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66845879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu%20Bilal%20Mirdas | Abu Bilal Mirdas | Umayyad governor Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad suppressed the Kharijite disturbances and imprisoned many of them including Abu Bilal. According to the account of Umar ibn Shabba (), the jailer was impressed by Abu Bilal's piety and permitted him to spend the nights at his home and return in the mornings. Upon learning that Ibn... | 1.992188 | 0 |
66846238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Norfleet%20Hunter | Charles Norfleet Hunter | Charles Norfleet Hunter (January 9, ca. 1852 – September 4, 1931) was an American educator, journalist, and historian. Hunter actively engaged in several late nineteenth-century reform movements. In the 1870s, he participated in the Temperance movement. Beginning in his twenties, Hunter played a significant role as a t... | 2.71875 | 0 |
66846238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Norfleet%20Hunter | Charles Norfleet Hunter | Early life
Charles Norfleet Hunter was born on January 9, circa 1852 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was about 12 years old when he and his family experienced emancipation from slavery. In the antebellum years, Charles’ father Osborne Hunter, Sr. was an artisan, carpenter and mill wright who “hired his own time” from ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
66846238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Norfleet%20Hunter | Charles Norfleet Hunter | Hunter's early venture in newspaper editing was tied to his efforts to create a "State Fair" in North Carolina that would celebrate the economic achievements of Black farmers, homemakers, inventors and entrepreneurs. Together with his brother Osborne Hunter, Jr., the two men created the North Carolina Industrial Fair, ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
66846800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda%20Banks%20%28animator%29 | Brenda Banks (animator) | Brenda Lee Banks (July 19, 1948 – December 30, 2020) was an American animator, who was one of the first African American women to work as a professional animator.
History
Early life and education
Banks was born in Los Angeles on July 19, 1948. She graduated from Fremont High School in 1967 and then went on to attend ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
66846877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20suffrage%20in%20Pennsylvania | Women's suffrage in Pennsylvania | The women's suffrage movement in Pennsylvania was an outgrowth of the abolitionist movement in the state. Early women's suffrage advocates in Pennsylvania wanted equal suffrage not only for white women but for all African Americans. The first women's rights convention in the state was organized by Quakers and held in C... | 3.265625 | 0 |
66847156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity%20Hospital%20Retford | Trinity Hospital Retford | By the early 19th century, the old Elizabethan building was in poor condition, and in 1832-4 the present (Grade II listed) Hospital was built on the original site to the design of Edward Blore. It is thought Blore's link to Retford was because his wife was from Mattersey. His creation cost £4,000 to build.
In 1872, Lo... | 2.515625 | 0 |
66847695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism%20in%20the%20Philippines | Anarchism in the Philippines | The anarchist movement continued to attract people throughout the 1990s, particularly after the 1999 Seattle WTO protests brought anarchism into mainstream discourse. One group that formed around this time was the Metro Manila Anarchist Confederation (MMAC), which sought to coordinate individuals and collectives to tak... | 2.1875 | 0 |
66847816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler%20Range%20%28West%20Coast%29 | Butler Range (West Coast) | The Butler Range, also known as North Butler Range, is a range located in the Westland District of the West Coast Region on the South Island of New Zealand. The range has also been known as Peaks of the Mist Range.
The Butler Range was probably named by Charlie Douglas in the late 1890s after John Butler of Whataroa. ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
66847919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Campbell%20%28minister%29 | James Campbell (minister) | James Campbell's son, Rev George Campbell (1827-1904), was the parish minister of Eastwood on the outskirts of Glasgow between 1853 and 1904. George Campbell was privately educated, after which he attended Edinburgh University. During his youth on Tweedside, he was at Abbotsford whilst Sir Walter Scott was still alive,... | 2.390625 | 0 |
66848422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Koenker | Deborah Koenker | In 2002, Koenker began Learning to Draw, embroidery over drawings and engravings of the Old Masters (still ongoing). In 2003, she became interested in the Mexican agricultural workers in the Okanagan and began work on a project that took three years to complete and involved 84 volunteer participants, Las Desaparecidas ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
66848607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-random%20segregation%20of%20chromosomes | Non-random segregation of chromosomes | Scale insects
In most scale insects, males are parahaploid: although they have two sets of chromosomes, only chromosomes of maternal origin are active, and only they are passed on to offspring. Inactivation of the paternal chromosomes occurs at an early embryonic stage (blastula), when the chromosomes become highly c... | 3.125 | 0 |
66848812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Roche%2C%207th%20Viscount%20Fermoy | David Roche, 7th Viscount Fermoy | David Roche, 7th Viscount Fermoy (1573–1635) was an Irish magnate, soldier, and politician.
