CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Martin Drolling 's Interior of a Kitchen made extensive use of mummy brown Mummy brown is a rich brown bituminous pigment, intermediate in tint between burnt umber and raw umber , and was one of the favorite colors of the Pre-Raphaelites . [1] 1 History 2 Present day 3 See also 4 Notes 5 References History [ edit ] Mummy brown was originally made in the 16th and 17th centuries from white pitch , myrrh , and the ground-up remains of Egyptian mummies , both human and feline. [2] [3] As it had good transparency, it could be used for glazes, shadows, flesh tones and shading. [4] However, in addition to its tendency to crack, it was extremely variable in its composition and quality, and since it contained ammonia and particles of fat, was likely to affect other colors with whi...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This article may need to be rewritten entirely to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards . You can help . The discussion page may contain suggestions. ( July 2015 ) This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia . See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. ( January 2017 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) This article needs attention from an expert in radio transmission . The specific problem is: The article does not really explain what a Fresnel zone is for or why it has the shape it does. In addition, the Talk page lists several errors, m...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search 455 sack of Rome by the Vandals For other uses, see Sack of Rome (disambiguation) . Sack of Rome Part of the Fall of the Western Roman Empire Genseric sacking Rome, by Karl Briullov Date 2 – c. 16 June 455 AD [1] Location Rome , Italy Result Decisive Vandalic victory Belligerents Western Roman Empire Vandal Kingdom Commanders and leaders Petronius Maximus † Genseric v t e Fall of the Western Roman Empire Gothic War (376–382) Pollentia Verona Florence Faesulae Moguntiacum The Rhine Ostia Rome (410) Massilia Nervasos Mountains Tarraco Arles (425) Mérida Hippo Regius Helena Rimini Arles (435) Narbonne Carthage Toulouse (439) Utus Catalaunian Plains (Chalons) Aquileia Rome (455) Agrigentum Corsica Garigliano Camp Cannini Toulouse (458) Arelate Cartagena Orleans Cape Bon Déols A...

CentralNotice Once Upon a Time in Shaolin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Album by Wu-Tang Clan 2015 studio album by Wu-Tang Clan Once Upon a Time in Shaolin Studio album by Wu-Tang Clan Released November 25, 2015 Recorded 2008–2013 Genre Hip hop Length 110 : 12 Producer Cilvaringz RZA Wu-Tang Clan chronology A Better Tomorrow (2014) Once Upon a Time in Shaolin (2015) The Saga Continues (2017) Once Upon a Time in Shaolin is a double album by the New York hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan that was limited to a single copy sold in 2015. It is the most expensive individual album ever sold. The album was recorded in secret over six years. A single two-CD copy was pressed in 2014 and stored in a secured vault at the Royal Mansour Hotel in Marrakech , Morocco , then auctioned through auction house Paddle8 in 2015. [1] The winning b...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Tuckman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bruce Tuckman (born 1938), American psychologist Diane Tuckman , American (born in Egypt) artist and author Frederick Tuckman , Member of the European Parliament Roy Tuckman , American radio personality See also [ edit ] Tuchman Tuckman's stages of group development Surname list This page lists people with the surname Tuckman . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. NewPP limit report Parsed by mw1247 Cached time: 20190518093713 Cache expiry: 2592000 Dynamic content: false CPU time usage: 0.084 seconds Real time usage: 0.121 seconds Preprocessor visited node count: 129/1000000 Preproce...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search "Six degrees" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Six degrees of freedom . For other uses, see Six degrees (disambiguation) . Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six, or fewer, social connections away from each other. As a result, a chain of " a friend of a friend " statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It was originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy in 1929 and popularized in an eponymous 1990 play written by John Guare . It is sometimes generalized to the average social distance being logarithmic in the size of the population. 1 Early conceptions 1.1 Shrinking world 1.2 Small world 1.3 Continued research: Small World Project 2 Research 2.1 Computer networks 2.2 An optimal algorithm to calculate degrees ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Parachuting or bombing is a method of swallowing drugs by rolling or folding powdered or crushed drugs in a piece of toilet paper (or other similar paper) to ingest while avoiding the unpleasant taste of the chemical . [1] It is sometimes called a "snow bomb", especially if using cocaine . This method is used among many pharmaceuticals that are commonly crushed for recreational use. The toilet paper method must use single ply toilet paper or one must separate the layers of double ply. Tissues are also a common go to for this method of drug ingestion. Another common paper used is rolling paper for smoking herbal substances or tobacco. Opioids, amphetamines, benzodiazepines and other narcotics are commonly parachuted. This method's purpose is recreational because the drugs become absorbe...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in German . (December 2018) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the German article. Machine translation like Deepl or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your transl...

