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559143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie%20Bishop | Julie Bishop | In August 2018, Peter Dutton challenged Turnbull for the leadership of the Liberal Party, due to dissatisfaction from the party's conservative wing. Turnbull defeated Dutton in a leadership ballot, but tensions continued to mount and the party voted in favour of holding a second spill; Bishop chose to be a candidate. I... | 2 | 0 |
559157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Cyrille | Andrew Cyrille | Andrew Charles Cyrille (born November 10, 1939) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer. Throughout his career, he has performed both as a leader and a sideman in the bands of Walt Dickerson and Cecil Taylor, among others. AllMusic biographer Chris Kelsey wrote: "Few free-jazz drummers play with a tenth of Cyrille's gr... | 2.5625 | 0 |
559160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Organ | Michael Organ | Michael Keith Organ (born 22 September 1956) is a former Australian politician and archivist. He was an Australian Greens member of the Australian House of Representatives between 2002 and 2004, representing the Division of Cunningham, New South Wales. He was the first member of the Greens to win a seat in the House of... | 2.0625 | 0 |
559162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford%20Graves | Milford Graves | Milford Graves (August 20, 1941 – February 12, 2021) was an American jazz drummer, percussionist, Professor Emeritus of Music, researcher/inventor, visual artist/sculptor, gardener/herbalist, and martial artist. Graves was noteworthy for his early avant-garde contributions in the 1960s with Paul Bley, Albert Ayler, and... | 2.34375 | 0 |
559162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford%20Graves | Milford Graves | In 2022, Black Editions Group announced that their Black Editions Archive imprint would focus on releasing previously unheard recordings by Graves.
Illness and death
Graves was diagnosed with amyloid cardiomyopathy in 2018, and was informed he had half a year more to live. He died on February 12, 2021. He was 79, and ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
559162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford%20Graves | Milford Graves | Many of Graves' interests revolved around what he called "biological music, a synthesis of the physical and mental, a mind-body deal." One example is "Yara," a form of martial art that Graves, a former Police Athletic League boxing champ, invented in the early 1970s, and that is "spontaneous improvised, and... reacting... | 2.125 | 0 |
559162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford%20Graves | Milford Graves | Graves related his martial arts activities to his interest in herbal healing, nutrition, acupuncture, and healing using sound and electrical impulses, stating "When we test the body, or we grab the body, and hit certain points and grab certain points, you're not doing a destructive touch... You're a healing martial art... | 1.96875 | 0 |
559162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford%20Graves | Milford Graves | In the mid-1970s, Graves became fascinated by the notion of "the heartbeat as a primary source of rhythm." He stumbled on a recording of heart rhythms, and "was astonished by the similarities between cardiac arrhythmias and Afro-Cuban drumming patterns. Beyond the simple da-DUM of the heartbeat, he heard polyrhythmic p... | 2.640625 | 0 |
559165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Haynes | Roy Haynes | Roy Owen Haynes (March 13, 1925 – November 12, 2024) was an American jazz drummer. In the 1950s he was given the nickname "Snap Crackle" for his distinctive snare drum sound and musical vocabulary. He was among the most recorded drummers in jazz. In a career spanning over eight decades, he played swing, bebop, jazz fus... | 2.5625 | 0 |
559173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny%20Berigan | Bunny Berigan | Roland Bernard "Bunny" Berigan (November 2, 1908 – June 2, 1942) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader who rose to fame during the swing era. His career and influence were shortened by alcoholism, and ended with his early demise at the age of 33 from cirrhosis. Although he composed some jazz instrumentals such ... | 1.945313 | 0 |
559173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny%20Berigan | Bunny Berigan | Bandleader
Berigan led his own band full-time from early 1937 until June 1942, with a six-month hiatus in 1940 as a sideman in Tommy Dorsey's band. A series of misfortunes and Berigan's alcoholism worked against his financial success as a bandleader. Berigan also began an affair with singer Lee Wiley in 1936, which las... | 2.171875 | 0 |
559202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady%20Byron | Lady Byron | Anne Isabella Noel Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron (; 17 May 1792 – 16 May 1860), nicknamed Annabella and commonly known as Lady Byron, was an educational reformer and philanthropist who established the first industrial school in England, and was an active abolitionist. She married the poet George Gor... | 2.703125 | 0 |
559202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady%20Byron | Lady Byron | Lord Wentworth had been both a viscount and a baron. Upon his death the viscountcy became extinct, and the barony fell into abeyance between Lady Milbanke and Lord Scarsdale. After their deaths the barony passed to Lady Byron and she became Baroness Wentworth in her own right; however she did not use the title. She sig... | 2.34375 | 0 |
