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The Mystery of the Vanished Prince

The Mystery of the Vanished Prince is a childrens novel by Enid Blyton. It was published in 1951. It is the ninth book in the Five Find-Outers series. The main characters in the story are Fatty, Bets, Pip, Larry and Daisy. The prince Bongahwah is ...

Ghostwriter (TV series)

Ghostwriter is an American childrens mystery fantasy thriller TV series created by Liz Nealon. It was produced by Sesame Workshop and BBC One. It first aired in October 1992. It is about a group of friends who solve mysteries. They are helped by ...

Oral tradition

An oral tradition or oral culture is a way of transmitting history, literature or law from one generation to the next, without a writing system, by voice. People tell stories. Often the stories are made into poems and songs to make remembering ea ...

Oral law

An oral law are rules of human behavior in use in a given culture, religion or other group, which is transmitted by oral tradition and respected. Oral law is spoken, as opposed to statutory law, which is written down. Like customary law, oral law ...

Word of mouth

Word of mouth is the passing of information from a person to one or more people in conversation. In the past, it referred only to speech, but now, it can sometimes include online communication. It can be as simple as telling someone what time it ...

Legend

Legends are stories in oral tradition and a narrative of human actions. They are usually old but are believed to have taken place within human history. Legends are often passed on by word-of-mouth. Legends have often been transformed over time to ...

Narrative poetry

Narrative poetry is a type of poetry that tells a story. Narrative poems can be short or long. Some are novels or short stories written in verse form. Many older narrative poems were designed to be passed on through generations as a way of record ...

Folk music

Folk music is music that is played or sung by ordinary people. It is traditional music that people learn by listening to other people playing it and then copying them. We say that the tradition is" orally transmitted” or" handed down orally”, mea ...

Ashik

An Ashik is a traveling bard, in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, and Iran. They sing and play the saz, a form of lute. The songs are made up on the spot around common ideas. The Ashik tradition started with the Shamanistic beliefs of ancien ...

Folklore

Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including stories, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, and more within a particular people. This also includes the oral traditions of that culture, subculture ...

Sruti (scripture)

Shruti are the collection of vedic literature. Sruti Devanagari श्रुति, "what is heard" is a canon of Hindu sacred texts. They do not date to a particular period, but rather stretch across the entire history of Hinduism, beginning with the some o ...

Criticism of Christianity

Since its beginning, Christianity has been criticized by people in all professions and by people of all other religions. The reason for the criticism varies: many Christians have followed the Bible in criticising homosexuality, abortion and many ...

Short story

The short story is a genre of literature. It is usually fictional narrative prose and tends to be more direct and less-detailed than longer works of fiction, like novels. Short stories are closely related to oral spoken story-telling traditions a ...

Judaism

This article is about the Jewish religion. For more information about the Jewish people, see Jew. Judaism Hebrew: יהדות is the worlds oldest Abrahamic religion. It is almost 4.000 years old. There are about 15 million followers. They are called J ...

Technology

Technology is the skills, methods, and processes used to achieve goals. People can use technology to: Do things we already do, but more easily. Produce goods or services Carry out goals, such as scientific investigation or sending a spaceship to ...

Information technology

Information technology is a term that encompasses all forms of technology used to create, store, exchange, and use information in its various forms. Now, people have been using it to refer to other aspects of technology. It now covers many more f ...

TPV Technology

TPV Technology Limited is a Chinese electronics company. It is headquartered in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong and incorporated in Bermuda. It designs and produces CRT and TFT LCD monitors and LCD TVs. TPV owns brands like AOC, Envision, and Philips for so ...

Office of Science and Technology Policy

The Office of Science and Technology Policy is a department of the United States government, part of the Executive Office of the President, established by United States Congress on May 11, 1976, with a broad mandate to advise the President on the ...

Ministry of Economics and Technology of Germany

The Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology is a Federal Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was founded 1949 as the Federal Ministry of the Economy. It was combined in May 1971 with the Federal Ministry of Finance to make the Fe ...

IONIS School of Technology and Management

IONIS School of Technology and Management is a French private graduate school in information technology, computer science, energy, biotechnology and management. It was made in 2009 and is in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre. The school delivers 14 Master of Bu ...

Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities is a research institute at the University of Virginia in the United States. It specializes in the use of Information technology in the humanities.The institute was founded in 1992 with money ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, and it has 32 academic departments, and gives much importance to scientific and technological research. MIT stude ...

California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology is a major American research university in the city of Pasadena in the state of California. Caltech specializes - is especially good, or especially interested - in the study of engineering, computer science, ...

Georgia Institute of Technology

The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public university in Atlanta, Georgia. It is also known as Georgia Tech. It focuses primarily on engineering, science and computer science, but also has schools of management, architecture, and liberal art ...

Illinois Institute of Technology

The Illinois Institute of Technology is a private university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is one of the best universities in the United States as U.S. News & World Report, a magazine, puts it at number 108. Most students of this univer ...

