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75479994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit%C3%B3w%20massacre | Kitów massacre | One of the villages impacted by the displacement operation was Nawóz. On December 9, 1942, the entire Polish population was expelled and replaced by ethnic Germans from Bessarabia. During the night of December 10-11, partisans from the Peasant Battalions and Home Army jointly attacked Nawóz. According to one account, t... | 2.53125 | 0 |
75482684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Point%20Iroquois | Battle of Point Iroquois | The Dundas Militia fired a volley on the 20th Infantry and 1st U.S. Rifles as they advanced towards the breastworks, and a sharp firefight broke out with the American forces. Outnumbered and outgunned by the accuracy of the riflemen, the Militia quickly retired from their positions at Point Iroquois and Fort Matilda an... | 2.046875 | 0 |
75482699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%20Hamas%20charter | 2017 Hamas charter | Hamas leader Khaled Mashal presented the document at a press conference in Doha on 1 May 2017, shortly before being replaced as leader by Ismail Haniyeh. The new document was the result of years of internal discussions; many Hamas members still regarded its text as controversial.
In his presentation, Mashal described ... | 1.984375 | 0 |
75483412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baum%20Group | Baum Group | The Baum Group was an anti-Nazi resistance group in Berlin, Germany. The Group's members were mostly Communist, Jewish, and young with many being teenagers or young adults.
The group printed and distributed anti-Nazi literature and organized activities. Its members were executed for setting fire to Das Sowjetparadies ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
75484279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi%E2%80%93Rwanda%20relations | Burundi–Rwanda relations | The first attempt by Tutsi rebels in Burundi to invade Rwanda was made on 25 November 1963, with approximately 1,500 refugees from across Burundi attempting to move towards the Rwandan border. Upon learning of this, United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) Representative in Bujumbura Jacques Cuenod, along with... | 2.359375 | 0 |
75484334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votive%20crown%20of%20Recceswinth | Votive crown of Recceswinth | Byzantine influences
Spanish archeologist Jose Amador de los Rios created a written eyewitness record of the crown. In addition to creating documentation of the crown, Rios drew diagrams and illustrations of the burial site where the crown was found. In his description, Rios focused mostly on the Christian and Roman-i... | 2.875 | 0 |
75484334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votive%20crown%20of%20Recceswinth | Votive crown of Recceswinth | Design characteristics of the crown
Former director of the Cleveland Museum of Art William Milliken has attempted to explain some of the influences, design techniques, and artistic trends implemented in Visigothic Spain. He explained why gold was such a valuable source for evaluating art from the past, crediting its ... | 2.875 | 0 |
75484844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Gonzalez%20Espali%C3%BA | José Gonzalez Espaliú | Carrying
Carrying (1992) was Espaliú’s most famous work. In this performance piece, Espaliú was barefoot, sitting on the arms of friends and supporters who took turns carrying him as if he was sitting in a chair. He was then transported: from the San Sebastian Film Festival headquarters to the San Sebastian town hall ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
75484968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitzi%20Nagarkatti | Mitzi Nagarkatti | Nagarkatti has made numerous discoveries on how cannabinoids attenuate inflammation as well as kill certain types of cancers. Her studies have shown that cannabinoids can attenuate numerous autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis, autoimmune hepatitis, and colitis, as well as inflammatory diseases such as Acute... | 2.25 | 0 |
74054979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval%20English%20episcopal%20register | Medieval English episcopal register | An Episcopal register (Latin: , or Bishop's Register) in the English Medieval Ages was a document, often consisting of several volumes, in which a bishop's or archbishop's activity was recorded.
Creation and purpose
A bishop's (or archbishop's) register was a legal record of his correspondence and instructions to the... | 2.359375 | 0 |
74055454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20Summer%20Olympics%20opening%20ceremony | 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony | The opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July 2024 across Paris, beginning at 19:30 CEST (17:30 UTC). As mandated by the Olympic Charter, the proceedings included an artistic program showcasing the culture of the host country and city, the parade of athletes and the lighting of the Olympic caul... | 2.21875 | 0 |
74055472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strevell%20House | Strevell House | The Strevell House historic framed home in the Illinois city of Pontiac. The house is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and is one of the few pre-Civil War homes in Pontiac.
