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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela%20Dominguez
Angela Dominguez
Angela Dominguez (b. 1982) is an American children’s book author and illustrator. Her books use a diverse mix of Hispanic and Latino characters. She is author of the Stella Díaz series and worked with Sonia Sotomayor on the book Just Help! How to Build a Better World in 2016. Early life and education Angela Dominguez ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOMus-Museum%20Alex%20Mylona
MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona
The MOMus-Museum Alex Mylonas (Department of Contemporary Sculpture of MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art-Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and State Museum of Contemporary Art collections, Greek: MOMus-Μουσείο Άλεξ Μυλωνά) is an art museum located in Athens, in the area of Thiseion. It is part of the Metropolitan Or...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorna%20Byrne%20%28broadcaster%29
Lorna Byrne (broadcaster)
Lorna Byrne CBE (27 December 1897 – 15 July 1989) was an Australian expert in agriculture, a Major in the Australian Women's Army Service and a radio broadcaster. Life Byrne was born in Quirindi in New South Wales. She was the last of ten children and her elder sister Ethel became a notable physician and pathologist. ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard%20Jahn
Eduard Jahn
Eduard Adolf Wilhelm Jahn (20 May 1871, Berlin – 23 January 1942, Hann. Münden) was a German biologist and mycologist. Biography Jahn studied natural sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin, especially biology, until he received his doctorate in 1894 under Simon Schwendener. Jahn then passed his teaching qualifi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandra%20Ricca
Alessandra Ricca
Alessandra Ricca is a computational chemist whose research focuses primarily on theoretical chemistry. She researches modeling properties of organic compounds in the gas and ice phases, emphasizing the formation, reactivity, spectroscopy, and optical properties of the researched compounds. In Astrophysics and Analysis ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maithili%20Maha%20Upanishad
Maithili Maha Upanishad
The Maithili Mahopanishad () is a Sanskrit text and is one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism describing the Videha Kingdom of King Janaka and his rule over the Mithila (region) from the ancient capital city of Janakpurdham where Lord Rama and Princess Sita was married. It is featured in the chapter five of the text V...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda%20Viger
Amanda Viger
Amanda Viger was a Canadian nun known for her work in helping people with leprosy. Early life Amanda Viger, known as Saint-Jean-de-Goto, was born on July 27, 1845 in Boucherville, Quebec to her parents Bonaventure Viger and Eudoxie Trudel. She completed her secondary studies at the Congregation of Notre-Dame in Bouch...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother%20Moffet%20house
Brother Moffet house
In 1908, the house was first moved to make way for the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa boarding school. It was later used as a coach house. From 1930 to 1936, the house was occupied by the residential school's janitor, before being abandoned. In 1949, it was acquired by the Société d'histoire du Témiscamingue. In 1952, th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20K%C3%B8lpin%20%28surgeon%29
Alexander Kølpin (surgeon)
Alexander Kølpin (7 July 1731 - 20 January 1801) was a German-born Danish surgeon. Early life and education Kølpin was born on 7 July 1831 in Uetersen, Duchy of Holstein, the son of headmaster of the Abbey School Friedrich Christopher Kølpin and Catharina Margaretha née Evers. He attended his father's school and was...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dospat%E2%80%93Vacha%20Hydropower%20Cascade
Dospat–Vacha Hydropower Cascade
Its waters are diverted via two separate routes — one to the Krichim Hydro Power Plant and another to the Vacha 1 and 2 Hydro Power Plants. The main output flows through the former and are later discharged to an irrigation system in the Upper Thracian Plain that also uses water from the Batak Hydropower Cascade to the ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanstrassia
Hanstrassia
Hanstrassia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Teloschistaceae. It has two species. Hanstrassia is characterised by a predominantly and thallus, distinguishing it from its close relative Elenkiniana. Taxonomy Hanstrassia was circumscribed by lichenologist Sergey Kondratyuk in 2017, to contain what was ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanstrassia
Hanstrassia
Habitat and distribution The genus Hanstrassia is primarily found in specific ecological settings across parts of the Asian continent. These species typically grow on limestone and calcareous schist, favouring the vertical cliffs in areas characterized by dry continental climates. They can also be found on sandy soil w...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya%20Kuprov
Ilya Kuprov
