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...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Monsoon rains upon the high plains of the American West . Rain follows the plow is the conventional name for a now-discredited theory of climatology that was popular throughout the American West and Australia during the late 19th century. The phrase was employed as a summation of the theory by Charles Dana Wilber : God speed the plow.... By this wonderful provision, which is only man's mastery over nature, the clouds are dispensing copious rains ... [the plow] is the instrument which separates civilization from savagery; and converts a desert into a farm or garden.... To be more concise, Rain follows the plow . [1] The basic premise of the theory was that human habitation and agriculture through homesteading effected a permanent change in the climate of arid and semi-arid regions,...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Coordinates : 37°57′21.59″N 126°40′21.33″E  /  37.9559972°N 126.6725917°E  / 37.9559972; 126.6725917 Korean axe murder incident Part of Post-armistice Korean conflicts Remains of the tree that was the object of the 1976 axe murder incident, taken in 1984. Deliberately left standing after Operation Paul Bunyan , the stump was replaced by a monument in 1987. Date August 18, 1976 Location Joint Security Area , Korean Demilitarized Zone , Korean Peninsula Result Operation Paul Bunyan Further conflict averted DEFCON 3 temporarily declared Removal of poplar tree Belligerents United States South Korea North Korea Casualties and losses 2 killed Arthur Bonifas Mark Barrett Others wounded One Poplar tree v t e Division of Korea Post- armistice conflicts Border Incidents DMZ con...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search "Wrath of God" redirects here. For the 1972 film by Werner Herzog, see Aguirre, the Wrath of God . For the 1972 western, the last film of Rita Hayworth, see The Wrath of God . For the theological concept, see Divine retribution . Operation "Wrath of God" ( Hebrew : מבצע זעם האל ‎ Mivtza Za'am Ha'el ), also known as Operation "Bayonet" , [1] was a covert operation directed by the Mossad to assassinate individuals involved in the 1972 Munich massacre in which 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were killed. The targets were members of the Palestinian armed militant group Black September and operatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Authorized by Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the autumn of 1972, the operation is believed to have continued for over twenty...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about the 1972 massacre. For the 1980 bombing, see Oktoberfest bombing . For the 2016 mass shooting, see 2016 Munich shooting . 1972 Munich Massacre One of the most reproduced photos taken during the siege captured a kidnapper on the balcony attached to Munich Olympic village Building 31, where members of the Israeli Olympic team and delegation were quartered. [1] [2] Munich Location Munich , West Germany Coordinates 48°10′47″N 11°32′57″E  /  48.17972°N 11.54917°E  / 48.17972; 11.54917 Coordinates : 48°10′47″N 11°32′57″E  /  48.17972°N 11.54917°E  / 48.17972; 11.54917 Date 5–6 September 1972 4:31 am – 12:04 am ( UTC +1) Target Israeli Olympic team Attack type Hostage-taking Mass murder Massacre Deaths 17 total (including perpetrators) 6 Israeli coach...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article relies too much on references to primary sources . Please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . (July 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) Some fruit juices and fruits can inhibit enzymes that absorb and metabolize medications. Some fruit juices and fruits can interact with numerous drugs, in many cases causing adverse effects . [1] The effect was first discovered by accident, when a test of drug interactions with alcohol used grapefruit juice to hide the taste of the ethanol. [2] It is still best-studied with grapefruit and grapefruit juice , [1] but similar effects have more recently been seen with some (not all) other citrus fruits . [1] [3] [4] [5] [6] One medical review advises patients to avoid all citrus juices un...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Da Hong Pao Type Oolong Origin Wuyi Mountains , Fujian Province , China Quick description Most famous of the Wuyi Rock Teas Da Hong Pao Traditional Chinese 大 紅 袍 Simplified Chinese 大 红 袍 Literal meaning Big Red Robe Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Dà Hóng Páo Wade–Giles Ta4 Hung2 P'ao2 IPA [tâ.xʊ̌ŋ.pʰǎu] Da Hong Pao (Big Red Robe) is a Wuyi rock tea grown in the Wuyi Mountains . It is a heavily oxidized, dark oolong tea. According to legend, the mother of a Ming dynasty emperor was cured of an illness by a certain tea, and that emperor sent great red robes to clothe the four bushes from which that batch of tea originated. Six of the original bushes, [ not in citation given ] growing on a r...

