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559493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilin%20District | Shilin District | Shilin District (also spelled Shihlin District, ) is a district of Taipei. The central command center of the Republic of China Navy (ROCN) is located in Shilin.
History
The name Shilin was derived from Pattsiran, the indigenous Ketagalan word for "hot springs". It was then transliterated into Chinese as "" (), which h... | 2.5625 | 0 |
559513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parinirvana | Parinirvana | In Buddhism, parinirvana (Sanskrit: ; Pali: ) describes the state entered after death by someone who has attained nirvana during their lifetime. It implies a release from , karma and rebirth as well as the dissolution of the skandhas.
In some Mahāyāna scriptures, notably the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, parinirvāṇa... | 2.609375 | 0 |
559513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parinirvana | Parinirvana | Within the Mahaparinibbana Sutta (Pali)
The parinirvana of the Buddha is described in the Mahaparinibbana Sutta. Because of its attention to detail, this Theravada sutta, though first committed to writing hundreds of years after his death, has been resorted to as the principal source of reference in most standard studi... | 2.25 | 0 |
559536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Green Line (Washington Metro) | Early decision making
Mid-century plans for rapid transit neglected some of the District's less affluent neighborhoods. By late 1966, some plans started to include a line along 7th Street in the District of Columbia. In 1968, the new WMATA included the line in its master plan for its proposed system. At that time, a ... | 2.75 | 0 |
559536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Green Line (Washington Metro) | The downtown segment of the line was originally projected to open in September 1977. Obtaining approval of the District of Columbia and Prince George's County of the exact alignment of the Green Line north of U Street delayed construction. Originally, the ARS called for the line to be placed in the median strip of the ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
559536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Green Line (Washington Metro) | In October 1977, WMATA's Board of Directors refused to declare construction of the Green Line a "high priority" (favoring extension of the Red Line to ) although it instructed Metro staff to work on plans to fund the line and to determine its route. Although the United States Department of Transportation approved the G... | 2.125 | 0 |
559536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Green Line (Washington Metro) | The District of Columbia government responded by threatening to veto any further Metro subway construction unless construction of the Green Line was made Metro's highest priority. Twenty-four hours of intense discussions later, Metro agreed to the District government's wishes. Construction began on the Waterfront stati... | 2.28125 | 0 |
559536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Green Line (Washington Metro) | 1982
Funding problems delayed construction even further. In February 1982, President Ronald Reagan proposed cutting Metro construction funds by 21.4% to just $295 million a year. Planned Green Line construction constituted 40.5% of Metro's construction budget, and the cuts threatened to cancel the entire Green Line. To... | 2 | 0 |
559536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Green Line (Washington Metro) | Metro officials considered shifting construction funds from the southern Green Line to the northern Green Line in order to start construction on that end of the line, but the D.C. City Council opposed this shift. Metro held the court-ordered hearings in June 1982, at which Prince George's residents argued that they had... | 2.28125 | 0 |
559536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Green Line (Washington Metro) | Just four days later, Metro, D.C. and Prince George's County officials, reached an agreement with advocates of both the Branch Avenue and Rosecroft routes to begin construction from L'Enfant Plaza to Anacostia, pending resolution of the line's final route by December 6, 1984. The agreement called for construction of th... | 2.296875 | 0 |
559536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Green Line (Washington Metro) | Bus controversy
Like all Metrorail stations, Anacostia station was intended to be a major hub for Metrobus service in the area. However, with the Anacostia neighborhood being the poorest and most transit-dependent area in the District of Columbia, changes to bus routes in the area proved highly controversial. As the op... | 2.203125 | 0 |
559536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Green Line (Washington Metro) | Protests and boycott
District residents protested the route cuts with a picket line in front of WMATA's downtown headquarters in August 1991. Prince George's County residents were also angered by the changes. They argued that Metro had promised more, not less, bus service and complained that they would be forced to use... | 2.15625 | 0 |
559536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Green Line (Washington Metro) | Fare loss
Two months after the Anacostia station opened, WMATA said that a study of bus and rail ridership showed that the unaltered bus routes were costing the transit agency $200,000 a month in lost rail fares. To make up the lost revenue, WMATA said that it would run only two-car trains (the shortest on the system) ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
