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Beauty
Beauty is the ascription of a property or characteristic to an animal, idea, object, person or place that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, culture, social psychology and sociology. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired, or possesses... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4431 |
Brownian motion
Brownian motion, or pedesis (from "leaping"), is the random motion of particles suspended in a fluid (a liquid or a gas) resulting from their collision with the fast-moving molecules in the fluid.
This pattern of motion typically consists of random fluctuations in a particle's position inside a fluid ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4436 |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4443 |
Bandy
Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.
The sport is considered a form of hockey and has a common background with ice hockey and field hockey. Bandy has also been influenced by the rules of association football: both games are norma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4444 |
Bob Frankston
Robert M. Frankston (born June 14, 1949) is an American software engineer and businessman who co-created, with Dan Bricklin, the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. Frankston is also the co-founder of Software Arts.
Frankston was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4445 |
Booker Prize
The Booker Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. The winner of the Booker Prize is generally as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4446 |
Book of Joel
The Book of Joel is part of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament, one of twelve prophetic books known as the Twelve Minor Prophets. (The term indicates the short length of the text in relation to longer prophetic texts known as the Major Prophets.)
After a superscription ascribing the prophecy to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4447 |
Book of Hosea
The Book of Hosea (, romanized: "Sefer Hōšēaʿ") is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. According to the traditional order of most Hebrew Bibles, it is the first of the twelve Minor Prophets.
Set around the fall of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, the Book of Hosea denounces the worship of gods other th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4449 |
Book of Micah
The Book of Micah is the sixth of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew BibleOld Testament. Ostensibly, it records the sayings of Micah, whose name is "Mikayahu" (), meaning "Who is like Yahweh?", an 8th-century BC prophet from the village of Moresheth in Judah (Hebrew name from the opening verse: מיכה... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4452 |
Book of Malachi
Malachi (or Malachias; , "") is the last book of the Neviim contained in the Tanakh, canonically the last of the Twelve Minor Prophets. In the Christian ordering, the grouping of the Prophetic Books is the last section of the Old Testament, making Malachi the last book before The New Testament.
The bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4455 |
Book of Zechariah
The Book of Zechariah, attributed to the Hebrew prophet Zechariah, is included in the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible.
Zechariah's prophecies took place during the reign of Darius the Great, and were contemporary with Haggai in a post-exilic world after the fall of Jerusalem in 587/6 BC. E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4456 |
Book of Zephaniah
The Book of Zephaniah (, "Tsfanya") is the ninth of the Twelve Minor Prophets, preceded by the Book of Habakkuk and followed by the Book of Haggai. Zephaniah means "Yahweh has hidden/protected," or "Yahweh hides".
The book's superscription attributes its authorship to "Zephaniah son of Cushi son of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4457 |
Backward compatibility
Backward compatibility (sometimes backwards compatibility) is a property of a system, product, or technology that allows for interoperability with an older legacy system, or with input designed for such a system, especially in telecommunications and computing. Backward compatibility is sometimes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4459 |
Bacterial conjugation
Bacterial conjugation is the transfer of genetic material between bacterial cells by direct cell-to-cell contact or by a bridge-like connection between two cells. This takes place through a pilus.
It is a mechanism of horizontal gene transfer as are transformation and transduction although these... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4460 |
Babrak Karmal
Babrak Karmal (Dari/, Russian: Бабра́к Карма́ль, born Sultan Hussein; 6 January 1929 – 1 or 3 December 1996) was an Afghan politician who was installed as President of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union when they intervened in 1979. Karmal was born in Kamari and educated at Kabul University. When the People... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4463 |
Buddhist philosophy
Buddhist philosophy refers to the philosophical investigations and systems of inquiry that developed among various Buddhist schools in India following the parinirvana (i.e. death) of the Buddha and later spread throughout Asia. The Buddhist path combines both philosophical reasoning and meditation.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4468 |
Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, writer, director, and musician.
Thornton had his first break when he co-wrote and starred in the 1992 thriller "One False Move", and received international attention after writing, directing, and starring in the independent drama film "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4471 |
The Big O
The television series was designed as a tribute to Japanese and Western shows from the 1960s and 1970s. The series is presented in the style of "film noir" and combines themes of detective fiction and mecha anime. The setpieces are reminiscent of "tokusatsu" productions of the 1950s and 1960s, particularly T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4472 |
BIOS
BIOS (pronounced: , ; an acronym for Basic Input/Output System and also known as the System BIOS, ROM BIOS or PC BIOS) is firmware used to perform hardware initialization during the booting process (power-on startup), and to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs. The BIOS firmware comes pre-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4473 |
Bose–Einstein condensate
A Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is a state of matter (also called the fifth state of matter) which is typically formed when a gas of bosons at low densities is cooled to temperatures very close to absolute zero (-273.15 °C). Under such conditions, a large fraction of bosons occupy the lowest ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4474 |
B (programming language)
B is a programming language developed at Bell Labs circa 1969. It is the work of Ken Thompson with Dennis Ritchie.
