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| Omweso Omweso, sometimes shortened to Mweso, and also known as coro, is a mancala popular in Uganda. It uses a 4Oware. Omweso | |
| William Alfred Fowler William Alfred "Willie" Fowler (August 9, 1911 March 14, 1995) was an American astrophysicist. He should not be confused with the British astronomer Alfred Fowler.Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Fowler moved with his family to Lima, Ohio at the age of two. William_Alfred_Fowler | |
| Dixy Lee Ray Dixy Lee Ray (September 3, 1914Governor of the U.S. State of Washington. She was Washington's first female governor.She was born Marguerite Ray in Tacoma to Frances Adams Ray and Alvis Marion Ray (a commercial printer). Marguerite was second in a family of five girls. Dixy_Lee_Ray | |
| Herbert Aptheker Herbert Aptheker (July 31, 1915 – March 17, 2003) was an internationally known American Marxist historian and political activist. He authored over 50 volumes, mostly in the fields of African American history and general U.S. history, most notably, American Negro Slave Revolts (1943), a classic in the field, and the 7-volume Documentary History of the Negro People. He was a prominent figure in U.S. scholarly discourse since the 1930s. Herbert_Aptheker | |
| Carey McWilliams (journalist) Carey McWilliams (13 December 1905American author, editor, and lawyer. He is best known for his writings about social issues in California, including the condition of migrant farm workers and the internment of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II. For twenty years he was the editor of The Nation magazine. Carey_McWilliams_(journalist) | |
| Ernst Toch Ernst Toch (; 7 December 1887 - 1 October 1964) was a composer of classical music and film scores. Ernst_Toch | |
| Archie Williams Archibald ("Archie") Franklin Williams (May 1, 1915 June 24, 1993) was an African-American athlete and teacher, winner of 400 meter run at the 1936 Summer Olympics.Born in Oakland, California, Archie Williams had one great year but he did more in that one year than many athletes achieve in a lifetime. Archie_Williams | |
| Main Department Store Main Department Store or GUM (ГУМ, pronounced as goom, in full Главный Универсальный Магазин, Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin) is a common name for the main department store in many cities of the Soviet Union and some post-Soviet states. The most famous GUM is a ;)large store in Kitai-gorod of Moscow, facing Red Square. It is actually a shopping mall. Prior to the 1920s the place was known as the Upper Trading Rows. Main_Department_Store | |
| Victor Young Not to be confused with the actor Victor Sen Yung who was sometimes billed as Victor YoungVictor Young (August 8, 1900 – November 10, 1956) was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. He was born in Chicago. Victor_Young | |
| Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 was a culmination of skirmishes that took place between April 1965 and September 1965 between India and Pakistan. This conflict became known as the Second Kashmir War fought by India and Pakistan over the disputed region of Kashmir, the first having been fought in 1947. Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1965 | |
| Fabry's disease Fabry disease (also known as Anderson-Fabry disease, Angiokeratoma corporis diffusum, Ruiter-Pompen-Wyers syndrome, Ceramide trihexosidosis, and Sweeley-Klionsky disease) is an X-linked recessive (inherited) lysosomal storage disease. The disease is named for Johannes Fabry. Fabry's_disease | |
| North American currency union The North American Currency Union is a theoretical economic and monetary union of three of the largest countries of North America; Canada, the United States and Mexico. North_American_currency_union | |
| Alfred Austin Alfred Austin (May 30, 1835 June 2 1913) was an English poet, who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896 upon the death of Tennyson. Alfred_Austin | |
| Walter Duranty Walter Duranty (1884October 3, 1957) was a Liverpool-born British journalist who served as the New York Times Moscow bureau chief from 1922 through 1936. Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a set of stories written in 1931 on the Soviet Union. Duranty's reporting has fallen into disrepute primarily because of his reports denying the famine in Ukraine. He has also been criticized for his favorable portrayals of Stalin and his uncritical coverage of Stalin's show trials. Walter_Duranty | |
| New Age music Talk:New_Age_music | |
| Submarine patent Submarine patent is an informal term for a patent first published and granted long after the initial application was filed. In analogy to a submarine, its presence is unknown to the public; it stays under water, i.e., unpublished, for long periods, then emerges, i.e., Submarine_patent | |
| Majority rule Majority rule is a decision rule that selects one of two alternatives, based on which has more than half the votes. It is the binary decision rule used most often in influential decision-making bodies, including the legislatures of democratic nations. Some scholars have recommended against the use of majority rule, at least under certain circumstances, due to an ostensible trade-off between the benefits of majority rule and other values important to a democratic society. Majority_rule | |
| Same-sex marriage in Massachusetts Same-sex marriage in the U.S. state of Massachusetts began on May 17, 2004, as a result of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that it was unconstitutional under the Massachusetts constitution to allow only heterosexual couples to marry. Same-sex_marriage_in_Massachusetts | |
