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Athens
Athens ( ; ; (pl.) ) is the capital and largest city in Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence started somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennium BC.
Classical Athens was a powerf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1216 |
Anguilla
Anguilla ( ) is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean. It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Saint Martin. The territory consists of the main island of Anguilla, approximately long by wide a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1217 |
Telecommunications in Anguilla
This article is about communications systems in Anguilla.
Telephones - main lines in use: 6,200 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 1,800 (2002)
Telephone system:
"Domestic:" Modern internal telephone system
"International:" EAST CARIBBEAN FIBRE SYSTEM ECFS (cable system)
" microwave... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1223 |
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
The Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands is an uninhabited external territory of Australia consisting of four low-lying tropical islands in two separate reefs, and the territorial sea generated by the islands. The territory is located in the Indian Ocean situated on the edge of the cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1227 |
Acoustic theory
Acoustic theory is a scientific field that relates to the description of sound waves. It derives from fluid dynamics. See acoustics for the engineering approach.
Propagation of sound waves in a fluid (such as water) can be modeled by an equation of continuity (conservation of mass) and an equation of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1234 |
Alexander Mackenzie (politician)
Alexander Mackenzie, (January 28, 1822April 17, 1892) was a Scottish-Canadian politician who served as the second prime minister of Canada, in office from 1873 to 1878.
Mackenzie was born in Logierait, Perthshire, Scotland. He left school at the age of 13, following his father's death... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1235 |
Christology
In Christianity, Christology (from Greek Χριστός "Khristós" and , "-logia"), translated literally from Greek as "the study of Christ", is a branch of theology that concerns Jesus. Different denominations have different opinions on questions like whether Jesus was human, divine, or both, and as a messiah wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7355 |
Complaint
In legal terminology, a complaint is any formal legal document that sets out the facts and legal reasons (see: cause of action) that the filing party or parties (the plaintiff(s)) believes are sufficient to support a claim against the party or parties against whom the claim is brought (the defendant(s)) that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7357 |
Casimir III the Great
Casimir III the Great (; 30 April 1310 – 5 November 1370) reigned as the King of Poland from 1333 to 1370. He was the third son of Władysław I the Elbow-high and Jadwiga of Kalisz, and the last Polish king from the Piast dynasty.
Casimir inherited a kingdom weakened by war and made it prosperous... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7362 |
Complexity
Complexity characterises the behaviour of a system or model whose components interact in multiple ways and follow local rules, meaning there is no reasonable higher instruction to define the various possible interactions.
The term is generally used to characterize something with many parts where those part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7363 |
Chastity
Chastity is a virtue related to temperance, which is one of the seven Christian virtues, and it is defined as refraining from unreasonable sexual conduct or romantic relationships. Chastity is usually defined within the moral standards and guidelines of a culture, civilization or religion. The term is closely... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7366 |
Cosmic microwave background
The cosmic microwave background (CMB, CMBR), in Big Bang cosmology, is electromagnetic radiation as a remnant from an early stage of the universe, also known as "relic radiation". The CMB is faint cosmic background radiation filling all space. It is an important source of data on the early ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7376 |
Comparative law
Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between the law (legal systems) of different countries. More specifically, it involves the study of the different legal "systems" (or "families") in existence in the world, including the common law, the civil law, socialist law, Canon law, Je... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7378 |
Cyberspace
Cyberspace is a concept describing a widespread, interconnected digital technology. The term entered the popular culture from science fiction and the arts but is now used by technology strategists, security professionals, government, military and industry leaders and entrepreneurs to describe the domain of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7381 |
The Maritimes
The Maritimes, also called the Maritime provinces or the Canadian Maritimes, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island (PEI). The Maritimes had a population of 1,813,606 in 2016. Together with Canada's easternmost province, Newfoundl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7382 |
Cyril of Alexandria
Cyril of Alexandria (; ; 376 – 444) was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444. He was enthroned when the city was at the height of its influence and power within the Roman Empire. Cyril wrote extensively and was a leading protagonist in the Christological controversies of the late-4th and 5t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7383 |
Hanukkah
Hanukkah ( ; ', Tiberian: ', usually spelled , pronounced in Modern Hebrew, or in Yiddish; a transliteration also romanized as Chanukah or Ḥanukah) is a Jewish festival commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire. It is also ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7388 |
Christian views on marriage
From the earliest days of the Christian faith, Christians have honored marriage, or "holy matrimony", as a divinely blessed, lifelong, monogamous union, between a man and a woman. According to the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer (1979), reflecting the traditional view, "Christian marriage i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7390 |
Class (computer programming)
In object-oriented programming, a class is an extensible program-code-template for creating objects, providing initial values for state (member variables) and implementations of behavior (member functions or methods). In many languages, the class name is used as the name for the class (the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7392 |
Color blindness
Color blindness, also known as color vision deficiency, is the decreased ability to see color or differences in color. Simple tasks such as selecting ripe fruit, choosing clothing, and reading traffic lights can be more challenging. Color blindness may also make some educational activities more difficu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7397 |
Computer security
Computer security, cybersecurity or information technology security (IT security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from the theft of or damage to their hardware, software, or electronic data, as well as from the disruption or misdirection of the services they provide.
