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| Eunuch A eunuch () is a castrated man, in particular one castrated early enough to have major hormonal consequences; the term usually refers to those castrated in order to perform a specific social function, as was common in many societies of the past. The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the twenty first century BC. Eunuch | |
| Nicolas Steno Nicolas Steno (Danish:Niels Stensen; latinized to Nicolaus Stenonis, Italian Niccolo' Stenone) (11 January 1638 - 25 November 1686) was a pioneer in both anatomy and geology. Already in 1659 he decided not to accept anything simply written in a book, instead resolving to do research himself. He is considered the father of geology and stratigraphy. Nicolas_Steno | |
| 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 | |
| Sound film A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before reliable synchronization was made commercially practical. Sound_film | |
| Messianic Judaism Messianic Judaism is a religious movement that differs from mainstream Christianity and mainstream Judaism by combining elements of each into a single faith. Messianic_Judaism | |
| May Fourth Movement The May Fourth Movement () was an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4, 1919 protesting the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles, especially the Shandong Problem. These demonstrations sparked national protests and marked the upsurge of Chinese nationalism, a shift towards political mobilization and away from cultural activities, and a move towards populist base rather than intellectual elites. May_Fourth_Movement | |
| Art Garfunkel Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is an American singer, poet and actor, best known as half of the Grammy Award winning folk duo Simon & Garfunkel. Art_Garfunkel | |
| Pneumonic plague Pneumonic plague is the most virulent and least common form of plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Typically, pneumonic form is due to a secondary spread from advanced infection of an initial bubonic form. Primary pneumonic plague results from inhalation of aerosolized infective droplets and can be transmitted from human to human without involvement of fleas or animals. Untreated pneumonic plague has a very high case-fatality ratio. Pneumonic_plague | |
| Champs-Élysées The Avenue des Champs-Élysées ( ) is a prestigious avenue in Paris, France. With its cinemas, cafés, luxury specialty shops and stunning trees, the Avenue des Champs-Élysées is one of the most famous streets in the world, and with rents as high as USD1.5 million per 1,000 square feet (92.9 square metres) of space, it remains the most expensive strip of real estate in Europe. The name is French for Elysian Fields, the place of the blessed dead in Greek mythology. Champs-Élysées | |
| Fudan University Fudan University (), located in Shanghai, China, is one of the oldest, most prestigious and most selective universities in the People's Republic of China. Its institutional predecessor was founded in 1905, shortly before the end of China's imperial Qing dynasty. Fudan University is composed of four campuses, including Handan (邯鄲), Fenglin (楓林), Zhangjiang (張江), and Jiangwan (江灣). It is a comprehensive university highly ranked in physical sciences, humanities, social sciences, and medicine. Fudan_University | |
| Duncan J. Watts Duncan J. Watts (born 1971) is an Australian professor of sociology at Columbia University, where he heads the Collective Dynamics Group, and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute. He is also a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research, where he directs the Human Social Dynamics group. He is author of the book Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. Duncan_J._Watts | |
| Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák) Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World" (Op. 95), popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1893 during his visit to the United States from 1892 to 1895. It is by far his most popular symphony, and one of the most popular in the modern repertory. Symphony_No._9_(Dvořák) | |
| Nicotiana Nicotiana | |
| Giovanni da Verrazzano Giovanni da Verrazzano (often spelled Verrazano; c. 1485 Italian explorer of North America, in the service of the French crown. He is renowned as the first European since the Norse colonization of the Americas around AD 1000 to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between South Carolina and Newfoundland, including New York Harbor and Narragansett Bay in 1524. Giovanni_da_Verrazzano | |
| C-SPAN C-SPAN (, ; officially, the Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network) is an American cable television network dedicated to airing non-stop coverage of government proceedings and public affairs programming. C-SPAN does not accept advertising from external entities, and the only commercials are for its own shows or videos for sale from their website.In addition to C-SPAN Radio and the C-SPAN website, C-SPAN is made up of three television channels C-SPAN | |
| Magnetic core memory Magnetic core memory, or ferrite-core memory, is an early form of random access computer memory. It uses small magnetic ceramic rings, the cores, through which wires are threaded to store information via the polarity of the magnetic field they contain. Such memory is often just called core memory, or, informally, core.Although computer memory long ago moved to silicon chips, memory is still occasionally called "core". Magnetic_core_memory | |
