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558902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%20Hopkins | Budd Hopkins | Elliot Budd Hopkins (June 15, 1931 – August 21, 2011) was an American artist, author, and ufologist. He was a prominent figure in alien abduction phenomena and related UFO research.
Early life
Elliot Budd Hopkins was born in 1931. He was raised in Wheeling, West Virginia. He lived with his parents, Elliot B. Hopkins a... | 2.5625 | 0 |
558902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%20Hopkins | Budd Hopkins | In 1969, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art acquired Hopkin's Norbeck Yellow Vertical, describing him as "a leading American painter who has successfully brought together the vocabularies of painterly abstraction and hard edge painting." In 1972, Hopkins was among five artists whose work was commissioned as part of... | 2.21875 | 0 |
558902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%20Hopkins | Budd Hopkins | Hopkins viewed collage as an artistic technique and a philosophical, aesthetic means of unifying a disjointed and fragmented world. He saw collage, the assemblage of fragments and varying points of view, in the poetry, painting, sculpture, music, architecture, and, especially, motion pictures of his day:"Consciously or... | 2.53125 | 0 |
558902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%20Hopkins | Budd Hopkins | Interest in UFOs
As a child, Hopkins experienced, firsthand, Orson Welles' 1938 radio play The War of the Worlds. This both terrified Hopkins and his family and left psychic scars. He considered the radio play a dramatic, theatrical hoax and, because of his childhood scare, felt it added to his skepticism about alien ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
558902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%20Hopkins | Budd Hopkins | Behavioral patterns extrapolated from abductee letters led Hopkins to identify core emotional responses based on their experiences: fear, awe or wonderment at alien technological abilities, affection toward their captors (which he likened to the "Patty Hearst" syndrome), anger, and helplessness. He believed aliens were... | 2.671875 | 0 |
558902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%20Hopkins | Budd Hopkins | While both men and women reported to Hopkins abductions by aliens that included sexual encounters, allegedly for some form of extraterrestrial eugenics, women in particular seemed to be a part of a "highly technological colonization scheme." These victims were, reportedly, taken to spaceships, impregnated by extraterre... | 2.140625 | 0 |
558902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%20Hopkins | Budd Hopkins | Sleep paralysis, for example, can produce the feeling that one is paralyzed or has difficulty moving. It can also produce the effect of floating or the sense of an out-of-body experience. Sleep paralysis occurs in a transition time and the person is in a dream-like state, hallucinations can occur just before falling as... | 2.140625 | 0 |
558902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%20Hopkins | Budd Hopkins | Hopkins met and encouraged self-proclaimed abductees to discuss their experiences by holding free monthly group therapy sessions. Groups such as this were reported at the time as the most recent development in UFO-mania. Attendees represented people from all walks of life: attorneys, police officers, teachers, airline ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
558902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%20Hopkins | Budd Hopkins | Although Hopkins had no formal psychological training, he watched other professionals over an eight-year period and developed his own techniques. In his opinion, these professionals, notably Robert Naiman, Aphrodite Clamar, and Girard Franklin were quite skeptical of the reality of abduction claims, yet all uncovered d... | 2.15625 | 0 |
558902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%20Hopkins | Budd Hopkins | The idea of repressed memories has, largely, been dismissed by the scientific community. Psychological research demonstrates that, rather than forget what has happened in a traumatic event, most people find they are unable to stop thinking about it. What concerns critics is that the details of UFO abduction stories, su... | 2.203125 | 0 |
558902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd%20Hopkins | Budd Hopkins | The lack of physical evidence and the inconsistencies and implausibility of the alien abduction stories led some critics, including Carl Sagan and author Jodi Dean, to question whether these memories are the product of internal, rather than external experiences.