559202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady%20Byron | Lady Byron | Byron's popularity was soaring following the success of his work Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Annabella met him on many social occasions as he began a relationship with Lady Caroline Lamb, the wife of her cousin, William Lamb. However, Byron was attracted to her modesty and intellect and in October 1812 he proposed marr... | 1.960938 | 0 |
559203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foggy%20Bottom%E2%80%93GWU%20station | Foggy Bottom–GWU station | Foggy Bottom–GWU station is a Washington Metro station in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. The island-platformed station was opened on July 1, 1977, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Providing service for the Blue, Orange, and Silver Lines, t... | 2.1875 | 0 |
559212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrez | Entrez | The Entrez () Global Query Cross-Database Search System is a federated search engine, or web portal that allows users to search many discrete health sciences databases at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website. The NCBI is a part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), which is itself a dep... | 2.140625 | 0 |
559219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transall%20C-160 | Transall C-160 | The Transall C-160 is a military transport aircraft, produced as a joint venture between France and Germany. "Transall" is a German abbreviation of the manufacturing consortium Transporter Allianz, comprising the companies of MBB, Aerospatiale, and VFW-Fokker. It was initially developed to meet the requirements for a ... | 2.125 | 0 |
559219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transall%20C-160 | Transall C-160 | In July 1977, France placed an order for 25 aircraft to be built to an improved standard. Production work for the new variant was split 50-50 between Aérospatiale (the successor to Nord) and MBB (which had absorbed VFW and HFB), with a single assembly line in Toulouse. The cargo loading door on the port side of the fus... | 2.3125 | 0 |
559219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transall%20C-160 | Transall C-160 | The C-160 is powered by a pair of Rolls-Royce Tyne turboprop engines, which drive a pair of four-bladed Dowty Rotol propellers. Advantages of the twin-engine configuration over four include reduced unit and production cost, lower weight and fuel consumption, simplified design and reliability. Each engine is equipped wi... | 2.421875 | 0 |
559219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transall%20C-160 | Transall C-160 | Other improvements and additions to the type include kevlar armour, electronic warfare management systems, chaff/flare dispensers, missile approach warning systems and TCAS collision warning system. Extensive efforts have been made by both France and Germany to extend the aircraft's operating lifespan up to and if nece... | 2.109375 | 0 |
559219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transall%20C-160 | Transall C-160 | C-160s were in continuous use to support French bases in sub-Saharan Africa; the tanker variants also proved valuable in supporting African operations. The C-160 fleet was the staple of the French military airlift capability for many years, supplemented by small numbers of McDonnell Douglas DC-8s, CASA/IPTN CN-235 and ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
559220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captopril | Captopril | Captopril, sold under the brand name Capoten among others, is an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor used for the treatment of hypertension and some types of congestive heart failure. Captopril was the first oral ACE inhibitor found for the treatment of hypertension. It does not cause fatigue as associated wi... | 2.5625 | 0 |
559220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captopril | Captopril | Captopril, an analog of the snake venom's ACE-inhibiting peptide, was first synthesized in 1975 by three researchers at the U.S. drug company E.R. Squibb & Sons Pharmaceuticals (now Bristol-Myers Squibb): Miguel Ondetti, Bernard Rubin, and David Cushman. Squibb filed for U.S. patent protection on the drug in February 1... | 2.5625 | 0 |
559224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Ch%C3%A1vez | Carlos Chávez | Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez (13 June 1899 – 2 August 1978) was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influenced by native Mexican cultures. Of his six symphonies, the second, or Sinfonía india, which uses nat... | 2.6875 | 0 |
559224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Ch%C3%A1vez | Carlos Chávez | In September 1922, Chávez married Otilia Ortiz and they went on honeymoon to Europe, from October 1922 until April 1923, spending two weeks in Vienna, five months in Berlin, and eight or ten days in Paris. During the latter visit he met Paul Dukas. Some months later, in December 1923, Chávez visited the United States f... | 2.5625 | 0 |
559224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Ch%C3%A1vez | Carlos Chávez | Musical style
Chávez's music does not fall into clear stylistic periods, but rather cumulates elements in a process of continual synthesis. The juvenilia, up to 1921 and consisting primarily of piano compositions, is essentially Romantic, with Robert Schumann as the main influence. A period of nationalistic leanings wa... | 2.40625 | 0 |
