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71164040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Sydney%20Baker-Falkner | Roy Sydney Baker-Falkner | Roy Sydney Baker-Falkner (3 June 1916 – 18 July 1944) was a Canadian Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm naval aviator and wing leader during the Second World War, who attained the rank of Lieutenant commander. He was a veteran of the evacuation of Dunkirk, one of the few naval Battle of Britain pilots, was test pilot for the Ad... | 2.296875 | 0 |
71164120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan%20Botanic%20Garden%20of%20Kroussia | Balkan Botanic Garden of Kroussia | The BBGK has been focused on the conservation and the sustainable use of the native plants of Greece and the Balkans, with a policy against planting exotic ornamental plants. All 40 plant displays in BBGK have been created using plant material originating in the wild that has been sustainably managed and put through a ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
71164193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo%20Croce%20%28soldier%29 | Carlo Croce (soldier) | The group restored the neglected fortifications of the Cadorna Line on Monte San Martino and prepared to fight the Germans and their allies of the newly established Italian Social Republic. Croce tried to organize his partisan detachment like a regular Army unit, and kept using the tactics of conventional warfare, whic... | 2.40625 | 0 |
71164516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptoglossa%20liatroides | Streptoglossa liatroides | Streptoglossa liatroides is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a low, spreading or upright perennial herb with pink or red to purple flowers. It grows in South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
Description
Streptoglossa liatroides is a short-lived, upr... | 2.390625 | 0 |
71164532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie%20Sanderson | Marie Sanderson | Marie Elizabeth Sanderson (1921-2010; Lustig) was a Canadian geographer and climatologist.
Early life and education
Marie Lustig was born on 16 November 1921 in Chesley, Ontario, Canada. She was one of the earliest graduates in geography from the University of Toronto, and then gained an MA from the University of Mar... | 2.0625 | 0 |
71164986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agencia%20Espacial%20Espa%C3%B1ola | Agencia Espacial Española | In 1986, the Promotion and General Coordination of Scientific and Technical Research Act dismissed the commission and it transferred its powers to two bodies: first, to the Interministerial Committee for Science and Technology (CICYT, a collective government body to coordinate this affairs) and, secondly, to the Centre... | 2.515625 | 0 |
71164989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasegawa%20Yoshikazu | Hasegawa Yoshikazu | (born 1930) is a Japanese vertebrate palaeontologist and honorary museum director. The Pleistocene anatid Shiriyanetta hasegawai was named in his honour, in recognition of his "outstanding contributions" to the field.
Biography
Born in Iida, Nagano Prefecture in 1930, Hasegawa graduated from Yokohama National Universi... | 2.359375 | 0 |
71165100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens%20Lindhard | Jens Lindhard | In 1950, he worked in close collaboration with Niels Bohr in Blegdamsvej on the penetration of particles in matter. There Lindhard, Morten Scharff and H. E. Schiøt developed what is now known as the (carrying their initials), which describes the penetration of low-energy ions. He also worked in fundamental problems re... | 2.046875 | 0 |
71165324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly%28trimethylene%20carbonate%29 | Poly(trimethylene carbonate) | Poly(trimethylene carbonate) (PTMC) is an aliphatic polycarbonate synthesized from the 6-membered cyclic carbonate, trimethylene carbonate (1,3-propylene carbonate or 1,3-Dioxan-2-one). Trimethylene carbonate (TMC) is a colorless crystalline solid with melting point ranging between 45°C and 48 °C and boiling point at 2... | 1.984375 | 0 |
71165334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune%20system%20contribution%20to%20regeneration | Immune system contribution to regeneration | Immune system contribution to regeneration of tissues generally involves specific cellular components, transcription of a wide variety of genes, morphogenesis, epithelia renewal and proliferation of damaged cell types (progenitor or tissue-resident stem cells). However, current knowledge reveals more and more studies a... | 2.34375 | 0 |
71165334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune%20system%20contribution%20to%20regeneration | Immune system contribution to regeneration | Dedifferentiation
Dedifferentiation is a pathway in which already differentiated tissue come back reversely in the process of differentiation. Cells loose differentiated setting and are becoming progenitor or stem cells again. Afterwards they can differentiate again into other cell types (usually like the tissue of o... | 2.328125 | 0 |
68262837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikandarpur%2C%20Tadiyawan | Sikandarpur, Tadiyawan | Sikandarpur is a village in Tadiyawan block of Hardoi district, Uttar Pradesh, India. As of 2011, its population is 2,812, in 493 households. Located by the Sarda Canal, Sikandarpur's topography varies from flat to gently sloping, and its soil ranges from alluvial silty loam to mixed silty and clayey loam with imperfec... | 2.578125 | 0 |
68262904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20the%20Immaculate%20Conception%2C%20Jinan | Church of the Immaculate Conception, Jinan | The Church of the Immaculate Conception, Jinan (), locally known as Jiangjunmiao Catholic Church (), is the oldest Catholic church in Jinan, Shandong, China.