Criticism
Critics of Hopkins' position that on alien abd... | 2.03125 | 0 |
558923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Hopkins | Frank Hopkins | Frank T. Hopkins (August 11, 1865 unsubstantiated – November 5, 1951) was a self-proclaimed professional horseman who at one time performed with the Ringling Brothers Circus. He was a long-distance rider who claimed to have won 400 races and was recognized by his contemporaries as supporting the preservation of the mus... | 2.3125 | 0 |
558923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Hopkins | Frank Hopkins | A number of his stories have been debunked by many historians. Examples include:
His claim to have been a rider with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show was disputed by the curator of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, who said Hopkins' name is nowhere to be found in the archives. Hopkins has been found as listed in 1917 ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
558928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Morello | Joe Morello | Joseph Albert "Joe" Morello (July 17, 1928 – March 12, 2011) was an American jazz drummer best known for serving as the drummer for pianist Dave Brubeck, as part of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, from 1957 to 1972, including during the quartet's "classic lineup" from 1958 to 1968, which also included alto saxophonist Paul D... | 2.25 | 0 |
558928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Morello | Joe Morello | At the age of 15, Morello met the violinist Jascha Heifetz and decided that he would never be able to equal Heifetz's "sound". Therefore, he switched to drumming, first studying with a show drummer named Joe Sefcik and then George Lawrence Stone, author of the noted drum textbook Stick Control for the Snare Drummer. S... | 2.078125 | 0 |
558930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macular%20edema | Macular edema | It is commonly associated with diabetes. Chronic or uncontrolled diabetes type 2 can affect peripheral blood vessels including those of the retina which may leak fluid, blood and occasionally fats into the retina causing it to swell.
Age-related macular degeneration may cause macular edema. As individuals age there may... | 2.171875 | 0 |
558930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macular%20edema | Macular edema | Cystoid macular edema (CME) involves fluid accumulation in the outer plexiform layer secondary to abnormal perifoveal retinal capillary permeability. The edema is termed "cystoid" as it appears cystic; however, lacking an epithelial coating, it is not truly cystic. The cause for CME can be remembered with the mnemonic... | 1.953125 | 0 |
558934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashied%20Ali | Rashied Ali | During the 1980s, he was member of Phalanx, a group with guitarist James Blood Ulmer, tenor saxophonist George Adams, and bassist Sirone.
In 1985, Ali performed with the band There Goes the Neighborhood with Jaco Pastorius, Jorma Kaukonen, Doug McClean, Whitie Melvin, and Ben Prevo. From 1997 to 2003 he played extensi... | 1.96875 | 0 |
558940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Hedland%2C%20Western%20Australia | Port Hedland, Western Australia | Port Hedland is known by the Indigenous Kariyarra and Nyamal people as Marapikurrinya, which either means "place of good water" (as told by a Nyamal language speaker) and makes reference to the three reliable fresh water soaks that can still be seen in and around the town, or as the town council's website says "refers ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
558940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Hedland%2C%20Western%20Australia | Port Hedland, Western Australia | In 1866, the Government Resident at Roebourne, Robert John Sholl, directed Charles Wedge to re-examine Port Hedland as an alternative port, because the distance from Tien Tsin Harbour (later known as Cossack) was discouraging settlement in areas such as the De Grey River. Wedge encountered difficulties in his efforts, ... | 2.375 | 0 |
558940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Hedland%2C%20Western%20Australia | Port Hedland, Western Australia | Climate
Port Hedland has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) although subject to the influence of tropical cyclones. Port Hedland is very warm to sweltering all year round, with mean maximum temperatures of in January and in July. Maximum temperatures in summer are usually moderated by a warm but humid sea breeze. Por... | 2.75 | 0 |
558940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Hedland%2C%20Western%20Australia | Port Hedland, Western Australia | Education
The area contains five primary schools (four government, one Catholic), along with Hedland Senior High School, Port Hedland School of the Air and the Cassia Education Support Centre.
Fauna and flora
Port Hedland has a flatback sea turtle rookery, located on the main beach front. Several lookouts along the b... | 2.734375 | 0 |
558946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Blade | Brian Blade | Brian Blade (born July 25, 1970) is an American jazz drummer, composer, and session musician.
Early life
Born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, Blade was exposed to gospel and praise music while attending Zion Baptist Church at which his father, Brady L. Blade Sr., was pastor. Blade initially began learning violin... | 1.976563 | 0 |
558954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Oliver%20%28British%20Columbia%20politician%29 | John Oliver (British Columbia politician) | John Oliver (July 31, 1856 – August 17, 1927) was a British-Canadian politician and farmer, who served as the 19th premier of British Columbia. As a prominent figure in the province’s early political landscape, Oliver served in various capacities, including as leader of the Opposition and minister of Agriculture, and c... | 2.65625 | 0 |
558959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20electrification | Railway electrification | Railway electrification is the use of electric power for the propulsion of rail transport. Electric railways use either electric locomotives (hauling passengers or freight in separate cars), electric multiple units (passenger cars with their own motors) or both.