High tech

High technology is the best technology available at the moment. High technology can be defined as the most complex or the newest technology on the market. The opposite of high technology is low technology. This is simple and cheap technology.

Census-designated place

A census-designated place is a place that is identified by the United States Census Bureau as a place dedicated for statistical purposes. They are communities that do not have their own government, but are similar to incorporated places in other ...

List of places in New York

The following is a series of lists of counties, towns, cities, villages, and other recognized places in the U.S. state of New York. The lists include information on the number and names of counties in which the places lie and their lower and uppe ...

Lists of settlements in England

The following are pages that contain the lists of places in each county in England, by county: List of places in Lincolnshire List of places in Essex List of places in Rutland List of places in Dorset List of places in Cheshire List of places in ...

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States governments official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects worthy of preservation. The list is kept by the National Park Service. The National Historic Preservat ...

List of places in Cornwall

This is a list of all the towns and villages in the ceremonial county of Cornwall, United Kingdom. The ceremonial county includes the unitary authorities of both Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The list has been compared to gazetteers and the C ...

Secret Places (movie)

Secret Places is a 1984 British drama movie directed by Zelda Barron and based on the novel by Janice Elliott. It stars Marie Theres Relin, Tara MacGowran, Claudine Auger, Jenny Agutter, Pippa Hinchley, Rosemary Martin, Margaret Lacey and was dis ...

List of settlements in Northern Ireland by county

List of places in County Down List of places in County Armagh List of places in County Londonderry List of places in County Antrim List of places in County Tyrone List of places in County Fermanagh

Trading Places

Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy movie. It is a satire directed by John Landis. It is set in Philadelphia and New York City. It stars Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott and Jamie Lee Curtis.

BC Place

BC Place is a sports stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia. The arena opened on June 19, 1983, and is the current home to the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League and the Vancouver Whitecaps FC of Major League Soccer. The stadium was origina ...

Place of articulation

The Place of articulation tells where a sound is made. There are at least 13 different places of articulation. They are split into four big types.

The Good Place

The Good Place is an American sitcom. It is about the afterlife and philosophy. It was on television for four seasons. In most episodes, the characters learn an idea about ethics or the study of telling right from wrong. For example, in the secon ...

List of places in New York: A

This list of current cities, towns, unincorporated communities, counties, and other recognized places in the U.S. state of New York also includes information on the number and names of counties in which the place lies, and its lower and upper zip ...

Astronomical object

Astronomical object refers to something that astronomers study. It may be any body or structure in the observable universe. This includes objects like nebulas, star clusters, galaxy clusters, galaxies, stars, protostars, planets, satellites, come ...

Lists of astronomical objects

This is a partial list of the various lists of astronomical objects which either exist, or should exist, in Wikipedia. List of exoplanets List of planetary moons List of planets List of nearest stars List of stars List of brightest stars List of ...

Near-Earth object

A near-Earth object is a Solar System object whose orbit brings it close to the Earth. Their least distance from the Sun, their perihelion, is less than 1.3 AU. NEOs include near-Earth asteroids NEAs and near-Earth comets. They include more than ...

Dark nebula

Dark nebulae are astronomical objects. They do not emit or reflect light. They are seen when they hide stars and galaxies behind them. The astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard compiled a list of dark nebulae known as the Barnard Catalogue of Dark Ma ...

Extinction (astronomy)

Interstellar extinction is when the electromagnetic radiation of an astronomical object is blocked and/or scattered by other astronomical objects and cosmic dust. Also known as galactic extinction when the object is in the Milky Way.

International Astronomical Union

The International Astronomical Union is an international group that brings together the national astronomical groups from around the world. It was created in 1919. It was created to promote and protect the science of astronomy by getting differen ...

Astronomical spectroscopy

Astronomical spectroscopy is the science of using spectroscopy to figure out what elements astronomical bodies, such as stars, planets and nebulae, are made of. It can also be used to work out how those objects are moving, using doppler shift. Th ...

Unidentified flying object

A UFO is any object flying in the sky which cannot be identified by the person who sees it. Sometimes the object is investigated. If people can still not figure out what the object is after an investigation, it is called a UFO. If they figure out ...

Messier catalogue

The Messier Catalogue is a list of astronomical objects made by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1771. Messier was a comet hunter, and was annoyed by fuzzy objects which were not comets. He put together a list of these objects, with his assis ...

Occultation

An occultation is an event that occurs when one object is hidden by another object that passes between it and the observer. A planet, for example, can pass in front of a star. Some occultations are eclipses. The word is often used in astronomy. I ...

Kuiper belt

The Kuiper belt is an area of the Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune to 50 AU from the Sun. The objects within the Kuiper Belt together with the members of the scattered disk beyond, are together called trans-Neptunian. Many objects such as ...

Opposition (astronomy and astrology)

Opposition is a word used in observational astronomy. It is used when two objects in the sky are on the opposite side of the sky when viewed from the Earth. In particular, two planets are in opposition to each other when their ecliptic longitudes ...

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