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| Steinway & Sons Talk:Steinway_&_Sons | |
| Dusty Springfield Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, OBE (16 April 1939 Dusty Springfield, was a leading pop singer and entertainer. Of the female British pop artists of the 1960s, she made one of the biggest impressions on the U.S. market. Owing to her distinctive sensual sound, she was one of the most notable white soul artists. Dusty_Springfield | |
| Spandau Prison Spandau Prison was a prison situated in the borough of Spandau in western Berlin, constructed in 1876 and demolished in 1987 after the death of its last prisoner, Rudolf Hess, to prevent it from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine. The prison was near, though not part of, the Renaissance-era Spandau Citadel fortress. Spandau_Prison | |
| Abraham Beame Abraham David "Abe" Beame (March 20, 1906 – February 10, 2001) was mayor of New York City from 1974 to 1977. As such, he presided over the city during the fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s, during which the city was almost forced to declare bankruptcy. Abraham_Beame | |
| Invisibility Invisibility is the state of an object which cannot be seen. An object in this state is said to be Invisible (literally, "not visible"). The term is usually used as a fantasy/science fiction term, where objects are literally made unseeable by magical or technological means; however, its effects can also be seen in the real world, particularly in physics and perceptional psychology. Invisibility | |
| 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 | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Talk:Red_Hot_Chili_Peppers | |
| Teapot Dome scandal The Teapot Dome Scandal refers to a bribery scandal of the White House administration of United States President Warren G. Harding. Teapot Dome is an oil field on public land in the U.S. state of Wyoming, so named for Teapot Rock, an outcrop resembling a teapot overlooking the field. Teapot_Dome_scandal | |
| P. T. Barnum Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 showman, businessman, and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. His successes may have made him the first "show business" millionaire. P._T._Barnum | |
| Infinitesimal Infinitesimals have been used to express the idea of objects so small that there is no way to see them or to measure them. The word infinitesimal comes from a 17th century Modern Latin coinage infinitesimus, which originally referred to the "infinite-th" item in a series.In common speech, an infinitesimal object is an object which is smaller than any feasible measurement, hence not zero size, but so small that it cannot be distinguished from zero by any available means. Infinitesimal | |
| Cynthia Nixon Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress, known for her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the popular HBO series Sex and the City (1998Emmy, Tony and Grammy award winning actress. Cynthia_Nixon | |
| Ming Dynasty Talk:Ming_Dynasty | |
| 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 | |
| Sanhedrin Sanhedrin (; , synedrion, "sitting together," hence "assembly" or "council") was an assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every city in the Land of Israel.The Great Sanhedrin was the supreme court of ancient Israel. In total there were 71 members. The Great Sanhedrin was made up of a Chief/Prince/Leader called Nasi (at some times this position may have been held by the Kohen Gadol or the High Priest), a vice chief justice (Av Beit Din), and sixty-nine general members. Sanhedrin | |
| Zhuangzi For the book with the same name, see Zhuangzi (book).Zhuangzi ( Zhuangzi | |
| Black people Talk:Black_people | |
| Jerome Skolnick Jerome Skolnick is a professor at New York University and a former president of the American Society of Criminology. He is also affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley. Skolnick has a Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University. Jerome_Skolnick | |
| Mae West Mae West (August 17, 1893 playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol.Known for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in Vaudeville and on the stage in New York before moving to Hollywood to become a comedienne, actress and writer in the motion picture industry. One of the more controversial stars of her day, West encountered many problems including censorship. Mae_West | |
| John Norman John Frederick Lange, Jr. (born June 3, 1931), better known under his pen name John Norman, is a professor of philosophy and an author. He is best known as the author of the book series Chronicles of Gor. John_Norman | |
| Foot binding Foot binding (, literally "bound feet") was a custom practiced on young girls and women for approximately one thousand years in China, beginning in the 10th century and ending in the early 20th century. Foot_binding | |
| F-106 Delta Dart F-106_Delta_Dart | |
| Southern United States Historic Southern United States. The states in red were in the Confederacy and have historically been regarded as forming "the South." Those in stripes were considered "Border" states, and gave varying degrees of support to the Southern cause although they remained in the Union. Southern_United_States | |
| Washington Heights, Manhattan Washington Heights is a New York City neighborhood in the northern reaches of the borough of Manhattan. It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest point on Manhattan island by Continental Army troops during the American Revolutionary War, to defend the area from the British forces. Washington_Heights,_Manhattan | |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion Talk:Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion | |
| Mikoyan MiG-29 Mikoyan_MiG-29 | |
| Nellie Bly Nellie Bly (May 5, 1864 industrialist, and charity worker. She is most famous for an undercover exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within. She is also well-known for her record-breaking trip around the world.Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran in Cochran's Mills, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, 40 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, she was nicknamed "Pink" for wearing that color as a child. Nellie_Bly | |
| Brain death Brain death is brain activity (including involuntary activity necessary to sustain life) due to total necrosis of the cerebral neurons following loss of blood flow and oxygenation. It should not be confused with a persistent vegetative state. The concept of brain death emerged in the 1960s, as the ability to resuscitate individuals and mechanically keep the heart and lungs functioning became prevalent. Brain_death | |
