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68284310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFOR-TV | KFOR-TV | A 'pioneer station'
WKY-TV's inaugural broadcast on June 6, 1949, included speeches from Gaylord, executive vice president/general manager Proctor A. "Buddy" Sugg and Governor Roy J. Turner, a short feature on the new medium by Gaylord and Sugg and a film outlining programs WKY-TV would air. Gaylord boasted during his... | 2.15625 | 0 |
68284310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFOR-TV | KFOR-TV | Sports quickly became a fixture at the station, with high school basketball, football, golf and softball matches all broadcast within the first year. WKY-TV reached a deal to broadcast all ten Oklahoma Sooners football games for the 1949 season, with all home games airing live starting with the October 1 Texas A&M Aggi... | 2.03125 | 0 |
68284310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFOR-TV | KFOR-TV | Channel 4's news department began with the station on June 6, 1949, originally consisting of 10-minute-long newscasts at sign-on and sign-off, using wire copies of local news headlines read by anchors over still newspaper photographs. WKY-TV's first news director Bruce Palmer saw the new medium as a way to provide imme... | 2.28125 | 0 |
68285080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibbertia%20monticola | Hibbertia monticola | Hibbertia monticola, commonly known as mountain guinea flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Queensland. It is a shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, and yellow flowers with many stamens arranged around three glabrous carpels.
Description
Hibbertia mon... | 2.578125 | 0 |
68285378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corybas%20hypogaeus | Corybas hypogaeus | Corybas hypogaeus is a species of terrestrial orchid endemic to the New Zealand. It is part of the C. trilobus aggregate, whose members are characterized by a funnel or dish-shaped labellum and an often heart or kidney-shaped solitary leaf.
Description
Corybas hypogaeus is a terrestrial, perennial herb with a solitar... | 2.3125 | 0 |
68285378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corybas%20hypogaeus | Corybas hypogaeus | Corybas hypogaeus can be distinguished from other members of the C. trilobus aggregate by its the diminutive flower, which is commonly buried in leaf litter, and its characteristically jagged, cupped labellum. It is highly similar to the recently described species C. sanctigeorgianus, from which it can be distinguished... | 2.609375 | 0 |
68286211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irghiz%20River%20skirmish | Irghiz River skirmish | The Irghiz River skirmish was a minor engagement fought between forces of the Khwarazmian Empire and the Mongol Empire during the early 13th century. While the occurrence of the skirmish itself is well-attested, its precise dating is uncertain, since the major chroniclers of the period give differing accounts. Modern h... | 2.09375 | 0 |
68286300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda%20Fearon | Hilda Fearon | Hilda Fearon (1878–1917) was a British artist of the St Ives School.
Life and education
Hilda Fearon was born in 1878 in Banstead, Surrey, the third daughter of Paul Bradshaw Fearon, a wine and spirits merchant, and his wife Edith Jane Duffield, of Court House. She was baptised, aged 9, together with her four sibling... | 2.171875 | 0 |
68286538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Telephone%20and%20Phonogram%20Officers%20Association | Australian Telephone and Phonogram Officers Association | In 1920, amidst the preparation of a new case to limit working hours, another serious dispute emerged between the federal executive and the New South Wales branch as to the precise hours to be included in the claim, leading to the New South Wales branch undermining the eventual federal claim by conveying a different po... | 2.3125 | 0 |
68286684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavell%20State%20High%20School%20buildings | Wavell State High School buildings | By the early 1930s an active progress association had been established in the district. In the early 1940s the association lobbied to have the suburb officially defined and to have the name changed. Through a series of public meetings, several suggestions were made, including Beverley Heights, Avon Hill, Inala, and Wav... | 2.34375 | 0 |
68286684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavell%20State%20High%20School%20buildings | Wavell State High School buildings | The eastern (Block D) and western (Block G) gable end elevations have original small unglazed window openings.
