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| Theorem In mathematics, a theorem is a statement proved on the basis of previously accepted or established statements such as axioms. In formal mathematical logic, the concept of a theorem may be taken to mean a formula that can be derived according to the derivation rules of a fixed formal system. Theorem | |
| The Star-Spangled Banner The Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old amateur poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812.The poem was set to the tune of a popular British drinking song, written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London. The_Star-Spangled_Banner | |
| Thomas Mifflin Thomas Mifflin (January 10, 1744 January 20, 1800) was an American merchant and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, a member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly, a Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania, fifth President of the U.S. Thomas_Mifflin | |
| Theodoric the Great Theodoric the Great (454 – August 30, 526), known in Latin as Flavius Theodericus and 'Ostrogoths (471-526), ruler of Italy (493–526), and regent of the Visigoths (511–526). He became a hero of Germanic legend as Þeodric in English legends, Dietrich von Bern in German legends, and as Þjóðrekr'Þiðrekr in Norse mythology. Theodoric_the_Great | |
| Kahanism Kahanism is a term, named after controversial Israeli Rabbi Meir Kahane. It refers to an organization and, more generally, to other movements or groups that share a belief in the fundamental tenets of its ideology. Chief among these is the idea that the State of Israel should defend itself against Arab and Nazi enemies, and thus should accord full citizenship exclusively to Jews, and that all gentiles should be accorded equal rights except voting provided they accept Jewish religious law. Kahanism | |
| University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as UPenn or just Penn) is a private research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Penn is the first university and the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. University_of_Pennsylvania | |
| Uganda Uganda | |
| Universe The Universe is defined as everything that physically exists:space and time, all forms of matter, energy and momentum, and the physical laws and constants that govern them. However, the term Universe may be used in slightly different contextual senses, denoting such concepts as the cosmos, the world or Nature. Universe | |
| Ubbi dubbi Ubbi Dubbi (also called Pig Greek or Double Dutch) is a language game spoken with the English language. Although popularized by the long-running PBS television show ZOOM and (in variant) by Bill Cosby (in his Dentist Sketch and his voice-over of the character Mushmouth from Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids), the predecessors of Ubbi Dubbi may trace to the beginnings of American English in the 17th century. Variations to Ubbi Dubbi include Ob, Ib, Arpy Darpy, and Iz. Ubbi_dubbi | |
| Ulfilas Wulfila is also a spider genus (Anyphaenidae)Ulfilas, or Gothic Wulfila (also Ulphilas. Orphila) (ca. 310 – 383;), bishop, missionary, and Bible translator, was a Goth or half-Goth who had spent time inside the Roman Empire at the peak of the Arian controversy. Ulfilas | |
| Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro (also known by the Anglicised forms of his name as Virgil or Vergil) (October 15, 70 BCE Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics and the Aeneid—although several minor poems are also attributed to him. The son of a farmer, Virgil came to be regarded as one of Rome's greatest poets. His Aeneid can be considered a national epic of Rome and has been extremely popular from its publication to the present day. Virgil | |
| Vietnamese language Vietnamese (tiếng Việt, or less commonly Việt ngữ), formerly known under French colonization as Annamese (see Annam), is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of the Vietnamese people (người Việt or người Kinh), who constitute 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese, most of whom live in the United States. Vietnamese_language | |
| Woman woman (irregular pluralwomen) is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. However, the term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "Women's rights". Woman | |
| William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement.Born in Walthamstow in East London, Morris was educated at Marlborough and Oxford. William_Morris | |
| William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin William_Thomson,_1st_Baron_Kelvin | |
| Wine Talk:Wine | |
| Xenophon Xenophon (Ancient Greek , Xenophōn; Modern Greek "Ξενοφών", Xenophōn; "Ξενοφώντας", Xenophōntas; ca. 430 - 354 BC), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, also known as Xenophon of Athens and Xenophon of Thebes, was a soldier, mercenary and a contemporary and admirer of Socrates. He is known for his writings on the history of his own times, preserving the sayings of Socrates, and the life of ancient Greece. Xenophon | |
| Yunus Emre Yunus Emre (1240?–1321?) was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic. He has exercised immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present. Because Yunus Emre is, after Ahmet Yesevi and Sultan Veled, one of the first known Turkish poets to have composed works in the spoken Turkish of his own age and region rather than in Persian or Arabic, his diction remains very close to the popular speech of his contemporaries in Central and Western Anatolia. Yunus_Emre | |
