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aston martin lagonda global holdings plc is a british manufacturer of luxury sports cars and grand tourers. its predecessor was founded in 1913 by lionel martin and robert bamford. steered from 1947 by david brown, it became associated with expensive grand touring cars in the 1950s and 1960s, and with the fictional cha... |
albert pike (december 29, 1809april 2, 1891) was an american author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and confederate states army general who served as an associate justice of the arkansas supreme court in exile from 1864 to 1865. he had previously served as a senior officer of the confederate states army, commandi... |
alf tales is a 30-minute saturday morning animated series that aired on nbc from september 10, 1988, to december 9, 1989. the show is a spin-off of alf: the animated series which featured characters from that series playing various characters from fairy tales. the fairy tale parody was usually altered for comedic effec... |
abdul rashid dostum ( ; ; uzbek latin: , uzbek cyrillic: , ; born 25 march 1954) is an afghan exiled politician, former marshal in the afghan national army, founder and leader of the political party junbish-e milli. dostum was a major army commander in the communist government during the soviet–afghan war, and in 2001 ... |
andhra pradesh (, abbr. ap) is a state in the southern coastal region of india. it is the seventh-largest state with an area of and the tenth-most populous state with 49,577,103 inhabitants. it has shared borders with chhattisgarh, odisha, karnataka, tamil nadu, telangana and the bay of bengal. it has the second-longes... |
accelerated graphics port (agp) is a parallel expansion card standard, designed for attaching a video card to a computer system to assist in the acceleration of 3d computer graphics. it was originally designed as a successor to pci-type connections for video cards. since 2004, agp was progressively phased out in favor ... |
andreas aagesen (5 august 1826 – 26 october 1879) was a danish jurist. biography aagesen was educated for the law at christianshavn and copenhagen, and interrupted his studies in 1848 to take part in the first schleswig war, in which he served as the leader of a reserve battalion. in 1855 aagesen became a professor of ... |
aalen () is a former free imperial city located in the eastern part of the german state of baden-württemberg, about east of stuttgart and north of ulm. it is the seat of the ostalbkreis district and is its largest town. it is also the largest town in the ostwürttemberg region. since 1956, aalen has had the status of gr... |
alois alzheimer ( , , ; 14 june 1864 – 19 december 1915) was a german psychiatrist and neuropathologist and a colleague of emil kraepelin. alzheimer is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", which kraepelin would later identify as alzheimer's disease. early life and education alzhei... |
aedile ( ; , from , "temple edifice") was an elected office of the roman republic. based in rome, the aediles were responsible for maintenance of public buildings () and regulation of public festivals. they also had powers to enforce public order and duties to ensure the city of rome was well supplied and its civil inf... |
american airlines is a major us-based airline headquartered in fort worth, texas, within the dallas–fort worth metroplex. it is the largest airline in the world when measured by scheduled passengers carried and revenue passenger mile. american, together with its regional partners and affiliates, operates an extensive i... |
antidepressants are a class of medications used to treat major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, chronic pain, and addiction. common side effects of antidepressants include dry mouth, weight gain, dizziness, headaches, akathisia, sexual dysfunction, and emotional blunting. there is an increased risk of suicidal t... |
the auger effect (; ) or auger−meitner effect is a physical phenomenon in which the filling of an inner-shell vacancy of an atom is accompanied by the emission of an electron from the same atom. when a core electron is removed, leaving a vacancy, an electron from a higher energy level may fall into the vacancy, resulti... |
was a japanese entrepreneur and co-founder of sony along with masaru ibuka. early life akio morita was born in nagoya. morita's family was involved in sake, miso and soy sauce production in the village of kosugaya (currently a part of tokoname city) on the western coast of chita peninsula in aichi prefecture since 1665... |
an anode is an electrode of a polarized electrical device through which conventional current enters the device. this contrasts with a cathode, an electrode of the device through which conventional current leaves the device. a common mnemonic is acid, for "anode current into device". the direction of conventional curren... |
analog television is the original television technology that uses analog signals to transmit video and audio. in an analog television broadcast, the brightness, colors and sound are represented by amplitude, phase and frequency of an analog signal. analog signals vary over a continuous range of possible values which me... |