Electricity is typically generated in large and relativel... | 3 | 0 |
558959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20electrification | Railway electrification | In comparison to the principal alternative, the diesel engine, electric railways offer substantially better energy efficiency, lower emissions, and lower operating costs. Electric locomotives are also usually quieter, more powerful, and more responsive and reliable than diesel. They have no local emissions, an importan... | 2.609375 | 0 |
558959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20electrification | Railway electrification | History
Railway electrification is the development of powering trains and locomotives using electricity instead of diesel or steam power. The history of railway electrification dates back to the late 19th century when the first electric tramways were introduced in cities like Berlin, London, and New York City.
In 188... | 2.890625 | 0 |
558959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20electrification | Railway electrification | The London Underground in England is one of few networks that uses a four-rail system. The additional rail carries the electrical return that, on third-rail and overhead networks, is provided by the running rails. On the London Underground, a top-contact third rail is beside the track, energized at , and a top-contact ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
558959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20electrification | Railway electrification | AC versus DC for mainlines
The majority of modern electrification systems take AC energy from a power grid that is delivered to a locomotive, and within the locomotive, transformed and rectified to a lower DC voltage in preparation for use by traction motors. These motors may either be DC motors which directly use the... | 2.671875 | 0 |
558959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20electrification | Railway electrification | Central station electricity can often be generated with higher efficiency than a mobile engine/generator. While the efficiency of power plant generation and diesel locomotive generation are roughly the same in the nominal regime, diesel motors decrease in efficiency in non-nominal regimes at low power while if an elect... | 2.90625 | 0 |
558959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20electrification | Railway electrification | On the other hand, electrification may not be suitable for lines with low frequency of traffic, because lower running cost of trains may be outweighed by the high cost of the electrification infrastructure. Therefore, most long-distance lines in developing or sparsely populated countries are not electrified due to rela... | 2.34375 | 0 |
558959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20electrification | Railway electrification | A problem specifically related to electrified lines are gaps in the electrification. Electric vehicles, especially locomotives, lose power when traversing gaps in the supply, such as phase change gaps in overhead systems, and gaps over points in third rail systems. These become a nuisance if the locomotive stops with i... | 2.390625 | 0 |
558959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20electrification | Railway electrification | Electrification cost: electrification requires an entire new infrastructure to be built around the existing tracks at a significant cost. Costs are especially high when tunnels, bridges and other obstructions have to be altered for clearance. Another aspect that can raise the cost of electrification are the alterations... | 2.4375 | 0 |
558959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20electrification | Railway electrification | Incompatibility: Diesel trains can run on any track without electricity or with any kind of electricity (third rail or overhead line, DC or AC, and at any voltage or frequency). Not so for electric trains, which can never run on non-electrified lines, and which even on electrified lines can run only on the single, or t... | 2.0625 | 0 |
558968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester%20Bowie | Lester Bowie | Lester Bowie (October 11, 1941 – November 8, 1999) was an American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and co-founded the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Biography
Born in the historic village of Bartonsville in Frederick County, Maryland, United Stat... | 2.84375 | 0 |
558968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester%20Bowie | Lester Bowie | In 1984, he formed Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, a brass nonet in which Bowie demonstrated jazz's links to other forms of popular music, a decidedly more populist approach than that of the Art Ensemble. With this group he recorded songs previously associated with Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, and Marilyn Manson, al... | 1.96875 | 0 |
558970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20of%20NIMH | The Secret of NIMH | The Secret of NIMH was the first feature film to be directed by Don Bluth. On September 13, 1979, Bluth, fellow animators Gary Goldman and John Pomeroy and eight other animation staff left the feature animation department at Disney to set up their own independent studio, Don Bluth Productions. The studio worked, at fir... | 1.984375 | 0 |
558970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20of%20NIMH | The Secret of NIMH | Before they started making Banjo, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH was read by artist and story writer Ken Anderson, who called it "a wonderful story". He gave the book to Bluth for him to read and make a film out of after Bluth finished the animation direction of Pete's Dragon (1977). Bluth later showed the novel to D... | 2.078125 | 0 |
558970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20of%20NIMH | The Secret of NIMH | Among the techniques experimented with on The Secret of NIMH were rotoscoping, multiple passes on the camera to achieve transparent shadows, backlit animation (where animated mattes are shot with light shining through color gels to produce glowing areas for artificial light and fire effects), and multiple color palette... | 2.484375 | 0 |
558976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tien%20Shinhan | Tien Shinhan | , known as Tenshinhan in Japanese media and Viz Media's release of the manga, is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball franchise created by Akira Toriyama. He made his appearance in chapter #113 "The 22nd Tenkaichi Budōkai", first published in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on February 24, 1987, entering the World Mart... | 2.015625 | 0 |
558980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadoussac | Tadoussac | Tadoussac () is a village municipality in La Haute-Côte-Nord RCM (Regional County Municipality), on the north shore of the maritime section of the estuary of St. Lawrence river, in Côte-Nord region, Quebec, Canada.
