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| Image registration In computer vision, sets of data acquired by sampling the same scene or object at different times, or from different perspectives, will be in different coordinate systems. Image registration is the process of transforming the different sets of data into one coordinate system. Registration is necessary in order to be able to compare or integrate the data obtained from different measurements. Image_registration | |
| Jacques Necker Jacques Necker (September 30, 1732 April 9, 1804) was a French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of Louis XVI, a post he held in the lead-up to the French Revolution in 1789. Jacques_Necker | |
| Whose Body? Whose Body? is a 1923 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers (ISBN 0-380-39966-0), which introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. Whose_Body? | |
| List of digital library projects This is a list of projects related to digital libraries. List_of_digital_library_projects | |
| Crowd psychology Crowd psychology is a branch of social psychology. Ordinary people can typically gain direct power by acting collectively. Historically, because large groups of people have been able to bring about dramatic and sudden social change in a manner that bypasses established due process, they have also provoked controversy. Crowd_psychology | |
| Burl Ives Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 American actor, writer and folk music singer. The prominent music critic John Rockwell has been quoted in the New York Times as saying that "Ives's voice... had the sheen and finesse of opera without its latter-day Puccinian vulgarities and without the pretensions of operatic ritual. It was genteel in expressive impact without being genteel in social conformity. And it moved people." Burl_Ives | |
| Online Books Page Online Books Page is an index of e-text books available on the Internet. It is edited by John Mark Ockerbloom and is hosted by the library of the University of Pennsylvania. The Online Books Page lists over 30,000 books and has several features, such as A Celebration of Women Writers and Banned Books Online.The Online Books Page was the second substantial effort to catalog online texts, but the first to do so with the rigors required by library science. Online_Books_Page | |
| Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), founded in 1847 in Chicago, is the eighth largest Protestant denomination in the United States, and the second-largest Lutheran body in the U.S. after the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It is a moderate conservative, Confessional Lutheran denomination with German immigrant roots.The LCMS is headquartered in St. Lutheran_Church–Missouri_Synod | |
| Joss Whedon Talk:Joss_Whedon | |
| Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates is a novel by American author Mary Mapes Dodge, first published in 1865. The novel takes place in the Netherlands, and is a very colorful fictional portrait of early 19-century Dutch life, as well as an inspirational tale of youthful honor.The title of the book refers to the beautiful silver skates to be awarded to winner of the ice-skating race Hans Brinker hopes to enter. Hans_Brinker,_or_The_Silver_Skates | |
| Walter Sickert Walter Richard Sickert (May 31, 1860 in Munich, Germany Bath, England) was a German-born English Impressionist painter and member of the Camden Town Group. Sickert was a cosmopolitan and eccentric who favoured ordinary people and urban scenes as his subjects. Walter_Sickert | |
| Diodotus I Diodotus (), was Seleucid satrap of Bactria, rebelled against Greek rule soon after the death of Antiochus II in 246 BCE, and wrested independence for his territory. This event is recorded by Trogus, Prol. 41; Justin xli. 4, 5, where he is called Theodotus; Strabo xi. Diodotus_I | |
| Plain old telephone service Plain old telephone service (POTS) is the voice-grade telephone service that remains the basic form of residential and small business service connection to the telephone network in most parts of the world. The name is a retronym, and is a reflection of the telephone service still available after the advent of more advanced forms of telephony such as ISDN, mobile phones and VoIP. Plain_old_telephone_service | |
| Generating function Since Generating_function | |
| Lucy Stone Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 American abolitionist and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1839, Stone was the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and against slavery at a time when women were discouraged and prevented from public speaking. Stone was the first recorded American woman to revert to her birth name after marriage. Lucy_Stone | |
| Alan Greenspan Alan_Greenspan | |