The layouts of both ablutions blocks are intact, retaining original timber-framed cubicle partitions and doors and masonry partitions. Expressive, glass-enclosed stairs at the ends of the buildings provide ac... | 2.375 | 0 |
68287127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarack%20Fire | Tamarack Fire | The Tamarack Fire resulted in the evacuation of 2,439 people and numerous communities in Alpine County, California, including Alpine Village, Markleeville, Mesa Vista and Woodfords, starting July 16 and July 17. The Early Learning Center in Markleeville was used briefly as an evacuation center until it was required to ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
68287754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endrim%2C%20Woodstock%20Road%20tram%20shed%2C%20and%20tram%20track | Endrim, Woodstock Road tram shed, and tram track | BTC's Superintendent of Buildings, William McLean, called for tenders for excavating and levelling a site in Toowong, likely for the Badgers' residence, in April 1906. In May 1906 Badger approached the Toowong Town Council and offered to plant ornamental trees on Woodstock Road. By mid-July, advertisements for the sale... | 1.953125 | 0 |
68287754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endrim%2C%20Woodstock%20Road%20tram%20shed%2C%20and%20tram%20track | Endrim, Woodstock Road tram shed, and tram track | Tensions between Badger and BTC employees climaxed in 1912. On 18 January 1912, 480 of 550 BTC employees donned union badges in a coordinated show of strength, and were suspended or dismissed from duty. Approximately 10,000 people protested the "lockout" that evening. Representatives of 43 unions unanimously agreed to ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
68287872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisupo%20Lua%20Afe%20%28Corned%20Beef%202000%29 | Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000) | Description
Taking an influence from pop art, the work consists of a bull made of hundreds of tinned corned beef cans held together by rivets. Pisupo Lua Afe concerns New Zealand's questionable trade practices across the South Pacific, where it wields significant influence as a regional power. For Tuffery, corned beef... | 2.453125 | 0 |
68288166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria%20in%20Mandatory%20Palestine | Malaria in Mandatory Palestine | His work demonstrated that drainage of the swamps alone would have had little effect on the malaria, because the mosquitoes breed in small pools of water, which even the most elaborate system of drainage would not have reached. It was subsequently pointed out that at least half of the malaria could be ascribed simply t... | 2.796875 | 0 |
68288423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imashirozuka%20Kofun | Imashirozuka Kofun | The city of Takatsuki City has been conducting archaeological excavations since 1997 to obtain information for developing the site into an archaeological park. A large quantity of haniwa have been recovered, including 170-cm tall house-shaped one—the largest discovered in Japan, elaborate warrior haniwa, and haniwa dep... | 2.765625 | 0 |
68288424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Quartey | Peter Quartey | Peter Quartey is a Ghanaian economist. He is a professor of development economics and has been director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research of the University of Ghana since August 2019.
Early life and education
Peter Quartey was born in Accra. He attended Wesley Grammar School and Accra Acade... | 1.96875 | 0 |
68288808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lembang%20Fault | Lembang Fault | The Lembang Fault (Indonesian: Sesar Lembang) is an active fault located 10 km north of the city of Bandung on the Indonesian island of Java. This sinistral slip fault is estimated to measure 29 km in length. While no historical earthquakes have occurred, the fault is thought to be possible of generating a magnitude ()... | 2.71875 | 0 |
68288888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane%20Mosque | Crane Mosque | Crane Mosque, also known by its Chinese name as the Xianhe Mosque and by other names, is a mosque located in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China.
Names
The English name Crane Mosque is a partial calque of its Chinese name , pronounced Xiānhè Sì in Mandarin. The name is sometimes explained by the supposed resemblance of the mosqu... | 2.578125 | 0 |
68289382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cora%20Wilburn | Cora Wilburn | In 1860, she published a novel titled Cosella Wayne: Or, Will and Destiny. It is believed to be based on a diary she began writing while living in La Guaira, Venezuela with her father. Wilburn's novel was first published serially in the Spiritualist newspaper, Banner of Light, and is considered to be the first novel pu... | 2.46875 | 0 |
71166030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20British%20Athletics%20Championships | 2022 British Athletics Championships | The 2022 British Athletics Championships was the national championships in outdoor track and field for athletes in the United Kingdom, which also served as a qualifying event for the 2022 World Athletics Championships.
Background
The 2022 British Athletics Championships were held from the 24–24 June 2022 at the Manche... | 2.265625 | 0 |
71167157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peristedion%20cataphractum | Peristedion cataphractum | Distribution and habitat
Peristedion cataphractum is found in the eastern Atlantic from the British Isles, although it is rare north of the Bay of Biscay, south to Angola and throughout the Mediterranean Sea. It has a depth range of , the deepest records coming from the Ionian Sea. It is a demersal fish found on muddy ... | 2.75 | 0 |
71167246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Spriegel | William Spriegel | William Robert Spriegel (14 May 1893 – 28 August 1972) was an American automotive businessman, educator, and academic administrator specializing in the study of personnel management.
