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| Spanish Empire The Spanish Empire () was one of the largest empires in world history, and one of the first global empires. It included territories and colonies in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania between the 15th and late 19th centuries. Spain also held colonies in Africa until the mid-to-late 20th century. Spanish_Empire | |
| John W. Bricker John William Bricker (September 6, 1893 March 22, 1986) was a United States Senator and Governor of Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, he was the Republican nominee for Vice President in 1944. John_W._Bricker | |
| Tron (film) Tron is a 1982 science fiction film by Disney. It stars Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn (and his briefly seen program counterpart inside the electronic world, Clu), Bruce Boxleitner as Tron and his User Alan Bradley, Cindy Morgan as Yori and Dr. Lora Baines, and Dan Shor as Ram. Tron_(film) | |
| Archive archive is a collection of historical records, and the location in which the collection is kept. Archives contain records (primary source documents) which have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime. The archives of an individual may include letters, papers, photographs, computer files, scrapbooks, financial records or diaries created or collected by the individual – regardless of media or format. Archive | |
| Walnut Talk:Walnut | |
| Eutrochium fistulosum Eutrochium_fistulosum | |
| Eugenie Scott Eugenie Carol Scott (born October 24 1945) is an American physical anthropologist who has been the executive director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) since 1987. She is a leading critic of creationism and intelligent design. Eugenie_Scott | |
| History of gardening This entry concerns the history of ornamental gardening considered as an amenity of civilized life, as a vehicle for style, for conspicuous show and even an expression of philosophy.The history of gardening extends across at least 4,000 years of human civilization. History_of_gardening | |
| List of U.S. state name etymologies list of the origins of the names of U.S. states.The fifty U.S. states have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian:Algonquian languages, seven from Siouan languages (one of those by way of Illinois, an Algonquian language), three from Iroquoian languages, one from a Uto-Aztecan language, and five from other Native American languages. List_of_U.S._state_name_etymologies | |
| The Last Starfighter The Last Starfighter is a 1984 science fiction adventure film directed by Nick Castle. There was a subsequent novelization of the movie by Alan Dean Foster, as well as a video game based on the production. In 2004, it was also adapted as an off-Broadway musical. The_Last_Starfighter | |
| School district School districts are a form of special-purpose district which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools. They exist mostly in the United States, where they operate nearly all government-funded schools. School_district | |
| IELTS IELTS (), or ''standardised test of English language proficiency. It is jointly managed by University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, the British Council and IDP Education Australia, and was established in 1989. IELTS | |
| Asian tiger mosquito The Asian tiger mosquito or forest day mosquito (Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus), from the mosquito family Culicidae, is characterized by its black and white striped legs, and small black and white body. It is native to the tropical and subtropical areas of Southeast Asia; however, in the past couple of decades this species has invaded many countries throughout the world through the transport of goods and increasing international travel. Asian_tiger_mosquito | |
| Freedom of the City Freedom of the City is an honour bestowed by some municipalities in Australia, Canada, Ireland, France, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and Zimbabwe to esteemed members of its community or to organisations that have given the community heroic service; the term applies to two separate honors, one civilian and one military. Key to the City is a similar award made in several other countries, and is more prevalent in the United States. Freedom_of_the_City | |
| Charles Keating Charles Humphrey Keating Jr. (born December 4, 1923) is an American athlete, lawyer, real estate developer, banker, and financier, most known for his role in the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s.Keating was a champion swimmer for the University of Cincinnati in the 1940s. From the late 1950s through the 1970s, he was a noted anti-pornography crusader, founding decency organizations and serving as a dissenting member on the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. Charles_Keating | |
| Computer art Computer art is any art in which computers played a role in production or display of the artwork. Such art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, videogame, web site, algorithm, performance or gallery installation. Many traditional disciplines are now integrating digital technologies and, as a result, the lines between traditional works of art and new media works created using computers has been blurred. Computer_art | |
| Ulmus glabra 'Camperdownii' The Camperdown Elm Ulmus glabra ''cultivar which cannot reproduce from seed. Although still classed as a cultivar of U. glabra, the tree was considered a nothomorph of U. × hollandica var. vegeta by Green (1964), not U. glabra . Ulmus_glabra_'Camperdownii' | |