Birth and origins
David was born about 1573, probably in Castletownroche, County Cork, Ireland. He was the only surviving son of Maurice Roche and his first wife, Eleanor FitzGerald. His father was the 6th Viscount Fermoy (als... | 2.140625 | 0 |
66848900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlerahan | Castlerahan | Castlerahan () is a barony in County Cavan, Ireland. Baronies were mainly cadastral rather than administrative units. They acquired modest local taxation and spending functions in the 19th century before being superseded by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.
Etymology
Castlerahan barony takes its name from Castl... | 2.21875 | 0 |
66848907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preslav%20Nakov | Preslav Nakov | Preslav Nakov (born on 26 January 1977 in Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria) is a computer scientist who works on natural language processing. He is particularly known for his research on fake news detection, automatic detection of offensive language, and biomedical text mining. Nakov obtained a PhD in computer science under th... | 2.015625 | 0 |
66848931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrison%20Frazier | Garrison Frazier | Ministry
Initially a member of the Methodist Church in Georgia, Frazier joined the Baptist Church after later becoming convinced "that the Baptist faith was according to the Bible." He was baptized at Savannah, Georgia's Third African Church (later renamed the First Bryan Baptist Church), becoming ordained in the mini... | 2.640625 | 0 |
66848931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrison%20Frazier | Garrison Frazier | In addition to a cavalry division, Sherman's forces comprised two armies or wings. The right wing/southern column, the Army of the Tennessee, marched along the Georgia railroad, the Macon and Western railroad. The left-wing or Army of Georgia, led by General Henry Warner Slocum, marched following the Georgia railroad, ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
66848978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello%20%281980%20video%20game%29 | Othello (1980 video game) | Othello is a 1980 video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for its Atari Video Computer System (later called the Atari 2600). It is based on the variant of Reversi of the same name, originally created in 1971. The VCS game was programmed by Ed Logg and Carol Shaw.
Gameplay
The game broadly resembles the game... | 2.5625 | 0 |
66849004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40th%20Light%20Anti-Aircraft%20Regiment%2C%20Royal%20Artillery | 40th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery | Tunisia
By 25 February part of 51st HD had reached Medenine, preparing for the set-piece attack on the Mareth Line. On 6 March it was in defensive positions to fight off a poorly-conceived German attack. On 16/17 March it began attacks on the Mareth outposts, and once the New Zealand Division had outflanked the formida... | 2.140625 | 0 |
66849099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn%20Abi%20al-Khisal | Ibn Abi al-Khisal | Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥāmmad ibn Masʿūd ibn Ṭayyīb ibn Faraj ibn Khālaṣa (or Khāliṣa) al-Ghāfiqī ash-Sheqūrī () (d. 540 AH) (d. 1146 AD) better known as Ibn 'Abī'l-Khisāl (), was a prominent Andalusī secretary, historian, muhaddith (scholar of ḥadīth) and poet. He is referred to as Dhū al-Wizāratayn (; lit. 'holder of two mi... | 2.0625 | 0 |
66849180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimball%20Island | Kimball Island | For some time, a navigational beacon was located at Kimball Island; it was discontinued in 1922, after having been reported missing. A cruiser had run aground on the island in 1935, stranding eight people aboard for the night. In 1935, Kimball Island was one of several locations along the San Joaquin River included in ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
66849181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Muhtadi%20%28Nizari%20imam%29 | Al-Muhtadi (Nizari imam) | There is a well documented letter with the Syrian Ismaili Nizari community and published by Mustafa Ghalib in 1953 coming from the Imam al Muhtadi to his followers where he confirms that he is the grandson of Imam Nizar bin Mustansirbillah and where he also appoints Zen ibn Abi Ilfargin as the head Dai for Syria and r... | 2.0625 | 0 |
66849277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Madeline | Paul Madeline | Paul Madeline (7 October 1863, in Paris – 12 February 1920, in Paris) was a French Post-Impressionist painter; known for his landscapes and village scenes.
Biography
He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He found it necessary to work at a publishing company to support his studies there, so most of his pain... | 2.015625 | 0 |
66849421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20Montagu%20Samuel | Sydney Montagu Samuel | As a playwright, Samuel wrote the English libretto of Victorien Sardou's Piccolino, produced in 1879 at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, by the Carl Rosa Opera Company, and at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin. In collaboration with James Donzel, he translated Victor Hugo's La lyre et la harpe into English verse for a cantata... | 1.929688 | 0 |
66849503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spud%20Island | Spud Island | Spud Island is a small island of the San Joaquin River, located in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in northern California. It was once used to farm onions; while it is no longer used for agriculture, it remains inhabited. In the late 20th century it was the site of a county park, which offered camping, fishing a... | 2.578125 | 0 |
66849555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinsley%20Island | Tinsley Island | Tinsley Island is a small island in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, in San Joaquin County, California, next to the Stockton Deepwater Shipping Channel. It was created in the 1930s, when dredging to improve the navigability of the San Joaquin River cut it off from Roberts Island. Since 1958, it has been owned by... | 2.515625 | 0 |
66849555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinsley%20Island | Tinsley Island | History
The land that would eventually become Tinsley Island first appears on USGS maps in 1910, as a protrusion on the northern side of Roberts Island. Later, the channel of the San Joaquin River near Tinsley Island was widened and deepened; by March 1934 the work was "more than 50 percent complete". By 1939, it had ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
66849908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andanappa%20Doddameti | Andanappa Doddameti | Andanappa Jnanappa Doddameti was an Indian statesman. He was born in Jakkali village, Ron taluk, Kingdom of Mysore (now the state of Karnataka) on 16 March 1908. Andanappa Doddameti was known for his role in the Unification of Karnataka and his significant participation in the Indian Independence Movement.
