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| Oregon boundary dispute Oregon boundary dispute, or the Oregon question, arose as a result of competing British and American claims to the Pacific Northwest of North America in the first half of the 19th century. Both the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (USA) had territorial and commercial aspirations in the region as well as residual claims from treaties with Russia and Spain. Oregon_boundary_dispute | |
| 51st state 51st state, in American political discourse, is a phrase that refers to areas either seriously or derisively considered candidates for addition to the 50 states already part of the Union. Before 1959, when Alaska and Hawaii joined the U.S., the term "the 49th state" was used." 51st_state | |
| National Security Medal The National Security Medal was a decoration of the United States of America which was first created in 1947 by order of the United States National Security Council. The decoration was awarded to any citizen of the United States who performs distinguished achievement or outstanding contribution, on or after 26 July 1947, in the field of intelligence relating to the national security of the United States of America. National_Security_Medal | |
| Overfishing Overfishing occurs when fishing activities reduce fish stocks below an acceptable level. This can occur in any body of water from a pond to the oceans.Ultimately overfishing may lead to resource depletion in cases of subsidised fishing, low biological growth rates and critical low biomass levels (e.g. by critical depensation growth properties). Particularly, overfishing of sharks has led to the upset of entire marine ecosystems. Overfishing | |
| United States Merchant Marine Academy The United States Merchant Marine Academy (also known as USMMA or Kings Point) is one of the five United States service academies. It is charged with training officers for the United States Merchant Marine, branches of the military, or the transportation industry. United_States_Merchant_Marine_Academy | |
| Citrus College Citrus College is a community college located in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendora, California; the Citrus Community College District which supports the school includes the communities of Glendora, Azusa, Charter Oak, Claremont, Monrovia, and Duarte. The school is the oldest public community college in Los Angeles County, California; it was founded in 1915 by educator Floyd S. Citrus_College | |
| David Griffiths (physicist) David J. Griffiths (born 1942) is a U.S. physicist and educator. He has worked at Reed College since 1978, where he is currently the Howard Vollum Professor of Science. He is easily confused with the late physicist David J. Griffiths of Oregon State University.Griffiths was trained at Harvard University (B.A., David_Griffiths_(physicist) | |
| Upper Silesia plebiscite Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite for self-determination of Upper Silesia required by one of the clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. The German government had declared during the negotiations in London, and indeed at an earlier period, that the possession of Upper Silesia was indispensable to Germany if she was to fulfill her obligations in regard to reparations. Upper_Silesia_plebiscite | |
| United States intervention in Chile The United States intervention in Chilean's politics started during the War of Chilean Independence. During the almost two centuries since, the US presence in Chile has slowly risen from a marginal factor to one of the most decisive ones, both in the economical as well as the political arenas. United_States_intervention_in_Chile | |
| Daniel Moore Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore (born 1940 in Oakland, California, USA as Daniel Moore) is an American poet, essayist and librettist. In 1970 he embraced the Sufic tradition of Islam and changed his name to Abdal-Hayy (eventually merging it with his birth name). Since then he has become known for spiritually-informed works such as Ramadan Sonnets (1996) and The Blind Beekeeper (2002), and Mohja Kahf, among others, has referred to him as "American Islam's poet laureate". Daniel_Moore | |
| Republican National Convention The Republican National Convention is the presidential nominating convention of the Republican Party of the United States. Convened by the Republican National Committee, the stated purpose of the convocation is to nominate an official candidate in an upcoming U.S. Republican_National_Convention | |
| Discography The article is about sound recordings. For the Pet Shop Boys album, see Discography: The Complete Singles Collection. Discography is the study and listing of the details concerning sound recordings, often by specified artists or within identified musical genres. Discography | |
| Napoleon Chagnon Napoleon A. Chagnon ( ) is an American anthropologist and retired professor emeritus at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Chagnon, born in 1938 in Port Austin, Michigan, is best known for his long-term ethnographic field work among the Yanomamö, his contributions to evolutionary theory in cultural anthropology, and to the study of warfare. The Yanomamo are a society of indigenous tribal amazonians that live in the border area between Venezuela and Brazil. Napoleon_Chagnon | |
| Capture the flag Capture the flag (CTF) is a traditional outdoor sport often played by children or sometimes adults where two teams each have a flag (or other marker) and the objective is to capture the other team's flag, located at the team's "base", and bring it safely back to their own base. Capture_the_flag | |
| Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (born June 25 1939 in Zürich,Switzerland) is a German scientist and politician. He is son of the physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and nephew of the former German President Richard von Weizsäcker. He wrote the books Factor Four (1995) and Limits to Privatization. He was founder and president (1991-2000) of the Wuppertal Institute and member of the Club of Rome since 2001. Ernst_Ulrich_von_Weizsäcker | |
| Anal–oral sex Anal–oral sex, also referred to or described as anal–oral contact or anilingus (from anus + lingus (Latin Lingere:analingus, is a form of oral sex involving contact between the anus or perineum of one person and the mouth (lips) or tongue of another. Non-clinical, slang terms include rimming, rim-job, salad tossing, butt licking and eating ass. Anal–oral_sex | |
| Fred Kavli Fred Kavli, b. 1927, is a naturalized Norwegian-American physicist, business leader, inventor and philanthropist. He was born in the village of Eresfjord, Nesset municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. Today Kavli lives in the city of Santa Barbara, California. Fred_Kavli | |
| Endangered Species Act The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (, et seq.) or ESA is the most wide-ranging of the dozens of United States environmental laws passed in the 1970s. As stated in section 2 of the act, it was designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation." Endangered_Species_Act | |
| Kabardian language The Kabardian language is closely related to the Adyghe language (see Adyghe people), both members of the Northwest Caucasian language family. It is spoken mainly in the Russian republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia (the native territories) and in Turkey and the Middle East (the extensive post-war diaspora). Kabardian_language | |
| University of California Talk:University_of_California | |
| Braid group mathematics, the braid group on n strands, denoted by Bn, is a group which has an intuitive geometrical representation, and in a sense generalizes the symmetric group Sn. Here, n is a natural number; if n Bn is an infinite group. Braid groups find applications in knot theory, since any knot may be represented as the closure of certain braids. Braid_group | |
| Massacres of Poles in Volhynia Talk:Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia | |
| Working time Working time is the period of time that an individual spends at paid occupational labor. Unpaid labors such as housework are not considered part of the working week. Many countries regulate the work week by law, such as stipulating minimum daily rest periods, annual holidays and a maximum number of working hours per week. Working_time | |
| Melamine This article is about the chemical substance called melamine. The term "melamine" may also be used to refer to the plastic melamine resin. Melamine | |
| Henry the Navigator Talk:Henry_the_Navigator | |
| Music and politics There is a long history of the connection between music and politics, particularly political expression in music. This expression can use anti-establishment or protest themes, including anti-war songs, although pro-establishment ideas are also used, for example in national anthems, patriotic songs, and political campaigns. Many of these types of songs could be described as topical songs. Music_and_politics | |
| Taslima Nasrin Taslima Nasrin (born 25 August, 1962, in Mymensingh, Bangladesh) is a Bengali Bangladeshi ex-doctor turned author who has been living in exile since 1994. From a modest literary profile in the late 1980s, she rose to global fame by the end of the twentieth century owing to her radical feminist views and her criticism of Islam in particular and of religion in general.Since fleeing Bangladesh in 1994 she has lived in many countries, and currently (2009) lives in New York after expulsion from India in 2008 where she received death threats from Islamic fundamentalists. Taslima_Nasrin | |
| Carl Hayden Carl Trumbull Hayden (October 2, 1877American politician and the first United States Senator to serve seven terms. Serving as Arizona's first Representative for eight terms before entering the Senate, Hayden holds the record for longest service in the United States Congress - he served continuously from 19 February, 1912 to 3 January, 1969. Carl_Hayden | |
| Ecoinformatics Ecoinformatics | |
| Ampallang The ampallang is a form of male genital body piercing that penetrates horizontally through the entire glans of the penis. The piercing may be transurethral (passing through the urethra). A variant on this piercing is the shaft ampallang, which penetrates the shaft of his penis horizontally at any point along its length. Ampallang | |
| Family values Family values are political and social beliefs that hold the Nuclear family to be the essential ethical and moral unit of society. The phrase has different meanings in different cultures. In the late 20th- and early 21st Centuries, the term has been frequently used in political debate, especially by social and religious conservatives, who believe that the world has seen a decline in family values since the end of the Second World War. Family_values | |
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| Peter and Rosemary Grant Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant, a married couple, are both British evolutionary biologists at Princeton University; each holds the position of Emeritus Professor. They are noted for their work on Darwin's Finches on the Galápagos Island named Daphne Major. The Grants have spent six months of the year each year since 1973 capturing, tagging, taking blood samples, and releasing finches from the islands. Peter_and_Rosemary_Grant | |
