# A stroll through Wikipedia **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 7, 2019, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stroll-through-wikipedia/830660 "2019-03-07T00:17:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
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> **[Rosetta Stone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > The Rosetta Stone is a stele composed of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in Memphis, Egypt, in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes. The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts respectively, while the bottom is in Ancient Greek. The decree has only minor differences between the three versions, making the Rosetta Stone key to deciphering ... > **[British Museum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}51°31′10″N 0°7′37″W / 51.51944°N 0.12694°W / 51.51944; -0.12694 > The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area... > **[Mildenhall Treasure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildenhall_Treasure)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > The Mildenhall Treasure is a large hoard of 34 masterpieces of Roman silver tableware from the fourth century AD, and by far the most valuable Roman objects artistically and by weight of bullion in Britain. It was found at West Row, near Mildenhall, Suffolk, in 1942. It consists of over thirty items and includes the Great Dish which weighs over 8 kg (18 lb). > The collection is on view in the British Museum because of its immense importance and val... ---
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> **[Mildenhall Treasure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildenhall_Treasure)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > The Mildenhall Treasure is a large hoard of 34 masterpieces of Roman silver tableware from the fourth century AD, and by far the most valuable Roman objects artistically and by weight of bullion in Britain. It was found at West Row, near Mildenhall, Suffolk, in 1942. It consists of over thirty items and includes the Great Dish which weighs over 8 kg (18 lb). > The collection is on view in the British Museum because of its immense importance and val... > **[Traprain Law](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traprain_Law#Traprain_Treasure)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}55°57′47″N 2°40′21″W / 55.96306°N 2.67250°W / 55.96306; -2.67250 > Traprain Law is a hill 6 km (4 mi) east of Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland. It is the site of a hill fort o... > **[Hadrian's Wall](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Wall)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Aelium), also known as the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Hadriani in Latin, is a former defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. Running from Wallsend on the River Tyne in the east to Bowness-on-Solway in the west of what is now northern England, it was a stone wall with large ditches in front of it and behind it that crossed the whole width... ---
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> **[Hadrian's Wall](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian's_Wall)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Aelium), also known as the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Hadriani in Latin, is a former defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. Running from Wallsend on the River Tyne in the east to Bowness-on-Solway in the west of what is now northern England, it was a stone wall with large ditches in front of it and behind it that crossed the whole width... > **[Roman Britain](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Britain)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > Roman Britain was the period in classical antiquity when large parts of the island of Great Britain were under occupation by the Roman Empire. The occupation lasted from AD 43 to AD 410. During that time, the territory conquered was raised to the status of a Roman province. > Julius Caesar invaded Britain in 55 and 54 BC as part of his Gallic Wars. According to Caesar, the Britons had been overrun or culturally assimilated by Belgic tribes during ... > **[Julius Caesar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > Gaius Julius Caesar (/ˈsiːzər/; Latin: \[ˈɡaːiʊs ˈjuːliʊs ˈkae̯sar\]; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and subsequently became dictator from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the r... ---
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> **[Julius Caesar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > Gaius Julius Caesar (/ˈsiːzər/; Latin: \[ˈɡaːiʊs ˈjuːliʊs ˈkae̯sar\]; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and subsequently became dictator from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the r... > **[Flamen Dialis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamen_Dialis)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > In ancient Roman religion, the flamen Dialis was the high priest of Jupiter. The term Dialis is related to Diespiter, an Old Latin form of the name Jupiter. There were 15 flamines, of whom three were flamines maiores, serving the three gods of the Archaic Triad. According to tradition the flamines were forbidden to touch metal, ride a horse, or see a corpse. The Flamen Dialis was officially ranked second in the ranking of the highest Roman priests (... > **[Pontifex maximus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifex_maximus)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > The pontifex maximus (Latin for "supreme pontiff") was the chief high priest of the College of Pontiffs (Collegium Pontificum) in ancient Rome. This was the most important position in the ancient Roman religion, open only to patricians until 254 BC, when a plebeian first occupied this post. Although in fact the most powerful office in the Roman priesthood, the pontifex maximus was officially ranked fifth in the ranking of the highest Roman priests... ---
