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Casino game
Games available in most casinos are commonly called casino games. In a casino game, the players gamble casino chips on various possible random outcomes or combinations of outcomes. Casino games are also available in online casinos, where permitted by law. Casino games can also be played outside casinos for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5362 |
Video game
A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a two- or three-dimensional video display device such as a touchscreen, virtual reality headset or monitor/TV set. Since the 1980s, video games have become an increasingly important part of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5363 |
Cambrian
The Cambrian Period ( ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 55.6 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 541 million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Ordovician Period mya. Its subdivisions, and its base, are somewha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5367 |
Category of being
In ontology, the different kinds or ways of being are called categories of being; or simply categories. To investigate the categories of being is to determine the most fundamental and the broadest classes of entities. A distinction between such categories, in making the categories or applying them, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5370 |
Concrete
Concrete is a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement (cement paste) that hardens (cures) over time. In the past limebased cement binders were often used, such as lime putty, but sometimes with other hydraulic cements, such as a calcium aluminate cement or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5371 |
Condom
A condom is a sheath-shaped barrier device used during sexual intercourse to reduce the probability of pregnancy or a sexually transmitted infection (STI). There are both male and female condoms. With proper use—and use at every act of intercourse—women whose partners use male condoms experience a 2% per-year p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5374 |
Country code
Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The term "country code" frequently refers to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 or inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5375 |
Cladistics
Cladistics (, from Greek , "kládos", "branch") is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on the most recent common ancestor. Hypothesized relationships are typically based on shared derived characteristics (synapomorphies")" that can be traced ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5376 |
Calendar
A calendar is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial or administrative purposes. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. A date is the designation of a single, specific day within such a system. A calendar is also a physical record (ofte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5377 |
Physical cosmology
Physical cosmology is a branch of cosmology concerned with the study of cosmological models. A cosmological model, or simply cosmology, provides a description of the largest-scale structures and dynamics of the universe and allows study of fundamental questions about its origin, structure, evolution... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5378 |
Inflation (cosmology)
In physical cosmology, cosmic inflation, cosmological inflation, or just inflation, is a theory of exponential expansion of space in the early universe. The inflationary epoch lasted from 10−36 seconds after the conjectured Big Bang singularity to some time between 10−33 and 10−32 seconds after t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5382 |
Candela
The candela ( or ; symbol: cd) is the base unit of luminous intensity in the International System of Units (SI); that is, luminous power per unit solid angle emitted by a point light source in a particular direction. Luminous intensity is analogous to radiant intensity, but instead of simply adding up the cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5385 |
Condensed matter physics
Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter. In particular it is concerned with the "condensed" phases that appear whenever the number of constituents in a system is extremely large and the interactions between ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5387 |
Cultural anthropology
Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which perceives cultural variation as a subset of a posited anthropological constant. The umbrella term sociocultural anthropology includes both cul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5388 |
Conversion of units
Conversion of units is the conversion between different units of measurement for the same quantity, typically through multiplicative conversion factors.
The process of conversion depends on the specific situation and the intended purpose. This may be governed by regulation, contract, technical spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5390 |
Democracy
Democracy (, "dēmokratiā", from "dēmos" 'people' and "kratos" 'rule') is a form of government in which the people have the authority to choose their governing legislation. Who people are and how authority is shared among them are core issues for democratic theory, development and constitution. Some cornersto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7959 |
Logical disjunction
In logic and mathematics, or is the truth-functional operator of (inclusive) disjunction, also known as alternation; the "or" of a set of operands is true if and only if "one or more" of its operands is true. The logical connective that represents this operator is typically written as ∨ or +.
form... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7962 |
Disjunctive syllogism
In classical logic, disjunctive syllogism (historically known as modus tollendo ponens (MTP), Latin for "mode that affirms by denying") is a valid argument form which is a syllogism having a disjunctive statement for one of its premises.
An example in English:
In propositional logic, disjunctiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7963 |
Definition
A definition is a statement of the meaning of a term (a word, phrase, or other set of symbols). Definitions can be classified into two large categories, intensional definitions (which try to give the sense of a term) and extensional definitions (which try to list the objects that a term describes). Another ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7964 |
Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States’ urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, horns, electric piano, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars.
Well-known disco artists include Do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7966 |
Donegal fiddle tradition
The Donegal fiddle tradition is the way of playing the fiddle that is traditional in County Donegal, Ireland. It is one of the distinct fiddle traditions within Irish traditional music.