| Fathers' rights movement The fathers' rights movement is a movement whose members are primarily interested in issues related to family law, including child custody and child support that affect fathers and their children. Many of its members are fathers who desire to share the parenting of their children equally with their children's mother - either after divorce or as unwed fathers. Women, including the second wives, girlfriends or close relatives of these fathers, are also members of the fathers' rights movement. Fathers'_rights_movement | |
| Origin of the Romanians The Romanians (also sometimes referred to along with related Balkan Latin peoples as Vlachs) are a people speaking Romanian, a Romance language, and living in Central and Eastern Europe. Origin_of_the_Romanians | |
| Sliding mode control control theory, sliding mode control, or SMC, is a form of variable structure control (VSC). It is a nonlinear control method that alters the dynamics of a nonlinear system by application of a high-frequency switching control. The state-feedback control law is not a continuous function of time. Sliding_mode_control | |
| William J. Hardee William Joseph Hardee (October 12, 1815 U.S. Army officer, serving during the Second Seminole War and fighting in the Mexican-American War. He also served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and his pre-Civil War writings about military tactics were well known and widely used on both sides of the conflict. William_J._Hardee | |
| Wilmer McLean Wilmer McLean (May 3, 1814 June 5, 1882) was a wholesale grocer from Virginia. It is said that the American Civil War started in Wilmer McLean's front yard and ended in his front parlor. The initial enagagements on July 18, 1861, in what would become the First Battle of Bull Run, fought on July 21, took place on McLean's farm, the Yorkshire Plantation, in Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia. Wilmer_McLean | |
| Graphics Graphics (from Greek ; see -graphy) are visual presentations on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to brand, inform, illustrate, or entertain. Examples are photographs, drawings, Line Art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings, or other images. Graphics | |
| Long-legged sac spider The long-legged sac spiders (family Miturgidae) include nearly 400 species in about 30 genera worldwide. The largest genus currently recognized as belonging to this family is Cheiracanthium, which used to be placed in the family of "true" sac spider, Clubionidae. Long-legged_sac_spider | |
| Great American streetcar scandal The Great American streetcar scandal (also known as the General Motors streetcar conspiracy and the National City Lines conspiracy) is a conspiracy in which streetcar systems throughout the United States were dismantled and replaced with buses in the mid-20th century as a result of illegal actions by a number of prominent companies, acting through National City Lines (NCL), Pacific City Lines (on the West Coast, starting in 1938), and American City Lines (in large cities, starting in 1943). Great_American_streetcar_scandal | |
| Flashtube A flashtube, also called a flashlamp, is an electric glow discharge lamp designed to produce extremely intense, incoherent, full-spectrum white light for very short durations. Flashtube | |
| Historiography of the French Revolution historiography of the French Revolution stretches back over two hundred years, as commentators and historians have sought to answer questions regarding the origins of the Revolution, and its meaning and effects. Historiography_of_the_French_Revolution | |
| Cramp For the heraldic device, see cramp (heraldry); for the band, see The CrampsCramps are unpleasant, often painful sensations caused by contraction or over-shortening of muscles. Cramps can be caused by cold, overexertion or low calcium level in blood (especially for adolescents where they need calcium for both blood and bone maturing). Illness or poisoning can also cause cramps, particularly in the stomach, which is referred to as colic if it fits particular characteristics. Cramp | |
| Soil test agriculture, a soil test is the analysis of a soil sample to determine nutrient content, composition and other characteristics, including contaminants. Tests are usually performed to measure fertility and indicate deficiencies that need to be remedied. Soil_test | |
| Integrated pest management In agriculture, integrated pest management (IPM) is a pest control strategy that uses a variety of complementary strategies includingecological approach with a main goal of significantly reducing or eliminating the use of pesticides while at the same time managing pest populations at an acceptable level.For their leadership in developing and spreading IPM worldwide, Dr. Perry Adkisson and Dr. Ray F. Smith received the 1997 World Food Prize. Integrated_pest_management | |
| Cinema of Hong Kong The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China, and the cinema of Taiwan. As a former British colony, Hong Kong had a greater degree of political and economic freedom than mainland China and Taiwan, and developed into a filmmaking hub for the Chinese-speaking world (including its worldwide diaspora) and for East Asia in general. Cinema_of_Hong_Kong | |
| Académie française Talk:Académie_française | |
| Paper wasp Paper wasps are 3/4 inch to 1 inch (2-2.5 cm)-long wasps that gather fibers from dead wood and plant stems, which they mix with saliva, and use to construct water-resistant nests made of gray or brown papery material. Paper wasps are also sometimes called umbrella wasps, due to the distinctive design of their nests or other regional variants such as Trinidad & Tobago's use of Jack Spaniard. Paper_wasp | |
