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Software engineering
Software engineering is the systematic application of engineering approaches to the development of software. Software engineering is a branch of computing science.
When the first digital computers appeared in the early 1940s, the instructions to make them operate were wired into the machine. Prac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27010 |
Software Engineering Institute
The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is an American research and development center headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Its activities cover cybersecurity, software assurance, software engineering and acquisition, and component capabilities critical to the Department of Defens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27011 |
Software crisis
Software crisis is a term used in the early days of computing science for the difficulty of writing useful and efficient computer programs in the required time. The software crisis was due to the rapid increases in computer power and the complexity of the problems that could now be tackled. With the in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27012 |
Swedish Academy
The Swedish Academy (), founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. Its 18 members, who are elected for life, comprise the highest Swedish language authority. Outside Scandinavia, it is best known as the body that chooses the laureates for the annual Nobel Prize in Lite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27013 |
Sture Allén
Sture Allén (born 31 December 1928) is a retired Swedish professor of computational linguistics at the University of Gothenburg, who was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy between 1986 and 1999. Born in Gothenburg, he was elected to chair 3 of the Swedish Academy in 1980. He is also a member of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27016 |
South Korea
South Korea (Korean: /, RR: "Hanguk"; literally /, RR: "Namhan", or , MR: "Namchosŏn" in North Korean usage), officially the Republic of Korea (ROK; Korean: /, RR: "Daehan Minguk"), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27019 |
Saint George
Saint George (, "Geṓrgios"; ; d. 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was a soldier of Cappadocian Greek origins, member of the Praetorian Guard for Roman emperor Diocletian, who was sentenced to death for refusing to recant his Christian faith. He became one of the most venerated saints and megalomartyrs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29010 |
Secular humanism
Secular humanism is a philosophy or life stance that embraces human reason, secular ethics, and philosophical naturalism while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, and superstition as the basis of morality and decision making.
Secular humanism posits that human beings are capable ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29021 |
Game Gear
The is an 8-bit fourth generation handheld game console released by Sega on October 6, 1990 in Japan, in April 1991 throughout North America and Europe, and during 1992 in Australia. The Game Gear primarily competed with Nintendo's Game Boy, the Atari Lynx, and NEC's TurboExpress. It shares much of its hardw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29027 |
32X
The 32X is an add-on for the Sega Genesis video game console. Codenamed "Project Mars", the 32X was designed to expand the power of the Genesis and serve as a transitional console into the 32-bit era until the release of the Sega Saturn. Independent of the Genesis, the 32X uses its own ROM cartridges and has its o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29028 |
Severan dynasty
The Severan dynasty was a Roman imperial dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 193 and 235. The dynasty was founded by the general Septimius Severus, who rose to power as the victor of the Civil War of 193–197.
Although Septimius Severus successfully restored peace following the upheaval of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29031 |
Sega CD
The Sega CD, released as the in most regions outside North America and Brazil, is a CD-ROM accessory for the Mega Drive/Genesis designed and produced by Sega as part of the fourth generation of video game consoles. It was released on December 12, 1991 in Japan, October 15, 1992 in North America, and April 2, 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29032 |
Sega Pico
The Sega Pico, also known as is an educational video game console by Sega Toys. Marketed as "edutainment", the main focus of the Pico was educational video games for children between 3 and 7 years old. The Pico was released in June 1993 in Japan and November 1994 in North America and Europe, later reaching C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29033 |
Sega VR
The Sega VR is a virtual reality headset developed by Sega in the early 1990s. Versions were planned for arcades, Genesis, and Saturn. Only the arcade version was released, and the home console versions were canceled.