The distinctness of the Donegal tradition developed due to the close relations between Donegal and Scotland... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7973 |
Double-barreled shotgun
A double-barreled shotgun is a shotgun with two parallel barrels, allowing two shots to be fired in quick succession.
Modern double-barreled shotguns, often known as "doubles", are almost universally break open actions, with the barrels tilting up at the rear to expose the breech ends of the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7975 |
Dessert
Dessert () is a course that concludes a meal. The course usually consists of sweet foods, such as confections, and possibly a beverage such as dessert wine or liqueur; however, in the United States it may include coffee, cheeses, nuts, or other savory items regarded as a separate course elsewhere. In some part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7976 |
Data Encryption Standard
The Data Encryption Standard (DES ) is a symmetric-key algorithm for the encryption of digital data. Although its short key length of 56 bits makes it too insecure for modern applications, it has been highly influential in the advancement of cryptography.
Developed in the early 1970s at IBM a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7978 |
Double-hulled tanker
A double-hulled tanker refers to an oil tanker which has a double hull. They reduce the likelihood of leaks occurring compared to single-hulled tankers, and their ability to prevent or reduce oil spills led to double hulls being standardized for oil tankers and other types of ships including by th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7983 |
Drink
A drink (or beverage) is a liquid intended for human consumption. In addition to their basic function of satisfying thirst, drinks play important roles in human culture. Common types of drinks include plain drinking water, milk, coffee, tea, hot chocolate, juice and soft drinks. In addition, alcoholic drinks suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7984 |
Dill
Dill ("Anethum graveolens") is an annual herb in the celery family Apiaceae. It is the only species in the genus "Anethum". Dill is grown widely in Eurasia where its leaves and seeds are used as a herb or spice for flavouring food.
Dill grows up to , with slender hollow stems and alternate, finely divided, softl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7985 |
Dual space
In mathematics, any vector space "V" has a corresponding dual vector space (or just dual space for short) consisting of all linear functionals on "V", together with the vector space structure of pointwise addition and scalar multiplication by constants.
The dual space as defined above is defined for all ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7988 |
Dianetics
Dianetics (from Greek "dia", meaning "through", and "nous", meaning "mind") is a set of ideas and practices regarding the metaphysical relationship between the mind and body created by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. Dianetics is practiced by followers of Scientology and the Nation of Islam (as of 201... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7989 |
Data warehouse
In computing, a data warehouse (DW or DWH), also known as an enterprise data warehouse (EDW), is a system used for reporting and data analysis, and is considered a core component of business intelligence. DWs are central repositories of integrated data from one or more disparate sources. They store curr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7990 |
Disperser
A disperser is a one-sided extractor. Where an extractor requires that every event gets the same probability under the uniform distribution and the extracted distribution, only the latter is required for a disperser. So for a disperser, an event formula_1 we have:
formula_2
Definition (Disperser): "A" formu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7991 |
Devonian
The Devonian ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic, spanning 60 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya. It is named after Devon, England, where rocks from this period were first studied.
The first significant adaptive rad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7992 |
David Thompson (explorer)
David Thompson (30 April 1770 – 10 February 1857) was a British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and cartographer, known to some native peoples as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer". Over Thompson's career, he traveled some across North America, mapping of North America along the way. For this h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7994 |
Dioscoreales
The Dioscoreales are an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants in modern classification systems, such as the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group and the Angiosperm Phylogeny Web. Within the monocots Dioscoreales are grouped in the lilioid monocots where they are in a sister group relationship with the Pandanal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7995 |
Dentistry
Dentistry, also known as dental medicine and oral medicine, is a branch of medicine that consists of the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders, and conditions of the oral cavity, commonly in the dentition but also the oral mucosa, and of adjacent and related structures and tissue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8005 |
Diameter
In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle. It can also be defined as the longest chord of the circle. Both definitions are also valid for the diameter of a sphere.
In more modern usage, the length of a d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8007 |
Alcohol intoxication
Alcohol intoxication, also known as drunkenness or alcohol poisoning, is the negative behavior and physical effects due to the recent drinking of alcohol. Symptoms at lower doses may include mild sedation and poor coordination. At higher doses, there may be slurred speech, trouble walking, and vom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8011 |
Data compression
In signal processing, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. Any particular compression is either lossy or lossless. Lossless compression reduces bits by identifying and eliminating statistical re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8013 |
History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Discovered in the 1990s, the earliest human remains in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been dated to approximately 90,000 years ago. The first real states, such as the Kongo, the Lunda, the Luba and Kuba, appeared south of the equatorial forest on the savannah ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8022 |
Geography of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo forms part of the Congo River Basin, which covers an area of almost . The country's only outlet to the Atlantic Ocean is a narrow strip of land on the north bank of the Congo River.