| Rajput Rajput is a highly dominant and renowned royal warrior caste of Indian Subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal). They have been referred to as the most Valiant Warriors of Indian Subcontinent. Their warlike nature and dominant rule of their kingdoms against other tribes earned them a powerful reputation. Rajputs Rajput | |
| Leo T. McCarthy Leo Tarcissus McCarthy (August 15, 1930 – February 5, 2007) was a New Zealand-born American politician and businessman. He served as the Democratic Lieutenant Governor of California from 1983 to 1995.McCarthy was born in Auckland, but moved with his parents to San Francisco, California at the age of four. Leo_T._McCarthy | |
| Negative campaigning Negative campaigning, also known more colloquially as "mudslinging", is trying to win an advantage by referring to negative aspects of an opponent or of a policy rather than emphasizing one's own positive attributes or preferred policies. In the broadest sense, the term covers any rhetoric which refers to an opponent, if only by way of contrast, but can also include attacks meant to destroy an opponent's character, which may veer into ad hominem. Negative_campaigning | |
| Chettiar Chettiar (also Chetty, Chetti, Setty, Chitty, and Shettigar) is a title, commonly used by people of South Indian origin in India and abroad. It is usually derived from trading social groups. Komatis also use the same title though they are Telugu language speakers and with intermarriages common its not rare to find the title Chetty among both Tamils and Telugus. Chettiar | |
| John Bidwell John Bidwell (August 5 1819 – April 4, 1900) was known throughout California and across the nation as an important pioneer, farmer, soldier, statesman, politician, prohibitionist and philanthropist. He is famous for leading one of the first emigrant parties, known as the Bartleson-Bidwell Party, along the California Trail and for founding Chico, California. John_Bidwell | |
| Children's rights movement The Children's Rights Movement is a historical and modern movement committed to the acknowledgment, expansion, and/or regression of the rights of children around the world. While the historical definition of child has varied, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child explains, "A child is any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier." Children's_rights_movement | |
| Charles Anderson (governor) Charles Anderson (June 1, 1814 – September 2, 1895) was first a Whig and later a Republican politician from Ohio. He served briefly as the 27th Governor of Ohio. Charles_Anderson_(governor) | |
| Ikat Ikat, or Ikkat, is a style of weaving that uses a resist dyeing process similar to tie-dye on either the warp or weft before the threads are woven to create a pattern or design. A Double Ikat is when both the warp and the weft are tie-dyed before weaving.Ikat means "to tie" or "to bind" in the Malay language and has the same root as the words dekat ("close"), lekat ("to stick"), pikat ("to catch") etc. Ikat | |
| Passive smoking Passive smoking is the inhalation of smoke, called secondhand smoke (SHS) or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), from tobacco products used by others. It occurs when tobacco smoke permeates any environment, causing its inhalation by people within that environment. Scientific evidence shows that exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke causes disease, disability, and death. Passive_smoking | |
| Hadza language Hadza is a language isolate spoken by fewer than a thousand people along the shores of Lake Eyasi in Tanzania. Despite the small number of speakers, language use is vigorous, with most children learning it.The Hadza people are still partially hunter-gatherers, though there have been repeated efforts to settle them. Hadza_language | |
| Alcide De Gasperi Alcide De Gasperi (3 April 1881 19 August 1954) was an Italian statesman and politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party. From 1945 to 1953 he was the prime minister of eight successive coalition governments. His eight-year rule remains a landmark of political longevity for a leader in modern Italian politics. He is considered to be one of the Founding fathers of the European Union, along with the Frenchman Robert Schuman and the German Konrad Adenauer. Alcide_De_Gasperi | |
| Nagarathar The Nagarathars (also known as Nagarattar) are a Chettiar community that originated in Kaveripoompattinam under the Chola kingdom of India. They are a prominent mercantile caste in Tamil Nadu, South India. Nagarathar | |
| Owen Lattimore Owen Lattimore (July 29, 1900 May 31, 1989) was a U.S. author, educator, and influential scholar of Central Asia, especially Mongolia. In the 1930s he was editor of Pacific Affairs, a journal published by the Institute of Pacific Relations, and then taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1938 to 1963. Owen_Lattimore | |
| Marshallese language The Marshallese language (Marshallese''Malayo-Polynesian language of the Marshall Islands. There are two major dialects Marshallese_language | |
| Montgomery Ward Montgomery_Ward | |
| Chicago Police Department The Chicago Police Department, also known as the CPD, is the principal law enforcement agency of the City of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States, under the jurisdiction of the city mayor. It is the largest police department in the Midwest and the second largest in the United States after the New York City Police Department with over 13,400 sworn officers and over 1,850 other employees. Dating back to 1837, the Chicago Police Department is one of the oldest modern police forces in the world. Chicago_Police_Department | |
