Afrika Islam, born Charles Glenn, and known also as the Son of Bambaataa, is a hip-hop producer. He left New York for Los Angeles and went on to co-produce most of Ice T's early albums, namely Rhyme Pays and Power (Ice T album); the latter ...

Altenberg may refer to: Peter Altenberg, an Austrian writer and poet Vieille Montagne (German name "Altenberg"), a former zinc mine in Kelmis Altenberg, Germany, a city in the Free State of Saxony, Germany Moresnet, Altenberg was the Prussi...

The Apple Newton, or simply Newton, is an early line of personal digital assistants developed and marketed by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) from 1993 to 1998. Some electronic engineering and the manufacture of the Newton was done in Japan...

Almost every April Fools' Day (1 April) since 1989, the Internet Engineering Task Force has published one or more humorous RFC documents, following in the path blazed by the June 1973 RFC 527 entitled ARPAWOCKY. The following list also incl...

Alfons Maria Jakob (born July 2, 1884, Aschaffenburg/Bavaria; died October 17, 1931, Hamburg) was a German neurologist with important contributions on neuropathology. Alfons Maria Jakob was the son of a shopkeeper. He studied medicine in Mu...

We declare war with the wages system, which demoralizes alike the hirer and the hired, cheats both, and enslaves the workingman. It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient...

Chemical element, chemical symbol Ar, atomic number 18. Colourless, odourless, and tasteless, it is the most abundant of the noble gases on Earth and the one most used in industry. It constitutes about 1% of air and is obtained by d...

Antimony is the fourth element in Group 15 of the periodic table. Its atomic number is 51, its atomic mass is 121.75, and its chemical symbol is Sb. Antimony is a metalloid. It exists in three allotropic forms: a silvery white metal; a ye...

Synthetic radioactive chemical element, chemical symbol Am, atomic number 95. The fourth transuranium element discovered, it was first produced in 1944 from plutonium-239 in a nuclear reactor. The isotope americium-241 has been prepared in...

smallest unit into which matter can be divided without the release of electrically charged particles. It also is the smallest unit of matter that has the characteristic properties of a chemical element. As such, the atom is the basic build...

Metallic chemical element, chemical symbol Al, atomic number 13. A lightweight, silvery white metal, it is so reactive chemically that it always occurs in compounds. It is the most abundant metallic element in Earth's crust, chiefly in bau...

Abdication (from the Latin abdicatio, disowning, renouncing, from ab, away from, and dicare, to declare, to proclaim as not belonging to one) is the act of renouncing and resigning from a formal office, especially from the supreme office of...

Arne Kaijser (born 1950) is a professor of History of Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and the head of the university's department of History of science and technology. Kaijser has published two books in Swedish...

It is difficult to imagine the shape which detective fiction might have taken had it not been for the creation by Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle took a form of fiction which had become popular through the works of his p...

Used affectionately to a woman of any age. The ‘old’ refers to friendly familiarity. In The Dream of Fair Women, by Henry Williamson, it is used by an English army officer to his young wife. In The Needle, by Francis King, a br...

In psychology, a feeling of dread, fear, or apprehension, often with no clear justification. Anxiety differs from true fear in that it is typically the product of subjective, internal emotional states rather than a response to a clear and ...

Alumni Athletic Club, usually just Alumni, is a rugby union and former football (soccer) sports club from the Belgrano district of Buenos Aires in Argentina. The club was founded in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School. The ...

In mathematics or logic, an unprovable rule or first principle accepted as true because it is self-evident or particularly useful (e.g., “Nothing can both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect”). The term is of...

Alvin Toffler, the most popular futurist in America, became a celebrity in the 1960s and 1970s for his predictions and suggestions for ways people could cope with the unprecedented rate of change initiated by new technologies. With the pub...

Archie is a given name of English origin. It is a popular diminutive of Archibald, meaning true, bold, and valuable. In fiction:...

Automated Alice is a fantastical book by British author Jeff Noon, first published in 1996. The book follows Alice's travels to a future Manchester city populated by Newmonians, Civil Serpents and a vanishing cat. The book was written as bo...

For other uses of Agincourt, see Agincourt. Coordinates: 50°27′50″N, 2°7′43″E Azincourt (historically, Agincourt in English) is a village commune of France, situated in the Pas-de-Calais département and in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais ...

The Alliaceae or onion family was once included in the monocot family Liliaceae, but is now recognized by many as a separate plant family. The family includes herbaceous (nonwoody) monocot plants that are generally perennial but not evergr...

The Apiaceae or Umbelliferae (both names are allowed by the ICBN) is a family of usually aromatic plants with hollow stems. It includes cumin, parsley, carrot, dill, caraway, fennel, and other relatives. It is a large family with about 300 ...