History
The original church dates back to 1651, founded by Jaboulet (), a Spanish missionary of the Franciscans. After the Chinese Rites controversy broke out, ... | 2.25 | 0 |
68263081 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Nicolas%20Frey | Henri-Nicolas Frey | Henri-Nicolas Frey was a French major general of the Troupes coloniales. He led the French troops at the Battle of Peking in August 1900 where a multinational force ended the siege of foreign legations during the Boxer Rebellion.
Biography
Henri-Nicolas Frey was born on 9 January 1847 in Bocognano in Corsica, son of H... | 2.34375 | 0 |
68263446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly%20Izzard | Molly Izzard | Izzard's second book, A Private Life, followed in 1963. In the book, she details her memories of the first seven years of her marriage to Ralph Izzard. She also reported on the Partition of India, bringing up her family amongst the Egyptian revolution of 1952, and life in British Cyprus (1878–1960) in 1960, as it trans... | 1.945313 | 0 |
68263649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linnainmaa | Linnainmaa | Linnainmaa is a district of about 6,000 inhabitants in the eastern part of Tampere, Finland, about six kilometers from the city center. Tampere's eastern bypass borders Linnainmaa in the west, and Highway 12 in the north. The building stock of Linnainmaa consists mainly of detached houses built in the 1950s and 1960s, ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
68265182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Handshake%20for%20the%20Century | A Handshake for the Century | A Handshake for the Century is a bronze statue located in Youngstown, Ohio. The statue commemorates a handshake between African American baseball player Jackie Robinson of the Montreal Royals and his white teammate George Shuba, a native of Youngstown. Created by sculptor Marc Mellon, it was veiled in 2021, seventy-fiv... | 2.21875 | 0 |
68265622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20the%20Nijmegen%20salient | Battle of the Nijmegen salient | In September 1944, the Allies had launched Operation Market Garden, a major offensive from the Dutch-Belgian border across the south of the Netherlands through Eindhoven and Nijmegen toward the Rhine bridge at Arnhem. The goal was to cross the Rhine and bypass the Siegfried Line in preparation for the final drive towar... | 2.484375 | 0 |
68265622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20the%20Nijmegen%20salient | Battle of the Nijmegen salient | Sporadic attacks continued against the allied salient but major fighting ceased on the October 8. Around Opheusden the fighting continued but on a smaller scale – the Germans could get no further and the village remained a no man's land.
Aftermath
The German counter offensive, in particular the 2nd SS Panzer Korps' c... | 2.109375 | 0 |
68265713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marija%20Trandafil | Marija Trandafil | In 1851 and 1852 her husband took on large loans to recreate their business. Trandafil and her husband created a will that left the money to charity and her on 24 June 1860. In 1862 her husband died. He was buried alongside their children Sofija and Kosta at Nikolajevska Church, and she spent time with lawyers defendin... | 2.46875 | 0 |
68265803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caccobius%20unicornis | Caccobius unicornis | Caccobius unicornis, is a species of dung beetle found in many Asian and South East Asian countries such as: India, Sri Lanka, China, Java, Borneo, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Myanmar, North Vietnam, Philippines, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indochina.
Description
This small, broadly oval and compact beetl... | 2.328125 | 0 |
68265994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Bright | Mary Bright | In 1983, she began working as a curtain designer in her own studio Mary Bright Inc. in lower Broadway, when she designed a curtain for Ellen Barkin, the actress. According to The Times, Bright "found herself in great demand, often working with New York's leading architects and interior designers." Such clients of hers... | 1.984375 | 0 |
68267012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Snow%20%28poem%29 | The Snow (poem) | "The Snow" (Welsh: or ) is a 14th- or 15th-century Welsh-language poem in the form of a cywydd evoking a landscape which, to the poet's chagrin, is covered with snow. It has been described as an imaginative tour de force. Manuscripts of the poem mostly attribute it to Dafydd ap Gwilym, widely seen as the greatest of... | 2.296875 | 0 |
68267012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Snow%20%28poem%29 | The Snow (poem) | A large majority of the surviving manuscripts of this poem, including Cardiff MS 4.330 and Peniarth MS 49, mentioned above, attribute it to Dafydd ap Gwilym. However, two of them, including the very earliest, BL Add. MS 14967, assign it to Ieuan ap Rhys ap Llywelyn, and another two to Dafydd ab Edmwnd with the suggest... | 1.9375 | 0 |
68267512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilbum%20%28fungus%29 | Stilbum (fungus) | Stilbum is a genus of fungi in the family Chionosphaeraceae. Though many species were formerly referred to the genus, it is effectively monotypic since the type species, Stilbum vulgare, currently has no close relative. Stilbum vulgare forms groups of minute, gelatinous, synnema-like basidiocarps (fruit bodies) up to 0... | 2.640625 | 0 |
68267599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Chiara%2C%20Catania | Santa Chiara, Catania | Santa Chiara is a Roman Catholic church located on Via Garibaldi #100 in the center of the city of Catania, Region of Sicily, Italy. The monastery located behind the church presently houses a gallery of modern art.
