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| Tickling Tickling is touching a part of the body, so as to cause involuntary twitching movements or laughter. Such sensations can be pleasurable or exciting, but are sometimes considered highly unpleasant, particularly in the case of relentless heavy tickling. Tickling | |
| Psy-Geo-Conflux Psy-Geo-Conflux (also known as Conflux) is the annual New York City festival dedicated to psychogeography, where visual, performance and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers, researchers and the public gather for four days to explore the physical and psychological landscape of the city.In May, 2003, psychogeographers from the U.S., Psy-Geo-Conflux | |
| Mulad User:Mulad | |
| Public Land Survey System Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is a method used in the United States to survey and identify land parcels, particularly for titles and deeds of rural, wild or undeveloped land. Its basic units of area are the township and section. It is sometimes referred to as the rectangular survey system, although non rectangular methods such as meandering can also be used. Public_Land_Survey_System | |
| Tim Pawlenty Tim_Pawlenty | |
| Cochlear implant cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing. The cochlear implant is often referred to as a bionic ear. Unlike hearing aids, the cochlear implant does not amplify sound, but works by directly stimulating any functioning auditory nerves inside the cochlea with an electric field. Cochlear_implant | |
| Book sources Wikipedia:Book_sources | |
| WordNet Talk:WordNet | |
| Gene Amdahl Gene Myron Amdahl (born November 16, 1922) is a Norwegian American computer architect and hi-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies, especially Amdahl Corporation. He is perhaps best known for formulating Amdahl's law, which states a fundamental limitation of parallel computing. Gene_Amdahl | |
| Petronius Gaius Petronius Arbiter (ca. 27–66) was a Roman courtier during the reign of Nero. He is speculated to be the author of the Satyricon, a satirical novel believed to have been written during the Neronian age. Petronius | |
| David Durenberger David Ferdinand Durenberger (born August 19, 1934) is an American politician and a former Republican member of the U.S. Senate from Minnesota.Durenberger was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota. He attended St. John's University and graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1959. He served in the United States Army Reserve from 1956 to 1963. David_Durenberger | |
| Theodore Christianson Theodore Christianson (September 12, 1883 December 9, 1948) was an American politician. He served as the 21st Governor of Minnesota from January 6, 1925 until January 6, 1931, and did not seek re-election. He also served in the U.S. House of Representatives from March 4, 1933 to January 3, 1937 in the 73rd and 74th congresses. Theodore_Christianson | |
| John S. Pillsbury John Sargent Pillsbury (July 29, 1828 October 18, 1901) was an American politician, businessman, and philanthropist. A Republican, he served as the Governor of Minnesota from 1876 to 1882.John S. Pillsbury was born in Sutton, New Hampshire. In 1851, he opened a store in Warner, New Hampshire, partnering with Walter Harriman, a future Governor of New Hampshire and Civil War general. John_S._Pillsbury | |
| Praseodymium Praseodymium ( or ) is a chemical element that has the symbol Pr and atomic number 59. Praseodymium | |
| ARPANET The ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) created by ARPA of the United States Department of Defense during the Cold War, was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the global Internet.Packet switching, now the dominant basis for both data and voice communication worldwide, was a new and important concept in data communications. ARPANET | |
| J. C. R. Licklider Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (March 11, 1915 June 26, 1990), known simply as J.C.R. or "Lick" was an American computer scientist, considered one of the most important figures in computer science and general computing history. J._C._R._Licklider | |
| Old World babbler The Old World babblers or timaliids are a large family of mostly Old World passerine birds. They are rather diverse in size and coloration, but are characterised by soft fluffy plumage. These are birds of tropical areas, with the greatest variety in southeast Asia. Old_World_babbler | |
| Parrotbill Parrotbill may also be used as a colloquial shorthand name for the Parrot CrossbillThe parrotbills are a group of peculiar birds native to East and Southeast Asia, though feral populations are known from elsewhere. They are generally small, long-tailed birds which inhabit reedbeds and similar habitat. They feed mainly on seeds, e.g. of grasses, to which their bill, as the name implies, is well-adapted. Living in tropical to southern temperate climates, they are usually non-migratory. Parrotbill | |
| Antonio Negri Antonio ("Toni") Negri (born August 1, 1933) is an Italian Marxist political philosopher.Negri is perhaps best-known for his co-authorship of Empire and his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua, he became a political philosophy professor in his hometown university. Antonio_Negri | |
| Twin Talk:Twin | |
| Trouton–Noble experiment Trouton–Noble_experiment | |
| GSM localization GSM localization is the use of multilateration to determine the location of GSM mobile phones, usually with the intent to locate the user . GSM_localization | |
| Italic type In typography, italic type ( or ) refers to cursive typefaces based on a stylized form of calligraphic handwriting. The influence from calligraphy can be seen in their usual slight slanting to the right. Different glyph shapes from roman type are also usually used—another influence from calligraphy.This style is called "italic" from historic reasons. Italic_type | |
| Head Start For the Australian television series, see Head Start (TV series) Head Start a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides comprehensive education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families.Head Start began in 1964 and was later updated by the Head Start Act of 1981. Head_Start | |
| Passerine Talk:Passerine | |
| Francis Parker Yockey Francis Parker Yockey, (September 18, 1917 American political thinker and polemicist best known for his neo-Spenglerian book Imperium, published under the pen name Ulick Varange in 1948. This 600-page book argues for a race-based, totalitarian path for the preservation of Western culture. Although best remembered today as a writer, Yockey was active with many far-Right causes around the world throughout his adult life. Francis_Parker_Yockey | |