events pre-1600 491 – flavius anastasius becomes byzantine emperor, with the name of anastasius i. 1241 – batu khan defeats béla iv of hungary at the battle of mohi. 1512 – war of the league of cambrai: franco-ferrarese forces led by gaston de foix and alfonso i d'este win the battle of ravenna against the papal-spanis... |
adhesive, also known as glue, cement, mucilage, or paste, is any non-metallic substance applied to one or both surfaces of two separate items that binds them together and resists their separation. the use of adhesives offers certain advantages over other binding techniques such as sewing, mechanical fastenings, or weld... |
sir philip anthony hopkins (born 31 december 1937) is a welsh actor, director, and producer. one of britain's most recognisable and prolific actors, he is known for his performances on the screen and stage. hopkins has received numerous accolades, including two academy awards, four bafta awards, two primetime emmy awar... |
ardal o'hanlon () is an irish comedian, actor, and author. he played father dougal mcguire in father ted (1995–1998), george sunday/thermoman in my hero (2000–2006), and di jack mooney in death in paradise (2017–2020). his novel the talk of the town was published in 1998. early life o'hanlon was born in carrickmacross,... |
advanced micro devices, inc., commonly abbreviated as amd, is an american multinational semiconductor company based in santa clara, california, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. the company was founded in 1969 by jerry sanders and a group of other technology p... |
albrecht dürer (; ; 21 may 1471 – 6 april 1528), sometimes spelled in english as durer, was a german painter, printmaker, and theorist of the german renaissance. born in nuremberg, dürer established his reputation and influence across europe in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints. he was in contact with... |
australian rules football, also called australian football or aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. points are scored by kicking the oval ball between the central goal posts (worth six points), or betw... |
aon plc () is a british-american professional services and management consulting firm that offers a range of risk-mitigation products. the firm also provides data and analytics services, strategy consulting through aon inpoint and investment banking advisory through aon securities. aon has approximately 50,000 employee... |
alban maria johannes berg ( , ; 9 february 1885 – 24 december 1935) was an austrian composer of the second viennese school. his compositional style combined romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. although he left a relatively small oeuvre, he is remembered as one of the most important composers of the 20th c... |
analytical chemistry studies and uses instruments and methods to separate, identify, and quantify matter. in practice, separation, identification or quantification may constitute the entire analysis or be combined with another method. separation isolates analytes. qualitative analysis identifies analytes, while quantit... |
a cappella (, , ; ) music is a performance by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this fashion. the term a cappella was originally intended to differentiate between renaissance polyphony and baroque concertato musical styles. in the 19th century, a rene... |
in music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. arranging differs from orchestration in that the latter process is limited to the assignment of notes to instrum... |
the athanasian creed — also called the pseudo-athanasian creed or quicunque vult (or quicumque vult), which is both its latin name and its opening words, meaning "whosoever wishes" — is a christian statement of belief focused on trinitarian doctrine and christology. used by christian churches since the early sixth cent... |
alicante () is a city and municipality in the valencian community, spain. it is the capital of the province of alicante and a historic mediterranean port. the population of the city was 337,482 , the second-largest in the valencian community. toponymy the name of the city echoes the arabic name laqant () or al-laqant (... |
events pre-1600 598 – goguryeo-sui war: in response to a goguryeo (korean) incursion into liaoxi, emperor wéndi of sui orders his youngest son, yang liang (assisted by the co-prime minister gao jiong), to conquer goguryeo during the manchurian rainy season, with a chinese army and navy. 1265 – second barons' war: battl... |
albrecht achilles may refer to: albrecht iii achilles, elector of brandenburg (1414–1486) albrecht achilles (korvettenkapitän) (1914–1943), u-boat commander |
ann noreen widdecombe (born 4 october 1947) is a british politician and television personality. she was member of parliament (mp) for maidstone and the weald, and the former maidstone constituency, from 1987 to 2010 and member of the european parliament (mep) for south west england from 2019 to 2020. originally a membe... |
muhi al-din muhammad ( – 3 march 1707), commonly known as ( ) and by his regnal name alamgir i ( ), was the sixth mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707. under his emperorship, the mughal empire reached its greatest extent with territory spanning nearly the entirety of the indian subcontinent. auran... |
