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| Human rights Talk:Human_rights | |
| Walleye Walleye or yellow pickerel or pickerel (Sander vitreus, formerly Stizostedion vitreum) is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the northern United States. It is a North American close relative of the European pikeperch. The walleye is sometimes also called the yellow walleye to distinguish it from the Blue walleye, which is now extinct. Walleye | |
| Quizbowl Quizbowl (also known as Quiz Bowl, Scholastic Bowl, Brain Game, Academic Team, Academic Challenge, Scholar Quiz Bowl, Academic League, Academic Bowl, It's Academic, Battle of the Brains, Knowledge Bowl, College Bowl, and various other names) is a family of games of questions and answers on all topics of human knowledge, commonly played in high school and college. Quizbowl | |
| University of Minnesota system The University of Minnesota is a large university with several campuses spread throughout the U.S. state of Minnesota. There are four primary campuses in the Twin Cities, Duluth, Crookston, and Morris. In addition, university services are available in Rochester, and a campus was open in Waseca for a time. University_of_Minnesota_system | |
| Citing sources Wikipedia:Citing_sources | |
| High-speed rail Talk:High-speed_rail | |
| Melanin Melanin (Greek μέλας, black; ) is a class of compounds found in plants, animals, and protists, where it serves predominantly as a pigment. The class of pigments are derivatives of the amino acid tyrosine. Many melanins are insoluble salts and show affinity to water. Melanin | |
| Personal rapid transit Personal rapid transit (PRT), also called personal automated transport (PAT) or podcar, is a public transportation concept that offers on-demand, non-stop transportation, using small, independent vehicles on a network of specially-built guideways. Several different designs have been proposed, and in October 2008, construction of the guideway of a pilot project at London Heathrow Airport, United Kingdom based on ULTra was completed. Personal_rapid_transit | |
| DavidLevinson User:DavidLevinson | |
| Malacca Malacca (, dubbed as The Historical State or Negeri Bersejarah amongst locals) is the third smallest Malaysian state, after Perlis and Penang. It is located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula, on the Straits of Malacca. It borders Negeri Sembilan to the north and the state of Johor to the south. The state's capital is Malacca Town. This historical city centre has been listed as a prominent World Heritage Site of UNESCO since 7 July 2008. Malacca | |
| Children's literature "Children's story" redirects here. For the song, see Children's Story.Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve and is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes exclude young-adult fiction, comic books, or other genres. Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Scholarship on children's literature includes professional organizations, dedicated publications and university courses. Children's_literature | |
| Aztec Aztec is a term used to refer to certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who achieved political and military dominance over large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the Late post-Classic period in Mesoamerican chronology. Often the term "Aztec" refers exclusively to the people of Tenochtitlan, situated on an island in Lake Texcoco, who called themselves Mexica Tenochca or Colhua-Mexica. Aztec | |
| Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida () (15 July 1930 French philosopher born in Algeria, who is known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous work had a profound impact upon literary theory and continental philosophy. Derrida's best known work is Of Grammatology. Jacques_Derrida | |
| Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles.His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. Many museums, companies, and cities seek Gehry's services as a badge of distinction, beyond the product he delivers. Frank_Gehry | |
| Cass Gilbert not to be confused with American architect C.P.H. GilbertCass Gilbert (November 24, 1859 May 17, 1934) was a prominent American architect. An early proponent of skyscrapers in works like the Woolworth Building, Gilbert was also responsible for numerous museums (Saint Louis Art Museum) and libraries (Saint Louis Public Library), state capitol buildings (the Minnesota, Arkansas and West Virginia State Capitols, for example) as well as public architectural icons like the United States Supreme Court building. Cass_Gilbert | |
| Lake trout Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, lake char (or charr), touladi, togue, and grey trout. In Lake Superior, they can also be variously known as siscowet, paperbellies and leans. Lake trout are prized both as game fish and as food fish. Lake_trout | |
| Evergreen bagworm Evergreen_bagworm | |
| Yaoi is a popular term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic or homoromantic male relationships, usually created by female authors. Originally referring to a specific type of dōjinshi (self-published works) parody of mainstream anime and manga works, yaoi came to be used as a generic term for female-oriented manga, anime, dating sims, novels and dōjinshi featuring homosexual male relationships. Yaoi | |