| Assyro-Babylonian literature Assyro-Babylonian literature is one of the world's oldest. Drawing on the traditions of Sumerian literature, the Babylonians compiled a vast textual tradition of mythological narrative, legal texts, scientific works, letters and other literary forms. As a scribal society, Babylon placed great prestige on its great literary works and on the practice of philology. Assyro-Babylonian_literature | |
| Charles Wheatstone Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS (6 February 1802 - 19 October 1875), was a British scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian era, including the English concertina, the stereoscope (a device for displaying three-dimensional images), and the Playfair cipher (an encryption technique). Charles_Wheatstone | |
| Eudaemons For Eudaemons in mythology, see Daemon.The Eudaemons were a small group headed by graduate physics students J. Doyne Farmer and Norman Packard at the University of California Santa Cruz in the late 1970s. The group's immediate objective was to find a way to beat roulette, but a loftier objective was to use the money made from roulette to fund a scientific community. The name of the group was inspired by the eudaimonism philosophy. Eudaemons | |
| African diaspora African Diaspora was the movement of Africans and their descendants to places throughout the world - predominantly to the Americas, then later to Europe, the Middle East and other places around the globe. The term is applied in particular to the descendents of the Black Africans who were enslaved and shipped to the Americas by way of the Atlantic slave trade, with the largest population in Brazil (see Afro-Brazilian). African_diaspora | |
| New Keynesian economics New Keynesian economics is a school of contemporary macroeconomics that strives to provide microeconomic foundations for Keynesian economics. It developed partly as a response to criticisms of Keynesian macroeconomics by adherents of New Classical macroeconomics. New_Keynesian_economics | |
| Latin names of rivers Following is a list of rivers stating the Latin and equivalent English name. Latin_names_of_rivers | |
| Mira Nair Mira Nair (born October 15, 1957) is an Indian-American film director and producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films.She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! (1988), won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the nomination for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Mira_Nair | |
| Taiping Rebellion The Taiping Rebellion was a large-scale revolt in China from 1850 to 1864, during the Qing Dynasty, by an army led by heterodox Christian convert Hong Xiuquan. He established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom ( pinyin:Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace with its capital at Nanjing and gained control of significant parts of southern China, at its height ruling over about 30 million people. Taiping_Rebellion | |
| LIGO For the Latvian holiday Ligo, see Jāņi.LIGO, which stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, is a large physics experiment which is attempting to directly detect gravitational waves. Cofounded in 1992 by Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever of Caltech and Rainer Weiss of MIT, LIGO is a joint project between scientists at MIT and Caltech. LIGO | |
| Amiens Amiens () is a city and commune in northern France, north of Paris. It is the capital of the Somme department in Picardie. Amiens | |
| Otello Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello. It was Verdi's second to last opera and is considered by many to be his greatest. It was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on February 5, 1887. Otello | |
| Cyzicus Cyzicus () was an ancient town of Mysia in Anatolia, situated in Balıkesir Province on the shoreward side of the present peninsula of Kapu-Dagh (Arctonnesus), which is said to have been originally an island in the Sea of Marmara, and to have been artificially connected with the mainland in historic times.Now, Cyzicus is protected by the Turkey's Ministry of Culture, and located on the Erdek and Bandırma roads in Turkey. Cyzicus | |
| Tomaž Pisanski Tomaž (Tomo) Pisanski (b. May 24, 1949 in Ljubljana, Slovenia) is a Slovenian mathematician working mainly in graph theory. 1980 he calculated the genus of the Cartesian product of any pair of connected, bipartite, d-valent graphs using a method that was later called the White-Pisanski method. Tomaž_Pisanski | |
| 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 | |
| Electoral College (United States) Cartogram representation of the Electoral College vote for the 2008 election Electoral_College_(United_States) | |
| Augmented reality Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data (virtual reality), where computer graphics objects are blended into real footage in real time. Augmented_reality | |
| John Zorn John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in Queens, New York City) is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn's recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or producer. John_Zorn | |