The field is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7398 |
Chris Cunningham
Chris Cunningham (born 15 October 1970) is a British video artist and music video director, best known for his music videos for electronic musicians such as Autechre, Squarepusher, and most notably Aphex Twin on videos for "Windowlicker" and "Come to Daddy", and Björk's "All is Full of Love". All were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7400 |
Centaur
A centaur (; , "kéntauros", ), or occasionally hippocentaur, is a creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse. Centaurs are thought of in many Greek myths as being as wild as untamed horses, and were said to have inhabited the region of Magnesia and Mount... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7401 |
Chemotaxis
Chemotaxis (from "chemo-" + "taxis") is the movement of an organism in response to a chemical stimulus. Somatic cells, bacteria, and other single-cell or multicellular organisms direct their movements according to certain chemicals in their environment. This is important for bacteria to find food (e.g., glu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7403 |
Cheshire
Cheshire ( ; archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south, and Flintshire and Wrexham County Borough in Wales to the west. Cheshire's county town is the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7406 |
Constitution of Canada
The Constitution of Canada () is the supreme law in Canada. It outlines Canada's system of government and the civil and human rights of those who are citizens of Canada and non-citizens in Canada. Its contents are an amalgamation of various codified acts, treaties between the Crown and indigenou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7411 |
Crochet
Crochet (; ) is a process of creating textiles by using a crochet hook to interlock loops of yarn, thread, or strands of other materials. The name is derived from the French term "crochet", meaning 'small hook'. Hooks can be made from a variety of materials, such as metal, wood, bamboo, or plastic. The key dif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7424 |
Electromagnetic coil
An electromagnetic coil is an electrical conductor such as a wire in the shape of a coil, spiral or helix. Electromagnetic coils are used in electrical engineering, in applications where electric currents interact with magnetic fields, in devices such as electric motors, generators, inductors, ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7425 |
Charles I of England
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7426 |
Counter-Strike (video game)
Counter-Strike (also known as Half-Life: Counter-Strike) is a first-person shooter video game developed by Valve. It was initially developed and released as a "Half-Life" modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess Cliffe in 1999, before Le and Cliffe were hired and the game's intellectual ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7431 |
Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro ( , ; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impress... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7434 |
Cardiology diagnostic tests and procedures
The diagnostic tests in cardiology are methods of identifying heart conditions associated with healthy vs. unhealthy, pathologic heart function.
Obtaining a medical history is always the first "test", part of understanding the likelihood of significant disease, as detectable... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7435 |
Carlo Collodi
Carlo Lorenzini (24 November 1826 – 26 October 1890), better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi (), was an Italian author, humorist, and journalist, widely known for his fairy tale novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio".
