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| Maoism Maoism, variably and officially known as Mao Zedong Thought (), is a totalitarian variant of Marxism derived from the teachings of the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong (Wade-Giles Romanization:Communist Party of China (CPC) from Mao's ascendancy to its leadership until the inception of Deng Xiaoping Theory and Chinese economic reforms in 1978. Maoism | |
| Euler's identity Talk:Euler's_identity | |
| Chroma key Chroma key is a technique for mixing two images or frames together, in which a color (or a small color range) from one image is removed (or made transparent), revealing another image behind it. This technique is also referred to as color keying, colour-separation overlay (CSO; primarily by the BBC), greenscreen, and bluescreen. Chroma_key | |
| List of misquotations A famous misquotation is a well-known phrase attributed to someone who either did not actually say it in that form of words, or did not say it at all. It may not be known how these phrases came about, but when possible, their type of origin is noted in this way List_of_misquotations | |
| Amalthea (moon) Amalthea_(moon) | |
| Sponge The sponges or poriferans (from Latinporus "pore" and ferre "to bear") are animals of the phylumPorifera'mesohyl sandwiched between two thin layers of cells. While all animals have unspecialized cells that can transform into specialized cells, sponges are unique in having some specialized cells that can transform into other types, often migrating between the main cell layers and the mesohyl in the process. Sponge | |
| Coccolithophore Coccolithophores (also called coccolithophorids) are single-celled algae, protists and phytoplankton belonging to the division haptophytes. They are distinguished by special calcium carbonate plates (or scales) of uncertain function called coccoliths (calcareous nanoplankton), which are important microfossils. Coccolithophore | |
| Sport utility vehicle A sport utility vehicle (SUV) is a generic marketing description for a vehicle similar to a station wagon but built on a light-truck chassis. Usually equipped with four-wheel drive for on or off-road ability, some SUVs include the towing capacity of a pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of a minivan. Sport_utility_vehicle | |
| Coral Coral | |
| Kolkata capital of the Indian state of West Bengal and is the second largest city by area in India, after Mumbai. It is located in eastern India on the east bank of the River Hooghly. When referred to as "Kolkata", it usually includes the suburbs, and thus its population exceeds 15 million, Kolkata | |
| Determinism Determinism is a philosophical proposition that addresses the question of whether there is free will. Determinists propose that behavior, thoughts and feelings are the product of various stimuli, as cognition is a physical process and therefore governed by physical law. Determinism | |
| Sesame Street Sesame_Street | |
| Gottlob Frege Gottlob_Frege | |
| Coptic language Coptic or Coptic Egyptian ( Met.Remenkīmi) is the final stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the seventeenth century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the first century. The new writing system became the Coptic script, an adapted Greek alphabet with the addition of six to seven signs from the demotic script to represent Egyptian sounds the Greek language did not have. Coptic_language | |
| Gamma-ray burst Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are flashes of gamma rays associated with extremely energetic explosions in distant galaxies. They are the most luminous electromagnetic events in the universe since the Big Bang. Bursts can last from milliseconds to nearly an hour, although a typical burst lasts a few seconds. The initial burst is usually followed by a longer-lived "afterglow" emitting at longer wavelengths (X-ray, ultraviolet, Gamma-ray_burst | |
| Quizbowl Quizbowl (also known as Quiz Bowl, Scholastic Bowl, Brain Game, Academic Team, Academic Challenge, Scholar Quiz Bowl, Academic League, Academic Bowl, It's Academic, Battle of the Brains, Knowledge Bowl, College Bowl, and various other names) is a family of games of questions and answers on all topics of human knowledge, commonly played in high school and college. Quizbowl | |
| College Bowl College Bowl was a format of college-level quizbowl run and operated by College Bowl Company, Incorporated. It had a format similar to the current NAQT format. College Bowl first aired on US radio stations in 1953, and aired on US television from 1959 to 1970. College_Bowl | |
| Grid computing Grid computing (or the use of computational grids) is the application of several computers to a single problem at the same time — usually to a scientific or technical problem that requires a great number of computer processing cycles or access to large amounts of data.One of the main grid computing strategies is to use software to divide and apportion pieces of a program among several computers, sometimes up to many thousands. Grid_computing | |
| Extinction In biology and ecology, extinction is the death of every member of a species or group of taxa. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of that species (although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point). Extinction | |
| Bayesian inference Bayesian inference is statistical inference in which evidence or observations are used to update or to newly infer the probability that a hypothesis may be true. The name "Bayesian" comes from the frequent use of Bayes' theorem in the inference process. Bayes' theorem was derived from the work of the Reverend Thomas Bayes. Bayesian_inference | |
| Robert Hooke Robert Hooke, FRS (18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English natural philosopher and polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both experimental and theoretical work.Hooke is known principally for his law of elasticity (Hooke's Law). Robert_Hooke | |
| Gross world product Gross world product (GWP) is the total gross national product of all the countries in the world. This also equals the total gross domestic product. See measures of national income and output for more details. The per capita GWP in 2008 was approximately $10,500 US dollars (USD). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in their Third Assessment Report (TAR), predicts a maximum per-capita gross world product in 2100 of approximately $140,000 (in year 2000 dollars). Gross_world_product | |
| Sequoia The name "sequoia" is sometimes used as a general term for the subfamily Sequoioideae in which this genus is classified, together with Sequoiadendron (Giant Sequoia) and Metasequoia (Dawn Redwood); as a common name, it usually refers to Sequoiadendron. Sequoia | |
| Bruce Nauman Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Bruce_Nauman | |
| Louisiana Purchase Exposition The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the Saint Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904. Louisiana_Purchase_Exposition | |