History and description
Nuns of the Clarissan order established themselves there in the 16th century, wi... | 2.078125 | 0 |
68267756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litwa%20%28newspaper%29 | Litwa (newspaper) | Publication history
Plans for the newspaper were made in 1905. Mečislovas Davainis-Silvestraitis and Jonas Basanavičius discussed establishing the newspaper in March 1905 and Davainis-Silvestraitis drafted its program in November 1905. Davainis-Silvestraitis and Donatas Malinauskas published their proposal for a new ne... | 2.125 | 0 |
68268006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati%20Township%2C%20Hamilton%20County%2C%20Ohio | Cincinnati Township, Hamilton County, Ohio | Cincinnati incorporated as a town in 1802 and was chartered as a city in 1819.
Cincinnati steadily grew by annexing adjacent territory within Cincinnati Township. In 1829, J.D. Garrard and Sarah Bella Garrard sold of land to the township's board of trustees. In 1834, the township trustees swapped this land for an out... | 2.46875 | 0 |
68268362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia%20Horne | Amelia Horne | Amelia Horne also known as Amy Haines and Amelia Bennett (1839–1921) was a British memoir writer. She is known for her memoirs describing her experiences as a survivor of the Siege of Cawnpore during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, having been taken captive by a sowar during the Satichaura Ghat massacre, thereby avoiding... | 1.976563 | 0 |
68268398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Elizabeth%20Livingston | Mary Elizabeth Livingston | Mary Elizabeth Livingston (21 August 1857 – 18 December 1913) was a late-colonial Australian artist. She was best known as a botanical artist, specialising in Tasmanian native flora.
Biography
Mary Elizabeth Livingston was born 21 August 1857 in Hobart, Tasmania, the eldest daughter of John Lees Livingston (1824–1911... | 2.15625 | 0 |
68269119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20trois%20valses%20distingu%C3%A9es%20du%20pr%C3%A9cieux%20d%C3%A9go%C3%BBt%C3%A9 | Les trois valses distinguées du précieux dégoûté | Music and texts
The valses distinguées is a musical portrait of a dandy from three perspectives: His waist; his pince-nez; and his legs. Each piece is prefaced by a classical quotation and the scores are threaded with Satie's ironic paeans to the fop's narcissism. Critics have expressed bewilderment over this seemingly... | 2.109375 | 0 |
68269119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20trois%20valses%20distingu%C3%A9es%20du%20pr%C3%A9cieux%20d%C3%A9go%C3%BBt%C3%A9 | Les trois valses distinguées du précieux dégoûté | Satie quotes La Bruyère with tongue firmly in cheek, as he was never one to forgo a witticism. In fact he would face his own "degrading punishment" in 1917 when he was convicted of criminal libel for sending insulting postcards to a music critic, calling him (among other things) "a most unmusical asshole". The commenta... | 1.929688 | 0 |
68269257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kritimys | Kritimys | Kritimys, also known as the Cretan giant rat is an extinct genus of murid rodent that was endemic to the island of Crete during the Early and Middle Pleistocene. There are two known species, K. kiridus from the Early-Mid Pleistocene, and its descendant K. catreus from the Middle Pleistocene. It is suggested to be close... | 2.4375 | 0 |
68269799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khadim%20Ali | Khadim Ali | Khadim Ali (Urdu: خادم علی, born in Queta, Pakistan, 1978) is an Australian painter of Afghan descent, a member of the Hazaras ethnic group.
Early life and education
Khadim Ali was born in 1978 in the Pakistani city of Quetta to a family of refugees from Bamiyan Province in Afghanistan, who belonged to the Hazara ethn... | 2.6875 | 0 |
68270234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal-e-Azam%20%28soundtrack%29 | Mughal-e-Azam (soundtrack) | Mughal-e-Azam is the soundtrack album for the 1960 film of the same name directed by K. Asif. The soundtrack was composed by music director Naushad, and the lyrics were written by Shakeel Badayuni.
Background
As with most of Naushad's soundtracks, the songs of Mughal-e-Azam were heavily inspired by Indian classical m... | 2.421875 | 0 |
68270234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal-e-Azam%20%28soundtrack%29 | Mughal-e-Azam (soundtrack) | Composition
The composition of "Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya" was especially time-consuming – on the day of the song's scheduled recording, Naushad rejected two sets of lyrics by Badayuni. Subsequently, a "brainstorming session" was held on Naushad's terrace, beginning in early evening and lasting until next day. Late in t... | 2.09375 | 0 |
68270659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalan%20%28artist%29 | Lalan (artist) | Lalan, born Xie Jing-lan (; 1921–1995), was a Chinese-French multidisciplinary artist. Lalan was among the early practitioners of integrated arts, incorporating painting, music, dance, and poetry into her performances.