Collodi was born in Florence on 24 November 1826. His mother Angiolina Orzali was a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7437 |
Constructible number
In geometry and algebra, a real number is constructible if and only if, given a line segment of unit length, a line segment of length || can be constructed with compass and straightedge in a finite number of steps. Equivalently, is constructible if and only if there is a closed-form expression for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7439 |
Carson City, Nevada
Carson City, officially the Consolidated Municipality of Carson City, is an independent city and the capital of the U.S. state of Nevada, named after the mountain man Kit Carson. As of the 2010 census, the population was 55,274, making it the sixth largest city in Nevada. The majority of the town's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7441 |
Classification of finite simple groups
In mathematics, the classification of the finite simple groups is a theorem stating that every finite simple group is either cyclic, or alternating, or it belongs to a broad infinite class called the groups of Lie type, or else it is one of twenty-six or twenty-seven exceptions, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7445 |
Chalcolithic
The Chalcolithic (), a name derived from the "khalkós", "copper" and from "líthos", "stone" or Copper Age, also known as the Eneolithic or Aeneolithic (from Latin "aeneus" "of copper") is an archaeological period which researchers usually regard as part of the broader Neolithic (although scholars original... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7446 |
Circumcision and law
Laws restricting, regulating, or banning circumcision, some dating back to ancient times, have been enacted in many countries and communities. In modern states, circumcision is generally presumed to be legal, but laws pertaining to assault or child custody have been applied in cases involving circ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7447 |
Context menu
A context menu (also called contextual, shortcut, and pop up or pop-up menu) is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation. A context menu offers a limited set of choices that are available in the current state, or context, of the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7450 |
Jews as the chosen people
In Judaism, "chosenness" is the belief that the Jews, via descent from the ancient Israelites, are the chosen people, i.e. chosen to be in a covenant with God. The idea of the Israelites being chosen by God is found most directly in the Book of Deuteronomy as the verb "baḥar" (), and is allud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7451 |
Chaparral
Chaparral () is a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the US state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico. It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild, wet winters and hot dry summers) and wildfire, featuring summer-drought-tolerant plants w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7455 |
Clipper
A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed. Clippers were generally narrow for their length, small by later 19th century standards, could carry limited bulk freight, and had a large total sail area. "Clipper" does not refer to a specific sailplan; clippers, by sailplan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7461 |
Clive Anderson
Clive Stuart Anderson (born 10 December 1952) is an English television and radio presenter, comedy writer and former barrister. Winner of a British Comedy Award in 1991, Anderson began experimenting with comedy and writing comedic scripts during his 15-year legal career, before starring in "Whose Line I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7462 |
Cold fusion
Cold fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature. It would contrast starkly with the "hot" fusion that is known to take place naturally within stars and artificially in hydrogen bombs and prototype fusion reactors under immense pressure and at temperatur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7463 |
Coal tar
Coal tar is a thick dark liquid which is a by-product of the production of coke and coal gas from coal. It has both medical and industrial uses. It may be applied to the affected area to treat psoriasis and seborrheic dermatitis (dandruff). It may be used in combination with ultraviolet light therapy. Industr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7466 |
Catherine of Siena
Catherine of Siena (25 March 1347 – 29 April 1380), a lay member of the Dominican Order, was a mystic, activist, and author who had a great influence on Italian literature and the Catholic Church. Canonized in 1461, she is also a Doctor of the Church.
She was born and raised in Siena, and at an ear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7471 |
Charles Lyell
Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, (14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875) was a Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in explaining Earth's history. He is best known as the author of "Principles of Geology" (1830–33), which presented to a wide public audience the idea that Ear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7472 |
Chelsea F.C.
Chelsea Football Club are an English professional football club based in Fulham, London. Founded in 1905, they compete in the Premier League, the top division of English football. Chelsea are among England's most successful clubs having won over thirty competitive honours, including six league titles and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7473 |
Arthur St. Clair
Arthur St. Clair ( – August 31, 1818) was a Scottish-American soldier and politician. Born in Thurso, Scotland, he served in the British Army during the French and Indian War before settling in Pennsylvania, where he held local office. During the American Revolutionary War, he rose to the rank of majo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2639 |
Ajaccio
Ajaccio (, also ; or , ; , ; ) is a French commune, prefecture of the department of Corse-du-Sud, and head office of the "Collectivité territoriale de Corse" (capital city of Corsica). It is also the largest settlement on the island. Ajaccio is located on the west coast of the island of Corsica, southeast of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2640 |
Ajanta Caves
The Ajanta Caves are approximately 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 CE in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state of India. The caves include paintings and rock-cut sculptures described as among the finest surviving examples of ancient Indian art, parti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2642 |
Ajmer
Ajmer is one of the major and oldest cities in the Indian state of Rajasthan and the centre of the eponymous Ajmer District. It is located at the centre of Rajasthan, and is home to the Ajmer Sharif shrine.
The city was established as ""Ajayameru"" (Translated as "'Invincible Hills"') by a Shakambhari Chahamana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2645 |
Affiliation (family law)
In law, affiliation (from Latin "affiliare", "to adopt as a son") was previously the term to describe legal establishment of paternity. The following description, for the most part, was written in the early 20th century, and it should be understood as a historical document.