Geography
Tadoussac is located in a bay on the north shore of the lower estuary of the St. Lawrence Riv... | 2.40625 | 0 |
558980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadoussac | Tadoussac | Tadoussac remained the only seaport on the St. Lawrence River for 30 years. Colonists from the Tadoussac area were involved in whaling from 1632 until at least the end of the century.
Historians believe the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, who inhabited the St. Lawrence valley upriver to the west, were defeated and pushed out... | 2.609375 | 0 |
558983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony%20No.%2010%20%28Shostakovich%29 | Symphony No. 10 (Shostakovich) | The Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93, by Dmitri Shostakovich was premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky on 17 December 1953. It is not clear when it was written. According to the composer, the symphony was composed between July and October 1953, but Tatiana Nikolayeva stated that it... | 2.609375 | 0 |
558984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wick%2C%20Vale%20of%20Glamorgan | Wick, Vale of Glamorgan | History
Archaeological evidence (such as the earthworks associated with burial mounds, settlements and enclosures) suggests that there was settlement in Wick from around 1600BC when a small proto-Celtic community may have developed, probably farming the surrounding land on a subsistence basis. The site of an ancient ... | 2.953125 | 0 |
558984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wick%2C%20Vale%20of%20Glamorgan | Wick, Vale of Glamorgan | In later times it is likely that Wick formed part of a medieval drovers route, by-passing the toll road through nearby Cowbridge. A Topographical Dictionary of The Dominion of Wales by Nicholas Carlisle, published 1811, recorded that in 1801 the population of Wick was 259. From 1822 parts of the village and areas of th... | 2.703125 | 0 |
558984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wick%2C%20Vale%20of%20Glamorgan | Wick, Vale of Glamorgan | The parish church of Wick is dedicated to Saint James the Great, and like many of the other churches in the parish dates from the twelfth century. It began as a chapel, but was later gifted to Ewenny Priory. It is a Grade 2* listed building and consists of a chancel, nave, south porch and western 'saddle back' tower. T... | 2.09375 | 0 |
558988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine%20Merry | Katharine Merry | Katharine Merry (born 21 September 1974) is an English former sprinter. She achieved the bronze medal in the 400 metres at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and was the fastest woman in the world over 400 m in 2001, with her career best of 49.59 seconds. She also represented Great Britain at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and won th... | 2.0625 | 0 |
558999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandras%20Stulginskis | Aleksandras Stulginskis | Aleksandras Stulginskis (26 February 1885 – 22 September 1969) was the second President of Lithuania (1920–1926). Stulginskis was also acting President of Lithuania for a few hours later in 1926, following a military coup that was led by his predecessor, President Antanas Smetona, and which had brought down Stulginski... | 2.03125 | 0 |
559007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazys%20Grinius | Kazys Grinius | Kazys Grinius (, 17 December 1866 – 4 June 1950) was the third President of Lithuania, holding the office from 7 June 1926 to 17 December 1926. Previously, he had served as the fifth Prime Minister of Lithuania, from 19 June 1920 until his resignation on 18 January 1922. He was posthumously awarded the Lithuanian Life ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
559007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazys%20Grinius | Kazys Grinius | Family
Of noble (szlachta) lineage, the Griniai family moved to the region of Suvalkija during the Volok Reform of 1560. Kazys Grinius was born on 17 December 1866, in the village of , then known as Selemos Būda. The village belonged to the Augustów Governorate of Congress Poland, then part of the Russian Empire. Grini... | 2.328125 | 0 |
559007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazys%20Grinius | Kazys Grinius | Studies and activism (1887–1914)
After graduating in 1887, Grinius began studying medicine at Moscow State University, where he became a member of a secret society of Lithuanian students. He was its chairman from 1889 until his graduation. The society organized self-education and self-sufficiency of students and distri... | 2.734375 | 0 |