Lalan was born in Guizhou, China. She received professional vocal training at the Shanghai Music Aca... | 2.328125 | 0 |
68270741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang%20Yufeng | Zhang Yufeng | Zhang Yufeng (; born 9 January 1945) is a Chinese former political figure, who was the private secretary of the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong. She lived at his side from 1962, and carried the title of private secretary until the last years of Mao's life.
Early life
Zhang was born on 9 January 1945... | 1.96875 | 0 |
68270741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang%20Yufeng | Zhang Yufeng | In 1974, according to the sinologist Jonathan Spence:
She [Zhang] literally becomes Mao's interface with the world, in fact the latter can no longer speak and she deciphers Mao's stammerings by reading his lips.
Zhang recalled Mao's last Spring Festival, during which he was alone without a family member by his side:
T... | 1.945313 | 0 |
68271083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peristera%20Kraka | Peristera Kraka | She was born in Siatista, Rumelia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire in 1860. Her brother Goulias Krakas was a rebel commander. When the 1878 Greek Macedonian rebellion began, she asked to join his forces, which he initially declined. One day, the Ottomans visited her to take her for interrogation, but she managed to escape dresse... | 2.703125 | 0 |
68271086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20Rumble | Leslie Rumble | Leslie Audoen Rumble (1892–1975), usually known as "Dr Rumble", an Australian Catholic priest and religious controversialist, was born in Enmore, New South Wales in 1892. His family was mostly Anglican but he converted to Catholicism. He was ordained as a priest in the order of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in 1... | 2.65625 | 0 |
68271330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian%20Finnish | Siberian Finnish | Siberian Finnish or Korlaka is the form of Finnish spoken in Siberia by the Siberian Finns. Siberian Finnish is an umbrella name, this name refers to at least two languages/dialects.
The first language is a Lower Luga Ingrian Finnish – Lower Luga Ingrian (Izhorian) mixed language. The ancestors of the speakers of this... | 2.5 | 0 |
68271719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus%20Project%20%28investigation%29 | Pegasus Project (investigation) | The Pegasus Project is an international investigative journalism initiative that revealed governments' espionage on journalists, opposition politicians, activists, business people and others using the private Pegasus spyware developed by the Israeli technology and cyber-arms company NSO Group. Pegasus is ostensibly mar... | 1.90625 | 0 |
68271952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop%27s%20Gaiters%20women%27s%20basketball | Bishop's Gaiters women's basketball | The Bishop's Gaiters women's basketball team represents Bishop's University in the RSEQ Conference of U Sports women's basketball. The program has captured the Bronze Baby twice, achieving the feat in back-to-back years (1983–84).
History
The 1982–83 season would result in the Gaiters first national championship. Afte... | 1.992188 | 0 |
68272060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren%20Williams | Loren Williams | Loren Dean Williams is a biophysicist, biochemist, astrobiologist, and professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. His research seeks to understand the structural basis for macromolecular reactions, from the role of nucleic acids as targets of chemot... | 2.546875 | 0 |
68272686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Eustace%20Blight | Geoffrey Eustace Blight | Throughout his career, Blight was an active consultant to major corporations, mining houses, contractors and engineering consultants. Commenting on his consulting work Blight said, "This is probably one of the reasons why my studies have been well received, partly because they have been based on practical engineering p... | 2.109375 | 0 |
68273436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudaria%20luteileprosa | Mudaria luteileprosa | Mudaria luteileprosa, or the Durian seed borer is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand.
Description
The wings and body are black-brown with medium large orbicular, sometimes cordate whitish maculae. Larvae are pink and bore into seeds of durians. It is considered ... | 2.375 | 0 |
68273498 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20Daemen | Oliver Daemen | Oliver Daemen (born 20 August 2002) is a Dutch space tourist who flew as part of the 20 July 2021, sub-orbital Blue Origin NS-16 spaceflight. At the time of his flight he was 18 years old, and became the youngest person, first teenager, and first person born in the 21st century to travel to space. He is a licensed pilo... | 2.125 | 0 |
68273592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanisha%20Williams | Tanisha Williams | Williams' master's advisor inspired her to academically pursue botany. At California State University at Los Angeles, Williams investigated gene flow and hybridization between three species of Populus in California and Nevada. For her doctoral research, she studied plant adaptability to climate change, and the ability ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
68273592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanisha%20Williams | Tanisha Williams | Activism
Williams created #BlackBotanistsWeek, an initiative started in 2020 promoting Black botanists to share their work and life experiences on Twitter and Instagram after seeing similar initiatives for Black scientists in other fields. She explained, "I participated in Black Birders Week and felt a sense of joy. I... | 2.203125 | 0 |
68274264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%20John%20Mitchell%20%281906%29 | SS John Mitchell (1906) | Background
In 1843, the gunship USS Michigan, built in Erie, Pennsylvania, became the first iron-hulled vessel built on the Great Lakes. In the mid-1840s, Canadian companies began importing iron vessels prefabricated by shipyards in the United Kingdom. However, it would not be until 1862 that the first iron-hulled merc... | 2.828125 | 0 |
68274264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%20John%20Mitchell%20%281906%29 | SS John Mitchell (1906) | Final voyage
After loading to of coal bound for Superior, Wisconsin, at the Erie coal dock, John Mitchell left Buffalo, New York, at 2:00 a.m. on July 7, 1911, under the command of Captain John H. Massey. In addition to Captain Massey, there were 33 passengers and crew, including six women and a small boy on board.