He was the ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
66850066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Bacon%20%28sculptor%29 | Charles Bacon (sculptor) | Charles Bacon (1821–1886) was an English sculptor primarily remembered for his equestrian statue of Prince Albert at Holborn Circus in central London.
Life
He was born in London the son of John Bacon a print compositor.
He originally trained as a gem-cutter and seal-maker working in Pentonville but moved from this to... | 2.03125 | 0 |
66850174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameras%20for%20All-Sky%20Meteor%20Surveillance | Cameras for All-Sky Meteor Surveillance | CAMS (the Cameras for All-Sky Meteor Surveillance project) is a NASA-sponsored international project that tracks and triangulates meteors during night-time video surveillance in order to map and monitor meteor showers. Data processing is housed at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute in California, USA. Goal of... | 2.59375 | 0 |
66850174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameras%20for%20All-Sky%20Meteor%20Surveillance | Cameras for All-Sky Meteor Surveillance | Demonstrate the presence of yet-to-be discovered long-period comets and improve their orbits
In April 2021, CAMS published work that identified 14, and perhaps as many as 20, already known long-period comets as parent bodies of one of our meteor showers. Meteor showers were found for nearly all known comets approachi... | 2.859375 | 0 |
66850253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima%20Mundi%2C%20Vatican%20City | Anima Mundi, Vatican City | Anima Mundi (previously known as the Vatican Ethnological Museum) is a museum of ethnological art and artefacts in the Vatican City. It is part of the Vatican Museums.
History
The main core of the collection arose from the Vatican Exposition of 1925. The exposition was instituted by Pope Pius XI; its success led to th... | 2.734375 | 0 |
66850917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Blevins | Christopher Blevins | Christopher Blevins (born March 14, 1998) is an American cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Mountain Bike Team Specialized Factory Racing. Specializing in cross-country mountain biking, Blevins has also previously competed in road cycling (for ) and cyclo-cross, before choosing to solely focus on mountain biking in p... | 2.28125 | 0 |
66850984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashima%20Island | Kashima Island | Additional sites include the Kashima Museum of Natural History and Archeology (鹿島博物展示館), a souvenir shop, and a free campsite with public toilets, showers, and cooking facilities.
Kōno origins
The island has a rich history predating samurai times. According to legend, in the Battle of Yashima in 1185, the Kōno prayed... | 2.40625 | 0 |
66851037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwind%2C%20Colorado | Berwind, Colorado | On 20 April 1914, the day after the celebrations of Eastern Orthodox Easter, fighting began between strikers and the militia encamped at Ludlow. A planned signal explosion notified Linderfelt and his men to move from Berwind to the fighting. The battle, known as the Ludlow Massacre, saw a half-dozen armed and unarmed s... | 2.265625 | 0 |
66851264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyxine%20subcinerea | Pyxine subcinerea | Pyxine subcinerea is a species of foliose lichen in the family Caliciaceae. It has a pantropical distribution, and typically grows on bark, but less commonly on rocks. The lichen is characterised by its yellow medulla, soralia on the margins on the lobes that make up the thallus, and the presence of the chemical lichex... | 2.109375 | 0 |
66851277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craft%20Horizons | Craft Horizons | From 1954 to 1955, Craft Horizons was edited by Belle Krasne, who left to marry Irving S. Ribicoff. She was succeeded by Conrad Brown. From 1959 to 1979 the editor in chief of Craft Horizons was Rose Slivka, the associate editor since 1955. At a time when the field of craft was growing rapidly, Slivka is credited with... | 2.15625 | 0 |
66851657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon%20Prapiroon%20%282018%29 | Typhoon Prapiroon (2018) | Typhoon Prapiroon (), known in the Philippines as Severe Tropical Storm Florita, was a Category 1 typhoon that worsened the floods in Japan and also caused impacts in neighboring South Korea. The storm formed from an area of low pressure near the Philippines and strengthened to a typhoon before entering the Sea of Japa... | 2.484375 | 0 |
66851672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20Storm%20Barijat%20%282018%29 | Tropical Storm Barijat (2018) | Tropical Storm Barijat, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Neneng, was a weak tropical storm that caused flooding in the far northern regions of the Philippines and Southern China. Barijat, a replacement name for Utor which is a Marshallese word for coastal areas impacted by waves or winds, the thirty-third tro... | 2.015625 | 0 |
66851993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jahshiyari | Al-Jahshiyari | Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdūs al-Jahshiyārī (died 942) was a prominent Abbasid bureaucrat and scholar. He authored Kitab al-wuzara wa'l-kuttab (Book of Viziers and Scribes).