Early life and business career
Spriegel was born to parents John William Spriegel and Mary M. Lynn on 14 May 1893 and was raised in Char... | 2.09375 | 0 |
71167665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden%20Story | Garden Story | In each town that they visit, Concord is given a house where they can change their clothes, store materials, and refill bottles. Garden Story has a day-night cycle. The day ends if Concord dies or goes to sleep. When Concord wakes up, they are given daily tasks to complete. Each day, the requests on the bulletin board ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
71167873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papillary%20carcinomas%20of%20the%20breast | Papillary carcinomas of the breast | Papillary carcinomas of the breast (PCB), also termed malignant papillary carcinomas of the breast, are rare forms of the breast cancers. The World Health Organization (2019) classified papillary neoplasms (i.e. benign or cancerous tumors) of the breast into 5 types: intraductal papilloma, papillary ductal carcinoma in... | 2.421875 | 0 |
71167873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papillary%20carcinomas%20of%20the%20breast | Papillary carcinomas of the breast | The microscopic histopathology of typical PDCIS lesions (refer to adjacent high-power photomicrograph) prepared with a hematoxylin and eosin stain consists of mammary ducts that have papillary fronds (i.e. thin, finger-like or leaf-like structures) lined with one or several layers of neoplastic, columnar-shaped epithel... | 1.914063 | 0 |
71167873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papillary%20carcinomas%20of%20the%20breast | Papillary carcinomas of the breast | Treatment and prognosis
IPC tumors have most commonly been treated with lumpectomies or mastectomies plus adjuvant radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and/or hormonal therapy. A review of 10,485 individuals all of whom had early stage N1 (<2 cm. in size) or N2 (2 to <5 cm. in size) IPC tumors that had not metastasized to ... | 1.90625 | 0 |
71168135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolist%20painting | Symbolist painting | Another characteristic of Symbolist art was synesthesia, the search for a relationship between pictorial qualities (line, color, rhythm) and other sensory qualities such as sound and scent: Gauguin thus spoke of the "musical aspect" of his art; Rimbaud related vowels to colors (A-black, E-blue, I-red, O-yellow, U-green... | 2.578125 | 0 |
71168135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolist%20painting | Symbolist painting | Symbolism, understood as a means of expression of the "symbol", that is, of a type of content, whether written, sonorous or plastic, whose purpose is to transcend matter to signify a superior order of intangible elements, has always existed in art as a human manifestation, one of whose qualities has always been spiritu... | 2.78125 | 0 |
71168135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolist%20painting | Symbolist painting | Symbolism influenced several contemporary movements, such as modernism and naïve art, as well as several of the early "isms" of avant-garde art, such as Fauvism, expressionism, futurism, surrealism and even abstract art: some of the pioneers of abstraction, such as Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian and Kupka, had a symboli... | 2.390625 | 0 |
71168135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolist%20painting | Symbolist painting | In the Breton town of Pont-Aven, a series of artists led by Paul Gauguin gathered between 1888 and 1894, who developed a style heir to post-impressionism with a tendency towards primitivism and a taste for the exotic, with varied influences ranging from medieval art—especially tapestries, stained glass and enamels—to J... | 2.40625 | 0 |
71168135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolist%20painting | Symbolist painting | After his stay with Gauguin, Paul Sérusier won great admiration with his work The Talisman (1888) among a group of young students of the Académie Julian, including Édouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Félix Vallotton and Paul Ranson. They formed a secret society called Nabis, from a Hebrew word meaning "pro... | 2.21875 | 0 |
71168135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolist%20painting | Symbolist painting | The Order of the Rosicrucians was a secret society supposedly founded by a medieval mystic named Christian Rosenkreuz, who would have attained wisdom on a journey to the East. In 1612, a manifesto entitled Fama Fraternitatis and published in Kassel led to the revival of this esoteric order, which later split into sever... | 2.265625 | 0 |
71168135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolist%20painting | Symbolist painting | Some of these authors were seduced by the symbolist imagery and its subjective and spiritual evocation, but they translated it with a decorativist tone closer to modernism than to symbolism itself, a contrived style in which the figures of languid women with hair waved by the wind, the arabesques and the exuberant vege... | 2.4375 | 0 |
71168135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolist%20painting | Symbolist painting | Toorop was an eclectic artist, who combined various styles in the search for his own language, such as symbolism, modernism, pointillism, Gauguinian synthetism, the linearism of Beardsley and Japanese print. He was particularly devoted to allegorical and symbolic subject matter and, from 1905, to religious subject matt... | 2.4375 | 0 |
71168135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolist%20painting | Symbolist painting | Walter Crane was a painter, illustrator, typographer and designer of ceramics, stained glass, textiles, jewelry and posters. He began his artistic career in the Pre-Raphaelite style, influenced by the Romantic William Blake, whose style based on vibrant lines and arabesques had a powerful influence on English modernism... | 2.5 | 0 |
71168135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolist%20painting | Symbolist painting | As in other countries, Italian art of the period was linked to writers such as Gabriele D'Annunzio and magazines such as Il Convito. The major center of diffusion of Symbolist art was Milan, an important industrial and commercial center in the north of the country.