559224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Ch%C3%A1vez | Carlos Chávez | Although this early period saw the creation of the Sonatina for violin and piano (1924), it was only in the 1930s that Chávez returned to another of the main musical interests of his maturity, prefigured in the juvenilia: the traditional genres of the sonata, quartet, symphony, and concerto. He composed six numbered sy... | 2.640625 | 0 |
559225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Marston%20%28playwright%29 | John Marston (playwright) | John Marston (baptised 7 October 1576 – 25 June 1634) was an English playwright, poet and satirist during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods. His career as a writer lasted only a decade. His work is remembered for its energetic and often obscure style, its contributions to the development of a distinctivel... | 2.59375 | 0 |
559225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Marston%20%28playwright%29 | John Marston (playwright) | Early career
Marston's brief career in literature began with a foray into the then-fashionable genres of erotic epyllion and satire. In 1598, he published The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image and Certaine Satyres, a book of poetry in imitation of, on the one hand, Ovid, and, on the other, the Satires of Juvenal. He ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
559225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Marston%20%28playwright%29 | John Marston (playwright) | By 1601, he was well known in London literary circles, particularly in his role as enemy to the equally pugnacious Ben Jonson. Jonson, who reported to Drummond that Marston had accused him of sexual profligacy, satirized Marston as Clove in Every Man Out of His Humour, as Crispinus in Poetaster, and as Hedon in Cynthia... | 2.171875 | 0 |
559225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Marston%20%28playwright%29 | John Marston (playwright) | Marston's second play for the Blackfriars children was The Dutch Courtesan, a satire on lust and hypocrisy, in 1604–5. In 1605, he worked with George Chapman and Ben Jonson on Eastward Ho, a satire of popular taste and the vain imaginings of wealth to be found in Virginia. Chapman and Jonson were arrested for, accord... | 2.21875 | 0 |
559225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Marston%20%28playwright%29 | John Marston (playwright) | After the Restoration, Marston's works were largely reduced to the status of a curiosity of literary history. The general resemblance of Antonio's Revenge to Hamlet and Marston's role in the war of the poets ensured that his plays would receive some scholarly attention, but they were not performed and were not even wid... | 1.9375 | 0 |
559225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Marston%20%28playwright%29 | John Marston (playwright) | In the twentieth century, however, a few critics were willing to consider Marston as a writer who was very much in control of the world he creates. T. S. Eliot saw that this "irregular demesne" was a part of Marston's world and declared that "It is … by giving us the sense of something behind, more real than any of the... | 1.976563 | 0 |
559231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Grimes | Henry Grimes | Henry Grimes (November 3, 1935 – April 15, 2020) was an American jazz double bassist and violinist.
After more than a decade of activity and performance, notably as a leading bassist in free jazz, Grimes completely disappeared from the music scene by 1970. Grimes was often presumed to have died, but he was discovered ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
559231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Grimes | Henry Grimes | Gradually growing interested in the burgeoning free jazz movement, Grimes performed with most of the music's important names, including pianist Cecil Taylor, trumpeter Don Cherry, saxophonists Steve Lacy, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, and Albert Ayler. He released one album, The Call, as a trio leader for the ESP-Disk... | 1.976563 | 0 |
559231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Grimes | Henry Grimes | In 2011, the Chelsea Art Museum hosted a re-creation of the performance Black Zero, a happening created in the 1960s by pioneering media artist Aldo Tambellini. Tambellini performed the multi-media piece on several occasions between 1965 and 1968, often in collaboration with jazz musicians such as Bill Dixon and Cecil ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
559232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Fitz%20Peter%2C%201st%20Earl%20of%20Essex | Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex | Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex (c. 1162–1213) was a prominent member of the government of England during the reigns of Richard I and John. The patronymic is sometimes rendered Fitz Piers, for he was the son of Piers de Lutegareshale (born 1134, Cherhill, Wiltshire, died 14 January 1179, Pleshy, Essex), a forester o... | 2.421875 | 0 |
559251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featherbedding | Featherbedding | Featherbedding is the practice of hiring more workers than are needed to perform a given job, or to adopt work procedures which appear pointless, complex and time-consuming merely to employ additional workers. The term "make-work" is sometimes used as a synonym for featherbedding.
