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| Gustav Metzger Gustav Metzger (born 1926) is an artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art. Together with John Sharkey, he initiated the Destruction in Art Symposium in 1966. Metzger is recognized for his protests in the political and artistic realms. Gustav_Metzger | |
| Markov chain Monte Carlo Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods (which include random walk Monte Carlo methods), are a class of algorithms for sampling from probability distributions based on constructing a Markov chain that has the desired distribution as its equilibrium distribution. The state of the chain after a large number of steps is then used as a sample from the desired distribution. The quality of the sample improves as a function of the number of steps. Markov_chain_Monte_Carlo | |
| Climate model Talk:Climate_model | |
| Paracelsus Talk:Paracelsus | |
| Azide Azide is the anion with the formula N3−. It is the conjugate base of hydrazoic acid. N3− is a linear anion that is isoelectronic with CO2 and N2O. Per valence bond theory, azide can be described by several resonance structures, an important one being N−=N+=N−. Azide is also a functional group in organic chemistry, RN3. Azide | |
| Pathé Records Pathé Records was a France based international record label active from the 1890s through the 1930s.Pathé was founded by brothers Charles & Émile Pathé, who were owners of a successful bistro in Paris. About 1890 they saw an Edison phonograph demonstrated at a fair and, captivated by the device, arranged to lease one as an attraction at their bistro. Pathé_Records | |
| Edison Records Edison Records was the first record label, pioneering recorded sound and an important player in the early record industry. Edison_Records | |
| Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) is a Federal program sponsored by the United States Armed Forces in high schools across the United States. The program was originally created as part of the National Defense Act of 1916 and later expanded under the 1964 ROTC Vitalization Act. Junior_Reserve_Officers'_Training_Corps | |
| Mikhail Glinka Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka () (Russian composer to gain wide recognition inside his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions were an important influence on future Russian composers, notably the members of The Five, who took Glinka's lead and produced a distinctively Russian kind of romantic (classical) music. Mikhail_Glinka | |
| National Hurricane Center National Hurricane Center (NHC), located at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, is the division of National Weather Service's Tropical Prediction Center responsible for tracking and predicting the likely behavior of tropical depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes.When tropical storm or hurricane conditions are expected within 36NOAA Weather Radio. National_Hurricane_Center | |
| College of Creative Studies The College of Creative Studies is one of the three undergraduate colleges in the University of California, Santa Barbara, unique within the University of California system in terms of structure and philosophy. Its small size, student privileges, and grading system are designed to encourage self-motivated students with strong interests in a field to accomplish original work as undergraduates. College_of_Creative_Studies | |
| Lobero Theatre Lobero Theatre, founded by José Lobero, is a historic building in Santa Barbara, California. It is at the corner of Anacapa and Canon Perdido Streets, less than a block away from the historic Presidio of Santa Barbara. Built in 1873 as an opera house, the theater was rebuilt to designs by architect George Washington Smith for the Community Arts Music Association in the early 1920s, and opened in August 1924, during a period in which civic groups in Santa Barbara were beginning to unify the town's architectural look around a Spanish Colonial style. Lobero_Theatre | |
| Kerner Commission National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner, Jr. of Illinois, was an 11-member commission established in July 1967 by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the causes of the 1967 race riots in the United States.In his remarks upon signing the order establishing the Commission, Johnson asked for answers to three basic questions about the riots Kerner_Commission | |
| Rhinebeck (village), New York Rhinebeck is a village located in the Town of Rhinebeck in Dutchess County, New York, USA. The population was 3,077 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area.The Village of Rhinebeck is the principal community in the town. The postal ZIP code is 12572. US 9 passes through the village. Rhinebeck_(village),_New_York | |
| Twistor theory twistor theory, originally developed by Roger Penrose in 1967, is the mathematical theory which maps the geometric objects of the four dimensional space-time (Minkowski space) into the geometric objects in the 4-dimensional complex space with the metric signature (2,2). The coordinates in such a space are called "twistors." The twistor theory was stimulated by a rationale indicating its particular usefulness in emergent theories of quantum gravity. Twistor_theory | |
| Sophie Tucker Sophie Tucker (January 13, 1884comedian, one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first two-thirds of the 20th century.She was born Sonia Kalish to a Jewish family in Tsarist Russia. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was an infant, and settled in Hartford, Connecticut. The family changed its name to Abuza, and her parents opened a restaurant. Sophie_Tucker | |