559007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazys%20Grinius | Kazys Grinius | After returning to Lithuania in 1894, Grinius earned a living as a free-for-hire doctor in Marijampolė. After two years he moved to Virbalis, and later to Kudirkos Naumiestis. Grinius helped establish the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania in 1896, preparing its first newspaper Lietuvos darbininkas and translating th... | 2.28125 | 0 |
559007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazys%20Grinius | Kazys Grinius | Grinius was also one of the founding members of Šviesa in 1905, a society dedicated to the establishment of schools, pedagogical evening courses, bookstores, distribution of Lithuanian publications, and assisting young students. Although the society was illegal and soon had to be closed down, it was made legal again in... | 2.15625 | 0 |
559007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazys%20Grinius | Kazys Grinius | First World War
During the First World War Grinius and his family moved away from the front deeper into Russia. He arrived in the northern Caucasus in 1915, and worked there until 1918, firstly at Nalchik and then as head doctor in a war hospital near Grozny. While in the Caucasus, Grinius took care of Lithuanian refug... | 2.734375 | 0 |
559007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazys%20Grinius | Kazys Grinius | Constituent Assembly (1920)
In 1919, Grinius was chairman of the Paris-based Lithuanian Repatriation Commission which helped Lithuanian prisoners of war in Germany return home. That same year he returned to Lithuania to prepare for Constituent Assembly of Lithuania's elections as leader of a bloc between the Lithuanian... | 2.765625 | 0 |
559007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazys%20Grinius | Kazys Grinius | Coup d'état
On 17 December 1926, on the evening of Grinius's birthday, a coup was arranged that replaced the government with an authoritarian one headed by the Lithuanian Nationalist Union, the most conservative party at the time. Grinius called the coup a crime against society, and blamed the nationalists, Christian D... | 2.390625 | 0 |
559011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactococcus%20lactis | Lactococcus lactis | Lactococcus lactis is a gram-positive bacterium used extensively in the production of buttermilk and cheese, but has also become famous as the first genetically modified organism to be used alive for the treatment of human disease. L. lactis cells are cocci that group in pairs and short chains, and, depending on growth... | 2.9375 | 0 |
559011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactococcus%20lactis | Lactococcus lactis | The state Assembly of Wisconsin, also the number one cheese-producing state in the United States, voted in 2010 to name this bacterium as the official state microbe; it would have been the first and only such designation by a state legislature in the nation, however the legislation was not adopted by the Senate. The le... | 2.140625 | 0 |
559011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactococcus%20lactis | Lactococcus lactis | KiSS1 secreted from recombinant L. lactis strain effectively downregulated the expression of Matrix metalloproteinases (MMP-9), a crucial key in the invasion, metastasis, and regulation of the signaling pathways controlling tumor cell growth, survival, invasion, inflammation, and angiogenesis. The reason for this is th... | 2.015625 | 0 |
559013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony%20No.%2011%20%28Shostakovich%29 | Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich) | The Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 (subtitled The Year 1905), by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1957 and premiered by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Natan Rakhlin on 30 October 1957. The subtitle of the symphony refers to the events of the Russian Revolution of 1905, which the symphony depicts. The first pe... | 2.734375 | 0 |
559013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony%20No.%2011%20%28Shostakovich%29 | Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich) | The title, "The Year 1905", recalls the start of the first Russian Revolution of 1905, which was partially fired by the events on 9 January (9 January by the Julian calendar still in use in Russia at the time, modern date of 22 January 1905) of that year. Some Western critics characterized the symphony as overblown "fi... | 2.265625 | 0 |
559025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Williamson | Hugh Williamson | Early years
Williamson was born in West Nottingham Township, in what was then the frontier region of the Province of Pennsylvania. His fragile health as a youth weighed against his beginning a career in the family's clothier business. His parents instead sent him to Francis Alison's New London Academy and, in 1754, to ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