Life
Al-Jahshiyari was born in Kufa, a center of scholarship in the Islamic world. He was called "al-Jahshiyari" after one of his father's em... | 2.125 | 0 |
66852192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strophocactus%20wittii | Strophocactus wittii | Strophocactus wittii, synonym Selenicereus wittii, known as the Amazon moonflower, is a species of plant in the genus Strophocactus in the cactus family (Cactaceae), and is one of several species commonly called "moonflowers". It was first described in 1900 by Karl Moritz Schumann and is one of three species of cactus ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
66852192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strophocactus%20wittii | Strophocactus wittii | In its natural location, Strophocactus wittii blooms in May. In greenhouse cultivation in Europe it flowers between November and February. The flowers only open for one night. The flower typically begins to open after sunset and is fully open within two hours, closing again at sunrise. Until the flowers are fully open,... | 2.515625 | 0 |
66852192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strophocactus%20wittii | Strophocactus wittii | Strophocactus wittii was discovered in 1899 in the Igapó forests of the Rio Negro near Manaus by the German businessman and hobby plant collector Nikolaus Heinrich Witt (from whom the second part of the scientific name is derived). He sent a plant to Karl Moritz Schumann in Berlin-Dahlem, who at first could not classif... | 2.734375 | 0 |
66852196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Webb | Harold Webb | The Diana Project made headlines in all the major newspapers of the day, was written up in magazines, and became part of the post-war popular culture. The project was used to sell Pepsi and other products, and was featured in a newsreel shown at movie theaters across the country. Webb was even featured in a science-the... | 2.296875 | 0 |
66853951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarksdale%20Cubs | Clarksdale Cubs | In their first season of minor league play, the "Clarksdale" team won the Delta League championship, playing the season under manager Dave Gaston. The first place Clarksdale team led the final Delta League standings, and the league held no playoffs. In winning the championship, Clarksdale ended the season with a record... | 2.015625 | 0 |
66854141 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Vandenhoff | John Vandenhoff | He returned to Liverpool, but the preference there for a local actor named Salter in place of Vandenhoff caused the "Salter riots", intended to drive Vandenhoff away. The theatre management eventually engaged both actors, and they appeared alternately, until it was acknowledged that Vandenhoff was the better actor.
In... | 1.914063 | 0 |
66854586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Eisenhauer | Frank Eisenhauer | Since 2005, Eisenhauer has been principal investigator of the GRAVITY experiment, which connects the European Southern Observatory's four Very Large Telescopes in Paranal, Chile, together as stellar interferometers, achieving an angular resolution equivalent to that of a 130-metre diameter telescope. Similar to adaptiv... | 2.28125 | 0 |
66854878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Mary%27s%20Church%2C%20East%20Knoyle | St. Mary's Church, East Knoyle | St. Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England.
History
The Church of England Parish Church of St Mary was begun before the 1066 conquest. Pevsner described its chancel as "Norman in its bones" and wrote that its 17th-century plaster decoration, a "surprise and delight", "ou... | 1.976563 | 0 |
69594717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alocasia%20nycteris | Alocasia nycteris | Alocasia nycteris, commonly known as the bat alocasia or the batwing alocasia, is a plant in the family Araceae. It is endemic to island of Panay in the Philippines. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant.
Taxonomy and etymology
The species was first displayed to the public by the aroid hobbyist Antonio Advincula dur... | 2.53125 | 0 |
69594797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan%20and%20Isolde%20%28Egusquiza%29 | Tristan and Isolde (Egusquiza) | Tristan and Isolde () is the title of two oil paintings by the Spanish artist Rogelio de Egusquiza. Both works are based on the opera Tristan und Isolde by the German composer Richard Wagner, whom Egusquiza idolised. The first painting, subtitled Death and also known as (The Death of Isolde), was completed in 1910 and... | 2.078125 | 0 |
69594797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan%20and%20Isolde%20%28Egusquiza%29 | Tristan and Isolde (Egusquiza) | Born in Santander, Spain, Rogelio de Egusquiza studied in Rome and Paris, including with the French academic painter Léon Bonnat. In his early career, he produced numerous cabinet paintings depicting bourgeois life. His artistic focus shifted dramatically after he attended a performance of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelun... | 2.390625 | 0 |
69595155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Featherstone%20%28filmmaker%2C%201902%E2%80%931984%29 | Don Featherstone (filmmaker, 1902–1984) | Sydney (Don) Featherstone (1902–1984) is known for his work as an amateur filmmaker in Australia, being awarded a British Empire Medal for services to cinephotography.