The term "featherbedding" is usually ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
559251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featherbedding | Featherbedding | Labor economists often argue that featherbedding can be construed as the most economically optimal position from both an employer's and employee's perspective, since it can be seen as distributing the costs of technological change. Featherbedding only emerges under certain circumstances. Chief among these is that the e... | 2.25 | 0 |
559259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namdaemun | Namdaemun | Namdaemun (), officially known as the Sungnyemun (), is one of the Eight Gates in the Fortress Wall of Seoul, South Korea. The gate formed the original southern boundary of the city during the Joseon period, although the city has since significantly outgrown this boundary. It is located in Jung District between Seoul S... | 2.828125 | 0 |
559262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision%20Festival | Vision Festival | The Vision Festival is the world's premier festival of experimental music (typically free jazz/avant-garde jazz), art, film and dance, held annually in May/June on the Lower East Side of New York City from 1996 to 2011, in Brooklyn from 2012 to 2014, and returning to Manhattan in 2015. It usually consists of between t... | 2.28125 | 0 |
559275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philatelic%20cover | Philatelic cover | A philatelic cover is an envelope prepared with a stamp(s) and address and sent through the mail delivery system for the purpose of creating a collectible item. Stamp collectors began to send mail to each other and to themselves early on, and philatelic mail is known from the late 19th century onward. While some colle... | 2.328125 | 0 |
559275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philatelic%20cover | Philatelic cover | With the advent of air travel it wasn't long before airplanes were carrying the mail between distant points about the globe. In the United States and Germany Air Mail delivery was greeted with the same national enthusiasm and fanfare as was experienced with the first trips to the moon by US Astronauts. Consequently, ma... | 2.765625 | 0 |
559286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon%20Tong | Kowloon Tong | Kowloon Tong () is an area of Hong Kong located in Kowloon. The majority of the area is in the Kowloon City District. Its exact location is south of the Lion Rock, north of Boundary Street, east of the East Rail line and west of Grampian Road. It is one of the most expensive residential districts in Hong Kong.
It is p... | 2.5 | 0 |
559288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oocyte | Oocyte | An oocyte (, oöcyte, or ovocyte is a female gametocyte or germ cell involved in reproduction. In other words, it is an immature ovum, or egg cell. An oocyte is produced in a female fetus in the ovary during female gametogenesis. The female germ cells produce a primordial germ cell (PGC), which then undergoes mitosis, f... | 3.34375 | 0 |
559288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oocyte | Oocyte | In order for an oocyte to become fertilized and ultimately grow into a fully functioning organism, it must be able to regulate multiple cellular and developmental processes. The oocyte, a large and complex cell, must be able to direct the growth of the embryo and control cellular activities. As the oocyte is a product ... | 2.828125 | 0 |
559288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oocyte | Oocyte | Ribosomes
Maternal cells also synthesize and contribute a store of ribosomes that are required for the translation of proteins before the zygotic genome is activated. In mammalian oocytes, maternally derived ribosomes and some mRNAs are stored in a structure called cytoplasmic lattices. These cytoplasmic lattices, a ne... | 2.703125 | 0 |
559292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truddi%20Chase | Truddi Chase | Truddi Chase (June 13, 1935 – March 10, 2010) was an American author. She is best known for the book When Rabbit Howls (1987), an autobiography about her experiences after being diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder.
Life
According to her own account, Chase was born on a homestead near Honeoye Falls, New York,... | 1.945313 | 0 |
559294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide%20Squad | Suicide Squad | The Suicide Squad is an antihero/supervillain team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The first version of the Suicide Squad debuted in The Brave and the Bold #25 (September 1959) and the second and modern version, created by John Ostrander, debuted in Legends #3 (January 1987).