Research and education activities Kuprov's research focuses on theoretical and computational methods in magnetic resonance. As of 2023, his work has produced over 100 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and a monograph on spin dynamics. His collaborative research deals with difficult problems in computati...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian%20Front
Lithuanian Front
Background The predecessor of the Lithuanian Front and organizer of the anti-Soviet June Uprising, the LAF, was banned on 26 September 1941 by the order of Adrian von Renteln, the General Commissioner of German-occupied Lithuania. This suppression of the LAF meant that there was no longer any legal cover for nationali...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Minas%20church%20of%20Halidzor
Saint Minas church of Halidzor
St Minas (Armenian: սուրբ Մինաս) is a 17th-century Armenian Apostolic Christian church located on the left bank of Vorotan river 3 km to the South-West the village of Halidzor, in the center of the Old Halidzor village in the Syunik Province in southeastern Armenia. History According to the inscription on the façade ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vall%C3%A9e%20des%20Usines
Vallée des Usines
Topography The valley has been carved out over the centuries by the Durolle river in the Forez mountains, north of the Massif Central and it extends from where it meets the Vallée des Rouets, downstream, to the Limagne plain. The northern part of the valley is rugged, with several peaks over 600 m high. Further inland...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd%20al-Razzaq%20K%C4%81sh%C4%81n%C4%AB
Abd al-Razzaq Kāshānī
Kamāl al-Dīn Abūʾl-Faḍl Abd al-Razzaq ibn Jamāl al-Dīn Abu al-Ghānīm Kāshānī (Persian: کمال‌الدّین ابوالفضل عبدالرزّاق بن جمال‌الدین ابى‌الغنائم کاشانى), better known as Abd al-Razzaq Kāshānī (عبدالرزاق کاشانی) was a 14th-century Persian Shi'ite Sufi mystic and scholar. He wrote the Ta'wilat al-Qur'an al-Karim, a myst...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activation%20strain%20model
Activation strain model
To rationalize this increase in stabilizing interaction upon shifting to basic conditions, it is useful to represent the interaction energy in terms of molecular orbital theory. The figure below shows the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals (LUMO)s of ethanol (basic conditions) and protonated ethanol (acidic condition...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20College
Raymond College
Classes were not graded through traditional letter grades. Rather, students received term letters in which their professor described how well they did in the class and provided individualized feedback. Students received one of three grade levels during the early years; these were unsatisfactory (a failing grade), satis...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912%20suspension%20of%20Ty%20Cobb
1912 suspension of Ty Cobb
During the 1912 baseball season, center fielder Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers was suspended for ten days after entering the spectator stands at New York's Hilltop Park during a game and physically assaulting Claude Lucker, a heckler. At the time, Cobb was among the biggest stars in the major leagues. American League pr...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16p11.2%20deletion%20syndrome
16p11.2 deletion syndrome
Obesity 16p11.2 deletion syndrome strongly predisposes individuals to increased body mass index (BMI) and obesity beginning in childhood. BMI in individuals with the syndrome is significantly higher than that in the general population by age 5, and 50% of carriers are obese by age 7. By adulthood, 75% of individuals a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport%27s%201592%20expedition
Newport's 1592 expedition
Later in the day however Newport's force regrouped and landed again. They were set upon by the Spanish as they come ashore but overcome any resistance losing two men killed in the fighting. The Spanish were pushed back by the English force and the town's governor was killed in the melee. Just as the English come into t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Harwood%20%28burgess%29
William Harwood (burgess)
Career This William Harwood paid taxes on 625 acres in Warwick County in 1704, and in 1717 used a power of attorney from his London-based scrivener cousin, Needler Webb. In 1704, his elder brother Humphrey paid taxes on 400 acres in Warwick County (likely the Mulberry Island plantation called the "Beech" which their ra...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto%20Salom%C3%B3n%20Osorio
Alberto Salomón Osorio
Alberto Salomón Osorio (Callao; — Lima; ) was a Peruvian diplomat and politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs on three occasions, between 1920 and 1925, during the second government of Augusto B. Leguía. He is well remembered for having signed with the minister plenipotentiary of Colombia, Fabio Lozano T...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20Urfa
Culture of Urfa