History
The Strevell House was built in 1854-1855 by Zelus H. Nettleton, a master carpenter and clock repair person. Zelus... | 2.234375 | 0 |
74055812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Karl%C3%B3ca | Battle of Karlóca | The raiding troops of the camps threatened mainly Becskerek (Sr. Zrenjanin), Újvidék, and the district of Becse (Sr. Bečej), and to counter this the royal commissioners ordered national guard troops to move to all these places until the arrival of the regular army. But they were doomed to inaction for the most part, af... | 2.0625 | 0 |
74056067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay%E2%80%93Portuguese%20conflicts | Malay–Portuguese conflicts | Battle of Patani 1524
In June 1524, Martim Afonso de Sousa destroyed 36 junks at anchor at Patani, which had allied with Pahang and Bintan, and torched the city, including the surrounding dusun cropfields, orchards and palm groves. During the next two weeks he captured or destroyed another 70 junks arriving from Siam o... | 2.71875 | 0 |
74056430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20amphibians%20and%20reptiles%20of%20Cantabria | List of amphibians and reptiles of Cantabria | In relation to conservation, amphibian populations in Cantabria, as in the rest of the world, are suffering a marked decline, mainly due to habitat loss, diseases and climate change.
Anura order
Anurans, commonly known as frogs and toads, are characterized (in their adult phase) by their compact body, lacking tails a... | 3.125 | 0 |
74056480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20Lady%20of%20Victory%20Church%2C%20Tianjin | Our Lady of Victory Church, Tianjin | Our Lady of Victory Church (, ), also known as Wanghailou Church (), is a Roman Catholic church located in Tianjin, China, which formerly served as the Cathedral church for the Tianjin diocese. It is one of the oldest churches in Tianjin.
History
In 1773, salt merchants in Tianjin financed a construction of a 3-stor... | 2.078125 | 0 |
74056495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40th%20Army%20%28Soviet%20Union%2C%201941%E2%80%931945%29 | 40th Army (Soviet Union, 1941–1945) | Having advanced 10–12 kilometers with heavy fighting, on December 25, the army liberated the heavily fortified village of Tim by storm, by December 28, 1941, it reached the line of the Tim River and forced it. On December 28, 1941, the 21st Army also went on the offensive in the Oboyan Direction, liberating 5 villages ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
74059338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Johnson%20%28wrestler%2C%20born%201957%29 | James Johnson (wrestler, born 1957) | James Lee Johnson (April 24, 1957 – September 8, 2019) was an American Greco-Roman wrestler and coach. As an athlete, he won a gold medal at the Pan American Championships in 1986 and was a member of three US Greco-Roman World Teams. Johnson later served as the head Greco-Roman coach for the Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club... | 2.03125 | 0 |
74059699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ia%C8%99i%20Prison | Iași Prison | Iași Prison is a prison located in Iași, Romania.
From the mid-19th century until 1950, the main prison in Iași was located in the former monastic cells at Galata Monastery. The site was chosen because of its walls, seven meters high and crenellated. In the late 1920s, the military section from Galata was moved to the... | 2.21875 | 0 |
74059862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Vincenzo%20Imperiale | Giovanni Vincenzo Imperiale | Giovanni Vincenzo Imperiale (1582 – 21 June 1648) was an Italian nobleman, art collector, and man of letters.
Biography
Giovanni Vincenzo Imperiale was born in 1582 at Sampierdarena (a suburb of Genoa). He was the only son of eight siblings born to one of the five leading families of Genoa whose importance and wealth... | 2.125 | 0 |
74059911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yegiazaryan%20v.%20Smagin | Yegiazaryan v. Smagin | Yegiazaryan v. Smagin, 599 U.S. 533 (2023), was a United States Supreme Court case. The Court decided how the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act applied to extraterritorial claims of damage to intangible property.
Prior history
In 1970, Congress passed the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizatio... | 2.078125 | 0 |
74060858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Abwab%20wa%20al-Tarajim%20li%20Sahih%20al-Bukhari | Al-Abwab wa al-Tarajim li Sahih al-Bukhari | Background
Among the reasons that highlight the significance of Sahih al-Bukhari in Hadith studies are its chapters and biographies. Scholars of Hadith and experts in narration have dedicated efforts to understand their essence and nuances. Several explanations of Sahih al-Bukhari have focused on these chapters and bi... | 1.953125 | 0 |
74061119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Should%20I%3F%20%28song%29 | Should I? (song) | "Should I?" is a song with music by Nacio Herb Brown and lyrics by Arthur Freed, first published in 1929. It was originally written for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Lord Byron of Broadway (1930), where it was introduced by singer and actor Charles Kaley. The song became a major hit, charting at number 3 on Billboard fo... | 1.960938 | 0 |
74061243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregoniplana%20geniculata | Oregoniplana geniculata | Oregoniplana geniculata is a species of planarian in the family Cercyridae. Its type-locality is China.
Etymology
The specific epithet is derived from the Latin , "like the bent knee", in reference to the curved penis papilla of the species.
Description
Oregoniplana geniculata can vary from having an elongate body sh... | 2.109375 | 0 |
74061512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau%E2%80%93Colville%20Ridge | Lau–Colville Ridge | The Lau–Colville Ridge is an extinct oceanic ridge located on the oceanic Australian Plate in the south-west Pacific Ocean extending about from the south east of Fiji to the continental shelf margin of the North Island of New Zealand. It was an historic subduction boundary between the Australian Plate and the Pacific ... | 2.90625 | 0 |
74062363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khwaja%20Mohammed%20Kaiser | Khwaja Mohammed Kaiser | Khwaja Mohammed Kaiser was a Bangladeshi diplomat and former Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations.
