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| Kayastha Kāyastha or Kayasth () is an "upper" (General) caste of India. They are said (as per the Vedas and Puranas) to have a dual-caste status (ref. Vedic origin). They are mainly spread across the North India and are a sub-sect of Brahmins whose ancient profession was writing. Kayastha | |
| Tule Lake War Relocation Center Tule Lake Segregation Center National Monument was an internment camp in the northern California town of Newell near Tule Lake. It was used in the Japanese American internment during World War II. It was one of the largest and most controversial Tule_Lake_War_Relocation_Center | |
| Dananderson User_talk:Dananderson | |
| Juana de Ibarbourou Juana de Ibarbourou, also known as Juana de América, (1892Uruguayan poet. She was one of the most popular poets of Spanish America. Her poetry, the earlier of which is often highly erotic, is notable for her identification of her feelings with the nature around her. Juana_de_Ibarbourou | |
| Sociocultural evolution Sociocultural evolution(ism) is an umbrella term for theories of cultural evolution and social evolution, describing how cultures and societies have developed over time. Although such theories typically provide models for understanding the relationship between technologies, social structure, the values of a society, and how and why they change with time, they vary as to the extent to which they describe specific mechanisms of variation and social change. Sociocultural_evolution | |
| Henry Samueli Henry Samueli (born September 20, 1954 in Buffalo, New York) is co-founder and chief technology officer of the Broadcom Corporation and a philanthropist in the Orange County, California community. In 2007 Forbes placed Samueli's net worth at $2.3 billion. He currently resides in Corona del Mar, California. Henry_Samueli | |
| Hedwig Gorski Hedwig Gorski (born New Jersey, 1949) is an American performance poet and an avant-garde artist who labels her aesthetic as American Futurism. She is a first-generation Polish-American who is both an academic scholar and populist writer. Hedwig_Gorski | |
| Creel-Terrazas Family Creel-Terrazas family is a powerful and wealthy family based in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Creel-Terrazas_Family | |
| Gordon A. Craig Gordon Alexander Craig (November 13, 1913 October 30, 2005) was a Scottish-American historian of German history and of diplomatic history. Gordon_A._Craig | |
| Aphthous ulcer An aphthous ulcer, also known as a canker sore, is a type of oral ulcer, which presents as a painful open sore inside the mouth or upper throat (including the uvula) caused by a break in the mucous membrane. The condition is also known as aphthous stomatitis, and alternatively as Sutton's Disease, especially in the case of major, multiple, or recurring ulcers.The term aphtha means ulcer; it has been used for many years to describe areas of ulceration on mucous membranes. Aphthous_ulcer | |
| Lawrence Halprin Lawrence Halprin (born July 1, 1916 in New York City) is a prolific and accomplished American landscape architect and educator. Lawrence_Halprin | |
| Recognition of same-sex unions in New Jersey Recognition of same-sex unions in New Jersey is legal in the form of civil unions in that state. Legislation has been slow moving, but public opinion suggests majoritarian support for the legalization of same-sex marriage in the state.New Jersey was one of the first states to implement a domestic partnerships scheme, after California, in 2003. Recognition_of_same-sex_unions_in_New_Jersey | |
| ECA stack The ECA stack is a drug combination used as a stimulant and in weight loss. ECA is an acronym for ephedrine, caffeine, and Aspirin. ECA_stack | |
| MacArthur Maze The MacArthur Maze (or simply the Maze, also called the Distribution Structure) refers to the large freeway interchange located near the eastern end of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge in Oakland, California. In the Maze, three freewaysEastshore, MacArthur and Nimitz— MacArthur_Maze | |
| Ipuwer Papyrus Ipuwer Papyrus is a single surviving papyrus holding an ancient Egyptian poem, called The Admonitions of Ipuwer or The Dialogue of Ipuwer and the Lord of All. Its official designation is Papyrus Leiden I 344 recto. It is housed in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, Netherlands, after being purchased from Giovanni Anastasi, the Swedish consul to Egypt, in 1828. Ipuwer_Papyrus | |
| Norman Cousins Norman Cousins (June 24, 1915 – November 30, 1990) was a prominent political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate. Norman_Cousins | |
| William Vere Cruess William Vere Cruess (August 9, 1886 - March 13, 1968) was an American food scientist who pioneered the use of fruits to produce fruit-juice beverages, fruit-based concentrates and syrups. He was one of the first investigators in the United States to use freezing storage for preservation of fruits and fruit products. Cruess's research also proved beneficial in the rebirth of the wine industry in California after the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. William_Vere_Cruess | |
| List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions list of sovereign states by carbon dioxide emissions due to human activity. The data presented below corresponds to emissions in 2004. The data itself was collected in 2007 by the CDIAC for United Nations. The data considers only carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, but not emissions from deforestation, and fossil fuel exporters, etc.These statistics are rapidly dated due to huge recent growth of emissions in Asia. List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions | |
| Frontiers (magazine) Frontiers is southern California's oldest and largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) magazine. It is distributed freely at gay bars, clubs and businesses throughout southern California. The biweekly publication focuses on news related to LGBT communities, as well as local and international coverage of HIV/AIDS-related topics in addition to its popular escort listings section. Frontiers_(magazine) | |
| Zolpidem Talk:Zolpidem | |
| Josephine Miles Josephine Miles (June 11, 1911 – May 12, 1985) poet and literary critic, was the first woman to be tenured in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She wrote over a dozen books of poetry and several works of criticism.Born in Chicago in 1911, she moved around a lot with her family, eventually relocating to Southern California. Josephine_Miles | |
| Accelerating change futures studies and the history of technology, accelerating change is an increase in the rate of technological (and sometimes social and cultural) progress throughout history, which may suggest faster and more profound change in the future. While many have suggested accelerating change, its popularity in modern times is closely associated with the ideas and writings of Raymond Kurzweil, especially in relation to his theories about technological singularity. Accelerating_change | |
| Mudaliar Mudaliar also Mudaliyar, Mudali and Moodley is a surname used by Tamil Vellalars and Sengunthars. It is derived from the honorary title Mudali meaning a person of first rank in in the Tamil language which was bestowed upon top-ranking bureaucratic officials and army officers in medieval South India. in south India. The surname is generally prevalent among Indian Tamils and the Tamil diaspora though it is also used in other parts of South India. Mudaliar | |
| Monte Carlo methods for option pricing In mathematical finance, a Monte Carlo option model uses Monte Carlo methods to calculate the value of an option with multiple sources of uncertainty or with complicated features. The term 'Monte Carlo method' was coined by Stanislaw Ulam in the 1940's. The first application to option pricing was by Phelim Boyle in 1977 (for European options). Monte_Carlo_methods_for_option_pricing | |
| ARK ARK may refer to ARK (band), a metal band ARK (rock band), a rock band from Manchester, England Archaeological Recording Kit, a database and GIS web-based recording system for archaeology Archival Resource Key, a way to identify information objects Space Colony ARK, a fictional space station in the Sonic the Hedgehog series of video games Armoured Ramp Carrier, a specialist armoured vehicleChurchill ARK, Centurion ARK Charity Absolute Return for Kids A Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive in collaboration with Queens University Belfast and the University of Ulster The New York Stock Exchange symbol for Senior High Income Portfolio The Finnish Architectural Review Arusha Project (ARK) provides a framework for collaborative system administration of multi-platform Unix sites with many dozens of machines. ARK | |
| Gerundive In linguistics, a gerundive is a particular verb form. The term is applied very differently to different languages; depending on the language, gerundives may be verbal adjectives, verbal adverbs, or finite verbs. Not every language has gerundives. Gerundive | |
| Dahalo language Dahalo is an endangered South Cushitic language spoken by at most 400 people on the Kenyan coast near the mouth of the Tana River. The Dahalo are dispersed among Swahili and other Bantu peoples, with no villages of their own, and are bilingual in those languages. It may be that children are no longer learning the language. Dahalo has a highly diverse sound system using all four airstream mechanisms found in human languageclicks, ejectives, and implosives, as well as the universal pulmonic sounds. Dahalo_language | |
| Chinatown, Oakland, California The Chinatown neighborhood in Oakland, California is a pan-Asian neighborhood which reflects Oakland's diverse Asian American community. It is frequently referred to as "Oakland Chinatown" in order to distinguish it from nearby San Francisco's Chinatown. It lies at an elevation of 39 feet (12 m).Chinese were the first Asians to arrive in Oakland in the 1850s, followed by Japanese in the 1890s, Koreans in the 1900s, and Filipinos in the 1930s-1940s. Chinatown,_Oakland,_California | |
| Lambda Upsilon Lambda La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity was established on February 19 1982 in order to address the shortcomings of academic institutions in meeting and addressing the needs of Latino students in higher education. Founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity primarily seeks to take a leadership role in meeting the needs of the Latino community through cultural awareness, community service, and promotion of the Latino culture and people. Lambda_Upsilon_Lambda | |
| Glassell Park, Los Angeles, California Glassell Park is a neighborhood in northeast Los Angeles, California. Glassell_Park,_Los_Angeles,_California | |
| Fageol Fageol Motors was founded in 1916 to manufacture motor trucks, farm tractors and automobiles in Oakland, California.In 1921 it became the first company to build a bus from the ground up. This new bus was called the "Safety Bus". The goal was to build a bus that wasn't prone to overturning when cornering. Fageol | |