The culture of Urfa, Turkey is diverse and spans cuisine, literature and language. Cuisine As the city of Urfa is deeply rooted in history, so its unique cuisine is an amalgamation of the cuisines of the many civilizations that have ruled in Urfa . It is widely believed that Urfa is the birthplace of many dishes, in...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20Urfa
Culture of Urfa
Some other specialties of Urfali cuisine include şöşbörek, tirit (a meal which, according to the medieval historian al-Tabari, was first made by the prophet Abraham), the appetizer "içli köfte", the dessert zerde, the beverage Urfa biyanbalısı, the biscuit külünçe, the soup lebeni çorbası, and a number of other dishes:...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20Urfa
Culture of Urfa
Literature Urfa has a long history of literature, going back to early Christian writers such as Bardaisan and Ibas of Edessa. A prominent medieval writer from Urfa was the 9th century Arabic author al-Ruhawi, whose Adab al-Tabib covered the topic of medical ethics. Later, from the 1600s to the 20th century, divan poet...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%AAhaka%20Takaanini
Īhaka Takaanini
Īhaka or Ihaka Takaanini (1800–1864) was a chief of the Te Ākitai Waiohua tribe, which occupied lands in the southern region of Auckland. The South Auckland suburb of Takanini is named in his honour. A prominent figure within the Auckland and Waikato regions, Takaanini played a large role in many land sales and peac...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pochyta%20equatorialis
Pochyta equatorialis
The female spider is slightly smaller than the male with a cephalothorax that has a length of between 1.9 and 2.0 and a width of between . Externally, the shape is very different, with a closer similarity between the width of the cephalothorax and abdomen. The carapace is generally yellowish-white with a dark brown eye...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pochyta%20lucida
Pochyta lucida
Pochyta lucida is a species of jumping spider in the genus Pochyta that lives in Gabon. A small spider, it was first described in 2021 by Wanda Wesołowska and Tamás Szűts. It has an oval cephalothorax that is 2.3 mm long and an ovoid abdomen that is 2.8 mm long. It is generally light, with a yellow carapace and greyish...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant%20execution%20in%20the%20United%20States
Elephant execution in the United States
An elephant execution, sometimes called elephant lynching, is a pseudo-legal or performative public spectacle where a captive elephant is killed in order to punish it for being a "bad elephant" (behaviors that had, threatened, injured, or killed humans). Documenting the execution or the body with film or still photos ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Point%20Treatment%20Plant
West Point Treatment Plant
The West Point Treatment Plant is a major wastewater treatment plant in Seattle, WA. It is located in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood, within Discovery Park. It is located at the tip of West Point, near the West Point Lighthouse. Operated by King County Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD), the plant handles signifcant...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Villelongue
Battle of Villelongue
On 9 March 1793, the First French Republic declared war on the Kingdom of Spain. On 17 April, Antonio Ricardos' Spanish army invaded France and captured Céret in the Tech River valley. On 20 May, Ricardos defeated a French force at the Battle of Mas Deu. In the Siege of Bellegarde, the Spanish army took several weeks t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Villelongue
Battle of Villelongue
Aftermath Suffering from the same fever that was causing havoc among his soldiers, Doppet resigned his command on 20 December and went to Perpignan to recover. D'Aoust was appointed interim army commander on 21 December 1793. Meanwhile, on 20 December, the Spanish won a victory at the Battle of Collioure, wiping out ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20E.%20Forrest
Jeffrey E. Forrest
Jeffrey Edward Forrest (February 22, 1864), commonly called Jeff Forrest, was a Confederate States Army military officer who was killed in action. He was the youngest of the six Forrest brothers who engaged in the interregional slave trade in the United States prior to the American Civil War. Biography There are no k...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20E.%20Forrest
Jeffrey E. Forrest
N. B. Forrest's report of the battle, as printed in the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, stated "I regret the loss of some gallant officers. The loss of my brother, Colonel J. E. Forrest, is deeply felt by his brigade as well as myself and it is but just to say that for sobriety, ability, prudence, and bra...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelecyphora%20dasyacantha
Pelecyphora dasyacantha
Pelecyphora dasyacantha is a species of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae, native to the Mexico. Description Pelecyphora dasyacantha grows singly and occasionally sprouts. The depressed spherical to short cylindrical shoots reach heights of up to 20 centimeters and diameters of 4 to 7 centimeters. The shoots are...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostre%20Dame%20de%20Grasse
Nostre Dame de Grasse