| SPARC Talk:SPARC | |
| List of Harvard University people The list of Harvard University people includes notable graduates, professors and administrators affiliated with Harvard University. For a list of notable non-graduates of Harvard, see notable non-graduate alumni of Harvard. For a list of Harvard's presidents, see President of Harvard University.Eight Presidents of the United States have graduated from Harvard UniversityJohn Adams, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. List_of_Harvard_University_people | |
| Edward L. Beach, Jr. Edward Latimer Beach, Jr. (April 20, 1918 – December 1, 2002) was a highly-decorated United States Navy submarine officer and best-selling author.During World War II, he participated in the Battle of Midway and 12 combat patrols, earning 10 decorations for gallantry, including the Navy Cross. After the war, he served as the naval aide to the President of the United States and commanded the first submerged circumnavigation. Edward_L._Beach,_Jr. | |
| Millennium Technology Prize Millennium Technology Prize () is the largest technology prize in the world. It is awarded once every two years by the Technology Academy Foundation, an independent fund established by Finnish industry and the Finnish state in partnership. The prize is presented by the President of Finland. It is awarded in recognition of technological innovations that contribute to the improved quality of human life and encourage sustainable development. The prize was inaugurated in 2004. Millennium_Technology_Prize | |
| Gazetteer Talk:Gazetteer | |
| Presidency of Gerald Ford Gerald Ford's Presidency of the United States spanned 29 months, lasting from August 9, 1974 to January 20, 1977. Presidency_of_Gerald_Ford | |
| Joseph C. Wilson For information about the American political scandal pertaining to Joseph C. Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame Wilson:.Joseph Charles Wilson IV (born November 6, 1949) is the CEO of his own firm JC Wilson International Ventures, "a consulting firm specializing in strategic management and international-business development." In January 2007, Wilson joined Jarch Capital, LLC, as vice chairman, to advise the firm's expansion in areas of Africa considered "politically sensitive." Joseph_C._Wilson | |
| History of the Ryukyu Islands This article is about the history of the Ryukyu Islands southwest of the main islands of Japan. History_of_the_Ryukyu_Islands | |
| List of individuals and groups assisting Jews during the Holocaust This is a partial list of rescuers who helped Jewish people and others to escape from the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. The list is not exhaustive, concentrating on famous cases, or people who saved the lives of many potential victims List_of_individuals_and_groups_assisting_Jews_during_the_Holocaust | |
| Naïve realism Naïve realism, also known as direct realism or common sense realism, is a common sense theory of perception. Naïve_realism | |
| Billy Murray (singer) William Thomas "Billy" Murray (25 May, 1877 17 August, 1954) was one of the most popular singers in the United States in the early decades of the 20th century. While he received star billings on Vaudeville, he was best known for his prolific work in the recording studio, making records for almost every record label of the era. Billy_Murray_(singer) | |
| David H. Hickman High School David_H._Hickman_High_School | |
| Luciferin Luciferins (from the Latin lucifer, "light-bringer") are a class of light-emitting biological pigments found in organisms capable of bioluminescence. The term is used generically to refer to any light emitting molecule utilized by a luciferase or photoprotein. Luciferin | |
| Identity of indiscernibles identity of indiscernibles is an ontological principle which states that two or more objects or entities are identical (are one and the same entity), if they have all their properties in common. That is, entities x and y are identical if any predicate possessed by x is also possessed by y and vice versa. Identity_of_indiscernibles | |
| Thunk The word thunk has at least three related meanings in computer science. A "thunk" may be a piece of code to perform a delayed computation (similar to a closure) a feature of some virtual function table implementations (similar to a wrapper function) a mapping of machine data from one system-specific form to another, usually for compatibility reasons In all three senses, the word thunk refers to a piece of low-level code, usually machine-generated, that implements some detail of a particular software system. Thunk | |
| Robert McFarlane Robert Carl "Bud" McFarlane (born July 12, 1937) is the former National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan, serving from 1983 to late-1985. He was one of the major players in the Iran-Contra affair. He eventually pleaded guilty to misdemeanors counts of withholding information from Congress. He was pardoned by George H. W. Bush. McFarlane occasionally appears on national television and publish articles on U.S. national security. Robert_McFarlane | |
| Lawrence Rabiner Lawrence R. Rabiner (born 28 September 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is an electrical engineer working in the fields of digital signal processing and speech processing; in particular in digital signal processing for automatic speech recognition. He has worked on systems for AT&T for speech recognition. He holds a joint academic appointment between Rutgers University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Lawrence_Rabiner |
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