Early life
Kaiser was born in the Dhaka Nawab family.
Career
Kaiser was the ambassador of Pakistan to China in 1971 during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Unlike other Bengali diplomats he choose... | 1.96875 | 0 |
74062400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C5%8Dhutukawa%20Coast | Pōhutukawa Coast | The east coast is the Whakakaiwhara Peninsula, which is the location of Duder Regional Park. Prior to human settlement, the Whakakaiwhara Peninsula was heavily forested with Beilschmiedia tawa, Beilschmiedia tarairi (taraire), pūriri, karaka and kauri trees.
Human context
Māori history
The Pōhutukawa Coast was visit... | 2.734375 | 0 |
74062400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C5%8Dhutukawa%20Coast | Pōhutukawa Coast | The first European settlers arrived in the area in the 1840s and 1850s. In 1842, Ngeungeu, daughter of the Ngāi Tai chief Tara Te Irirangi, moved back to Umupuia with her family, after her husband, Scottish mariner Thomas Maxwell in the Bay of Islands, died. In September 1863 during the Invasion of the Waikato, the Ngā... | 2.421875 | 0 |
74062400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C5%8Dhutukawa%20Coast | Pōhutukawa Coast | There are no colleges for students aged 13–18 in the area but there are free buses providing access to schools such as Howick College and Botany Downs Secondary College as well as special character schools such as Elim Christian College, Sancta Maria College, Saint Kentigern College and Star of the Sea primary school.
... | 2.15625 | 0 |
74062441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauretta%20E.%20Kress | Lauretta E. Kress | Kress joined the medical staff of the Washington Sanitarium in 1907. In 1916, she opened the Kress Maternity and Children's Hospital at the Washington Sanitarium, which later became Washington Adventist Hospital, delivering more than 5,000 babies in 30 years there. In 1930, she became the Director of the Women's Clinic... | 2.21875 | 0 |
74062542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Maryland%20Solar%20Gamera | University of Maryland Solar Gamera | The University of Maryland Solar Gamera is a solar-powered helicopter. In August 2016, it made the first solar-powered helicopter flight.
Development
The Solar Gamera, also known as the Gamera-S and the GameraS, used the structure and rotors of its predecessor, the Gamera II. Components of the power train for that hu... | 2.40625 | 0 |
74062909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamidi%20Adeosun | Lamidi Adeosun | Lamidi Adeosun (born 22 August 1963) is a retired Nigerian Army lieutenant general.
Early life
Adeosun was born in Ola-Oluwa Local Government of Osun State on 22 August 1963.
Military career
He was commissioned into the Nigerian Army on 4 July 1983. He fought during the wars in Liberia, Sierra Leone and DR Congo. H... | 1.945313 | 0 |
74062937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosymbiosis | Photosymbiosis | Currently described photobiont species number about 100, far less than the 19,000 described species of fungal mycobionts, and factors such as geography can predominate over mycobiont preference. Phylogenetic analyses in lichenized fungi have suggested that, throughout evolutionary history, there has been repeated loss ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
74062937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosymbiosis | Photosymbiosis | The evolution of photosymbiosis in corals was likely critical for the global establishment of coral reefs. Corals are likewise adapted to eject damaged photosymbionts that generate high levels of toxic reactive oxygen species, a process known as bleaching. The identity of the Symbiodinium photosymbiont can change in co... | 3.078125 | 0 |
74062937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosymbiosis | Photosymbiosis | Chordates
Photosymbiosis is relatively uncommon in chordate species. One such example of photosymbiosis is in ascidians, the sea squirts. In the genus Didemnidae, 30 species establish symbiotic relationships. The photosynthetic ascidians are associated with cyanobacteria in the genus of Prochloron as well as, in some ... | 3.015625 | 0 |
74062937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosymbiosis | Photosymbiosis | Protists
Photosymbiosis has evolved multiple times in the protist taxa Ciliophora, Foraminifera, Radiolaria, Dinoflagellata, and diatoms. Foraminifera and Radiolaria are planktonic taxa that serve as primary producers in open ocean communities. Photosynthetic plankton species associate with the symbiotes of dinoflagel... | 2.796875 | 0 |
74063152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20premieres%20of%20Dmitri%20Shostakovich%27s%20Symphony%20No.%207 | American premieres of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 | The American broadcast premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 was performed by the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini on July 19, 1942. This was followed by the American concert premiere played at Tanglewood by the Berkshire Music Center Orchestra, a student ensemble, conducted by Serge Kous... | 2.6875 | 0 |
74063152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20premieres%20of%20Dmitri%20Shostakovich%27s%20Symphony%20No.%207 | American premieres of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 | On the evening of June 22, 1941, Shostakovich and his friend Isaak Glikman had intended to see a double-header soccer match in Leningrad, then have dinner. As they commuted to the stadium, they heard Vyacheslav Molotov's radio announcement that Germany had invaded the Soviet Union. Shostakovich immediately went to volu... | 2.171875 | 0 |