CentralNotice The Diamond Age From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article possibly contains original research . Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations . Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ( May 2011 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) The Diamond Age Author Neal Stephenson Cover artist Bruce Jensen Country United States Language English Genre Science fiction Postcyberpunk Nanopunk Publisher Bantam Spectra (U.S.) Publication date 1995 Media type Print (hardback & paperback) & Audio Book ( Cassette , MP3 CD , Audio download. Narrator: Jennifer Wiltsie) & e-book Pages 455 (hardcover), 512 (paperback) Awards Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1996), Hugo Award for Best Novel (1996) ISBN 0-553-09609-5 (hardcover), ISBN 0-553-38096-6 (...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Hype cycle The hype cycle is a branded graphical presentation developed and used by the American research, advisory and information technology firm Gartner to represent the maturity, adoption, and social application of specific technologies . The hype cycle provides a graphical and conceptual presentation of the maturity of emerging technologies through five phases. An example of a hype cycle is found in Amara's law [1] coined by Roy Amara , [2] which states that We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. [3] [4] 1 Five phases 2 Hype in new media 3 Criticisms 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links Five phases [ edit ] General hype cycle for technology Each hype cycle drills down i...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search For other uses, see Culture shock (disambiguation) . Traveler from Australia visiting a small farm in Sierra Leone . Culture shock is an experience a person may have when one moves to a cultural environment which is different from one's own; it is also the personal disorientation a person may feel when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life due to immigration or a visit to a new country, a move between social environments, or simply transition to another type of life. [1] One of the most common causes of culture shock involves individuals in a foreign environment. Culture shock can be described as consisting of at least one of four distinct phases: honeymoon , negotiation, adjustment, and adaptation. Common problems include: information overload , language barrier , generation gap ,...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Mock execution" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( December 2010 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) This article possibly contains original research . Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations . Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ( December 2010 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) ( Learn how and when ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Yukio Mishima" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( August 2018 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) Yukio Mishima Mishima in 1956 Born Kimitake Hiraoka ( 1925-01-14 ) January 14, 1925 Shinjuku, Tokyo , Japan Died November 25, 1970 (1970-11-25) (aged 45) Ichigaya , Tokyo , Japan Resting place Tama Cemetery , Fuchū , Tokyo , Japan Pen name Yukio Mishima Occupation Novelist, playwright, poet, short-story writer, essayist, critic Alma mater University of Tokyo Period 1941–1970 Spouse Yoko Sugiyama ( m. 1958 – 1970 ) (1937-1995) Children Noriko Tom...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Chess opening King's Gambit a b c d e f g h 8 8 7 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 a b c d e f g h Moves 1.e4 e5 2.f4 ECO C30–C39 Origin No later than 16th century Parent Open Game The King's Gambit is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. f4 White offers a pawn to divert the black e-pawn. If Black accepts the gambit , White has two main plans. The first is to play d4 and Bxf4, regaining the gambit pawn with central domination. The alternative plan is to play Nf3 and Bc4 followed by 0-0, when the semi-open f-file allows White to barrel down onto the weakest point in Black's position, the pawn on f7. Theory has shown that in order for Black to maintain the gambit pawn , he may well be forced to weaken his kingside , with moves such as ...g5 or odd piece placement (e....

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject . You may improve this article , discuss the issue on the talk page , or create a new article , as appropriate. ( January 2019 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) Class III rapid at Canolfan Tryweryn , Wales. The international scale of river difficulty is an American system used to rate the difficulty of navigating a stretch of river, or a single (sometimes whitewater ) rapid . [1] The scale was created by the American Whitewater Association to evaluate rivers throughout the world, hence international in the title. [2] It should not be confused with the internationally used whitewater scale, which is published and adapted by a committee of the International Canoe Fe...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search An example of the coastline paradox. If the coastline of Great Britain is measured using units 100 km (62 mi) long, then the length of the coastline is approximately 2,800 km (1,700 mi). With 50 km (31 mi) units, the total length is approximately 3,400 km (2,100 mi), approximately 600 km (370 mi) longer. The coastline paradox is the counterintuitive observation that the coastline of a landmass does not have a well-defined length. This results from the fractal -like properties of coastlines, i.e., the fact that a coastline typically has a fractal dimension (which in fact makes the notion of length inapplicable). The first recorded observation of this phenomenon was by Lewis Fry Richardson [1] and it was expanded upon by Benoit Mandelbrot . [2] The measured length of the coastline de...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is the latest accepted revision , reviewed on 22 April 2019 . Jump to navigation Jump to search American multi-level marketing company NXIVM Corporation Type Privately held company Industry Multi-level marketing ; personal development Founded 1998 Key people Keith Raniere (founder) Nancy Salzman (president) Allison Mack Clare Bronfman (funder) [1] Products Seminars Website NXIVM.com ( Archived ) NXIVM ( / ˈ n ɛ k s i ə m / NEKS -ee-əm ) is an American multi-level marketing company [2] based near Albany, New York that offered personal and professional development seminars through its "Executive Success Programs". NXIVM has been described as a cult and a pyramid scheme . It has also been alleged to be a recruiting platform for a secret society (variously called "DOS" or "The Vow") in which women were bran...