B was derived from BCPL, and its name may be a contraction of BCPL. Thompson's coworker Dennis Ritchie speculated that the name might be based on Bon, an earlier, but unrelated, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4475 |
Beer–Lambert law
The Beer–Lambert law, also known as Beer's law, the Lambert–Beer law, or the Beer–Lambert–Bouguer law relates the attenuation of light to the properties of the material through which the light is travelling. The law is commonly applied to chemical analysis measurements and used in understanding attenu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4476 |
The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and their friend Al Jardine. Distinguished by their vocal harmonies and early surf songs, they are one of the most i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4477 |
Beatrix Potter
Helen Beatrix Potter (, US , 28 July 186622 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in "The Tale of Peter Rabbit".
Born into an upper-middle-class household, Potter was educated by gov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4481 |
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties in the United Kingdom with the opposing Conservative Party in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The party arose from an alliance of Whigs and free trade-supporting Peelites and the reformist Radicals in the 1850s. By the end of the 19th c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4482 |
Bank of England
The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694 to act as the English Government's banker, and still one of the bankers for the Government of the United Kingdom, it is the world's eighth-oldest bank. It ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4484 |
Chuck D
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960), known professionally as Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer. As the leader of the rap group Public Enemy, which he co-founded in 1985 with Flavor Flav, Chuck D helped create politically and socially conscious hip hop music in the mid-1980s. "The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5718 |
Cutaway (filmmaking)
In film and video, a cutaway is the interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else. It is usually followed by a cut back to the first shot. A cutaway scene is the interruption of a scene with the insertion of another scene, generally unrelated or only peripheral... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5719 |
Coma
A coma is a deep state of prolonged unconsciousness in which a person cannot be awakened; fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light, or sound; lacks a normal wake-sleep cycle; and does not initiate voluntary actions. Coma patients exhibit a complete absence of wakefulness and are unable to consciously f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5721 |
Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game)
Call of Cthulhu is a horror fiction role-playing game based on H. P. Lovecraft's story of the same name and the associated Cthulhu Mythos. The game, often abbreviated as "CoC", is published by Chaosium; it was first released in 1981 and is currently in its seventh edition, with many... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5722 |
Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island (—formerly '; or '; ; or simply "Cape Breton") is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.
The island accounts for 18.7% of Nova Scotia's total area. Although the island is physically separated from the Nova Scotia peninsul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5724 |
Cthulhu Mythos
The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, originating in the works of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. The term was coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent and protégé of Lovecraft, to identify the settings, tropes, and lore that were employed by Lovecraft and his literary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5725 |
Crane shot
In filmmaking and video production, a crane shot is a shot taken by a camera on a moving crane or jib. Most cranes accommodate both the camera and an operator, but some can be moved by remote control. Camera cranes go back to the dawn of movie-making, and were frequently used in silent films to enhance the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5726 |
Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical drama film. It is based on the true story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice.
The film was conceived and produce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5729 |
Consequentialism
Consequentialism is the class of normative ethical theories holding that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for any judgment about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct. Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint, a morally right act (or omission from acting) is one that will ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5734 |
Conscription
Conscription, sometimes called the draft, is the compulsory enlistment of people in a national service, most often a military service. Conscription dates back to antiquity and it continues in some countries to the present day under various names. The modern system of near-universal national conscription f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5735 |
Catherine Coleman
Catherine Grace "Cady" Coleman (born December 14, 1960) is an American chemist, a former United States Air Force officer, and a retired NASA astronaut. She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, and departed the International Space Station on May 23, 2011, as a crew member of Expedition 27 after... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5736 |
Cervix
The cervix or cervix uteri (Latin, 'neck of the uterus') is the lower part of the uterus in the human female reproductive system. The cervix is usually 2 to 3 cm long (~1 inch) and roughly cylindrical in shape, which changes during pregnancy. The narrow, central cervical canal runs along its entire length, conn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5738 |
Compiler
A compiler is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language (the source language) into another language (the target language). The name "compiler" is primarily used for programs that translate source code from a high-level programming language to a lower level language (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5739 |
Castrato
A castrato (Italian, plural: "castrati") is a type of classical male singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto. The voice is produced by castration of the singer before puberty, or it occurs in one who, due to an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity.