| David Packard David Packard (September 7, 1912 Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947-1964), CEO (1964-1968), and Chairman of the Board (1964-1968, 1972-1993). He served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1969-1971 during the Nixon administration. Packard was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988 and is noted for many technological innovations and philanthropic endeavors. David_Packard | |
| François Joseph Paul de Grasse François-Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasse Tilly, comte de Grasse (13 September 1722, Bar-sur-Loup (Alpes-Maritimes) – 11 January 1788, Tilly (Yvelines) was a French admiral. François_Joseph_Paul_de_Grasse | |
| Blue Amberol Records Blue_Amberol_Records | |
| Party platform A party platform, also known as a manifesto, is a list of the actions which a political party supports in order to appeal to the general public for the purpose of having said party's candidates voted into office. This often takes the form of a list of support for, or opposition to, controversial topics. Individual topics are often called planks of the platform. Party_platform | |
| Maya Angelou Maya Angelou (; born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928) is an American autobiographer and poet. Having been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton, she is best known for her series of six autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adulthood experiences. Maya_Angelou | |
| Gene Robinson Talk:Gene_Robinson | |
| Anorgasmia Anorgasmia (often related to delayed ejaculation in males) is a form of sexual dysfunction sometimes classified as a psychiatric disorder in which the patient cannot achieve orgasm, even with "adequate" stimulation. However, it can also be caused by medical problems such as diabetic neuropathy, multiple sclerosis, genital mutilation or complications from genital surgery, pelvic trauma, hormonal imbalances, total hysterectomy, spinal cord injury and cardiovascular disease. Anorgasmia | |
| Susan Sontag Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American author, philosopher, literary theorist, and political activist. Susan_Sontag | |
| Stuart Hameroff Talk:Stuart_Hameroff | |
| State of emergency A state of emergency is a governmental declaration that may suspend certain normal functions of government, alert citizens to alter their normal behaviors, or order government agencies to implement emergency preparedness plans. It can also be used as a rationale for suspending civil liberties. State_of_emergency | |
| Hymen Talk:Hymen | |
| Luciferase Luciferase is a generic name for enzymes commonly used in nature for bioluminescence. The most famous one is firefly luciferase () from the firefly Photinus pyralis. Luciferase | |
| Gazetteer gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory, an important reference for information about places and place names (seetoponomy), used in conjunction with a map or a full atlas. It typically contains information concerning the geographical makeup of a country, region, or continent as well as the social statistics and physical features, such as mountains, waterways, or roads. Gazetteer | |
| Edmund Muskie Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie (March 28, 1914American Democratic politician from Maine. He served as Governor of Maine, as U.S. Senator, and as U.S. Secretary of State. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1968, and was a candidate for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination.Muskie held the highest office (Secretary of State) a Polish-American has held in the United States and the only Polish-American nominated by a major party for Vice President. Edmund_Muskie | |
| Cosmic string A cosmic string is a hypothetical 1-dimensional (spatially) topological defect in various fields. Cosmic strings are hypothesized to form when the field undergoes a phase change in different regions of spacetime, resulting in condensations of energy density at the boundaries between regions. Cosmic_string | |
| The Battle Hymn of the Republic "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is an American abolitionist song, written by Julia Ward Howe in November 1861 and first published in The Atlantic Monthly on 1 February 1862, that became popular during the American Civil War. The_Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic | |
| World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity Protest activity surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, which was to be the launch of a new millennial round of trade negotiations, occurred on November 30, 1999 (nicknamed "N30" on similar lines to J18 and similar mobilizations), when the World Trade Organization (WTO) convened at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington, United States. World_Trade_Organization_Ministerial_Conference_of_1999_protest_activity | |
| Samuel P. Bush Samuel Prescott Bush (October 4, 1863 American industrialist and entrepreneur, and the patriarch of the Bush political family. He was the father of U.S. Senator Prescott Bush, grandfather of former U.S President George H. W. Bush, and great-grandfather of former U.S. President George W. Bush. Samuel_P._Bush | |
| Herbert Kroemer Herbert Kroemer (born August 25, 1928), a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1952 from the University of Göttingen, Germany, with a dissertation on hot electron effects in the then-new transistor, setting the stage for a career in research on the physics of semiconductor devices. Herbert_Kroemer | |
