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| Rear Window Rear Window is a 1954 suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by John Michael Hayes, based on Cornell Woolrich's short story "It Had to Be Murder", and starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey and Raymond Burr. The film is considered by many film-goers, critics, and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best and most thrilling pictures. Rear_Window | |
| Seneca the Younger Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger) (c. 4 BC AD 65) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. He was later executed by that emperor for complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate this last of the Julio-Claudian emperors; however, he may have been innocent. Seneca_the_Younger | |
| Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. The grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, he was born to a notable Jewish family which later converted to Christianity. Felix_Mendelssohn | |
| Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( or Antonín_Dvořák | |
| Golden Fleece Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece () is the fleece of the winged ram Chrysomallos (Χρυσόμαλλος). It figures in the tale of Jason and his band of Argonauts, who set out on a quest for the fleece in order to place Jason rightfully on the throne of Iolcus in Thessaly. Golden_Fleece | |
| Rutgers University Rutgers_University | |
| LIGO For the Latvian holiday Ligo, see Jāņi.LIGO, which stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, is a large physics experiment which is attempting to directly detect gravitational waves. Cofounded in 1992 by Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever of Caltech and Rainer Weiss of MIT, LIGO is a joint project between scientists at MIT and Caltech. LIGO | |
| Hymen The hymen is a fold of mucous membrane which surrounds or partially covers the external vaginal opening. It forms part of the vulva, or external genitalia. A slang term for hymen is "cherry", as in "popping one's cherry" to mean losing one's virginity. Hymen | |
| Everglades Everglades is also the name of a city in Collier County, Florida.The Everglades are subtropical wetlands located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large watershed. The system begins near Orlando with the Kissimmee River, which discharges into the vast but shallow Lake Okeechobee. Water leaving the lake in the wet Everglades | |
| Charles Gounod Charles_Gounod | |
| Christa McAuliffe Christa_McAuliffe | |
| Deutsche Mark The Deutsche Mark (DEM, DM) or German mark was the official currency of West Germany and, from 1990 until the adoption of the euro, all of unified Germany. It was first issued under Allied occupation in 1948 replacing the Reichsmark, and served as the Federal Republic of Germany's official currency from its founding the following year until 1999, when the Mark was replaced by the euro; its coins and banknotes remained in circulation, defined in terms of euros, until the introduction of euro notes and coins in early 2002. Deutsche_Mark | |
| Eisenhower Doctrine Eisenhower Doctrine was announced by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a message to the United States Congress on January 5, 1957. Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state. Eisenhower_Doctrine | |
| Manifest Destiny Manifest Destiny is the historical belief that the United States is destined, even divinely ordained, to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean. Sometimes Manifest Destiny was interpreted so widely as to include the eventual absorption of all North America Manifest_Destiny | |
| Hidden Markov model hidden Markov model (HMM) is a statistical model in which the system being modeled is assumed to be a Markov process with unobserved state. An HMM can be considered as the simplest dynamic Bayesian network.In a regular Markov model, the state is directly visible to the observer, and therefore the state transition probabilities are the only parameters. Hidden_Markov_model | |
| List of people in systems and control system analysis and control theory. List_of_people_in_systems_and_control | |
| Dan Rather Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr. (born October 31, 1931) is a journalist and former news anchor for the CBS Evening News and is now managing editor and anchor of a television news magazine, Dan Rather Reports, on the cable channel HDNet. Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9, 1981 to March 9, 2005. He also contributed to CBS' 60 Minutes. Rather left CBS Evening News in 2005 and the network itself in 2006. Dan_Rather | |
| Flat Earth Society Flat Earth Society (also known as the International Flat Earth Society or International Flat Earth Research Society) was an organization that sought to further the belief that the Earth is flat rather than a sphere. The modern organization was founded by Englishman Samuel Shenton in 1956, and later led by Charles K. Flat_Earth_Society | |