The Sega VR's design was based on an IDEO virtual reality head-mounted display containing LC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29034 |
Sega Saturn
The is a home video game console developed by Sega and released on November 22, 1994 in Japan, May 11, 1995 in North America, and July 8, 1995 in Europe. Part of the fifth generation of video game consoles, it was the successor to the successful Sega Genesis. The Saturn has a dual-CPU architecture and eigh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29035 |
Dreamcast
The is a home video game console released by Sega on November 27, 1998 in Japan, September 9, 1999 in North America, and October 14, 1999 in Europe. It was the first in the sixth generation of video game consoles, preceding Sony's PlayStation 2, Nintendo's GameCube and Microsoft's Xbox. The Dreamcast was Seg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29036 |
SH3 domain
The SRC Homology 3 Domain (or SH3 domain) is a small protein domain of about 60 amino acid residues. Initially, SH3 was described as a conserved sequence in the viral adaptor protein v-Crk. This domain is also present in the molecules of phospholipase and several cytoplasmic tyrosine kinases such as Abl and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29039 |
Stokes' theorem
In vector calculus, and more generally differential geometry, Stokes' theorem (sometimes spelled Stokes's theorem, and also called the generalized Stokes theorem or the Stokes–Cartan theorem) is a statement about the integration of differential forms on manifolds, which both simplifies and generalizes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29040 |
Superfetation
Superfetation (also spelled superfoetation – see fetus) is the simultaneous occurrence of more than one stage of developing offspring in the same animal.
In mammals, it manifests as the formation of an embryo from a different menstrual cycle
while another embryo or fetus is already present in the ute... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29042 |
Speciesism
Speciesism () or specism denotes discrimination based on species membership. Such discrimination involves treating members of one species as morally more important than members of other species.
Philosophers such as Peter Singer argue that speciesism plays a role in the practice of factory farming, the use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29045 |
Steelman language requirements
The Steelman language requirements were a set of requirements which a high-level general-purpose programming language should meet, created by the United States Department of Defense in "The Department of Defense Common High Order Language program" in 1978. The predecessors of this docume... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29047 |
Single-sideband modulation
In radio communications, single-sideband modulation (SSB) or single-sideband suppressed-carrier modulation (SSB-SC) is a type of modulation used to transmit information, such as an audio signal, by radio waves. A refinement of amplitude modulation, it uses transmitter power and bandwidth mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29048 |
Szlachta
The szlachta (, exonym: "Nobility") was a legally privileged noble class in the Kingdom of Poland and in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. After the Union of Lublin in 1569, the Grand Duchy and its neighbouring Kingdom became a single state, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The origins of the szlachta are obs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29050 |
Syntactic sugar
In computer science, syntactic sugar is syntax within a programming language that is designed to make things easier to read or to express. It makes the language "sweeter" for human use: things can be expressed more clearly, more concisely, or in an alternative style that some may prefer.
For example, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29054 |
Sonic the Hedgehog (character)
Sonic the Hedgehog is the protagonist of the "Sonic the Hedgehog" video game series released by Sega, as well as numerous spin-off comics, animations, and other media. Sonic is a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog who can run at supersonic speeds and curl into a ball, primarily to attack enem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29056 |
Satyr
In Greek mythology, a satyr ( "", ), also known as a silenos ( ), is a male nature spirit with ears and a tail resembling those of a horse, as well as a permanent, exaggerated erection. Early artistic representations sometimes include horse-like legs, but, by the sixth century BC, they were more often represente... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29067 |
Sturgeon-class submarine
The "Sturgeon" class (known colloquially in naval circles as the 637 class) was a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines (SSN) in service with the United States Navy from the 1960s until 2004. They were the "workhorses" of the Navy's attack submarine fleet throughout much of the Cold ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29068 |
Seawolf-class submarine
The "Seawolf" class is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines (SSN) in service with the United States Navy. The class was the intended successor to the , and design work began in 1983. A fleet of 29 submarines was to be built over a ten-year period, but that was reduced to 12 submari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29069 |
SunOS
SunOS is a Unix-branded operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for their workstation and server computer systems. The "SunOS" name is usually only used to refer to versions 1.0 to 4.1.4, which were based on BSD, while versions 5.0 and later are based on UNIX System V Release 4, and are marketed under the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29071 |
SANS Institute
The SANS Institute (officially the Escal Institute of Advanced Technologies) is a private U.S. for-profit company founded in 1989 that specializes in information security, cybersecurity training, and selling certificates. Topics available for training include cyber and network defenses, penetration test... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29072 |
Sun Myung Moon
Sun Myung Moon (Korean 문선명 Mun Seon-myeong; born Mun Yong-myeong; 6 January 1920 – 3 September 2012) was a Korean religious leader, also known for his business ventures and support for political causes. A messiah claimant, he was the founder of the Unification movement (members of which considered him a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29074 |
Statute of frauds
The statute of frauds refers to the requirement that certain kinds of contracts be memorialized in writing, signed by the party to be charged, with sufficient content to evidence the contract.
