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| Hakodate, Hokkaidō is a city and port located in Oshima, Hokkaidō, Japan. It is the capital city of Oshima Subprefecture.As of March 2008, the city has an estimated population of 287,691 and a density of 442.24 persons per km². The total area is 677.77 Hakodate,_Hokkaidō | |
| August Vollmer August "Gus" Vollmer (March 7, 1876 - November 4, 1955) was a leading figure in the development of the field of criminal justice in the United States in the early 20th century. He was also the first police chief of Berkeley, California. August_Vollmer | |
| José Rizal José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (June 19, 1861 ancestral home:Quanzhou, Fujian), was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He is considered the Philippines' national hero and the anniversary of Rizal's death is commemorated as a Philippine holiday called Rizal Day. Rizal's 1896 military trial and execution made him a martyr of the Philippine Revolution. José_Rizal | |
| Walter Lantz Walter Benjamin Lantz (April 27 1899 March 22 1994) was an American cartoonist and animator, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker. Walter_Lantz | |
| Inland Empire (California) Inland_Empire_(California) | |
| Charles Mathews Charles Mathews (June 28, 1776, London - June 28, 1835, Devonport) was an English theatre manager and comic actor, well-known during his time for his gift for impersonation. His play, At Home, in which he played every character, was the first monopolylogue and the defining work in the genre. Charles_Mathews | |
| Scripps Institution of Oceanography Scripps Institution of Oceanography (sometimes referred to as SIO, Scripps Oceanography or just Scripps) in La Jolla, California, is one of the oldest and largest centers for ocean and earth science research, graduate training, and public service in the world. Scripps_Institution_of_Oceanography | |
| Japanese art Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture in wood and bronze, ink painting on silk and paper, and a myriad of other types of works of art. It also has a long history, ranging from the beginnings of human habitation in Japan, sometime in the 10th millennium BC, to the present. Japanese_art | |
| Isotretinoin Isotretinoin (INN) () is a medication used for the treatment of moderate to severe acne. It was first developed to be used as a chemotherapy medication for the treatment of brain cancer, pancreatic cancer and more. It is still used in the treatment of these cancers to this day because of its ability to kill cells off that divide too quickly. Isotretinoin | |
| University of California, Riverside University_of_California,_Riverside | |
| Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (also known as Case) is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio. It was created in 1967 by the federation of Case Institute of Technology (founded in 1881 by philanthropist Leonard Case Jr.) and Western Reserve University (founded in 1826 in the area that was once the Connecticut Western Reserve).Case Western Reserve is the largest independent research university in the state of Ohio. Case_Western_Reserve_University | |
| Krill Krill are a type of shrimp-like marine invertebrate animal. These small crustaceans are important organisms of the zooplankton, particularly as food for baleen whales, manta rays, whale sharks, crabeater seals, and other seals, and a few seabird species that feed almost exclusively on them. Another name is euphausiids, after their taxonomic order Euphausiacea. The name krill comes from the Norwegian word meaning "young fry of fish," which is also often attributed to other species of fish. Krill | |
| Aspasia Aspasia (ca. 470 BC Aspasia | |
| Hyperborea In Greek mythology, according to tradition, the Hyperboreans were a mythical people who lived far to the north of Thrace. The Greeks thought that Boreas, the North Wind, lived in Thrace, and that therefore Hyperborea was an unspecified region in the northern lands that lay beyond Scythia. Hyperborea | |
| Nablus Nablus (sometimes Nābulus; ; ; , Šəḫem) is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank, approximately north of Jerusalem, with a population of 134,000. Located in a strategic position between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, it is the capital of the Nablus Governorate and a Palestinian commercial and cultural center.Founded by the Roman Emperor Vespasian in 72 CE as Flavia Neapolis, Nablus has been ruled by many empires over the course of its almost 2,000 year long history. Nablus | |
| Outsourcing Outsourcing is subcontracting a process, such as product design or manufacturing, to a third-party company. The decision to outsource is often made in the interest of lowering cost or making better use of time and energy costs, redirecting or conserving energy directed at the competencies of a particular business, or to make more efficient use of land, labor, capital, (information) technology and resources . Outsourcing | |
| Robert Creeley Robert Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. Robert_Creeley | |
| Onsen An is a term for hot springs in the Japanese language, though the term is often used describe the bathing facilities and inns around the hot springs. A volcanically active country, Japan has thousands of onsen scattered along its length and breadth. Onsen were traditionally used as public bathing places and today play a central role in directing Japanese domestic tourism.Onsen come in many types and shapes, including and indoor baths. Onsen | |
