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| Overseas Vietnamese Overseas Vietnamese (, which literally means "Overseas Vietnamese", or Việt Kiều, a Sino-Vietnamese word literally translating to "Vietnamese sojourner") refers to Vietnamese people living outside Vietnam in a diaspora. Of the about 3 million Overseas Vietnamese, a majority left Vietnam as refugees after 1975 as a result of the Fall of Saigon and the Communist regime.Originally, the term "Việt Kiều" were used in Vietnam to identify members of the Vietnamese diaspora who return to Vietnam for visits or business before they've become legal citizens of the Western nations in which they have migrated to. Overseas_Vietnamese | |
| American Miscellaneous Society American Miscellaneous Society (AMSOC - 1952 to 1964) was formed by Gordon Lill, of the Office of Naval Research, as an organization designed to collect various Earth science research ideas that were submitted by scientists to the U.S. Navy and didn't fit into any particular category. American_Miscellaneous_Society | |
| Californio Californios (historic and regional Spanish for "Californians") is a term used to identify a Californian of Hispanic (and in some rare cases, of Portuguese or other non-Hispanic Latin-American) descent, regardless of race, during the period that California was part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain and Mexico. The territory of California was annexed in 1848 by the United States following the Mexican-American War. Californio | |
| Charles W. Woodworth Charles W. Woodworth (April 28, 1865 November 19, 1940) was an American entomologist. He founded the Entomology Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and made many valuable contributions to entomology during his career. Charles_W._Woodworth | |
| Nicaraguans Nicaraguans (; also Nica, Nicoya and Pinolero) are people inhabiting in, originating or having significant heritage from Nicaragua. Most Nicaraguans live in Nicaragua, although there is also a significant Nicaraguan diaspora, particularly in Costa Rica and the United States with smaller communities in other countries around the world. There are also people living in Nicaragua who are not Nicaraguans because they were not born or raised in Nicaragua nor have they gained citizenship. Nicaraguans | |
| Steam car A steam car is a car (automobile) powered by a steam engine. Steam_car | |
| Choh Hao Li Choh Hao Li (sometimes Cho Hao Li) (; pinyin:April 21, 1913—November 28, 1987) was a Chinese-born U.S. biochemist who discovered, in 1966, that human pituitary growth hormone (somatotropin) consists of a chain of 256 amino acids. In 1970 he succeeded in synthesizing this hormone, the largest protein molecule synthesized up to that time.Li was born in Guangzhou and educated at the Nanjing University. Choh_Hao_Li | |
| George Axelrod George Axelrod (June 9, 1922 – June 21, 2003) was an American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director.Axelrod was born in New York City, New York, the son of Beatrice Carpenter, a silent film actress, and Herman Axelrod, who worked in real estate. George_Axelrod | |
| Islam in India Islam is India's second-most practiced religion after Hinduism, with more than 13.4% of the country's population (over 138 million as per 2001 census and around 154 million as per 2008 estimate) identifying themselves as Muslims.India's Muslim population is the world's second largest and the world's largest Muslim-minority population. Islam_in_India | |
| Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Thesaurus_Linguae_Graecae | |
| Islam in Bangladesh Islam is the largest religion of Bangladesh, the Muslim population is over 150 million (the third-largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia and Pakistan), and constitute nearly 88% of the total population, based on the 2001 Census. Religion has always been a strong part of identity, but this has varied at different times. Islam_in_Bangladesh | |
| Leontios of Neapolis Leontios was Bishop of Neapolis (Limassol) in Cyprus in the 7th century A.D. St. John the Merciful, commissioned by the archbishop of Constantia Arcadius, Life of Symeon the holy fool,a lost "Life of Spyridon" and an apologia against Jews. His works are considered among the few works giving any insight into the vernacular Greek of Early and Middle Byzantium.He was probably present at the Lateran council in Rome in 649. Leontios_of_Neapolis | |
| Stanford Memorial Church Stanford Memorial Church (also known as MemChu) is located at the center of the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California. It was built during the American Renaissance by Jane Stanford as a memorial to her husband Leland. Designed by architect Charles A. Coolidge, a protegé of Henry Hobson Richardson, the church has been called "the University's architectural crown jewel". Stanford_Memorial_Church | |
| UCLA Band The 250 member UCLA Bruin Marching Band, known as The Solid Gold Sound, represents the University at major athletic and extracurricular events. During the fall marching season, the Band performs at the Rose Bowl for UCLA Bruin home football games. Pregame shows by the Band aim to build crowd energy and enthusiasm with traditional UCLA songs like Strike Up the Band for UCLA, Sons of Westwood and The Mighty Bruins. UCLA_Band | |