The vast, low-lying central area is a plateau-sha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8023 |
Demographics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
This article is about the demographic features of the population of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
As many as 250 ethni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8024 |
Economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has declined drastically since the mid-1980s, despite being home to vast potential in natural resources and mineral wealth.
At the time of its independence in 1960, the Democratic Republic of the Congo was the second m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8025 |
Politics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Politics of the Democratic Republic of Congo take place in a framework of a republic in transition from a civil war to a semi-presidential republic.
On 18 and 19 December 2005, a successful nationwide referendum was carried out on a draft constitution, which set the st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8026 |
Telecommunications in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Telecommunications in the Democratic Republic of the Congo include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Radio is the dominant medium; a handful of stations, including state-run Radio-Télévision Nationale Congolaise (RTNC), broadc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8027 |
Transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ground transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has always been difficult. The terrain and climate of the Congo Basin present serious barriers to road and rail construction, and the distances are enormous across this vast country. Furthermore, chronic ec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8028 |
Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( [FARDC]) is the state organisation responsible for defending the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The FARDC was rebuilt patchily as part of the peace process which followed the end of the Second Congo War i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8029 |
Geography of Denmark
Denmark is a Nordic country located in Northern Europe. It consists of the Jutland peninsula and several islands in the Baltic sea, referred to as the Danish Archipelago. Denmark is located southwest of Sweden and due south of Norway and is bordered by the German state (and former possession) Schl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8032 |
Demographics of Denmark
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Denmark, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Since 1980, the number of Danes has remained constant at a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8033 |
Economy of Denmark
The economy of Denmark is a modern mixed economy with comfortable living standards, a high level of government services and transfers, and a high dependence on foreign trade. The economy is dominated by the service sector with 80% of all jobs, whereas about 11% of all employees work in manufacturing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8035 |
Transport in Denmark
Transport in Denmark is developed and modern. The motorway network covers 1,111 km while the railway network totals 2,667 km of operational track. The Great Belt Fixed Link (opened in 1997) connecting the islands of Zealand and Funen and the New Little Belt Bridge (opened in 1970) connecting Funen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8037 |
Danish Defence
Danish Defence (, , ) is the unified armed forces of the Kingdom of Denmark, charged with the defence of Denmark and its constituent, self-governing nations Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The Defence also promote Denmark's wider interests, support international peacekeeping efforts and provide humanit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8038 |
Foreign relations of Denmark
The foreign policy of Denmark is based on its identity as a sovereign state in Europe, the Arctic and the North Atlantic. As such its primary foreign policy focus is on its relations with other nations as a sovereign state compromising the three constituent countries: Denmark, Greenland an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8039 |
History of Djibouti
Djibouti is a country in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Somalia to the southeast, Eritrea and the Red Sea to the north and northeast, Ethiopia to the west and south, and the Gulf of Aden to the east.
In antiquity, the territory was part of the Land of Punt. The Djibouti area, along with oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8041 |
Geography of Djibouti
Djibouti is a city in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast. To the east is its coastline on the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Rainfall is sparse, and most of the territory has a semi-arid to arid environment. Lake... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8042 |
Demographics of Djibouti
This article is about the demographics of Djibouti, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Djibouti is a multiethnic country. As of 2018, it has a population of around 884,017 inhabitants. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8043 |
Politics of Djibouti
Politics of Djibouti takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the executive power is exercised by the President and the Government. Legislative power is vested in both the Government and the National Assembly. The party system and legislature are dom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8044 |
Economy of Djibouti
The economy of Djibouti is derived in large part from its strategic location on the Red Sea. Djibouti is mostly barren, with little development in the agricultural and industrial sectors. The country has a harsh climate, a largely unskilled labour force, and limited natural resources. The country's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8045 |
Transport in Djibouti
Transport in Djibouti is overseen by the Ministry of Infrastructure & Transport. Over the last years, the Government of Djibouti have significantly increased funding for rail and road construction to build an infrastructure. They include highways, airports and seaports, in addition to various for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8047 |
Djibouti Armed Forces
The Djibouti Armed Forces (DJAF; , ) are the military forces of Djibouti. They consist of the Djiboutian National Army and its sub-branches the Djiboutian Air Force and Djiboutian Navy. As of 2018, the Djibouti Armed Forces consists of 20,470 (2018 est.) ground troops, which are divided into seve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8048 |
Demographics of Dominica
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Dominica, including population density, ethnicity, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
According to the preliminary 2011 census results Dominica has a population of 71,293. The population growth rate i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8053 |
Telecommunications in Dominica
Telecommunications in Dominica comprises telephone, radio, television and internet services. The primary regulatory authority is the National Telecommunication Regulatory Commission which regulates all related industries in order to comply with The Telecommunications Act 8 of 2000.
