eastern United States. Its range stretches from southern Maine south to northern Florida, and west to Indiana and Louisiana. Mountain l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17045 |
Khmer Rouge
The Khmer Rouge (, ; ; "Red Khmers") is the name which was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The name had been coined in the 1960s by Norodom Sihanouk to describe his country's then... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17049 |
Kenji Sahara
Kenji Sahara (佐原 健二 "Sahara Kenji") (born 14 May 1932) is a Japanese actor. He was born in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa. His real name is Masayoshi Kato (加藤 正好 "Katō Masayoshi"). Initially he used the name Tadashi Ishihara before changing it when he secured the lead role in "Rodan" (1956).
Sahara did a lot of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17051 |
Kiyoshi Atsumi
Kiyoshi Atsumi (渥美 清 "Atsumi Kiyoshi"), born Yasuo Tadokoro (田所 康雄 "Tadokoro Yasuo", 10 March 1928 in Tokyo – 4 August 1996 in Tokyo), was a Japanese film actor. He started his career in 1951 as a comedian at a strip-show theater in Asakusa. After two years of fighting pulmonary tuberculosis, he made hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17056 |
Karel Hynek Mácha
Karel Hynek Mácha () (16 November 1810 – 5 November 1836) was a Czech romantic poet.
Mácha grew up in Prague, the son of a foreman at a mill. He learned Latin and German in school. He went on to study law at Prague University; during that time he also became involved in theatre (as an actor he first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17059 |
Krupp
The Krupp family (see pronunciation), a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, is famous for their production of steel, artillery, ammunition and other armaments. The family business, known as Friedrich Krupp AG (Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp after acquiring Hoesch AG in 1991 and lasting until 1999)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17060 |
Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 190927 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary. He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957. An influential advocate of pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organization ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17062 |
Guanyin
Guanyin or Guan Yin () is the most commonly used Chinese translation of the bodhisattva known as Avalokiteśvara. Guanyin is the Buddhist bodhisattva associated with compassion. In the East Asian world, Guanyin is the equivalent term for Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. Guanyin also refers to the bodhisattva as adop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17063 |
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it flows generally south for to the Mississippi Riv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19579 |
Men in black
In popular culture and UFO conspiracy theories, men in black (MIB) are supposed men dressed in black suits who claim to be quasi-government agents who harass, threaten or assassinate UFO witnesses to keep them quiet about what they have seen. It is sometimes implied that they may be aliens themselves. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19581 |
Monomer
A monomer ( ; "mono-", "one" + "-mer", "part") is a molecule that can react together with other monomer molecules to form a larger polymer chain or three-dimensional network in a process called polymerization.
Monomers can be classified in many ways. They can be subdivided into two broad classes, depending on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19583 |
Mitochondrion
The mitochondrion (, plural mitochondria) is a semi autonomous double-membrane-bound organelle found in most eukaryotic organisms. Some cells in some multicellular organisms may, however, lack mitochondria (for example, mature mammalian red blood cells). A number of unicellular organisms, such as microsp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19588 |
Minimax
Minimax (sometimes MinMax, MM or saddle point) is a decision rule used in artificial intelligence, decision theory, game theory, statistics, and philosophy for "mini"mizing the possible loss for a worst case ("max"imum loss) scenario. When dealing with gains, it is referred to as "maximin"—to maximize the mini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19589 |
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the Upper Midwest, Great Lakes, and northern regions of the United States. Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state on May 11, 1858, created from the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory. The state has many lakes, and is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes". Its official mot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19590 |
Missouri River
The Missouri River is the longest river in North America. Rising in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana, the Missouri flows east and south for before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri. The river drains a sparsely populated, semi-arid watershed of more than 500,000 square mil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19591 |
Missile
In modern language, a missile, also known as a guided missile, is a guided airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight usually by a jet engine or rocket motor. Missiles have four system components: targeting/guidance system, flight system, engine and warhead. Missiles come in types adapted for diff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19594 |
Mendelian inheritance
Mendelian inheritance is a type of biological inheritance that follows the principles originally proposed by Gregor Mendel in 1865 and 1866, re-discovered in 1900 and popularised by William Bateson. These principles were initially controversial. When Mendel's theories were integrated with the Bov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19595 |
Machinima
Machinima () is the use of real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production. Most often, video games are used to generate the computer animation.
