| Altruism Altruism is selfless concern for the welfare of others. It is a traditional virtue in many cultures, and central to many religious traditions. Altruism
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| Agriculture Agriculture refers to the production of goods through the growing of plants and the raising of domesticated animals. The study of agriculture is known as agricultural science. Agriculture
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| Aldous Huxley | birthplace = Godalming, Surrey, England Aldous_Huxley
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| Algae Algae (sing. alga) are a large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic organisms, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms. Algae
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| Afghanistan |demonym = Afghan Afghanistan
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| Abortion An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion of a embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death. An abortion can occur spontaneously due to complications during pregnancy or can be induced. Abortion
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| A Clockwork Orange Talk:A_Clockwork_Orange
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| Apple Newton The Apple Newton, or simply Newton, is the iPhone's predecessor and was an early line of personal digital assistants developed and marketed by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) from 1993 to 1998. Apple_Newton
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| Amplitude modulation Amplitude modulation (AM) is a technique used in electronic communication, most commonly for transmitting information via a radio carrier wave. AM works by varying the strength of the transmitted signal in relation to the information being sent. Amplitude_modulation
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| Artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it. Artificial_intelligence
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| Amber Amber is fossil tree resin, which is appreciated for its color and beauty. Good quality amber is used for the manufacture of ornamental objects and jewellery. Amber
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| Arabic alphabet The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing several languages of Asia and Africa, such as Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. After the Latin alphabet, it is the second-most widely used alphabet around the world. Arabic_alphabet
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| Anita Hill Anita Faye Hill (born ) is a professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at Brandeis University at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management and a former colleague of U.S. Anita_Hill
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| Amdahl's law Amdahl's law, also known as Amdahl's argument,Rodgers 85, p.226 is named after computer architect Gene Amdahl, and is used to find the maximum expected improvement to an overall system when only part of the system is improved. Amdahl's_law
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| Arthropod Arthropods are animals belonging to the Phylum Arthropoda (from Greek [arthron, "joint]", and [podos "[[foot]", which together mean "jointed feet") and include the [[insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others. Arthropods are characterized by the possession of jointed limbs and of cuticles which are mainly made of α-chitin; crustaceans' cuticles are also biomineralized with calcium carbonate. Arthropod
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| Archaeopteryx Late Jurassic Archaeopteryx
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| A Doll's House A Doll's House (literally translated A Doll's Home, from the original Norwegian title, Et dukkehjem) is an 1879 play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. A_Doll's_House
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| Belize (Latin)"Under the Shade I Flourish" Belize
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| Berkelium Bk redirects here. For other uses of the abbreviation, see BK (disambiguation). Berkelium
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| Bill Joy William Nelson Joy (born Nov 8, 1954), commonly known as Bill Joy, is an American computer scientist. Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, Andy Bechtolsheim and Vaughan Pratt, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. Bill_Joy
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| Bicycle The bicycle, cycle, or bike is a pedal-driven, human-powered vehicle with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. Bicycle
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| BQP In computational complexity theory BQP stands for "Bounded error, Quantum, Polynomial time". It denotes the class of decision problems solvable by a quantum computer in polynomial time, with an error probability of at most 1/3 for all instances. BQP
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| Bantu languages The Bantu languages (technically Narrow Bantu languages) constitute a grouping belonging to the Niger-Congo family. This grouping is deep down in the genealogical tree of the Bantoid grouping, which in turn is deep down in the Niger-Congo tree. Bantu_languages
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| Brian De Palma | location = Newark, New Jersey, U.S. Brian_De_Palma
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| Cell (biology) The cell is the structural and functional unit of all known living organisms. It is the smallest unit of an organism that is classified as living, and is often called the building block of life. Cell_(biology)
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| Bra-ket notation Bra-ket notation is a standard notation for describing quantum states in the theory of quantum mechanics composed of angle brackets (chevrons) and vertical bars. It can also be used to denote abstract vectors and linear functionals in pure mathematics. Bra-ket_notation
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| Black hole A black hole is a theoretical region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing, not even electromagnetic radiation (e.g. Black_hole
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| Biome A biome is a climatically and geographically defined area of ecologically similar climatic conditions such as communities of plants, animals, and soil organisms, The World's Biomes, Retrieved August 19, 2008, from University of California Museum of Paleontology and are often referred to as ecosystems. Biomes are defined based on factors such as plant structures (such as trees, shrubs, and grasses), leaf types (such as broadleaf and needleleaf), plant spacing (forest, woodland, savanna), and climate. Biome