Cast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5742 |
Counting-out game
A counting-out game or counting-out rhyme is a simple method of 'randomly' selecting a person from a group, often used by children for the purpose of playing another game. It usually requires no materials, and is achieved with spoken words or hand gestures. The historian Henry Carrington Bolton sugge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5743 |
Key size
In cryptography, key size or key length is the number of bits in a key used by a cryptographic algorithm (such as a cipher).
Key length defines the upper-bound on an algorithm's security (i.e. a logarithmic measure of the fastest known attack against an algorithm), since the security of all algorithms can be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5749 |
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a psycho-social intervention that aims to improve mental health. CBT focuses on challenging and changing unhelpful cognitive distortions (e.g. thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes) and behaviors, improving emotional regulation, and the development of perso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5750 |
Chinese language
Chinese ( or especially though not exclusively for written Chinese: ) is a family of East Asian analytic languages that form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages. Chinese languages are spoken by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. About 1.2 billion peo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5751 |
Complex analysis
Complex analysis, traditionally known as the theory of functions of a complex variable, is the branch of mathematical analysis that investigates functions of complex numbers. It is useful in many branches of mathematics, including algebraic geometry, number theory, analytic combinatorics, applied math... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5759 |
History of China
The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC, from the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC), during the king Wu Ding's reign, who was mentioned as the twenty-first Shang king by the same. Ancient historical texts such as the "Book of Documents" (early chapters, 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5760 |
Civil engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewerage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5762 |
Çatalhöyük
Çatalhöyük (; also "Çatal Höyük" and "Çatal Hüyük"; from Turkish "çatal" "fork" + "höyük" "tumulus") was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7100 BC to 5700 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC. In July 2012, it was inscribed as a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5765 |
Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, (3 January 18838 October 1967) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. He was three times Leader of the Opposition (1935–1940, 1945, 1951–1955).
The son of a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5766 |
Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus ( , ; c. 84 – c. 54 BC) was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetry, which is about personal life rather than classical heroes. His surviving works are still read widely and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art.
Catullus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5768 |
C. S. Forester
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. The Hornblower novel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5769 |
List of country calling codes
Country calling codes or country dial-in codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching telephone subscribers in the networks of the member countries or regions of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The codes are defined by the ITU-T in standards E.123 and E.164. The prefi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5770 |
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (; baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Modern scholars count Marlowe among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights and based upon the "many imitations" of his play "Tambur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5771 |
Caving
Caving – also known as spelunking in the United States and Canada and potholing in the United Kingdom and Ireland – is the recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems (as distinguished from show caves). In contrast, speleology is the scientific study of caves and the cave environment.
The challenges in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5776 |
Cave
A cave or cavern is a natural void in the ground, specifically a space large enough for a human to enter. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. The word "cave" can also refer to much smaller openings such as sea caves, rock shelters, and grottos, though strictly speaking a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5778 |
Chinese numerals
Chinese numerals are words and characters used to denote numbers in Chinese.
Today, speakers of Chinese use three written numeral systems: the system of Arabic numerals used worldwide, and two indigenous systems. The more familiar indigenous system is based on Chinese characters that correspond to nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5781 |
Computer program
A computer program is a collection of instructions that can be executed by a computer to perform a specific task.
A computer program is usually written by a computer programmer in a programming language. From the program in its human-readable form of source code, a compiler or assembler can derive m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5783 |
Crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term "crime" does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition, though statutory definitions have been provided for certain purposes. The most popular view is that crime is a categor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5785 |
California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California. It was founded as a preparatory and vocational school by Amos G. Throop in 1891 and began attracting influential scientists such as George Ellery Hale, Arthur Amos Noyes and Rob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5786 |
Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (, also , ; 25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5790 |
Cumulative distribution function
In probability theory and statistics, the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of a real-valued random variable formula_1, or just distribution function of formula_1, evaluated at formula_3, is the probability that formula_1 will take a value less than or equal to formula_3.
