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| Common law Common law refers to law and the corresponding legal system developed through decisions of courts and similar tribunals (called case law), rather than through legislative statutes or executive action.Common law is law created and refined by judgeslegal case depends on decisions in previous cases and affects the law to be applied in future cases. When there is no authoritative statement of the law, judges have the authority and duty to make law by creating precedent. Common_law | |
| Civilization A civilization is a society or culture group normally defined as a complex society characterized by the practice of agriculture and settlement in towns and cities. Compared with other cultures, members of a civilization are commonly organized into a diverse division of labor and an intricate social hierarchy. Civilization | |
| Ciconiiformes order Ciconiiformes has included a variety of large, long-legged wading birds with large billsherons, egrets, ibises, spoonbills, and several others. However recent DNA evidence might suggest that every member, except storks, are more related the Pelecaniformes, and thus belong to that group. Ciconiiformes | |
| Cat Cat | |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 and a five-star general in the United States Army. During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO. Dwight_D._Eisenhower | |
| Economy of Finland Finland has a highly industrialized, free-market economy with a per capita output equal to that of other western economies such as France, Germany, Sweden or the UK. The largest sector of the economy is services at 65.7 percent, followed by manufacturing and refining at 31.4 percent. Economy_of_Finland | |
| Frédéric Chopin Frédéric Chopin (; ; surname in English; ; 1 March 1810 composer and virtuoso pianist. He was one of the great masters of Romantic music.Chopin was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw, to a French-expatriate father and Polish mother, and in his early life was regarded as a child-prodigy Frédéric_Chopin | |
| Grape A grape is the non-climacteric fruit, botanically a true berry, that grows on the perennial and deciduous woody vines of the genus Vitis. Grapes can be eaten raw or used for making jam, juice, jelly, vinegar, wine, grape seed extracts, raisins, and grape seed oil. Grapes are also used in some kinds of candy. Grape | |
| Hipparchus Hipparchus or Hipparch (; c. 190 BC – c. 120 BC) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period.Hipparchus was born in Nicaea (now Iznik, Turkey), and probably died on the island of Rhodes. He is known to have been a working astronomer at least from 147 BC to 127 BC. Hipparchus | |
| Ivory-billed Woodpecker The Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) is, or was, a very large member of the family Picidae. It was considered extinct for many years until a series of possible sightings beginning in 1999. It is currently officially listed as a critically endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) after being upgraded from extinct in 2000. Ivory-billed_Woodpecker | |
| Igneous rock Igneous rock (etymology from Latin ignis, fire) is one of the three main rock types (the others being sedimentary and metamorphic rock). Igneous rock is formed by magma (molten rock) being cooled and becoming solid. They may form with or without crystallization, either below the surface as intrusive (plutonic) rocks or on the surface as extrusive (volcanic) rocks. Igneous_rock | |
| Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is best known for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of disease. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies. Louis_Pasteur | |
| Louisiana Louisiana | |
| Leet Leet or eleet (), also known as "leetspeak", is an alphabet used primarily on the Internet for the English language. It uses various combinations of ASCII characters to replace Latinate letters. The term is derived from the word "elite", and the usage it describes is a specialized form of symbolic writing. Leet may also be considered a substitution cipher, though many dialects or linguistic varieties exist in different online communities. Leet | |
| Mahābhārata '''''Devanāgarī:Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the 'itihāsa (literally "history"), and forms an important part of Hindu mythology.It is of immense importance to culture in the Indian subcontinent, and is a major text of Hinduism. Its discussion of human goals (dharma or duty, artha or purpose, kāma, pleasure or desire and moksha or liberation) takes place in a long-standing tradition, attempting to explain the relationship of the individual to society and the world (the nature of the 'Self') and the workings of karma. Mahābhārata | |
| Professional wrestling Professional wrestling, or pro wrestling, is a non-competitive professional sport, where matches are prearranged by the promotion's booking staff, and is also considered an athletic performing art, containing strong elements of catch wrestling, mock combat and theatre. Professional_wrestling | |
| Robert J. Flaherty Robert Joseph Flaherty (16 February 1884, Iron Mountain, Michigan Dummerston, Vermont) was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature length documentary film, Nanook of the North (1922), made his reputation, and nothing in his later life equalled its success, although he continued the development of this new genre of docufiction, eg. with Moana (1926), set in the South Seas. Robert_J._Flaherty | |
| Sūtra Sūtra (Sanskrit:sū́tra, Devanagari:सूत्र, Pāli:sutta), literally means a rope or thread that holds things together, and more metaphorically refers to an aphorism (or line, rule, formula), or a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual. It is derived from the verbal root siv-, meaning to sew (these words, including Latin suere and English to sew, all ultimately deriving from PIE *siH-/syuH- 'to sew'). Sūtra | |
| Superfetation Superfetation (also spelt superfoetation, based on a hypercorrection fetus) is the formation of a fetus while another fetus is already present in the uterus. When there are two separate instances of fertilisation during the same cycle, rather than different cycles, it is known as superfecundation.Superfetation is claimed to be common in some species of animals, but is extremely rare in humans. It can occur only where there are two uteri, or where the menstrual cycle continues through pregnancy. Superfetation | |
| Tulsa race riot The Tulsa race riot, also known as the 1921 race riot, The night that Tulsa died, the Tulsa Race War, or the Greenwood riot, was a massacre during a large-scale civil disorder confined mainly to the racially segregated Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA on May 31, 1921. Tulsa_race_riot | |