| Religious terrorism Religious terrorism is terrorism by those whose motivations and aims have a predominant religious character or influence.According to Mark Juergensmeyer, religious terrorism consists of acts that terrify, the definition of which is provided by the witnesses - the ones terrified - and not by the party committing the act; accompanied by either a religious motivation, justification, organization, or world view. Religious_terrorism | |
| Delusional parasitosis Delusional parasitosis (also known as "Delusions of parasitosis") is a form of psychosis or false belief, a "loss of contact with reality". In delusional parasitosis, sufferers have a strong delusional belief that they are infested with parasites, whereas in reality no such parasites are present. Very often the imaginary parasites are reported as being "bugs" crawling on or under the skin; in these cases the experience of the sensation known as formication may be the basis for this belief. Delusional_parasitosis | |
| Yoshiwara For the Yoshiwara nightclub in the 1927 Fritz Lang film see Metropolis.Yoshiwara (吉原) was a famous Akasen district (red-light district) in Edo, present-day Tōkyō, Japan.In the early 17th century, there was widespread male and female prostitution throughout the cities of Kyoto, Edo, and Osaka. To counter this, an order of Tokugawa Hidetada of the Tokugawa shogunate restricted prostitution to designated city districts. These districts were Shimabara for Kyōto (1640), Shinmachi for Ōsaka (1624–1644 Yoshiwara | |
| Book sources Wikipedia:Book_sources | |
| Skellig Michael Skellig Michael (from Sceilig Mhichíl in the Irish language, meaning Michael's rock), also known as Great Skellig, is a steep rocky island about 15 kilometres west off the coast of County Kerry, Ireland. It is the larger of the two Skellig Islands. Christian monks. An Irish Celtic monastery, which is situated almost at the summit of the 230-metre-high rock, was built in 588, and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. It is one of Europe's better known but least accessible monasteries. Skellig_Michael | |
| Raytheon Raytheon Company () is a major American defense contractor and industrial corporation with core manufacturing concentrations in defense systems and defense and commercial electronics. It was previously involved in corporate and special-mission aircraft until early 2007. Raytheon | |
| Ampex Ampex () is an American electronics company founded in 1944 by Alexander M. Poniatoff. The name AMPEX is an acronym, created by its founder, which stands for Alexander M. Poniatoff Excellence. Ampex | |
| Josephine Baker Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was an African American expatriate entertainer and actress. She became a French citizen in 1937. Most noted as a singer, Baker also was a celebrated dancer in her early career. She was given the nicknames the "Bronze Venus" or the "Black Pearl", as well as the "Créole Goddess" in anglophone nations. In France, she has always been known as "La Baker". Josephine_Baker | |
| Stokely Carmichael Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael (June 29, 1941 November 15, 1998), also known as Kwame Toure, was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced "Snick") and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party. Initially an integrationist, Carmichael later became affiliated with black nationalist and Pan-Africanist movements. Stokely_Carmichael | |
| Lena Horne Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (born June 30, 1917) is an American singer and actress. She has recorded and performed extensively, independently and with other jazz notables, including Artie Shaw, Teddy Wilson, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Charlie Barnet, Benny Carter, and Billy Eckstine. She currently lives in New York City and no longer makes public appearances. Lena_Horne | |
| Pomo people The Pomo people are a linguistic branch of Native American people of Northern California. Their historic territory was on the Pacific Coast between Cleone and Duncans Point, and inland to Clear Lake. A separate group speaking a language of the same family, called the Northeastern Pomo, also lived near Stonyford. Pomo_people | |
| Donner Party Donner Party was a group of California-bound American emigrants caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–1847, some of them resorted to cannibalism.The nucleus of the party consisted of the families of George Donner, his brother Jacob, and James F. Donner_Party | |
| Harrison Gray Otis Harrison Gray Otis (February 10, 1837 Los Angeles Times. Born in Medina County, Ohio, he was part of the Republican National Convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln for president. He volunteered for the Union army during the American Civil War and fought in William McKinley's regiment, the 23rd Ohio Infantry. After the war, he worked as a publisher before moving to California. Harrison_Gray_Otis | |
| Eugène François Vidocq Eugène François Vidocq (July 23, 1775 May 11, 1857) was a French criminal who later became the first director of Sûreté Nationale and one of the first modern private investigators. Vidocq was Victor Hugo's inspiration for both reformed criminal Jean Valjean and his pursuer, police inspector Javert, in the novel Les Misérables. Eugène_François_Vidocq | |