74063152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20premieres%20of%20Dmitri%20Shostakovich%27s%20Symphony%20No.%207 | American premieres of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 | Music historian Christopher H. Gibbs said that much of the information about the symphony disseminated by the American press, including from The New York Times and Time, had come from Soviet sources translated into English. He characterized contemporary American press coverage as being "largely repetitive" and that it ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
74063154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapithel%20Dam | Mapithel Dam | In 2015 protests occurred against the dam and in 2016, Thoyee, Riha and Naga village community members raised concerns about the dam's impact on forestry and community land. Both the Centre for Research and Advocacy and the Committee on Human Rights expressed concern about the dam's impact on the communities. Protest f... | 2.546875 | 0 |
74063166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myosotis%20australis | Myosotis australis | Myosotis australis is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, native to New Zealand, Australia and New Guinea. Robert Brown described this species in 1810. Plants of this species of forget-me-not are perennial rosettes with ebracteate inflorescences and white or yellow corollas with stamens that are fu... | 2.15625 | 0 |
74063166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myosotis%20australis | Myosotis australis | Two subspecies are recognised in the latest taxonomic treatment: Myosotis australis subsp. australis (native to Australia and New Zealand), and M. australis subsp. saruwagedica (endemic to New Guinea). The subspecies are allopatric, and can be distinguished from one another based on the presence of hooked hairs on the ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
74063194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed%20Forces%20of%20the%20Democratic%20Republic%20of%20Afghanistan | Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan | The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, known as the Armed Forces of the Republic of Afghanistan after 1986, was the national military of Afghanistan from 1978 to 1992.
History
Formation of the Afghan National Guard
The Guard Regiments of the Afghan Army were established in the 1970s, under Daou... | 2.5625 | 0 |
74063976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kichwa-Lamista%20people | Kichwa-Lamista people | The Kichwa-Lamista or Lamistas are an indigenous people of Peru. They live in the city of Lamas and its associated agricultural communities in the San Martin Region, especially in the Province of Lamas. They speak the Kichwa language and have a traditional culture which combines elements of Amazonian, Andean and Europ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
74063976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kichwa-Lamista%20people | Kichwa-Lamista people | It is likely that the Lamistas acquired Kichwa during the colonial period, and that it was used as a lingua franca between the various ethnicities present in the reductions of Lamas. Quechua was the working language of the Jesuit and Franciscan missions of the region, however, their Quechua was of a simplified and rudi... | 2.515625 | 0 |
74063976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kichwa-Lamista%20people | Kichwa-Lamista people | The conquest of Lamas
The first contact with the Spanish in the region occurred with expeditions from Moyobamba and Chachapoyas in the late 1530s. However, for the next century these contacts were sporadic, and it was not until 1653–1656, that the region was brought under Spanish control by expeditions led by Martin de... | 3.125 | 0 |
74063976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kichwa-Lamista%20people | Kichwa-Lamista people | In 1656, the town of Lamas (officially Ciudad del Triunfo de la Santa Cruz de los Motilones y Lamas) was founded. The conquered indigenous population were forcibly distributed into three villages surrounding the new settlement, which was itself reserved for Spaniards and Criollos, creating the reduction of Lamas. The I... | 2.90625 | 0 |
74064571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaramthen | Agaramthen | Agaramthen is a village located in the Tambaram, Chennai taluka of Kancheepuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. This village is under the administrative control of the Thiruvencheri gram panchayat.
Demographics
In 2011, Agaramthen had a population of 4,172, being 2,064 males and 2,108 females. The litera... | 1.960938 | 0 |
74064630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havre%20Trough | Havre Trough | Tectonics
The subducting Pacific plate lies between to beneath the Havre Trough between 28°S to 35°S. South of the Rapuhia Scarp at 35°S it is thought that the Hikurangi Plateau volcanics which are up to thick are subducting and this remnant of a Cretaceous Large Igneous Province changes erupted volcanic composit... | 2.84375 | 0 |
74065121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merche%20Esmeralda | Merche Esmeralda | Merche Esmeralda (, Mercedes Rodríguez Gamero; Seville, 1947/50) is a Spanish flamenco dancer (bailaora) and choreographer. In 2007, she was the recipient of the Fundación Cruzcampo "Compás del Cante" Award; this award is always referred to by the Spanish media as the "Flamenco Nobel prize".