559536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Green Line (Washington Metro) | Metro also encountered significant problems estimating the number of riders who would board the system at the Anacostia and other Green Line stations. In June 1991, WMATA estimated that just over 15,000 riders on average would board at the Waterfront, Navy Yard, and Anacostia stations. In December 1991, when the Anacos... | 2.125 | 0 |
559536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Green Line (Washington Metro) | By January 24, the number had risen to more than 30,600 per day, three times as many as originally estimated. Angry commuters using the Anacostia, Navy Yard, and Waterfront stations peppered the transit agency with complaints. WMATA claimed that a number of factors contributed to the ridership crunch: the system was ex... | 2.28125 | 0 |
559536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Green Line (Washington Metro) | 1985
Funding for Green Line construction fell into place in 1985. Pressured by the previous year's Congressional action, the Reagan administration sought to provide WMATA with $250 million a year for four years to expand the system to , a plan which would not fund construction of the system beyond the proposed Southern... | 2.71875 | 0 |
559536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Green Line (Washington Metro) | 1986–88
Funding for construction of the Green Line was threatened again in 1986. WMATA needed $2 billion in construction funds, but Congress was threatening to cut WMATA's funding by up to 26% to $184.5 million a year for four years. Congress approved $227 million for 1986 in December 1985, but the Reagan administratio... | 2.40625 | 0 |
559536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Green Line (Washington Metro) | By mid-1991, however, falling inflation had reduced WMATA's construction costs so much that the agency said it could build the two final Green Line stations in Prince George's County without asking Congress for additional money. WMATA also proposed spending money almost three times faster up-front to accelerate its con... | 2.265625 | 0 |
559536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Green Line (Washington Metro) | Change of contractor
The opening of the Green Line was significantly delayed, however, when in May 1990 WMATA fired the contractor building the Shaw–Howard University and U Street–Cardozo stations. Mergentime/Perini Joint Venture, the contractor working on the stations, had violated its contract with WMATA by reducing ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
559536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Green Line (Washington Metro) | After the branch north of Fort Totten opened, the Green Line Commuter Shortcut began as a six-month experiment on January 27, 1997, allowing passengers to get on a train on the Green Line segment during rush hours and travel as far as on the Red Line without having to switch trains at Fort Totten; a transfer was neede... | 1.992188 | 0 |
559538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefty%20Driesell | Lefty Driesell | Charles Grice "Lefty" Driesell (December 25, 1931 – February 17, 2024) was an American college basketball coach. He was the first coach to win more than 100 games at four different NCAA Division I schools, Driesell led the programs of Davidson College, the University of Maryland, James Madison University, and Georgia S... | 2.609375 | 0 |
559538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefty%20Driesell | Lefty Driesell | Coaching career
After college in 1954, Driesell took an office job with the Ford Motor Company. Driesell also found time to renew his playing career by joining the Virginia semi-pro ranks, where he once scored 59 points in a single game and earned a tryout with the then Minneapolis Lakers (later Los Angeles Lakers) of ... | 1.921875 | 0 |
559538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefty%20Driesell | Lefty Driesell | Maryland
Driesell was hired by the University of Maryland, College Park in 1969. During his introductory press conference on March 19, 1969, he boldly stated that Maryland "has the potential to be the UCLA of the East Coast or I wouldn't be here," referring to the nation's dominant college basketball program in the mid... | 2.234375 | 0 |
559538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefty%20Driesell | Lefty Driesell | At Maryland, Driesell began the now nationwide tradition of Midnight Madness. According to longstanding NCAA rules, college basketball teams were not permitted to begin practices until October 15. Driesell traditionally began the first practice with a requirement that his players run one mile in six minutes, but found ... | 2.375 | 0 |
559538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefty%20Driesell | Lefty Driesell | Georgia State
Driesell then moved to Georgia State, which he led to four Atlantic Sun Conference regular season championships and one tournament championship in six years. He retired from coaching on January 3, 2003, in the middle of his 41st season as a head coach, ranked No. 4 in NCAA Division I wins behind only Dean... | 1.976563 | 0 |
559552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIJAC | AIJAC | Aims and activities
As both a think tank and public affairs organisation, AIJAC's stated purpose is to represent the interests of Australian Jews to the Australian government, media, and other media organisations. While AIJAC's main focus is on combating perceived anti-Israel bias and misinformation in the media and Au... | 2.171875 | 0 |
559554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Yellow Line (Washington Metro) | The Yellow Line is a rapid transit line of the Washington Metro system that runs between in Virginia and in Washington, D.C. It consists of 13 stations in Fairfax County, the city of Alexandria, and Arlington County in Virginia, and Washington, D.C. It is the shortest line in the system, and since its truncation to M... | 2.6875 | 0 |
