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| Piracy Piracy is a war-like act committed by a non-state actor, especially robbery or criminal violence committed at sea, on water, or sometimes on shore. It does not normally include crimes on board a vessel among passengers or crew. The term has been used to refer to raids across land borders by non-state actors. Piracy | |
| Battle of the Crater Battle_of_the_Crater | |
| Evergreen bagworm Evergreen_bagworm | |
| Cassava Cassava or manioc (Manihot esculenta) is a woody shrub of the Euphorbiaceae (spurge family) native to South America and the Caribbean that is extensively cultivated as an annual crop in tropical and subtropical regions for its edible starchy tuberous root, a major source of carbohydrates.Cassava is the third largest source of carbohydrates for human food in the world, with Africa its largest center of production. The flour made of the roots is called tapioca. Cassava | |
| Mohave Mohave and Mojave are both tribally accepted and interchangeably used phonetic spellings for a Native American people known among themselves as the Aha macave. Their name comes from two wordsaha, meaning 'water', and macave, meaning 'along or beside', and to them it means 'people who live along the river'. Mohave | |
| Army of Northern Virginia The Army of Northern Virginia was the primary military force of the Confederate States of America in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. It was most often arrayed against the Union Army of the Potomac. Three districts were created under the Department of Northern Virginia Aquia District First commanderMaj. Army_of_Northern_Virginia | |
| John Glenn John Herschel Glenn Jr. Cambridge, Ohio) is a former astronaut and U.S. politician who became the first American to orbit the Earth, and later, United States Senator. Glenn began his career as a Marine Corps fighter pilot before joining NASA's Mercury program, NASA's original astronaut group. He orbited the Earth aboard Friendship 7 in 1962. After retiring from NASA, he ran as a Democrat and represented the state of Ohio in the United States Senate from 1974 to 1999. John_Glenn | |
| Brown recluse spider The brown recluse spider, Loxosceles reclusa, is a well-known member of the family Sicariidae (formerly placed in a family "Loxoscelidae"). It is usually between 6–20dorsal side of its cephalothorax, with a black line coming from it that looks like a violin with the neck of the violin pointing to the rear of the spider, resulting in the nicknames fiddleback spider, brown fiddler or violin spider. Coloring varies from light tan to brown and the violin marking may not be visible. Brown_recluse_spider | |
| Roy Lichtenstein Roy_Lichtenstein | |
| Cheese fly Cheese flies are members of the family Piophilidae of flies (Diptera), including the members of two now-obsolete families, Neottiophilidae and Thyreophoridae. Most are scavengers in animal products and fungi. The best-known member of the family is Piophila casei. Cheese_fly | |
| Light pen Talk:Light_pen | |
| Environmental science Environmental science is an expression encompassing the wide range of scientific disciplines that need to be brought together to understand and manage the natural environment and the many interactions among physical, chemical, and biological components. Environmental Science provides an integrated, quantitative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental systems. Environmental_science | |
| Battle of Brice's Crossroads The Battle of Brice's Crossroads was fought on June 10, 1864, near Baldwyn in Lee County, Mississippi, during the American Civil War. It pitted a 4,787-man contingent led by Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest against an 8,100-strong Union force led by Brigadier General Samuel D. Sturgis. The battle ended in a rout of the Union forces and cemented Forrest's reputation as one of the great cavalrymen. Battle_of_Brice's_Crossroads | |
| Lu Xun Lu Xun () or Lu Hsün (Wade-Giles), was the pen name of Zhou Shuren () (September 25, 1881 October 19, 1936) is one of the major Chinese writers of the 20th century. Considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in baihua (白話) (the vernacular) as well as classical Chinese. Lu Xun was a short story writer, editor, translator, critic, essayist and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of the Chinese League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai. Lu_Xun | |
| List of comic strips List_of_comic_strips | |
| Life cycle cost analysis Talk:Life_cycle_cost_analysis | |
| Flea Flea is the common name for insects of the order Siphonaptera which are wingless insects whose mouthparts are adapted for piercing skin and sucking blood. (some authorities use the name Aphaniptera because it is older, but names above family rank need not follow the ICZN rules of priority, so most taxonomists use the more familiar name). Flea | |
| Scar Scars (also called cicatrices) are areas of fibrous tissue that replace normal skin (or other tissue) after injury. A scar results from the biologic process of wound repair in the skin and other tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a natural part of the healing process. With the exception of very minor lesions, every wound (e.g. after accident, disease, or surgery) results in some degree of scarring. Scar | |