Featherstone was an awarded ambulance officer, receiving the insignia of the serving brother of the Order of St John in 1966.
From the 1920s to the 1... | 2.3125 | 0 |
69595239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy%20Trinity%20Anglican%20Church%2C%20Roebourne | Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Roebourne | Holy Trinity Anglican Church is a heritage-listed Anglican church at Hampton Street, Roebourne, Western Australia. It is both the oldest stone building and the oldest church in North West Australia. Completed in 1883, and reconstructed in 1894–95 after being destroyed in a cyclone, it was restored over about a decade i... | 2.109375 | 0 |
69595239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy%20Trinity%20Anglican%20Church%2C%20Roebourne | Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Roebourne | The design of the building is vernacular in style, with Victorian Romanesque elements, and adaptations to suit the local climate and methods of building. The adaptions include iron window frames and concrete floors resistant to cyclones and white ants. The walls are constructed of local stone laid in mortar in a random... | 2.1875 | 0 |
69597628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortolo%20Reservoir | Ortolo Reservoir | The Ortolo Reservoir () is a reservoir in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.
Location
The Ortolo reservoir is formed by a dam (Barrage de l'Ortolo) that impounds the Ortolo river.
Other affluents are the Ruisseau de Latagu and the Ruisseau de Caraglia.
The southwest end and the dam are i... | 2.53125 | 0 |
69598214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroparque | Maroparque | is an animal rescue centre in Breña Alta, La Palma, one of the Canary Islands, in Spain. Opened in 2000, it houses around 450 animals. It gained over 250 extra animals during the 2021 volcanic eruption.
Layout and location
The rescue centre is located on the side of the El Galeon ravine in Breña Alta, on the island o... | 2.578125 | 0 |
69598312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20Eaton%20Town%20Hall | Long Eaton Town Hall | Long Eaton Town Hall is a municipal building in Derby Road, Long Eaton, Derbyshire, England. The town hall, which currently serves as one of two meeting places of Erewash Borough Council, is a Grade II* listed building.
History
The building was commissioned by a local gentleman farmer, John Howitt: the site he selecte... | 2.015625 | 0 |
69598312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20Eaton%20Town%20Hall | Long Eaton Town Hall | The building passed down the Howitt family until it was acquired by the Reverend Francis Gawthorne for use as a vicarage in 1839 and then bought by the lace manufacturers, Joseph and Thomas Fletcher, in 1873. Following significant population growth, largely associated with the machine factory industry, the area became ... | 2.25 | 0 |
69598757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20M.%20Horowitz | Mary M. Horowitz | Mary M. Horowitz is an American oncologist who specializes in blood and marrow transplants.
Early life and education
Horowitz was born to Irish-Italian parents in Brooklyn, New York. As the oldest of seven children, she was discouraged from attending college by her father. Despite this, she enrolled at the Medical Col... | 2.375 | 0 |
69598961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian%20Eichler%20Watson | Lillian Eichler Watson | Eichler wrote a followup, Etiquette Problems in Pictures, which followed a young and socially inept couple as they attempted to impress neighbors, employers, and others but inevitably embarrassed themselves due to their lack of knowledge of social norms. The book appealed to "those who aspired to the middle class after... | 2.078125 | 0 |
69599093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Julius | Harry Julius | Henry George "Harry" Julius (15 November 1885 – 29 June 1938) was an Australian commercial artist who had a long association with Sydney Ure Smith.
History
Julius was born in Sydney. While quite young he enlisted with volunteers and served in the Boer War as a bugler, reputedly the youngest to serve overseas.
He lear... | 2.390625 | 0 |
69599317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooveria%20%28plant%29 | Hooveria (plant) | Hooveria is a genus of perennial bulbous plants in the Agavaceae family native to California and northwest Baja California. They are among a number of taxa referred to as amole (having detergent properties). They are characterized by diurnal flowering and were formerly placed in the genus Chlorogalum, which consists of... | 2.5625 | 0 |
69599512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirenophila | Sirenophila | Sirenophila is a genus of crustose lichens in the subfamily Teloschistoideae of the family Teloschistaceae. It has four species with an Australasian distribution.
