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| Self-determination Self-determination is defined as free choice of one’s own acts without external compulsion; and especially as the freedom of the people of a given territory to determine their own political status or independence from their current state. In other words, it is the right of the people of a certain nation to decide how they want to be governed without the influence of any other country. Self-determination | |
| Sonar Sonar (originally an acronym for sound navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater) to navigate, communicate with or detect other vessels. There are two kinds of sonaracoustic location and of measurement of the echo characteristics of "targets" in the water. Sonar | |
| Sustainable development Environment Equitable Sustainable Sustainable_development | |
| Scientific American Scientific American (informally abbreviated to SciAm) is a popular science magazine, one of the oldest and most prestigious, published (first weekly and later monthly) since August 28, 1845, making it the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. Scientific_American | |
| Silver Star The Silver Star is the third highest military decoration that can be awarded to a member of any branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is also the third highest award given for valor (in the face of the enemy). Silver_Star | |
| Trade secret A trade secret is a formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information which is not generally known or reasonably ascertainable, by which a business can obtain an economic advantage over competitors or customers. In some jurisdictions, such secrets are referred to as "confidential information" or "classified information". Trade_secret | |
| Tensor Talk:Tensor | |
| Tax To tax (from the latin taxare:tangere:levy upon a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a state or the functional equivalent of a state.Taxes are also imposed by many subnational entities. Taxes consist of direct tax or indirect tax, and may be paid in money or as its labour equivalent (often but not always unpaid). A tax may be defined as a "pecuniary burden laid upon individuals or property to support the government Tax | |
| Taxation in the United States Taxation in the United States is a complex system which may involve payment to at least four different levels of government and many methods of taxation. United States taxation includes local government, possibly including one or more of municipal, township, district and county governments. It also includes regional entities such as school and utility, and transit districts as well as including state and federal government. Taxation_in_the_United_States | |
| Tunguska event The Tunguska Event, or Tunguska explosion, was a powerful explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya (Lower Stony) Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, at around 7Julian calendar, in use locally at the time). Tunguska_event | |
| The Onion The_Onion | |
| Tom Daschle Thomas Andrew Daschle (born December 9, 1947) is a former U.S. Senator from South Dakota and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader. He is a member of the Democratic Party. A South Dakota native, Daschle obtained his university degree there, and served in the United States Air Force. Tom_Daschle | |
| 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 | |
| Tonne A tonne (t) or metric ton (U.S.), Tonne | |
| Torque Talk:Torque | |
| The Prisoner The Prisoner is a 17-episode, British television series which was first broadcast in London from 1 October 1967 to 4 February 1968. Starring and co-created by Patrick McGoohan, it combined spy fiction with elements of science fiction, allegory, and psychological drama.The series follows a British former secret agent who is held prisoner in a mysterious seaside village where his captors try to find out why he abruptly resigned from his job. The_Prisoner | |
| The Bell Curve The Bell Curve is a controversial, best-selling 1994 book by the late Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and American Enterprise Institute political scientist Charles Murray. Its central point is that intelligence is a better predictor of many factors including financial income, job performance, unwed pregnancy, and crime than parents' socioeconomic status or education level. The_Bell_Curve | |
| Treason In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more serious acts of disloyalty to one's sovereign or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife (treason against the king was known as high treason and treason against a lesser superior was petit treason). A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor. Treason | |
| United States Constitution The Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the United States. It is the foundation and source of the legal authority underlying the existence of the United States of America and the Federal Government of the United States. It provides the framework for the organization of the United States Government. United_States_Constitution | |
| Article One of the United States Constitution Article One of the United States Constitution describes the powers of the legislative branch of the federal government - the Congress.The Article provides that Congress consists of a House of Representatives and the Senate, establishes the manner of election and qualifications of members of each House, and outlines legislative procedure and enumerates the powers vested in the legislative branch. Finally, it establishes limits on the powers of both Congress and the states. Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Article Two of the United States Constitution Article Two of the United States Constitution creates the executive branch of the government, comprising the President and other executive officers. Article_Two_of_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Article Three of the United States Constitution Article Three of the United States Constitution establishes the judicial branch of the federal government. The judicial branch comprises the Supreme Court of the United States along with lower federal courts established pursuant to legislation by Congress. Article_Three_of_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Article Four of the United States Constitution Article Four of the United States Constitution relates to the states. It provides for the responsibilities states have to each other, and the responsibilities the federal government has to the states. Furthermore, it provides for the admission of new states and the changing of state boundaries. Article_Four_of_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Article Five of the United States Constitution Article Five of the United States Constitution describes the process whereby the Constitution may be altered. Such amendments may be proposed by the United States Congress or by a national convention assembled at the request of the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the several states. Article_Five_of_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Article Six of the United States Constitution Article Six establishes the United States Constitution and the laws and treaties of the United States made in accordance with it as the supreme law of the land, forbids religion as a requirement for holding a governmental position and holds the United States under the Constitution responsible for debts incurred by the United States under the Articles of