559554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Yellow Line (Washington Metro) | The Yellow Line was initially planned to follow a slightly different route in Virginia. The plan would have sent Yellow Line trains to , with Blue Line trains serving Huntington. This was changed due to a shortage of rail cars at the time of the completion of the line to Huntington. Because fewer rail cars were require... | 2.203125 | 0 |
559554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow%20Line%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Yellow Line (Washington Metro) | At the north end of the airport, the Yellow Line enters a tunnel under 18th Street South and South Hayes Street in Crystal City. The tunnel continues along the southwest face of the Pentagon which is a 2-level station to facilitate a fork with the Blue Line. After the Pentagon station, the Yellow Line emerges from its ... | 1.90625 | 0 |
559559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living%20Stream%20Ministry | Living Stream Ministry | Holding the Bible as the complete and only divine revelation, we strongly believe that God is eternally one and also eternally the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, the three being distinct but not separate. We hold that Christ is both the complete God and the perfect man. Without abandoning His divinity, He was conceiv... | 1.96875 | 0 |
559572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Nations%20Association%20in%20Canada | United Nations Association in Canada | The United Nations Association in Canada (UNA-Canada) is a historic charitable organization focused on multilateralism in Canada. Established in 1946, UNA-Canada was a founding member of the World Federation of United Nations Association.
Mission
UNA-Canada's stated mission is to educate and engage Canadians in the w... | 2.546875 | 0 |
559595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland%20Lysander | Westland Lysander | The Westland Lysander is a British army co-operation and liaison aircraft produced by Westland Aircraft that was used immediately before and during the Second World War.
After becoming obsolete in the army co-operation role, the aircraft's short-field performance enabled clandestine missions using small, improvised ai... | 2.46875 | 0 |
559595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland%20Lysander | Westland Lysander | With the fall of France, it was clear that the type was unsuitable for the coastal patrol and army co-operation role, being described by Air Marshal Arthur Barratt, commander-in-chief of the British Air Forces in France as "quite unsuited to the task; a faster, less vulnerable aircraft was required." The view of army A... | 2.40625 | 0 |
559595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland%20Lysander | Westland Lysander | In August 1941 a new squadron, No. 138 (Special Duties), was formed to undertake missions for the Special Operations Executive to maintain clandestine contact with the French Resistance. Among its aircraft were Lysander Mk.IIIs, which flew over and landed in occupied France. While general supply drops could be left to ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
559595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland%20Lysander | Westland Lysander | The P.12, also sometimes referred to as the Lysander Mk.V or Wendover, was a rebuild of the prototype Lysander K6127 with a Delanne configuration tandem rear wing to carry a four-gun power-operated tail gun turret. The design was intended for "beach strafing" in case of invasion of the UK. The installation of a dorsal ... | 1.9375 | 0 |
559618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-hop%20fashion | Hip-hop fashion | Trending accessories of the time included items such as large eyeglasses (Cazals), Kangol bucket hats, nameplates, name belts, multiple rings and heavy gold jewelry. Men's jewelry typically focused on heavy gold chains, while women's jewelry consisted of large gold earrings. Hip-hop performers like Kurtis Blow and Big ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
559618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-hop%20fashion | Hip-hop fashion | Preppy
In the 1980s, the first wave of hip-hop influence, preppy fashion also gained popularity among the youth. This group of young, upwardly mobile black individuals, known as "buppies", embraced 1980s hip-hop music and wore clothing items from brands like Polo, Timberland, and Tommy Hilfiger. They were particularly... | 2.40625 | 0 |
559618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-hop%20fashion | Hip-hop fashion | In the 1990s, hip-hop fashion underwent a gradual evolution from the 1980s, as the community began to draw inspiration from traditional African-American dress. The style of dressing in the early 1990s was influenced by elements such as bright colors, oversized pants, and headwear. The character portrayed by Will Smith ... | 2.375 | 0 |
559618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-hop%20fashion | Hip-hop fashion | Gangsta rap pioneers N.W.A popularized an early form of street style in the late 1980s from the African American gangs and hustler cliques who were there mimicking cholo fashion. This included khaki Dickies work pants, white T-shirts, Locs sunglasses, Air Jordan or Nike Cortez sneakers, with black Los Angeles Raiders o... | 2.234375 | 0 |
559618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-hop%20fashion | Hip-hop fashion | Fashion among "hip hop" elites
On the East Coast of the United States, members of the hip hop community looked back to the gangsters of the 1930s and 1940s for inspiration. Mafioso influences, especially and primarily inspired by the 1983 remake version of Scarface, became popular in hip hop. Many rappers set aside ga... | 2.234375 | 0 |
559618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-hop%20fashion | Hip-hop fashion | Karl Kani was another influential designer who merged hip hop with fashion.