Machinima-based artists, sometimes called machinimists or machinimators, are often fan laborers, by virtue of their re-use of copyrighted mate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19597 |
Mutagenesis
Mutagenesis is a process by which the genetic information of an organism is changed, resulting in a mutation. It may occur spontaneously in nature, or as a result of exposure to mutagens. It can also be achieved experimentally using laboratory procedures. In nature mutagenesis can lead to cancer and variou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19599 |
Mackenzie Bowell
Sir Mackenzie Bowell (; December 27, 1823 – December 10, 1917) was a Canadian newspaper publisher and politician, who served as the fifth prime minister of Canada, in office from 1894 to 1896.
Bowell was born in Rickinghall, Suffolk, England. He and his family moved to Belleville, Ontario, in 1832. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19602 |
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 |
Main sequence
In astronomy, the main sequence is a continuous and distinctive band of stars that appears on plots of stellar color versus brightness. These color-magnitude plots are known as Hertzsprung–Russell diagrams after their co-developers, Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell. Stars on this band are known... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19605 |
Memory leak
In computer science, a memory leak is a type of resource leak that occurs when a computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations in such a way that memory which is no longer needed is not released. A memory leak may also happen when an object is stored in memory but cannot be accessed by the runnin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19609 |
Molecular orbital
In chemistry, a molecular orbital (MO) is a mathematical function describing the location and wave-like behavior of an electron in a molecule. This function can be used to calculate chemical and physical properties such as the probability of finding an electron in any specific region. The term "orbit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19614 |
Systems Concepts
Systems Concepts (now the SC Group) is a company co-founded by Stewart Nelson and Mike Levitt focused on making hardware products related to the DEC PDP-10 series of computers. One of its major products was the SA-10, an interface which allowed PDP-10s to be connected to disk and tape drives designed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19615 |
Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in New York City and her MA and PhD degrees from Columbia Univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19617 |
Michael Palin
Sir Michael Edward Palin (; born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter. He was a member of the comedy group Monty Python. Since 1980 he has made a number of travel documentaries.
Palin wrote most of his comedic material with fellow Python member Terry Jones. Before M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19620 |
Materials science
The interdisciplinary field of materials science, also commonly termed materials science and engineering, is the design and discovery of new materials, particularly solids. The intellectual origins of materials science stem from the Enlightenment, when researchers began to use analytical thinking fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19622 |
Mitsubishi A6M Zero
The Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" is a long-range fighter aircraft formerly manufactured by Mitsubishi Aircraft Company, a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1940 to 1945. The A6M was designated as the , or the Mitsubishi A6M Rei-sen. The A6M was usually re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19623 |
Monasticism
Monasticism (from Ancient Greek , , from , , 'alone') or monkhood, is a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work. Monastic life plays an important role in many Christian churches, especially in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions as well as in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19626 |
Mathematical logic
Mathematical logic is a subfield of mathematics exploring the applications of formal logic to mathematics. It bears close connections to metamathematics, the foundations of mathematics, and theoretical computer science. The unifying themes in mathematical logic include the study of the expressive po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19636 |
Molecular nanotechnology
Molecular nanotechnology (MNT) is a technology based on the ability to build structures to complex, atomic specifications by means of mechanosynthesis. This is distinct from nanoscale materials. Based on Richard Feynman's vision of miniature factories using nanomachines to build complex produc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19637 |
Microelectromechanical systems
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), also written as micro-electro-mechanical systems (or microelectronic and microelectromechanical systems) and the related micromechatronics and microsystems constitute the technology of microscopic devices, particularly those with moving parts. They ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19638 |
Marvin Minsky
Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts concerning AI and philosophy.
Minsky received ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19639 |
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (; July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy. With George Stigler and others, Friedman was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19640 |
Mass media
Mass media refers to a diverse array of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication. The technologies through which this communication takes place include a variety of outlets.
Broadcast media transmit information electronically via media such as films, radio, recorded music, or t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19641 |
Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (, ; , "", ) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the "Rāmāyaṇa". It narrates the struggle between two groups of cousins in the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kaurava and the Pāṇḍava princes and their successors.