| Yiddish language Yiddish ( yidish or idish, literally "Jewish") is a non-territorial High German language of Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. Unlike other Germanic languages, Yiddish is written with the Hebrew alphabet as opposed to a Latin alphabet.The language originated in the Ashkenazi culture that developed from about the 10th century in the Rhineland and then spread to central and eastern Europe and eventually to other continents. Yiddish_language | |
| Zimbabwe Zimbabwe | |
| Zettabyte A zettabyte (symbol ZB, derived from the SI prefix zetta-) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to one sextillion (one long scale trilliard) bytes. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes = 10007, or 1021. An alternative (rarely used) definition is Zettabyte | |
| 1950s The 1950s, also referred to as The Fifties, was the decade that ran from January 1, 1950 to December 31, 1959. During the early 1950s in the United States manufacturing and home construction was on the rise as the American economy was on the upswing. The Korean War and the beginning of the Cold War created a politically conservative climate. 1950s | |
| Columbia Business School Columbia_Business_School | |
| Pashtun people Pashtuns ( , , also rendered as Pushtuns, Pakhtuns, Pukhtuns), also called Pathans (, Hindi:Afghans, are an Eastern Iranian ethno-linguistic group with populations primarily in Afghanistan and in the North-West Frontier Province, Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Balochistan provinces of Pakistan. The Pashtuns are typically characterized by their usage of the Pashto language and practice of Pashtunwali, which is an ancient traditional code of conduct and honor. Pashtun_people | |
| Veronica Franco Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was an Italian poet and courtesan in 16th century Venice. Veronica_Franco | |
| Lucretius Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99 BC- ca. 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the epic philosophical poem on Epicureanism De rerum natura, translated into English as On the Nature of Things. Lucretius | |
| Booker T. Washington Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 African-American community nationwide from the 1890s to his death. Born to slavery and freed by the Civil War in 1865, as a young man, became head of the new Tuskegee Institute, then a teachers' college for blacks. Booker_T._Washington | |
| Kannada language Talk:Kannada_language | |
| Alfred Kinsey Alfred Charles Kinsey (June 23, 1894 biologist and professor of entomology and zoology, who in 1947 founded the Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University, now called the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. Kinsey's research on human sexuality - foundational to the modern field of sexology - profoundly influenced social and cultural values in the United States and many other countries. Alfred_Kinsey | |
| M. R. James Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, (August 1, 1862 – June 12, 1936), who used the publication name M. R. James, was a noted British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918) and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature. M._R._James | |
| Bungie Bungie is an American video game developer founded in May 1991 under the name Bungie Software Products Corporation by two undergraduate students at the University of Chicago, Alex Seropian and Jason Jones. Originally based in Chicago, the company concentrated primarily on Macintosh games during its first nine years of existence, producing the popular Marathon and Myth series as well as games such as Oni. Bungie | |
| Cauchy–Schwarz inequality mathematics, the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality, also known as the Schwarz inequality, the Cauchy inequality, or the Cauchy–Schwarz–Bunyakovsky inequality, is a useful inequality encountered in many different settings, such as linear algebra applied to vectors, in analysis applied to infinite series and integration of products, and in probability theory, applied to variances and covariances. Cauchy–Schwarz_inequality | |
| Suspension of disbelief Suspension of disbelief or "willing suspension of disbelief" is a formula devised by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge to justify the use of fantastic or non-realistic elements in literature. Coleridge suggested that if a writer could infuse a "human interest and a semblance of truth" into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend judgment concerning the implausibility of the narrative. Suspension_of_disbelief | |
| Oskar Schindler Oskar Schindler (April 28, 1908 Sudeten German industrialist. He is credited with saving almost 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively. Schindler's Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler's List. Oskar_Schindler | |
| Regional accents of English The regional accents of English speakers show great variation across the areas where English is spoken as a first language. This article provides an overview of the many identifiable variations in pronunciation, usually deriving from the phoneme inventory of the local dialect, of the local variety of Standard English between various populations of native English speakers. Regional_accents_of_English | |