| Fresno, California/Archive 1 Talk:Fresno,_California/Archive_1 | |
| Lipoma A lipoma is a benign tumor composed of fatty tissue. These are the most common form of soft tissue tumor. Lipomas are soft to the touch, usually moveable, and are generally painless. Many lipomas are small (under one centimeter diameter) but can enlarge to sizes greater than six centimeters. Lipoma | |
| Ohlone The Ohlone people, also known as the Costanoan, are the indigenous people of Northern California who occupied the areas around San Francisco Bay, Monterey Bay, and the lower Salinas Valley when the Spanish arrived in the late-18th century. At that time they spoke a variety of languages belonging to the Costanoan sub-family of the Utian language family, which itself belongs to the proposed Penutian language phylum or stock. Ohlone | |
| Young Turks The Young Turks ( (plural), from French:Jeunes Turcs) were a coalition of various groups favoring reformation of the administration of the Ottoman Empire. The movement was against the monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a re-installation of the Kanûn-ı Esâsî and they established the second constitutional era in 1908 with what is to become known as the Young Turk Revolution. Young_Turks | |
| James Burnham James Burnham (1905–1987) was an American popular political theorist, best known for his influential work The Managerial Revolution, published in 1941. Burnham was a radical activist in the 1930s and an important factional leader of the American Trotskyist movement, while in later years, he turned to conservatism and served as a public intellectual of the conservative movement. James_Burnham | |
| Prediction market Prediction markets (also known as predictive markets, information markets, decision markets, idea futures, event derivatives, or virtual markets) are speculative markets created for the purpose of making predictions. Assets are created whose final cash value is tied to a particular event (e.g., Prediction_market | |
| Satellite temperature measurements Talk:Satellite_temperature_measurements | |
| Yuen Ren Chao Yuen Ren Chao (1892 Chinese American linguist and amateur composer. He made important contributions to the modern study of Chinese phonology and grammar.Besides helping to shape the Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a Chinese romanization scheme, Chao is also credited with inventing a notation for transcribing tonal pitch variation in spoken languages. Yuen_Ren_Chao | |
| Surfing Talk:Surfing | |
| Pimozide Pimozide (sold as Orap) is an antipsychotic drug. It was discovered at Janssen Pharmaceutica in 1963. It has a high potency compared to chlorpromazine (ratio 50-70haloperidol. It also has special neurologic indications for Tourette syndrome and resistant tics. The side effects include akathisia, tardive dyskinesia, and, more rarely, neuroleptic malignant syndrome and long QT syndrome. Pimozide | |
| Ocean sunfish The ocean sunfish, Mola mola, or common mola, is the heaviest known bony fish in the world. It has an average adult weight of . The species is native to tropical and temperate waters around the globe. It resembles a fish head with a tail, and its main body is flattened laterally. Sunfish can be as tall as they are long when their dorsal and ventral fins are extended. Ocean_sunfish | |
| Paul de Man Paul de Man (December 6, 1919 December 21, 1983) was a Belgian-born deconstructionist literary critic and theorist. He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in the late 1950s. He then taught at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Zurich, before ending up on the faculty in French and Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he was considered part of the Yale School of deconstruction. Paul_de_Man | |
| Kitty Genovese Talk:Kitty_Genovese | |
| Vietnamese American A Vietnamese American () is an American of Vietnamese descent. They make up about half of all overseas Vietnamese (Việt Kiều) and are the fourth-largest Asian American group.Mass Vietnamese immigration to the United States started after 1975, after the end of the Vietnam War. Vietnamese_American | |
| David Starr Jordan David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. (January 19, 1851 September 19, 1931) was a leading eugenicist, ichthyologist (the study of fish), educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University.Jordan was born in Gainesville, New York, and studied at Cornell University, Butler University, and the Indiana University School of Medicine. In 1885, he was named President of Indiana University, becoming the nation's youngest university president at age 34. David_Starr_Jordan | |
| Marie-Antoine Carême Marie Antoine (Antonin) Carême (c.June 1784haute cuisine, the "high art" of French cookingcelebrity chefs. Marie-Antoine_Carême | |
| Hypersensitivity Hypersensitivity (also called hypersensitivity reaction) refers to undesirable (damaging, discomfort-producing and sometimes fatal) reactions produced by the normal immune system. Hypersensitivity reactions require a pre-sensitized (immune) state of the host. The four-group classification was expounded by P. H. G. Gell and Robin Coombs in 1963. Hypersensitivity | |
| Ethnic issues in Japan Ethnic_issues_in_Japan |
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