It also contains philosophical and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19643 |
Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf (; "My Struggle" or "My Fight") is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. Volume 1 of "Mein Kampf" was published in 1925 and Volume 2 i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19644 |
MVS
Multiple Virtual Storage, more commonly called MVS, was the most commonly used operating system on the System/370 and System/390 IBM mainframe computers. IBM developed MVS, along with OS/VS1 and SVS, as a successor to OS/360. It is unrelated to IBM's other mainframe operating system lines, e.g., VSE, VM, TPF.
Fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19649 |
Monoid
In abstract algebra, a branch of mathematics, a monoid is an algebraic structure with a single associative binary operation and an identity element.
Monoids are semigroups with identity. They occur in several branches of mathematics.
For example, the functions from a set into itself form a monoid with respec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19652 |
Global warming potential
Global warming potential (GWP) is the warming caused by any greenhouse gas, as a multiple of the warming caused by the same mass of carbon dioxide (CO2). GWP is 1 for CO2. For other gases it depends on the gas and the time frame. Some gases, like methane, have large GWP, since a ton of methane... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12908 |
Grothendieck topology
In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a Grothendieck topology is a structure on a category "C" that makes the objects of "C" act like the open sets of a topological space. A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology is called a site.
Grothendieck topologies axiomatize the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12910 |
Ghost in the Shell
Animation studio Production I.G has produced several anime adaptations of the series. These include the 1995 film of the same name and its sequel, ""; the 2002 television series, "", and its 2020 follow-up, ""; and the "" original video animation (OVA) series. In addition, an American-produced live-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12914 |
Gauss–Legendre algorithm
The Gauss–Legendre algorithm is an algorithm to compute the digits of . It is notable for being rapidly convergent, with only 25 iterations producing 45 million correct digits of . However, the drawback is that it is computer memory-intensive and therefore sometimes Machin-like formulas are us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12916 |
Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) is a collaborative project of volunteers who use freely available software to search for Mersenne prime numbers.
GIMPS was founded in 1996 by George Woltman, who also wrote the Prime95 client and its Linux port MPrime. Scott Kurowsk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12917 |
Game.com
The Game.com is a fifth-generation handheld game console released by Tiger Electronics in August 1997. A smaller version, the Game.com Pocket Pro, was released in mid-1999. The first version of the Game.com can be connected to a 14.4 kbit/s modem for Internet connectivity, hence its name referencing the top l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12919 |
General Packet Radio Service
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a packet oriented mobile data standard on the 2G and 3G cellular communication network's global system for mobile communications (GSM). GPRS was established by European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in response to the earlier CDPD and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12920 |
Georgian architecture
Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830. It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I, George II, George III, and George IV—who reigned in continuous success... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12924 |
Goshen, Indiana
Goshen is a city in and the county seat of Elkhart County, Indiana, United States. It is the smaller of the two principal cities of the Elkhart-Goshen Metropolitan Statistical Area, which in turn is part of the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka Combined Statistical Area. It is located in the northern part o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12926 |
Gallipoli
The Gallipoli peninsula (; ; , "Chersónisos tis Kallípolis") is located in the southern part of East Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles strait to the east.
Gallipoli is the Italian form of the Greek name "Καλλίπολις" ("Kallípolis"), meaning "Beautiful Ci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12929 |
Gram stain
Gram stain or Gram staining, also called Gram's method, is a method of staining used to distinguish and classify bacterial species into two large groups: gram-positive bacteria and gram-negative bacteria. The name comes from the Danish bacteriologist Hans Christian Gram, who developed the technique.
Gram s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12935 |
Gram-positive bacteria
In bacteriology, Gram-positive bacteria are bacteria that give a positive result in the Gram stain test, which is traditionally used to quickly classify bacteria into two broad categories according to their cell wall.
Gram-positive bacteria take up the crystal violet stain used in the test, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12936 |
Gram-negative bacteria
Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wall sandwiched between an inner cytoplasmic cell membran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12937 |
Greyhound
The Greyhound is a breed of dog, a sighthound which has been bred for coursing game and greyhound racing. It is also referred to as an English Greyhound. Since the rise in large-scale adoption of retired racing Greyhounds, the breed has seen a resurgence in popularity as a family pet.