... | 2.28125 | 0 |
68274264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%20John%20Mitchell%20%281906%29 | SS John Mitchell (1906) | The majority of the passengers and crew climbed over to William Henry Mack, while three men and three women escaped using a lifeboat. Seven minutes after the collision, John Mitchell capsized and sank. The suction created by her sinking capsized the lifeboat. Sixteen year-old passenger Fay Clemens, one of the six peopl... | 2.59375 | 0 |
68274285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%20Village | Chi Village | Chi Village is a village in India located about 7 km away from Mon District headquarter, Mon Town, in Nagaland, India. Chi is also called as Chizu Chingkhanhoa. Chi is one of the oldest villages in Nagaland.It is administered by the Village Council headed by its chairman (Sarpanch).
History
The Origin of Chi
The peop... | 2.25 | 0 |
68274353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20B.%20Morton | Charles B. Morton | Charles Beatty Morton (February 2, 1833 – January 16, 1922) was an American politician from New York.
Life
Morton was born on February 2, 1833, in Troy, New York. He attended the Albany Academy from 1840 to 1849.
Morton moved to Brooklyn in 1855. He was a member of the Metropolitan Police Department from 1857 to 186... | 2.15625 | 0 |
68274457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalal%20Khalil%20Safadi | Dalal Khalil Safadi | Dalal Khalil Safadi (1898 – February 4, 1976; ) was a Lebanese writer and translator. Considered a pioneer in the short story genre among Middle Eastern women, she was the first woman to publish a short story collection in Iraq.
Early life and education
Dalal Khalil Safadi was born in 1898 in Beirut, Lebanon. She was... | 2.421875 | 0 |
68274486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manus%20O%27Riordan | Manus O'Riordan | Manus O'Riordan (30 May 1949 – 26 September 2021) was an Irish trade union leader and political activist.
Biography
O'Riordan was the son of Michael O'Riordan and Kay Keohane, both socialists and activists. His father had fought in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, and this greatly influenced th... | 2.1875 | 0 |
68274511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy%20of%20Wizna | Duchy of Wizna | Duchy of Wizna was a district principality and a fiefdom within the United Kingdom of Poland, and later the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. The country was located in Wizna Land with Wizna as its capital and during its existence it remained in the personal union with the Duchy of Płock. It was formed in 1345 from the p... | 2.53125 | 0 |
68274596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian%20Army%20General%20Staff | Brazilian Army General Staff | The Brazilian Army General Staff ( - EME) is the general management body responsible for the coordination of the Brazilian Army, the land force of the Brazilian Armed Forces.
Mission
The EME's mission is to study, plan, guide, coordinate, and control at the general management level, the activities of the Army, in acco... | 2.296875 | 0 |
68274628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20A.%20Driscoll | Deborah A. Driscoll | Deborah Anne Driscoll is an American reproductive geneticist. She is the Luigi Mastroianni Jr. Professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Early life and education
Driscoll was born to William V. Driscoll, the former vice pres... | 2.1875 | 0 |
78412174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20Bastionland | Electric Bastionland | Character generation
Character generation is very quick: a player rolls three six-sided dice three times. The rolls become their character's ability scores for Strength, Dexterity and Charisma. The highest and lowest rolls also define the character's previous occupation — the majority of the 300-page book is taken up w... | 2.46875 | 0 |
78412344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalya%20Gallo | Natalya Gallo | Natalya Gallo is a marine biology researcher known for her work on the health and management of fisheries in the face of climate change.