| Maurice Maeterlinck Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard, Count Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 - 6 May 1949) was a Belgian playwright, poet and essayist who wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. His plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement. Maurice_Maeterlinck | |
| Chariton Chariton of Aphrodisias () was the author of an ancient Greek novel entitled Chaereas and Callirhoe. Recent evidence of fragments of the text on papyri suggests that the novel may have been written in the mid 1st century AD, making it the oldest surviving complete ancient prose romance and the only one to make use of apparent historiographical features for background verisimilitude and structure, in conjunction with elements of Greek mythology, as Callirhoë is frequently compared to Aphrodite and Ariadne and Chaereas to numerous heroes, both implicitly and explicitly. Chariton | |
| Lothal Lothal is one of the most prominent cities of the ancient Indus valley civilization. Located in the modern state of Gujarāt and dating from 2400 BCE, it is one of India's most important archaeological site that dates from that era. Discovered in 1954, Lothal was excavated from February 13, 1955 to May 19, 1960 by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).Lothal's dock—the world's earliest known—connected the city to an ancient course of the Sabarmati river on the trade route between Harappan cities in Sindh and the peninsula of Saurashtra when the surrounding Kutch desert of today was a part of the Arabian Sea. Lothal | |
| Joshua Slocum Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 Canadian-American seaman and adventurer, a noted writer, and the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. In 1900 he told the story of this in Sailing Alone Around the World. He disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his boat, the Spray. Joshua_Slocum | |
| Thomas de Quincey Thomas de Quincey (15English author and intellectual, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Thomas_de_Quincey | |
| Evolutionary economics Evolutionary economics is a heterodox school of economic thought that is inspired by evolutionary biology. Much like mainstream economics, it stresses complex interdependencies, competition, growth, structural change, and resource constraints but differs in the approaches which are used to analyze these phenomena.Mainstream economic reasoning begins with the postulates of scarcity and rational agents (that is, agents modeled as maximizing their individually-given welfares). Evolutionary_economics | |
| Katherine Mansfield Kathleen Mansfield Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction from New Zealand who wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. Katherine_Mansfield | |
| Mirror galvanometer A mirror galvanometer is a mechanical meter that senses electric current, except that instead of moving a needle, it moves a mirror. The mirror reflects a beam of light, which projects onto a meter, and acts as a long, weightless, massless pointer. In 1826, Johann Christian Poggendorff developed the mirror galvanometer for detecting electric currents. The apparatus is also known as a spot galvanometer after the spot of light produced in some models. Mirror_galvanometer | |
| List of books banned by governments Talk:List_of_books_banned_by_governments | |
| NYPD Blue NYPD_Blue | |
| TakuyaMurata User:TakuyaMurata | |
| E. Nesbit Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a precursor to the modern Labour Party. E._Nesbit | |
| Edmund Burke Talk:Edmund_Burke | |
| Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (born January 25, 1922) is an Italian population geneticist born in Genoa, who has been a professor at Stanford University since 1970 (now emeritus). Luigi_Luca_Cavalli-Sforza | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) depicted life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the U.S. Harriet_Beecher_Stowe | |
| Stephanus of Byzantium Stephanus of Byzantium, also known as Stephanus Byzantinus (Greek:geographical dictionary entitled Ethnica (). Of the dictionary itself only meagre fragments survive, but we possess an epitome compiled by one Hermolaus.The work is of enormous value for geographical, mythological, and religious information about ancient Greece. Stephanus_of_Byzantium | |
| Leopold Stokowski Leopold Stokowski (born Leopold Anthony Stokowski though on occasion in later life he amended his middle name to Antoni and added the family names Stanisław Bolesławowicz) (April 18 1882 September 13 1977) was a famous orchestral conductor, well known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from many of the great orchestras he conducted. Leopold_Stokowski | |