| Big Ten Conference The Big Ten Conference is the United States' oldest Division I college athletic conference. Its eleven member institutions are located primarily in the Midwestern United States, stretching from Iowa and Minnesota in the west to Pennsylvania in the east. The conference enjoys the prestige of both high athletic achievement and academic excellence. Big_Ten_Conference | |
| Pixar Pixar Animation Studios is a CGI animation production company based in Emeryville, California, United States. To date, the studio has earned twenty-two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, and three Grammys, among many other awards, acknowledgments and achievements. Pixar | |
| RenderMan Interface Specification RenderMan Interface Specification, or RISpec in short, is an open API developed by Pixar Animation Studios to describe three dimensional scenes and turn them into digital photorealistic images. It includes the RenderMan Shading Language.As Pixar's technical specification for a standard communications protocol (or interface) between modeling programs and rendering programs capable of producing photorealistic-quality images, RISpec is a similar concept to PostScript but for describing 3D scenes rather than 2D page layouts. RenderMan_Interface_Specification | |
| Subsumption architecture Subsumption architecture is a reactive robot architecture heavily associated with behavior-based robotics. The term was introduced by Rodney Brooks and colleagues in 1986. Subsumption has been widely influential in autonomous robotics and elsewhere in real-time AI. Subsumption_architecture | |
| Union County, Ohio Union County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2000 census, the population was 40,909. Increasingly becoming more of a suburban county, the population was estimated at 47,234 in 2007 by the U.S. Census Bureau. Its county seat is Marysville and its name is reflective of its origins, it being the union of pieces of Franklin, Delaware, Madison, and Logan Counties. Union_County,_Ohio | |
| Popol Vuh For other uses, seePopol Vuh (disambiguation) Popol Vuh (K'iche' for "Council Book" or "Book of the Community"; ''''''Classical Quiché language containing mythological narratives and a genealogy of the rulers of the Post-Classic Quiché kingdom of highland Guatemala.The book contains a creation myth followed by mythological stories of two Hero Twins:Hunahpu (Modern K'iche'Junajpu) and Xbalanque (Modern ). Popol_Vuh | |
| Paulding County, Ohio Paulding_County,_Ohio | |
| Minnesota Talk:Minnesota | |
| Xenon Talk:Xenon | |
| Mount Meru (mythology) For the mountain in Tanzania, see Mount Meru (Tanzania).Mount Meru () (also called Sumeru i.e the "Great Meru") is a sacred mountain in Hindu, Buddhist cosmology, and Jain mythology, and is considered to be the center of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritual universes. It is believed to be the abode of Lord Brahma and the Demi-Gods (Devas). Mount_Meru_(mythology) | |
| VRML VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language, pronounced vermal or by its initials, originally — before 1995 — known as the Virtual Reality Markup Language) is a standard file format for representing 3-dimensional (3D) interactive vector graphics, designed particularly with the World Wide Web in mind. It has been superseded by X3D. VRML | |
| Bush v. Gore Bush v. Gore, , is a landmark United States Supreme Court case decided on December 12, 2000. The case effectively resolved the 2000 presidential election in favor of George W. Bush. Only eight days earlier, the United States Supreme Court had unanimously decided the closely related case of Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, , and only three days earlier, the United States Supreme Court had preliminarily halted the recount that was occurring in Florida. Bush_v._Gore | |
| Temperament In psychology, temperament refers to the innate aspects of an individual's personality, such as introversion or extroversion. Temperament is that part of the personality which is genetically based. Along with character (that is, those aspects acquired through learning), the two together are said to constitute personality. Temperament | |
| Owosso, Michigan Owosso is a city in Shiawassee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 15,713 at the 2000 census. The city is located on the eastern side of Owosso Township, but is politically independent. The city was named after Chief Wasso, an Ojibwa leader of the Shiawassee area. Owosso,_Michigan | |
| Kirtland, Ohio For other places with the same name, see KirtlandKirtland is a city in Lake County, Ohio, USA. The population was 6,670 at the 2000 census. Kirtland is famous for being the early headquarters of the Latter Day Saint movement. Kirtland,_Ohio | |
| Mansfield, Ohio Mansfield,_Ohio | |
| Marysville, Ohio Marysville is a city in and the county seat of Union County, Ohio, United States. The population was 15,942 at the 2000 census, and the Census Bureau estimated that it had risen to 17,621 by 2006. Marysville's longtime slogan is "Where the Grass is Greener". Marysville,_Ohio | |
| Laurie Anderson Laurie Anderson (born Laura Phillips Anderson, on June 5, 1947, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois) is an American experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s. Laurie_Anderson | |