Various incarnat... | 2.265625 | 0 |
559294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide%20Squad | Suicide Squad | While the Squad is often depicted as succeeding on their missions, failure was an occurrence. Ostrander remarked on how stories sometimes purposefully brought in characters to be killed off. The team's very name, Suicide Squad, relates to the idea that this group of characters is sent on dangerous and difficult suicide... | 2.140625 | 0 |
559297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20language | Proto-Indo-European language | Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists; its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages.
Far more work has gone into reconstructing PIE than any othe... | 2.984375 | 0 |
559297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20language | Proto-Indo-European language | PIE is believed to have had an elaborate system of morphology that included inflectional suffixes (analogous to English child, child's, children, children's) as well as ablaut (vowel alterations, as preserved in English sing, sang, sung, song) and accent. PIE nominals and pronouns had a complex system of declension, an... | 2.96875 | 0 |
559297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20language | Proto-Indo-European language | William Jones, an Anglo-Welsh philologist and puisne judge in Bengal, caused an academic sensation when in 1786 he postulated the common ancestry of Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Gothic, the Celtic languages, and Old Persian, but he was not the first to state such a hypothesis. In the 16th century, European visitors to the I... | 2.1875 | 0 |
559297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20language | Proto-Indo-European language | In 1822, Jacob Grimm formulated what became known as Grimm's law as a general rule in his . Grimm showed correlations between the Germanic and other Indo-European languages and demonstrated that sound change systematically transforms all words of a language. From the 1870s, the Neogrammarians proposed that sound laws h... | 2.421875 | 0 |
559297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20language | Proto-Indo-European language | Marginally attested languages
The Lusitanian language was a marginally attested language spoken in areas near the border between present-day Portugal and Spain.
The Venetic and Liburnian languages known from the North Adriatic region are sometimes classified as Italic.
Albanian and Greek are the only surviving Indo-E... | 2.4375 | 0 |
559297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20language | Proto-Indo-European language | Accent
The Proto-Indo-European accent is reconstructed today as having had variable lexical stress, which could appear on any syllable and whose position often varied among different members of a paradigm (e.g. between singular and plural of a verbal paradigm). Stressed syllables received a higher pitch; therefore it i... | 2.875 | 0 |
559297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20language | Proto-Indo-European language | Proto-Indo-European nominals and verbs were primarily composed of roots – affix-lacking morphemes that carried the core lexical meaning of a word. They were used to derive related words (cf. the English root "-friend-", from which are derived related words such as friendship, friendly, befriend, and newly coined words ... | 2.921875 | 0 |
559297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20language | Proto-Indo-European language | Noun
Proto-Indo-European nouns were probably declined for eight or nine cases:
nominative: marks the subject of a verb. Words that follow a linking verb (copulative verb) and restate the subject of that verb also use the nominative case. The nominative is the dictionary form of the noun.
accusative: used for the direct... | 3.046875 | 0 |
559297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20language | Proto-Indo-European language | Verbs had three grammatical numbers:
singular
dual: referring to precisely two of the entities (objects or persons) identified by the noun or pronoun.
plural: a number other than singular or dual.
Verbs were probably marked by a highly developed system of participles, one for each combination of tense and voice, and a... | 2.875 | 0 |
559297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European%20language | Proto-Indo-European language | Possessive adjectives
Possessive or associated adjectives were probably created from nouns through internal derivation. Such words could be used directly as adjectives, or they could be turned back into a noun without any change in morphology, indicating someone or something characterised by the adjective. They were pr... | 2.890625 | 0 |
559305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritualization | Ritualization | Functions of ritualization
Previous studies mentioned several main functions of ritualization:
Social Solidarity
Ritualization fosters social solidarity by bringing people together and strengthening social bonds. They create a sense of belonging, shared identity, and unity among participants, contributing to the overa... | 3.03125 | 0 |
559305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritualization | Ritualization | Traditional societies are bound by mechanical solidarity, characterized by a collective conscience. This collective conscience is a shared mindset among all members of the society, forming a moral community. The core of this type of society is a sacred collective ideal that embodies the group's virtues and serves as a ... | 2.671875 | 0 |
559305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritualization | Ritualization | Ritualization is associated with the work of Catherine Bell. Bell, drawing on the Practice Theory of Pierre Bourdieu, has taken a less functional view of ritual with her elaboration of ritualization.