Other brands, such as Nike, Jordan, FUBU, Southpole, Reebok Pro-Keds, Adidas, Eckō Unltd., Walker Wear, Mecca USA, Lugz, Rocawear, Boss Jeans by IG Design, and Enyce, arose to capitalize on the market for urban streetwear.
Throwback clothing ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
559618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-hop%20fashion | Hip-hop fashion | Skater culture is also prominent in the Hip-Hop scene. The boost in its popularity is largely attributed to alternative rapper and leader of the musical group Odd Future, Tyler, The Creator. Brands like Obey, Supreme, Thrasher, and Tyler, the Creator's merchandise line, Golf Wang have also boosted the significance of s... | 2.296875 | 0 |
559618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-hop%20fashion | Hip-hop fashion | Influence
As music played a significant role in the way people dressed during the 1990s, many celebrities were known as fashion icons, especially rappers. Legendary rapper, Tupac, was not only known for his resonating lyrics, but also his timeless style. He was seen as a trend setter during that period. His signature,... | 2.546875 | 0 |
559618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-hop%20fashion | Hip-hop fashion | The hip hop genre has been traditionally viewed as a predominantly hyper-masculine community, with female artists adopting traits traditionally associated with men. Female artists such as Young M.A., Conscious Daughters, and Aaliyah have often dressed in clothing typically considered masculine, wearing baggy clothes an... | 2.515625 | 0 |
559622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level%20set | Level set | Level sets versus the gradient
Theorem: If the function is differentiable, the gradient of at a point is either zero, or perpendicular to the level set of at that point.
To understand what this means, imagine that two hikers are at the same location on a mountain. One of them is bold, and decides to go in the ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
559636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Somerset%2C%202nd%20Marquess%20of%20Worcester | Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester | Edward suggested that when he died, a model of his engine should be buried with him:
"I call this a Semi Omnipotent Engine, and do intend that a model thereof be buried with me."
Marriage and children
He married twice:
Firstly in 1628 to Elizabeth Dormer (died 31 May 1635), daughter of Sir William Dormer and Alice Mol... | 2.109375 | 0 |
559645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna%20Newcombe | Hanna Newcombe | Hanna Newcombe (February 5, 1922 – April 10, 2011) was the co-founder of Peace Research Abstracts and Peace Research Reviews, was the recipient of the 1997 Pearson Medal of Peace and was elected a member of the Order of Canada in 2007 for her work in peace research and international relations.
Early life
Newcombe was... | 2.140625 | 0 |
559645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna%20Newcombe | Hanna Newcombe | Career
After receiving her PhD in 1950, Newcombe never worked full-time as a chemist, due in large part to the fact that, at that time, married women with children were not expected to work. Daughter Nora was born in 1951 and son George in 1953, both in Toronto, where Alan was working at the Ontario Research Foundatio... | 2.515625 | 0 |
559665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmink%C3%A4inen | Lemminkäinen | Lemminkäinen () or Lemminki () is a prominent figure in Finnish mythology. He is one of the heroes of the Kalevala, where his character is a composite of several separate heroes of oral poetry. He is usually depicted as young and good-looking, with wavy red hair.
Description
The original, mythological Lemminkäinen i... | 2.140625 | 0 |
559677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escott%20Reid | Escott Reid | Escott Graves Meredith Reid, CC (January 21, 1905 – September 28, 1999), was a Canadian diplomat who helped shape the United Nations and NATO, author, international public servant and academic administrator.