| Lorestān Province Lorestān or Luristan, (Persian لرستان; Luri لُرِسّو Luressu) comprises a province and a historic territory of western Iran amidst the Zagros Mountains.The population of Lorestān is calculated 1,716,527 people in 2006 Lorestān_Province | |
| Die Hard 2 Die Hard 2, promotionally known as Die Hard 2, is a 1990 action film, and the first sequel in the Die Hard series. It was directed by Renny Harlin, and stars Bruce Willis, who reprises his role as John McClane. The film co-stars Bonnie Bedelia (reprising her role as Holly McClane), William Sadler, William Atherton reprising his role as Richard (Dick) Thornberg, Franco Nero, Dennis Franz, Fred Thompson, John Amos, and Reginald VelJohnson who makes a cameo appearance as Sgt. Al Powell. Die_Hard_2 | |
| Visual poetry Visual_poetry | |
| Asian Palm Civet The Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus), also known as the Common Palm Civet or the Toddy Cat, is a cat-sized mammal in the family Viverridae native to South-east Asia and southern China. Asian_Palm_Civet | |
| College and university rankings Talk:College_and_university_rankings | |
| Xidian University Xidian University (西安电子科技大学) is a university located in Xi'an, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China. The university is regarded by some as having strong science and engineering programs.Xidian University is among an elite class of institutes for higher education selected nationally as part of China's State educational development project labeled "211". Xidian_University | |
| Lin Haiyin Lin Haiyin (林海音; March 18, 1918 - December 1, 2001) was a Taiwanese writer of Chinese ethnicity. She is now best remembered for her sensitive memoir 城南舊事 (Chengnan Jiushi, "My Memories of Old Beijing", 1960), which is a novelistic tribute to her childhood reminiscences of Beijing.Born in Osaka, Japan, where her father (Jiaoling, Guangdong origin) worked as a merchant, Lin's parents moved first to Taiwan before settling in Beijing when she was 5. Lin_Haiyin | |
| William Forsythe (dancer) William Forsythe (born December 30 1949 in New York City) is an American dancer and choreographer resident in Frankfurt am Main in Hessen. He is known internationally for his work with the Ballett Frankfurt (1984-2004) and The Forsythe Company (2005 - present). William_Forsythe_(dancer) | |
| Hocking River Hocking River is a tributary of the Ohio River in southeastern Ohio in the United States.The Hocking flows mostly on the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau, but its headwaters are in a glaciated region. It rises in Bloom Township in Fairfield County and flows generally southeastwardly through Fairfield, Hocking, and Athens Counties, through the Hocking Hills region and past the cities of Lancaster, Logan, Nelsonville, Athens and Coolville. Hocking_River | |
| Harvey Pekar Harvey Lawrence Pekar (born October 8, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio; ) is an American underground comic book writer best known for his autobiographical American Splendor series. In 2003, the series inspired a critically acclaimed film adaptation of the same name. Harvey_Pekar | |
| Battle of Perryville Battle_of_Perryville | |
| Lyocell Lyocell is a fiber made from wood pulp cellulose. It was first manufactured in 1987 by Courtaulds Fibres UK at their pilot plant S25. The only current manufacturer in the United States is Lenzing Inc, who market it under the trademarked brand name Tencel. There is another larger plant with over twice as much capacity at Grimsby in the United Kingdom.The Federal Trade Commission defines Lyocell as "a cellulose fabric that is obtained by an organic solvent spinning process". Lyocell | |
| Barbary Coast Barbary Coast, or Barbary, was the term used by Europeans from the 16th until the 19th century to refer to the middle and western coastal regions of North Africa—what is now Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. The name is derived from the Berber people of north Africa. In the West, the name commonly evokes the Barbary pirates and slave traders based on that coast, who attacked ships and coastal settlements in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic and captured and traded s Barbary_Coast | |
| Mile-a-minute weed Mile-a-minute weed (Persicaria perfoliata, formerly Polygonum perfoliatum), also known as Devil's tail tearthumb, Asiatic tearthumb, Gangbangui, or Devil Shield, is an herbaceous annual, trailing vine in the buckwheat family, Polygonaceae. It has a reddish stem that is armed with downward pointing hooks or barbs which are also present on the underside of the leaf blades. Mile-a-minute_weed | |
| Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association The MIVA (Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) is a college athletic conference whose member schools compete in men's volleyball. Its member institutions are located in the Midwestern United States, stretching from Illinois in the west to Ohio in the east. Many of the conference's schools also participate in the similarly-named Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association in men's volleyball at the club level. Midwestern_Intercollegiate_Volleyball_Association | |
| Jin (rapper) Jin Au-Yeung (; born June 4, 1982), who performs under the mononym Jin, is a Chinese American rapper, songwriter and actor. He is the first Asian American solo rapper to be signed to a major record label. Jin_(rapper) | |
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