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A pseudonym (/ ˈ sj uː d ə n ɪ m /; from Ancient Greek ψευδώνυμος (pseudṓnumos) 'lit. falsely named') or alias (/ ˈ eɪ l i. ə s /) is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true meaning ().
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Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev [a] (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer. Nureyev is widely regarded as the preeminent male ballet dancer of his generation as well as one of the greatest ballet dancers of all time.
Peter the Great. Peter I "the Great", first Russian emperor, polymath craftsman and inventor, modernized Russian Army and westernized culture, won the Great Northern War, founded the Russian Navy and the new capital Saint Petersburg; Catherine I, first Russian empress; Elizabeth, "the Merry Empress" during the era of high Baroque
Nureyev, Nureev, Nuriyev, or Nuriev (Russian: Нуреев, Tatar: Нуриев, Bashkir: Нуриев) is a Russianized Muslim masculine family name meaning "light". Its feminine counterpart is Nureyeva, Nureeva, Nuriyeva, or Nurieva. It may refer to: Aydar Nuriev (born 1994), Russian racing driver
Nureyev was bisexual, and despite how being bisexual or gay was technically illegal in the USSR/CCCP, there were many bisexual and gay men who were open or basically out for the time as being bisexual or gay-Tchaikovsky was one-in the arts and ordinary citizens who lived openly as bisexual and gay men and they were not imprisoned, sent to GULAG ...
In computing, the alias method is a family of efficient algorithms for sampling from a discrete probability distribution, published in 1974 by Alastair J. Walker. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] That is, it returns integer values 1 ≤ i ≤ n according to some arbitrary discrete probability distribution p i .
The defining words generate a subgroup of that is variously called the alias subgroup, [34] the defining contrast subgroup, [38] or simply the defining subgroup of the fraction. Each element of H {\displaystyle \mathbb {H} } is a defining word since it corresponds to a defining equation, as one can show. [ 39 ]