According to Merriam-W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12938 |
Geometric algebra
The geometric algebra (GA) of a vector space is an algebra over a field, noted for its multiplication operation called the geometric product on a space of elements called multivectors, which contains both the scalars formula_1 and the vector space formula_2. Mathematically, a geometric algebra may be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12939 |
George Benson
George Washington Benson (born March 22, 1943) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He began his professional career at the age of 21 as a jazz guitarist.
A former child prodigy, Benson first came to prominence in the 1960s, playing soul jazz with Jack McDuff and others. He then launched a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12945 |
Grigory Barenblatt
Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt (; 10 July 1927 – 22 June 2018) was a Russian mathematician.
Barenblatt graduated in 1950 from Moscow State University, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in 1953 from Moscow State University under the supervision of A. N. Kolmogorov.
Baren... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12946 |
Grammatical tense
In grammar, tense is a category that expresses time reference with reference to the moment of speaking. Tenses are usually manifested by the use of specific forms of verbs, particularly in their conjugation patterns.
The main tenses found in many languages include the past, present, and future. Som... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12947 |
Grammatical aspect
Aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how an action, event, or state, denoted by a verb, extends over time. Perfective aspect is used in referring to an event conceived as bounded and unitary, without reference to any flow of time during ("I helped him"). Imperfective aspect is used for si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12948 |
Glucose
Glucose is a simple sugar with the molecular formula . Glucose is the most abundant monosaccharide, a subcategory of carbohydrates. Glucose is mainly made by plants and most algae during photosynthesis from water and carbon dioxide, using energy from sunlight, where it is used to make cellulose in cell walls, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12950 |
George Pólya
George Pólya (; ) (December 13, 1887 – July 9th, 1985) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12955 |
OpenGL Utility Toolkit
The OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) is a library of utilities for OpenGL programs, which primarily perform system-level I/O with the host operating system. Functions performed include window definition, window control, and monitoring of keyboard and mouse input. Routines for drawing a number of ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12956 |
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio (, , ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Boccaccio wrote a number of notable works, including "The Decameron" and "On Famous Women". He wrote his imaginative literature mostly in Tuscan v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12957 |
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian opera composer. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, and developed a musical education with the help of a local patron. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12958 |
German Navy
The German Navy (, officially ) is the navy of Germany and part of the unified "Bundeswehr" (Federal Defense), the German Armed Forces. The German Navy was originally known as the "Bundesmarine" (Federal Navy) from 1956 to 1995, when "Deutsche Marine" (German Navy) became the unofficial name with respect t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12960 |
GÉANT
GÉANT is the pan-European data network for the research and education community. It interconnects national research and education networks (NRENs) across Europe, enabling collaboration on projects ranging from biological science, to earth observation, to arts and culture. The GÉANT project combines a high-bandwi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12961 |
Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid
"gamma"-Hydroxybutyric acid or γ-Hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), also known as 4-hydroxybutanoic acid, is a naturally occurring neurotransmitter and a psychoactive drug. It is a precursor to GABA, glutamate, and glycine in certain brain areas. It acts on the GHB receptor and is a weak agonist at t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12962 |
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno (, ; ; born Filippo Bruno, January or February 1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist, and Hermetic occultist. He is known for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the then-novel Copernican model. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12963 |
Geddy Lee
Geddy Lee Weinrib, (born Gary Lee Weinrib; July 29, 1953), known professionally as Geddy Lee, is a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush. Lee joined what would become Rush in September 1968, at the request ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12964 |
Geologic time scale
The geologic time scale (GTS) is a system of chronological dating that relates geological strata (stratigraphy) to time. It is used by geologists, paleontologists, and other Earth scientists to describe the timing and relationships of events that once occurred, also allowing them to accurately file... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12967 |
Gambler's fallacy
The gambler's fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy or the fallacy of the maturity of chances, is the erroneous belief that if a particular event occurs more frequently than normal during the past it is less likely to happen in the future (or vice versa), when it has otherwise been establish... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12970 |
Gasparo Contarini
Gasparo Contarini (16 October 1483 – 24 August 1542) was an Italian diplomat, cardinal and Bishop of Belluno. He was one of the first proponents of the dialogue with Protestants, after the Reformation.