Early life and education
M... | 1.992188 | 0 |
74065543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigor%20I%20Mamikonian | Grigor I Mamikonian | Grigor I Mamikonian () was the presiding prince of Armenia in 662–685, when the country was under Arab domination.
Grigor had been taken prisoner by the Arab governor of Syria, Mu'awiya, along with other Armenian nobles in 654/55, and was kept hostage at Damascus. In 661, when Mu'awiya entered into a civil war against... | 1.945313 | 0 |
74066093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea%20Skating%20Union | Korea Skating Union | Factional strife and abuse
Since 1992 to 2022, South Korea won a total of 79 Winter Olympic medals. Out of these, 75 were obtained in ice skating events managed by the Korea Skating Union. The Short track speed skating event alone accounted for a total of 53 medals, with 26 being golds.
However, the Korea Skating Uni... | 2.265625 | 0 |
74066111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamazasp%20IV%20Mamikonian | Hamazasp IV Mamikonian | Hamazasp Mamikonian () was the presiding prince of Armenia in 655–661, when the country was under Arab domination. After the Byzantine invasion of 657/58, he switched sides and served the Byzantines.
Hamazasp Mamikonian became presiding prince of Armenia in 655 by the Rashidun Caliphate, when it occupied Armenia and e... | 2 | 0 |
74066903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amritpex%202023 | Amritpex 2023 | Amritpex 2023 was the national philatelic exhibition organized by India Post, Government of India in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Philatelic Congress of India (PCI). It was held at Halls No. 5 of the Pragati Maidan Exhibition Complex, New Delhi, India from 11 to 15 February 2023.
Elements of the show... | 2.078125 | 0 |
74069514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braak%20Base%20Line | Braak Base Line | The Braak Base Line was the baseline for the state survey of the Duchy of Holstein, the Danish state, the city of Hamburg and the Kingdom of Hanover (Gaussian state survey). Its length was measured in 1820/21 by Heinrich Christian Schumacher between the two trigonometric points near Braak in the district of today's Bru... | 2.6875 | 0 |
74069864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/256th%20Rifle%20Division | 256th Rifle Division | Battle of Kalinin
In an effort to cobble together a force that could keep the Germans out of Moscow, at 0200 hours on October 10 the STAVKA ordered seven rifle divisions pulled out of Western Front's right wing, including the 256th. As an indication of the urgency, the division was to move by truck. However, the 930th... | 2.265625 | 0 |
74069929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%20Wicked%20Muhammad%20Came%20From | Where Wicked Muhammad Came From | Wicked Muhammad is also unique incorporating both tales of the bulls. In the Vita Mahumeti of Embrico of Mainz, Muhammad overcomes the bull to succeed to the kingdom, while in the works of Walter of Compiègne, Guibert of Nogent, Adelphus, Vincent of Beauvais and Thomas of Pavia, the bull deposits the Qur'an in Muhammad... | 2.53125 | 0 |
74070111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Battle%20of%20Zhawar | First Battle of Zhawar | The First Battle of Zhawar was fought during the Soviet–Afghan War between Afghan Army units, and their allies the Soviet Union, against mujahideen groups of Haqqani and Khalis. Their objective was to destroy the Mujahideen logistic base situated at Zhawar, 3 kilometers from the Durand line.
Zhawar
The Mujahideen ba... | 2.078125 | 0 |
74070132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20Battle%20of%20Zhawar | Second Battle of Zhawar | The Mujahideen base at Zhawar, situated in Paktia Province, served as a storage facility for supplies and equipment being transferred from neighbouring Pakistan to the various guerrilla groups operating in the region. It also served as a training and command facility. The Mujahideen had dug tunnels up to 500 m into the... | 2 | 0 |
74070666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan%20Air%20Force%20%281978%E2%80%931992%29 | Afghan Air Force (1978–1992) | The Afghan Air Force (Pashto: افغان هوايي ځواک, Persian: قوای هوایی افغانستان), officially known as the Afghan Air Force and Air Defense and sometimes referred to as the DRA Air Force or DRAAF, was the aerial warfare branch of the Afghan Armed Forces from 1978 until the dissolution of the Democratic Republic of Afghani... | 2.453125 | 0 |
74070712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music-evoked%20autobiographical%20memory | Music-evoked autobiographical memory | Beyond fMRI measurements, studies on MEAMs often incorporate additional behavioral measures such as questionnaires or interviews to capture the subjective experience and vividness of the retrieved memories. These measures help validate the connection between music and autobiographical memories and provide a richer unde... | 2.796875 | 0 |