| Gangs of New York Gangs of New York is a 2002 American historical film set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points district of New York City. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan. The film is inspired by Herbert Asbury's 1928 nonfiction book The Gangs of New York. It was distributed by Miramax Films and was nominated for numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. Gangs_of_New_York | |
| Fourteen Points Fourteen Points was a speech delivered by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The address was intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe. The common people of Europe welcomed Wilson as a hero but his Allied colleagues (Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George, and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando) remained skeptical of the applicability of Wilsonian idealism. Fourteen_Points | |
| Nuclear meltdown Talk:Nuclear_meltdown | |
| Tycho Brahe Talk:Tycho_Brahe | |
| Trapezius muscle In human anatomy, the trapezius is a large superficial muscle that extends longitudinally from the occipital bone to the lower thoracic vertebrae and laterally to the spine of the scapula (shoulder blade). The trapezius has three functional regions. It is innervated by the accessory nerve (Cranial Nerve 11) and the ventral rami of third (C3) and fourth (C4) cervical spinal nerves, which also supplies the sternocleidomastoid muscle. Trapezius_muscle | |
| Manicure manicure is a cosmetic beauty treatment for the fingernails and hands performed either at home or in a nail salon by a professional nail technician. A manicure treatment isnt necessarily a treatment for the natural nails but also for the hands. A manicure consists of filing, shaping of the free edge, cuticle treatments with massage and the application of polish. Manicure | |
| John Jay College of Criminal Justice John Jay College of Criminal Justice is a senior college of the City University of New York in midtown, Manhattan, New York City and is the only liberal arts college with a criminal justice focus in the United States. It has about 14,000 FTE (full-time equivalent) students, including traditional, pre-career undergraduate students and those pursuing master’s degrees in several disciplines. John_Jay_College_of_Criminal_Justice | |
| College of Staten Island The College of Staten Island (CSI) is a four-year, senior college of The City University of New York and is one of the 11 senior colleges of The City University of New York (CUNY). Programs in the liberal arts and sciences and professional studies lead to bachelor's and associate's degrees. College_of_Staten_Island | |
| KC-135 Stratotanker Talk:KC-135_Stratotanker | |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) is an American poet, painter, Liberal, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind (New YorkNew Directions, 1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over 1 million copies. Lawrence_Ferlinghetti | |
| Social history Social history is an area of historical study, considered by some to be a social science, that attempts to view historical evidence from the point of view of developing social trends. In this view, it may include areas of economic history, legal history and the analysis of other aspects of civil society that show the evolution of social norms, behaviors and more. It is distinguished from political history, military history and the history of great men. Social_history | |
| B-18 Bolo B-18_Bolo | |
| Diazepam Diazepam (), first marketed as Valium by Hoffmann-La Roche, is a benzodiazepine derivative drug. It possesses anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, hypnotic, sedative, skeletal muscle relaxant and amnestic properties. It is commonly used for treating anxiety, insomnia, seizures, muscle spasms, alcohol withdrawal and benzodiazepine withdrawal. It may also be used before certain medical procedures (such as endoscopies) to reduce tension and anxiety, and in some surgical procedures to induce amnesia. Diazepam | |
| Mansion of Many Apartments Mansion_of_Many_Apartments | |
| World War II casualties World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. Tens of millions were killed. The tables below give a detailed country-by-country count of human losses. World_War_II_casualties | |
| Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Focke-Wulf_Fw_190 | |
| Cult of Domesticity The Cult of Domesticity or Cult of True Womanhood (named such by its detractors) was a prevailing view among upper and middle class white women during the nineteenth century, in Great Britain and the United States.According to the ideals of the cult of domesticity, women were supposed to embody perfect virtue in all senses. Cult_of_Domesticity | |
| Barcan formula modal logic, the Barcan formula and the converse Barcan formula state possible relationships between quantifiers and modalities. The Barcan formula is a natural axiom to consider in quantified forms of Clarence Irving Lewis's modal logic S5. It was first discussed by Ruth Barcan Marcus, for whom it is named.Related formulas include the Buridan formula, and the converse Buridan formula. Barcan_formula | |
| Bible Belt Bible Belt is an informal term for an area of the United States in which socially conservative evangelical Protestantism is a dominant part of the culture and Christian church attendance across the denominations is extremely high. Much of the Bible Belt consists of the Southern United States. Bible_Belt | |
| Binomial options pricing model BOPM redirects here; for other uses see BOPM (disambiguation).In finance, the binomial options pricing model (BOPM) provides a generalizable numerical method for the valuation of options. The binomial model was first proposed by Cox, Ross and Rubinstein (1979). Essentially, the model uses a "discrete-time" model of the varying price over time of the underlying financial instrument. Binomial_options_pricing_model | |
| Marble Hill, Manhattan Marble Hill is the northernmost section of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City, Marble_Hill,_Manhattan | |
| Linguistic imperialism Linguistic imperialism, or language imperialism, "involves the transfer of a dominant language to other peoples. The transfer is essentially a demonstration of power—traditionally, military power but also, in the modern world, economic power—and aspects of the dominant culture are usually transferred along with the language." Linguistic_imperialism | |
| Benjamin Rush Benjamin Rush (December 24, 1745 Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and was a physician, writer, educator, humanitarian and a devout Christian, as well as the founder of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.Rush was a signatory of the Declaration of Independence and attended the Continental Congress. Benjamin_Rush |
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