| Dietary supplement A dietary supplement, also known as food supplement or nutritional supplement, is a preparation intended to provide nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, fatty acids or amino acids, that are missing or are not consumed in sufficient quantity in a person's diet. Dietary_supplement | |
| Bush v. Gore Bush v. Gore, , is a landmark United States Supreme Court case decided on December 12, 2000. The case effectively resolved the 2000 presidential election in favor of George W. Bush. Only eight days earlier, the United States Supreme Court had unanimously decided the closely related case of Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, , and only three days earlier, the United States Supreme Court had preliminarily halted the recount that was occurring in Florida. Bush_v._Gore | |
| Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the only such section on the west coast, between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the sea, and having a Mediterranean climate, it is called California's "South Coast", and is also sometimes referred to casually as the "American Riviera." Santa_Barbara,_California | |
| Harrisburg, Illinois Harrisburg ( or Harrisburg,_Illinois | |
| Gulfport, Mississippi Gulfport is the second largest city in Mississippi after the state capital Jackson. It is the larger of the two principal cities of the Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, Mississippi Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the city of Gulfport had a total population of 71,127. Gulfport is co-county seat with Biloxi of Harrison County, Mississippi. Gulfport is also the East Coast home to the US Navy Seabees. Gulfport,_Mississippi | |
| Little Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey Little_Egg_Harbor_Township,_New_Jersey | |
| Mystic Island, New Jersey Mystic Island (also called Mystic Islands or Mystic) is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Little Egg Harbor Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 census, the CDP population was 8,694. Mystic_Island,_New_Jersey | |
| Phonograph cylinder The earliest method of recording and reproducing sound was on phonograph cylinders. Commonly known simply as "records" in their era of greatest popularity (c. 1888–1915), these cylinder shaped objects had an audio recording engraved on the outside surface which could be reproduced when the cylinder was played on a mechanical phonograph. Phonograph_cylinder | |
| Welch, West Virginia Welch is a city in McDowell County, West Virginia, USA. The population was 2,683 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of McDowell County. Welch,_West_Virginia | |
| Pogrom pogrom is a form of riot directed against a particular group, whether ethnic, religious, or other, and characterized by the killing and destruction of their homes, businesses, and religious centers. The term was originally used to denote extensive violence against Jews – either spontaneous or premeditated – but in English it is also applied to similar incidents against other minority groups. Pogrom | |
| Rudolf Virchow Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow (13 October 1821 German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician. He is referred to as the "Father of Pathology," and founded the field of Social Medicine. Rudolf_Virchow | |
| Yo-Yo Ma Yo-Yo Ma () (born October 7, 1955) is a French-born Chinese-American virtuoso cellist and composer and winner of multiple Grammy Awards. He is one of the most revered cellists of the 20th and 21st centuries. He is also a highly accomplished musician on the piano, viola, and violin. Yo-Yo_Ma | |
| List of ad-hoc routing protocols ad hoc routing protocol is a convention, or standard, that controls how nodes decide which way to route packets between computing devices in a mobile ad-hoc network .In ad hoc networks, nodes do not start out familiar with the topology of their networks; instead, they have to discover it. Note that in a wider sense, ad-hoc protocol can also be used literally, that is, to mean an improvised and often impromptu protocol established for a specific purpose. List_of_ad-hoc_routing_protocols | |
| Stone tool A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made partially, or entirely out of stone. Although stone-tool-dependent cultures exist even today, most stone tools are associated with prehistoric societies that no longer exist.The study of stone tools is often called lithic analysis by archaeologists. Stone_tool | |
| Alfred P. Sloan Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. (May 23, 1875 – February 17, 1966) was a long-time president and chairman of General Motors. Alfred_P._Sloan | |
| Michael William Balfe Michael William Balfe (15 May 1808 - 20 October 1870), was an Irish composer, best-remembered for his opera The Bohemian Girl.After a short career as a violinist, Balfe pursued an operatic singing career, while he began to compose. In a career spanning more than 40 years, he composed 38 operas, almost 250 songs and other works. He was also a noted conductor, directing Italian Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre for seven years, among other conducting posts. Michael_William_Balfe | |
