| Stagflation Stagflation is an economic situation in which inflation and economic stagnation occur simultaneously and remain unchecked for a period of time. The portmanteau stagflation is generally attributed to British politician Iain Macleod, who coined the term in a speech to Parliament in 1965. Stagflation
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| Silurian The Silurian is a geologic period and system that extends from the end of the Ordovician period, about 443.7 ± 1.5 Ma (million years ago), to the beginning of the Devonian period, about 416.0 ± 2.8 Ma . As with other geologic periods, the rock beds that define the period's start and end are well identified, but the exact dates are uncertain by several million years. Silurian
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| Sheepshead Sheepshead or Sheephead is a trick-taking card game related to the Skat family of games. It is the Americanized version of a card game which originated in Central Europe in the late 1700s under the German name Schafkopf. Although Schafkopf literally means "sheepshead", the term may have been derived from Middle High German and referred to playing cards on an overturned barrel (from kopfen, meaning playing cards, and Schaff, meaning a barrel). Sheepshead
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| 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
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| Seljuq dynasty Talk:Seljuq_dynasty
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| Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion. In 2006, the magazine Premiere listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. Steven_Spielberg
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| Steven Soderbergh Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963) is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing the films sex, lies, and videotape, Erin Brockovich, Traffic, the Ocean's Eleven franchise, and his biopic Che. Steven_Soderbergh
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| Sanskrit Talk:Sanskrit
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| Scheme (programming language) Scheme is a multi-paradigm programming language. It is one of the two main dialects of Lisp (the other being Common Lisp) and supports a number of programming paradigms but is best known for its support of functional programming. It was developed by Guy L. Steele and Gerald Jay Sussman in the 1970s. Scheme_(programming_language)
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| SETI Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is the collective name for a number of activities to detect intelligent extraterrestrial life. The general approach of SETI projects is to survey the sky to detect the existence of transmissions from a civilization on a distant planetscientific community as hard science. The United States Government contributed to SETI early on, but recent work has been primarily funded by private sources. SETI
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| Spam (electronic) Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other mediainstant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, and file sharing network spam. Spam_(electronic)
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| Slime mold Talk:Slime_mold
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| Shirley Dean Shirley Ann Dean (Bryant), considered moderate in Berkeley politics, is an American politician who served as the Mayor of Berkeley, California from 1994 to 2002. Before serving two terms as Berkeley's Mayor, Dean served on the Berkeley City Council for 15 years between 1975 and 1994 and was a leader of the Berkeley Democratic Club.Shirley Dean grew up in a single parent family, and graduated from Berkeley High School in 1952. Shirley_Dean
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| Supernova Talk:Supernova
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| Scorpion Scorpions are predatory arthropod animals of the order Scorpiones within the class Arachnida. There are about 2,000 species of scorpions, found widely distributed south of about 49° N, except New Zealand and Antarctica. The northernmost part of the world where scorpions live in the wild is Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in the UK, where a small colony of Euscorpius flavicaudis has been resident since the 1860s. The word scorpion derives from Greek σκορπιός - skorpios. Scorpion
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| Stellar classification astronomy, stellar classification is a classification of stars based on its spectral characteristics. The spectral class of a star, is a designation of a class to a star describing the ionization of its chromosphere, what atomic excitations are most prominent in the light, giving an objective measure of the temperature in this chromosphere. Stellar_classification
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| Science & Environmental Policy Project Talk:Science_&_Environmental_Policy_Project
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| Speciation Speciation is the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise. The biologist Orator F. Cook seems to have been the first to coin the term 'speciation' for the splitting of lineages or 'cladogenesis,' as opposed to 'anagenesis' or 'phyletic evolution' occurring within lineages. Speciation
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| SunOS SunOS is a version of the Unix operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for their workstation and server computer systems. The SunOS name is usually only used to refer to versions 1.0 to 4.1.4 of SunOS. These versions were based on BSD Unix, while SunOS version 5.0 and later are based on UNIX System V Release 4, and are marketed under the brand name Solaris. SunOS
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| Space colonization Space colonization (also called space settlement, space humanization, space habitation, etc.) is the concept of autonomous (self-sufficient) human habitation of locations outside Earth. theme in science fiction, as well as a long-term goal of various national space programs.While many people think of space colonies on the Moon or Mars, others argue that the first colonies will be in orbit. Space_colonization
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| Sino-Indian War Sino-Indian_War
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| Single UNIX Specification Single UNIX Specification (SUS) is the collective name of a family of standards for computer operating systems to qualify for the name "Unix". The SUS is developed and maintained by the Austin Group, based on earlier work by the IEEE and The Open Group. Single_UNIX_Specification
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| Scientific Revolution In the history of science, the Scientific Revolution is a period when new ideas in physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, chemistry, and other sciences led to a rejection of doctrines that had prevailed from Ancient Greece through the Middle Ages, and laid the foundation of modern science. Scientific_Revolution