Giovanni Segantini was a painter difficult to classif... | 2.640625 | 0 |
71168135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolist%20painting | Symbolist painting | One of the leading representatives of this movement was Santiago Rusiñol, established in 1890 in Paris together with Ramón Casas, where they entered the impressionist movement, with a special influence of Manet and Degas, that is, of impressionism with a more traditional base, of long and diffuse brushstrokes as oppose... | 2.390625 | 0 |
71168135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolist%20painting | Symbolist painting | Poland was going through a difficult time at this time, with its territory divided into three parts between Russia, Prussia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and its language and culture outlawed in the Russian and Prussian spheres; on the Austrian side—centered in Kraków—less repressive, it was on the Austrian side tha... | 2.796875 | 0 |
71168135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolist%20painting | Symbolist painting | Outside this group, the work of Mikhail Vrubel stands out. He studied law before taking up painting at the age of twenty-four, and spent five years restoring the frescoes in the church of St. Cyril in Kyiv, later settling in Moscow to begin his personal career. His favorite themes were portraits, ballet scenes and myth... | 2 | 0 |
71168431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allie%20Luse%20Dick | Allie Luse Dick | Allie Luse Dick (, Luse; June 2, 1859 - June 10, 1933) was an American music educator who identified with various religious, social, philanthropic and educational activities. Among the positions she held, Dick served as director of music at Hedding College, 1887-88, and again at Missouri Wesleyan College, 1892-95.
Ear... | 2.296875 | 0 |
71168549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20J.%20Olson%20%26%20Company | Oliver J. Olson & Company | Ships: George L. Olson, Whitney Olson, Virginia Olson, and Florence Olson, Oliver Olson, Cynthia Olson and Barbara Olson.
Olson-Mahony Lumber Company
The Olson-Mahony Lumber Company, a timber distribution company, was founded by the partnerships of Oliver John Olson and Andrew F. Mahony in San Francisco in 1908. To st... | 2.125 | 0 |
71168666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20Taliban%20dissension | 2022 Taliban dissension | The 2022 Taliban dissension began in January 2022, the Taliban arrested 2 of its commanders, Makhdoom Alem, an ethnic Uzbek, and Qari Wakil, an ethnic Tajik. The arrests led to clashes between Pashtun and non-Pashtun Taliban.
Background
When the Taliban rose to power in 1996, initially it enjoyed enormous good will ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
71168922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Huliaipole | Battle of Huliaipole | June 2023
On 4 June, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a counteroffensive on the southern and eastern fronts, with Ukrainian forces reportedly carrying out limited attacks against Russian positions near Mala Tokmachka and the Russian forces responding with airstrikes against Ukrainian positions at Huliaipole. A pro-... | 1.945313 | 0 |
71168922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Huliaipole | Battle of Huliaipole | December 2023
By December 2023, Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi had declared the Ukrainian counteroffensive to have resulted in a stalemate, although this was rebuffed by Ukrainian president Zelenskyy. As offensive actions slowed, the Centre for Eastern Studies reported that Huliaipole, along with Orikhi... | 1.984375 | 0 |
71169096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main%20Guard%20Post%2C%20Helsinki | Main Guard Post, Helsinki | The most visible part of the Main Guard Post is the guard in front of its main entrance. Enlisted men serving as guards are selected from the military police serving in the Guard Jaeger Regiment. The guard is present at the entrance from 07:45 in the morning to 22:00 in the evening and one guard shift lasts an hour at ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
71170326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th%20Texas%20Cavalry%20Regiment | 13th Texas Cavalry Regiment | On 2 July 1862, the 13th Texas Cavalry received orders to march from Camp McCulloch near Tyler, Texas, to Camp Nelson in Arkansas. While passing through Lafayette County, Arkansas, an epidemic of measles and typhoid fever broke out, killing 30 men and causing the regiment to pause its march. Cavalry service proved extr... | 2.4375 | 0 |
71170326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th%20Texas%20Cavalry%20Regiment | 13th Texas Cavalry Regiment | In the Battle of Milliken's Bend on 7 June 1863, McCulloch's 1,500 men attacked 1,061 Union soldiers led by Colonel Hermann Lieb. The Union force consisted of elements of the 1st Mississippi (African), 8th Louisiana (African), 9th Louisiana (African), 11th Louisiana (African), 13th Louisiana (African), and 23rd Iowa In... | 2.578125 | 0 |
71170538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn%20Street%20Bridge | Penn Street Bridge | The Penn Street Bridge, also known as the Penn Street Viaduct, is a historic bridge crossing the Schuylkill River into Reading, Pennsylvania, the largest city in Berks County and fourth-largest city in the state. The bridge is considered to be the primary gateway to downtown Reading, leading directly onto Penn Street, ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
71171188 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myosotis%20tenericaulis | Myosotis tenericaulis | Myosotis tenericaulis is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, endemic to New Zealand. Donald Petrie described the species in 1918. Plants of this species of forget-me-not are perennial rosettes with creeping, sprawling bracteate inflorescences and white corollas.