| Sex and the law This article examines how human sexuality and sexual behavior interacts with, and is regulated by, human laws.In general, the law proscribes acts which are considered either sexual abuse, or behaviour that the Government in a given country considers to be inappropriate and against the social norms. In addition, certain categories of activity may be considered crimes even if freely consented to. Thus sex and the law varies from place to place. Sex_and_the_law | |
| United States Army Air Forces The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) was the military aviation arm of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II. The direct precursor to the United States Air Force, its peak size was over 2.4 million men and women in service and nearly 80,000 aircraft in 1944, and 783 domestic bases in December 1943. By VE Day it had 1.25 million men stationed overseas and operated from more than 1,600 airfields worldwide. United_States_Army_Air_Forces | |
| Happy, Texas This article is about the town in Texas; for the 1999 film of the same name, seeHappy, Texas (film).Happy is a town in Randall and Swisher counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 647 at the 2000 census.The Randall County portion of Happy is part of the Amarillo, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area. Happy,_Texas | |
| Green River, Utah Green River is a city in Emery County, Utah, United States. The population was 973 at the 2000 census. Green_River,_Utah | |
| One instruction set computer A One Instruction Set Computer (OISC) is a Turing-complete abstract machine that uses only one instruction (obviating the need for a machine language opcode). These universal computers are used primarily as a theoretical teaching aid (e.g., URISC). One_instruction_set_computer | |
| Pubic hair Pubic hair is hair in the frontal genital area, the crotch, and sometimes at the top of the inside of the legs; these areas form the pubic region.Although fine vellus hair is present in the area in childhood, the term pubic hair is generally restricted to the heavier, longer and coarser hair that develops with puberty as an effect of rising levels of androgens. Pubic hair is therefore part of the androgenic hair. Pubic_hair | |
| List of digital library projects This is a list of projects related to digital libraries. List_of_digital_library_projects | |
| X-ray scattering techniques X-ray scattering techniques are a family of non-destructive analytical techniques which reveal information about the crystallographic structure, chemical composition, and physical properties of materials and thin films. These techniques are based on observing the scattered intensity of an X-ray beam hitting a sample as a function of incident and scattered angle, polarization, and wavelength or energy. X-ray_scattering_techniques | |
| Singular value decomposition Talk:Singular_value_decomposition | |
| Dixiecrat Not to be confused with Southern PartyThe States' Rights Democratic Party (commonly known as the Dixiecrats) was a segregationist, socially conservative political party in the United States. The term Dixiecrat is a portmanteau of Dixie, referring to the Southern United States, and Democrat, referring to the United States Democratic Party. It split with the Democratic Party in the mid-20th century determined to protect what they saw as the Southern way of life against an oppressive federal government. Dixiecrat | |
| Oil spill oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. The term often refers to marine oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters. The oil may be a variety of materials, including crude oil, refined petroleum products (such as gasoline or diesel fuel) or by-products, ships' bunkers, oily refuse or oil mixed in waste. Spills take months or even years to clean up. Oil_spill | |
| Sexual arousal Sexual arousal is the arousal of sexual desires sexual activity. Things that precipitate human sexual arousal are colloquially known as turn-ons. Sexual arousal usually leads to physiological changes in the aroused person, some of which are pronounced while others are more subtle. Sexual_arousal | |
| Manuel L. Quezon Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina (August 19, 1878 in Baler, Tayabas, Philippines – August 1, 1944 in Saranac Lake, New York, United States) was the first Filipino president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines under U.S. occupation rule in the early period of the 20th century. Manuel_L._Quezon | |
| Oil platform offshore platform, often referred to as an oil platform or (somewhat incorrectly) oil rig, is a large structure used to house workers and machinery needed to drill wells in the ocean bed, extract oil and/or natural gas, process the produced fluids, and ship or pipe them to shore. Depending on the circumstances, the platform may be fixed to the ocean floor, may consist of an artificial island, or may float. Oil_platform | |
| Bernard Herrmann Bernard Herrmann (June 29, 1911 December 24, 1975) was an American composer noted for his work in motion pictures. An Academy Award-winner (for The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941), Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. Bernard_Herrmann | |
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