CentralNotice Kobayashi Maru From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article is about the fictional Star Trek exercise. For the 1914 historical incident, see Komagata Maru incident . For other uses, see Kobayashi Maru (disambiguation) . This Star Trek -related article describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in-universe style . Please help rewrite it to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective . (April 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) William Shatner portraying Captain James T. Kirk , the first person able to defeat the Kobayashi Maru test The Kobayashi Maru is a training exercise in the fictional Star Trek universe designed to test the character of Starfleet Academy cadets in a no-win scenario . The Kobayashi Maru test was first depicted in the openi...

CentralNotice Silence From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Silence Before first ascent, the route was known as Project Hard Adam Ondra at the second crux of Silence , in 2017 Location Flatanger ( Norway ) Route Type Sport climb Vertical Gain 45 metres (148 ft) Pitches 1 Rating 9c (5.15d) Route Setter Adam Ondra First free ascent Adam Ondra , September 3, 2017 Silence (formerly known as Project Hard ) [1] is a famously difficult route located in Flatanger ( Norway ). As of november 2017, it is considered to be the hardest route ever climbed, and the world's only route with a proposed rating of 9c (5.15d). It was bolted in 2012 or 2013 [2] by Adam Ondra , who first ascended it in September 3, 2017. Ondra described it as "much harder than anything else" he had previously done, and cautiously suggested the...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search For other uses, see Buckethead (disambiguation) . Buckethead Buckethead performing in 2008. Background information Birth name Brian Patrick Carroll Also known as Buckethead Born ( 1969-05-13 ) May 13, 1969 (age 48) [1] Pomona, California Genres Heavy metal progressive metal funk metal avant-garde metal instrumental rock experimental rock ambient Instruments Guitar bass banjo keyboards Years active 1987–present Labels TDRS Music Hatboxghost Music Bucketheadland Avant Day Eight Music Sony Music Entertainment CyberOctave Sub Meta Metastation City Hall Stray Gonervill Catalyst Entertainment Ion Disembodied Tzadik Avabella Productions Serjical Strike Associated acts Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains Guns N' Roses Praxis Serj Tanki...

CentralNotice The Beginning Was the End From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search The Beginning Was the End The cover of the UK First Edition of The Beginning Was the End . This particular copy has been signed by three members of Devo . Author Oscar Kiss Maerth Original title Der Anfang war das Ende – Der Mensch entstand durch Kannibalismus Translator Judith Hayward Country West Germany Language German (later translated into English) Genre Pseudoscience Publication date West Germany: 1971 United Kingdom/United States: January 1, 1974 Media type Hardcover ISBN 0-7221-5712-6 The Beginning Was the End is a 1971 pseudo-scientific book written by Oscar Kiss Maerth that claims that humankind evolved from cannibalistic apes. Its premise: One ape discovered that eating the fresh brain of one's own kind incre...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Cyclomatic complexity is a software metric , used to indicate the complexity of a program. It is a quantitative measure of the number of linearly independent paths through a program's source code . It was developed by Thomas J. McCabe, Sr. in 1976. Cyclomatic complexity is computed using the control flow graph of the program: the nodes of the graph correspond to indivisible groups of commands of a program, and a directed edge connects two nodes if the second command might be executed immediately after the first command. Cyclomatic complexity may also be applied to individual functions , modules , methods or classes within a program. One testing strategy, called basis path testing by McCabe who first proposed it, is to test each linearly independent path through the program; in this case, th...

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