In England a numbe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2662 |
Afghan Turkestan
Afghan Turkestan (Persian/Uzbek/Turkmen: ) is a region in northern Afghanistan, on the border with the former Soviet republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In the 19th century there was a province in Afghanistan named Turkestan Province until abolished by Emir Abdur Rahman, and was cent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2667 |
Afyonkarahisar
Afyonkarahisar (, "poppy, opium", "kara" "black", "hisar" "fortress") is a city in western Turkey, the capital of Afyon Province. Afyon is in mountainous countryside inland from the Aegean coast, south-west of Ankara along the Akarçay River.
In Turkey, Afyonkarahisar stands out as a capital city of ther... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2668 |
Abba Arikha
Abba Arikha (175–247 CE; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: ; born: "Rav Abba bar Aybo", ), commonly known as Rav (), was a Jewish amora of the 3rd century. He was born and lived in Kafri, Asoristan, in the Sasanian Empire.
Abba Arikha established at Sura the systematic study of the rabbinic traditions, which, us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2670 |
Abbahu
Rabbi Abbahu () was a Jew and Talmudist of the Talmudic Academies in Syria Palaestina from about 279-320 and is counted a member of the third generation of amoraim. He is sometimes cited as "Rabbi Abbahu of Kisrin" (Caesarea).
His rabbinical education was acquired mainly at Tiberias in the academy presided ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2671 |
Abbreviator
An Abbreviator (plural "Abbreviators" in English and "Abbreviatores" in Latin) or Breviator was a writer of the Papal Chancery who adumbrated and prepared in correct form Papal bulls, briefs, and consistorial decrees before these were written out "in extenso" by the "scriptores".
They are first mentioned ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2673 |
Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī (, 1162 Baghdad–1231 Baghdad), short for Muwaffaq al-Dīn Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī (), was a physician, philosopher, historian, Arabic grammarian and traveler, and one of the most voluminous writers in the Near East of his time.
Many details of ʿAb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2674 |
Abd al-Rahman I
Abd al-Rahman I, more fully Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiya ibn Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (731–788) (), was the founder of a Muslim dynasty that ruled the greater part of Iberia for nearly three centuries (including the succeeding Caliphate of Córdoba). Abd al-Rahman was a member of the Umayyad dyn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2676 |
Abd al-Rahman III
Abd al-Raḥmān III, also known as ′Abd al-Rahmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ′Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ′Abd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥakam al-Rabdī ibn Hishām ibn ′Abd al-Raḥmān al-Dākhil () (889/91 - 961), was the Umayyad Emir of Córdoba from 912-929, at which point he founded the Caliphate of Córdoba, serving as its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2678 |
Abdulaziz
Abdulaziz ( / "ʻAbdü'l-ʻAzīz", ; 8 February 18304 June 1876) was the 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and reigned between 25 June 1861 and 30 May 1876. He was the son of Sultan Mahmud II and succeeded his brother Abdulmejid I in 1861.
Born at Eyüp Palace, Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), on 8 Februar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2681 |
Abdera, Thrace
Abdera is a municipality in the Xanthi Prefecture of Thrace, Greece. In classical antiquity, it was a major Greek "polis" on the Thracian coast.
The ancient polis is to be distinguished from the municipality, which was named in its honor. The polis lay 17 km east-northeast of the mouth of the Nestos Ri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2685 |
Abdul Hamid I
Abdülhamid I, Abdul Hamid I or Abd Al-Hamid I (, "`Abdü’l-Ḥamīd-i evvel"; ; 20 March 1725 – 7 April 1789) was the 27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning over the Ottoman Empire from 1774 to 1789.
He was born on 20 March 1725 in Constantinople, a younger son of Sultan Ahmed III (reigned 1703–1730) a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2692 |
Abdur Rahman Khan
Abdur Rahman Khan () (between 1840 and 1844October 1, 1901) was Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901. He is known for uniting the country after years of internal fighting and negotiation of the Durand Line Agreement with British India.
Abdur Rahman Khan was the first child and only son of Mohammad ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2695 |
Abencerrages
The Abencerrages or Abencerrajes (from the Arabic for "Saddler's Son") were a family or faction that is said to have held a prominent position in the Kingdom of Granada in the 15th century.
The name appears to have been derived from Yussuf ben-Serragh, the head of the tribe in the time of Muhammed VII, S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2696 |
Aberdare
Aberdare ( ; ) is a town in the Cynon Valley area of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, at the confluence of the Rivers Dare (Dâr) and Cynon. Aberdare has a population of 39550(mid-2017 estimate). Aberdare is south-west of Merthyr Tydfil, north-west of Cardiff and east-north-east of Swansea. During the 19th century it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2701 |
Aberration (astronomy)
In astronomy, aberration (also referred to as astronomical aberration, stellar aberration, or velocity aberration) is a phenomenon which produces an apparent motion of celestial objects about their true positions, dependent on the velocity of the observer. It causes objects to appear to be displ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2703 |
Optical aberration
In optics, aberration is a property of optical systems such as lenses that causes light to be spread out over some region of space rather than focused to a point.