The style demonstrates a genuine concern for elegance and refinement. It is evident that the sculptor exhibited exceptional skill in this work, as demonstrated by the deep carving of the limestone to detach the Virgin's right arm and emphasize the volume of the clothing folds. Even in less accessible areas, precision w...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20H.%20King%20Jr
David H. King Jr
Among the British old masters represented in the collection were 18th century painters including William Beechey, John Constable, John Singleton Copley, Francis Cotes, Thomas Gainsborough, John Hoppner, Cornelius Johnson (Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen), Godfrey Kneller, Thomas Lawrence, Peter Lely, John Opie, Henry Raeb...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20H.%20King%20Jr
David H. King Jr
The nineteenth century French artists in King's collection were: Jean Béraud, Étienne-Prosper Berne-Bellecour, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean-Charles Cazin, Charles Joshua Chaplin, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Charles-François Daubigny, Honore Daumier, Édouard Detaille, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Marie Dieterle, Gustave...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyu%20Salisu%20Barau
Aliyu Salisu Barau
Public engagement Aliyu Salisu Barau engages with the public through regular writing on multiple environmental issues in Nigeria and beyond especially in English and Hausa languages. He has featured several enlightenment programs monitored by the BBC, DW, VOA, and local and regional radio and TV stations such as Freed...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Inglis%20%28merchant%29
Robert Inglis (merchant)
In January 1646, Inglis lent £100 to James Hope, who was making a trip to Europe to research lead mining technology and to see Elizabeth of Bohemia at The Hague. Inglis was an agent of the Goldsmith's Hall and was able to obtain cash in gold. He was able to give cash in London to holders of "letters of exchange". In S...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mageragere
Mageragere
Mageragere is a sector (umurenge) in the Nyarugenge District of Kigali Province, Rwanda It is located in the west part of the city of Kigali. Demographics According to the 2022 census, Mageragere had a total population of 59,747 inhabitants, 34,038 of which were male and 25,709 of which were female. The Rwanda Envir...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-%27Aziz%20rock%20crystal%20ewer
Al-'Aziz rock crystal ewer
Inscription The al-’Aziz ewer features an Arabic inscription on its body, at the base of the vessel's neck. The inscription reads: “blessing from Allah for the imam al-'Aziz Bi'llah”, referring to the Fatimid caliph of the same name. The inclusion of an Arabic inscription is featured on some other ewers from the "Magn...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed%20Touati
Mohammed Touati
Mohammed Touati (Arabic: محمد تواتي ), nicknamed "El Mokh", is a former high-ranking Algerian military officer and politician. Biography Touati was born around 1937 in Azzefoun, Tizi Ouzou province, then French Algeria. He joined a military school as a young child. At the time of Algerian independence, he was the chi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Turner%20%28naval%20officer%29
Thomas Turner (naval officer)
Thomas Turner (23 December 1807 – 24 March 1883) was a United States Navy rear admiral. He served as commander of the Pacific Squadron from 1869 to 1870. Turner fought in the Mexican–American War and, though a Virginian, served in the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Biography Turner was born at the Marengo p...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%20Chiyembekeza
Allan Chiyembekeza
Allan Chiyembekeza is a Malawian politician and educator. He was the Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation of Malawi, having been appointed to the position on 12 January 2015 by former president of Malawi, Peter Mutharika. His term began on 31 May 2014. In 2016, he was the Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternatives%20to%20the%20Clovis%20First%20theory
Alternatives to the Clovis First theory
There have been a great number of archaeological findings across the Americas that pre-date the arrival of humans prior to 11,500–11,000 uncalibrated years before present (YBP). The Buttermilk Creek Complex, located in Salado, Texas, is a site where over 15,000 artifacts have been found. These artifacts are composed of...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20S.%20Venkannayya
T. S. Venkannayya
Taľaku Subbanna Venkannayya (1 October 1885 – 14 September 1939) was University of Mysore's first Kannada Professor. He was also a popular Kannada writer, translator, editor and teacher who nurtured many later Kannada littérateurs like Kuvempu, D. L. Narasimhachar, T. N. Srikantaiah, K. S. Narasimhaswamy, M. V. Seethar...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spon%20End%20Viaduct
Spon End Viaduct