| John Vasconcellos John B. Vasconcellos (May 11, 1932 in San Jose, California) is an American politician from California and member of the Democratic Party. He represented the Silicon Valley as a member of the California State Assembly for 30 years and a California State Senator for 8 years. John_Vasconcellos | |
| Piotrus/Sandbox/Archive User:Piotrus/Sandbox/Archive | |
| Bo Yibo Bo Yibo () (February 17, 1908 January 15, 2007) was a Chinese politician and one of the Eight Immortals of the Communist Party of China.He was alternate member and then member of the Politburo, deputy prime minister, chairman of State Economic Commission and vice-chairman of Central Advisory Commission of the Communist Party of China. Bo_Yibo | |
| Troilus Troilus (also Troilos, Troylus) (Ancient Greek:Latin:Trojan War. The first surviving reference to him is in Homer's Iliad which is believed to have been written in the late 9th or 8th century BC. Troilus | |
| Jean Tatlock Jean Frances Tatlock M.D. (February 21, 1914 — January 5, 1944 ), was an American psychiatrist, physician, and a member of the Communist Party. She is most noted for her romantic relationship with Manhattan Project scientific leader J. Robert Oppenheimer. Jean_Tatlock | |
| 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake 1857_Fort_Tejon_earthquake | |
| John K. Cooley John Kent Cooley (November 25, 1927 – August 6, 2008) was an American journalist and author who specialized in terrorism and the Middle East. Based in Athens, he worked as a radio and off-air television correspondent for ABC News and was a long-time contributing editor to the Christian Science Monitor.Cooley was one of only a handful of Western journalists widely regarded and trusted in the Middle East as an expert on the area's history and politics. John_K._Cooley | |
| William Hammond Wright William Hammond Wright (November 4, 1871 May 16, 1959) was an American astronomer. He was director of the Lick Observatory from 1935 until 1942.Wright was born in San Francisco. After graduating in 1893 from the University of California, he became Assistant Astronomer at Lick Observatory. William_Hammond_Wright | |
| Chiefdom A chiefdom is a type of complex society of varying degrees of centralization that is led by an individual known as a chief.In anthropological theory, one model of human social development rooted in ideas of cultural evolution describes a chiefdom as a form of social organization more complex than a tribe or a band society, and less complex than a state or a civilization. The most succinct (but still working) definition of a chiefdom in anthropology belongs to Robert L. Carneiro: Chiefdom | |
| The Innocents Abroad The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress was published by American author Mark Twain in 1869. The travel literature chronicles Twain's pleasure cruise on board the chartered vessel Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of religious pilgrims in 1867. It was the best selling of Twain's works during his lifetime. The_Innocents_Abroad | |
| American Beaver The Canadian Beaver (Castor canadensis) is a semi-aquatic species of rodent native to Canada, much of the United States, and parts of northern Mexico. It was introduced in the most southern province of Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, and it adapted to its temperate forests many years ago. Common names include North American Beaver, or simply Beaver in North America. American_Beaver | |
| Dutch Empire The Dutch Empire consisted of the overseas territories controlled by the Netherlands from the 17th to the 20th century. The Dutch followed Portugal and Spain in establishing an overseas colonial empire, aided by their skills in shipping and trade and the surge of nationalism accompanying the struggle for independence from Spain. Dutch_Empire | |
| Mancur Olson Mancur Lloyd Olson, Jr. (1932 - February 19, 1998) was a leading American economist and social scientist who, at the time of his death, worked at the University of Maryland, College Park. Among other areas, he made contributions to institutional economics on the role of private property, taxation, public goods, collective action and contract rights in economic development. Mancur_Olson | |
| Vannevar Bush Talk:Vannevar_Bush | |
| Richard C. Tolman Richard Chace Tolman (March 4, 1881, West Newton, Massachusetts Pasadena) was an American mathematical physicist and physical chemist who was an authority on statistical mechanics. He also made important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity. He was a professor of physical chemistry and mathematical physics at the California Institute of Technology. Richard_C._Tolman | |
| Abbie Mitchell Abriea Mitchell (25 September 1884 16 March 1960), also billed as Abbey Mitchell, was an American soprano opera singer who created the role of "Clara" in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess in 1935.Mitchell began her career in musical comedy with Will Marion Cook's Clorindy; or, the Origin of the Cakewalk in 1898. Abbie_Mitchell | |
| Monte Carlo methods in finance H(omega)which is much easier to compute. Monte_Carlo_methods_in_finance | |
| Random forest Random forest is a machine learning ensemble classifier that consists of many decision trees and outputs the class that is the mode of the class's output by individual trees. The algorithm for inducing a random forest was developed by Leo Breiman and Adele Cutler, and "Random Forests" is their trademark. Random_forest | |
| Battle of the Caudine Forks The Battle of Caudine Forks, 321 BC, was a decisive battle of the Samnite Wars. Battle_of_the_Caudine_Forks | |
| UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies The Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSE&IS) at UCLA combines two distinguished departments whose research and doctoral training programs are committed to expanding the range of knowledge in education, information science, and associated disciplines. UCLA_Graduate_School_of_Education_and_Information_Studies | |
| Hans Albert Einstein Hans Albert Einstein (May 14, 1904 hydraulic engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and the first son (second child) of renowned physicist Albert Einstein (1879Mileva Marić (1875 Hans_Albert_Einstein | |
| Waldo Pressman Salt Waldo Pressman Salt (October 18, 1914 American screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism. Waldo_Pressman_Salt | |
| Hecataeus of Abdera See Hecataeus of Miletus for the earlier historian. Hecataeus of Abdera (or of Teos) was a Greek historian and sceptic philosopher who flourished in the 4th century BC.Diogenes Laertius (ix.61) relates that he was a student of Pyrrho, along with Eurylochus, Timon the Phliasian, Nausiphanes of Teos and others, and includes him among the "Pyrrhoneans". Hecataeus_of_Abdera | |
| G.e.m.a. G.E.M.A. is an abbreviation for the Gikuyu, Embu, and Meru Association, which was created to advance the social and political needs of peoples descended from Mumbi. That is the Gikuyu, Embu, and Meru peoples. It was founded in 1971, with an economic arm (GEMA Holdings), with senior Kikuyu members such Njoroge Mungai, and Njenga Karume as its members, and despite being formally banned in 1980, it is believed to have continued to function under the name Agriculutural and Industrial Holdings Ltd. G.e.m.a. | |
| Dollie Radford Caroline Maitland (1858 – 1920) was an English poet and writer. She married in 1883 Ernest Radford, and wrote as Dollie Radford. They had three children, one being Maitland Radford.Her friends included Eleanor Marx, whom she knew through a Shakespeare reading group attended by Karl Marx, and Amy Levy. Her papers are housed at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA. Dollie_Radford | |
| Ed Ricketts Edward Flanders Robb Ricketts (14 May 1897 Ed Ricketts, was an American marine biologist, ecologist, and philosopher. He is best known for Between Pacific Tides (1939), a pioneering study of intertidal ecology, and for his influence on writer John Steinbeck, which resulted in their collaboration on the Sea of Cortez, later republished as The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951). Ed_Ricketts | |
| Western Jewish History Center Western_Jewish_History_Center | |
| Illinois in the American Civil War The state of Illinois during the American Civil War was a major source of troops for the Union army (particularly for those armies serving in the Western Theater of the Civil War), and of military supplies, food, and clothing. Situated near major rivers and railroads, Illinois became a major jumping off place early in the war for Ulysses S. Grant's efforts to seize control of the Mississippi and Tennessee rivers. Illinois_in_the_American_Civil_War | |
| William Everson William Everson (September 10, 1912 – June 3, 1994), also known as Brother Antoninus, was an American poet of the Beat generation and was also an author, literary critic and small press printer. William_Everson | |
| Gloria E. Anzaldúa Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (September 26, 1942 – May 15, 2004) was a Mexican American feminist, author, poet, scholar and activist. Gloria_E._Anzaldúa | |
| Brown recluse spider Talk:Brown_recluse_spider | |
| Patrick Wilson (librarian) Patrick Wilson (December 29, 1927–September 12, 2003) was a noted librarian, information scientist and philosopher who served as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and as dean of the School of Library and Information Studies there. Earlier in his career, Wilson taught philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles.He is the author of three books Patrick_Wilson_(librarian) | |
| Fixed income arbitrage Fixed-income arbitrage is an investment strategy generally associated with hedge funds, which consists of the discovery and exploitation of inefficiencies in the pricing of bonds, i.e. instruments from either public or private issuers yielding a contractually fixed stream of income. Fixed_income_arbitrage | |
| Der Judenstaat Der Judenstaat (German, The State of the Jews) is a book written by Theodor Herzl and published in 1896 in Leipzig and Vienna by M. Breitenstein's Verlags-Buchhandlung. It is subtitled with "Versuch einer modernen Lösung der Judenfrage", "Proposal of a modern solution for the Jewish question", and originally called "Address to the Rothschilds" referring to the Rothschild family banking dynasty which was very influential in the realization of a Jewish state in Eretz Yisrael. Der_Judenstaat | |
| Interstate 84 (west) Interstate_84_(west) | |
| Ursuline Convent Riots Ursuline Convent Riots were riots that occurred on August 11 and August 12, 1834 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, near Boston in what is now Somerville, Massachusetts. During the riot, a convent of Roman Catholic Ursuline nuns was burned down by a Protestant mob. The event was triggered by reported abuse of a member of the order, and was fueled by the rebirth of extreme anti-Catholic sentiment in antebellum New England. Ursuline_Convent_Riots |
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