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| Phonetics Phonetics (from the , phōnē, "sound, voice") is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech. It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception. Phonetics | |
| Paganism Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "country dweller, rustic") is the blanket term given to describe religions and spiritual practices of pre-Christian Europe, and by extension a term for polytheistic traditions or folk religion worldwide seen from a Western or Christian viewpoint. Paganism | |
| Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and is considered one of the Colonial Colleges.Princeton University has traditionally focused on undergraduate education, although it has almost 2,500 graduate students enrolled. Princeton_University | |
| Positron emission tomography Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine imaging technique which produces a three-dimensional image or picture of functional processes in the body. The system detects pairs of gamma rays emitted indirectly by a positron-emitting radionuclide (tracer), which is introduced into the body on a biologically active molecule. Positron_emission_tomography | |
| Peer review Peer review (also known as refereeing) is the process of subjecting an author's scholarly work, research, or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field. Peer review requires a community of experts in a given (and often narrowly defined) field, who are qualified and able to perform impartial review. Peer_review | |
| Phoenicia Phoenicia (Phoenician:, Canaan or Kana'an, nonstandardly, Phenicia; , civilization centered in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal regions of modern day Lebanon, extending to parts of Israel, Syria and the Palestinian territories. Phoenicia | |
| Public domain Talk:Public_domain | |
| Peace Peace (, , , Symbol☮) is a term that most commonly refers to an absence of aggression, violence or hostility, but which also represents a larger concept wherein there are healthy or newly-healed interpersonal or international relationships, safety in matters of social or economic welfare, the acknowledgment of equality and fairness in political relationships and, in world matters, peacetime; a state of being absent of any war or conflict. Peace | |
| Proto-Indo-Europeans The Proto-Indo-Europeans (PIE) were the speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language, and likely lived around 4000 BC, during the Copper Age and the Bronze Age, or possibly earlier, during the Neolithic or Paleolithic eras. Knowledge of them comes chiefly from the reconstruction of their language, which was the ancestor of the Indo-European languages, including English. Their genetics and phenotypes are a subject of speculation. Proto-Indo-Europeans | |
| Psychohistory Psychohistory is the study of the psychological motivations of historical events. It combines the insights of psychotherapy with the research methodology of the social sciences to understand the emotional origin of the social and political behavior of groups and nations, past and present. Its subject matter is childhood and the family (especially child abuse), and psychological studies of anthropology and ethnology. Psychohistory | |
| Quechua Quechua (Runa Simi) is a family of related Native American languages in South America, with approximately 46 dialects, grouped in at least seven languages. Though it is traditionally referred to as a single language many, perhaps most, linguists treat it as a family of languages.Some variety was already widely spoken across the Central Andes as a lingua franca among curacas long before the time of the Incas, who established it as the official language of administration for their Empire. Quechua | |
| Rhetoric Rhetoric is one of the art of using language as a means to persuade. Along with grammar and logic or dialectic, rhetoric is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. From ancient Greece to the late 19th Century, it was a central part of Western education, filling the need to train public speakers and writers to move audiences to action with arguments. Rhetoric | |
| Roman Empire Roman_Empire | |
| Rail transport "Railroad" and "Railway" both redirect here. For other uses, see Railway (disambiguation).Rail transport is the conveyance of passengers and goods by means of wheeled vehicles running along railways in British and Australian English (or railroads in US English). Railway transport is part of the logistics chain, which facilitates international trade and economic growth. Rail transport is capable of high capacity and is energy efficient, but lacks flexibility and is capital intensive. Rail_transport | |
| Rowing (sport) Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water. The sport can be both recreational, focusing on learning the techniques required, and competitive where overall fitness plays a large role. Rowing_(sport) | |
| Resistor |- align = "center" Potentiometer resistor Resistor | |
| Roman roads Roman roads were essential for the growth of the Roman Empire. Roman roads enabled the Romans to move armies and trade goods and to communicate news. The Roman road system spanned more than 250,000 miles (400,000 km) of roads, including more than 50,000 miles (80,500 km) of paved roads. When Rome reached the height of her supremacy, no fewer than 29 great military highways radiated from the city. Roman_roads | |
| Romare Bearden Romare_Bearden | |
| Received Pronunciation Received Pronunciation (RP)—also called the Queen's (or King's) English and BBC English—is the accent of Standard English in England, with a relationship to regional dialects similar to that of other European languages. Although there is nothing intrinsic about RP that marks it as superior to any other variety, sociolinguistic factors give Received Pronunciation particular prestige in England and Wales. Received_Pronunciation | |
| List of the works of Rudyard Kipling List_of_the_works_of_Rudyard_Kipling | |
| Resurrection of Jesus Christian beliefs, the ‘‘resurrection of Jesus’‘ is a core biblical event—upon which much of Christian doctrine, ritual and theology critically depend. According to the New Testament, after Jesus was executed by Roman crucifixion and buried, he was then resurrected on the third day (, , . Resurrection_of_Jesus | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins". Robert_Louis_Stevenson | |
| Sri Lanka Sri_Lanka | |
| Syntax In linguistics, syntax (from Ancient Greek syn-, "together", and táxis, "arrangement") is the study of the principles and rules for constructing sentences in natural languages. In addition to referring to the discipline, the term syntax is also used to refer directly to the rules and principles that govern the sentence structure of any individual language, as in "the syntax of Modern Irish." Syntax | |
| Linguistic relativity linguistic relativity principle (also known as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis) is the idea that the varying cultural concepts and categories inherent in different languages affect the cognitive classification of the experienced world in such a way that speakers of different languages think and behave differently because of it. Linguistic_relativity | |
| History of Sudan The history of Sudan is marked by influences (military and cultural) on Sudan from neighboring areas (e.g. Egypt, Arabian Peninsula, Ethiopia, Congo, Chad) and world powers (e.g. United Kingdom, United States). The territory of Sudan combines the lands of several ancient kingdoms, including Kush, Darfur, and three Nubian kingdoms. History_of_Sudan | |