559025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Williamson | Hugh Williamson | Williamson came of age politically during this encounter. In response to questions by Council members, who were in the process of formulating punitive measures against Massachusetts, he bluntly warned that repression would provoke rebellion. He then went on to express the argument that was becoming the core of the Patr... | 2.5 | 0 |
559025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Williamson | Hugh Williamson | Military physician
These various activities brought Williamson to the attention of North Carolina's political leaders. Facing the threat of a British invasion of the region from the sea and bases in Florida, the state legislature voted to raise a force of 4,000 men to assist South Carolina. When Governor Richard Caswel... | 2.71875 | 0 |
559025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Williamson | Hugh Williamson | Gates attempted to attack the British advance base near Camden, South Carolina, but his tired militia units, which were still forming when the battle began, were routed, and the Americans suffered another defeat. Williamson, who witnessed the disaster, volunteered to pass behind enemy lines to care for the American wou... | 2.734375 | 0 |
559025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Williamson | Hugh Williamson | In 1782 Williamson was elected to the lower house of the North Carolina legislature, where he served for several terms. He sat on numerous committees, including those formed to regulate veterans' rights, and he authored the state's copyright law. He was chosen to serve in the Continental Congress in 1782. Appointment t... | 2.65625 | 0 |
559025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Williamson | Hugh Williamson | Shortly before the Convention adjourned, Williamson wrote a series of public letters in defense of a strong federal system. These "Letters of Sylvius" addressed many of the practical concerns of his state, where the rural and frequently debt-ridden farmers favored minimal government regulations, while the mercantile-pl... | 2.171875 | 0 |
559044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montserrado%20County | Montserrado County | Montserrado County is a county in the northwestern portion of the West African nation of Liberia containing its national capital, Monrovia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has 17 sub political districts. As of the 2022 Census, it had a population of 1,920,91... | 2.796875 | 0 |
559044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montserrado%20County | Montserrado County | Enrollment in primary schools in the county totaled 314,409 students, which was 35% of the total number for the nation as a whole. Students attended a total of 1,096 schools in the county. Thirty-three percent of county residents had no formal education, while 27% had attended some elementary school. Seven percent comp... | 2.625 | 0 |
559044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montserrado%20County | Montserrado County | On December 11, 1821, officials from the United States arrived aboard the vessel Alligator under the command of Captain Robert F. Stockton at Mesurado Bay. Stockton and Dr. Eli Ayers negotiated to acquire the land in and around the bay from the native chiefs for a settlement by free people of color before sailing to Si... | 2.734375 | 0 |
559044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montserrado%20County | Montserrado County | The Liberian Herald began printing in 1830 in Monrovia and was the first newspaper in Liberia. In 1832, the Dey-Golah War erupted between the colonists and the native tribes. There was one battle, with the colonists from Monrovia defeating the Dey and Golah (Gola) combined group. In 1847, the colony declared its indepe... | 2.453125 | 0 |
559053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Samuel%20Johnson | William Samuel Johnson | William Samuel Johnson (October 7, 1727 – November 14, 1819) was an American Founding Father and statesman. He attended all of the four founding American Congresses: the Stamp Act Congress in 1765, the Congress of the Confederation in 1785–1787, the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787 where he was chairman ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
559053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Samuel%20Johnson | William Samuel Johnson | Johnson was first attracted to the Patriot cause by what he and his associates considered Parliament's unwarranted interference in the government of the colonies. At this time he was somewhat of a radical, writing about “chains and shackles,” “stamps and slavery,” and the “late fatal acts” that would reduce America to ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