CentralNotice Now That's What I Call Music! 6 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article describes the 6th album in the U.S. Now! series. It should not be confused with identically-numbered albums from other Now! series. For more information, see Now That's What I Call Music! 6 and Now That's What I Call Music! discography . 2001 compilation album by various artists Now That's What I Call Music! 6 Compilation album by various artists Released April 3, 2001 Length 71 : 01 Label Epic Series chronology Now That's What I Call Music! 5 (2000) Now That's What I Call Music! 6 (2001) Now That's What I Call Music! 7 (2001) Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic [1] Entertainment Weekly C [2] Now That's What I Call Music! 6 was released on April 3, 2001. The album is the sixth edition of the Now! series in the ...

CentralNotice Homo floresiensis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Homo floresiensis Temporal range: 190–50 Ka [1] PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ A cast of the Homo floresiensis skull, American Museum of Natural History Scientific classification (disputed) Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Suborder: Haplorhini Infraorder: Simiiformes Family: Hominidae Subfamily: Homininae Tribe: Hominini Genus: Homo Species: † H. floresiensis Binomial name † Homo floresiensis Brown et al. , 2004 Flores in Indonesia, shown highlighted in red Homo floresiensis (" Flores Man "; nicknamed " hobbit " [2] ) is an extinct species in the genus Homo . The remains of an individual that would have stood about 1.1 m (3 ft 7 in) in height were ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably . Please consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings . ( September 2017 ) This article may have too many section headers dividing up its content . Please help improve the article by merging similar sections and removing unneeded subheaders. ( September 2017 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) This list of Internet top-level domain ( TLD ) extensions contains top-level domains , which are those domains in the DNS root zone of the Domain Name System of the Internet . The official list of all top-level domai...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about U.S. medical experiments that are alleged to be unethical, non-consensual, or illegal. For the consensual, ethical, and legal use of human beings in medical research, see Human subject research . Unethical human experimentation in the United States describes numerous experiments performed on human test subjects in the United States that have been considered unethical , and were often performed illegally, without the knowledge, consent , or informed consent of the test subjects . Such tests have occurred throughout American history, but particularly in the 20th century. The experiments include: the exposure of people to many chemical and biological weapons (including infection of people with deadly or debilitating diseases), human radiation experiments , injection...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This page is a glossary of tennis terminology. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z References External links A [ edit ] ace : Serve where the tennis ball lands inside the service box and is not touched by the receiver; thus, a shot that is both a serve and a winner is an ace. Aces are usually powerful and generally land on or near one of the corners at the back of the service box. Initially the term was used to indicate the scoring of a point. [1] [2] action : Synonym of spin ad : Used by the chair umpire to announce the score when a player has the advantage , meaning they won the point immediately after a deuce . See scoring in tennis ad court : Left side of the court of each player, so called because the ad ( advantage ) point immediately follo...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about the Islamic holy day. For the traditional dessert, see Ashure . For other uses, see Ashura (disambiguation) . Ashura Ashura mourning in Imam Hossein Square , Tehran , 2016 Official name عاشوراء ʻĀshūrā’ (in Arabic) Also called Hosay Tabuik Tabot The Day of Atonement Observed by Muslims Type Islamic and national (In some countries such as Afghanistan , Azerbaijan , Bahrain , Iran , Lebanon , Pakistan , Bangladesh , Iraq , and India ) Significance Marks the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali according to Shia Islam; the day that Moses fasted as gratitude for the liberation of the Israelites according to Sunni Islam Observances Mourn and derive messages from Husayn's sacrifice (Shia Islam) Fasting (Sunni Islam) Date 10 Muharram 2017 date 1 October [1] 2018 date 20...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Finnish . (August 2010) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Finnish article. Google's machine translation is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary (using German...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search For other uses, see Waltzing Matilda (disambiguation) . "Waltzing Matilda" The original manuscript of "Waltzing Matilda", transcribed by Christina Macpherson ca. 1895 Song Written 1895 Published 1903 Genre Bush ballad Composer(s) Christina Macpherson (1895) Lyricist(s) Banjo Paterson " Waltzing Matilda " is Australia 's best-known bush ballad , and has been described as the country's "unofficial national anthem". [1] The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing) with one's belongings in a "matilda" ( swag ) slung over one's back. [2] The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker, or " swagman ", making a drink of billy tea at a bush camp and capturing a stray jumbuck (sheep) to eat. When the jumbuck's owner, a squatter (landowner), and three mounted polic...