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| Ted Nelson Theodor Holm Nelson (born 1937) is an American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology. He coined the term "hypertext" in 1963 and published it in 1965. He also is credited with first use of the words hypermedia, transclusion, virtuality, intertwingularity and teledildonics. The main thrust of his work has been to make computers easily accessible to ordinary people. His motto is Ted_Nelson | |
| United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration United_Nations_Relief_and_Rehabilitation_Administration | |
| Vint Cerf Vint_Cerf | |
| Vim (text editor) Talk:Vim_(text_editor) | |
| Vietnam War Vietnam_War | |
| Vannevar Bush Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 June 28, 1974; probably ) was an American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and the idea of the memex, which was seen decades later as a pioneering concept for the World Wide Web. Vannevar_Bush | |
| Voortrekkers For the youth organization, see Voortrekkers (youth organization).The Voortrekkers (Afrikaans and Dutch for pioneers, literally "those who trek ahead") were emigrants during the 1830s and 1840s who left the Cape Colony (British at the time, but founded by the Dutch) moving into the interior of what is now South Africa. Voortrekkers | |
| William Gibson William_Gibson | |
| Wake Island Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll, ) is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19 kilometers) in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu (2,300 statute miles or 3,700 km west) to Guam (1,510 miles or 2,430 km east). Wake_Island | |
| Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, historian, writer, and artist. He is the only British Prime Minister who has ever received the Nobel Prize in Literature and the second person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States. Winston_Churchill | |
| Welsh language Welsh (''), is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic spoken natively in Wales, in England by some along the Welsh border and in the Welsh immigrant colony in the Chubut Valley in Argentine Patagonia.There are speakers of Welsh throughout the world, most notably in the rest of Great Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Welsh_language | |
| Winter War The Winter War (, , ) began when the Soviet Union attacked Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the invasion of Poland by Germany that started World War II. Because the attack was judged as illegal, the Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations on 14 December. Russian historians prefer the name Soviet–Finnish War ().The Soviet forces had four times as many soldiers as the Finns, 30 times as many aircraft and 218 times as many tanks. Winter_War | |
| Yiddish language Yiddish ( yidish or idish, literally "Jewish") is a non-territorial High German language of Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. Unlike other Germanic languages, Yiddish is written with the Hebrew alphabet as opposed to a Latin alphabet.The language originated in the Ashkenazi culture that developed from about the 10th century in the Rhineland and then spread to central and eastern Europe and eventually to other continents. Yiddish_language | |
| Z-machine The Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games. Infocom compiled game code to files containing Z-machine instructions (called story files, or Z-code files), and could therefore port all its text adventures to a new platform simply by writing a Z-machine implementation for that platform. Z-machine | |
| Today's New International Version Today's_New_International_Version | |
| Conway's Game of Life The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is the best-known example of a cellular automaton. Conway's_Game_of_Life | |
| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea () is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax. The first illustrated edition (not the original edition which had no illustrations) was published by Hetzel and contains a number of illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou. Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_the_Sea | |
| Proserpina Proserpine (sometimes spelt Proserpine, Prosperine or Prosperina) is an ancient Roman goddess whose story is the basis of a myth of Springtime. Her Greek goddess' equivalent is Persephone. The probable origin of her name comes from the Latin, "proserpere" or "to emerge," in respect to the growing of grain. Proserpina was subsumed by the cult of Proserpina | |
| Jupiter Jupiter | |
| Digital electronics Digital electronics are electronics systems that use digital signals. Digital electronics are representations of Boolean algebra (also see truth tables) and are used in computers, mobile phones, and other consumer products. In a digital circuit, a signal is represented in discrete states or logic levels. Digital_electronics | |
| National Information Infrastructure National Information Infrastructure (NII) was the product of the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991. It was a telecommunications policy buzzword, which was popularized during the Clinton Administration under the leadership of Vice-President Al Gore. National_Information_Infrastructure | |
| Power factor power factor of an AC electric power system is defined as the ratio of the real power flowing to the load to the apparent power, and is a number between 0 and 1 (frequently expressed as a percentage, e.g. 0.5 pf = 50% pf). Real power is the capacity of the circuit for performing work in a particular time. Power_factor | |
| Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne novel) Around the World in Eighty Days () is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club. Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_(Verne_novel) | |
| Fusor The Farnsworth–Hirsch Fusor, or simply fusor, is an apparatus designed by Philo T. Farnsworth to create nuclear fusion. It has also been developed in various incarnations by researchers including Elmore, Tuck, and Watson, and more lately by George Miley and Robert W. Fusor | |