Spon End Viaduct is a railway bridge which spans the River Sherbourne in Spon End, just west of the city centre of Coventry in central England. Description and history The viaduct is just north of Coventry station on the Coventry to Nuneaton railway line. It spans the River Sherbourne and its flat valley as it passes ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarbert%20Power%20Station
Tarbert Power Station
Tarbert Power Station is an oil fired power station situated on the Shannon Estuary in Tarbert, County Kerry, Ireland. Construction commenced in October 1966 and the first block was commissioned in 1969. The station comprises two (Unit I and II) and two oil fired steam turbines. It was the largest station of ESB duri...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Victors%20of%20the%20Bastille%20in%20Front%20of%20the%20H%C3%B4tel%20de%20Ville
The Victors of the Bastille in Front of the Hôtel de Ville
The Victors of the Bastille in Front of the Hôtel de Ville (Les Vainqueurs de la Bastille devant l'Hôtel de Ville) is a large oil on canvas painting by French painter Paul Delaroche, from c. 1835. it is held in the Petit Palais, in Paris. Subject On the evening of 14 July 1789 the crowd who had stormed the Bastille, w...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara%20Justo
Sara Justo
In 1905, Justo founded the Feminist Center of Argentina with Julieta Lanteri and Elvira Rawson. At the International Congress of Free Thought in Buenos Aires in 1906, Spanish feminist politician Belén de Sárraga suggested that Justo organize a movement to secure women's political rights. In 1907, Justo founded the Wome...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20Frascaroli
Giuseppe Frascaroli
Giuseppe Frascaroli (born 6 May 1953) is an Italian neoclassical painter. Life Giuseppe Frascaroli was born on 6 May 1953 in Oltrepò Pavese, Italy. He later received a medical degree with a specialization in neurology. A neurologist by trade, he is also a neoclassical painter working in Italy. He is a recipient of the...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercellular%20communication
Intercellular communication
Complex organisms may have molecules to hold the cells together which can also be involved in intercellular communication. Some binding molecules are termed the extracellular matrix and may involve longer molecules like cellulose for the cell wall in plants or collagen in animals. When the membranes of two animal cells...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lael%20Morgan
Lael Morgan
Lael Warren Morgan (May 12, 1936 - July 26, 2022) was an American journalist, author and historian who wrote books about Alaska's history and people. Early life Morgan was born in Rockland, Maine, in 1936 to Hazel and Eugene Warren. She attended Emerson College and transferred to Boston University where she graduated...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edoardo%20Prettner%20Cippico
Edoardo Prettner Cippico
Wartime career Cippico's knowledge of Croatian caused Luigi Maglione to choose him to attend, with noncommittal cordiality, to Nikola Rusinović, envoy from the Independent State of Croatia. Cippico and lawyer Antonio Milo di Villagrazia helped Pascalina Lehnert to prepare a 1943 contingency plan to spirit Pope Pius XII...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C6%B0%C6%A1ng%20Nguy%E1%BB%87t%20Anh
Sương Nguyệt Anh
Suong Nguyet Anh (8 March 1864 – 20 January 1921), was a Vietnamese author, poet, feminist and editor. In 1919, she became the first woman editor in Vietnam when she became the first editor of the first feminist women's magazine in Vietnam, the Nu Gioi Chung (Women's Bell). Life and career Nguyệt Anh was born on 8 ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023%20California%20floods
2022–2023 California floods
Due to the storms, Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on January 4, 2023. President Joe Biden then declared a state of emergency in 17 California counties on January 9, 2023. That same day, two lawmakers sent a letter urging President Biden to declare a state of emergency for San Luis Obispo County and...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iga%20ikki
Iga ikki
In 15th and 16th century Japan, Iga Province contained some 300-500 small estates and 700 castles and nearby Kōka, in Ōmi Province, had some 53 clans. Both regions were in anarchy, their estates and families constantly engaged in low-level, small-scale feuds and squabbles within and between each region. In Iga, fightin...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iga%20ikki
Iga ikki
The first article required the village collective, the sokoku, to join as one to resist the invading armies from any other domain. The second article stipulated that whenever an alert is sent signaling that an enemy is spotted at a gate, all the villages should ring every bell, and every member should take up defensiv...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iga%20ikki
Iga ikki
Okuse Heishichirō, the writer who in the mid-20th century greatly contributed to the development of ninja myth, outlined a three-tiered social structure in Iga. At the top were jōnin, the head families. Depending on their wealth, the comparable rank of a jonin could range from that of a minor daimyō to a jizamurai vill...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot%20F.C.
Lancelot F.C.