| Tularemia Tularemia (also known as "rabbit fever", "deer fly fever", "Ohara's fever" ) is a serious infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis. A gram-negative, non-motile coccobacillus, the bacterium has several subspecies with varying degrees of virulence. Tularemia | |
| Building (mathematics) mathematics, a building (also Tits building, Bruhat–Tits building) is a combinatorial and geometric structure which simultaneously generalizes certain aspects of flag manifolds, finite projective planes, and Riemannian symmetric spaces. Initially introduced by Jacques Tits as a means to understand the structure of exceptional groups of Lie type, the theory has also been used to study the geometry and topology of homogeneous spaces of p-adic Lie groups and their discrete subgroups of symmetries, in the same way that trees have been used to study free groups. Building_(mathematics) | |
| Norman Borlaug Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25, 1914) is an American agronomist, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug is one of five people in history to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Norman_Borlaug | |
| Flight data recorder flight data recorder (FDR) (also ADR, for accident data recorder) is a kind of flight recorder. It is a device used to record specific aircraft performance parameters. Another kind of flight recorder is the cockpit voice recorder (CVR), which records conversation in the cockpit, radio communications between the cockpit crew and others (including conversation with air traffic control personnel), as well as ambient sounds. In some cases, both functions have been combined into a single unit. Flight_data_recorder | |
| Canadian Lynx The Canadian lynx(Lynx canadensis) is a North American mammal of the cat family, Felidae. It is a close relative of the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx). Some authorities regard both as conspecific. However, in some characteristics the Canadian lynx is more like the bobcat (Lynx rufus) than the Eurasian lynx. With the recognized subspecies, it ranges across Canada and into Alaska as well as some parts of the northern United States. Canadian_Lynx | |
| Azumanga Daioh Azumanga_Daioh | |
| White-eye white-eyes are small passerine birds native to tropical, subtropical and temperate Sub-Saharan Africa, southern and eastern Asia, and Australasia. White-eyes inhabit most tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, the western Pacific Ocean, and the Gulf of Guinea. White-eye | |
| Nicholas of Kues Nicholas of Kues (1401 – August 11, 1464), also referred to as Nicolaus Cusanus and Nicholas of Cusa, was a Roman Catholic cardinal from Germany (Holy Roman Empire), a philosopher, jurist, mathematician, and an astronomer. He is widely considered one of the great geniuses and polymaths of the 15th century. Nicholas_of_Kues | |
| Surjeet Kalsey Surjeet Singh Kalsey (born 30 July, 1944, in Amritsar, Punjab, India) is a Canadian poet, dramatist, short story writer and translator who lives in British Columbia and writes in both Punjabi and English.After receiving a Master's Degree in English and Punjabi Literature from Punjab University, Chandigarh, she worked as the Punjabi Regional News Anchor for All India Radio more than five years. Surjeet_Kalsey | |
| John Money John William Money (8 July 1921 psychologist and sexologist well-known for his research into sexual identity and biology of gender. John_Money | |
| Thirteen Colonies Talk:Thirteen_Colonies | |
| Dissident A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively challenges an established doctrine, policy, or institution. When individual dissidents unite in a common cause they may become known as a dissident movement. Dissident | |
| East Village, Manhattan East_Village,_Manhattan | |
| Particulate Particulates, alternatively referred to as particulate matter (PM) or fine particles, are tiny particles of solid or liquid suspended in a gas or liquid. In contrast, aerosol refers to particles and the gas together. Sources of particulate matter can be man made or natural. Particulate | |
| Allen Newell Allen Newell (March 19, 1927 - July 19, 1992) was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology. He contributed to the Information Processing Language (1956) and two of the earliest AI programs, the Logic Theory Machine (1956) and the General Problem Solver (1957) (with Herbert Simon). Allen_Newell | |
| Folke Bernadotte Talk:Folke_Bernadotte | |
| Jacques Parizeau Jacques Parizeau, GOQ (born August 9, 1930) is an economist and noted Quebec sovereignist who served as Premier of Quebec, Canada, from September 26, 1994 to January 29, 1996. Jacques_Parizeau | |
| Frank Soltis Frank Gerald Soltis (born 1940), an American computer scientist, was IBM's Chief Scientist for the System i computers. Based on his Ph.D. research, his pioneering architecture of technology-independent machine interface (TIMI) and single-level store has appeared in these eight generations of IBM hardwareSystem/38 in 1978, the CISC AS/400 in 1988, the RISC AS/400 in 1995, the web server AS/400e in 1999 (supporting HTTP and TCP/IP), the eServer iSeries, the System i5, the System i, and Power Systems running i (April, 2008). Frank_Soltis | |
| Sensory deprivation Sensory deprivation is the deliberate reduction or removal of stimuli from one or more of the senses. Simple devices such as blindfolds or hoods and earmuffs can cut off sight and hearing respectively, while more complex devices can also cut off the sense of smell, touch, taste, thermoception (heat-sense), and 'gravity'. Sensory deprivation has been used in various alternative medicines and in psychological experiments (e.g., see Isolation tank). Sensory_deprivation | |
| Bharati Mukherjee Bharati Mukherjee (born July 27, 1940) is an award-winning Indian born American writer. She is currently a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Bharati_Mukherjee | |
| Alan Perlis Alan Jay Perlis (April 1, 1922 American computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages and the first recipient of the Turing Award. Alan_Perlis | |
| Charles Bachman Charles William Bachman (Dec 11, 1924, Manhattan, Kansas) is an American computer scientist, who spent his entire career as an industrial researcher rather than in academia. He is particularly known for his work in the area of databases. Charles_Bachman | |
| Accessibility Accessibility is a general term used to describe the degree to which a product (e.g., device, service, environment) is accessible by as many people as possible. Accessibility can be viewed as the "ability to access" the functionality, and possible benefit, of some system or entity. Accessibility | |
| ARPANET Talk:ARPANET |
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