Aberrations cause the image formed by a lens to be blurred or distorted, with the nature of the distortion depending on the type of aber... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2704 |
Amy Grant
Amy Lee Grant (born November 25, 1960) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, author and media personality. She is known for performing contemporary Christian music (CCM) and for a successful crossover to pop music in the 1980s and 1990s. She has been referred to as "The Queen of Christian Pop".
, she... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2705 |
Aberdeen, South Dakota
Aberdeen (Lakota: "Ablíla") is a city in and the county seat of Brown County, South Dakota, United States, located approximately northeast of Pierre. The city population was 26,091 at the 2010 census, making it the third most populous city in the state after Sioux Falls and Rapid City. Aberdeen ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2709 |
Aberdour
Aberdour (; , ) is a scenic and historic village on the south coast of Fife, Scotland. It is on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, looking south to the island of Inchcolm and its Abbey, and to Leith and Edinburgh beyond. According to the 2011 census, the village has a population of 1,633.
The village's w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2712 |
Aberfoyle, Stirling
Aberfoyle () is a village in the historic county and registration county of Perthshire and the council area of Stirling, Scotland. The settlement lies northwest of Glasgow.
The parish of Aberfoyle takes its name from this village, and had a population of 1,065 at the 2011 Census.
The town is situ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2714 |
Abergavenny
Abergavenny (; , archaically "Abergafenni" meaning "mouth of the River Gavenny") is a market town and community in Monmouthshire, Wales. Abergavenny is promoted as a "Gateway to Wales". It is located on the A40 trunk road and the A465 Heads of the Valleys road and is approximately from the border with Engl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2715 |
Abersychan
Abersychan is a settlement and community north of Pontypool in Torfaen, Wales, and lies within the boundaries of the historic county of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent.
Abersychan lies in the narrow northern section of the Afon Lwyd valley.
The town includes two schools; Abersychan Compreh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2716 |
Abertillery
Abertillery (; , meaning mouth of the River Tyleri) is a town and a community of the Ebbw Fach valley in the historic county of Monmouthshire, Wales. Following local government reorganisation it became part of the Blaenau Gwent County Borough administrative area.
The surrounding landscape borders the Brec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2717 |
Abeyance
Abeyance (from the Old French "abeance" meaning "gaping") is a state of expectancy in respect of property, titles or office, when the right to them is not vested in any one person, but awaits the appearance or determination of the true owner. In law, the term abeyance can be applied only to such future estate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2720 |
Anders Celsius
Anders Celsius (, 27 November 170125 April 1744) was a Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany, Italy and France. He founded the Uppsala Astronomical O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2722 |
Adam Carolla
Adam Carolla (born May 27, 1964) is an American radio personality, actor and podcaster. He hosts "The Adam Carolla Show", a talk show distributed as a podcast which set the record as the "most downloaded podcast" as judged by Guinness World Records in 2011.
Carolla co-hosted the syndicated radio call-in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2723 |
Autocorrelation
Autocorrelation, also known as serial correlation, is the correlation of a signal with a delayed copy of itself as a function of delay. Informally, it is the similarity between observations as a function of the time lag between them. The analysis of autocorrelation is a mathematical tool for finding re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2724 |
Atlas Autocode
Atlas Autocode (AA) is a programming language developed around 1965 at the University of Manchester. A variant of the language ALGOL, it was developed by Tony Brooker and Derrick Morris for the Atlas computer.
The word "Autocode" was basically an early term for "programming language". Different autoco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2726 |
Au file format
The Au file format is a simple audio file format introduced by Sun Microsystems. The format was common on NeXT systems and on early Web pages. Originally it was headerless, being simply 8-bit μ-law-encoded data at an 8000 Hz sample rate. Hardware from other vendors often used sample rates as high as 819... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2732 |
Andalusia
Andalusia region (, ; ) is the southern autonomous community in Peninsular Spain. It is the most populous, and the second largest autonomous community in the country. The Andalusian autonomous community is officially recognised as a "historical nationality". The territory is divided into eight provinces: Alm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2736 |
Abigail
Abigail (, "avigáyil", "’ǎḇîḡayil") was the wife of Nabal; she became a wife of the future King David after Nabal's death (1 Samuel ). Abigail was David's third wife, after Saul's daughter, Michal, whom Saul later married to Palti, son of Laish when David went into hiding, and Ahinoam.
