WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

    Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects : Commons. Free media repository. MediaWiki. Wiki software development. Meta-Wiki. Wikimedia project coordination. Wikibooks. Free textbooks and manuals.

  3. George Sand - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sand

    Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil [1] ( French: [amɑ̃tin lysil oʁɔʁ dypɛ̃]; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand ( French: [ʒɔʁʒ sɑ̃d] ), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. [2] [3] One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, [4] being more renowned than either ...

  4. QR code - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code

    The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3:1:1) in black ...

  5. English alphabet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet

    The most common diacritic marks seen in English publications are the acute (é), grave (è), circumflex (â, î, or ô), tilde (ñ), umlaut and Diaeresis (ü or ï—the same symbol is used for two different purposes), and cedilla (ç). [4] Diacritics used for tonal languages may be replaced with tonal numbers or omitted.

  6. Shiv Nadar University - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiv_Nadar_University

    Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence is a private deemed university located in Greater Noida, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. [1] [2] It was founded in 2011 as part of a series of initiatives launched by the Shiv Nadar Foundation, a private philanthropic foundation founded by Shiv Nadar, the founder and chairman of HCL. [3] [4] [5]

  7. Franz Liszt - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Liszt

    Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period.With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most prolific and influential composers of his era, and his piano works continue to be widely performed and recorded.

  8. English football league system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_football_league_system

    The English football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for men's association football clubs in England, with five teams from Wales, one from Guernsey, one from Jersey and one from the Isle of Man also competing. The system has a hierarchical format with promotion and relegation between ...

  9. Kangyur - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangyur

    Kangyur. The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a defined collection of sacred texts recognized by various schools of Tibetan Buddhism, comprising the Kangyur and the Tengyur. The Kangyur or Kanjur is Buddha's recorded teachings (or the 'Translation of the Word'), and the Tengyur or Tanjur is the commentaries by great masters on Buddha's teachings (or ...