Taxonomy and etymology
Myosotis te... | 2.4375 | 0 |
71172811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin%20Vasilev | Marin Vasilev | Marin Vasilev Selovlev, known professionally as Marin Vasilev (Bulgarian: Марин Василев; 27 August 1867, Shumen - 14 December 1931, Sofia) was a Bulgarian sculptor and art professor. Together with Boris Schatz and , he is considered to be a founding figure of modern Bulgarian sculpture.
Life and work
After graduating... | 2.234375 | 0 |
71173478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baburao%20Sadwelkar | Baburao Sadwelkar | Sadwelkar's closeness with the Bombay School of artists continued to be feature in his writings. Publisher H. V. Mote planned to bring out Vishrabdha Sharda – Khand Teen (Part 3), a book on correspondence letters of Indian artists. Dinkar Kowshik wrote a preface for this book. Although, after realizing that the preambl... | 1.929688 | 0 |
71173518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Berger | Claude Berger | Claude Berger (January 20, 1679, Paris – May 22, 1712, Passy) was a French medical doctor and chemist.
Biography
He was a medical doctor from the Faculty of Paris and received his degree in medicine in 1669, after presenting a thesis under the presidency of Guy-Crescent Fagon, first physician to the king, against the... | 2.46875 | 0 |
71173714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Bergeret | Jean Bergeret | Jean Bergeret (born 1751 in Lescar - died 1813 in Paris) was a French doctor and botanist.
Biography
After his marriage in 1771, he studied philosophy and graduated in 1773. After his separation from his wife in 1780, he moved to Morlaàs and began studying medicine and obtained his doctorate in 1788. During the revol... | 1.953125 | 0 |
71173715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue%20of%20James%20Cook%2C%20Hyde%20Park | Statue of James Cook, Hyde Park | An electric light placed atop the post office was exhibited on the same night, illuminating the city and the face of Cook's statue, and "sufficient to enable one to read a newspaper two miles away."
Inscription controversy
Previous exploration of Australia
Critics have pointed out that although the inscription state... | 2.984375 | 0 |
71173829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBW-Maserati | JBW-Maserati | The JBW-Maserati, also known as the JBW Type 1, is a race car, designed, developed, and built by British manufacturer and constructor, JBW, in 1958. It raced in both open-wheel and closed-wheel guises. It competed in both Formula Libre events, as well as 4 Formula One World Championship Grand Prix races, between 1959 a... | 2.203125 | 0 |
71173846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Friedrich%20Reusch | Christian Friedrich Reusch | Government service
Reusch went on to enter government service, following a family tradition that went back at least four generations. Having visited Berlin in order to compete in and pass the appropriate exam on 31 January 1803, he received a certificate which entitled him to work in a junior judicial post as an As... | 2.359375 | 0 |
71173902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson%20Small | Wilson Small | In about 1850, taking advantage of a business opportunity, Small acquired the West Street Foundry, a steam engineering works in Brooklyn. During his proprietorship, the company built the engines for at least 18 steam vessels, most notably that of , one of the finest and fastest New England steamers of her day. Small's... | 1.953125 | 0 |
71174168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synya | Synya | The Synya () is a river in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. The river is long — from the source of the Mokraya Synya at its head— and has a catchment area of .
The Synya flows across the Shuryshkarsky District. It is navigable for , between its mouth in the Ob and Ovgort village.
Course
The Synya is a left t... | 2.28125 | 0 |
71174221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucopogon%20atherolepis | Leucopogon atherolepis | Leucopogon atherolepis is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with linear leaves and white, tube-shaped flowers.
Description
Leucopogon atherolepis is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has long, straight ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
71174243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Fujii | Dennis Fujii | During his second tour in South Vietnam on 18 February 1971, now an Sp4c., Fujii was serving as crew chief on a UH-1H medevac helicopter from the 237th Medical Detachment, 61st Medical Battalion supporting Operation Lam Son 719 when it was hit by People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) fire and crash-landed at Landing Zone (LZ... | 1.929688 | 0 |
71174670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellors%20Limited%20F.C. | Mellors Limited F.C. | Mellors Limited Football Club, also variously given as Mellors' or Mellor's Limited, was an English football club from Nottingham.
History
Mellors was the works side of M. Mellor & Sons Limited, a lace manufacturing company founded by Moses Mellor, the inventor of the loop wheel for knitting machines.