The term "statute of frauds" comes from an Act of the Parliament of England (29 Chas. 2 c. 3) passed in 167... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29079 |
Sovereign immunity
Sovereign immunity, or crown immunity, is a legal doctrine whereby a sovereign or state cannot commit a legal wrong and is immune to civil suit or criminal prosecution, strictly speaking in modern texts in its own courts. A similar, stronger rule as regards foreign courts is named state immunity.
I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29081 |
Social geography
Social geography is the branch of human geography that is most closely related to social theory in general and sociology in particular, dealing with the relation of social phenomena and its spatial components. Though the term itself has a tradition of more than 100 years, there is no consensus on its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29082 |
Segway
Segway is a two-wheeled, self-balancing personal transporter invented by Dean Kamen and brought to market in 2001 as the Segway HT, subsequently as the Segway PT, and manufactured by Segway Inc.. "HT" is an initialism for "human transporter" and "PT" for "personal transporter".
Ninebot Inc., a Beijing-based tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29083 |
Slayers
In the "Slayers" universe, the ultimate being is the Lord of Nightmares, the creator of at least four parallel worlds. An artifact known as the Claire Bible contains information about the Lord of Nightmares' task to regain its "true form", which is only attainable by destroying these worlds and returning them ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29084 |
Security through obscurity
Security through obscurity (or security by obscurity) is the reliance in security engineering on design or implementation secrecy as the main method of providing security to a system or component. Security experts have rejected this view as far back as 1851, and advise that obscurity should ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29087 |
Snuff film
A snuff film is a genre that purports to show scenes of actual homicide. The promotion of these films depends on sensational claims which are generally impossible to prove, and there are sophisticated special effects for simulating murder.
A snuff film, or snuff movie, is "a movie in a purported genre of m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29089 |
Software testing
Software testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the software product or service under test. Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks of soft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29090 |
Ship-Submarine Recycling Program
The Ship/Submarine Recycling Program (SRP) is the process that the United States Navy uses to dispose of decommissioned nuclear vessels. SRP takes place only at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (PSNS) in Bremerton, Washington, but the preparations can begin elsewhere.
Before SRP can beg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29091 |
Shaolin Monastery
The Shaolin Monastery (), also known as the Shaolin Temple, is a Chan ("Zen") Buddhist temple in Dengfeng County, Henan Province, China. Believed to have been founded in the fifth century, the Shaolin Temple is the main temple of the Shaolin school of Buddhism to this day.
Located west of the city o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29098 |
Seymour Cray
Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 – October 5, 1996) was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research which built many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing", ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29103 |
Signature block
A signature block (often abbreviated as signature, sig block, sig file, .sig, dot sig, siggy, or just sig) is a personalized block of text automatically appended at the bottom of an email message, Usenet article, or forum post.
An email signature is a block of text appended to the end of an email mess... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29105 |
Semantics
Semantics (from "sēmantikós", "significant") is the linguistic and philosophical study of meaning in language, programming languages, formal logic, and semiotics. It is concerned with the relationship between "signifiers"—like words, phrases, signs, and symbols—and what they stand for in reality, their denot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29107 |
Semantic network
A semantic network, or frame network is a knowledge base that represents semantic relations between concepts in a network. This is often used as a form of knowledge representation. It is a directed or undirected graph consisting of vertices, which represent concepts, and edges, which represent semanti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29109 |
Stockholm Bloodbath
The Stockholm Bloodbath (Swedish: Stockholms blodbad, Danish: Det Stockholmske Blodbad) was a trial that led to a series of executions in Stockholm between 7 and 9 November 1520. The events were initiated directly after the coronation of Christian II (who after the bloodbath became known in Sweden ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29113 |
Signals intelligence
Signals intelligence (SIGINT) is intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether communications between people (communications intelligence—abbreviated to COMINT) or from electronic signals not directly used in communication (electronic intelligence—abbreviated to ELINT). Signals intell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29122 |
Semantic Web
The Semantic Web is an extension of the World Wide Web through standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The goal of the Semantic Web is to make Internet data machine-readable. To enable the encoding of semantics with the data, technologies such as Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Web ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29123 |
Soviet submarine K-219
K-219 was a Project 667A "Navaga"-class ballistic missile submarine (NATO reporting name Yankee I) of the Soviet Navy. It carried 16 R-27U liquid-fuel missiles powered by UDMH with nitrogen tetroxide (NTO), and equipped with either 32 or 48 nuclear warheads. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29124 |
Soviet submarine K-8
K-8 was a of the Soviet Northern Fleet that sank in the Bay of Biscay with her nuclear weapons on board on April 12, 1970. A fire on April 8 had disabled the submarine and it was being towed in rough seas. Fifty-two crewmen were killed attempting the salvage of the boat when it sank.
