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Saskatoon (/ˌ s æ s k ə ˈ t uː n / ) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It straddles a bend in the South Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province. It is l…

Netscape Communications Corporation (originally Mosaic Communications Corporation) was an American independent computer services company with headquarters in Mountain View, California, and then Dul…

Melanesia (UK: /ˌ m ɛ l ə ˈ n iː z i ə / , US: /ˌ m ɛ l ə ˈ n iː ʒ ə / ) is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It extends from New Guinea in the west to the Fiji Islands in t…

The Bolsheviks (Russian: большевики , bol'sheviki ; from большинство, bol'shinstvo , 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party…

Tasmania (/t æ z ˈ m eɪ n i ə / ; palawa kani: Lutruwita) is an island state of Australia. It is located 240 kilometres (150 miles) to the south of the Australian mainland, and is separated from it…

Comic Market(コミックマーケット , Komikku Māketto ) , more commonly known as Comiket(コミケット , Komiketto ) or Comike(コミケ , Komike ) , is a semiannual doujinshi convention in Tokyo, Japan. A grassroots market …

In chemistry, solubility is the ability of a substance, the solute, to form a solution with another substance, the solvent. Insolubility is the opposite property, the inability of the solute to for…

Typesetting is the composition of text for publication, display, or distribution by means of arranging physical type (or sort) in mechanical systems or glyphs in digital systems representing charac…

A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk data processing for tasks such as censuses, …

The Independent Media Center, better known as Indymedia, is an open publishing network of activist journalist collectives that report on political and social issues. Following beginnings during the…