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| John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 composer. A pioneer of chance music, electronic music and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century. John_Cage | |
| Osip Mandelstam Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (also spelled Mandelshtam) () ( December 27, 1938) was a Russian poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets. Osip_Mandelstam | |
| Cardiopulmonary resuscitation Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency medical procedure for a victim of cardiac arrest or, in some circumstances, respiratory arrest. CPR is performed in hospitals, or in the community by laypersons or by emergency response professionals. Cardiopulmonary_resuscitation | |
| Hot spring hot spring is a spring that is produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater from the Earth's crust. There are hot springs all over the earth, on every continent and even under the oceans and seas. Hot_spring | |
| Earl Warren Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 July 9, 1974) was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States and the only person ever elected three times as Governor of California. Prior to holding these positions, Warren served as a California district attorney for Alameda County and Attorney General of California.His tenure in his two highest offices were marked by extreme contrast. Earl_Warren | |
| Dermatology Dermatology is the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases, a unique specialty with both medical and surgical aspects. The name of this specialty originated in the form of the (semantically wrong) words dermologie (in French, 1764) and, a little later, dermatologia (in Latin, 1777). A dermatologist takes care of diseases, in the widest sense, and some cosmetic problems of the skin, scalp, hair, and nails. Dermatology | |
| Acne vulgaris Acne vulgaris (commonly called acne) is a common skin condition, caused by changes in the pilosebaceous units, skin structures consisting of a hair follicle and its associated sebaceous gland via androgen stimulation. It is characterized by noninflammatory follicular papules or comedones and by inflammatory papules, pustules, and nodules in its more severe forms. Acne_vulgaris | |
| Bliss Carman Bliss Carman, FRSC (April 15 1861 - June 8, 1929) was a preeminent Canadian poet. He was born William Bliss Carman in Fredericton, in the Maritime province of New Brunswick. He published under the name "Bliss Carman," although the "Bliss" is his mother's surname.As with many Canadian poets, nature figures prominently as a theme in his work. In his time, he was arguably Canada's best known poet, and was dubbed by some the "unofficial poet laureate of Canada." Bliss_Carman | |
| Louis Althusser Louis Pierre Althusser (pronunciationMarxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. Althusser was a lifelong member and sometimes strong critic of the French Communist Party. Louis_Althusser | |
| Pindar Pindar | |
| Fresno County, California Fresno_County,_California | |
| Soviet war in Afghanistan The Soviet war in Afghanistan (also known as the Soviet-Afghan War or the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan) was a nine-year conflict involving Soviet Union forces supporting the Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) government against the mujahideen resistance. Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan | |
| Eric Gill Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. Today he is a controversial figure, with his well-known religious views and subject matter being seen at odds with his sexual and paraphiliac behaviour and erotic art. Eric_Gill | |
| Julia Margaret Cameron Julia Margaret Cameron (11 June 1815 British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for Arthurian and similar legendary themed pictures.Cameron's photographic career was short, spanning the last eleven years of her life. Julia_Margaret_Cameron | |
| Arrow's impossibility theorem social choice theory, Arrow’s impossibility theorem, or Arrow’s paradox, demonstrates that no voting system can convert the ranked preferences of individuals into a community-wide ranking while also meeting a certain set of reasonable criteria with three or more discrete options to choose from. Arrow's_impossibility_theorem | |
| Indonesian language Talk:Indonesian_language | |
| Peterborough Cathedral Peterborough Cathedral, or the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew Saint Peter's Cathedral Peterborough, is dedicated to Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Andrew whose statues look down from the three high gables of the famous West Front. Founded in the Saxon period, the architecture is mainly Norman following a rebuilding in the 12th century. Peterborough_Cathedral | |
| Argyria Argyria (ISV from Greek:argyros silver + -ia) is a condition caused by improper exposure to chemical forms of the element silver, silver dust or silver compounds. The most dramatic symptom of argyria is that the skin becomes blue or bluish-grey colored. Argyria may be found as generalized argyria or local argyria. Argyrosis is the corresponding condition related to the eye. The condition is believed to be permanent, but laser therapy has been used to treat it with satisfactory cosmetic results. Argyria | |
| Ernie Kovacs Ernie Kovacs (January 23, 1919 – January 13, 1962) was an American comedian whose uninhibited, often ad-libbed, and visually experimental comic style came to influence numerous television comedy programs for years after his death in an automobile accident. Such iconic shows as Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In Ernie_Kovacs | |
| Psoriasis Psoriasis () is a chronic, non-contagious autoimmune disease which affects the skin and joints. It commonly causes red scaly patches to appear on the skin. The scaly patches caused by psoriasis, called psoriatic plaques, are areas of inflammation and excessive skin production. Psoriasis | |
| Emeryville, California Emeryville is a small city located in Alameda County, California, in the United States. It is located in a corridor between the cities of Berkeley and Oakland, extending to the shore of San Francisco Bay. Its proximity to San Francisco, the Bay Bridge, the University of California, Berkeley, and Silicon Valley has been a catalyst for recent economic growth. Emeryville,_California | |
| Burbank, California Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The estimated population in 2007 was 107,921.Burbank is located in the eastern region of the San Fernando Valley, north of Downtown Los Angeles. Burbank,_California | |
| Mira Loma, California Mira Loma is a census-designated place (CDP) in Riverside County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 17,617. Mira Loma was known as Wineville prior to 1930. Mira_Loma,_California | |
| Florin, California Florin is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sacramento County, California, United States. It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 27,653 at the 2000 census. Florin,_California | |