In the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5793 |
Central tendency
In statistics, a central tendency (or measure of central tendency) is a central or typical value for a probability distribution. It may also be called a center or location of the distribution. Colloquially, measures of central tendency are often called "averages." The term "central tendency" dates fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5794 |
Celebrity
Celebrity is a reference to the fame and wide public recognition of an individual or a group, or, occasionally, a particular animal, as a direct result of the attention given to them by the mass media. Attaining Celebrity status is often associated with having wealth (i.e. having "fame and fortune"). Attaini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5796 |
Cluster sampling
Cluster sampling is a sampling plan used when mutually homogeneous yet internally heterogeneous groupings are evident in a statistical population. It is often used in marketing research. In this sampling plan, the total population is divided into these groups (known as clusters) and a simple random sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5797 |
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and one of the first translators of Edgar Allan Poe.
His most famous work, a book of lyric poetry titled "Les Fleurs du mal" ("The Flowers of Evil"), expresse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5804 |
Classical guitar
The classical guitar (also known as the classic guitar, nylon-string guitar or Spanish guitar) is a member of the guitar family used in classical music. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor of the modern acoustic and electric guitars, both of which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5810 |
C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963). He is best known for his works of fiction, esp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5813 |
Chinese dominoes
Chinese dominoes are used in several tile-based games, namely, tien gow, pai gow, tiu u and kap tai shap. In Cantonese they are called "gwat pai" (), which literally means "bone tiles"; it is also the name of a northern Chinese game, where the rules are quite different from the southern Chinese versio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5814 |
Estonian language
Estonian ( ) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch spoken in Estonia. It is the official language of Estonia, spoken natively by about 1.1 million people; 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 outside Estonia. It is a Southern Finnic language and is the second-most-spoken language among all the F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10223 |
E-Prime
E-Prime (short for English-Prime or English Prime, sometimes denoted É or E′) is a version of the English language that excludes all forms of the verb "to be", including all conjugations, contractions and archaic forms.
Some scholars advocate using E-Prime as a device to clarify thinking and strengthen writin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10224 |
Elliptic curve
In mathematics, an elliptic curve is a plane algebraic curve defined by an equation of the form
which is non-singular; that is, the curve has no cusps or self-intersections. (When the coefficient field has characteristic 2 or 3, the above equation is not quite general enough to comprise all non-singula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10225 |
Equidae
Equidae (sometimes known as the horse family) is the taxonomic family of horses and related animals, including the extant horses, donkeys, and zebras, and many other species known only from fossils. All extant species are in the genus "Equus". Equidae belongs to the order Perissodactyla, which includes the ext... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10229 |
List of economists
This is an incomplete alphabetical list by surname of notable economists, experts in the social science of economics, past and present. For a history of economics, see the article History of economic thought. Only economists with biographical articles in Wikipedia are listed here.
Jobin p CHACKO(19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10231 |
ELIZA
ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum. Created to demonstrate the superficiality of communication between humans and machines, Eliza simulated conversation by using a "pattern matching" and subst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10235 |
ELIZA effect
The ELIZA effect, in computer science, is the tendency to unconsciously assume computer behaviors are analogous to human behaviors; that is, anthropomorphisation.
In its specific form, the ELIZA effect refers only to "the susceptibility of people to read far more understanding than is warranted into stri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10236 |
Exponentiation by squaring
In mathematics and computer programming, exponentiating by squaring is a general method for fast computation of large positive integer powers of a number, or more generally of an element of a semigroup, like a polynomial or a square matrix. Some variants are commonly referred to as square-an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10237 |
Exon
An exon is any part of a gene that will encode a part of the final mature RNA produced by that gene after introns have been removed by RNA splicing. The term "exon" refers to both the DNA sequence within a gene and to the corresponding sequence in RNA transcripts. In RNA splicing, introns are removed and exons ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10238 |
Exxon
Exxon is the brand name of oil and natural resources company Exxon Corporation, prior to 1972, known as Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. In 1999, Exxon Corporation merged with Mobil to form ExxonMobil. The "Exxon" brand is still used by ExxonMobil's downstream operations as a brand for certain gas stations, m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10239 |
Exxon Valdez oil spill
The "Exxon Valdez" oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, March 24, 1989, when "Exxon Valdez", an oil tanker owned by Exxon Shipping Company, bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef, west of Tatitlek, Alaska, at 12:04 a.m. and spilled (or 37,000 me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10243 |
Édouard de Pomiane
Édouard Alexandre de Pomiane, sometimes Édouard Pozerski (20 April 1875 in Paris – 26 January 1964 in Paris) was a French scientist, radio broadcaster and food writer.