Call... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8056 |
Military of Dominica
There has been no standing army in Dominica since 1981. Defense is the responsibility of Regional Security System (RSS).
The civil Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force includes a Special Service Unit, Coast Guard. In the event of war or other emergency, if proclaimed by the authorities, the Poli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8058 |
Foreign relations of Dominica
Like its Eastern Caribbean neighbours, the main priority of Dominica's foreign relations is economic development. The country maintains missions in Washington, New York, London, and Brussels and is represented jointly with other Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) members in C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8059 |
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; , ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with Haiti, making Hispaniola one of only two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8060 |
Deutsches Institut für Normung
Founded in 1917 as the ' (NADI, "Standardization Committee of German Industry"), the NADI was renamed ' (DNA, "German Standardization Committee") in 1926 to reflect that the organization now dealt with standardization issues in many fields; viz., not just for industrial products. In 1975... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8062 |
Biopolymer
Biopolymers are natural polymers produced by living organisms; in other words, they are polymeric biomolecules derived from cellular or extracellular matter. Biopolymers contain monomeric units that are covalently bonded to form larger structures. There are three main classes of biopolymers, classified acco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3974 |
2001 United Kingdom general election
The 2001 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 7 June 2001, four years after the previous election on 1 May 1997, to elect 659 members to the House of Commons. The governing Labour Party was re-elected to serve a second term in government with another landslide victo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3975 |
Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which, according to adherents, contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421. It was first published in March 1830 by Joseph Smith as "The Book of Mormon: An Account Wri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3978 |
Baptists
Baptists form a major branch of Protestantism distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or aspersion). Baptist churches also generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul competency (the re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3979 |
Blackjack
Blackjack, formerly also Black Jack and Vingt-Un, is the American member of a global family of banking games known as Twenty-One, whose relatives include Pontoon and Vingt-et-Un. It is a comparing card game between one or more players and a dealer, where each player in turn competes against the dealer. Playe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3981 |
Bicarbonate
In inorganic chemistry, bicarbonate (IUPAC-recommended nomenclature: hydrogencarbonate) is an intermediate form in the deprotonation of carbonic acid. It is a polyatomic anion with the chemical formula .
Bicarbonate serves a crucial biochemical role in the physiological pH buffering system.
The term "bic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3982 |
Bernie Federko
Bernard Allan "Bernie" Federko (born May 12, 1956) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey centre of Ukrainian ancestry who played fourteen seasons in the National Hockey League from 1976 through 1990.
Federko began playing hockey at a young age in his home town of Foam Lake, Saskatchewan. He was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3984 |
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second largest city in the U.S. state of New York and the largest city in Western New York. 's census estimates, the population was 255,284. The city is the county seat of Erie County and serves as a major gateway for commerce and travel across the Canadian border, forming part of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3985 |
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin ( April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3986 |
Banach space
In mathematics, more specifically in functional analysis, a Banach space (pronounced ) is a complete normed vector space. Thus, a Banach space is a vector space with a metric that allows the computation of vector length and distance between vectors and is complete in the sense that a Cauchy sequence of ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3989 |
Bram Stoker
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel "Dracula". During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned.
Stoker was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3992 |
Contract bridge
Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck. In its basic format, it is played by four players in two competing partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other around a table. Millions of people play bridge worldwide in clubs, tournaments, online... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3995 |
Boat
A boat is a watercraft of a large range of types and sizes, but generally smaller than a ship, which is distinguished by its larger size, shape, cargo or passenger capacity, or its ability to carry boats.
Small boats are typically found on inland waterways such as rivers and lakes, or in protected coastal areas.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3996 |
Blood
Blood is a body fluid in humans and other animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.