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> **[Pontifex maximus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifex_maximus)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > The pontifex maximus (Latin for "supreme pontiff") was the chief high priest of the College of Pontiffs (Collegium Pontificum) in ancient Rome. This was the most important position in the ancient Roman religion, open only to patricians until 254 BC, when a plebeian first occupied this post. Although in fact the most powerful office in the Roman priesthood, the pontifex maximus was officially ranked fifth in the ranking of the highest Roman priests... > **[Pope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > The pope (Latin: papa, from Greek: πάππας, romanized: pappas, lit. 'father'), also known as supreme pontiff (pontifex maximus or summus pontifex), Roman pontiff (Romanus pontifex) or sovereign pontiff, is the bishop of Rome (or historically the patriarch of Rome), head of the worldwide Catholic Church, and has also served as the head of state or sovereign of the Papal States and later the Vatican City State since the eighth century. From a Cathol... > **[Pope Francis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > God > > Schools ETA: Don’t know why it shows only those four words under the last link. ---
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> **[Pope Francis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > God > > Schools > **[Buenos Aires](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > Buenos Aires (/ˌbweɪnəs ˈɛəriːz/ or /-ˈaɪrɪs/; Spanish pronunciation: \[ˈbwenos ˈajɾes\] (listen)), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (Spanish: Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South America's southeastern coast. "Buenos Aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the former was the meaning intended by the ... > **[Tango](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries as the result of a combination of Rioplatense Candombe celebrations, Spanish-Cuban Habanera, and Argentine Milonga. The tango was frequently practiced in the brothels and bars of ports, where business owners employed bands to entertain ... ---
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> **[Tango](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries as the result of a combination of Rioplatense Candombe celebrations, Spanish-Cuban Habanera, and Argentine Milonga. The tango was frequently practiced in the brothels and bars of ports, where business owners employed bands to entertain ... > **[Rock and roll](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock 'n' roll, or rock 'n roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.\[page needed\] It originated from African-American music such as jazz, rhythm and blues, boogie woogie, gospel, jump blues, as well as country music. While rock and roll's formative elements can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s, th... > **[Civil rights movement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > > 1954–1959 > 1960–1963 ---
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> **[Civil rights movement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > > 1954–1959 > 1960–1963 > **[Amos T. Akerman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_T._Akerman)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > Amos Tappan Akerman (February 23, 1821 – December 21, 1880) was an American politician who served as United States Attorney General under President Ulysses S. Grant from 1870 to 1871. A native of New Hampshire, Akerman graduated from Dartmouth College in 1842 and moved South, where he spent most of his career. He first worked as headmaster of a school in North Carolina and as a tutor in Georgia. Having become interested in law, Akerman studied and... > **[Robert Toombs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Toombs)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > Robert Augustus Toombs (July 2, 1810 – December 15, 1885) was an American politician from Georgia, who was an important figure in the formation of the Confederacy. From a privileged background as a wealthy planter and slaveholder, Toombs embarked on a political career marked by effective oratory, although he also acquired a reputation for hard living, disheveled appearance, and irascibility. He was identified with Alexander H. Stephens's libertar... ---
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> **[Robert Toombs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Toombs)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > Robert Augustus Toombs (July 2, 1810 – December 15, 1885) was an American politician from Georgia, who was an important figure in the formation of the Confederacy. From a privileged background as a wealthy planter and slaveholder, Toombs embarked on a political career marked by effective oratory, although he also acquired a reputation for hard living, disheveled appearance, and irascibility. He was identified with Alexander H. Stephens's libertar... > **[Chattahoochee River](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattahoochee_River)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > The Chattahoochee River forms the southern half of the Alabama and Georgia border, as well as a portion of the Florida and Georgia border. It is a tributary of the Apalachicola River, a relatively short river formed by the confluence of the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers and emptying from Florida into Apalachicola Bay in the Gulf of Mexico. The Chattahoochee River is about 430 miles (690 km) long. The Chattahoochee, Flint, and Apalachicola rivers to... > **[Appalachian Trail](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Trail)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > The Appalachian Trail (also called the A.T.), is a hiking trail in the Eastern United States, extending almost 2,200 miles (3,540 km) between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine, and passing through 14 states. The Appalachian Trail Conservancy claims the Appalachian Trail to be the longest hiking-only trail in the world. More than three million people hike segments of the trail each year. > The trail was first proposed in 1921... ---