| San Bruno, California San Bruno is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States. The population was 40,165 at the 2000 census. San_Bruno,_California | |
| 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 | |
| Bookbinding Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from a number of folded or unfolded sheets of paper or other material. It also usually involves attaching covers to the resulting text-block. Bookbinding | |
| Jeannette Rankin Jeannette_Rankin | |
| Parallel computing Parallel computing is a form of computation in which many calculations are carried out simultaneously, operating on the principle that large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which are then solved concurrently ("in parallel"). There are several different forms of parallel computingbit-level, instruction level, data, and task parallelism. Parallel_computing | |
| Seafloor spreading Seafloor spreading occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge. Seafloor spreading helps explain continental drift in the theory of plate tectonics. Seafloor_spreading | |
| Northern California Northern California is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern California coast, the Big Sur coastline area, the Sierra Nevada including Yosemite Valley and Lake Tahoe, Mt. Shasta which is the second-highest peak in the Cascade Range, and the Central Valley. Northern_California | |
| Colloidal silver Colloidal silver is a liquid suspension of microscopic particles of silver. A colloid is technically defined as particles which remain suspended without forming an ionic, or dissolved solution. The broader commercial definition of "colloidal silver" includes products that contain various concentrations of ionic silver, silver colloids, ionic silver compounds or silver proteins in purified water. Colloidal_silver | |
| Federalist Society Federalist_Society | |
| Dorothea Lange Dorothea_Lange | |
| Khalistan movement Talk:Khalistan_movement | |
| Frederick Reines Frederick Reines (March 16 1918 – August 26 1998) was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment, and may be the only scientist in history "so intimately associated with the discovery of an elementary particle and the subsequent thorough investigation of its fundamental properties". Frederick_Reines | |
| The Rite of Spring The Rite of Spring, commonly referred to by its original French title, Le Sacre du Printemps () is a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, original choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, and original set design and costumes by archaeologist and painter Nicholas Roerich, all under impresario Serge Diaghilev. The_Rite_of_Spring | |
| California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia, California, in Los Angeles County, California. CalArts is authorized by the state of California to grant Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts in the visual, performing, and literary arts.A school created by Walt Disney in the early 1960s and staffed by a very alternative array of professionals, CalArts provides for a collaborative environment for all sorts of artists. California_Institute_of_the_Arts | |
| Consensus decision-making Consensus decision-making is a group decision making process that not only seeks the agreement of most participants, but also the resolution or mitigation of minority objections. Consensus is usually defined as meaning both general agreement, and the process of getting to such agreement. Consensus_decision-making | |
| Felix Wan/Draft/Penkyamp User_talk:Felix_Wan/Draft/Penkyamp | |
| Roots of anti-Semitism Talk:Roots_of_anti-Semitism | |
| Roland Barthes Roland Barthes (12 November 1915 French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes's work extended over many fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism and post-structuralism. Roland_Barthes | |
| Risk aversion Risk aversion is a concept in economics, finance, and psychology related to the behaviour of consumers and investors under uncertainty. Risk aversion is the reluctance of a person to accept a bargain with an uncertain payoff rather than another bargain with a more certain, but possibly lower, expected payoff. Risk_aversion | |
| Neoclassicism Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw upon Western classical art and culture (usually that of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome). These movements were dominant during the mid 18th to the end of the 19th century. This article addresses wha Neoclassicism | |
| Darjeeling Darjeeling (Nepali:Bengali:Indian state of West Bengal.It is the headquarters of Darjeeling district, in the Shiwalik Hills on the lower range of the Himalaya, at an average elevation of . During the British Raj in India, Darjeeling's temperate climate led to its development as a hill station (hill town) for British residents to escape the heat of the plains during the summers, becoming known as the Summer Capital. Darjeeling | |
| Brain drain Brain drain or human capital flight is a large emigration of individuals with technical skills or knowledge, normally due to conflict, lack of opportunity, political instability, or health risks. Brain drain is usually regarded as an economic cost, since emigrants usually take with them the fraction of value of their training sponsored by the government. Brain_drain | |
| Genital wart Genital warts (or Condyloma, Condylomata acuminata, or venereal warts, also anal wart or anogenital wart) is a highly contagious sexually transmitted infection caused by some sub-types of human papillomavirus (HPV). It is spread through direct skin-to-skin contact during oral, genital, or anal sex with an infected partner. Genital_wart | |
| Miracle of Chile The "Miracle of Chile" is a term used by neoliberal economists to describe liberal and free market reorientation of the economy of Chile upon in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. In 1973, Chile was in shambles - inflation was hundreds of percents, the country had no foreign reserves, and GDP was falling. The economic reforms were originally drafted by Chilean economist sometimes known as the "Chicago Boys" because many of them had studied at the University of Chicago. The plan had three main objectives Miracle_of_Chile | |
| Militarism Militarism is It has also been defined as "aggressiveness that involves the threat of using military force", and the Militarism has been a significant principle in the imperialist Militarism | |
| Normal number A different topic is treated in the article titled normal number (computing).In mathematics, a normal number is a real number whose digits in every base show a uniform distribution, with all digits being equally likely, all pairs of digits equally likely, all triplets of digits equally likely, etc.While a general proof can be given that almost all numbers are normal, this proof is not constructive and only very few concrete numbers have been shown to be normal. Normal_number |
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