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Tony Miles

In 1973 Miles won the silver medal at the World Junior Chess Championship at Teesside, his first important event against international competition. He won the title next year in Manila. Miles entered the University of Sheffield to study mathemati ...

Auckland Grammar School

Auckland Grammar School is a public school in Auckland New Zealand. It teaches boys from age thirteen to eighteen. The school also has some places near the school where students who come from distant places can live. It is one of the biggest scho ...

Geography

Geography is the study of earth and its people. Its features are things like continents, seas, rivers and mountains. Its inhabitants are all the people and animals that live on it. Its phenomena are the things that happen like tides, winds, and e ...

Human geography

Human geography is a branch of geography. It studies how people and environment have an effect on each other. The study of people includes their communities, cultures, economies. The environment studied is mostly about locations. Locations includ ...

National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society is one of the worlds largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations. Founded in January 27, 1888 to "increase and diffuse geographic knowledge," the Society works to inspire people to care about the pla ...

Physical geography

Physical geography is one of the two major subfields of geography. Physical geography is related to geology, because it is about the processes and patterns in the natural environment. Some of the things this includes are the atmosphere, hydrosphe ...

Political geography

Political geography is the study of the spaces of politics and the politics of space. It is the field of geography which is concerned with the relationships between people, the state, and territory. Political geography is organized or studied in ...

International Geographical Union

The International Geographical Union is an international association of geographical organizations around the world. The organization was established in 1922 in Belgium after the first geographical congress, which was in 1871. The Union has 34 Co ...

Geography of the United States

The United States is the third or fourth biggest country in the world. Only Russia and Canada are bigger. If you do not count the area of the Great Lakes, China is also bigger. Its geography varies a lot. The area is about 3.717.000 square miles, ...

Geographic coordinate system

A geographical coordinate system is a coordinate system. This means that every place can be specified by a set of three numbers, called coordinates. A full circle can be divided into 360 degrees or 360°; this was first done by the Babylonians; An ...

Location

In geography, the term location means defining where a certain place is, with reference to some other place. This reference is usually done using a coordinate system.

International Festival of Geography

The International Geography Festival is an event held every year by the Association for the Development of FIG. It is related to geography. It is held in Saint-Die-des-Vosges in France. It was first held in 1990. The festival is under the patrona ...

Geographical pole

A geographical pole is either of two points on the surface of a rotating planet where the axis of rotation meets the surface of the planet. The north geographical pole of a body is 90 degrees north of the equator. The south geographical pole lies ...

Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System contains name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features in the United States of America and its Territories. GNIS was developed by the United States Geological Surv ...

History

History is the study of past events. People know what happened in the past by looking at things from the past including sources and artifacts Libraries, archives, and museums collect and keep these things for people to study history. A person who ...

History of the world

The history of the world is about the study of the cultural achievements of the entire human race. This includes the time from prehistory to the present day (21st century and excludes natural history before the development of human beings.

History of China

The History of China covers thousands of years. The earliest records are from about 1250 BC but a few things are known about earlier times. Chinese history covers many periods and dynasties. It may be divided into the following parts:

History of Islam

Muslim history began in Arabia when Muhammad recited the Quran in the 7th century. The historical development of Islam has affected political, economic, and military trends both inside and outside the Islamic world. As with Christianity, the conc ...

A Brief History of Time

A Brief History of Time is a book written by the scientist and mathematician Stephen Hawking. The subject of the book is cosmology, the story of the universe. There are two other versions of this book: The Illustrated A Brief History of Time and ...

History of the United States

The history of the United States is what happened in the past in the United States, a country in North America. Native Americans lived in the Americas for thousands of years. English people in 1607 went to the place now called Jamestown, Virginia ...

Universal history

Universal history, world history or global history examines history from a global perspective. It looks for common patterns that one can find across all cultures. Universal historians use a thematic approach. That means they look at history from ...

History of the Earth

The history of the Earth describes the most important events and fundamental stages in the development of the planet Earth from its formation to the present day. The age of the Earth is about 4.56 billion years. Nearly all branches of science hav ...

Modern history

Modern history is the history of the world beginning after the Middle Ages. Generally the term "modern history" refers to the history of the world since the advent of the Age of Reason and the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries a ...

Ancient history

Ancient history is all the events we know about between the invention of writing and the start of the Middle Ages. Writing is one of the greatest inventions of the human species. It was invented after the Neolithic revolution in which people sett ...

History (TV channel)

History is an international satellite and cable TV channel that broadcasts historical programs, both fictional and non-fictional. The TV channel is available in many countries. It is seen by more than 80 million households. Because it shows a lot ...

Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum is a museum in London. It is the largest natural history museum in Britain. It includes the nations main collections of specimens of life, rocks and minerals. The museum employs scientific staff, conducts research, stor ...

Knowledge

Knowledge means the things which are true, as opposed to opinion. Information which is correct is knowledge. Knowledge can always be supported by evidence. If a statement is not supported by evidence, then it is not knowledge. The evidence makes ...