Recent studies
More recently scholars interested in the cognitive science of religion such as Pascal Boyer, Pierre Lién... | 2.484375 | 0 |
559313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20Fighters%20%28comics%29 | Freedom Fighters (comics) | The Freedom Fighters is a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The original six characters were the Black Condor, Doll Man, the Human Bomb, the Ray, the Phantom Lady, and Uncle Sam. Although the characters were created by Quality Comics, they never were gathered in a group before bei... | 2.640625 | 0 |
559313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20Fighters%20%28comics%29 | Freedom Fighters (comics) | The New 52
In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, the Freedom Fighters still inhabit Earth-10, but according to Grant Morrison's Multiversity revision of the concept, Kal-L landed in German territory in 1938. Hitler reverse-engineered the alien technology that the Kryptonian stars... | 1.976563 | 0 |
559328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zatanna | Zatanna | Publication history
Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Murphy Anderson, Zatanna first appeared in Hawkman #4 (November 1964). When she is introduced, she is on a quest to find her father Zatara who made his first appearance in Action Comics #1 but had not been published regularly for several years. The storyline ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
559328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zatanna | Zatanna | Due to her Homo Magi heritage, Zatanna possess inherent magical abilities that give her command over mystic and cosmic forces. In most depictions, the character uses logomancy, a form of magic that invokes supernatural effects and reality alteration by speaking backwards. The character is also versed in different varia... | 2.28125 | 0 |
559329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Blue Line (Washington Metro) | The Blue Line is a rapid transit line of the Washington Metro system, consisting of 28 stations in Fairfax County, Alexandria and Arlington, Virginia; Washington, D.C.; and Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The Blue Line runs from to . The line shares track with the Orange Line for 13 stations, the Silv... | 2.59375 | 0 |
559329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Blue Line (Washington Metro) | The Virginia portion of the Blue Line took much of its present form along the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad right-of-way to Colchester, as construction along existing right-of-way is the least expensive way to build into the suburbs. A surface-level section of the Blue Line that parallels Virginia State... | 2.171875 | 0 |
559336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%20Martin%20X-33 | Lockheed Martin X-33 | The Lockheed Martin X-33 was a proposed uncrewed, sub-scale technology demonstrator suborbital spaceplane that was developed for a period in the 1990s. The X-33 was a technology demonstrator for the VentureStar orbital spaceplane, which was planned to be a next-generation, commercially operated reusable launch vehicle.... | 2.734375 | 0 |
559336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%20Martin%20X-33 | Lockheed Martin X-33 | NASA had invested $922 million in the project before cancellation, and Lockheed Martin a further $357 million. Due to changes in the space launch business—including the challenges faced by companies such as Globalstar, Teledesic, and Iridium and the resulting drop in the anticipated number of commercial satellite launc... | 2.359375 | 0 |
559336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%20Martin%20X-33 | Lockheed Martin X-33 | Once those test flights were completed, further flight tests were to be conducted from Edwards AFB to Malmstrom AFB in Great Falls, Montana, to gather more complete data on aircraft heating and engine performance at higher speeds and altitudes.
On July 2, 1996, NASA selected Lockheed Martin Skunk Works of Palmdale, Ca... | 2.59375 | 0 |
559336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%20Martin%20X-33 | Lockheed Martin X-33 | Commercial spaceflight
Based on the X-33 experience shared with NASA, Lockheed Martin hoped to make the business case for a full-scale SSTO RLV, called VentureStar, that would be developed and operated through commercial means. The intention was that rather than operate space transport systems as it has with the Space... | 2.578125 | 0 |
559339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie-dye | Tie-dye | Protein-based fibers such as silk, wool, and feathers, as well as the synthetic polyamide fiber nylon, can be dyed with acid dyes. Acid dyes are effective at acidic (low) pH, where they form ionic bonds with the fiber. Acid dyes are also relatively safe (some are used as food dyes) and simple to use. Vat dyes, includin... | 2.53125 | 0 |
559339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie-dye | Tie-dye | Discharge agents are used to bleach color from the previously dyed fabrics and can be used as a reverse tie-dye, where the application of the agent results in loss of color rather than its application. Household bleach (sodium hypochlorite) can be used to discharge fiber-reactive dyes on bleach-resistant fibers such as... | 2.265625 | 0 |