| One Thousand and One Nights For the waltz composed by Johann Strauss, see Tausend und eine Nacht. One_Thousand_and_One_Nights | |
| New Netherland New Netherland, or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the seventeenth-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the northeastern coast of North America. The claimed territories were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod. New_Netherland | |
| Mon language Mon_language | |
| Lee Daniel Crocker User_talk:Lee_Daniel_Crocker | |
| Hieronymus Bosch Hieronymus Bosch (, Dutch , born Jeroen Anthoniszoon van Aken ; c.2 October 1453 August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The artist's work is well-known for the use of fantastic imagery to illustrate moral and religious concepts and narratives. Hieronymus_Bosch | |
| Invasion of Normandy Invasion_of_Normandy | |
| Asparagus Asparagus | |
| Japanese American internment Japanese American internment refers to the forcible relocation and internment of approximately 110,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans to housing facilities called "War Relocation Camps", in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The internment of Japanese Americans was applied unequally throughout the United States. Japanese_American_internment | |
| Fractal art Fractal art is created by calculating fractal objects and representing the calculation results as still images, animations, music, or other media. fractal generating software, iterating through three phasesPhotoshop, are used to further modify the images produced. This is called post-processing. Fractal_art | |
| Caterpillar Caterpillars are the larval form of a member of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths). They are mostly phytophagous in food habit, with some species being entomophagous. Caterpillars are voracious feeders and many of them are considered pests in agriculture. Many moth species are better known in their caterpillar stages because of the damage they cause to fruits and other agricultural produce. Caterpillar | |
| Hans Holbein the Younger Talk:Hans_Holbein_the_Younger | |
| Angela Davis Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American political activist and university professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Davis was also a notable activist during the Civil Rights Movement and a prominent member and political candidate of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). Angela_Davis | |
| Douglas MacArthur General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, GCB (January 26, 1880 American general, United Nations general, and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and later played a prominent role in the Pacific theater of World War II. Douglas_MacArthur | |
| Anwar El Sadat Muhammad Anwar Al Sadat, or Anwar El Sadat (, ) (25 December 1918 - 6 October 1981), was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination on 6 October 1981. He was a senior member of the Free Officers group that overthrew the Muhammad Ali Dynasty in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of Gamal Abdel Nasser, whom he succeeded as President in 1970. Anwar_El_Sadat | |
| Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (, Leonid Il’ich Brezhnev; 10 November 1982) was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (and thus political leader of the Soviet Union) from 1964 to 1982, serving in that position longer than anyone other than Joseph Stalin. He was twice Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state), from 7 May 1960 to 15 July 1964, then from 16 June 1977 to his death on 10 November 1982. Leonid_Brezhnev | |
| Garlic For the former town, see Garlic, California. Garlic | |
| History of Cyprus History_of_Cyprus | |
| Yellow River The Yellow River or Huang He / Hwang Ho (; , Queen river) is the second-longest river in China (after the Yangtze River) and the sixth-longest in the world at 5,464 kilometers (3,398 mi). Originating in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, it flows through nine provinces of China and empties into the Bohai Sea. The Yellow River basin has an east-west extent of 1900 Yellow_River | |
| Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney () (born 13 April 1939 ) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin. Seamus_Heaney | |
| Wiltshire Wiltshire ( or Wiltshire | |
| PT boat PT Boats were a variety of motor torpedo boat (hull classification symbol "PT", for "Patrol Torpedo"), a small, fast vessel used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. The PT boat squadrons were nicknamed "the mosquito fleet". PT_boat | |
| PDP-11 Talk:PDP-11 | |
| Euro coins There are eight coins of the euro, ranging in value from one cent to two euros (each euro is divided into a hundred cents). The coins first came into use in 2002. The coins have a common reverse, portraying a map of Europe, but each country in the Eurozone has its own design on the obverse (including the three European microstates with currency agreementsMonaco, San Marino and the Vatican City State) which means that each coin has a variety of different designs in circulation at once. Euro_coins | |
| Belgian euro coins Belgian euro coins feature only a single design for all eight coinseffigy of King Albert II of the Belgians and his royal monogram. Also part of the design by Jan Alfons Keustermans are the 12 stars of the EU and the year of imprint. Belgian_euro_coins | |
| German euro coins German euro coins have three separate designs for the three series of coins. The 1, 2 and 5 cent coins were designed by Rolf Lederbogen, the design for the 10, 20 and 50 cent coins is by the hand of Reinhard Heinsdorff and the 1 and 2 euro coins were done by Heinz Hoyer and Sneschana Russewa-Hoyer. German_euro_coins | |
| Greek euro coins Greek euro coins feature a unique design for each of the eight coins. They were all designed by Georgios Stamatopoulos with the minor coins depicting Greek ships, the middle ones portraying famous Greeks and the two large denominations showing images of Greek history and mythology. Greek_euro_coins |
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