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| List of anthems of UN member states Most nations have anthems, defined as "a song, as of praise, devotion, or patriotism"; most anthems are either marches or hymns in style. A hymn can become a national anthem by a provision in the state's constitution, by a law enacted by its legislature, or simply by tradition. List_of_anthems_of_UN_member_states | |
| New Jersey New_Jersey | |
| Natural gas Natural gas is a gas consisting primarily of methane. It is found associated with fossil fuels, in coal beds, as methane clathrates, and is created by methanogenic organisms in marshes, bogs, and landfills. It is an important fuel source, a major feedstock for fertilizers, and a potent greenhouse gas.Natural gas is often informally referred to as simply gas, especially when compared to other energy sources such as electricity. Natural_gas | |
| Nuclear power Nuclear_power | |
| Oboe The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois", "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French word hautbois, a compound word made of haut ("high, loud") and bois ("wood, woodwind"). Oboe | |
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 adventure film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning. Set in 1937 Mississippi during the Great Depression, the film's imaginative story is loosely based on Homer’s Odyssey. O_Brother,_Where_Art_Thou? | |
| Oscar Peterson Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, CC, CQ, O.Ont. (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a highly regarded Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty. Oscar_Peterson | |
| Olympic Games Olympic_Games | |
| Poincaré conjecture mathematics, the Poincaré conjecture (French, ) is a theorem about the characterization of the three-dimensional sphere among three-dimensional manifolds. It began as a popular, important conjecture, but is now considered a theorem to the satisfaction of the awarders of the Fields medal. Poincaré_conjecture | |
| Pope Pius XII Pope Pius XII (), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (March 2, 1876 – OctoberPope, head of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City, from March 2, 1939 until his death in 1958. Pope_Pius_XII | |
| Paul Reubens Paul Reubens (born Paul Rubenfeld; August 27, 1952) is an American actor, writer, film producer, and comedian, best-known for his character Pee-wee Herman. Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe The Groundlings in the 1970s and started his career as an improvisational comedian and stage actor. Paul_Reubens | |
| Passenger Pigeon The passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) or wild pigeon was a species of pigeon that was once the most common bird in North America. It lived in enormous flocks. During migration, flocks could be 1 mile (1.6km) wide and 300Some estimate that there were three billion to five billion passenger pigeons in the United States when Europeans arrived in North America. Passenger_Pigeon | |
| Phonograph The record player, phonograph or gramophone was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s. Phonograph | |
| Pete Best Pete Best (b. 24 November 1941, in Madras, British India) is a British musician, best known as the original drummer for The Beatles.After moving from India to Liverpool in 1945, Best's mother, Mona Best (1924-1988) started The Casbah Coffee Club in the cellar of the Best's house in Liverpool, which became very popularThe Quarrymen) played some of their first concerts. Pete_Best | |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 February 9, 1906) was a seminal American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dunbar gained national recognition for his 1896 Lyrics of a Lowly Life, one poem in the collection Ode to Ethiopia. In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Paul Laurence Dunbar on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans. Paul_Laurence_Dunbar | |
| Perception In philosophy, psychology, and the cognitive sciences, perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of sensory information. It is a task far more complex than was imagined in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was predicted that building perceiving machines would take about a decade, a goal which is still very far from fruition. The word comes from the Latin words perceptio, percipio, and means "receiving, collecting, action of taking possession, apprehension with the mind or senses." Perception | |
| Quarantine Quarantine is voluntary or compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often but not always disease. The word comes from the Italian (seventeenth century Venetian) language Italian quarantena, meaning forty day period. Quarantine | |
| Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981Governor of California (1967Tampico, Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s. He began a career in filmmaking and later television, making 52 films and gaining enough success to make him a household name. Ronald_Reagan | |
| Radon Radon () is a chemical element with symbol Rn and atomic number 86. Radon is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, naturally occurring, radioactive noble gas that is formed from the decay of radium. It is one of the heaviest substances that remains a gas under normal conditions and is considered to be a health hazard. Radon | |
| Racism Racism is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. In the case of institutional racism, certain racial groups may be denied rights or benefits, or get preferential treatment, while reverse racism favours members of a historically disadvantaged group at the expense of those of a historically advantaged group. Racism | |
| Race (classification of human beings) The term race or racial group usually refers to the categorization of humans into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of heritable characteristics. The most widely used human racial categories are based on salient traits (especially skin color, cranial or facial features and hair texture), and self-identification. Race_(classification_of_human_beings) | |
| Rwanda Rwanda | |
| Ralph Nader Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an American attorney, author, lecturer, political activist, and perennial candidate for presidency as an independent candidate for President of the United States in 2004 and 2008, and a Green Party candidate in 1996 and 2000. Ralph_Nader | |
| Raymond Kurzweil Raymond Kurzweil () (born February 12, 1948) is an inventor and futurist. He has been a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Raymond_Kurzweil | |
| Robert Anton Wilson Talk:Robert_Anton_Wilson | |
| Robert M. Pirsig Robert Maynard Pirsig (born September 6, 1928, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American writer and philosopher, mainly known as the author of the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974), which has sold over four million copies around the world. Robert_M._Pirsig | |
| Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KCSG (born 11 March, 1931), usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born American global media mogul. He owns media outlets and is a major shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation (News Corp). Beginning with one newspaper in Adelaide, Murdoch acquired and started other publications in his native Australia before expanding News Corp into the UK, US and Asian media markets. Rupert_Murdoch | |
| Historical revisionism (negationism) For the critical re-examination of historical facts see Historical revisionism.Historical revisionism is either the legitimate scholastic correction of existing knowledge about an historical event, or the illegitimate distortion of the historical record such that certain events appear in a more or less favourable light. For the former, i.e. the academic pursuit, see historical revisionism. This article deals solely with the latter, i.e. the illegitimate kind, which Historical_revisionism_(negationism) | |
| Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (), also known by the acronym of FARC or FARC-EP, is a self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization.FARC is a Violent non-state actor (VNSA), considered a terrorist group by the Colombian government, the United States Department of State, Canada and the European Union. Revolutionary_Armed_Forces_of_Colombia | |
| Ron Popeil Ronald M. Popeil (born May 3, 1935 in New York City; ) is an American inventor and marketing personality, best known for his direct response marketing company Ronco. He is well known for his appearances in infomercials for the Showtime Rotisserie ("Set it, and forget it!" Ron_Popeil | |
| Radio Row The phrase Radio Row is a nickname for an urban street or district specializing in the sale of radio and electronic equipment and parts. Radio Rows arose in many cities with the 1920s rise of broadcasting and declined after mid century. Radio_Row | |
| Racial segregation Racial segregation is the separation of different racial groups in daily life, such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a rest room, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home. Segregation may be mandated by law or exist through social norms. Racial_segregation | |
| Conversion therapy Conversion therapy (sometimes called reparative therapy) is therapy aimed at changing sexual orientation. Austrian writers who influenced the development of conversion therapy included Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Eugen Steinach, Sandor Rado, and Edmund Bergler. Conversion_therapy | |
| Rosa Parks Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement."On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. Rosa_Parks | |
| Roald Hoffmann Roald Hoffmann (born July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He currently teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Roald_Hoffmann | |
| Robert Moog Dr. Robert Arthur Moog ( to rhyme with "vogue") (May 23, 1934 August 21, 2005) was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer. Robert_Moog | |
| Steve Reich Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American composer who pioneered the style of minimalist music. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (examples are his early compositions, It's Gonna Rain and Come Out), and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts (for instance, Pendulum Music and Four Organs). Steve_Reich | |
| Simon & Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel is an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl." As Simon and Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, backed by the hit single "The Sound of Silence." Their music was featured in the landmark film The Graduate, propelling them further into the public consciousness. Simon_&_Garfunkel | |
| Stephen King Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American writer of contemporary horror fiction, science fiction, fantasy literature, and screenplays. An estimated 300 of King's novels and short story anthologies have been sold, and many of his stories have been adapted for film, television, and other media. King has written a number of books using the pen name Richard Bachman, and one short story, "The Fifth Quarter", as John Swithen. Stephen_King | |
| Rock-paper-scissors Rock-paper-scissors (also known as paper-scissors-rock, scissors-paper-stone, jan-ken-pon, rochambeau (sometimes spelled roshambo) and many derived terms), is a two-person hand game. Rock-paper-scissors | |
| Sheryl Crow Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock, country, pop and folk, into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards. Crow is also a political activist.She has performed with the Rolling Stones and has sung duets with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton and Kid Rock, among others. Crow's recordings have appeared on the soundtracks to Cars, Erin Brockovich and Tomorrow Never Dies, among many others. Sheryl_Crow | |
| Steven Soderbergh Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963) is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing the films sex, lies, and videotape, Erin Brockovich, Traffic, the Ocean's Eleven franchise, and his biopic Che. Steven_Soderbergh | |
| Seattle Mariners The Seattle Mariners are an American professional baseball team based in Seattle, Washington. Enfranchised in , the Mariners are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Safeco Field has been the Mariners' home ballpark since July ; from their 1977 inception until June 1999, the club's home park was the Kingdome. Seattle_Mariners | |
| Steampunk Steampunk is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. Steampunk | |
| Stem cell Stem cells are cells found in most, if not all, multi-cellular organisms. They are characterized by the ability to renew themselves through mitotic cell division and differentiating into a diverse range of specialized cell types. Research in the stem cell field grew out of findings by Canadian scientists Ernest A. McCulloch and James E. Till in the 1960s. embryonic stem cells that are isolated from the inner cell mass of blastocysts, and adult stem cells that are found in adult tissues. In a Stem_cell | |
| Schizophrenia Schizophrenia | |
| Szechuan cuisine Szechuan cuisine, Szechwan cuisine, or Sichuan cuisine () is a style of Chinese cuisine originating in Sichuan Province of southwestern China famed for bold flavors, particularly the pungency and spiciness resulting from liberal use of garlic and chili peppers, as well as the unique flavour of the Sichuan peppercorn (花椒). Although the region is now romanized as Sichuan, the cuisine is still sometimes spelled ''''Chongqing style, Chengdu style, Zigong style, and Buddhist vegetarian style. Szechuan_cuisine | |
| South Carolina South_Carolina | |
| South Park South_Park | |
| String theory String theory is a developing branch of theoretical physics that combines quantum mechanics and general relativity into a quantum theory of gravity. The strings of string theory are one-dimensional oscillating lines, but they are no longer considered fundamental to the theory, which can be formulated in terms of points or surfaces, too. String_theory |
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