| The Economist The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in London. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843. While The Economist calls itself a "newspaper", each issue appears on glossy paper, like a newsmagazine. In 2007, it reported an average circulation of just over 1.3 million copies per issue, about half of which are sold in North America. The_Economist | |
| Oakland, California Oakland (), founded in 1852, is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Alameda County. Oakland is about eight miles east of San Francisco across the San Francisco Bay. The San Francisco Bay Area is the sixth-most-populous metropolitan area in the United States. Based on United States Census Bureau estimates for 2008, Oakland is the 44th-largest city in the United States with a population of 420,183. Oakland,_California | |
| Feather Feathers are one of the epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds. They are considered the most complex integumentary structures found in vertebrates. They are among the outstanding characteristics that distinguish the extant Aves from other living groups. Feather | |
| Charles de Gaulle Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (, ; 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969. Charles_de_Gaulle | |
| Miloš Forman Jan Tomáš Forman (; born February 18, 1932), better known as Miloš Forman ( Miloš_Forman | |
| Thornton Wilder Thornton Niven Wilder (17 April 1897 – 7 December 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. His best known work is his play Our Town. Thornton_Wilder | |
| Ordered pair Talk:Ordered_pair | |
| California poppy The California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) is native to grassy and open areas from sea level to 2,000m (6,500 feet) altitude in the western United States throughout California, extending to Oregon, southern Washington, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and in Mexico in Sonora and northwest Baja California. California_poppy | |
| Motion compensation Motion compensation is a technique used by video compression. Motion compensation describes a picture in terms of the transformation of a reference picture to the current picture. The reference picture may be previous in time or even from the future. When images can be accurately synthesized from previously transmitted/stored images then the compression efficiency can be improved.Motion compensation exploits the fact that, often, for many frames of a movie, the only difference between one frame and another is the result of either the camera moving or an object in the frame moving. Motion_compensation | |
| Bar and Bat Mitzvah In Judaism, a Bar Mitzvah (Aramaic:m.) to whom the commandments apply"; if it were Hebrew it would be בן (ben) not בר (bar). בר is "son" in Aramaic, and בן (ben) is son in Hebrew.) or a Bat Mitzvah (בת מצוה, "one (f.) to whom the commandments apply;" Ashkenazi:Bas Mitzvah) (pl. Bar_and_Bat_Mitzvah | |
| Albireo Albireo | |
| Fremont, California Fremont () is a city in Alameda County, California. It was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the merger of five smaller communitiesCenterville, Niles, Irvington, Mission San Jose, and Warm Springs. The city is named after John Charles Frémont, "the Great Pathfinder." Fremont,_California | |
| Easter Island Easter Island (, ) is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern most point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile, Easter Island is famous for its monumental statues, called moai (), created by the Rapanui people. It is a world heritage site with much of the island protected within the Rapa Nui National Park. Easter_Island | |
| Wage slavery Wage slavery refers to a situation where a person is dependent for a livelihood on the wages earned, especially if the dependency is total and immediate. The term is used to draw an analogy between slavery and wage labor. Some uses of the term may refer only to situations where workers are paid unreasonably low wages (e.g. Wage_slavery | |
| Diesel Talk:Diesel | |
| Betelgeuse Betelgeuse | |
| Titan arum Titan_arum | |
| Pulp Fiction (film) Pulp Fiction is a 1994 crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who cowrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references. Pulp_Fiction_(film) | |
| Nymphaeales Nymphaeales is a botanical name at the rank of order. When recognized, it includes water lilies and sometimes other aquatic plants. This order is not part of the APG II system's 2003 plant classification (unchanged from the APG system of 1998), which instead has a broadly circumscribed family Nymphaeaceae (including Cabombaceae) unplaced in any order. Nymphaeales | |
| Triceratops Triceratops () is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur which lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, around 68 to 65million years ago (mya) in what is now North America. It was one of the last dinosaur genera to appear before the great Cretaceous. Triceratops | |
| Benjamin Spock Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its revolutionary message to mothers was that "you know more than you think you do." Benjamin_Spock | |
| RAID RAID is an acronym first defined by David A. Patterson, Garth A. Gibson and Randy Katz at the University of California, Berkeley in 1987 to describe a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, a technology that allowed computer users to achieve high levels of storage reliability from low-cost and less reliable PC-class disk-drive components, via the technique of arranging the devices into arrays for redundancy. RAID | |
| World Brain World Brain is the title of a book of essays by English author H.G. Wells, published in 1938. Some of the essays were first presented as speeches in 1937. In several instances throughout the book, Wells presents his idea of a universal, evolving encyclopedia that would help people become better informed citizens of the world.The essay "The Brain Organization of the Modern World" lays out Wells's vision for ".. World_Brain | |
| Larrea tridentata Larrea tridentata, known as creosote bush (or chaparral when used as a medicinal herb), is a flowering plant in the family Zygophyllaceae. It is a prominent species in the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan Deserts of western North America, including portions of California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and western Texas in the United States, and northern Chihuahua in Mexico. It is closely related to the South American Larrea divaricata, and was formerly treated as the same species. Larrea_tridentata | |
| High-occupancy vehicle lane transportation engineering and transportation planning, a high-occupancy vehicle lane (or HOV lane) is a lane reserved for vehicles with a driver and one or more passengers. These lanes are also known as carpool lanes, commuter lanes, diamond lanes, express lanes, and transit lanes. High-occupancy_vehicle_lane |
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