In vertebrates, it is composed of blood cells suspended in blood plasma. Plasma, which constitutes 55% of blood fluid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3997 |
Benoit Mandelbrot
Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life". He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3999 |
Benedict of Nursia
Benedict of Nursia (; ; ; ; – ) is a Christian saint venerated in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Anglican Communion and Old Catholic Churches. He is a patron saint of Europe.
Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, Lazio, Ital... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4001 |
Battle of Pharsalus
The Battle of Pharsalus was the decisive battle of Caesar's Civil War. On 9 August 48 BC at Pharsalus in central Greece, Gaius Julius Caesar and his allies formed up opposite the army of the republic under the command of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus ("Pompey the Great"). Pompey had the backing of a major... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4005 |
Bigfoot
In North American folklore, Bigfoot or Sasquatch are said to be hairy, upright-walking, ape-like creatures that dwell in the wilderness and leave giant, humanlike footprints. Depictions often portray them as a missing link between humans and human ancestors or other great apes. They are strongly associated wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4009 |
Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (; May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, comedian and actor. The first multimedia star, Crosby was a leader in record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses from 1931 to 1954. He made over seventy feature films and has sold 1 billion records world ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4010 |
Basel Convention
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to prevent transfer of hazardous waste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4012 |
BASIC
BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use. The original version was designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz and released at Dartmouth College in 1964. They wanted to enable studen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4015 |
Butterfly effect
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.
The term, closely associated with the work of Edward Lorenz, is derived from the metaphori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4024 |
Borland
Borland Software Corporation was founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn. Its main business was the development and sale of software development and software deployment products. Borland was first headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, then in Cupertino, California an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4027 |
Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster Fuller (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.
Fuller published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" (house, car, map...), ephemeralization, synerget... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4031 |
Bill Watterson
William Boyd Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is an American former cartoonist and the author of the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes", which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. Watterson stopped drawing "Calvin and Hobbes" at the end of 1995 with a short statement to newspaper editors and his readers that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4032 |
Black
Black is the darkest color, the result of the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, a color without hue, like white and gray. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness, while white represents light. Black and white have often been used to describe o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4035 |
Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire) that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. The mansion was constructed during the years following 1883 for the financier and politician Sir Herbert Leon in the Victorian Go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4037 |
Bede
Bede (; 672/3 – 26 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (), was an English Benedictine monk at the monastery of St. Peter and its companion monastery of St. Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles (contemporarily Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey in Tyne and Wear, England).... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4041 |
Bubble tea
Bubble tea (also known as pearl milk tea, bubble milk tea, or boba) (, ) is a tea-based drink invented in Taiwan during the 1980s, which is shaken with ice to create the "bubbles", a foamy layer on top of the drink; chewy tapioca balls ("pearls") are added as well. Ice-blended versions are frozen and put in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4045 |
Battle of Blenheim
The Battle of Blenheim (German: "Zweite Schlacht bei Höchstädt"; French "Bataille de Höchstädt"), fought on 13 August 1704, was a major battle of the War of the Spanish Succession. The overwhelming Allied victory ensured the safety of Vienna from the Franco-Bavarian army, thus preventing the collaps... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4049 |
Battle of Ramillies
The Battle of Ramillies (), fought on 23 May 1706, was a battle of the War of the Spanish Succession. For the Grand Alliance – Austria, England, and the Dutch Republic – the battle had followed an indecisive campaign against the Bourbon armies of King Louis XIV of France in 1705. Although the Allie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4050 |
Brian Kernighan
Brian Wilson Kernighan (; born January 1, 1942) is a Canadian computer scientist.
He worked at Bell Labs and contributed to the development of Unix alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan's name became widely known through co-authorship of the first book on the C programming... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4051 |
BCPL
BCPL ("Basic Combined Programming Language") is a procedural, imperative, and structured programming language. Originally intended for writing compilers for other languages, BCPL is no longer in common use. However, its influence is still felt because a stripped down and syntactically changed version of BCPL, cal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4052 |
Battleship
A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries the battleship was the most powerful type of warship, and a fleet centered around the battleship was part of the command of the sea doctrine for several decades. By the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4054 |
Bifröst
In Norse mythology, Bifröst ( or sometimes Bilröst or Bivrost) is a burning rainbow bridge that reaches between Midgard (Earth) and Asgard, the realm of the gods. The bridge is attested as "Bilröst" in the "Poetic Edda"; compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and as "Bifröst" in the "Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4055 |
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