| Tourmaline Tourmaline | |
| United States armed forces The United States armed forces are the overall unified military forces of the United States. The United States military was first formed by the second Continental Congress to defend the new nation against the British Empire in the American Revolutionary War. United_States_armed_forces | |
| White dwarf A white dwarf, also called a degenerate dwarf, is a small star composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. Because a white dwarf's mass is comparable to that of the Sun and its volume is comparable to that of the Earth, it is very dense. Their faint luminosity comes from the emission of stored heat. White_dwarf | |
| Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (26 September 1889 German philosopher. His best known book, Being and Time, is generally considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century. Martin_Heidegger | |
| Melvin Defleur Melvin Lawrence DeFleur (born April 27, 1923 in Portland, Oregon) is a professor and scholar in the field of communications. His initial field of study was social sciences.He received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Washington in 1954. His thesis, Experimental Studies of Stimulus Response Relationships in Leaflet Communication, drew from sociology, psychology, and communication, to study how information diffused through American communities. Melvin_Defleur | |
| William Tecumseh Sherman William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States. Military historian Basil Liddell Hart famously declared that Sherman was "the first modern general". William_Tecumseh_Sherman | |
| 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 | |
| United States armed forces Talk:United_States_armed_forces | |
| Binary star A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common center of mass. The brighter star is called the primary and the other is its companion star, comes, or secondary. Research between the early 1800s and today suggests that many stars are part of either binary star systems or star systems with more than two stars, called multiple star systems. Binary_star | |
| Duke University Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment, prompting the institution to change its name in honor of his deceased father, Washington Duke. Duke_University | |
| Preston Tucker Preston Thomas Tucker September 21, 1903 December 26, 1956) was an American automobile designer and entrepreneur. Preston_Tucker | |
| Rhea (bird) The rheas are species of ratites (flightless birds, with unkeeled sterna) in the genus Rhea, native to South America. There are two existing speciesGreater or American Rhea and the Lesser or Darwin's Rhea. The genus name was given in 1752 by Paul Mohring and adopted as the English common name. Mohring's reason for choosing this name, from the Rhea of classical mythology, is not known. Rhea_(bird) | |
| Rhea (bird) Talk:Rhea_(bird) | |
| Macaw For the Chinese special administrative region, see Macau. Macaws are small to large, often colourful New World parrots. Of the many different Psittacidae (true parrots) genera, six are classified as macawsAra, Anodorhynchus, Cyanopsitta, Primolius, Orthopsittaca, and Diopsittaca. Macaw | |
| Toxicodendron Toxicodendron | |
| Sumac Sumac | |
| Monk Parakeet The Monk Parakeet, also known as the Quaker Parrot, (Myiopsitta monachus) is a species of parrot, in most treatments the only member of the genus Myiopsitta. It originates from the temperate to subtropical areas of Argentina and the surrounding countries in South America. Self-sustaining feral populations occur in many places, mainly in North America and Europe. Monk_Parakeet | |
| Louisiana Story Louisiana Story (1948) is a 78-minute black-and-white American film. it is a docufiction. Although the events depicted are fictional, it is often misidentified as a simple documentary film. It was written by Frances H. Flaherty and Robert J. Flaherty, and also directed by Robert J. Flaherty. It was commissioned by the Standard Oil Company. The story deals with the adventures of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon, who live a somewhat idyllic existence playing in the bayous of Louisiana. Louisiana_Story | |
| Roanoke, Virginia For the metropolitan area, see Roanoke Metropolitan Area.Roanoke is an independent city located in the Roanoke Metropolitan Area in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Roanoke is also part of the Roanoke Region of Virginia, and is the largest city in the Roanoke Valley. Roanoke,_Virginia | |
| Tupelo Tupelo | |
| Christopher Morris User:Christopher_Morris | |
| Knud Jeppesen Knud Jeppesen (15 August 1892 – 14 June 1974) was a Danish composer, musicologist and writer on the history of music.His study of Palestrina is internationally recognized. The Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance. 2nd ed., London, 1946. His 1930 Counterpoint has been a standard textbook since its appearance in German (1935) and English (1939), although due to subsequent research his understanding of Palestrina's music is somewhat dated. Knud_Jeppesen | |
| Hurricane Lili Hurricane Lili was the deadliest and costliest hurricane of the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season for the United States. Lili was the twelfth named storm, fourth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm developed from a tropical disturbance in the open Atlantic on September 21. Hurricane_Lili | |
| List of people in systems and control system analysis and control theory. List_of_people_in_systems_and_control | |
| Pineville, Louisiana Pineville is a city in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is adjacent to the city of Alexandria, and is part of that city's Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 13,829 at the 2000 census. Pineville,_Louisiana | |
| Oyster oyster is used for a number of different groups of bivalve mollusks, most of which live in marine habitats or brackish water. The shell consists of two usually highly calcified valves which surround a soft body. Gills filter plankton from the water, and strong adductor muscles are used to hold the shell closed.Some types of oysters are highly prized as food, both raw and cooked. Other types, such as pearl oysters, are not commonly eaten. Oyster | |
| New Orleans Talk:New_Orleans | |
| Pauline Viardot Pauline Viardot July 18, 1821 May 18, 1910) was a nineteenth century French mezzo-soprano and composer of Spanish descent. Pauline_Viardot | |
| Human ecology Human ecology is an academic discipline that deals with the relationship between humans, human societies, and their natural, social and created environments. Human_ecology | |
| Spanish–American War Talk:Spanish–American_War |
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