74070811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishtail%20projectile%20point | Fishtail projectile point | Association with extinct megafauna
Direct association between Fishtail points and extinct megafauna are rare, though such an association is preserved at several sites. These include Piedra Museo in Santa Cruz Province in Southern Argentina and in Cueva del Medio in southern Chile, where Fishtail points were found in a... | 2.515625 | 0 |
74070818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosswalks%20in%20North%20America | Crosswalks in North America | In the United States, crosswalks are sometimes marked with white stripes, though many municipalities have slightly different methods, styles, or patterns for doing so. The designs used vary widely between jurisdictions, and often vary even between a city and its county (or local equivalents). There are two main methods... | 2.90625 | 0 |
74070818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosswalks%20in%20North%20America | Crosswalks in North America | Massachusetts allows an unusual indication variation for pedestrian movement. At signalized intersections without separate pedestrian signal heads, the traffic signals may be programmed to turn red in all directions, followed by a steady display of yellow lights simultaneously with the red indications. During this red-... | 2.78125 | 0 |
74071124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrin%20T.%20Maxson | Orrin T. Maxson | Civil War service
At the outbreak of the American Civil War, Maxson assisted in raising a company of volunteers for the Union Army and was chosen as first lieutenant of that company. His company was enrolled as Company A in the 12th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. They mustered into federal service in January 1862 and w... | 2.71875 | 0 |
74071208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Surgun | Great Surgun | In 1578, a new Turkish-Persian war (1578-1590) began. The Ottoman army and the 100,000-strong army of the Crimean Khan raided Eastern Armenia. Devastating campaigns in Transcaucasia continued until the beginning of 1590. A significant part of the local population was killed, driven into slavery or fled (60,000 people w... | 2.640625 | 0 |
74071208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Surgun | Great Surgun | The number of Armenians resettled from Eastern Armenia to Persia is estimated, according to various sources, from 250 thousand to 300 thousand people. According to the Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia, “in 1604, the troops of Shah Abbas captured Er. and forcibly took the majority of the Armenian population to Iran". Dur... | 2.921875 | 0 |
74071486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilar%20Rioja | Pilar Rioja | María del Pilar Rioja del Olmo (Torreón, Mexico, September 13, 1932) is a Mexican dancer who focused her career on Spanish dance.
Biography
Her training included mastering all branches of this dance: the bolero school, the folkloric, the classical, the stylized, and the flamenco dance. Her contribution was the "innova... | 2.734375 | 0 |
74071743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel%20Haslup%20Lamb | Isabel Haslup Lamb | Isabel Haslup Lamb (1864–1936) was an American physician and co-founder of the Women's Medical Society of the District of Columbia, with Mary Almera Parsons. She was also reportedly the first woman to drive a car in Washington, D.C.
Early life and education
Lamb was born in Laurel, Maryland, on September 16, 1864, to... | 2.375 | 0 |
74071885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Shkodunovich | Nikolay Shkodunovich | Shkodunovich took command of the newly formed 68th Rifle Corps, which included the 223rd, on 30 July 1943, which he led for the rest of the war. The corps later became part of the 57th, 37th, 4th Guards, and 46th Armies of the Southwestern, Steppe, 2nd, and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts, fighting in the Belgorod–Kharkov offensi... | 2.109375 | 0 |
74073399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marita%20Inglehart | Marita Inglehart | Marita Rohr Inglehart is a psychologist, academic, and author. She is a Professor at the Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine at the School of Dentistry, an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Psychology at the College of Literature, Arts and Sciences at the University of Michigan. Additionally, she also hol... | 2.6875 | 0 |
74073559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billardiera%20ovalis | Billardiera ovalis | Billardiera ovalis is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a woody, creeping scrambler with thick, egg-shaped or elliptic leaves, and creamy-yellow flowers arranged singly in leaf axils, but turning red as they age.