Lancelot Football Club was a Scottish football club based in the city of Glasgow. History The club was formed in 1874 out of a cricket club, which dated back to 1869 and played on Glasgow Green, with bowler John Haddow being noted as a strong forward, and batsman Flett also praised for his play. The is at least one ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele%27s%20Greenville%20expedition
Steele's Greenville expedition
During early 1863, when the American Civil War was ongoing, Union Army forces commanded by Major General Ulysses S. Grant were undertaking the Vicksburg campaign against the Confederate-held city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. After having repeatedly failed to maneuver out of the surrounding swamps and onto high ground ne...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-touch%20provisioning
Zero-touch provisioning
System architecture A basic ZTP system requires a network device that supports ZTP, a server that supports Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) or Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP), and a file server. When a ZTP-enabled device is powered on, the device's boot file sets up configuration parameters. A switch th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit%20Les%20Planques
Circuit Les Planques
Circuit Les Planques was a long motor racing road circuit in a triangular shape, located near Albi. The circuit was later shortened to in 1934, and again to in 1954. History Built in 1933 by a group of enthusiasts, the circuit of Albi les Planques quickly became a classic in the racing specialty of cars. This even...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Morton%20%28mathematician%29
Bruce Morton (mathematician)
After his death in 2012 a special issue of the journal Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal (which changed its name to Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science in 2016) dedicated to Morton's work and impact was published in 2014. It contained a series of invited review papers by prominent re...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C4%B1m%C4%B1%C5%9Fk%C4%B1l%C4%B1%20%28tribe%29
Dımışkılı (tribe)
Dımışkılı is a Turkoman tribe mostly inhabiting Kilis and Gaziantep provinces in south-central Turkey. Etymology Although Damascus is known as Şam in standardized Turkish, Dımışk (i.e. Dimashq) was also used to refer to the city in the archaic tongue and regional dialects. Dımışkı means Damascene, while Dımışkılı mean...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Lebanon%20revolts%20of%20752%20and%20759
Mount Lebanon revolts of 752 and 759
The Mount Lebanon revolts of 752 and 759 were a series of anti-Abbasid revolts by the Christian inhabitants of Lebanon as a response to the Abbasid oppression of the region. The first of these revolts began in the year 752 under the Mardaite prince Elias of Baskinta. Elias battled the Arabs in many parts of the Beqaa V...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrightville
Wrightville
The village had no passenger rail service—Wrightville residents' hopes for a railway station in the centre of the village were never realised—but it did have a horse bus service to Cobar. People did, on occasion, hitch a ride on freight trains. Operation of the railway through the village's main street was hazardous. O...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrightville
Wrightville
Local government at Wrightville effectively ended in 1922, due to its dwindling population. Some consideration had been given to merging Wrightville's municipality with Cobar, but Cobar council was strongly opposed to that outcome. Instead, the Wrightville Council was in such a dire state—it had insufficient alderman ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podiceps%20dixi
Podiceps dixi
Podiceps dixi is a possible extinct species of grebe from the United States. History P. dixi was part of 5000 bird fossils that were cataloged from Reddick, Marion County, Florida. The material was collected by H. James Gut in 1950 and the species was described by the American ornithologist and paleontologist Pierce B...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Casimir%20Benicken
Johann Casimir Benicken
Johann Casimir Benicken (1 August 1782 – 1 December 1838) was a jurist and judge from the Duchy of Schleswig who also took an interest in the birds and natural history of the region. He was also a city secretary (or town clerk) for the city of Schleswig, Duchy of Schleswig. Life and work Benicken was born in the Duch...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal%20of%20Belgian%20Gratitude
Medal of Belgian Gratitude
The Medal of Belgian Gratitude (; ) is a Belgian medal instituted to be awarded to civilians on 1 August 1945. Insignia The medal measures 34 mm in diameter and has an octagonal shape. The obverse depicts a veiled woman (representing Belgium) facing to the right, with a rapier in her right hand, raised in salute. The...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiran%20Uniyal
Kiran Uniyal
Kiran Uniyal is an Indian martial artist, educator, and author. Early life Uniyal first got involved with Taekwondo when she was a teenager, and then picked it up again as an adult. Career She is the first Indian woman to set 34 martial arts speed records for elbow strikes and kicks. She is also the female record h...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan%20Blair
Clan Blair