| List of IBM products The following is a list of products, some notable, some less so, from the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation and its predecessor corporations, beginning in the 1890s, and spanning punched card equipment, time clocks, and typewriters, via mainframe computers and minicomputers, to microprocessors, software, and more.This list is eclectic; it includes, for example, the AN/FSQ-7, which was not a product in the sense of offered for sale, but was a product in the sense of manufactured - produced by the labor of IBM. List_of_IBM_products | |
| Cattle Talk:Cattle | |
| Mikhail Bakunin Talk:Mikhail_Bakunin | |
| Poverty Talk:Poverty | |
| Same-sex marriage Same-sex marriage and gay marriage are terms for a legally or socially recognized marriage between two people of the same sex. The first country to allow same-sex couples to enter into legally recognized marriage was the Netherlands, effective in 2001. Since then, six other countries and seven U.S. Same-sex_marriage | |
| Lake Vostok Lake Vostok (, "east") is the largest of more than 140 subglacial lakes found under the surface of Antarctica. It is located beneath Russia's Vostok Station, 4,000 meters (13,000 ft) under the surface of the central Antarctic ice sheet, within the Australian Antarctic Territory. It is 250Lake Ontario, and is divided into two deep basins by a ridge. The water over the ridge is about 200fresh water. The average depth is 344 m. In May 2005 an island was found in the center of the lake. Lake_Vostok | |
| William Barclay Parsons William Barclay Parsons (April 15, 1859 - May 9, 1932) was an American civil engineer. He founded the firm that became Parsons Brinckerhoff, one of the largest American civil engineering firms.Parsons received a bachelor's degree from Columbia College in 1879, and a second from Columbia's School of Mines in 1882. William_Barclay_Parsons | |
| Carl McCall H. Carl McCall (born October 17, 1935, in Boston, Massachusetts) is a former Comptroller of New York State and was the Democratic candidate in the 2002 election for state governor. He is an ordained minister, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for numerous corporations. Carl_McCall | |
| Theramenes Theramenes (; ; floruit 411 BC – 404 BC) was an Athenian statesman, prominent in the final decade of the Peloponnesian War. He was particularly active during the two periods of oligarchic government at Athens, as well as in the trial of the generals who had commanded at Arginusae in 406 BC. Theramenes | |
| Bharat Mata Bharat Mata (Hindi, भारत माता, Bhārata Mātā), that is, the Mother India or Bharathamba (Bharata - India or "bearing", Mata - Mother) is a personification of India as a mother goddess. She is usually depicted as a woman clad in an orange or saffron saree holding a flag and sometimes, accompanied by a lion. Bharat_Mata | |
| Chinatown, Manhattan The Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan borough of New York City ethnic enclave with a large population of Chinese immigrants, similar to Chinatown districts in other American cities. It is the second most populous Chinatown in the Western Hemisphere (after San Francisco's Chinatown), and third in area size (San Francisco, Vancouver). Chinatown,_Manhattan | |
| Dog Day Afternoon Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 critically acclaimed American crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Frank Pierson. The film stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, Chris Sarandon, James Broderick, and Charles Durning. Based on the events of a bank robbery that took place on August 22, 1972, Dog Day Afternoon tells the story of John "Sonny" Wortzik, who, with his partner Salvatore Naturile, holds the employees of a Brooklyn, New York bank hostage the day after his pre-operative transgendered girlfriend was committed to a psychiatric hospital following a suicide attempt. Dog_Day_Afternoon | |
| Voice of America Voice of America (VOA) is the official external radio and television broadcasting service of the United States federal government. Its oversight entity is the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). VOA provides a wide range of programming for broadcast over short-wave radio around the world in forty-six languages, promoting a positive view of the United States.VOA broadcasts by satellite and on FM, AM, and shortwave radio frequencies. Voice_of_America | |
| Student's t-distribution ,; u>0 :Bessel function In probability and statistics, Student's t-distribution (or simply the t-distribution) is a probability distribution that arises in the problem of estimating the mean of a normally distributed population when the sample size is small. Student's_t-distribution | |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel Guns, Germs, and Steel is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at UCLA. In 1998 it won a Pulitzer Prize and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. A documentary based on the book was broadcast on PBS in July 2005, produced by the National Geographic Society. Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel | |
| Taiping Rebellion Talk:Taiping_Rebellion | |
| Rockford, Illinois Rockford is a mid-sized city located on both banks of the Rock River in far northern Illinois. Rockford is often referred to as "The Forest City" and is the county seat of Winnebago County, Illinois, USA. As reported in the 2000 U.S. census, the city was home to 155,115 people, while in the 2006 estimate, it is said to have a population of 156,596, Rockford,_Illinois |
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