Education
Gallo holds a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology where she received the Morris K. Udall Scholarship from the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation to condu... | 2.609375 | 0 |
78412394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankish%20invasion%20of%20388 | Frankish invasion of 388 | Invasion
After this invasion, the main force of the Franks under Sunno and Marcomer withdrew across the Rhine with their booty. A part of the Franks, probably led by Genobaudes, remained in the Belgian forest known as the "Silva Carbonaria". At that time, the generals Nannienus and Quintinus were staying in Trier, to w... | 2.734375 | 0 |
78412598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika%20in%20Kazakhstan | Perestroika in Kazakhstan | Diplomat and politician Alexander Dzasokhov later recounted that in the autumn of 1990, Gorbachev asked him to travel to Almaty and secure Nazarbayev’s agreement to take the position of Vice President of the USSR. Gorbachev “justified his intention by expressing a desire to have Nazarbayev at his side. Gorbachev saw th... | 2.0625 | 0 |
78413042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milivoj%20Jambri%C5%A1ak | Milivoj Jambrišak | Milivoj Jambrišak (15 June 1878 – 10 December 1943) was a Croatian physician and politician.
Jambrišak studied medicine at the University of Innsbruck and the University of Graz, graduating in 1903. In 19..10, he enrolled into the University of Zagreb in his native city, to study law. He dropped out of the law school ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
78413441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20red-fronted%20tinkerbird | Northern red-fronted tinkerbird | The northern red-fronted tinkerbird (Pogoniulus uropygialis) is a small bird in the African barbet family Lybiidae that is found in East Africa. It was regarded as conspecific with the southern red-fronted tinkerbird.
Taxonomy
The northern red-fronted tinkerbird was formally described in 1862 by the German explorer an... | 2.46875 | 0 |
78413600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav%20Bogdanovich | Vyacheslav Bogdanovich | Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Bogdanovich (Belarusian: Вячаслаў Васілевіч Багдановіч, Polish: Wiaczesław Bohdanowicz; 26 September 1878 – ) was a Belarusian publicist, politician, and religious figure.
Biography
Early life
Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Bogdanovich was born on 26 September 1878 in Dzisna (present-day Belarus), then... | 2.21875 | 0 |
78413732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva%20mask | Shiva mask | Shiva’s mask is an integral part of the folk religious rituals in Nabadwip. This mask is crafted during the month of Chaitra (a month in the Bengali calendar), coinciding with the marriage ceremony of Shiva-Parvati. It is deeply intertwined with the traditional Shaivite culture. Although referred to as a mask, it is ac... | 2.734375 | 0 |
78413762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20Conger%E2%80%93Albert%20Lea%20tornado | 2010 Conger–Albert Lea tornado | The Storm Prediction Center issued a moderate risk of severe weather for June 17, 2010, citing a 10% threat for tornadoes, 45% threat for large hail and 45% threat for damaging wind, initially thinking tornadoes would quickly reform into a straight-line wind event. The moderate risk area extended from around Fargo, Nor... | 2.59375 | 0 |
78415318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachinocephalus%20gauguini | Trachinocephalus gauguini | Trachinocephalus gauguini, commonly known as the curious scad, is a species of lizardfish in the family Synodontidae. This species was described in 2016 by F.A. Polanco, P.A. Acero, and R. Betancur-R.
Description
This species reaches a length of . It has a bluish-grey body with a black mark on the tip of the dorsal f... | 2.578125 | 0 |
78415437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Ia%C8%99i%20%281653%29 | Battle of Iași (1653) | The Battle of Iași took place on May 1, 1653, during Moldavian campaign of Tymofiy Khmelnytsky. In April 1653, the Cossack-Tatar corps led by Tymofiy Khmelnytsky entered the territory of Moldova to return the lost throne of the principality to his father-in-law Vasile Lupu.
Battle
In April 1653, a Cossack-Tatar corps... | 2.21875 | 0 |
78415630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20plain%20xenops | Northern plain xenops | The northern plain xenops (Xenops mexicanus) is a passerine bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found from southern Mexico through Panama to northern Colombia, northwest Venezuela and western Ecuador. It was formerly considered as conspecific with the Amazonian plain xenops.
Tax... | 2.625 | 0 |
78415886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind-Man%27s%20Buff%20%28Wilkie%29 | Blind-Man's Buff (Wilkie) | Blind-Man's Buff is an 1812 genre painting by the Scottish artist David Wilkie. It shows a game of Blind man's buff. While depictions of the game had appeared in art before, Willkie chose to portray a humbler settling than earlier versions generally set in drawing rooms.
History
It was commissioned by George, Prince R... | 2.21875 | 0 |
78416149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romualdo%20de%20Toledo%20y%20Robles | Romualdo de Toledo y Robles | Already during his service in the ayuntamiento de Toledo approached the Traditionalists, and these bonds strengthened. In early 1933 he was for the first time mentioned by the Carlist mouthpiece, El Siglo Futuro, later to appear frequently on its pages as an education pundit. He started to speak on schooling system dur... | 2.171875 | 0 |
78416162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszek%20S.%20Czarnecki | Leszek S. Czarnecki | Public activity
From 1981, when the Marshal Law was imposed in Poland, and the Solidarity movement was de-legalized, Czarnecki was involved in an underground activity aimed at terminating the communist regime and restoring democracy. In 1998, Czarnecki initiated and supervised with his wife, Maria, the process of the ... | 2 | 0 |
78416439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic%20Wait%20Lord | Frederic Wait Lord | Frederic Wait Lord (July 3, 1871 – December 31, 1951) was an American energy executive and author.