The club was fo... | 2.28125 | 0 |
71174867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Barcroft | Henry Barcroft | Henry Barcroft (18 October 1904 – 11 January 1998) was a British scientist and academic, who was Professor of Physiology at St Thomas' Hospital Medical School, London from 1948 to 1971.
Early life and education
Barcroft was born in Cambridge, and came from a distinguished Irish Quaker family: his father was Sir Josep... | 2.28125 | 0 |
71174867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Barcroft | Henry Barcroft | Career
In 1932 Barcroft joined the Department of Physiology at University College London (UCL) where he continued to work on blood flow in animals. In 1935, he was appointed Dunville Professor of Physiology at Queen's University, Belfast, where, in collaboration with Otto Edholm, he developed the techniques of venous o... | 2.1875 | 0 |
71175416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Lady%20of%20Nicaragua | First Lady of Nicaragua | The First Lady of Nicaragua (Spanish: Primera dama de Nicaragua) is the title attributed to the wife of the President of Nicaragua, or their chosen designee, such as a daughter or other female relative. The incumbent first lady is Rosario Murillo, the wife of President Daniel Ortega, who controversially became Vice Pre... | 1.929688 | 0 |
71175513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills%20Meadow | Hills Meadow | Hills Meadow is a park in Reading, Berkshire, England, located next to the River Thames. It stretches along the north (Caversham) side of the river, to the east of Reading Bridge. It is linked to the south (Reading) bank by a footpath, locally known as The Clappers that crosses View Island and the weir at Caversham Loc... | 2.078125 | 0 |
71175642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki%20dialect | Nagasaki dialect | The Nagasaki dialect (Japanese: 長崎弁 Nagasaki ben) is the name given to the dialect of Japanese spoken on the mainland part of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu. It is a major dialect of the wider Hichiku group of Kyushu Japanese, with similarities to the Chikuzen (including Hakata) and Kumamoto dialects, amon... | 2.890625 | 0 |
71175642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki%20dialect | Nagasaki dialect | Diphthongs
The diphthongs ai (あい), oi (おい) and ui (うい) experience merging in the Nagasaki dialect. For example, the dai- (だい-) in daikon (だいこん radish) becomes jaa- (じゃあ) to make jaakon (じゃあこん), ototoi (おととい day before yesterday) becomes ototee (おとてぇ) and suika (すいか watermelon) is said shiika (しいか). Conversely, the dip... | 2.765625 | 0 |
71175642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki%20dialect | Nagasaki dialect | Verbs
The inflection of verbs differs considerably between the Nagasaki dialect and standard Japanese. The table below shows the differences in conjugation between Standard Japanese and the Nagasaki dialect for the Ichidan verb ukeru (受ける to receive).
Traditionally, for the volitional and persuasive form (shiyou (しよう... | 2.578125 | 0 |
71175642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki%20dialect | Nagasaki dialect | For polite speech, the Nagasaki dialect makes use of the bound auxiliary -masu (-ます), albeit often with geminate consonant (small tsu (っ)) insertion. For example, shirimasen (知りません I don’t know (polite)) may be said as shirimassen (知りまっせん). Like standard Japanese, speakers of the Nagasaki dialect may contract the hypot... | 2.09375 | 0 |
71175642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki%20dialect | Nagasaki dialect | Like i-adjectives, na-adjectives often have ka attached in place of a copula for their plain and attributive forms. For example, genki da (元気だ, I'm well) becomes genki ka (元気か). Some na-adjectives may have na inserted in addition to ka, producing forms such as hen na ka (変なか, it’s strange) (equivalent to hen da (変だ)).