Taxonomy
The genus was circumscribed in 2013 by Ulrik Søchting, Ulf Arup, and Patrik Frödén, with Sirenophila gintarasii assigned as the type species. The g... | 2.171875 | 0 |
69599788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Masheb | Robin Masheb | Masheb founded the Veterans Initiative for Eating and Weight (The View) in 2013 as a program dedicated to addressing eating and weight problems in veterans through research, training and advocacy. In 2019, Masheb found that the military practice of “making weight” is related to binge eating and eating pathology later i... | 1.953125 | 0 |
69600247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell%20Center%20for%20Space%20Science%20%26%20Technology | Lowell Center for Space Science & Technology | PICTURE C stands for Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment – Coronagraph. NASA awarded Chakrabarti's team a $5.6 million grant to develop and test PICTURE C. It was the largest grant up to then. The system potentially can detect young, Jupiter-size planets orbiting other sun-like stars in th... | 2.90625 | 0 |
69600721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch%20Mexicans | Dutch Mexicans | Dutch Mexicans (; ) are Mexican citizens of Dutch descent.
The concept and the numbers
Mexican citizens of Dutch descent who identify themselves as such would be considered Dutch Mexicans. It is not a category that INEGI measures in its Population Census so the number is unknown. The concept is related to two other, ... | 2.796875 | 0 |
69600938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucan%20fish | Tucan fish | The tucan fish (Chalceus erythrurus), also called the yellowfin chalceus, is a species of freshwater fish in the family Chalceidae. It is one of five species in the genus Chalceus, and was the second species to be described therein.
Description
The tucan fish has a pale-silver body, with bright-yellow ventral fins (h... | 2.484375 | 0 |
69601299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Produce%20Stakes%20%28USA%29 | Produce Stakes (USA) | The Produce Stakes was an American Thoroughbred racing event run in two divisions from 1902 thru 1907 at Brighton Beach Race Course at Brighton Beach, New York.
One of the more valuable races for two-year-olds in the United States, there was a division for fillies and another for colts and geldings.
The race was shor... | 2.203125 | 0 |
69601435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishi%20Kokubun%20pagoda%20site | Nishi Kokubun pagoda site | History
The Nishi-Kokubun site is located at the tip of a river terrace on the right bank of the lower Kinokawa River, and 700 meters to the east is the ruins of Kii Kokubun-ji temple. It is believed to have been a monastery founded in the Hakuhō period (673-686), which was later converted into a nunnery in the Tenpyō ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
69601612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Nations%20Forum%20on%20Sustainability%20Standards | United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards | The United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards (UNFSS) is an initiative with a steering committee of six United Nations Agencies – Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Trade Centre (ITC), UN Environment, UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), United Nations Economic Commission for Europ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
69601754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi%20Arabian%20Military%20Forces | Saudi Arabian Military Forces | Presidency of State Security is a Saudi Arabian security body created in 2017 by combining the counterterrorism and domestic intelligence services under one roof. The new body will be concerned with all matters related to state security, and will be overseen by the king.
The new state security agency is headed by intel... | 1.921875 | 0 |
69601769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Parke%20Custis | Martha Parke Custis | The Washingtons consulted at least seven physicians to treat Patsy, and tried a wide range of treatments. Between February 1768 and June 1772, she was treated regularly for her seizures by Dr. Rumney, who came to Mount Vernon at least ten times. Her other primary physician was Dr. John Johnson of Maryland, who visited ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
69601769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Parke%20Custis | Martha Parke Custis | In 1772, Dr. Johnson wrote to Martha Washington that he believed Patsy's condition would improve through "regular moderate exercise", "temperate living", and keeping her body "cool and open" by taking "Barley Water and light cooling Food".
Death
The weather in Virginia was volatile in the summer of 1773, with snow o... | 2.0625 | 0 |
69601769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Parke%20Custis | Martha Parke Custis | Retrospective diagnosis
In 1999, an article in Epilepsia noted that the Washingtons' correspondence and diary entries from 1760 and 1770 described Patsy's "fits and fever". Authors DeToledo, DeToledo, and Lowe raised that it was unclear "whether Patsy had a febrile illness that increased her predisposition for seizure... | 2.40625 | 0 |
69602285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalbo%20%28Wolaita%29 | Dalbo (Wolaita) | Dalbo (Geʽez: ዳልቦ) is a town in South Ethiopia Regional State, Ethiopia within Wolayita Zone. Dalbo is located about 304 km away from Addis Ababa to the south through Butajira. And the town is located 11 km, North from Sodo, the capital of Wolayita Zone. The coordinate point of the town in map is 6°54′0″N 37°52′0″E wit... | 2.125 | 0 |
69603024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Parish | Charles Parish | The genus Parishia was named in Parish's honour by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1860. The type species is P. insignis, the first specimens of which were collected by Parish in the Andaman Islands. The same year, the orchid species Cleisostoma parishii was named for him (initially as Sarcanthus parishii), as were Coelogyne ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
69603062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rizzanese%20Reservoir | Rizzanese Reservoir | The Rizzanese Reservoir () is a reservoir in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica.