Early life
Lord was born on July 3, 1871, in Brooklyn, New York. He was a son of Joseph Lord (1832–1880) and Mary Ann ( Archer) Lord (1840–1925). Among his siblings were Dr. Sidney Archer Lord, Ernest Archer Lord, and Ge... | 1.984375 | 0 |
78416490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacr%C3%A9-C%C5%93ur%20College | Sacré-Cœur College | Sacré-Cœur College was a Canadian college built in 1899. It was located in Caraquet, Canada. After being destroyed by a fire in 1915, it was rebuilt in Bathurst.
History
Secret construction
Joseph-Théophile Allard replaced Joseph Pelletier as the parish priest of Caraquet in 1876, following the Louis Mailloux affai... | 2.25 | 0 |
78416490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacr%C3%A9-C%C5%93ur%20College | Sacré-Cœur College | On March 19, 1900, the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, at the initiative of Joseph Poirier, granted the college the right to confer university degrees. That same year, the appointment of Anglophone Thomas Barry as the coadjutor bishop of Chatham angered many Acadians, who had been fighting for a decade for a Fra... | 2.46875 | 0 |
78416672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayonet%20Trench | Bayonet Trench | By 11 June the French 137th Infantry Regiment was posted to a defensive line west of Fort Douaumont between the Morchée wood and Thiaumont farm. The Ravin de la Dame, nicknamed "death ravine", lay to their rear. On 11 June the regiment was subjected to a German artillery bombardment and a series of infantry assaults.... | 2.90625 | 0 |
78417136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20genocide | Paper genocide | Blood quantum is a system of measuring Native American ancestry based on the ancestry of an individual's parents, such that, for example, a child who is the offspring of a father with a Native American blood quantum level of one-fourth and a mother whose level is one-half would have a blood quantum level of three-eight... | 2.734375 | 0 |
78417243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Young%20%28animal%20welfare%20writer%29 | Thomas Young (animal welfare writer) | Thomas Young (1772 – 11 November 1835) was an English Anglican clergyman, theologian, educator, and writer. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he became a Fellow in 1795, and served as both a tutor and dean. Young was ordained as a deacon in 1801 and as a priest in 1802. In 1813, he was appointed Rector of Gilling... | 2.375 | 0 |
78417391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr%20Voskresensky-Stekanov | Petr Voskresensky-Stekanov | In early 2017, Vyacheslav Makarov, the speaker of St. Petersburg's parliament, declared the LGBT movement to be the special forces of the Russian opposition. In response, activists, including Pyotr Voskresensky, staged an action, imagining what such warriors might look like. The action was a success. However, the polic... | 2.171875 | 0 |
78417605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathydevius | Bathydevius | Bathydevius (Greek for "deep-living deviation") is a monotypic genus of unusual, highly distinctive nudibranch (sea slug) native to deep waters of the North Pacific Ocean. It contains a single species, B. caudactylus ("finger tail"), and is the only known member of the monotypic family Bathydeviidae.
Taxonomy
Bathyde... | 2.28125 | 0 |
78417605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathydevius | Bathydevius | It is bioluminescent, having the ability to scintillate blue across the surface of the oral hood and the protrusions on its tail, and is only the third known nudibranch lineage to display bioluminescence, which appears to have been independently evolved in each.
Bathydevius appears to neither sink nor rise when suspen... | 2.75 | 0 |
78417686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola%20white-eye | Angola white-eye | The Angola white-eye (Zosterops kasaicus), is a small passerine bird in the white-eye family Zosteropidae. It is found from central Democratic Republic of the Congo to northern and central Angola. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the northern yellow white-eye.
Taxonomy
The Angola white-eye was formall... | 2.25 | 0 |
78417873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%20Locker-Allen | Annie Locker-Allen | Annie Maude Matilda Locker-Allen (20 March 1893 – 19 February 1979) was an educator in Saint Kitts and Nevis. She was the wife of Milton Allen, Governor of the British colony of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla.
Annie Maude Matilda Locker was born on 20 March 1893 in Montserrat, the eldest daughter of Sergeant Mich... | 1.90625 | 0 |
78418207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter%20of%202024%E2%80%9325%20in%20the%20Gaza%20Strip | Winter of 2024–25 in the Gaza Strip | Many remaining temporary shelters were inundated with rainwater. Many individuals, previously relocated multiple times due to conflict, attempted to protect their limited possessions by implementing makeshift drainage systems and placing containers to collect water from leaking shelters. The United Nations Relief and W... | 2.1875 | 0 |
78418310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaishno%20Das%20Bagai | Vaishno Das Bagai | Vaishno Das Bagai (1891–1928) was an Indian American business owner and activist. His suicide, prompted by racism and denaturalization, is often cited as a poignant example of the human impact of racist policies facing South Asian immigrants.
