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| Ammonium perchlorate Ammonium perchlorate (AP) is a chemical compound with the formula NH4ClO4. salt of ammonia and perchloric acid. Like other perchlorates, it is a powerful oxidizer.It is produced by reaction between ammonia and perchloric acid, or by double decomposition between an ammonium salt and sodium perchlorate. Ammonium_perchlorate | |
| Azeotrope An azeotrope (pronounced /ay-ZEE-ə-trope/) is a mixture of two or more liquids (chemicals) in such a ratio that its composition cannot be changed by simple distillation. This occurs because, when an azeotrope is boiled, the resulting vapor has the same ratio of constituents as the original mixture.Because their composition is unchanged by distillation, azeotropes are also called (especially in older texts) constant boiling mixtures. Azeotrope | |
| Mao (game) Mao (also sometimes called Mü, Maw, Mau, Mile, 5-Card Mao, Chairman, Dictator, Bjorn, Maul, Maui or King Mao) is a card game. Since it is forbidden to say Mao's rules, new players are often told only "the only rule you may be told is this one."The ultimate goal of the game is to be the first player to get rid of all the cards in their hand. Mao_(game) | |
| Suez Crisis Suez_Crisis | |
| Kernel (matrix) linear algebra, the kernel or null space (also nullspace) of a matrix A is the set of all vectors x for which Ax 0. The null space of a matrix with n linear subspace of n-dimensional Euclidean space.The nullspace (or kernel) of the matrix A is exactly the same thing as the nullspace (or kernel) of the linear mapping defined by the matrix-vector multiplication , that is, the set of vectors that map to the zero vector. Kernel_(matrix) | |
| Derek Parfit Derek Parfit (born December 11, 1942) is a British philosopher who specializes in problems of personal identity, rationality and ethics, and the relations between them. His 1984 book, Reasons and Persons (described by Alan Ryan in The Sunday Times as "something close to a work of genius") has been very influential. Derek_Parfit | |
| Public domain resources Wikipedia:Public_domain_resources | |
| Carlisle Carlisle may refer toIn England The City of Carlisle, a local government non-metropolitan district of Cumbria, England Carlisle, Cumbria, or Carlisle proper, an urban settlement within the City of Carlisle, to which city status anciently applied The County Borough of Carlisle, a former city and local government district located within the administrative county of Cumberland, England Carlisle (UK Parliament constituency), an electoral area of North West England represented in the United Kingdom's House of Commons Carlisle United, an association football club from Carlisle Carlisle | |
| Jesus College, Cambridge Jesus College in the University of Cambridge was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely. It has been traditionally believed that the nunnery was turned into a college because the nunnery had gained a reputation for licentiousness.The college’s full name is “The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge”. Jesus_College,_Cambridge | |
| Ethnic cleansing Ethnic cleansing is a euphemism referring to the persecution through imprisonment, expulsion, or killing of members of an ethnic minority by a local majority to achieve ethnic homogeneity in majority-controlled territory. The term entered English and international media usage in the early 1990s to describe war events in the former Yugoslavia. Synonyms include ethnic purification . Ethnic_cleansing | |
| Auction auction is a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bid, taking bids, and then selling the item to the winning bidder. In economic theory, an auction may refer to any mechanism or set of trading rules for exchange.There are several variations on the basic auction form, including time limits, minimum or maximum limits on bid prices, and special rules for determining the winning bidder(s) and sale price(s). Auction | |
| Aqua regia Talk:Aqua_regia | |
| Norbert Wiener Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894, Columbia, Missouri – March 18, 1964, Stockholm, Sweden) was an American theoretical and applied mathematician.A famous child prodigy, Wiener went on to become a pioneer in the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems. Norbert_Wiener | |
| Poverty Poverty is the shortage of common things such as food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water, all of which determine the quality of life. It may also include the lack of access to opportunities such as education and employment which aid the escape from poverty and/or allow one to enjoy the respect of fellow citizens. According to Mollie Orshansky who developed the poverty measurements used by the U.S. government, "to be poor is to be deprived of those goods and Poverty | |
| Sumerian King List The Sumerian King List is an ancient manuscript, originally recorded in the Sumerian language, listing kings of Sumer from Sumerian and foreign dynasties. It records the location of "official" kingship, along with the rulers and their supposed reign lengths. Sumerian_King_List | |
| Sumerian language Sumerian ( "native tongue") was the language of ancient Sumer, spoken in Southern Mesopotamia since at least the 4th millennium BC. It was gradually replaced by Akkadian as a spoken language somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC (the exact dating being a matter of debate), but continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Mesopotamia until the first century AD. Sumerian_language | |