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> **[Appalachian Trail](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Trail)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > The Appalachian Trail (also called the A.T.), is a hiking trail in the Eastern United States, extending almost 2,200 miles (3,540 km) between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine, and passing through 14 states. The Appalachian Trail Conservancy claims the Appalachian Trail to be the longest hiking-only trail in the world. More than three million people hike segments of the trail each year. > The trail was first proposed in 1921... > **[Bill Bryson](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bryson)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > William McGuire Bryson OBE HonFRS (/ˈbraɪsən/; born 8 December 1951) is an American–British journalist and author. Bryson has written a number of nonfiction books on topics including travel, the English language, and science. Born in the United States, he has been a resident of Britain for most of his adult life, returning to the U.S. between 1995 and 2003, and holds dual American and British citizenship. He served as the chancellor of Durham Univ... > **[British nationality law](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nationality_law)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > British nationality law prescribes the conditions under which a person is recognised as being a national of the United Kingdom. The six different classes of British nationality each have varying degrees of civil and political rights, due to the UK's historical status as a colonial empire. The primary class of British nationality is British citizenship, which is associated with the United Kingdom itself and the Crown dependencies. Foreign national... ---
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> **[British nationality law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nationality_law)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > British nationality law prescribes the conditions under which a person is recognised as being a national of the United Kingdom. The six different classes of British nationality each have varying degrees of civil and political rights, due to the UK's historical status as a colonial empire. The primary class of British nationality is British citizenship, which is associated with the United Kingdom itself and the Crown dependencies. Foreign national... > **[Statelessness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > In international law, a stateless person is someone who is "not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law". Some stateless people are also refugees. However, not all refugees are stateless, and many people who are stateless have never crossed an international border. On November 12, 2018, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees stated there are about 12 million stateless people in the world. > Conflicting nation... > **[Mehran Karimi Nasseri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > Mehran Karimi Nasseri (Persian: مهران کریمی ناصری, pronounced \[mehˈrɒn kæriˈmi nɒseˈri\]; 1945 – 12 November 2022), also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran, was an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal 1 in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 26 August 1988 until July 2006, when he was hospitalized. His autobiography was published as a book, The Terminal Man, in 2004. Nasseri's story inspired the 1993 film Lost in Transit and the 2004 f... ---
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> **[Mehran Karimi Nasseri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > Mehran Karimi Nasseri (Persian: مهران کریمی ناصری, pronounced \[mehˈrɒn kæriˈmi nɒseˈri\]; 1945 – 12 November 2022), also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran, was an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal 1 in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 26 August 1988 until July 2006, when he was hospitalized. His autobiography was published as a book, The Terminal Man, in 2004. Nasseri's story inspired the 1993 film Lost in Transit and the 2004 f... > **[The Terminal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > The Terminal is a 2004 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Stanley Tucci. The film is about an Eastern European man who is stuck in New York's John F. Kennedy Airport terminal when he is denied entry to the United States and at the same time is unable to return to his native country because of a military coup. > The film is partially inspired by the true story of the 1... > **[John Williams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > > John Towner Williams KBE (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor and pianist. In a career that has spanned seven decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history. Williams has won 25 Grammy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, five Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. With 53 Academy Award nominations, he is the second most-nominated individ... ---