559339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie-dye | Tie-dye | Tie-dye can be used to create a wide variety of designs on fabric, from standard patterns such as the spiral, peace sign, diamond, sunburst, and the marble effect to beautiful works of art. Using techniques such as stencils (as in screen printing using dyes or discharge pastes), clamped-on shaped blocks, and tritik (st... | 2.828125 | 0 |
559356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain%20Carrot%20and%20His%20Amazing%20Zoo%20Crew%21 | Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! | Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! is a DC Comics series about a team of talking animal superheroes called the Zoo Crew. The characters first appeared in a 16-page special insert in The New Teen Titans #16 (February 1982), followed by a series published from 1982 to 1983. The Zoo Crew characters were created by R... | 2.1875 | 0 |
559378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20de%20Valence%2C%201st%20Earl%20of%20Pembroke | William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke | William de Valence (died 13 June 1296), born Guillaume de Lusignan, was a French nobleman and knight who became important in English politics due to his relationship to King Henry III of England. He was heavily involved in the Second Barons' War, supporting the king and Prince Edward against the rebels led by Simon de ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
559378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20de%20Valence%2C%201st%20Earl%20of%20Pembroke | William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke | Second Barons' War
This favouritism to royal relatives was unpopular with many of the English nobility, a discontent which would culminate in the Second Barons' War. It did not take long for William to make enemies in England. From his new lands in South Wales, he tried to regain the palatine rights which had been att... | 2.734375 | 0 |
559382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Basin%20College | Great Basin College | Great Basin College is a public college in Elko, Nevada, United States. Opened in 1967 as Elko College, it was later renamed to Northern Nevada College and then to its current name. It has 3,836 students and is a member of the Nevada System of Higher Education.
History
After its opening in 1967, the college joined the... | 1.921875 | 0 |
559387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Moscone | George Moscone | George Richard Moscone ( ; November 24, 1929 – November 27, 1978) was an attorney and Democratic politician who served as the 37th mayor of San Francisco from January 1976 until his assassination in November 1978. He was known as "The People's Mayor", who opened up City Hall and its commissions to reflect the diversity... | 2.234375 | 0 |
559387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Moscone | George Moscone | Career
As a young man playing basketball and as a young lawyer, Moscone became close friends with John Burton, who would later become a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. John's older brother, Phillip, a member of the California State Assembly, recruited Moscone to run for an Assembly seat in 1960 as a Democr... | 2.15625 | 0 |
559387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Moscone | George Moscone | Moscone also was an early proponent of gay rights. In conjunction with his friend and ally in the Assembly, Willie Brown, Moscone managed to pass a bill repealing California's sodomy law. The repeal was signed into law by California Governor Jerry Brown.
Mayor of San Francisco
On December 19, 1974, Moscone announced h... | 2.1875 | 0 |
559387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Moscone | George Moscone | Moscone's first year as mayor was spent preventing the San Francisco Giants professional baseball team from moving to Toronto and advocating a citywide ballot initiative in favor of district election to the board of supervisors. Moscone was the first mayor to appoint large numbers of women, homosexuals and racial minor... | 2.296875 | 0 |
559394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Orange Line (Washington Metro) | Future
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) announced on January 18, 2008 that it and the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (VDPRT) had begun work on a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the I-66 corridor in Fairfax and Prince William counties. According to VDOT the EIS, off... | 2.296875 | 0 |
559400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum%20Creek%20Timber | Plum Creek Timber | Plum Creek stated that they follow three principles, Replanting, Protecting Water Quality, and Managing Wildlife Habitat. Every year, Plum Creek replanted approximately 85 million seedlings and plans for the natural regeneration of millions of trees. Close to of land owned by Plum Creek are a part of four habitat cons... | 2.453125 | 0 |
559429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M728%20combat%20engineer%20vehicle | M728 combat engineer vehicle | The M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle (CEV) is a full-tracked vehicle used for breaching, obstacle removal, and pioneering operations. Production commenced in 1965 and ceased in 1987. A total of 312 of all variants of these armored engineer vehicles were produced.