She became the mother o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2741 |
Azad Kashmir
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (, ), abbreviated as AJK and commonly known as Azad Kashmir, is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing jurisdiction, and constituting the western portion of the larger Kashmir region which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2745 |
Arabian Sea
The Arabian Sea is a region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel and the Arabian Peninsula, on the southeast by the Laccadive Sea, on the southwest by the Somali Sea, and on the east by India. Its total area is 3,862,000 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2747 |
Aspartame
Aspartame is an artificial non-saccharide sweetener 200 times sweeter than sucrose, and is commonly used as a sugar substitute in foods and beverages. It is a methyl ester of the aspartic acid/phenylalanine dipeptide with the trade names, "NutraSweet", "Equal", and "Canderel". Aspartame was first made in 196... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2752 |
AutoCAD
AutoCAD is a commercial computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting software application. Developed and marketed by Autodesk, AutoCAD was first released in December 1982 as a desktop app running on microcomputers with internal graphics controllers. Before AutoCAD was introduced, most commercial CAD programs ran o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2753 |
AutoCAD DXF
AutoCAD DXF (Drawing Interchange Format, or Drawing Exchange Format) is a CAD data file format developed by Autodesk for enabling data interoperability between AutoCAD and other programs.
DXF was originally introduced in December 1982 as part of AutoCAD 1.0, and was intended to provide an exact representa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2754 |
Asexual reproduction
Asexual reproduction is a type of reproduction which does not involve the fusion of gametes or change in the number of chromosomes. In asexual reproduction the new plants are produced from a single parent. The offspring that arise by asexual reproduction from a single cell or from a multicellular ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2756 |
Aelbert Cuyp
Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp (20 October 1620 – 15 November 1691) was one of the leading Dutch Golden Age painters, producing mainly landscapes. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp (1594–1651/52), he is especially known for his large views of Dutch riverside scenes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2758 |
Alkene
In organic chemistry, an alkene is an unsaturated hydrocarbon that contains a carbon–carbon double bond. Unsaturated hydrocarbons containing two or more double bonds are known as alkadienes, alkatrienes, alkatetraenes, and so on. The words alkene and olefin are often used interchangeably (see nomenclature secti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2761 |
Allenes
Allenes are organic compounds in which one carbon atom has double bonds with each of its two adjacent carbon centres. Allenes are classified as cumulated dienes. The parent compound of this class is propadiene, which is itself also called "allene". Compounds with an allene-type structure but with more than thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2762 |
Alkyne
In organic chemistry, an alkyne is an unsaturated hydrocarbon containing at least one carbon—carbon triple bond. The simplest acyclic alkynes with only one triple bond and no other functional groups form a homologous series with the general chemical formula "n"2"n"−2. Alkynes are traditionally known as acetylen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2763 |
AbiWord
AbiWord () is a free and open-source software word processor. It was originally written in C++ and since version 3 it is based on GTK+ 3. The name "AbiWord" is derived from the root of the Spanish word ""abierto"", meaning "open".
AbiWord was originally started by SourceGear Corporation as the first part of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2764 |
Ames test
The Ames test is a widely employed method that uses bacteria to test whether a given chemical can cause mutations in the DNA of the test organism. More formally, it is a biological assay to assess the mutagenic potential of chemical compounds. A positive test indicates that the chemical is mutagenic and ther... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2766 |
ACE inhibitor
Angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors) are a class of medication used primarily for the treatment of high blood pressure and heart failure. They work by causing relaxation of blood vessels as well as a decrease in blood volume, which leads to lower blood pressure and decreased oxygen d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2767 |
Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification System is a drug classification system that classifies the active ingredients of drugs according to the organ or system on which they act and their therapeutic, pharmacological and chemical properties. It is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2770 |
Parallel ATA
Parallel ATA (PATA), originally ', is an interface standard for the connection of storage devices such as hard disk drives, floppy disk drives, and optical disc drives in computers. The standard is maintained by the X3/INCITS committee. It uses the underlying ' (ATA) and Packet Interface (ATAPI) standards... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2778 |
Atari 2600
The Atari 2600, originally branded as the Atari Video Computer System or Atari VCS for short until November 1982, is a home video game console from Atari, Inc. Released on September 11, 1977, it is credited with popularizing the use of microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on ROM cartridges (a form... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2779 |
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