Early life and education
Born in Campbellford, Ontario, he was the son of Shropshire native and Anglican mini... | 1.945313 | 0 |
559677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escott%20Reid | Escott Reid | Turning down a position to teach at Harvard University, from 1932 to 1938, he was the first full-time National Secretary for the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA), today known as the Canadian International Council (CIC). He was active in the League for Social Reconstruction, an association of left-wing... | 2.03125 | 0 |
559677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escott%20Reid | Escott Reid | In 1947, he was appointed Assistant Under-Secretary for External Affairs and was Deputy Under-Secretary from 1948 to 1952. He was a member of the Canadian delegation to the founding conference of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945. From 1952 to 1957, he was the High Commissioner for Canada to India and from 19... | 2.03125 | 0 |
559686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Hoskins | Eric Hoskins | Working in conflict areas
From 1987 to 1990, Hoskins lived and worked in Sudan providing humanitarian relief to Ethiopian refugees in eastern Sudan, and to displaced civilians in southern Sudan. In 1991, Hoskins co-founded the International Study Team, and led a group of international experts to examine the impact of ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
559690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupont%20Circle%20station | Dupont Circle station | Dupont Circle station is an underground rapid transit station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro in Washington, D.C. Located below the traffic circle, it is one of the busiest stations in the Metro system, with an average of 16,948 entries each weekday. The station parallels Connecticut Avenue NW between the south... | 2.125 | 0 |
559693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel%20Duckworth | Muriel Duckworth | Muriel undertook studies at Montreal's McGill University with the help of a small college bursary and money from her Aunt Abbie. She was enrolled in the university's Bachelor of Arts program and in her graduating year, took the education courses required to qualify for a high school teaching diploma. To practise teachi... | 2.453125 | 0 |
559693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel%20Duckworth | Muriel Duckworth | In 1926, Muriel met Jack Duckworth, a McGill student who was also active in the SCM. She was 18, he was 29. Duckworth was attending university to qualify for a job with the YMCA where he had been a volunteer working with boys in Vancouver. To finance his studies, he became a student minister and discovered his talents ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
559693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel%20Duckworth | Muriel Duckworth | Family life
Muriel and Jack Duckworth returned to Montreal in 1930 where they began raising a family. Their son Martin was born in 1933; Eleanor, named after Eleanor Roosevelt, was born in 1935 followed by John in 1938. The family moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1947 where Jack Duckworth served as general secretary ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
559693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel%20Duckworth | Muriel Duckworth | Duckworth was also active in community organizing, electoral politics and the advancement of women's issues. In 1971, she helped establish the Movement for Citizens' Voice and Action (MOVE), a coalition of community groups in Halifax, Nova Scotia working for a wide range of goals including improvements in education, ho... | 2.15625 | 0 |
559698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodley%20Park%20station | Woodley Park station | Woodley Park station (also known as Woodley Park–Zoo/Adams Morgan) is an underground station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro. Located at 24th Street and Connecticut Avenue Northwest, it serves the neighborhoods of Woodley Park and Adams Morgan in Northwest Washington.
Station layout
Woodley Park was the first... | 2.078125 | 0 |
559699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo%20Metropolitan%20University | Tokyo Metropolitan University | University reform
In the later 1990s, Government and local municipalities facilitated to reform of the administrative scheme and financial management in line with economic bubble burst and financial difficulties due to Japan's progressive low birthrate and longevity. As a part of the said administrative and financial ... | 1.9375 | 0 |
559703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland%20Park%20station | Cleveland Park station | Cleveland Park station is an underground rapid transit station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro. Located in the neighborhood of the same name in Washington D.C., it opened on December 5, 1981.
Station layout
There are two entrances to the station, both on Connecticut Avenue but on opposite sides of the street ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
559713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Meek%20Pocock | Nancy Meek Pocock | Nancy Meek Pocock, (October 24, 1910 – March 4, 1998), known as "Mama Nancy", was a Canadian Quaker who was the 1987 recipient of the Pearson Medal of Peace for her work in disarmament, development and feminism. She was awarded the Order of Ontario in 1992.
Biography
Early life and Career
Nancy Pocock was born in Ch... | 2.171875 | 0 |
559728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer%20Brownstone | Meyer Brownstone | Meyer Brownstone (June 26, 1922 – April 3, 2019) was a Canadian activist, civil servant, and academic, particularly notable for his longtime involvement with Oxfam Canada.
Early life
Brownstone was born in Winnipeg in 1922 to a poor Jewish socialist family. His parents were Olia Brownstone (née Roseman) and Charles Br... | 2.1875 | 0 |
559733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand-Augustin-Louis%20de%20Caulaincourt | Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt | Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt, duc de Vicence (, 9 December 177319 February 1827), was a French military officer, diplomat and close advisor to Napoleon I.