Description
Billardiera ovalis is a woody, creep... | 2.421875 | 0 |
74073602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20Indonesian%20local%20elections | 2024 Indonesian local elections | Local executive elections (Indonesian: Pemilihan Kepala Daerah or Pilkada) to elect governors, mayors and regents in Indonesia were held on 27 November 2024 across 548 regions: 37 provinces, 415 regencies and 93 cities, which covered all provinces except Yogyakarta Special Region and all cities/regencies except the con... | 2.53125 | 0 |
74074797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique%20Barrau%20Salado | Enrique Barrau Salado | In the summer of 1939 Barrau decided to commence a professional military service and in July he was admitted to ranks with "empleo inmediato", immediate employment. Though formally he was merely "teniente de complemento de caballería", a reserve cavalry lieutenant, he got his wartime provisional promotion to captain ac... | 2.1875 | 0 |
74074828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquilino%20Cayuela | Aquilino Cayuela | Aquilino Cayuela Cayuela (born 19 January 1967) is a Spanish writer, columnist, and professor. He specializes in moral philosophy, politics, bioethics, and theology. He was awarded the Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Narrative Prize in 2008 for his work El hombre de arena. In 2021 he began working as a columnist on matters of in... | 2.078125 | 0 |
74074850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan%20Historical%20Relic%20Source%20Research%20Society | Taiwan Historical Relic Source Research Society | Summer seminars
In August 1970, a 5-day long “Lecture on Taiwan History” was held exclusively for students in history departments. Chen Chi-lu (陳奇祿), Lin Hendao (林衡道), Hu Yiguan (胡一貫) and Tseng Guangshun (曾廣順) were hired as lecture faculties. In summer 1973, two echelons were held in National Cheng Kung University. Th... | 2.328125 | 0 |
74074850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan%20Historical%20Relic%20Source%20Research%20Society | Taiwan Historical Relic Source Research Society | The Taiwan Historical Research Center had published works such as Complete Works of Wu Ziguang (《吳子光全集》), Poetry and Grass of the Cypress Mansion (《柏莊詩草》), and Poetry Deformity (《詩畸》, bowl hitting chants). Among these works, Collection of Taiwan Historical Stories (《台灣史叢談》) was the Youth Corps’ template of Taiwan histo... | 2.640625 | 0 |
74074927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Argles | Jean Argles | Jean Argles (née Owtram) (7 November 1925 – 2 April 2023) was a Second World War code breaker and cipher officer. She and her sister Pat Davies are often referred to as "The Codebreaking Sisters". As a teenager, Jean Owtram joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) in London, signing the Official Secrets Act 1911 an... | 1.960938 | 0 |
74075231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20spiritism%20in%20Brazil | History of spiritism in Brazil | It was Elias da Silva who, at the end of that year (27 December 1883), held a preparatory meeting for the reorganization of the movement in the Municipality of the Court at his own residence, given the apparent lack of understanding among the members of the various existing Spiritist entities there: the "Centro da Uniã... | 2.234375 | 0 |
74075231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20spiritism%20in%20Brazil | History of spiritism in Brazil | Historians of the movement record that at the time, there was an ideological and doctrinal division between the so-called "lay" or "scientific" individuals, represented by Prof. Angeli Torteroli, who advocated the scientific aspect of Spiritism, and the "mystics," led by Dr. Bezerra de Menezes, who advocated the religi... | 2.140625 | 0 |
74075231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20spiritism%20in%20Brazil | History of spiritism in Brazil | The first major dissensions within the spiritist movement occurred in the early 20th century. The first took place in Niterói, with the establishment of Umbanda, traditionally initiated by the Caboclo das Sete Encruzilhadas (1908), and the second occurred in Santos (1910) and called itself "Espiritismo Racional e Cient... | 2.140625 | 0 |
74075421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achalinus%20hunanensis | Achalinus hunanensis | Achalinus hunanensis, also known as the Hunan odd-scaled snake or Hunan burrowing snake, is a species of snake in the family Xenodermatidae. It is endemic to the province of Hunan in China.
Taxonomy
A. hunanensis is known from two specimens were collected during field work in Hunan. The holotype, collected in early Ma... | 2.03125 | 0 |
66840285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misamis%27s%201st%20congressional%20district | Misamis's 1st congressional district | Misamis's 1st congressional district was one of the two congressional districts of the Philippines in the formerly undivided province of Misamis. It was created ahead of the 1907 Philippine Assembly elections and initially comprised the municipalities east of Macajalar Bay and on the island of Camiguin, namely Balingas... | 2.203125 | 0 |
66841202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femme%20au%20Chien | Femme au Chien | Femme au Chien (English: Woman with dog) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, which he painted in 1962. It is a portrait of Picasso's second wife, Jacqueline Roque, and their dog Kaboul, an Afghan Greyhound. The painting is an illustration of the great affection that Picasso displayed for both of the subjects... | 1.976563 | 0 |
66841243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage%20Civilisation | Savage Civilisation | Savage Civilisation by Tom Harrisson was published in January 1937 by Victor Gollancz. The book is a mixture of history, ethnographical account and travel narrative, set in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu). Harrisson’s biographer, Judith Heimann, describes it as one of the “few works of scholarship in the social sciences... | 2.140625 | 0 |
66842658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Rapids%20Subdivision | Grand Rapids Subdivision | The Grand Rapids Subdivision is a railroad line in Western Michigan and Northern Indiana. It runs from Porter, Indiana to Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was built between 1870–1903 by the Chicago and Michigan Lake Shore Railroad and its successor the Pere Marquette Railroad. CSX Transportation owns the line today. In addi... | 1.984375 | 0 |
66842829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Rathbone%20Low | Charles Rathbone Low | Charles Rathbone Low (1837–1918) was a British officer of the Indian Navy and writer.
Background
The son of Major John Handcock Low of the East India Company and of the 39th Bengal Native Infantry, he was born in Dublin, in 1837.
His father was killed in 1849 at Rajmahal. He was born in 1805, the youngest son of Wil... | 2.078125 | 0 |
66842950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benholm | Benholm | Benholm is a settlement in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is now a conservation area and is home to Benholm Mill.