| Rudolf Erich Raspe Rudolf Erich Raspe (March 1736 German librarian, writer and scientist, and he was called by his biographer John Carswell a "rogue". He is best known for his collection of tall tales, originally a satirical work with political aims.Raspe was born in Hanover, studied law and jurisprudence at Göttingen and Leipzig and worked as a librarian for the university of Göttingen. Rudolf_Erich_Raspe | |
| Salk Institute for Biological Studies The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is a premier independent, non-profit, scientific research institute located in La Jolla, California. The institute consistently ranks among the top institutions in the US in terms of research output and quality in the life sciences. Salk_Institute_for_Biological_Studies | |
| Felicia Hemans Felicia Hemans (25 September 1793 English poet. Felicia_Hemans | |
| William Rose Benét William Rose Benét (February 2, 1886 Stephen Vincent Benét.He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated The Albany Academy in Albany, NY and at Yale University. He began the Saturday Review of Literature in 1924 and continued to edit and write for it until his death.Benet's second (of four) wives was the American poet Elinor Wylie.Marjorie Flack (1897-1958), who outlived him. William_Rose_Benét | |
| Pearl S. Buck Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 — March 6, 1973) also known as Sai Zhen Zhu (Simplified Chinese:Pinyin:Traditional Chinese:Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer who spent the majority of her life in China. In 1938, she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces." With no irony, she has been described in China as a Chinese writer. Pearl_S._Buck | |
| Samuel Morse Talk:Samuel_Morse | |
| Curl (mathematics) Talk:Curl_(mathematics) | |
| Maurice Scève Maurice Scève (c. 1500-c. 1564), French poet, was born at Lyon, where his father practised law.He was the centre of the Lyonnese côterie that elaborated the theory of spiritual love, derived partly from Plato and partly from Petrarch. This spiritual love, which animated Antoine Héroet's Parfaicte Amye (1543) as well, owed much to Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine translator and commentator of Plato's works. Maurice_Scève | |
| John Mitchel John Mitchel (; 3 November 1815 – 20 March 1875) was an Irish nationalist activist, solicitor and political journalist. Born in Camnish, near Dungiven, County Londonderry, Ireland he became a leading Member of both Young Ireland and the Irish Confederation. John_Mitchel | |
| Twin study Twin studies are one of a family of designs in behavior genetics which aid the study of individual differences by highlighting the role of environmental and genetic causes on behavior. Twins are invaluable for studying these important questions because they disentangle the sharing of genes and environments. Twin_study | |
| ENIAC Talk:ENIAC | |
| Stephen Leacock Stephen Butler Leacock, Ph.D , FRSC (30 December 1869Canadian writer and economist. Stephen_Leacock | |
| The Nation (Irish newspaper) The Nation was an Irish nationalist weekly newspaper, published in the 19th century. The Nation was printed first at 12 Trinity Street, Dublin, on 15 October 1842, until 6 January 1844. The paper was afterwards published at 4 D'Olier Street from 13 July 1844, to 28 July 1848, when the issue for the following day was seized and the paper suppressed, and at a Lower Abbey Street on its revival in September, 1849. The_Nation_(Irish_newspaper) | |
| H.D. H.D. (born Hilda Doolittle) (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American poet, novelist and memoirist best known for her association with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagist group of poets such as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington. The Imagist model was based on the idioms, rhythms and clarity of common speech, and freedom to choose subject matter as the writer saw fit. H.D.'s later writing developed on this aesthetic to incorporate a more female-centric version of modernism. H.D. | |
| Henry Ford Talk:Henry_Ford | |
| Speed dating Speed dating is a formalized matchmaking process or dating system whose purpose is to encourage people to meet a large number of new people. Its origins are credited to Rabbi Yaacov Deyo of Aish HaTorah, originally as a way to help Jewish singles meet and marry. "SpeedDating", as a single word, is a registered trademark of Aish HaTorah. "Speed dating", as two separate words, is often used as a generic term for similar events. Speed_dating | |
| Reduplication Reduplication, in linguistics, is a morphological process by which the root or stem of a word, or part of it, is repeated. Reduplication is used in inflections to convey a grammatical function, such as plurality, intensification, etc., and in lexical derivation to create new words. Reduplication |
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