| Plotinus Plotinus (Greek:philosopher of the ancient world who is widely considered the founder of Neoplatonism (along with his teacher Ammonius Saccas). Much of our biographical information about him comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Plotinus' Enneads. His metaphysical writings have inspired centuries of Pagan, Christian, Jewish, Islamic and Gnostic metaphysicians and mystics. Plotinus | |
| Hebron Hebron ( or ; , Hevron, Tiberian Hebrew:West Bank, located in the south, 30 kilometers south of Jerusalem. It is home to some 166,000 Palestinians, and over 500 Israelis. Hebron lies 930 meters (3,050 ft) above sea level. Located in the Palestinian territories and the Biblical region of Judea, it is the second holiest city in Judaism, after Jerusalem.It is locally well-known for its grapes, figs, limestone, pottery workshops and glassblowing factories. Hebron | |
| Neoplatonism Neoplatonism (also Neo-Platonism) is the modern term for a school of religious and mystical philosophy that took shape in the 3rd century AD, founded by Plotinus and based on the teachings of Plato and earlier Platonists. The term - neuplatonisch - was first coined by a German historian (not by Thomas Taylor who would have been dismissive of the implication that the late Platonists had departed from the essentials of Platonism Thomas Taylor),. Neoplatonism | |
| John Philip Sousa John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition and resultant prominence, he is known as "The March King." In public, he was typically referenced by his full name. John_Philip_Sousa | |
| Battle of the Teutoburg Forest The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (described as clades Variana by Roman historians) took place in A.D. 9 (probably lasting from September 9 to September 11) when an alliance of Germanic tribes led by Arminius, the son of Segimer of the Cherusci, ambushed and destroyed three Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus. Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest | |
| Joseph Priestley Joseph Priestley (13 March 1733 (Old Style) – 6 February 1804) was an 18th-century British theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works. He is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, although Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier also have a claim to the discovery. Joseph_Priestley | |
| Corpus linguistics Corpus linguistics is the study of language as expressed in samples (corpora) or "real world" text. This method represents a digestive approach to deriving a set of abstract rules by which a natural language is governed or else relates to another language. Originally done by hand, corpora are now largely derived by an automated process, which is corrected. Corpus_linguistics | |
| Bullshit Bullshit (also bullcrap, bullplop, horseshit, bullbutter, bullcookies,) is a common English expletive. It may be shortened to "bull" or the euphemism B.S. The term is common in American English. In British English, bollocks is a comparable expletive, although bullshit is now a commonly used expletive in British English as well.As with many expletives, it can be used as an interjection (or in many other parts of speech) and can carry a wide variety of meanings. Bullshit | |
| Ground (electricity) In electrical engineering, ground or earth may be the reference point in an electrical circuit from which other voltages are measured, or a common return path for electric current, or a direct physical connection to the Earth. Ground_(electricity) | |
| Identifier Identifier is a unique expression in a written format either by a code, by numbers or by the combination of both to distinguish variations from one to another among a class of substances, items or objects. For living organisms and the structural identifications of objects, identifiers could be more complicated.In computer science, Identifiers (IDs) are lexical tokens that name entities. Identifier | |
| Online and offline The terms online and offline (also on-line and off-line) have specific meanings with respect to computer technology and telecommunication. In general, "online" indicates a state of connectivity, while "offline" indicates a disconnected state. In common usage, "online" often refers to the Internet or the World Wide Web.The concepts have however been extended from their computing and telecommunication meanings into the area of human interaction and conversation, such that even offline can be used in contrast to the common usage of online (e.g., Online_and_offline | |
| Dividend Dividends are payments made by a corporation to its shareholders. It is the portion of corporate profits paid out to stockholders. When a corporation earns a profit or surplus, that money can be put to two usesretained earnings), or it can be paid to the shareholders as a dividend. Dividend | |
| Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo () (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France. In France, Hugo's literary reputation rests primarily on his poetic and dramatic output and only secondarily on his novels. Victor_Hugo | |
| Warsaw Ghetto Talk:Warsaw_Ghetto | |
| Mrs. Miniver Mrs. Miniver, see Mrs. Miniver (film)Mrs. Miniver was a fictional character created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns for The Times, later adapted into a movie of the same name. Mrs._Miniver |
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