On 13 Octobe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29125 |
Soviet submarine K-19
K-19 (Russian: К-19) was the first submarine of the Project 658 (Russian: проект-658, lit: "Projekt-658") class (NATO reporting name ), the first generation of Soviet nuclear submarines equipped with nuclear ballistic missiles, specifically the R-13 SLBM. The boat was hastily built by the Soviets... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29126 |
Super Bowl I
The first AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, known retroactively as Super BowlI and referred to in some contemporaneous reports, including the game's radio broadcast, as the Super Bowl, was played on January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, Cali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29128 |
Super Bowl II
The second AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional football, known retroactively as Super Bowl II, was played on January 14, 1968, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. The National Football League (NFL)'s defending champion Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football League (AFL) champion O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29129 |
Super Bowl IV
Super Bowl IV, the fourth and final AFL–NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, was played on January 11, 1970, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana. The American Football League (AFL) champion Kansas City Chiefs defeated the National Football League (NFL) champion Minnesota... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29130 |
Super Bowl V
Super Bowl V, the fifth edition of the Super Bowl and first modern-era National Football League (NFL) championship game, was an American football game played between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Baltimore Colts and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys to decide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29131 |
Super Bowl VI
Super Bowl VI was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Miami Dolphins to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1971 season. The Cowboys defeated the Dolphins by the score o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29132 |
Super Bowl VII
Super Bowl VII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Miami Dolphins and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Washington Redskins to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1972 season. The Dolphins defeated the Redskins by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29133 |
Super Bowl VIII
Super Bowl VIII was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Minnesota Vikings and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Miami Dolphins to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1973 season. The Dolphins defeated the Vikings by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29134 |
Super Bowl IX
Super Bowl IX was an American football game played between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Minnesota Vikings to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1974 season. The game was played on January 12... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29135 |
Super Bowl X
Super Bowl X was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1975 season. The Steelers defeated the Cowboys by the scor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29136 |
Opel
Opel Automobile GmbH () is a German automobile manufacturer, a subsidiary of French automaker Groupe PSA since August 2017. From 1929 until 2017, Opel was owned by American automaker General Motors. Opel vehicles are sold in Great Britain under the Vauxhall brand. Some Opel vehicles were badge-engineered in Austr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22284 |
Oligocene
The Oligocene ( ) is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present ( to ). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly unc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22286 |
Open-source license
An open-source license is a type of license for computer software and other products that allows the source code, blueprint or design to be used, modified and/or shared under defined terms and conditions. This allows end users and commercial companies to review and modify the source code, blueprint... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22290 |
Occitan language
Occitan (, , ), also known as lenga d'òc (; ) by its native speakers, is a Romance language (or branch of numerous of these) spoken in Southern France, Monaco, Italy's Occitan Valleys, as well as Spain's Val d'Aran; collectively, these regions are sometimes referred to as Occitania. It is also spoken ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22292 |
Old Turkic script
The Old Turkic script (also known as variously Göktürk script, Orkhon script, Orkhon-Yenisey script, Turkic runes) is the alphabet used by the Göktürks and other early Turkic khanates during the 8th to 10th centuries to record the Old Turkic language.
The script is named after the Orkhon Valley in M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22293 |
The Open Source Definition
The Open Source Definition is a document published by the Open Source Initiative, to determine whether a software license can be labeled with the open-source certification mark.