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> **[John Williams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > > John Towner Williams KBE (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor and pianist. In a career that has spanned seven decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history. Williams has won 25 Grammy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, five Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. With 53 Academy Award nominations, he is the second most-nominated individ... > **[Air and Simple Gifts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_and_Simple_Gifts)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Air and Simple Gifts is a quartet composed and arranged by American composer John Williams for the January 20, 2009, inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. The first public performance of the piece was in Washington, D.C., immediately prior to Obama taking the oath of office, when musicians Anthony McGill (clarinet), Itzhak Perlman (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) and Gabriela Montero (piano) synced their performance to a... > **[First inauguration of Barack Obama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Barack_Obama)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > The first inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States took place on Tuesday, January 20, 2009, at the West Front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. The 56th inauguration, which set a record attendance for any event held in the city, marked the commencement of the first term of Barack Obama as president and Joe Biden as vice president. Based on combined attendance numbers, television viewership, and Interne... ---
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> **[First inauguration of Barack Obama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Barack_Obama)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > The first inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States took place on Tuesday, January 20, 2009, at the West Front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. The 56th inauguration, which set a record attendance for any event held in the city, marked the commencement of the first term of Barack Obama as president and Joe Biden as vice president. Based on combined attendance numbers, television viewership, and Interne... > **[John Roberts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roberts)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > > John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as the 17th chief justice of the United States since 2005. Roberts has authored the majority opinion in several landmark cases, including National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, Shelby County v. Holder, and Riley v. California. He has been described as having a conservative judicial philosophy but, above all, is an institutionalist. H... > **[Chief Justice of the United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > The chief justice of the United States is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and the highest-ranking officer of the U.S. federal judiciary. Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution grants plenary power to the president of the United States to nominate, and with the advice and consent of the United States Senate, appoint "Judges of the supreme Court", who serve until they resign, retire, are impeached and co... ---
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> **[Chief Justice of the United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > The chief justice of the United States is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and the highest-ranking officer of the U.S. federal judiciary. Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution grants plenary power to the president of the United States to nominate, and with the advice and consent of the United States Senate, appoint "Judges of the supreme Court", who serve until they resign, retire, are impeached and co... > **[William Rehnquist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rehnquist)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > William Hubbs Rehnquist (/ˈrɛnkwɪst/ REN-kwist; October 1, 1924 – September 3, 2005) was an American attorney and jurist who served on the U.S. Supreme Court for 33 years, first as an associate justice from 1972 to 1986 and then as the 16th chief justice from 1986 until his death in 2005. Considered a staunch conservative, Rehnquist favored a conception of federalism that emphasized the Tenth Amendment's reservation of powers to the states. Under ... > **[Precedent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stare_decisis)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > A precedent is a principle or rule established in a previous legal case that is either binding on or persuasive for a court or other tribunal when deciding subsequent cases with similar issues or facts. Common-law legal systems place great value on deciding cases according to consistent principled rules, so that similar facts will yield similar and predictable outcomes, and observance of precedent is the mechanism by which that goal is attained. Th... ---
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> **[Precedent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stare_decisis)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > A precedent is a principle or rule established in a previous legal case that is either binding on or persuasive for a court or other tribunal when deciding subsequent cases with similar issues or facts. Common-law legal systems place great value on deciding cases according to consistent principled rules, so that similar facts will yield similar and predictable outcomes, and observance of precedent is the mechanism by which that goal is attained. Th... > **[Network theory](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_theory)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > In mathematics, computer science and network science, the network theory is a part of the graph theory. It defines networks as graphs whose the nodes or edges possess attributes (e.g. names). Network theory analyses these networks over the symmetric relations or asymmetric relations between their (discrete) components. > Network theory has applications in many disciplines including statistical physics, particle physics, computer science, electrical e... > **[Seven Bridges of Königsberg](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > The Seven Bridges of Königsberg is a historically notable problem in mathematics. Its negative resolution by Leonhard Euler in 1736 laid the foundations of graph theory and prefigured the idea of topology. > The city of Königsberg in Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) was set on both sides of the Pregel River, and included two large islands—Kneiphof and Lomse—which were connected to each other, and to the two mainland portions of the city, by seven ... ---