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| Tamil language Tamil_language
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| On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published 24 November 1859, is a seminal work of scientific literature considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. On_the_Origin_of_Species
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| Transistor In electronics, a transistor is a semiconductor device commonly used to amplify or switch electronic signals. A transistor is made of a solid piece of a semiconductor material, with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit. A voltage or current applied to one pair of the transistor's terminals changes the current flowing through another pair of terminals. Transistor
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| Triumph of the Will Triumph of the Will () is a propaganda film made by Leni Riefenstahl. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg. The film contains excerpts from speeches given by various Nazi leaders at the Congress, including portions of speeches by Adolf Hitler, interspersed with footage of massed party members. Triumph_of_the_Will
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| Trojan War In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta. The war is among the most important events in Greek mythology, and was narrated in many works of Greek literature, including the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer. Trojan_War
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| Economy of Turkey Economy_of_Turkey
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| Statistical hypothesis testing A statistical hypothesis test is a method of making statistical decisions using experimental data. It is sometimes called confirmatory data analysis, in contrast to exploratory data analysis. In frequency probability, these decisions are almost always made using null-hypothesis tests; that is, ones that answer the question Assuming that the null hypothesis is true, what is the probability of observing a value for the test statistic that is at least as extreme as the value that was actually observed? Statistical_hypothesis_testing
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| Tundra In physical geography, tundra is a biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. The term tundra comes from Kildin Sami tūndâr, which means "uplands, treeless mountain tract." There are two types of tundraArctic tundra (which also occurs in Antarctica) and alpine tundra. Tundra
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| Tesla turbine Tesla turbine is a bladeless centrifugal flow turbine expander patented by Nikola Tesla in 1913. It is referred to as a bladeless turbine because it uses the boundary layer effect and not a fluid impinging upon the blades as in a conventional turbine. The Tesla turbine is also known as the boundary layer turbine, cohesion-type turbine, and Prandtl layer turbine (after Ludwig Prandtl). Tesla_turbine
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| Travelling salesman problem The Travelling Salesman problem (TSP) is a problem in combinatorial optimization studied in operations research and theoretical computer science. Given a list of cities and their pairwise distances, the task is to find a shortest possible tour that visits each city exactly once.The problem was first formulated as a mathematical problem in 1930 and is one of the most intensively studied problems in optimization. Travelling_salesman_problem
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| Tantra/Archive 1 Talk:Tantra/Archive_1
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| Tibet Tibet
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| University of Washington See Washington (disambiguation) for other uses. University_of_Washington
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| University of California The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges system.The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined system and campus endowment of approximately US$10 billion, University_of_California
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| University of California, Berkeley University_of_California,_Berkeley
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| University of California, Santa Cruz University_of_California,_Santa_Cruz
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| University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (also UCSD or UC San Diego) is a public research university in San Diego, California. The school's nearly campus contains 694 buildings and is located in the La Jolla community. UC San Diego is one of ten University of California campuses and was founded in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography. University_of_California,_San_Diego
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| Ullr Germanic paganism, *Wulþuz ("glory"; Old Norse Ullr) appears to have been a major god, or an epitheton of an important god, in prehistoric times. wolþu- "glory", possibly in reference to the god, is attested on the 3rd century Thorsberg chape (as owlþu-), Ullr.The Old English cognate wuldor means "glory" but is not used as a proper name, although it figures frequently in kennings for the Christian God such as wuldres cyning "king of glory", wuldorfæder "glory-father" or wuldor alwealda "glorious all-ruler". Ullr
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| Umberto Eco Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa, 1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. His 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum has been described as a "thinking man's Da Vinci Code". Umberto_Eco
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| Union for Europe of the Nations Union_for_Europe_of_the_Nations
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| University of Chicago University_of_Chicago
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| Vitamin C Vitamin C or L-ascorbic acid is an essential nutrient for humans, a large number of higher primate species, a small number of other mammalian species (notably guinea pigs and bats), a few species of birds, and some fish.Ascorbate (an ion of ascorbic acid) is required for a range of essential metabolic reactions in all animals and plants. Vitamin_C
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| Vitamin C Talk:Vitamin_C
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| Vietnam War Vietnam_War
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| Video game console A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or electronic device that produces a video display signal which can be used with a display device (a television, monitor, etc.) to display a video game. The term "video game console" is used to distinguish a machine designed for consumers to buy and use solely for playing video games from a personal computer, which has many other functions, or arcade machines, which are designed for businesses that buy and then charge others to play. Video_game_console
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