| Spreadsheet A spreadsheet is a computer application that simulates a paper worksheet. It displays multiple cells that together make up a grid consisting of rows and columns, each cell containing either alphanumeric text or numeric values. A spreadsheet cell may alternatively contain a formula that defines how the contents of that cell is to be calculated from the contents of any other cell (or combination of cells) each time any cell is updated. Spreadsheet | |
| Sanskrit Talk:Sanskrit | |
| Superoxide dismutase Superoxide dismutases (SOD, ) are a class of enzymes that catalyze the dismutation of superoxide into oxygen and hydrogen peroxide. As such, they are an important antioxidant defense in nearly all cells exposed to oxygen. One of the exceedingly rare exceptions is Lactobacillus plantarum and related lactobacilli, which use a different mechanism. Superoxide_dismutase | |
| Steve Wozniak Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11, 1950 in San Jose, California) is an American computer engineer who founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing significantly to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s. Steve_Wozniak | |
| Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe during his time.In some ways Scott was the first English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers all over Europe, Australia, and North America. Walter_Scott | |
| Sextus Julius Africanus Sextus Julius Africanus was a Christian traveller and historian of the late 2nd and early 3rd century AD. He is important chiefly because of his influence on Eusebius, on all the later writers of Church history among the Fathers, and on the whole Greek school of chroniclers. Sextus_Julius_Africanus | |
| Septuagint The Septuagint (), or simply "LXX", is the Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, translated in stages between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC in Alexandria. It is the oldest of several ancient translations of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, lingua franca of the eastern Mediterranean Basin from the time of Alexander the Great (356-323 BC). Septuagint | |
| Singular they "Singular they" is a popular, non-technical expression for uses of the pronoun they (and its inflected forms) when plurality is not required by the context. For example, in the sentence "Anyone who thinks they have been affected should contact their doctor", the number of people affected is not giventhey and their are generic, non-referring pronouns (technically, anaphora) within the scope of a universal, distributive quantifier denoted by anyone. they is only Singular_they | |
| Singular they Talk:Singular_they | |
| Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. This branch also includes the Irish and Manx languages. It is distinct from the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages, which includes Welsh, Cornish and Breton. Scottish, Manx and Irish Gaelic are all descended from Old Irish. Scottish_Gaelic | |
| Sudbury Neutrino Observatory The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) is a neutrino observatory located 6800 feet (about 2Vale Inco's Creighton Mine in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The detector was designed to detect solar neutrinos through their interactions with a large tank of heavy water. Sudbury_Neutrino_Observatory | |
| SN 1987A SN_1987A | |
| Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth (1797 – November 26, 1883) was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York. Her best-known speech, Ain't I a Woman?, was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Sojourner_Truth | |
| Scientific misconduct Scientific misconduct is the violation of the standard codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behavior in professional scientific research. A Lancet review on Handling of Scientific Misconduct in Scandinavian countries provides the following sample definitions Danish Definition Swedish Definition Scientific_misconduct | |
| The Simpsons The Simpsons is an American animated television sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its eponymous family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield, and lampoons American culture, society and television, and many aspects of the human condition. The_Simpsons | |
| Tamil language Tamil_language | |
| Time Time is a component of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify the motions of objects. Time has been a major subject of religion, philosophy, and science, but defining it in a non-controversial manner applicable to all fields of study has consistently eluded the greatest scholars. Time | |
| Tax To tax (from the latin taxare:tangere:levy upon a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a state or the functional equivalent of a state.Taxes are also imposed by many subnational entities. Taxes consist of direct tax or indirect tax, and may be paid in money or as its labour equivalent (often but not always unpaid). A tax may be defined as a "pecuniary burden laid upon individuals or property to support the government Tax | |
| Talmud The Talmud (Hebrew:'root 'rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, customs, and history. It is a central text of mainstream Judaism.The Talmud has two componentsMishnah (c. 200 CE), the first written compendium of Judaism's Oral Law; and the Gemara (c. 500 CE), a discussion of the Mishnah and related Tannaitic writings that often ventures onto other subjects and expounds broadly on the Tanakh. Talmud | |
| Targum A targum (, pluraltargumim, lit. "translation, interpretation") is an Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) written or compiled from the Second Temple period until the early Middle Ages (late first millennium). The two major genres of Targum reflect two geographical and cultural centers of Jewish life during the period of their creation, namely the Land of Israel and Babylonia. Aramaic was the dominant Jewish language or lingua franca for hundreds of years in these major Jewish communities. Targum | |
| Theory of computation The theory of computation is the branch of computer science and mathematics that deals with whether and how efficiently problems can be solved on a model of computation, using an algorithm. The field is divided into two major branchescomputability theory and complexity theory, but both branches deal with formal models of computation.In order to perform a rigorous study of computation, computer scientists work with a mathematical abstraction of computers called a model of computation. Theory_of_computation | |
| Thomas More Talk:Thomas_More | |
| Theodore Roosevelt Theodore D. Roosevelt (; October 27, 1858 January 6, 1919), also known as T.R., and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the 26th President of the United States. A leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Party, he was a Governor of New York and a professional historian, naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier. He is most famous for his personalityteddy bears are named after him. Theodore_Roosevelt | |
| Time zone A time zone is a region of the earth that has uniform standard time, usually referred to as the local time. By convention, time zones compute their local time as an offset from UTC (see also Greenwich Mean Time). Local time is UTC plus the current time zone offset for the considered location. Time_zone |
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