| Picric acid "TNP" redirects here. For the airport with the IATA airport code TNP, see Twentynine Palms Airport.Picric acid is the chemical compound more formally called 2,4,6-trinitrophenol (TNP). This, a yellow crystalline solid, is one of the most acidic phenols. Like other highly nitrated compounds such as TNT, picric acid is an explosive. Its name comes from Greek πικρος—"bitter", reflecting the bitter taste of picric acid. Picric_acid | |
| New Historians New Historians ( HaHistorianim haHadashim) are a loosely-defined group of Israeli historians who have challenged traditional Israeli assumptions about Israeli history, including Israel's role in the Palestinian Exodus in 1948 and Arab willingness to discuss peace with Israel. New_Historians | |
| Paul Scofield David Paul Scofield, CH, CBE (21 January 1922 English actor of stage and screen. Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons, a reprise of the role he played in the stage version at the West End and on Broadway for which he received a Tony Award. He is considered by many to have been one of the best British actors of the 20th century. Paul_Scofield | |
| Fox hunting Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase, and sometimes killing of a fox, traditionally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds, and a group of followers led by a master of foxhounds, who follow the hounds on foot or on horseback. Fox_hunting | |
| Tammuz (deity) For other uses, see Tammuz.Northwest Semitic Tammuz (Hebrew תַּמּוּז, Standard Hebrew Tammuz, Tiberian Hebrew Tammûz), Arabic تمّوز Tammūz; Akkadian Duʾzu, Dūzu; Sumerian Dumuzid (DUMU.ZID "the true son") was the name of a Sumerian god of food and vegetation. Tammuz_(deity) | |
| Scribe scribe (or scrivener)is a person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession. The profession, previously found in all literate cultures in some form, lost most of its importance and status with the advent of printing. The work could involve copying books, including sacred texts, or secretarial and administrative duties such as taking of dictation and the keeping of business, judicial and historical records for kings, nobility, temples and cities. Scribe | |
| Phidias Phidias or Pheidias (in Ancient Greek, ''480 BC 430 BC), was a Greek sculptor, painter and architect, who lived in the 5th century BC, and is commonly regarded as one of the greatest of all sculptors of Classical Greece:Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Phidias | |
| Bartolomé de las Casas Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P. (November 1484 Spanish Dominican priest, writer and the first resident Bishop of Chiapas. As a settler in the New World he witnessed, and was driven to oppose, the torture and genocide of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists. Bartolomé_de_las_Casas | |
| D-block The d-block of the periodic table of the elements consists of those periodic table groups that contain elements in which, in the atomic ground state, the highest-energy electron is in a d-orbital. The d-block elements are often also known as transition metals.Although Lutetium and Lawrencium are in the d-block, they are not considered transition metals but a lanthanide and an actinide, respectively, according to IUPAC. D-block | |
| Patrick Stewart Patrick Hewes Stewart, OBE (born 13 July 1940) is an English film, television and stage actor. He has had a distinguished career in theatre for nearly fifty years, including performances as various characters in Shakespearean productions. However, he is perhaps most widely known for his television and film roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Professor Xavier in the X-Men films. Patrick_Stewart | |
| Shakespearean authorship question/Archive 1 Talk:Shakespearean_authorship_question/Archive_1 | |
| Tewkesbury Abbey The Abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Tewkesbury in the English county of Gloucestershire is the second largest parish church in the country and a former benedictine monastery. Tewkesbury_Abbey | |
| Tobacco smoking Tobacco smoking is the practice where tobacco is burned and the vapors either tasted or inhaled. The practice began as early as 5000-3000 BC. Tobacco_smoking | |
| Residue theorem residue theorem, sometimes called Cauchy's Residue Theorem, in complex analysis is a powerful tool to evaluate line integrals of analytic functions over closed curves and can often be used to compute real integrals as well. It generalizes the Cauchy integral theorem and Cauchy's integral formula.The statement is as follows. Residue_theorem | |
| Astrolabe An astrolabe is a historical astronomical instrument used by classical astronomers, navigators, and astrologers. Its many uses include locating and predicting the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars; determining local time given local latitude and vice-versa; surveying; and triangulation. Astrolabe | |
| Timothy Chambers Timothy Chambers is a philosopher who has written a number of articles which have appeared in the journals Mind ( 2000, 2001), the Monist (1998), Philosophy (2001), the Aristotelian Society Proceedings(2000), and Ratio (1999). His research interests include Hilary Putnam, time travel, the Ontological Argument, the Doomsday Argument and the semantics of vagueness. His work on Putnam included a logical formula—the Chambers Conditional—which figures in Crispin Wright's recent work on vagueness. Timothy_Chambers | |
| Decius Decius | |
| Syringa "Lilac" redirects here. For the color, see Lilac (color). The unrelated Chinaberry (Melia azedarach) and mock-oranges (Philadelphus) are sometimes called "lilac" too. Syringa | |