Early life and family
Armand de Caulaincourt was born into a noble family in the village of Caulaincourt, in the province of Picardy, northern France, on ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
559733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand-Augustin-Louis%20de%20Caulaincourt | Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt | After the establishment of the empire he received various honors and in 1808 was given the title of Duke of Vicenza, a duché grand-fief. In 1807, Napoleon sent him as ambassador to St. Petersburg, where Caulaincourt endeavored to maintain the alliance of Tilsit between France and Russia. During this time he developed a... | 2.53125 | 0 |
559733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand-Augustin-Louis%20de%20Caulaincourt | Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt | During the French occupation of Moscow that followed, Caulaincourt repeatedly warned the Emperor of the dangers of wintering in Russia. The Emperor wanted to send him to St. Petersburg to negotiate terms of an armistice, but Caulaincourt declined, noting that the Tsar would not negotiate peace terms with the French whi... | 2.53125 | 0 |
559733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand-Augustin-Louis%20de%20Caulaincourt | Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt | With Napoleon's escape from Elba and his regaining power in France, Caulaincourt was chosen to serve as Napoleon's minister of foreign affairs. Caulaincourt tried to persuade Europe of the emperor's peaceful intentions during the Hundred Days, but he was unsuccessful in this, culminating in the War of the Seventh Coali... | 2.3125 | 0 |
559733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand-Augustin-Louis%20de%20Caulaincourt | Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt | Memoir
Caulaincourt had kept copious notes on his conversations with the Emperor Napoleon. In the 1820s a number of memoirs of the First Empire were published, written by individuals who had served with Napoleon. These seemed to rely on the retelling of events by Hugues-Bernard Maret, Duke of Bassano, who had served as... | 2.421875 | 0 |
559733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand-Augustin-Louis%20de%20Caulaincourt | Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt | The work developed newfound significance with the events of the Second World War. Following the initial astonishing success of the German invasion of Russia in June 1941, military historian and theorist B. H. Liddell Hart coolly appraised the difficulties awaiting the Wehrmacht, citing Caulaincourt's work extensively i... | 2.671875 | 0 |
559740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton%20magnetometer | Proton magnetometer | A proton magnetometer, also known as a proton precession magnetometer (PPM), uses the principle of Earth's field nuclear magnetic resonance (EFNMR) to measure very small variations in the Earth's magnetic field, allowing ferrous objects on land and at sea to be detected.
It is used in land-based archaeology to map th... | 2.75 | 0 |
559746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huka%20Falls | Huka Falls | Huka Falls is a set of waterfalls on the Waikato River, which drains Lake Taupō in New Zealand.
A few hundred metres upstream from Huka Falls, the Waikato River narrows from approximately 100 metres across to a canyon only 15 metres across. The canyon is carved into lake floor sediments laid down before Taupō Volcano'... | 2.09375 | 0 |
559749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Ignatieff | George Ignatieff | Count George Pavlovich Ignatieff, (; 16 December 1913 – 10 August 1989) was a Russian-born Canadian diplomat. His career spanned nearly five decades in World War II and the postwar period.
Early life and education
Count Ignatieff was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, the youngest of five sons, to a distinguis... | 2.4375 | 0 |
559749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Ignatieff | George Ignatieff | Ignatieff was unimpressed by the foreign policy of the Trudeau governments of the 1970s and 1980s, and was unafraid to provoke government functionaries. He advocated cautious realignment of Canadian defence policy, and a complete nuclear test ban. Like his mentor Pearson, Ignatieff believed in the interdependence of ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
559752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Henri%20L%C3%A9vesque | Georges-Henri Lévesque | Georges-Henri Lévesque (February 16, 1903 – January 15, 2000) was a Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist and a liberal figure during the conservative Duplessis era in Quebec.
Biography
Born in Roberval, Quebec, the son of Georges Lévesque and Laura Richard, he was ordained into the priesthood in 1928. He studi... | 2.125 | 0 |
559752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Henri%20L%C3%A9vesque | Georges-Henri Lévesque | Lévesque supported the co-operative movement and, through his faculty, helped create new social welfare bodies such as the Conseil supérieur de la coopération and the Société d'éducation des adultes, and to modernize Québec's church-controlled social welfare organizations. As well, his Faculty of Social Science trained... | 2.21875 | 0 |
559753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20D.%20Higgins | Michael D. Higgins | Michael Daniel Higgins (; born 18 April 1941) is an Irish politician, poet, broadcaster and sociologist who has been serving as the ninth president of Ireland since 2011.