| Aviary aviary is a large enclosure for confining birds. Unlike cages, aviaries allow birds a larger living space where they can fly; hence, aviaries are also sometimes known as flight cages. Aviaries often contain plants and shrubbery to simulate a natural environment. Aviary | |
| Efé Efé are a group of part-time hunter-gatherer people living in the Ituri Rainforest of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the depths of the forest they do not wear much clothing, using only grass huts as shelter for their bodies in the intense heat. The Efé are Pygmies, and one of the shortest peoples in the world. Efé | |
| Henry Stevens (bibliographer) Henry Stevens (August 24, 1819 - February 28, 1886), American bibliographer, was born in Barnet, Vermont.He studied at Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1838-1839, graduated at Yale in 1843 and studied at the Cambridge (Massachusetts) Harvard Law School in 1843-1844. In 1845 he went to London, where he was employed during most of the remainder of his life as a collector of Americana for the British Museum and for various public and private American libraries. Henry_Stevens_(bibliographer) | |
| Great American Interchange Great American Interchange was an important paleozoogeographic event in which land and freshwater fauna migrated from North America via Central America to South America and vice versa, as the volcanic Isthmus of Panama rose up from the sea floor and bridged the formerly separated continents. The migration peaked dramatically around three million years (Ma) ago (in the Piacenzian, the first half of the Upper Pliocene). Great_American_Interchange | |
| Zhang Tianyi Zhang Tianyi (; Wade-Gilesleft-wing writer and children's author, whose novels and short stories achieved acclaim in the 1930s for his satiric wit. Zhang_Tianyi | |
| History of the Jews in Egypt Egyptian Jews constitute perhaps the oldest Jewish community outside Israel in the world. While no exact census exists, the Jewish population of Egypt was estimated at fewer than a hundred in 2004, Rabbanites and Karaites. After their expulsion from Spain, more Sephardi and Karaite Jews began to emigrate to Egypt, and their numbers increased with the growth of trading prospects after the opening of the Suez Canal, to constitute the commercial and cultural elite of the modern community. History_of_the_Jews_in_Egypt | |
| Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim Convention Center is a major convention center in Anaheim, California. It is located across from the Disneyland Resort on Katella Avenue. Much of the Anaheim Convention Center has been renovated in recent years with state-of-the-art facilities. The basketball arena, fronting Katella Avenue, was opened in July 1967, while the convention hall behind it opened to business shortly afterward. Since then, the convention hall has undergone three major expansions, and currently encloses over of floor space. Anaheim_Convention_Center | |
| Reference desk archive/May 2005 Wikipedia:Reference_desk_archive/May_2005 | |
| History of chess The history of chess, specifically that of Western Chess, spans some 1500 years. The earliest predecessors of the game originated in India in the 6th century AD and spread to Persia from there. When the Arabs conquered Persia chess was taken up by the Muslim world, from where it reached Southern Europe. History_of_chess | |
| Peer review/June 2005 Wikipedia:Peer_review/June_2005 | |
| Peer review/Sergei Korolev/archive1 Wikipedia:Peer_review/Sergei_Korolev/archive1 | |
| William Nierenberg William Aaron Nierenberg (February 13, 1919 September 10, 2000) was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and was director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1965 through 1986. William_Nierenberg | |
| Libertarian perspectives on LGBT rights The libertarian perspective on LGBT rights illustrates how libertarian individuals and Libertarian Parties have applied the libertarian philosophy to the subject of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender/transsexual - collectively LGBT - rights. Libertarian_perspectives_on_LGBT_rights | |
| Cicisbeo In 18th- and 19th-century Italy, the cicisbeo (; plural:cicisbei), or Cavalier Servente, was the professed gallant and lover of a married woman, who attended her at public entertainments, to church and other occasions and had privileged access to his mistress. Cicisbeo | |
| Pett dynasty Talk:Pett_dynasty | |
| Proletkult Proletkult is an portmanteau of "proletarskaya kultura" (пролетарская культура), Russian for "proletarian culture". It was a movement active in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1925 to provide the foundations for what was intended to be a truly proletarian art devoid of bourgeois influence.In the first half of 1918 Proletkult was allocated 9,200,000 rubles of the Narkompros budget. Proletkult | |
| Howard Duff Howard_Duff | |
| List of University of California, Santa Barbara people List_of_University_of_California,_Santa_Barbara_people | |
| Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam (Arabic:Egyptian diplomat, with family origins in Egypt He served as the first secretary-general of the Arab League between 1945 and 1952. Azzam also had a long career as an ambassador and parliamentarian. He was an Egyptian nationalist and one of the foremost proponents of pan-Arab idealism – viewpoints he did not see as contradictory - and was passionately opposed to the partition of Palestine. Abdul_Rahman_Hassan_Azzam |
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