... | 2.328125 | 0 |
71175642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki%20dialect | Nagasaki dialect | Progressive and perfective aspects
Like other Kyushu dialects, the Nagasaki dialect makes a distinction between the progressive and perfective aspects. Generally, -yoru (-よる) is used to express a progressive state whilst -toru (-とる) is used for completed actions. However, in some parts of the dialect area -choru (-ちょる... | 2.640625 | 0 |
71175642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki%20dialect | Nagasaki dialect | Polite speech
The Nagasaki dialect makes use of various bound auxiliaries to express politeness, with some variation across the dialect area. Across most of Nagasaki, -naru (-なる) and -nasaru (-なさる) are attached to the -masu stem of verbs whilst -su (-す) and -ru (-る) are attached to the -nai stem of Godan verbs and the... | 2.765625 | 0 |
71175781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20H.%20Pfeiffer | Robert H. Pfeiffer | Robert Henry Pfeiffer (1892–1958) was a professor, museum curator, and Assyriologist. After serving as a Methodist pastor from 1916 to 1919 in Sanborn, New York, Pfeiffer taught at Harvard University beginning in 1922. He earned his M.A. in 1920 and Ph.D. in 1922 and, the following year, he also earned a Master of Sacr... | 2.15625 | 0 |
71176256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.I.C.E.%20Award%20for%20Adventure%20Game%20of%20the%20Year | D.I.C.E. Award for Adventure Game of the Year | The D.I.C.E. Award for Adventure Game of the Year is an award presented annually by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences during the D.I.C.E. Awards. This award recognizes titles in which "players are challenged with real-time action activities where timing, skill, and accuracy are necessary to succeed. Puzzle-sol... | 2.21875 | 0 |
71177049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQ%20Tauri | CQ Tauri | CQ Tauri is a young variable star in the equatorial constellation of Taurus. It is too faint to be visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude that ranges from . The distance to this star is approximately 487 light years based on parallax measurements, and it is drifting further away with a radial veloci... | 2.21875 | 0 |
71177049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQ%20Tauri | CQ Tauri | CQ Tauri is a pre-main-sequence star with a stellar classification of F5IVe. It has 1.67 times the mass of the Sun and is radiating 10 times the Sun's luminosity with an effective temperature of 6,900 K. The star is about 10 million years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 105 km/s. Simulations... | 2.6875 | 0 |
71177451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Koppelman | Carl Koppelman | Forensic arts process
According to Koppelman, each reconstruction takes multiple drafts, with some reconstructions taking dozens. Koppelman creates his reconstructions on Corel Photo-Paint, a software he received as a gift. Koppelman begins each reconstruction with a model photo of a live person who is similar to how ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
71177727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omburu%20Solar%20Power%20Station | Omburu Solar Power Station | The Omburu Solar Power Station, is a 20 megawatts solar power station in Namibia. The power station, which was developed and is owned by Namibia Power Corporation (Proprietary) Limited (NamPower), was constructed between March 2021 and June 2022 and was commercially commissioned on 24 June 2022. NamPower integrates the... | 2.34375 | 0 |
71177903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20of%20Dunedin%20Pipe%20Band%20%28United%20States%29 | City of Dunedin Pipe Band (United States) | The City of Dunedin Pipe Band is a Grade 1 pipe band out of Dunedin, Florida. It is led by pipe major Iain Donaldson and drum sergeant Eric MacNeill.
History
The city of Dunedin was named by Scottish settlers J.O. Douglas and James Somerville. The name derives from the Scottish Gaelic name Dùn Èideann, the Scottish Ga... | 2.34375 | 0 |
71178420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basford%20Rovers%20F.C. | Basford Rovers F.C. | Basford Rovers Football Club was an English football club from Nottingham.
History
The club was founded in 1878, and the first recorded match for the club was a draw with Annesley in 1880; a match that was stopped early because of a serious injury to one of the Basford forwards.
The club was one of the 19 the first e... | 1.960938 | 0 |
71178494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar%20Street%20%28novel%29 | Sugar Street (novel) | The two nephews (the Marxist and the Islamist) form two distinct pathways toward Egypt's future, both headed toward violence. Kamal, who is modeled on the author, displays an intellectual and moral paralysis, a continuation of his trajectory in the earlier novels; he remains unable to reconcile Western ideals and Islam... | 1.90625 | 0 |
71178927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20J.%20Horan | John J. Horan | John J. Horan (July 9, 1920 — January 22, 2011) was an American businessman. He was Chairman and CEO of Merck & Co. from 1976 to 1985.
Biography
Horan was born on July 9, 1920, on Staten Island. He attended Manhattan College on a scholarship, graduating in 1940. He then served in the United States Navy during World W... | 2.03125 | 0 |
71179028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonatus | Jonatus | The earliest source for Jonatus' life is the work of Hucbald. In the 12th century, Galbert of Marchiennes wrote an account of his posthumous miracles, the Miracula Ionati. The Annals and Chronicle of Marchiennes are later sources. All of these sources were written after the raids of the Vikings in the late 9th century ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
71179111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20Harry%20Knowles | C. Harry Knowles | C. Harry Knowles (August 15, 1928January 7, 2020) was an American physicist, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and a prolific inventor who held some 400 patents.
Education
Knowles graduated from Ensley High School, Ensley, Alabama in 1945. In 1945, he enrolled at what was then known as the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (n... | 2.59375 | 0 |
71179227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamphobeteus%20antinous | Pamphobeteus antinous | Pamphobeteus antinous, also known as the Bolivian blue leg bird eater or steely blue leg, was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1903. It is found in the rainforests of Bolivia and Peru, and is considered to be one of the bigger tarantulas.
Description
Females live up to 15 years, while males only live to 4.... | 2.390625 | 0 |
71179304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variospora%20cancarixiticola | Variospora cancarixiticola | Variospora cancarixiticola is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae. It is found in southeastern Spain, where it grows on cancarixite, a volcanic rock known only to occur in that country.