It stores water for irrigation, and supplies the largest hydroelectric power plant in Corsica, with installed capacity of 55 MW.
Location
The reservoir is formed by a dam, the Barrage du Rizzanese, across the ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
69603540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Jews%20in%20Leeds | History of the Jews in Leeds | Geoffrey Raisman (1939–2017), born to a Leeds tailor who worked for Burton's, attended Roundhay School, went to Oxford. He was a neuroscientist, who demonstrated the plasticity of nerve synapses and the mechanisms of nerve regeneration.
Philip Saffman FRS (1931–2008) born in Leeds, educated at Roundhay Grammar School,... | 1.90625 | 0 |
69603909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Nairz | Wolfgang Nairz | Wolfgang Nairz (born 27 November 1944 in Kitzbühel) is an Austrian mountain climber, who did many tours in the Himalayas as an expedition leader. He was one of the first three Austrians to stand on top of Mount Everest.
Biography
After being trained as a mountain and skiing guide in 1967, Nairz surveyed glaciers for t... | 2.078125 | 0 |
69603913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agust%C3%ADn%20de%20Z%C3%A1rate | Agustín de Zárate | Zárate was an officer with good experience in court affairs and was chosen by the ruling prince (later king) Philip II of Spain for auditing the administration of the Royal Treasury in South America in the provinces of Peru and Tierra Firme. Thus in August 1543 Zárate resigned his post as secretary of the Council of Ca... | 2.40625 | 0 |
69603913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agust%C3%ADn%20de%20Z%C3%A1rate | Agustín de Zárate | Enrique De Vedia, one of the editors of Zárate work, affirmed in 1858 that it is “one of the most beautiful historical monuments (perhaps the first) of our [Spanish] language”.
According to the (Royal Library) the has always been praised as a work of recognized literary quality, reprinted in Venice in 1563 and in Se... | 2.34375 | 0 |
69604131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beshmet | Beshmet | A beshmet (from ; ; ; ) is an outer garment worn among the Turkic peoples, Mongolians and later by the peoples of the Caucasus and the Cossacks.
Beshmet is an open garment that reaches to the knees; sometimes it is quilted. It is in the form of a buttoned half-caftan with a standing collar and is gathered into folds, ... | 2.96875 | 0 |
69604801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romerodus | Romerodus | When initially described, Romerodus was assigned to the subclass Elasmobranchii, a group of cartilaginous fish which includes true sharks and their relatives and which Zangerl believed included the eugeneodonts as well. Recent findings, however, strongly suggest that the order Eugeneodontida, to which Romerodus belongs... | 2.578125 | 0 |
69604978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy%20Stedman%20Lamson | Lucy Stedman Lamson | In September, 1888, she accepted a position in the Annie Wright Seminary, Tacoma. During 1888 and 1889, much excitement prevailed in regard to land speculations, and Lamson, not being in possession of funds, borrowed them and purchased city lots, which she sold at a profit. In March, 1889, she filed a timber claim and ... | 2.375 | 0 |
69605087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching%20of%20Manuel%20Cabeza | Lynching of Manuel Cabeza | The lynching of Manuel Cabeza (who is also referred to by his alias which is Manuel Head) occurred on December 25, 1921, when members of the Ku Klux Klan killed him. Two days earlier, they tarred and feathered him because he was living with a mixed race woman who was regarded as Black.
Early life and military service
... | 2.453125 | 0 |
69605317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%E2%80%932023%20inflation%20surge | 2021–2023 inflation surge | In January 2023, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, released a study which stated that "...markup growth likely contributed more than 50 percent to inflation in 2021, a substantially higher contribution than during the preceding decade. However, the markup itself is determined by a host of unobservable factors, .... | 1.945313 | 0 |
69605373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Canadian%20Brothers | The Canadian Brothers | The Canadian Brothers; or, The Prophecy Fulfilled: A Tale of the Late American War is a novel by John Richardson first published in 1840. A sequel to Richardson's 1832 novel Wacousta, Canadian Brothers concerns the titular brothers Gerald and Henry Grantham, two British army officers in the War of 1812, and Gerald's il... | 2.171875 | 0 |
69605373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Canadian%20Brothers | The Canadian Brothers | Composition and publication
Richardson may have started writing Canadian Brothers at the same time as Wacousta. According to the scholar Douglas Ivison, some of Canadian Brothers was written by summer 1838 and Richardson finished the novel while living in Sandwich, Ontario, in 1839. William F. E. Morley, relying on Ri... | 2.234375 | 0 |
69605628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%20Psychological%20Association | Illinois Psychological Association | As of January 2024, there are 20 licensed prescribing psychologists in Illinois, with approximately 50 more in the training pipeline.