Entering national politics through the Labour Party, he served as a senator from 1973 to 1977 having been nominated by the Taoiseach. Elected in 19... | 2.1875 | 0 |
559753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20D.%20Higgins | Michael D. Higgins | Seanad and Dáil Éireann
Higgins originally joined Fianna Fáil in UCG while a mature student and was elected its branch chairman in 1966; he switched to the Labour Party shortly thereafter. He was a Labour candidate in the 1969 and 1973 general elections but was unsuccessful on both occasions. One of the people who canv... | 2.125 | 0 |
559763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Hayes%20%28politician%29 | Michael Hayes (politician) | Michael Joseph Hayes (1 December 1889 – 11 July 1976) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1922 to 1932, Minister for Foreign Affairs from August 1922 to September 1922 and Minister for Education January 1922 to August 1922. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Nation... | 2.375 | 0 |
559764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roentgen%20equivalent%20man | Roentgen equivalent man | The roentgen equivalent man (rem) is a CGS unit of equivalent dose, effective dose, and committed dose, which are dose measures used to estimate potential health effects of low levels of ionizing radiation on the human body.
Quantities measured in rem are designed to represent the stochastic biological risk of ionizin... | 2.703125 | 0 |
559764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roentgen%20equivalent%20man | Roentgen equivalent man | Stochastic effects are those that occur randomly, such as radiation-induced cancer. The consensus of the nuclear industry, nuclear regulators, and governments, is that the incidence of cancers caused by ionizing radiation can be modeled as increasing linearly with effective dose at a rate of 0.055% per rem (5.5%/Sv). I... | 2.1875 | 0 |
559764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roentgen%20equivalent%20man | Roentgen equivalent man | History
The concept of the rem first appeared in literature in 1945 and was given its first definition in 1947. The definition was refined in 1950 as "that dose of any ionizing radiation which produces a relevant biological effect equal to that produced by one roentgen of high-voltage x-radiation." Using data available... | 2.5 | 0 |
559769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutherland%2C%20New%20South%20Wales | Sutherland, New South Wales | Sutherland is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Sutherland is located 26 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the Sutherland Shire.
History
There are two theories for the origin of the Sutherlan... | 2.25 | 0 |
559776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20L.%20M.%20Burns | E. L. M. Burns | He was not destined to lead the division into battle, however, as, throughout January 1944, there were several changes in the higher levels in command in preparation for the Allied invasion of Normandy in the spring. Lieutenant-General Ernest William Sansom, commanding II Canadian Corps, and under whose command Burns's... | 1.90625 | 0 |
559776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20L.%20M.%20Burns | E. L. M. Burns | Burns served as Deputy Minister of Veterans’ Affairs. He served as a President of the UNAC during the 1950s. He played a critical role in the Middle East peace process from 1954 to 1959. He was instrumental in developing UN peacekeeping. As Chief of Staff in 1954, United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) w... | 2.421875 | 0 |
559785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rocks%2C%20Sydney | The Rocks, Sydney | The Rocks is a suburb, tourist precinct, and historic area of Sydney's city centre. It is on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour, immediately north-west of the Sydney's CBD.
Boundaries
The formal boundaries of the suburb named The Rocks cover the western side of Sydney Cove east of the Sydney Harbour Bridge approache... | 2.53125 | 0 |
559787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20King%20Gordon | J. King Gordon | John King Gordon (1900–1989) was a Canadian Christian minister, editor, United Nations official, and academic.
Biography
Gordon was born on 6 December 1900 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the son of the novelist and future Presbyterian Church moderator Charles Gordon (known by the pen name "Ralph Connor") and his wife Helen ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
559788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuileries%20Palace | Tuileries Palace | The Tuileries Palace (, ) was a royal and imperial palace in Paris which stood on the right bank of the Seine, directly in the west-front of the Louvre Palace. It was the Parisian residence of most French monarchs, from Henry IV to Napoleon III, until it was burned by the Paris Commune in 1871.