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> **[Seven Bridges of Königsberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > The Seven Bridges of Königsberg is a historically notable problem in mathematics. Its negative resolution by Leonhard Euler in 1736 laid the foundations of graph theory and prefigured the idea of topology. > The city of Königsberg in Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) was set on both sides of the Pregel River, and included two large islands—Kneiphof and Lomse—which were connected to each other, and to the two mainland portions of the city, by seven ... > **[Topology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > In mathematics, topology (from the Greek words τόπος, 'place, location' and λόγος, 'study') concerns with the properties of a geometric object that are preserved under continuous deformations, such as stretching, twisting, crumpling, and bending; that is, without closing holes, opening holes, tearing, gluing, or passing through itself. > A topological space is a set endowed with a structure, called a topology, which allows defining continuous defor... > **[Disentanglement puzzle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disentanglement_puzzle)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Disentanglement puzzles (also called entanglement puzzles, tanglement puzzles, tavern puzzles or topological puzzles) are a type or group of mechanical puzzle that involves disentangling one piece or set of pieces from another piece or set of pieces. Several subtypes are included under this category, the names of which are sometimes used synonymously for the group: wire puzzles; nail puzzles; ring-and-string puzzles; et al. Although the initial ob... ---
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> **[Disentanglement puzzle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disentanglement_puzzle)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Disentanglement puzzles (also called entanglement puzzles, tanglement puzzles, tavern puzzles or topological puzzles) are a type or group of mechanical puzzle that involves disentangling one piece or set of pieces from another piece or set of pieces. Several subtypes are included under this category, the names of which are sometimes used synonymously for the group: wire puzzles; nail puzzles; ring-and-string puzzles; et al. Although the initial ob... > **[Horseshoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > A horseshoe is a fabricated product designed to protect a horse hoof from wear. Shoes are attached on the palmar surface (ground side) of the hooves, usually nailed through the insensitive hoof wall that is anatomically akin to the human toenail, although much larger and thicker. However, there are also cases where shoes are glued. > Horseshoes are available in a wide variety of materials and styles, developed for different types of horse and for... > **[Iron in folklore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_in_folklore)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Iron has a long and varied tradition in the mythology and folklore of the world. > While iron is now the name of a chemical element, the traditional meaning of the word "iron" is what is now called wrought iron. In East Asia, cast iron was also common after 500 BCE, and was called "cooked iron", with wrought iron being called "raw iron" (in Europe, cast iron remained very rare until it was used for cannonballs in the 14th century). At the end of the... ---
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> **[Iron in folklore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_in_folklore)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Iron has a long and varied tradition in the mythology and folklore of the world. > While iron is now the name of a chemical element, the traditional meaning of the word "iron" is what is now called wrought iron. In East Asia, cast iron was also common after 500 BCE, and was called "cooked iron", with wrought iron being called "raw iron" (in Europe, cast iron remained very rare until it was used for cannonballs in the 14th century). At the end of the... > **[Rudyard Kipling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ˈrʌdjərd/ RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. > Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology (The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems inclu... > **[Naulakha (Rudyard Kipling House)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naulakha_(Rudyard_Kipling_House))** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Naulakha, also known as the Rudyard Kipling House, is a historic Shingle Style house on Kipling Road in Dummerston, Vermont, a few miles outside Brattleboro. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993 for its association with the author Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who had it built in 1893 and made it his home until 1896. It is in this house that Kipling wrote Captains Courageous, The Jungle Book, The Day's Work, and The Seven S... And I’ve stayed there! Beautiful house and surroundings. ---
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