Profile
Governance
IPA is a non-profit corporation in the State of Illinois. IPA's bylaws describe structural components that provide for checks and balances to ensure a democratic pr... | 2.203125 | 0 |
69605682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tran%20Van%20Soai | Tran Van Soai | On 7–9 September 1945, a band of 15,000 Hoahaoists armed with hand-to-hand weapons, and aided by the Trotskyists, attacked the Việt Minh garrison at the port city of Cần Thơ, which the Hòa Hảo considered the rightful capital of their domain. They were led by Soái, his eldest son, Lâm Thành Nguyên, and Sổ's younger brot... | 2.109375 | 0 |
69606490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Bell%20%28astronomer%29 | Barbara Bell (astronomer) | Astronomy and solar phenomena
"Geomagnetism and the Emission-Line Corona" (1957, with Harold Glazer)
"Sunspots and Geomagnetism" (1958)
"Some Sunspot and Flare Statistics" (1958, with Harold Glazer)
"The Doppler widths of solar absorption lines" (1959, with Alan Meltzer)
"On the Magnetic Field Strengths of Sunspo... | 1.976563 | 0 |
69606687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyssum%20minutum | Alyssum minutum | Alyssum minutum is a species of flowering plant in the genus Alyssum, family Brassicaceae, native to the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe.
An annual herbaceous plant, typically reaching a size of 5–10cm, it grows on gravelly soil, rocky slopes and dry grassland. It flowers from March until early summer. Its chromosome... | 2.84375 | 0 |
69607497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OV1-9 | OV1-9 | OV1-9's experiment package included experiments developed by the US Air Force's Cambridge Research Laboratories (AFCRL) to detect emissions of exospheric and non-terrestrial origin as well as a battery of spectrometers and counters for detecting ionizing radiation of energy levels from 1 to 100 KeV. The satellite also ... | 2.8125 | 0 |
69607837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorion | Zorion | Zorion is a genus of longhorn beetle of the family Cerambycidae that is endemic to New Zealand. About 10 species are currently recognised.
Distribution
Zorion is endemic to New Zealand and is widespread throughout the North and South Island. Some species are also found on offshore islands:
Select species
Zorion a... | 2.390625 | 0 |
69607859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tale%20of%20the%20Demon%20in%20X%C6%B0%C6%A1ng%20Giang | The Tale of the Demon in Xương Giang | The Tale of the Demon in Xương Giang (, Xương Giang yêu quái lục) is a Vietnamese legend told in Truyền kỳ mạn lục by Nguyễn Dữ in the 16th century.
In Truyền kỳ mạn lục
The Tale of the Demon in Xương Giang is the eleventh story of Nguyễn Dữ's Truyền kỳ mạn lục collection, published in the third volume.
Thị Nghi is t... | 2.015625 | 0 |
69607945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquois%20scales | Marquois scales | Marquois scales (also known as Marquois parallel scales or Marquois scale and triangle or military scales) are a mathematical instrument that found widespread use in Britain, particularly in military surveying, from the late 18th century to World War II.
Description
Invented around 1778 by Thomas Marquois, the Marquoi... | 3.234375 | 0 |
78427327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenn%C5%8Dzan%20Kofun%20%28Sakurai%29 | Tennōzan Kofun (Sakurai) | Overview
The Tennōzan Kofun is a -style rectangular tumulus located at the tip of a ridge extending northwest of Mount Tonomine, near the left bank of the Oubara River. The mound is built in three tiers. The shape of the mound is rhomboidal, with the northern side approximately 50.5 meters, the southern side 43.2 meter... | 2.53125 | 0 |
78427837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skefilssta%C3%B0ahreppur | Skefilsstaðahreppur | Skefilsstaðahreppur was a hreppur, an old Icelandic municipality, in Skagafjörður County, Iceland, on the east side of the Skagi peninsula. It is named after the town Skefilsstaðir.
Geography
The outer part of Laxárdalur valley is located to the south of Skagi. A tall mountain named Hrafnagilsfjall is between the Laxá... | 2.21875 | 0 |
78428303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Yesno | John Yesno | Obediah (Johnny) Yesno (1938 – March 20, 2010), CM, was a Canadian actor, dancer, broadcaster, journalist, and Indigenous advocate, of Ojibwe Indigenous heritage. His most notable acting role was starring in the Disney film King of the Grizzlies. He also acted on stage, in television, and was a radio broadcaster. He wa... | 2.1875 | 0 |
78428303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Yesno | John Yesno | Career
After graduation, Yesno moved to Toronto in 1960, married and became a father and was employed by an engineering firm, while performing occasionally with a dance group that performed for tourists. In 1963, he won the North American Indian Dancing Championship. By chance, he was spotted by a television producer a... | 2.265625 | 0 |
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