A a, about, above, across, act, active, activity, add, afraid, after, again, age, ago, agree, air, all, alone, along, already, always, am, amount, an, and, angry ...

In Chaplinsky v.New Hampshire (1942), the Supreme Court held that speech is unprotected if it constitutes "fighting words". Fighting words, as defined by the Court, is speech that "tend[s] to incite an immediate breach of the peace" by provoking a fight, so long as it is a "personally abusive [word] which, when addressed to the ordinary citizen, is, as a matter of common …

The Normalcy bias, a form of cognitive dissonance, is the refusal to plan for, or react to, a disaster which has never happened before.; Effort justification is a person's tendency to attribute greater value to an outcome if they had to put effort into achieving it. This can result in more value being applied to an outcome than it actually has. An example of this is the IKEA effect, the ...

The zodiac is a belt-shaped region of the sky that extends approximately 8° north or south (as measured in celestial latitude) of the ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over the course of the year. The paths of the Moon and visible planets are within the belt of the zodiac.. In Western astrology, and formerly astronomy, the zodiac is divided into twelve …

This is a list of dictionaries considered authoritative or complete by approximate number of total words, or headwords, included.These figures do not take account of entries with senses for different word classes (such as noun and adjective) and homographs.Although it is possible to count the number of entries in a dictionary, it is not possible to count the number of words in a …

One rack unit (U) is 1.75 inches (44.45 mm) and is used to measure rack-mountable audiovisual, computing and industrial equipment. Rack units are typically denoted without a space between the number of units and the 'U'. Thus a 4U server enclosure (case) is seven inches (177.8 mm) high, or more practically, built to occupy a vertical space seven inches high, with sufficient clearance …

In classical music it is customary to describe the tempo of a piece by one or more words, most commonly in Italian, in addition to or instead of a metronome mark in beats per minute.Italian is typically used because it was the language of most composers during the time these descriptions became commonplace. Some well-known Italian tempo indications include "Allegro" (English …

Michael Cerularius (c. 1000–1059), Patriarch of Constantinople; John Chrysostom (347–407), Christian bishop and orator; Photios I of Constantinople (820–891), Patriarch of Constantinople and writer; Pope Evaristus (c. 98–105), fourth Pope; Pope Stephen I (254–257) Pope Agatho (678–681) Pope John VI (701–705) Pope John VII (706–709)

The earliest known alphabetic inscriptions, at Serabit el-Khadim (c. 1500 BC), appear to record a Northwest Semitic language, though only one or two words have been deciphered. In the Early Iron Age, alphabetic writing spread across the Near East and southern Europe.With the emergence of the Brahmic family of scripts, languages of India are attested from after about …

An image sensor or imager is a sensor that detects and conveys information used to make an image.It does so by converting the variable attenuation of light waves (as they pass through or reflect off objects) into signals, small bursts of current that convey the information. The waves can be light or other electromagnetic radiation.Image sensors are used in electronic imaging …