Early life and immigration
Bagai was born in 1891 in Peshawar, British Indi... | 2.3125 | 0 |
78418742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Phelip | John Phelip | Sir John Phelip (died 2 October 1415) was an English knight who served as knight of the shire (MP) for Worcestershire.
Life
Phelip was the son of William Phelip and Juliana Erpingham, and the younger brother of William Phelip, 6th Baron Bardolf.
Phelip's uncle Sir Thomas Erpingham had been into exile with Henry Boli... | 2.046875 | 0 |
78419217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20Hill%2C%20Bydgoszcz | Freedom Hill, Bydgoszcz | The predominant architecture in the area was one-story, brick-built houses with rental apartments. The owners occupied the apartments and also served as caretakers and administrators. In the 1930s, local residents were engaged in agriculture, crafts, trade, and worked in Bydgoszcz's industrial factories. From 1930 to 1... | 2.515625 | 0 |
78419400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Plaster | Joseph Plaster | Plaster's article, "‘Homosexuals in Adolescent Rebellion:’ Central City Uprisings during the Long Sixties," published in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies in April 2023, received an honorable mention for the 2024 Audre Lorde Prize for outstanding work in LGBTQ history. Additional essays include “Safe for Whom? ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
78419859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Contrary-Minded%20Woman | The Contrary-Minded Woman | "The Contrary-Minded Woman" (Norwegian: Kjerringa mot strømmen) is a Norwegian folktale originally collected by authors Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their book Norwegian Folktales. This story tells the tale of a Contrary Wife and a Husband arguing over how grain is to be cut causing a fight and the event... | 2.5625 | 0 |
78419859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Contrary-Minded%20Woman | The Contrary-Minded Woman | Plot
One Sunday, a wife and husband looked at their cornfield by the side of a river. Seeing that the corn is ready for harvest the husband announces that they must reap it tomorrow. The wife being contrary says that they should clip it instead. This argument goes back and forth as the wife is adamant about the corn b... | 2 | 0 |
78420083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Browne%20%28rugby%20union%29 | Hugh Browne (rugby union) | Hugh Christopher Browne (28 November 1905 — 6 November 1983) was a Royal Navy commander and Ireland international rugby union player of the 1920s.
Rugby career
Born in London, Browne played rugby during his youth and was selected by Ireland after impressing selectors playing for London Irish on a trip to Dublin. He wa... | 2.3125 | 0 |
78420413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan%20Virtzberg | Ilan Virtzberg | Ilan Virtzberg () (born September 12, 1951) is an Israeli composer, arranger, music producer, guitarist, and singer. He is described as "one of the most sought-after composers and producers in Israeli pop in the 80s and early 90s".
Biography
He was born in Beersheva to the family of a Holocaust survivor Beni Virtzberg... | 2.140625 | 0 |
78420469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladocetraria | Cladocetraria | Cladocetraria is a fungal genus in the family Parmeliaceae. It contains the single species Cladocetraria minuscula, a fruticose (shrubby) lichen. The genus was established in 2023 based on morphological and molecular studies that distinguished it from related genera. It is characterised by its small size, growing only ... | 2.78125 | 0 |
78420469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladocetraria | Cladocetraria | Molecular phylogenetics studies published in 2009 confirmed that Cladocetraria belongs to a strongly supported monophyletic clade within Parmeliaceae known as the "cetrarioid core", which consists of about 90 species across 14 genera. This clade is characterised by conidial morphology, which shows clear correlation wit... | 2.234375 | 0 |
78420469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladocetraria | Cladocetraria | Cladocetraria minuscula commonly resembles Flavocetraria cucullata in both appearance and chemical composition. The species were historically considered forms of the same taxon until morphological and molecular studies showed they were separate species. C. minuscula has smaller, slender, erect, tube-like lobes that mea... | 2.703125 | 0 |
78420733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gipps%20Road%20and%20Hyland%20Road%20Regional%20Parklands | Gipps Road and Hyland Road Regional Parklands | Vegetation near the Sporting Complex primarily consist of Casuarina glauca, with sporadic areas that feature trees such as Angophora floribunda (rough-barked apple) and Eucalyptus tereticornis. Other trees include, Melaleuca styphelioides (prickly leaved paperbark), Acacia parramattensis (green Wattle), Pittosporum und... | 2.578125 | 0 |
78421282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicja%20Masojada | Felicja Masojada | Felicja Masojada (born Kołomyja, Volhynia, Russia, 18 May 1898; died Kisorycze, Poland, 15 June 1943) was a Polish resistance member during World War II, posthumously recognised by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.
Life
Of ancient Polish descent and born in 1898 at Kołomyja then under Tsarist rule, she was th... | 2.125 | 0 |
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