Design
Development and production
Prototype development be... | 2.234375 | 0 |
559429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M728%20combat%20engineer%20vehicle | M728 combat engineer vehicle | Description
The M728 is a full-tracked combat engineer vehicle designed to provide maximum ballistic protection for the crew. It is a heavily armed derivative of the M60 series tank modified to provide a mobile and maneuverable weapon for combat support of ground troops and vehicles. The M728 vehicle is used for breach... | 2.0625 | 0 |
559429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M728%20combat%20engineer%20vehicle | M728 combat engineer vehicle | During mine-clearing operations in the Gulf War, the M1 MCRS was found to be cumbersome, heavy and hard to transport. In addition, since they were originally designed for the firmer soil conditions of Europe, its rollers were unsuitable for the softer soil of the desert. Instead of rolling, they often merely skidded, p... | 2.078125 | 0 |
559429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M728%20combat%20engineer%20vehicle | M728 combat engineer vehicle | They were active during the Desert Shield phase of the Gulf War in clearing suspected minefields and in creating temporary defensive fighting positions and staging areas in the deserts near the Iraqi Saudi border. The M728A1s of the 24th Infantry Division and US XVIII Airborne Corps breached the openings for the "left ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
559434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20A.%20Snelling | Richard A. Snelling | Richard Arkwright Snelling (February 18, 1927August 13, 1991) was an American businessman, politician, and the 76th and 78th governor of Vermont from 1977 to 1985 and from January 10, 1991, until his death.
A native of Allentown, Pennsylvania, Snelling was educated in Allentown and served in the United States Army at ... | 1.9375 | 0 |
559434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20A.%20Snelling | Richard A. Snelling | In 1990, Snelling ran again for governor, intending to use his business acumen and previous gubernatorial service to address state fiscal problems caused by the post-Reagan economic recession. He won a fifth two-year term, and devoted most of his effort to balancing the state budget and restoring its financial health. ... | 2 | 0 |
559437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharosthi | Kharosthi | Kharosthi script (), also known as the Gandhari script (), was an ancient Indic script used by various peoples from the north-western outskirts of the Indian subcontinent (present-day Pakistan) to Central Asia via Afghanistan. An abugida, it was introduced by the middle of the 3rd century BCE, possibly during the 4th c... | 2.453125 | 0 |
559437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharosthi | Kharosthi | While the Brahmi script remained in use for centuries, Kharosthi seems to have been abandoned after the 2nd–3rd century AD. Because of the substantial differences between the Semitic-derived Kharosthi script and its successors, knowledge of Kharosthi may have declined rapidly once the script was supplanted by Brahmi-de... | 2.015625 | 0 |
559437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharosthi | Kharosthi | This alphabet was used in Gandharan Buddhism as a mnemonic for the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, a series of verses on the nature of phenomena.
Consonants
A bar above a consonant can be used to indicate various modified pronunciations depending on the consonant, such as nasalization or aspiration. It i... | 2.5 | 0 |
559440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonkers%20station | Yonkers station | Yonkers station is a Metro-North Railroad and Amtrak railroad station located near Getty Square in Yonkers, New York. It is served by Metro-North Hudson Line commuter rail service and five Amtrak intercity services. The station building was constructed in 1911–1912, replacing an older structure.
History
The current st... | 2.078125 | 0 |
559451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz%20SLR%20McLaren | Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren | Wanting to bring the concept to production following its positive reception, Mercedes joined forces with their Formula One partner, McLaren, thus creating the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. Mercedes did the styling on the car while McLaren was fully responsible for everything else, from the design and the engineering to th... | 2.203125 | 0 |
559489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Red Line (Washington Metro) | The Red Line is a rapid transit line of the Washington Metro system, consisting of 27 stations in Montgomery County, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., in the United States. It is a primary line through downtown Washington and the oldest and busiest line in the system. It forms a long, narrow "U," capped by its terminal s... | 2.46875 | 0 |
559489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Red Line (Washington Metro) | With the formation of WMATA in October 1966, planning of the system shifted from federal hands to a regional body with representatives of the District, Maryland, and Virginia. Congressional route approval was no longer a key consideration. Instead, routes had to serve each suburban jurisdiction to assure that they woul... | 2.5625 | 0 |
559489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Red Line (Washington Metro) | Operation and extension
Service on the Red Line (and the Metro as a whole) began on March 27, 1976, with operation between Farragut North and Rhode Island Avenue. Gallery Place's opening was delayed due to a court order regarding lack of accessibility for all, but it opened in the middle of the line on December 15, 19... | 1.921875 | 0 |
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