559053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Samuel%20Johnson | William Samuel Johnson | While a Colonial Agent he sharply criticized British policy toward the colonies. His experience in Britain convinced him that Britain's policy was shaped more by ignorance of American conditions, not through the sinister designs of a wicked government, as many Patriots alleged. As the Patriots became more radical in th... | 2.421875 | 0 |
559053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Samuel%20Johnson | William Samuel Johnson | He was elected as a delegate in 1774 to the Continental Congress but turned down the honor in favor of his protégée Roger Sherman. The Connecticut assembly, after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, over his strong personal objections, sent him on a dangerous visit through both Patriot Massachusetts militia and Brit... | 2.09375 | 0 |
559053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Samuel%20Johnson | William Samuel Johnson | New nation
Once independence was achieved, Johnson felt free to participate in the government of the new nation. He resumed the practice of his profession, and some time subsequent to the declaration of peace was reinstated in his old office as a member of the Upper House of the General Assembly, where he also served a... | 2.234375 | 0 |
559058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vytautas%20Landsbergis | Vytautas Landsbergis | Vytautas Landsbergis (; born 18 October 1932) is a Lithuanian politician and former Member of the European Parliament. He was the first Speaker of Reconstituent Seimas of Lithuania after its independence declaration from the Soviet Union. He has written 20 books on a variety of topics, including a biography of Mikaloju... | 1.929688 | 0 |
559058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vytautas%20Landsbergis | Vytautas Landsbergis | The Soviet Union attempted to stifle this activity by economic blockade in 1990, but it failed, and other Soviet Republics soon followed suit and declared their independence from Moscow, as well. He was also extremely dubious of the view that Mikhail Gorbachev was trying to liberalize the Soviet Union and that Lithuan... | 1.960938 | 0 |
559058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vytautas%20Landsbergis | Vytautas Landsbergis | Recognition as the head of state of Lithuania
The question of whether V. Landsbergis should be officially acknowledged as the head of state of Lithuania from 1990 to 1992 has been polarising the Lithuanian public for many years. On 25 June 2022, the Lithuanian Seimas officially approved the bill regarding V. Landsberg... | 1.90625 | 0 |
559060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Burke | Anna Burke | Anna Elizabeth Burke (born 1 January 1966) is an Australian former politician who served as the 28th speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from October 2012 to August 2013, and was Acting Speaker from May to October 2012. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), she was the member of parliament (MP) ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
559060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Burke | Anna Burke | Time in parliament
In 2005, Anna Burke submitted a private member's bill to the house that proposed an early form of the subsequently created Do Not Call Register, which allows people with fixed telephone lines to opt out from telemarketing. After Labor's win at the 2007 federal election, Burke was elected as Deputy S... | 2.046875 | 0 |
559063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassau%20Inter-County%20Express | Nassau Inter-County Express | On May 30, 1973, Nassau County signed a contract to take over all ten private bus companies in the county. The county would subsidize service until it could become self-sustaining, and would have to pay $5.6 million by June 15, which was the original offer it had made to the companies for their capital assets. The coun... | 2.421875 | 0 |
559063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassau%20Inter-County%20Express | Nassau Inter-County Express | On June 17, 1985, the MSBA began a pilot route, the N28, between Roslyn and the Roslyn North Industrial Park. The route would operate every 30 minutes on weekdays between 6:50 and 9:20 a.m. and between 3:35 and 6:05 p.m. The route was created after a request was made by multiple businesses in the complex to the Town of... | 1.96875 | 0 |
559063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassau%20Inter-County%20Express | Nassau Inter-County Express | In July 2018, a multi-year plan to restructure and improve service on the system was released for public comment. Improvements included a more developed frequency network, the restoration of former services, and new express bus service to Manhattan.