The A92 passes the eastern edge of Benholm. The settlement was served by Birnie Road Halt railway station from 1865 to 1951.
Geography
Benholm lies near the North Sea coast, to the southwest of Inverbervie,... | 2.140625 | 0 |
66843389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lob%20Gott%20getrost%20mit%20Singen | Lob Gott getrost mit Singen | "" (literally: Praise God confidently with singing) is a Lutheran hymn in German, a paraphrase of the Latin Te Deum, by the Bohemian Brethren. The hymn is part of the current Protestant hymnal. The hymn was translated into English as "Praise God, praise God with singing". The hymn tune was used for several hymns in dif... | 2.03125 | 0 |
66844040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20Saxby | Alice Saxby | In 1948, Saxby was appointed matron to King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers, London. Prior to 1940, Sister Agnes had been matron and between September 1940 and October 1948, the hospital had been closed. In October 1948, at the opening of the hospital at Beaumont Street, London, Saxby appeared in two official photog... | 2.171875 | 0 |
66844333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20Bruce%20Mitford | Timothy Bruce Mitford | Commander Timothy Bruce Mitford, FSA, is a historian and retired Royal Navy officer.
Early life and military career
The son of the archaeologist Terence Bruce Mitford, Timothy Bruce Mitford read classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He then began studying towards a DPhil at the University of Oxford in 1962 or 1... | 2.359375 | 0 |
66844831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodankyl%C3%A4%20Local%20History%20Museum | Sodankylä Local History Museum | The Sodankylä Local History Museum () is a Finnish local museum of the Sodankylä municipality presenting the peasant life of the early 20th century in the villages of Sodankylä and Sompio. The main building of the museum is the Kuukkeli House (built in 1906), which was moved from the village of Riesto, in the area of t... | 2.3125 | 0 |
66844860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ethics%20of%20Diet | The Ethics of Diet | The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-eating is an 1883 book by Howard Williams, on the history of vegetarianism. The book was influential on the development of the Victorian vegetarian movement.
Background
The Ethics of Diet, originally serialised between 1878 and 1883, app... | 2.21875 | 0 |
66845039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Aloysius%20High%20School%20%28Jersey%20City%2C%20New%20Jersey%29 | St. Aloysius High School (Jersey City, New Jersey) | The St. Aloysius High School was a private co-ed high school located in Jersey City, in Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.
The school closed at the end of the 2006-07 school year. The school, which first opened in 1897, had faced an annual deficit of $... | 1.921875 | 0 |
66845138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severin%20Dobrovolsky | Severin Dobrovolsky | Severin Tsezarevich Dobrovolsky (Russian: Северин Цезаревич Добровольский, also Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, September 10, 1881 – 26 January 1946) was a Russian White émigré, who lived after the Russian Civil War as a political refugee in Finland. He participated in the activities of several white emigrant organizations and pub... | 1.953125 | 0 |
66845584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilman%20Appiah%20Kwaku | Gilman Appiah Kwaku | Gilman Appiah Kwaku (born 7 July 1939) is a Ghanaian politician and a teacher. He served as member of the first parliament of the fourth republic of Ghana for Mpraeso constituency in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
Early life and education
Gilman Appiah Kwaku was born on July 7, 1939. He attended Wesley College and obta... | 2.21875 | 0 |
66845609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood-pasture%20hypothesis | Wood-pasture hypothesis | Considered "alien" to the landscape, akin to invasive species, cattle and horses were now also removed from the forests, as it happened in former wood-pastures like Białowieża, because they were seen as harmful to the creation of a new old-growth forest. At the same time, the introduction of the potato made pannage, th... | 2.46875 | 0 |
66845609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood-pasture%20hypothesis | Wood-pasture hypothesis | On the other hand, nut-bearing species such as hazel, beech, chestnut, pedunculate and sessile oak would become "planted" somewhat deliberately in the vicinity of those shrubs by rodents such as red squirrel and wood mouse, the nuthatch and corvids such as crows, magpies, ravens and especially jays, which store them fo... | 3.0625 | 0 |
66845609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood-pasture%20hypothesis | Wood-pasture hypothesis | Although Vera himself limited his argument to the Holocene and the fauna present into historical times, research better supports his claims in regard to earlier interglacials. Modern humans have likely exerted a strong influence in Europe since their first appearance here during the Weichselian glaciation, which has le... | 2.796875 | 0 |
66845609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood-pasture%20hypothesis | Wood-pasture hypothesis | In addition, many mammals above that were spread across all continents except for Antarctica prior to the Quaternary extinction event have since declined across their range, or become locally or globally extinct, respectively. Modern taxa with a once wider distribution include the Eurasian saiga, wapiti-deer, the Asia... | 2.953125 | 0 |
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