He was born in Venice, the eldest son of Alvise Contarini, of the ancient noble House of Contarini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12975 |
Gastroenterology
Gastroenterology is the branch of medicine focused on the digestive system and its disorders.
Diseases affecting the gastrointestinal tract, which include the organs from mouth into anus, along the alimentary canal, are the focus of this speciality. Physicians practicing in this field are called gast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12976 |
Gulag
The Gulag or GULAG (Russian: ; acronym for "Glavnoe Upravlenie LAGerei", , 'Main Directorate of Camps') was the government agency in charge of the Soviet network of forced-labour camps set up by order of Vladimir Lenin, reaching its peak during Joseph Stalin's rule from the 1930s to the early 1950s. English-lang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12980 |
Geiger counter
A Geiger counter is an instrument used for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation. Also known as a Geiger–Muller counter (or Geiger–Müller counter), it is widely used in applications such as radiation dosimetry, radiological protection, experimental physics, and the nuclear industry.
It detects ion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12984 |
General Synod
The General Synod is the title of the governing body of some church organizations.
In the Church of England, the General Synod, which was established in 1970 (replacing the Church Assembly), is the legislative body of the Church.
In the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, the equivalent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12985 |
Gerrymandering
Gerrymandering (,) is a practice intended to establish an unfair political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries, which is most commonly used in first-past-the-post electoral systems.
Two principal tactics are used in gerrymandering: "cracking" (i.e. diluting the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12987 |
Gin
Gin is a distilled alcoholic drink that derives its predominant flavour from juniper berries ("Juniperus communis"). Gin is one of the broadest categories of spirits, all of various origins, styles, and flavour profiles, that revolve around juniper as a common ingredient.
Gin began its life as a medicinal liquor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12988 |
Gall–Peters projection
The Gall–Peters projection is a rectangular map projection that maps all areas such that they have the correct sizes relative to each other. Like any equal-area projection, it achieves this goal by distorting most shapes. The projection is a particular example of the cylindrical equal-area proje... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12990 |
Gram Parsons
Ingram Cecil Connor III (November 5, 1946 – September 19, 1973), known professionally as Gram Parsons, was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Parsons recorded as a solo artist and with the International Submarine Band, the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers. He popularized what he c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12991 |
Go-fast boat
A go-fast boat is a small, fast boat designed with a long narrow platform and a planing hull to enable it to reach high speeds.
During the era of Prohibition in the United States, these boats joined the ranks of "rum-runners" transferring illegal liquor from larger vessels waiting outside US territorial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12992 |
Glasgow City Chambers
The City Chambers or Municipal Buildings in Glasgow, Scotland, has functioned as the headquarters of Glasgow City Council since 1996, and of preceding forms of municipal government in the city since 1889. It is located on the eastern side of the city's George Square. It is a Category A listed bui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12994 |
Gone with the Wind (novel)
Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a wel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12995 |
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver (1860s – January 5, 1943) was an American agricultural scientist and inventor. He promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He was the most prominent black scientist of the early 20th century.
While a professor at Tuskegee Institute, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12997 |
Grok
Grok is a neologism coined by American writer Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science fiction novel "Stranger in a Strange Land". While the "Oxford English Dictionary" summarizes the meaning of "grok" as "to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with" and "to empathize or communicate sympathe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12998 |
Geelong Football Club
The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Geelong, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level of Australian rules football in Australia. The Cats have been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13007 |
Galileo (satellite navigation)
Galileo is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) that went live in 2016, created by the European Union through the European GNSS Agency (GSA), headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, with two ground operations centers in Fucino, Italy, and Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. The €10 billio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13009 |
Gavrilo Princip
Gavrilo Princip (, ; 25 July 189428 April 1918) was a Bosnian Serb member of Young Bosnia who sought an end to Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the age of 19, he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the Archduke's wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13010 |
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village ( , , ), often referred to by locals as simply "the Village", is a neighborhood on the west side of Manhattan in New York City, within Lower Manhattan. Broadly, Greenwich Village is bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13011 |
History of Macau
Macau is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China. In 1557 it was leased to Portugal as a trading post in exchange for an annual rent of 500 tael in order to stay in Macau, it remained under Chinese sovereignty and authority until 1887, the Portuguese came to consider an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19069 |
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