| Congress of Industrial Organizations The Congress of Industrial Organizations, or CIO, proposed by John L. Lewis in 1932, was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 required union leaders to swear that they were not Communists. Many CIO leaders refused to obey that requirement, later found unconstitutional. The CIO merged with the American Federation of Labor to form the AFL-CIO in 1955. Congress_of_Industrial_Organizations | |
| Dhol Not to be confused with doldrum, the dhol (; ; ; ) dohol (), is a drum (a percussion musical instrument) widely used in the Indian subcontinent, especially the Punjab region, and especially among the Sikhs of East Punjab. Apart from Punjab, Dhol has been adapted into the music of other regions throughout South Asia and abroad including Gujarat, Rajasthan, Sindh and Maharashtra. Nowadays, it is very popular in modern Punjabi music. Dhol | |
| Ecological modernization Ecological modernization is an optimistic, reform-oriented school of environmental social science that has gained increasing attention among scholars and policymakers in the last several decades in Europe, North America, Japan, and elsewhere (Spaargaren, Mol and Buttel, 2000; Mol, Sonnenfeld and Spaargaren 2009; Redclift and Woodgate, 2005, 1997; Dickens, 2004). It is an analytical approach as well as a policy strategy and environmental discourse (Hajer, 1995). Ecological_modernization | |
| Oscar Zeta Acosta "Oscar Acosta" redirects here. For the Major League Baseball pitching coach, see Oscar Carlos AcostaOscar Zeta Acosta (April 8, 1935 American attorney, politician and Chicano Movement activist, perhaps best known for his friendship with the American author Hunter S. Thompson, who included him as a character, the Samoan Attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in his acclaimed novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Oscar_Zeta_Acosta | |
| Wilhelm Waiblinger Wilhelm Waiblinger (November 21, 1804 - January 17 or 30, 1830) was a German romantic poet, mostly remembered today in connection with Friedrich Hölderlin. He was a student at the seminary of Tübingen in the 1820s, when Hölderlin, already mentally ill, lived there as a recluse in a carpenter's house. Wilhelm_Waiblinger | |
| Constitution of Puerto Rico The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is the controlling government document of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It is composed of nine articles detailing the structure of the government as well as the function of several of its institutions. The document also contains an extensive and specific Bill of Rights. Constitution_of_Puerto_Rico | |
| Sahara Sahara (, 'desert. At over sq), it covers most of Northern Africa, making it almost as large as the United States or the continent of Europe. The desert stretches from the Red Sea, including parts of the Mediterranean coasts, to the outskirts of the Atlantic Ocean. To the south, it is delimited by the Sahel:semi-arid tropical savanna that comprises the northern region of central and western Sub-Saharan Africa. Sahara | |
| Vogue Records Vogue Records was a short-lived United States based record label of the 1940s, noted for the artwork embedded in the records themselves. Founded in 1946 as part of Sav-Way Industries of Detroit, Michigan, the discs were initially a hit, because of the novelty of the colorful artwork, and the improved sound compared to the shellac records dominant at the time. Vogue_Records | |
| Pete Wilson Peter Barton Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American politician from California. Wilson, a Republican, served as the thirty-sixth Governor of California (1991–1999), the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that included eight years as a United States Senator (1983–1991), eleven years as Mayor of San Diego (1971–1982) and five years as a California State Assemblyman (1967–1971). Pete_Wilson | |
| Maus Talk:Maus | |
| Lyman Lemnitzer Lyman Louis Lemnitzer (August 29, 1899 American Army General, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1960 to 1962. He then served Supreme Allied Commander, NATO from 1963 to 1969. Lyman_Lemnitzer | |
| Color blindness (race) Color-blind (sometimes called Race-blind) is a term describing activities undertaken and services provided without regard to the racial characteristics of those who participate in an activity or receive a service.In color-blind operations, there is no use of racial data. An example of this would be a college processing admissions without regard to or knowledge of the racial characteristics of applicants. Color_blindness_(race) | |
| Eigenface Eigenfaces are a set of eigenvectors used in the computer vision problem of human face recognition. The approach of using eigenfaces for recognition was developed by Sirovich and Kirby (1987) and used by Matthew Turk and Alex Pentland in face classification. It is considered the first successful example of facial recognition technology. These eigenvectors are derived from the covariance matrix of the probability distribution of the high-dimensional vector space of possible faces of human beings. Eigenface | |
| Maus Maus is a memoir by Art Spiegelman, presented as a graphic novel. Parts of the story were originally published in the magazine RAW between 1980 to 1991. The complete story was published in two volumesHolocaust as a Polish Jew and draws largely on his father's recollections of his experiences. Maus | |
| Academia Academia, Acadème, or the Academy are collective terms for the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research.The word comes from the akademeia, just outside ancient Athens, where the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning. The sacred space, dedicated to the goddess of wisdom, Athena, had formerly been an olive grove, hence the expression "the groves of Academe." Academia |
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