| Stephen Harriman Long Stephen Harriman Long (December 30, 1784 U.S. engineer, explorer, and military officer. As an inventor, he is noted for his developments in the design of steam locomotives. As an Army officer, he led a pioneering scientific expedition throughout a large area of the Great Plains, which he famously described as the "Great American Desert". Longs Peak in Colorado is named for him. Stephen_Harriman_Long | |
| William F. Knowland William Fife Knowland (June 26 1908 February 23 1974) was a United States politician, newspaperman, and Republican Party leader. He was a U.S. Senator from California from 1945 to 1959. He served as Senate Majority Leader in 1953-1955, as Minority Leader in 1955-1959. He succeeded his father, Joseph R. Knowland, as the editor and publisher of the Oakland Tribune. William_F._Knowland | |
| Paul Berg Paul Naim Berg (born June 30, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1943, received his B.S. in biochemistry from Penn State University in 1948 and Ph.D. Paul_Berg | |
| Gabby Gabreski Francis Stanley "Gabby" Gabreski (Franciszek Gabryszewski) (28 January 1919 - January 31 2002) was the top American fighter ace in Europe during World War II, a jet fighter ace in Korea, and a career officer in the United States Air Force with more than 26 years service.Although best known for his credited destruction of 34½ aircraft in aerial combat and being one of only seven U.S. Gabby_Gabreski | |
| J. Neely Johnson John Neely Johnson (August 2 1825 August 31 1872) was an American lawyer and politician. He was elected as the fourth Governor of California from 1856 to 1858, and later appointed justice to the Nevada Supreme Court from 1867 to 1871. As a member of the American Party, Johnson remains one of only two members of a third party to be elected to the California governorship (the only other being Frederick Low, who was elected on a National Union Party ticket.) J._Neely_Johnson | |
| The Hollywood Reporter The Hollywood Reporter is a major American trade publication of the entertainment industry. During the last century it was one of the two major publications — the other being Variety. Today both newspapers cover what is now more broadly called the entertainment industry. The_Hollywood_Reporter | |
| Cell (microprocessor) Cell is a microprocessor architecture jointly developed by Sony Computer Entertainment, Toshiba, and IBM, an alliance known as "STI". The architectural design and first implementation were carried out at the STI Design Center in Austin, Texas over a four-year period beginning March 2001 on a budget reported by Sony as approaching US$400 million. Cell_(microprocessor) | |
| Michael Palmer Michael Palmer (born May 11, 1943 in Manhattan, New York) is a contemporary American poet and translator. He has worked extensively with Contemporary dance for over thirty years and has collaborated with many composers and visual artists. Palmer has lived in San Francisco since 1969.Palmer is the 2006 recipient of the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. This $100,000 (US) prize recognizes outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry. Michael_Palmer | |
| Key System The Key System (or Key Route) was a privately owned company which provided mass transit in the cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Emeryville, Piedmont, San Leandro, Richmond, Albany and El Cerrito in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area from 1903 until 1960, when the system was sold to a newly formed public agency, AC Transit. Key_System | |
| Sheridan Downey Sheridan Downey (March 11 1884 – October 25 1961) was a lawyer and a Democratic U.S. Senator from California. Sheridan_Downey | |
| Mixture model statistics, a mixture model is a probabilistic model for density estimation using a mixture distribution. A mixture model can be regarded as a type of unsupervised learning or clustering. Mixture_model | |
| James Gillett James Norris Gillett (September 20, 1860 – April 21, 1937) was an American lawyer and politician. A Republican involved in federal and state politics, Gillett was elected both a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California from March 4 1903 to November 4, 1906 and as the 22nd Governor of California from January 9, 1907 to January 3, 1911. James_Gillett | |
| Henry Gage Henry Tifft Gage (December 25, 1852 – August 28, 1924) was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat. A Republican, Gage was elected to a single term as the 20th Governor of California from 1899 to 1903. Gage was also the U.S. Minister to Portugal for several months in 1910. Henry_Gage | |
| Allan Wilson Allan Charles Wilson (18 October 1934 – 21 July 1991) was a pioneer in the use of molecular approaches to understand evolutionary change and reconstruct phylogenies. One of the great innovators of science, he revolutionised the study of human evolution. He was one of the most controversial figures in post-war biology; his work attracted a great deal of attention both from within and outside the academic world. Allan_Wilson | |
| List of German Jews The first Jewish population in the region to be later known as Germay came with the Romans to the city now known as Cologne. A "Golden Age" in the first millennium saw the emergence of the Ashkenazi Jews, while the persecution and expulsion that followed the Crusades led to the creation of Yiddish and an overall shift eastwards. List_of_German_Jews | |
| Frederick Terman Frederick Emmons Terman (June 7, 1900 in English, Indiana – December 19, 1982) was an American academic. He is widely credited (together with William Shockley) with being the father of Silicon Valley.Terman completed his undergraduate degree in chemistry and his master's degree in electrical engineering at Stanford University. Frederick_Terman |
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