The definition was taken from the exact text of the Debian Free Software Guidelines, written and adapted primaril... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22296 |
Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a California public benefit corporation, with 501(c)3 tax-exempt status, founded in 1998.
It promotes the usage of Open Source Software.
The organization was founded in late February 1998 by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, part of a group inspired by the Ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22298 |
Oxygen
Oxygen is the chemical element with the symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group in the periodic table, a highly reactive nonmetal, and an oxidizing agent that readily forms oxides with most elements as well as with other compounds. After hydrogen and helium, oxygen is the third-most ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22303 |
Osmium
Osmium (from Greek ὀσμή "osme", "smell") is a chemical element with the symbol Os and atomic number 76. It is a hard, brittle, bluish-white transition metal in the platinum group that is found as a trace element in alloys, mostly in platinum ores. Osmium is the densest naturally occurring element, with an exper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22304 |
Oxide
An oxide () is a chemical compound that contains at least one oxygen atom and one other element in its chemical formula. "Oxide" itself is the dianion of oxygen, an O2– atom. Metal oxides thus typically contain an anion of oxygen in the oxidation state of −2. Most of the Earth's crust consists of solid oxides, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22305 |
Overgrazing
Overgrazing occurs when plants are exposed to intensive grazing for extended periods of time, or without sufficient recovery periods. It can be caused by either livestock in poorly managed agricultural applications, game reserves, or nature reserves. It can also be caused by immobile, travel restricted pop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22306 |
Oxford
Oxford () is a university city in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 154,600. It is northwest of London, from Birmingham and from Reading by road.
The city is home to the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world, and has buildings in every style of English architecture ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22308 |
Oslo
Oslo ( , also , , rarely ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. During the Viking Age the area was part of Viken, the northernmost Danish province. Oslo was founded as a city at the end of the Viking Age in the year 1040 under the name Ánslo, and establ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22309 |
Outing
Outing is the act of disclosing an LGBT person's sexual orientation or gender identity without that person's consent. Outing gives rise to issues of privacy, choice, hypocrisy, and harm in addition to sparking debate on what constitutes common good in efforts to combat homophobia and heterosexism. A publicized ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22310 |
Las Vegas Raiders
The Las Vegas Raiders are a professional American football team based in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. The Raiders compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) West division. The Raiders will play their home games at Allegiant St... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22312 |
Oligarchy
Oligarchy (; ) is a form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. These people may be distinguished by nobility, wealth, education, corporate, religious, political, or military control. Such states are often controlled by families who pass their influence from one generation to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22315 |
Oman
Oman ( ; ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ), is a country on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. Located in a strategically important position at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, the country shares land borders with the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22316 |
History of Oman
Oman is the site of pre-historic human habitation, stretching back over 100,000 years. The region was impacted by powerful invaders, including other Arab tribes, Portugal and Britain. Oman once possessed the island of Zanzibar, on the east coast of Africa as a colony.
In Oman, a site was discovered by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22317 |
Geography of Oman
Oman is a country situated in Southwest Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman, and Persian Gulf, between Yemen and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The coast of Oman was an important part in the Omani empire and sultanate.
Oman is located in the southeastern quarter of the Arabian Peninsula a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22318 |
Demographics of Oman
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Oman, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
About 50% of the population in Oman lives in Muscat and the Bati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22319 |
Economy of Oman
The economy of Oman is rural and agrarian. Oman's current GDP per capita has expanded continuously in the past fifty years. It grew 339% in the 1960s reaching a peak growth of 1,370% in the 1970s scaling back to modest 13% growth in the 1980s and rising again to 34% in the 1990s.
This is a chart of tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22321 |
Telecommunications in Oman
Oman Telecommunication Company (Omantel) has a monopoly in the landline telephone and internet access markets. Its arm Omanmobile offers mobile services. The Omani government owns 70% of Omantel after 30% was listed for the public in 2005. In 2005 Qatar Telecommunication Company (Qtel) and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22322 |
Transport in Oman
This article is about transport in Oman.