Confederation. Article_Six_of_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| First Amendment to the United States Constitution The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that expressly prohibits the United States Congress from making laws "respecting an establishment of religion" or that prohibit the free exercise of religion, infringe the freedom of speech, infringe the freedom of the press, limit the right to peaceably assemble, or limit the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Third Amendment to the United States Constitution Third Amendment to the United States Constitution (Amendment III) is a part of the United States Bill of Rights. It was introduced by James Madison on September 5, 1789, and then three-fourths of the states ratified this as well as 9 others on December 15, 1791. Third_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Second Amendment to the United States Constitution The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects a right to keep and bear arms from infringement by the federal government. Determining the meaning and scope of this right has been described by the American Bar Association as among the most problematic of the rights codified in the Bill of Rights. Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures. It was ratified as a response to the abuse of the writ of assistance, which is a type of general search warrant, in the American Revolution. Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights which sets forth rights related to criminal prosecutions in federal courts. The Supreme Court has applied the protections of this amendment to the states through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution The Seventh Amendment (Amendment VII) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, codifies the right to a jury trial in certain civil trials. Unlike most of the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court has not incorporated the amendment's requirements to the states under the Fourteenth Amendment. Seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution Eighth Amendment (Amendment VIII) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights which prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines or cruel and unusual punishments. The phrases employed are taken from the English Bill of Rights of 1689. Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution Amendment IX (the Ninth Amendment) to the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, addresses rights of the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution. Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. The Tenth Amendment restates the Constitution's principle of Federalism by providing that powers not granted to the national government nor prohibited to the states are reserved to the states or the people. Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution Eleventh Amendment (Amendment XI) to the United States Constitution was passed by the Congress on March 4, 1794 and was ratified on February 7, 1795. This amendment deals with each State's sovereign immunity from being sued in federal court by someone of another state or country. This amendment was adopted in response to, and in order to overrule, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Chisholm v. Georgia, . Eleventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Twelfth Amendment (Amendment XII) to the United States Constitution provides the procedure by which the President and Vice President are elected. It replaced the procedure of the Electoral College under Article II, Section 1, Clause 3, which demonstrated problems in the elections of 1796 and 1800. The Twelfth Amendment was proposed by the Congress on December 9, 1803 and was ratified by the requisite number of state legislatures on June 15, 1804. Twelfth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was adopted on December 6, 1865, and was then declared in a proclamation of Secretary of State William H. Seward on December 18. Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution is one of the amendments that was enacted after the Civil War as part of the Reconstruction Amendments, along with the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. It was adopted on July 9, 1868. Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery). It was ratified on February 3, 1870.The Fifteenth Amendment is one of the Reconstruction Amendments. Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results. This amendment overruled Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895), which greatly limited the Congress' authority to levy an income tax.It was ratified on February 3, 1913. Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution was passed by the Senate on June 12, 1911, the House of Representatives on May 13, 1912, and ratified by the states on April 8, 1913. The amendment supersedes Article I, § 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, transferring Senator selection from each state's legislature to popular election by the people of each state. Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits each of the states and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Eighteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Twentieth Amendment (Amendment XX) to the United States Constitution establishes the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal officials. Additionally, the Amendment deals with scenarios in which there is no President-elect. The Twentieth Amendment was ratified on January 23, 1933. Twentieth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States, and leads the federal judiciary. It consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed with the "advice and consent" (majority vote) of the Senate. Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States | |
| Chief Justice of the United States The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the United States federal court system (the judicial branch of the federal government of the United States) and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. He is one of nine Supreme Court justices; the other eight are the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.The Chief Justice is the highest judicial officer in the country. Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States | |
| USS Cole bombing The USS Cole bombing was a suicide attack against the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) on 12 October 2000 while it was harbored in the Yemeni port of Aden. Seventeen American sailors were killed. USS_Cole_bombing | |
| United States Army The United States Army is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military and is one of seven uniformed services. The modern Army has its roots in the Continental Army which was formed on 14 June 1775, United_States_Army | |
| United States Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare branch of the U.S. armed forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on 18 September 1947. It is the most recent branch of the U.S. United_States_Air_Force | |
| Uniramia S. M. Manton's (1973) polyphyletic Arthropod hypothesis with Uniramia as one of three Phyla.Uniramia was one of three subphyla in the classification suggested by Sidnie Manton of the Arthropoda. This classification suggested that the arthropods were a polyphyletic group with three phyla and phylum Uniramia included the Hexapoda (insects), Myriapoda (centipedes and millipedes) and the Onychophora (velvetworms). Uniramia |
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