Fare
Fares can be paid with a MetroCard (including unlimited cards), ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
559076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tentacle%20erotica | Tentacle erotica | While manga has featured stories of heroes being attacked by monsters with tentacles since its early days, the earliest examples of tentacle erotica in manga belong to "real life" erotic comedy manga magazines, which predate ero-gekiga. Multiple scenes were found in the March 12, 1968 issue of Weekly Manga Q, where sev... | 2.09375 | 0 |
559077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual%20events%20%28speech%29 | Individual events (speech) | Individual events in speech include public speaking, limited preparation, acting and interpretation are a part of forensics competitions. These events do not include the several different forms of debate offered by many tournaments. These events are called individual events because they tend to be done by one person un... | 2.78125 | 0 |
559085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdas%20Adamkus | Valdas Adamkus | As a young man, Adamkus joined the underground resistance against the first Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940. Under the Nazi occupation, while attending high school, he distributed an anti-German underground newspaper. In 1944, as the Soviets were invading Lithuania for a second time in four years, he fought agai... | 2.25 | 0 |
559094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justas%20Paleckis | Justas Paleckis | In order to save face, the Soviet Union attempted to cover its annexation of the Baltic States with a cloak of legality. Therefore, Moscow ordered the Paleckis government to carry out elections for a "People's Seimas" on 14–15 July. Voters were presented with a single list of candidates containing only Communists and ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
559102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Bassett%20%28Delaware%20politician%29 | Richard Bassett (Delaware politician) | Richard Bassett (April 2, 1745 – September 15, 1815) was an American politician, attorney, slave owner and later abolitionist, veteran of the American Revolution, signer of the United States Constitution, and one of the Founding Fathers of America. He also served as United States Senator from Delaware, chief justice of... | 2.140625 | 0 |
559102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Bassett%20%28Delaware%20politician%29 | Richard Bassett (Delaware politician) | Bassett was elected to the United States Senate from Delaware and served from March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1793, first as a member of the Anti-Administration Party and later as a member of the Pro-Administration Party. Due to his name coming first alphabetically out of all 20 senators who commenced their first term on 4 ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
559128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Few | William Few | William Few Jr. (June 8, 1748 – July 16, 1828) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, politician and jurist. He represented the U.S. state of Georgia at the Constitutional Convention and signed the U.S. Constitution. Few and James Gunn were the first U.S. Senators from Georgia.
Born into a poor yeoman farming family... | 2.625 | 0 |
559128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Few | William Few | Early history
Descendant of Quaker shoe polisher Richard Few from the county of Wiltshire, England, and his son Isaac Few, a cooper who emigrated to Pennsylvania in the 1640s, the Few family lived in northern Maryland, where they eked out a modest living raising tobacco on small holdings. When a series of droughts str... | 2.609375 | 0 |
559128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Few | William Few | These antagonisms within North Carolina began to evaporate as American opinion turned against the imperial measures instituted by Great Britain in the 1770s. Both the eastern planters and the new settlers found new taxes and restrictions on western expansion at odds with their idea of self-government, and Patriot leade... | 2.640625 | 0 |
559128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Few | William Few | The Georgians' first military campaign ended in disaster. A force of state and Continental Army units successfully combined to repulse a British raid on Sunbury near the states southeastern border, but an American counterattack orchestrated by Major-General Robert Howe and Governor John Houstoun bogged down before they... | 2.53125 | 0 |
559128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Few | William Few | American successes began to reverse the fortunes of war in Georgia, prompting the recently appointed Continental Army commander in the region, Major General Benjamin Lincoln, to take the offensive. Lincoln combined his continentals and militia units from Georgia and South Carolina with French forces that had arrived fr... | 2.21875 | 0 |
559128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Few | William Few | British operations in Georgia in 1779 were part of a new "southern strategy" by which they planned to use the state as a base for conquering the rebellious colonies in a sweep up from the south. Few's military service in the later years of the war proved critical both in frustrating this strategy and in enhancing his c... | 2.515625 | 0 |
559130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Barresi | Phil Barresi | Phillip Anthony Barresi (; born 8 August 1955) is a former Australian politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007, representing the Victorian seat of Deakin for the Liberal Party. Prior to entering politics he was a registered psychologist and worked in human resources and industrial r... | 1.945313 | 0 |
559136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Billson | Bruce Billson | Bruce Fredrick Billson (born 26 January 1966) is an Australian former politician. A member of the Liberal Party, he was a member of the House of Representatives for Dunkley, a Melbourne seat, from 1996 to 2016 and held ministerial office in the Howard, Abbott and Turnbull governments as Minister for Veterans' Affairs (... | 2.046875 | 0 |
559138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronwyn%20Bishop | Bronwyn Bishop | Early years and education
Bronwyn Kathleen Setright was born on 19 October 1942 at the Mater Hospital in North Sydney. Her father, Thomas Francis Setright (1909–1999), was an engineer, and her mother was Kathleen Annie Congreve (1912–1986), an opera singer who worked as a dramatic soprano at the Australian Opera Compa... | 2.21875 | 0 |
559138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronwyn%20Bishop | Bronwyn Bishop | Following the Coalition victory at the federal election on 7 September 2013, Tony Abbott announced Bishop as the Coalition's nominee as next Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives. Bishop was elected as Speaker on 12 November 2013. She was the third woman, and the first non-Labor woman, to hold the post. S... | 2.03125 | 0 |
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