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| Berkeley, California Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. Berkeley,_California
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| Chordate Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. They are united by having, at some time in their life cycle, a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail. Chordate
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| Classics Classics or Classical Studies is the branch of the Humanities dealing with the languages, literature, history, art, and other aspects of the ancient Mediterranean world; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during the time known as classical antiquity, roughly spanning from the Ancient Greek Bronze Age in 1000 BC to the Dark Ages circa AD 500. The study of the Classics was the initial field of study in the humanities. Classics
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| Citizen Kane (US) Citizen_Kane
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| Copyright Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by governments, giving the creator of an original work of authorship exclusive rights to control its distribution, usually for a limited time, after which the work enters the public domain. Generally, it is "the right to copy", but usually provides the author with other rights as well, such as the right to be credited for the work, to determine who may adapt the work to other forms, who may perform the work, who may financially benefit from it, and other, related rights. Copyright
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| Computer data storage Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, refers to computer components, devices, and recording media that retain digital data used for computing for some interval of time. Computer data storage provides one of the core functions of the modern computer, that of information retention. Computer_data_storage
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| Carbon nanotube Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are allotropes of carbon with a nanostructure that can have a length-to-diameter ratio greater than 1,000,000. These cylindrical carbon molecules have novel properties that make them potentially useful in many applications in nanotechnology, electronics, optics and other fields of materials science, as well as potential uses in architectural fields. Carbon_nanotube
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| Computer science Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the science of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems."Computer science is the study of information" Department of Computer and Information Science, Guttenberg Information Technologies"Computer science is the study of computation. Computer_science
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| Cladistics Cladistics is the hierarchical classification of species based on evolutionary ancestry. Cladistics is distinguished from other taxonomic systems because it focuses on evolution rather than similarities between species, and because it places heavy emphasis on objective, quantitative analysis. Cladistics
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| Cretaceous The Cretaceous (, usually abbreviated 'K' for its German translation "Kreide") is a geologic period and system, reaching from the end of the Jurassic Period, (}} million years ago (Ma) to the beginning of the Paleocene Period, }} Ma. It is the youngest geological period of the Mesozoic, and at 80 million years long, the longest period of the Phanerozoic. Cretaceous
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| Cognitive science Cognitive science is crudely defined as the multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior. Cognitive_science
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| Charles Babbage | birth_place = London, England Charles_Babbage
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| Key size In cryptography, key size or key length is the size (usually measured in bits or bytes) of the key used in a cryptographic algorithm (such as a cipher). An algorithm's key length is distinct from its cryptographic security, which is a logarithmic measure of the fastest known computational attack on the algorithm, also measured in bits. Key_size
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| Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event The Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event, which occurred approximately (Ma), was a large-scale mass extinction of animal and plant species in a geologically short period of time. Widely known as the K–T extinction event, it is associated with a geological signature known as the K–T boundary, usually a thin band of sedimentation found in various parts of the world. Cretaceous–Tertiary_extinction_event
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| Confucianism Confucianism ( Confucianism
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| Continuum mechanics Continuum mechanics is a branch of mechanics that deals with the analysis of the kinematics and mechanical behavior of materials modeled as a continuum, e.g. Continuum_mechanics
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| Climate Climate encompasses the temperatures, humidity, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other meteorogical factors in a given region over long periods of time, as opposed to the term weather, which refers to current activity. The climate of a location is affected by its latitude, terrain, altitude, persistent ice or snow cover, as well as nearby oceans and their currents. Climate
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| Continental drift Continental drift is the movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other. The hypothesis that continents 'drift' was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596 and was fully developed by Alfred Wegener in 1912. Continental_drift
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| Cecil B. DeMille | deathplace = Hollywood, California Cecil_B._DeMille
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| Chinese room The Chinese Room argument comprises a thought experiment and associated arguments by John Searle , who attempts to show that a symbol-processing machine like a computer can never be properly described as having a "mind" or "understanding", regardless of how intelligently it may behave. Chinese_room
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| Czesław Miłosz | birthplace = Šeteniai, near Kėdainiai, Lithuania Czesław_Miłosz
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| Cnidaria CnidariaThis article is partially based on a translation of the corresponding Roman-language Wikipedia article, retrieved on 27 April 2006. (Silent c - from New Latin cnida, from Greek κνιδη "nettle", "sea anemone" (Dalby, 2003: 296). Cnidaria
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