| Inanna Inanna (Sumerian DINANNA; Akkadian DINANA ) is the Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare. Innin, Ennin, Ninnin, Ninni, Ninanna, Ninnar, Innina, Ennina, Irnina, Innini, Nana and Nin, commonly derived from an earlier Nin-ana "lady of the sky", although Gelb (1960) presented the suggestion that the oldest form is Innin (DINNIN) and that Ninni, Nin-anna and Irnina are independent goddesses in origin. Akkadian counterpart is Ishtar. Inanna | |
| Archilochus For the hummingbird genus, see Archilochus.Archilochus (Greek:c. 680 BC – c. 645 BC) was a Greek poet and supposed mercenary. Archilochus | |
| Simonides of Ceos Simonides of Ceos (Ancient Greek:lyric poet, was born at Ioulis on Kea. He was included, along with Sappho and Pindar, in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria. He was uncle to Bacchylides, another of the nine lyric poets. He is the narrator and main character of Mary Renault's historical novel The Praise Singer. Simonides_of_Ceos | |
| Ibycus Ibycus (Ancient Greek:Rhegium in Italy, was an Ancient Greek lyric poet. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria. The extant fragments of his work contain the earliest-known example of the triadic choral lyric and epinician poetry. Ibycus | |
| History of Sumer The history of Sumer, taken to include the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk periods, spans the 5th to 3rd millennia BC, ending with the downfall of the Third Dynasty of Ur around 2004 BC, followed by a transition period of Amorite states before the rise of Babylonia in the 18th century BC.The first settlement in southern Mesopotamia was Eridu. History_of_Sumer | |
| Praxiteles Praxiteles (; Ancient Greek:Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC. He was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue. While no indubitably attributable sculpture by Praxiteles is extant, numerous copies of his works have survived; contemporary authors, including Pliny the Elder, wrote of his oeuvres; and coins engraved with silhouettes of his various famous statuary types from the period still exist. Praxiteles | |
| Epic of Gilgamesh The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia and is among the earliest known works of literary fiction. Scholars believe that it originated as a series of Sumerian legends and poems about the mythological hero-king Gilgamesh, which were gathered into a longer Akkadian poem much later; the most complete version existing today is preserved on 12 clay tablets in the library collection of the 7th century BCE Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. Epic_of_Gilgamesh | |
| Sodium chloride Sodium chloride, also known as common salt, table salt, or halite, is an ionic compound with the formula NaCl. Sodium chloride is the salt most responsible for the salinity of the ocean and of the extracellular fluid of many multicellular organisms. As the major ingredient in edible salt, it is commonly used as a condiment and food preservative. Sodium_chloride | |
| Sheldonian Theatre The Sheldonian Theatre, located in Oxford, England, was built from 1664 to 1668 after a design by Christopher Wren for the University of Oxford. The building is named after Gilbert Sheldon, chancellor of the university at the time and the project's main financial backer. It is used for music concerts, lectures and university ceremonies, but not for drama. Sheldonian_Theatre | |
| Harold Macmillan Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963. Nicknamed 'Supermac' and known for his pragmatism, wit and unflappability, Macmillan achieved notoriety before the Second World War as a Tory radical and critic of appeasement. Harold_Macmillan | |
| Universities in the United Kingdom Universities in the United Kingdom have generally been instituted by Royal Charter, Papal Bull, Act of Parliament or an instrument of government under the Education Reform Act 1988; in any case generally with the approval of the Privy Council, and only such recognised bodies can award degrees of any kind. Undergraduate applications to nearly all UK universities are managed by UCAS - the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. Universities_in_the_United_Kingdom | |
| Wilfred Owen Talk:Wilfred_Owen | |
| Butylated hydroxytoluene Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), also known as butylhydroxytoluene, is a lipophilic (fat-soluble) organic compound that is primarily used as an antioxidant food additive (E number E321) as well as in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, jet fuels, rubber, petroleum products, electrical transformer oil, and embalming fluid. Butylated_hydroxytoluene | |
| Timeline of computing 2400 BC–1949 This article presents a timeline of events in the history of computing:. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related history of computers and history of computer science.Computing timelines:2400 BC–1949, 1950–1979, 1980–1989, 1990–1999, 2000-present. Timeline_of_computing_2400_BC–1949 | |
| Uruk Uruk (URUUNUG , Sumerian:Akkadian:uruk Greek:toponym 'unug', is modern Warka (Arabic:Al Muthanna Governorate, Iraq. Uruk was an ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia, situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates river, on the ancient Nil canal, some 30As-Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq. The modern name Iraq is thought to be derived from the name Uruk. At its height c 2900 BCE, Uruk probably had 50,000–80,000 residents living in 62 of walled area; the largest city in the world at the time. Uruk | |
| Nergal The name Nergal (or Nirgal, Nirgali) refers to a deity in Babylonia with the main seat of his cult at Cuthah represented by the mound of Tell-Ibrahim. Nergal is mentioned in the Hebrew bible as the deity of the city of Cuth (Cuthah)Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal" (2 Kings, 17Enlil and Ninlil. Nergal |
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