Construction began in 1... | 2.421875 | 0 |
559788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuileries%20Palace | Tuileries Palace | On 1 December 1783, the palace garden was the starting point of a major event in aviation history—the first manned flight in a hydrogen balloon, by Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers. It took place just two months after the first manned balloon flight by the Montgolfier brothers in a hot air balloon from the Palac... | 2.21875 | 0 |
559788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuileries%20Palace | Tuileries Palace | On 23 May 1871, during the suppression of the Paris Commune, 12 men under the orders of the Commune's former chief military commander Jules Bergeret set the Tuileries on fire using petroleum, liquid tar and turpentine. The fire lasted 48 hours and thoroughly gutted the palace, with the exception of the foundations, the... | 2.421875 | 0 |
559792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunalilo | Lunalilo | Lunalilo (William Charles Lunalilo; January 31, 1835 – February 3, 1874) was the sixth monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii from his election on January 8, 1873, until his death a year later.
Born to Kekāuluohi and High Chief Charles Kanaʻina, he was of royal descent and a grandnephew of King Kamehameha I. He was educate... | 2.65625 | 0 |
559792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunalilo | Lunalilo | Lunalilo served on the Privy Council of State, the advisory council for the monarch, from 1863 to 1865, during the reign of his cousin King Kamehameha V. He also served on the House of Nobles, the upper house of the legislature, traditionally reserved for the high chiefs, from 1863 to 1872.
Prospective royal brides
H... | 2.578125 | 0 |
559792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunalilo | Lunalilo | King Kamehameha V, the last of the Kamehameha kings, died on December 11, 1872, without naming a successor. Under the Kingdom's 1864 constitution, if the king did not appoint a successor, a new king would be elected by the legislature from the eligible Hawaiian royals still alive. The other candidate was David Kalākaua... | 2.046875 | 0 |
559792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunalilo | Lunalilo | Lunalilo, unlike his more conservative opponent, wanted to amend the constitution to make the government more democratic by removing property qualifications for voting. It was decided that there would be a popular election to give the people a chance to have their voices heard. However, because the constitution gave th... | 2.84375 | 0 |
559792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunalilo | Lunalilo | Illness and death
King Lunalilo had some bad health habits; for example, he was an alcoholic. Around August 1873, Lunalilo contracted a severe cold which developed into pulmonary tuberculosis. In hopes of regaining his health, he moved to Kailua-Kona. A few months later, on February 3, 1874, he died from tuberculosis a... | 2.15625 | 0 |
559796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul-%C3%89mile%20L%C3%A9ger | Paul-Émile Léger | Paul-Émile Léger (April 26, 1904 – November 13, 1991) was a Canadian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Montreal from 1950 to 1967, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.
Early life and education
Paul-Émile Léger was born April 26, 1904, in Salaberry-de-Valleyfie... | 2.359375 | 0 |
559806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubtful%20Sound%20/%20Patea | Doubtful Sound / Patea | Doubtful Sound / Patea is a fiord in Fiordland, in the far south west of New Zealand. It is located in the same region as the smaller but more famous and accessible Milford Sound / Piopiotahi. It took second place after Milford Sound as New Zealand's most famous tourism destination.
At long, Doubtful Sound / Patea is... | 2.390625 | 0 |
559806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubtful%20Sound%20/%20Patea | Doubtful Sound / Patea | Doubtful Sound lies deep within the Fiordland National Park, about from the nearest inhabited place, the small town of Manapouri, and is surrounded by mountainous terrain with peaks typically reaching . Along the coast, there are no settlements for about in either direction.
There are three distinct arms to the sou... | 2.0625 | 0 |
559806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubtful%20Sound%20/%20Patea | Doubtful Sound / Patea | Doubtful Sound (like many of the fiords in the area) is unusual in that it contains two distinct layers of water that scarcely mix. The surface layer , referred to as the Low Salinity Layer or LSL, consists of diluted seawater with a typical salinity value of less than 10 psu. This layer receives fresh water fed from ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
559806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubtful%20Sound%20/%20Patea | Doubtful Sound / Patea | Deep Cove (), the innermost end of Doubtful Sound, is the site of discharge of water from the Manapouri Power Station's tailrace tunnels. Deep Cove, like the rest of Fiordland, is a unique and mostly pristine environment. The discharge of clear fresh water has affected fauna and flora by letting light into the lower la... | 2.25 | 0 |
559811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas%20Heights%2C%20New%20South%20Wales | Lucas Heights, New South Wales | Lucas Heights is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is near to the Royal National Park.
Geography
It is located 31 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire. Lucas Heights is located on the Woronora River... | 2.265625 | 0 |
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