Knowledge Graph

The Knowledge Graph is a feature in the Google search engine. It gets information from several sources, like the CIA World Factbook, Wikidata, and Wikipedia. It is used to show important information and pictures about a person, group, or subject. ...

Zero-knowledge proof

A zero-knowledge proof or zero-knowledge protocol is a protocol used in cryptography. In such a protocol, two parties are communicating. The task of one party is to convince the other that it knows some secret, but without revealing the secret.

Tree of Knowledge

In the Book of Genesis, chapters two and three, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was a tree in the middle of the Garden of Eden, along with the Tree of Life. God Told Adam and Eve) to never eat from this Tree. When Eve and Adam, ate the fru ...

Knowledge of results

Knowledge of results is a term in the psychology of learning. p619 A psychology dictionary defines it as feedback of information: "a to a subject about the correctness of responses; b a student about success or failure in mastering material, or c ...

BBC Knowledge Magazine

BBC Knowledge Magazine was a magazine made by the BBC. It had articles about science, nature and history. The magazine was launched in North America, in 2008. It closed in November 2012. It reprinted articles from BBC Focus Magazine, BBC History ...

Epistemology

Epistemology is the philosophy of knowledge. It seeks to answer the questions "What is knowledge?" and "How is knowledge acquired?" Epistemologists are philosophers who are interested in questions such as whether it is possible to have knowledge, ...

Science

Science is what we do to find out about the natural world. Natural sciences include physics, chemistry, biology, geology and astronomy. Science uses mathematics and logic, which are sometimes called "formal sciences". Natural science makes observ ...

Field of study

A field of study is a general topic of knowledge, learning, or research. In schools they are often called "subjects". Some examples include mathematics, biology, and classical studies. Disciplines require training and qualification. Qualified peo ...

Data mining

Data mining is a term from computer science. Sometimes it is also called knowledge discovery in databases. Data mining is about finding new information in a lot of data. The information obtained from data mining is hopefully both new and useful. ...

Civilization

Civilization comes from the Latin word civis meaning someone who lives in a town. The Romans usually wanted conquered people to live in towns. When people are civilized, they have learned from the wisdom, skill and knowledge gained over centuries ...

Systeme universitaire de documentation

Systeme universitaire de documentation or SUDOC is a shared database used by the libraries of universities and other higher education institutions in France. It identifies, tracks and manages the documents which they hold. The SUDOC online catalo ...

List of Solar System objects

This is a list of Solar System objects by orbit, by distance from the sun. Most named objects in this list have a diameter of 500 km or more. The Sun, a spectral class G2V star The inner Solar System and the terrestrial planets Mercury Mercury-cr ...

Object-oriented programming

Object-oriented programming is a way of writing computer programs using "objects" to stand for data and methods. Computer programs that are not object-oriented are a list of instructions for the computer, telling it to do certain things in a cert ...

Digital Object Identifier

A Digital Object Identifier is a permanent way to identify an online document. This identification is not related to its current location. A typical use of a DOI is to give a scientific paper or article a unique number that can be used by anyone ...

Object

Object could mean: Physical entity, something that is tangible and within the grasp of the senses Object philosophy, a thing, being or concept Object grammar, a sentence element, such as a direct object or an indirect object Object, an entity tre ...

Trans-Neptunian object

Trans-Neptunian object or TNO is a name astronomers give to any minor planet in the Solar System which orbits the Sun beyond the planet Neptune. There are over a thousand of them. Many are in the Kuiper belt.

Object (grammar)

An object in grammar is the target of an action, and occurs in any sentence with a transitive verb. It is an element in the clause which follows the verb, as in: The cat ate breakfast. She hit him and then said go away from here These are direct ...

Hoags object

Hoags object is a ring galaxy. The galaxy is named after Arthur Allen Hoag who discovered it in 1950. He identified it as either a planetary nebula or an unusual galaxy. The object has about eight billion stars, and is ~600 million light-years aw ...

Object (computer science)

In Object-oriented programming, an object is an instance of a Class. Objects are an abstraction. They hold both data, and ways to manipulate the data. The data is usually not visible outside the object. It can only be changed by using a well-spec ...

Impossible object

An impossible object is a kind of optical illusion. Impossible objects are also known as undecidable figures. In this kind of illusion, a person looks at a two-dimensional picture. The vision center of the brain does much of its work subconscious ...

Force

In physics, a force is an interaction between objects. It is called an interaction because if one object acts on another, its action is matched by a reaction from the other object. This idea is known as Newtons third law, where action and reactio ...

Black

In light, black is lack of all color. In painting, however, the black pigment is the combination of all colors. In heraldry, black is called "sable". It is the opposite of white.

Volume

This article is about physical object; for meaning from audio field, see loudness. The volume of an object is a measure of the amount of space occupied by that object, and is not to be confused with mass. The volume of a mountain is much larger t ...

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