Taxonomy
The lichen was first formally described in 2000 as a species of Caloplaca... | 2.171875 | 0 |
71179332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan%20Golestaneh | Hassan Golestaneh | Hassan Golestaneh (), born 21 March 1983, is a world champion and bodybuilding coach and the first world medalist in the field of fitness from Iran. He is considered the founder of fitness and bodybuilding in Iran.
Early life and amateur career
Golestaneh was born in Tehran, Iran in 1983. He is the son of Enayatollah... | 1.929688 | 0 |
71179370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%AAnio%20Gudin | Eugênio Gudin | Eugênio Gudin Filho (AFI: /gudã/) (Rio de Janeiro, July 12, 1886 – October 24, 1986) was a Brazilian liberal economist and finance minister from September 1954 to April 1955, during the government of Café Filho.
Biography
Descended from French dealers in Brazil during the first half of the 19th-century, he graduated ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
71179431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Kahn | Joel Kahn | Joel K. Kahn (born May 19, 1959) is an American cardiologist, integrative medicine practitioner and promoter of whole food plant-based nutrition. He has been criticized for promoting anti-vaccine and COVID-19 misinformation.
Biography
Kahn obtained a BA in 1980 and MD in 1983 from the University of Michigan. He is a ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
71179684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th%20Alabama%20Infantry%20Regiment | 7th Alabama Infantry Regiment | The regiment was organized on May 18, 1861, at Pensacola from the eight companies of John G. Coltart's 3rd Alabama Battalion, organized on April 12, and two mounted companies, the Wilcox Mounted Rifles and the Prattville Dragoons. S. A. M. Wood, captain of the Florence Guards, was elected colonel, Coltart lieutenant co... | 2.546875 | 0 |
71179759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20the%20Himyarites | Book of the Himyarites | The Book of the Himyarites (Ktābā da-ḥmirāye) is an anonymous Syriac account of the persecution and martyrdom of the Christian community of Najran in the Kingdom of Himyar around 523 AD and the ensuing Aksumite interventions. It was written sometime between the sixth and tenth centuries in a Syriac Orthodox milieu.
Ma... | 2.34375 | 0 |
71179759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20the%20Himyarites | Book of the Himyarites | Authorship and date
The text is anonymous as it stands, since no part of the surviving manuscript names an author. It was composed in a Syriac Orthodox milieu. Simeon of Beth Arsham, who lived in the first quarter of the sixth century and was thus a contemporary, has been proposed as the author. This proposal has not g... | 2.125 | 0 |
71179883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9ontine%20Su%C3%A9tens | Léontine Suétens | In 1877, the governor of Guiana complained about Suétens and her fellow inmates, indignant that they created "perpetual embarassments" and caused complaints from prison staff. He requested from the ministère de la Marine "the authorization to place them in provisional freedom, as is done for black women". However, a pa... | 2.1875 | 0 |
71184601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916%20Nobel%20Prize%20in%20Literature | 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature | The 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Swedish poet and prose writer Verner von Heidenstam (1859–1940) "in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature." Heidenstam was the second Swedish Nobel laureate in Literature after Selma Lagerlöf in 1909.
Laureate
... | 2.609375 | 0 |
71184908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awaji%20Kokubun-ji | Awaji Kokubun-ji | The exact date of the temple's foundation is unknown; but from the style of the roof tiles found on the site it is believed to have been towards the end of the Nara period. per the second volume of "Nihon Ryōiki", the temple was not listed in a list of 26 kokubun-ji in various provinces and a complaint was registered t... | 2.5 | 0 |
71185170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job%207 | Job 7 | The Dialogue section is composed in the format of poetry with distinctive syntax and grammar. Chapters 6 and 7 record Job's response after the first speech of Eliphaz (in chapters 4 and 5), which can be divided into two main sections:
Job 6: Job answers Eliphaz's misdirected words.
Job 7: Job addresses God.
The pattern... | 2.390625 | 0 |
71185606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian%20Federal%20Police | Ethiopian Federal Police | The Ethiopian Federal Police (EFP; ) is the law enforcement agency of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Established in 1995, the agency aims with objectives of maintaining or safeguarding the public security, human and democratic rights, and respecting constitutional law.
As autonomous organ, the EFP is sur... | 2.484375 | 0 |
71185810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Bonnie%20%282022%29 | Hurricane Bonnie (2022) | Hurricane Bonnie was a strong tropical cyclone that survived the crossover from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, the first to do so since Hurricane Otto in 2016. The second named storm of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, it originated from a strong tropical wave that moved off the west coast of Africa on Jun... | 2.5 | 0 |
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