His parents emigrated from Poland in 1863 after the January Uprising, changed their name from "Pozerski" to "de Pomiane", and became... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10244 |
Edward VI of England
Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was the King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. He was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine. Edward was the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, and England's first monarch to be raised as a Protestant. During his reign, the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10245 |
EDSAC
The Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) was an early British computer. Inspired by John von Neumann's seminal "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC", the machine was constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England. EDSAC was the secon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10251 |
E. H. Shepard
Ernest Howard Shepard OBE, MC (10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is known especially for illustrations of the anthropomorphic animal and soft toy characters in "The Wind in the Willows" and "Winnie-the-Pooh".
Shepard was born in St John's Wood, London. Havi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10252 |
Enterobacteriaceae
Enterobacteriaceae is a large family of Gram-negative bacteria. It was first proposed by Rahn in 1936, and now includes over 30 genera and more than 100 species. Its classification above the level of family is still a subject of debate, but one classification places it in the order Enterobacterales ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10253 |
Essendon Football Club
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Thought to have formed in 1872, the club played its first recorded game on 7 June 1873 against a Carlton Second... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10257 |
Enid Blyton
Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Blyton's books are still enormously popular, and have been translated into 90 languages. She wrote on a wide rang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10258 |
Epipalaeolithic Near East
The Epipalaeolithic Near East designates the Epipalaeolithic ("Final Old Stone Age", also known as Mesolithic) in the prehistory of the Near East. It is the period after the Upper Palaeolithic and before the Neolithic, between approximately 20,000 and 10,000 years Before Present (BP). The peo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10259 |
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi (; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian (later naturalized American) physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb". He was one of very few physici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10264 |
Editor war
The editor war is the rivalry between users of the Emacs and vi (now usually Vim, or recently Neovim) text editors. The rivalry has become a lasting part of hacker culture and the free software community.
The Emacs vs vi debate was one of the original "holy wars" conducted on Usenet groups, with many flame... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10268 |
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes. It uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals, which ultimately are reproduced as sound by loudspeakers. The sound can be shaped or elec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10272 |
Embryo drawing
Embryo drawing is the illustration of embryos in their developmental sequence. In plants and animals, an embryo develops from a zygote, the single cell that results when an egg and sperm fuse during fertilization. In animals, the zygote divides repeatedly to form a ball of cells, which then forms a set ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10273 |
Enthalpy
Enthalpy , a property of a thermodynamic system, is the sum of the system's internal energy and the product of its pressure and volume. In a system contained so as to prevent mass transfer, for processes at constant pressure, the heat absorbed or released equals the change in enthalpy.
The unit of measuremen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10274 |
Erdoğan Atalay
Erdoğan Atalay (born September 22, 1966 in Hanover, Germany) is a Turkish-German actor.
In 2017 he married his girlfriend and manager Katja Ohneck.
Having already made his first appearance as a minor actor in "Aladdin and the miracle lamp" at the National Theatre of Hanover before studying acting at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10275 |
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, OMRI (; born 10 November 1928) is an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpet player, writing in a wide range of musical styles. Since 1961, Morricone has composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works. His score to "The Goo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10277 |
List of explosives used during World War II
Almost all the common explosives listed here were mixtures of several common components:
This is only a partial list; there were many others. Many of these compositions are now obsolete and only encountered in legacy munitions and unexploded ordnance.
Two nuclear explosiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10278 |
Erlang (unit)
The erlang (symbol E) is a dimensionless unit that is used in telephony as a measure of offered load or carried load on service-providing elements such as telephone circuits or telephone switching equipment. A single cord circuit has the capacity to be used for 60 minutes in one hour. Full utilization of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10283 |
Eligible receiver
In gridiron football, not all players on offense are entitled to receive a forward pass. Only an eligible pass receiver may legally catch a forward pass, and only an eligible receiver may advance beyond the neutral zone if a forward pass crosses into the neutral zone. If the pass is received by a non... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10285 |
Enver Hoxha
Enver Hoxha ( , ; 16 October 190811 April 1985) was an Albanian communist politician who served as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania, from 1941 until his death in 1985. He was also a member of Politburo of the Party of Labour of Albania, chairman of the Democratic Front of Albania, comm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10286 |
Hirohito
At the start of his reign, Japan was already one of the great powers—the ninth-largest economy in the world, the third-largest naval power, and one of the four permanent members of the council of the League of Nations. He was the head of state under the Constitution of the Empire of Japan during Japan's imper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10287 |
Emsworth
Emsworth is a small town in Hampshire on the south coast of England, near the border of West Sussex. It lies at the north end of an arm of Chichester Harbour, a large and shallow inlet from the English Channel and is equidistant between Portsmouth and Chichester.
Emsworth has a population of approximately 10... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10289 |
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