"total:"
62,240 km
"paved:"
29,685 km (including 1943 km of expressways)
"unpaved:"
30,545 km (2012)
Oman has two expressway grade highways, with the first 8 lane expressway set to open in 2017. Al Batinah Coastal Road runs along the Batinah Coast of the Sea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22323 |
Foreign relations of Oman
When Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said assumed power in 1970, Oman had limited contacts with the outside world, including neighbouring Arab states. A special treaty relationship permitted the United Kingdom close involvement in Oman's civil and military affairs. Ties with the United Kingdom rema... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22325 |
Old Testament
The Old Testament (abbreviated OT) is the first part of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the twenty-four books of the Hebrew Bible (or Tanakh), a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the Israelites believed by most Christians and religious Jews to be the sacred Wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22326 |
Octal
The octal numeral system, or oct for short, is the base-8 number system, and uses the digits 0 to 7. Octal numerals can be made from binary numerals by grouping consecutive binary digits into groups of three (starting from the right). For example, the binary representation for decimal 74 is 1001010. Two zeroes c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22330 |
October
October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and the sixth of seven months to have a length of 31 days. The eighth month in the old calendar of Romulus , October retained its name (from the Latin and Greek "ôctō" meaning "eight") after January and February were inserted into the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22332 |
Oberkommando des Heeres
The Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH) was the High Command () of the German Army during the Era of Nazi Germany. It was founded in 1935 as a part of Adolf Hitler's re-militarisation of Germany. From 1938 OKH was, together with OKL ("Oberkommando der Luftwaffe", High Command of the Air Force) and OK... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22336 |
Operation Sea Lion
Operation Sea Lion, also written as Operation Sealion (), was Nazi Germany's code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. Following the Fall of France, Adolf Hitler, the German Führer and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, hop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22338 |
Observational error
Observational error (or measurement error) is the difference between a measured value of a quantity and its true value. In statistics, an error is not a "mistake". Variability is an inherent part of the results of measurements and of the measurement process.
Measurement errors can be divided into ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22346 |
Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers, but is distinct from musical theatre. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librettist and incorporates a number of the performing a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22348 |
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes (), popularly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse taxonomic group of fish that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue, as opposed to cartilage. The vast majority of fish are members of Osteichthyes, which is an extremely diverse and abundant group consisting of 45 orders, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22350 |
Otto Dix
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (; 2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz and Max Beckmann, he is widely considered one of the most imp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22351 |
Orrorin
Orrorin tugenensis is a postulated early species of Homininae, estimated at and discovered in 2000. It is not confirmed how "Orrorin" is related to modern humans. Its discovery was used to argue against the hypothesis that australopithecines are human ancestors, as much as it still remains the most prevalent h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22353 |
Lists of Olympic medalists
This article includes lists of all Olympic medalists since 1896, organized by each Olympic sport or discipline, and also by Olympiad.
A. Including military patrol event at 1924 Games, which IOC now refers to biathlon.
B. Figure skating was held at the 1908 and 1920 Summer Olympic games prio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22360 |
Ordered pair
In mathematics, an ordered pair ("a", "b") is a pair of objects. The order in which the objects appear in the pair is significant: the ordered pair ("a", "b") is different from the ordered pair ("b", "a") unless "a" = "b". (In contrast, the unordered pair {"a", "b"} equals the unordered pair {"b", "a"}.)
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Old Catholic Church
The term Old Catholic Church was used from the 1850s by groups which had separated from the Roman Catholic Church over certain doctrines, primarily concerned with papal authority; some of these groups, especially in the Netherlands, had already existed long before the term. These churches are not i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22370 |
Object code
In computing, object code or object module is the product of a compiler. In a general sense object code is a sequence of statements or instructions in a computer language, usually a machine code language (i.e., binary) or an intermediate language such as register transfer language (RTL). The term indicates... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22373 |
Oort cloud
The Oort cloud (), named after the Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, sometimes called the Öpik–Oort cloud, is a theoretical cloud of predominantly icy planetesimals proposed to surround the Sun at distances ranging from 2,000 to 200,000 au (0.03 to 3.2 light-years). It is divided into two regions: a disc-shaped in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22385 |
Ohio River
The Ohio River is a long river in the United States. It is located in the midwestern United States, flowing southwesterly from western Pennsylvania south of Lake Erie to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illinois. It is the third largest river by discharge volume in the United States... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22388 |
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