alexandrine is a name used for several distinct types of verse line with related metrical structures, most of which are ultimately derived from the classical french alexandrine. the line's name derives from its use in the medieval french roman d'alexandre of 1170, although it had already been used several decades earli... |
an analog computer or analogue computer is a type of computer that uses the continuous variation aspect of physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic quantities (analog signals) to model the problem being solved. in contrast, digital computers represent varying quantities symbolically and by discre... |
audio most commonly refers to sound, as it is transmitted in signal form. it may also refer to: sound audio signal, an electrical representation of sound audio frequency, a frequency in the audio spectrum digital audio, representation of sound in a form processed and/or stored by computers or digital electronics audio,... |
a minute of arc, arcminute (arcmin), arc minute, or minute arc, denoted by the symbol , is a unit of angular measurement equal to of one degree. since one degree is of a turn, or complete rotation, one arcminute is of a turn. the nautical mile (nmi) was originally defined as the arc length of a minute of latitude on a ... |
alberto giacometti (, , ; 10 october 1901 – 11 january 1966) was a swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in paris but regularly visited his hometown borgonovo to see his family and work on his art. giacometti was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th ... |
an anthem is a musical composition of celebration, usually used as a symbol for a distinct group, particularly the national anthems of countries. originally, and in music theory and religious contexts, it also refers more particularly to short sacred choral work (still frequently seen in sacred harp and other types of ... |
albrecht altdorfer (12 february 1538) was a german painter, engraver and architect of the renaissance working in regensburg, bavaria. along with lucas cranach the elder and wolf huber he is regarded to be the main representative of the danube school, setting biblical and historical subjects against landscape background... |
the house of ascania () was a dynasty of german rulers. it is also known as the house of anhalt, which refers to its longest-held possession, anhalt. the ascanians are named after ascania (or ascaria) castle, known as schloss askanien in german, which was located near and named after aschersleben. the castle was the se... |
in mechanics, acceleration is the rate of change of the velocity of an object with respect to time. acceleration is one of several components of kinematics, the study of motion. accelerations are vector quantities (in that they have magnitude and direction). the orientation of an object's acceleration is given by the o... |
the conservation and restoration of cultural property focuses on protection and care of cultural property (tangible cultural heritage), including artworks, architecture, archaeology, and museum collections. conservation activities include preventive conservation, examination, documentation, research, treatment, and edu... |
anton pavlovich chekhov (; 29 january 1860 – 15 july 1904) was a russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. his career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. along with henrik ibse... |
action against hunger () is a global humanitarian organization which originated in france and is committed to ending world hunger. the organization helps malnourished children and provides communities with access to safe water and sustainable solutions to hunger. pakistan's situation has significant ramifications for f... |
a&w, aw, aw, aw or aw may refer to: companies a&w restaurants a&w root beer a&w (canada) addison-wesley, publishers africa world airlines, iata code prefix for helicopters made by agustawestland allied waste industries, inc, stock symbol on nyse armstrong whitworth, a british manufacturing company media and entertainme... |
apoptosis (from ) is a form of programmed cell death that occurs in multicellular organisms and in some eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms such as yeast. biochemical events lead to characteristic cell changes (morphology) and death. these changes include blebbing, cell shrinkage, nuclear fragmentation, chromatin ... |
appomattox, shorthand for the surrender of robert e. lee to ulysses s. grant in the american civil war, may refer to: battle of appomattox court house, a battle of the american civil war that was a culmination of the appomattox campaign and resulted in the surrender of robert e. lee appomattox court house national hist... |
anal sex or anal intercourse is generally the insertion and thrusting of the erect penis into a person's anus, or anus and rectum, for sexual pleasure. other forms of anal sex include anal fingering, the use of sex toys, anilingus, pegging, as well as electrostimulation and erotic torture such as figging. although anal... |
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