| Domestication Domestication (from Latin 'taming refers to the process whereby a population of animals or plants, through a process of selection, becomes accustomed to human provision and control. The most common form of domestication is artificial selection by humans. Humans have brought these populations under their care for a wide range of reasonsfood or valuable commodities (such as wool, cotton, or silk), for help with various types of work (such as transportation or protection), for protection of themselves and livestock, to enjoy as companions or ornamental plant, and for scientific research, such as finding cures for certain diseases. Domestication | |
| Euphorbia pulcherrima "Christmas Star" redirects here. For the Christian tradition, see Star of Bethlehem.Euphorbia pulcherrima, commonly named poinsettia, is a species of flowering plant indigenous to Mexico and Guatemala. Joel Roberts Poinsett, the first United States Minister to Mexico, who introduced the plant into the US in 1828. Euphorbia_pulcherrima | |
| Precision agriculture Precision farming or precision agriculture is an agricultural concept relying on the existence of in-field variability. It's about doing the right thing, in the right place, in the right way, at the right time. It requires the use of new technologies, such as global positioning (GPS), sensors, satellites or aerial images, and information management tools (GIS) to assess and understand variations. Precision_agriculture | |
| Miscegenation Miscegenation (Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different racial groups, that is, marrying, cohabiting, having sexual relations and having children with a partner from outside one's racially or ethnically defined group. Miscegenation | |
| Comics Comics (via Latin, from the Greek "", kōmikos, of or pertaining to "comedy", from kōmos "revel".) is a graphic medium in which images are utilized in order to convey a sequential narrative; the term, derived from massive early use to convey comic themes, came to be applied to all uses of this medium including those which are far from comic. Comics | |
| List of oboists oboist is a musician who plays the oboe or any oboe family instrument, including cor anglais, oboe d'amore, shawm, and oboe musette. The following is a list of notable professional oboists, with indications when they were/are known better for other professions in their own time. Oboists with an asterisk (*) have biographies in the online version of the " Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians" List_of_oboists | |
| Framebuffer A framebuffer is a video output device that drives a video display from a memory buffer containing a complete frame of data. The information in the buffer typically consists of color values for every pixel (point that can be displayed) on the screen. Color values are commonly stored in 1-bit monochrome, 4-bit palettized, 8-bit palettized, 16-bit highcolor and 24-bit truecolor formats. Framebuffer | |
| Framebuffer Talk:Framebuffer | |
| Chinese literature Chinese literature extends back thousands of years, from the earliest recorded dynastic court archives to the mature fictional novel that arose during the Ming Dynasty to entertain the masses of literate Chinese. The introduction of widespread woodblock printing during the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and the invention of movable type printing by Bi Sheng (990-1051) during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) rapidly spread written knowledge throughout China like never before. Chinese_literature | |
| Human ecology Human ecology is an academic discipline that deals with the relationship between humans, human societies, and their natural, social and created environments. Human_ecology | |
| Calcium deficiency (plant disorder) Calcium (Ca) deficiency is a plant disorder that can be caused by insufficient calcium in the growing medium, but is more frequently a product of a compromised nutrient mobility system in the plant. This may be due to water shortages, which slow the transportation of calcium to the plant, or can be caused by excessive usage of potassium or nitrogen fertilizers. Calcium_deficiency_(plant_disorder) | |
| Mount Kilimanjaro Kilimanjaro with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, is an inactive stratovolcano in north-eastern Tanzania rising from its base (and approximately from the plains near Moshi), and is additionally the highest peak in Africa at , providing a dramatic view of the surrounding plains. Mount_Kilimanjaro | |
| Rayon Rayon is a manufactured regenerated cellulosic fiber. Because it is produced from naturally occurring polymers, it is neither a truly synthetic fiber nor a natural fiber; it is a semi-synthetic fiber . Rayon is known by the names viscose rayon and art silk in the textile industry. It usually has a high lustre quality giving it a bright shine. Rayon contains the chemical elements carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Rayon | |
| Walnut Walnuts (genus Juglans) are plants in the family Juglandaceae. They are deciduous trees, 10meters tall (about 30ft), with pinnate leaves 200–900 millimetres long (7in), with 5pith, a character shared with the wingnuts (Pterocarya) but not the hickories (Carya) in the same family.The 21 species in the genus range across the north temperate Old World from southeast Europe east to Japan, and more widely in the New World from southeast Canada west to California and south to Argentina. Walnut |
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