| Falun Gong Falun Gong () is a spiritual discipline founded in China by Li Hongzhi () in 1992. It has five sets of meditation exercises and teaches the principles truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance, (真，善，忍), as set out in the main books Falun Gong and Zhuan Falun (). Falun_Gong | |
| African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) Talk:African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955–1968) | |
| Brown Rat The brown rat, common rat, Hanover rat, Norway rat, Norwegian rat, or wharf rat (Rattus norvegicus) is one of the best known and most common rats. One of the largest muroids, it is a brown or grey rodent with a body up to long, and a similar tail length; the male weighs on average and the female . Brown_Rat | |
| Bergen Bergen () is the second largest city in Norway, with a population of 252,051 as of 1 January 2009. Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Economic Region, as defined by Statistics Norway, had a population of 385,450 as of 1 January 2009.Bergen is located in the county of Hordaland on the south-western coast of Norway. Bergen | |
| Circadian rhythm A circadian rhythm is a roughly-24-hour cycle in the biochemical, physiological or behavioral processes of living entities, including plants, animals, fungi and cyanobacteria (see bacterial circadian rhythms). The term "circadian", coined by Franz Halberg, comes from the Latin circa, "around," and diem or dies, "day", meaning literally "approximately one day." The formal study of biological temporal rhythms such as daily, tidal, weekly, seasonal, and annual rhythms, is called chronobiology. Circadian_rhythm | |
| Chronobiology Chronobiology is a field of science that examines periodic (cyclic) phenomena in living organisms and their adaptation to solar and lunar related rhythms. These cycles are known as biological rhythms. "Chrono" pertains to time and "biology" pertains to the study, or science, of life. Chronobiology | |
| Control Data Corporation Control Data Corporation (CDC) is one of the pioneering supercomputer firms. For most of the 1960s, it built the fastest computers in the world by far, only losing that crown in the 1970s to what was effectively a spinoff, after Seymour Cray left the company to found Cray Research, Inc. Control_Data_Corporation | |
| Mast Mast may refer to Mast (botany), the edible seed and fruit produced by trees or shrubs that wildlife species will consume Mast cell, involved in the allergy response Mast (Sufism), in India, Pakistan, and Iran a type of religious intoxication Mast (film) is a 1999 Indian movie by Ram Gopal Verma Mast (naval), in naval tradition, a non-judicial disciplinary hearing Mast (sailing), a pole which holds a sail on sailing ships and boats Mast year, a year in which vegetation produces a significant abundance of fruit Radio masts and towers, poles or lattice towers which carry antennas/aerials Radar masts, typically on naval vessels, but also vehicles such as the 9K33 Osa. Mast | |
| Quotation mark This article is about quotation marks in English. For their use in other languages, see Quotation mark, non-English usage. For the various glyphs used to render quotation marks, see Quotation mark glyphs.Quotation marks or inverted commas (informally referred to as quotes and speech marks) are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, a phrase or a word. They come as a pair of opening and closing marks in either of two styles Quotation_mark | |
| Testilying Testilying is U. S. police slang for the practice of giving false testimony against a defendant in a criminal trial, typically for the purpose of "making a stronger case" against someone they believe to be guilty, although it may also be for the purpose of framing an innocent defendant.The word and its meaning have been publicized by defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, notably in a 1994 New York Times article, "Accomplices to Perjury," in which he said As I read about the disbelief expressed by some prosecutors.. Testilying | |
| Triboelectric effect Triboelectric_effect | |
| Compass and straightedge constructions }as discovered by Gauss.The group of constructible angles is closed under the operation that halves angles (which corresponds to taking square roots). The only angles of finite order that may be constructed starting with two points are those whose order is either a power of two, or a product of a power of two and a set of distinct Fermat primes. In addition there is a dense set of constructible angles of infinite order. Compass_and_straightedge_constructions | |
| Roman surface Talk:Roman_surface | |
| Imran User_talk:Imran | |
| Duluth, Minnesota Duluth is a port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of St. Louis County. It was originally inhabited by people of the Chippewa tribe, who originally named it "Keegewaquampe", which roughly is translated to "people among the great hill". Duluth,_Minnesota | |
| W. H. R. Rivers William Halse Rivers Rivers, FRCP, FRS, ( - ) was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work with shell-shocked soldiers during World War I. Rivers' most famous patient was the poet Siegfried Sassoon. He is also famous for his participation in the Torres Straits expedition of 1898, and his consequent seminal work on the subject of kinship. W._H._R._Rivers | |
| Jack Kilby Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 - June 20, 2005) was a Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 2000 for his invention of the integrated circuit in 1958 while working at Texas Instruments (TI). He is also the inventor of the handheld calculator and thermal printer. Jack_Kilby | |
| Viceroyalty of New Spain The Viceroyalty of New Spain (), was the political unit of Spanish territories in North America and Asia-Pacific. The territory included the present-day Southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America (except Panama), the Caribbean, and the Philippines. Viceroyalty_of_New_Spain | |
| Triticale Triticale | |
| Jesse Ventura Jesse Ventura (born July 15, 1951 as James George Janos), also known as "The Body", "The Great", "The Star", "The Mind" and "The Governing Body", is an American politician, retired professional wrestler and color commentator, Navy UDT veteran, actor, and former radio and television talk show host. He is also a former co-holder of the AWA World tag team title with Adrian Adonis and is a two-time AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion. Jesse_Ventura | |
| The Rape of Nanking (book) The Rape of Nanking is a bestselling 1997 non-fiction book written by Iris Chang about the 1937–1938 Nanking Massacre, the massacre and atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army after it captured Nanjing, then capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The_Rape_of_Nanking_(book) | |
| Metcalfe's law Metcalfe's law states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users n2). First formulated in this form by George Gilder in 1993, and attributed to Robert Metcalfe in regard to Ethernet, Metcalfe's law was originally presented, circa 1980, not in term of users, but rather of "compatibly communicating devices" (for example, fax machines). Metcalfe's_law | |
| Prairie Prairies are considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type. Temperate grassland regions include the Pampas of Argentina, and the steppes of Russia and Central Asia.Lands typically referred to as "prairie" tend to be in North America. Prairie | |
| ENIAC ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the first general-purpose electronic computer. It was a Turing-complete, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems. ENIAC was designed and built to calculate artillery firing tables for the U.S. Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory.The ENIAC held immediate importance. ENIAC | |
| Word sense disambiguation In computational linguistics, word sense disambiguation (WSD) is the process of identifying which sense of a word is used in any given sentence, when the word has a number of distinct senses. For example, consider two examples of the distinct senses that exist for the (written) word bass: a type of fish tones of low frequency and the sentences I went fishing for some sea bass The bass line of the song is too weak Word_sense_disambiguation | |
| Chestnut Chestnut (Castanea), (including some chinkapin or chinquapin) is a genus of eight or nine species of deciduous trees and shrubs in the Beech family Fagaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The name also refers to the edible nuts they produce. Chestnut | |
| Full metal jacket bullet full metal jacket (or FMJ) is a bullet consisting of a soft core (usually made of lead) encased in a shell of harder metal, such as gilding metal,cupronickel or less commonly a steel-alloy. This shell can extend around all of the bullet, or often just the front and sides with the rear left as exposed lead. Full_metal_jacket_bullet | |
| Ginkgo biloba Ginkgo_biloba | |
| F-block The f-block of the periodic table of the elements consists of those elements (sometimes referred to as the inner transition elements or rare earth metals) for which, in the atomic ground state, the highest-energy electrons occupy f-orbitals.Unlike the other blocks, the conventional divisions of the f-block follow periods of similar atomic number rather than groups of similar electron configuration. Thus, the f-block is divided into the lanthanoid series and the actinoid series. F-block | |
| Alexander von Humboldt (September 14, 1769 German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist, Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography was foundational to the field of biogeography.Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt traveled extensively in Latin America, exploring and describing it for the first time in a manner generally considered to be a modern scientific point of view. Alexander_von_Humboldt | |
| Yuri (genre) Shiroi Heya no Futari, the first yuri manga, Yuri_(genre) | |
| Polygraph A polygraph (popularly referred to as a lie detector) is an instrument that measures and records several physiological responses such as blood pressure, pulse, respiration, breathing rhythms, body temperature and skin conductivity while the subject is asked and answers a series of questions, on the theory that false answers will produce distinctive measurements. Polygraph |
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