Chieftanship These two families long contested to be recognised for chieftanship of the entire Blair clan until King James VI affirmed in 1658 that "The eldest male of either of the two Families would have precedency over the younger to the Chieftainship". The significance of this suggests that members of these two fam...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lundie%20Kirk
Lundie Kirk
Ecclesiastical history The church was constructed by the Durward family, who owned the village, in the 12th century. Its earliest mention in the written record dates to the reign of William the Lion ( 1165–1214). The church was originally owned by the Priory of St Andrews and may have served as a resting place for mon...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Liani
Michael Liani
Michael Liani (Hebrew: מיכאל ליאני; born 1987) is an Israeli artist, photographer, video artist and editor, and art lecturer who lives and works in Tel Aviv. He has won several awards, including two from Israel's Ministry of Culture and Sports, Docaviv festival and the International Photography Contest at Paris College...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20in%20reptile%20paleontology
2023 in reptile paleontology
Sauropterygian research A study on the ecomorphological diversification of Middle Triassic eosauropterygians, providing evidence of evolution of anatomically diverse skulls and teeth (likely related to different feeding specializations of pachypleurosauroids, nothosauroids and pistosauroids) and more homogeneous postc...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20in%20paleomammalogy
2023 in paleomammalogy
Beaudet & de Jager (2023) provide evidence of primitive organization of the Broca's area in a 1.9-million-years-old probable member of the genus Homo from Koobi Fora (Kenya). Pobiner, Pante & Keevil (2023) report the discovery of likely cut marks on a 1.45-million-years-old hominin tibia shaft from the Okote Member of...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20in%20paleomammalogy
2023 in paleomammalogy
Evidence from a high-coverage genome of Ötzi, interpreted as indicative of descent from both early Neolithic European farmers (who in turn were descendants of early Anatolian farmers) and European hunter-gatherers (with the admixture between these groups happening approximately 4880–4400 years BCE) but without any evid...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20in%20paleomammalogy
2023 in paleomammalogy
Two new specimens of Orhaniyeia nauta, providing new information on the anatomy of this species and on the affinities of anatoliadelphyids, are described from the Eocene Uzunçarşıdere Formation (Turkey) by Beard et al. (2023). A study on the affinities of Estelestes ensis is published by Goin et al. (2023). New fossi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20in%20paleomammalogy
2023 in paleomammalogy
General mammalian research A study on the masticatory muscle features of extant and extinct mammals is published by Ercoli et al. (2023), who find that early mammaliaforms and mammals had similar muscle proportions to those of living carnivores, and find similarities in the masticatory muscle features of rodents and d...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20in%20paleomammalogy
2023 in paleomammalogy
A study on the age of fossils of eight most common mammal species (coyotes and seven extinct species) from the La Brea Tar Pits (California, United States) is published by O'Keefe et al. (2023), who find that seven of the studied species disappeared before the onset of the Younger Dryas, that Paramylodon harlani and Ca...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty%20of%20Peace%2C%20Amity%20and%20Commerce%20between%20Portugal%20and%20Japan%20%281860%29
Treaty of Peace, Amity and Commerce between Portugal and Japan (1860)
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Japan and Portugal (日葡修好通商条約, Nichiro Shūkō Tsūshō Jōyaku - Tratado de Paz, Amizade e Commercio, entre Sua Magestade El Rei de Portugal e Sua Magestade o Imperador do Japão) was signed between Portugal and the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo (now Tokyo) on August 3, 1860. It opened di...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baher%20Abdulhai
Baher Abdulhai
Abdulhai introduced a traffic flow prediction system based on an advanced Time Delay Neural Network (TDNN) model. In his research studies, he provided a detailed analysis of attributes of potentially universal freeway incident detection framework, and highlighted the testing and training procedures of Probabilistic Neu...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena%20Kekkonen
Helena Kekkonen
Pulmu Helena Kekkonen née Nousiainen (1926–2014) was a Finnish peace activist and pioneer of peace education. A graduate in chemistry, while working as an educator at the central prison in Sörnäinen, she was inspired by the Brazilian Paulo Freire's 1968 work Pedagogy of the Oppressed. As a result, she started to encour...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atelier%20Fauni
Atelier Fauni
Atelier Fauni was a Finnish arts and crafts studio, operating from 1952–1971 in Finland. It was founded in 1952 in Naantali by and her husband, the actor (1917–2011). From Naantali, and later in Tusby and Träskända, the company made soft toys, mainly in the form of handmade trolls made from leather, fabric and skin....
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Society%20for%20the%20Study%20of%20Comics
Canadian Society for the Study of Comics
Canadian Society for the Study of Comics (CSSC), also known as Société Canadienne pour l'Étude de la Bande Dessinée (SCEBD), is a bilingual community of academics focused in discuss all aspects of comics as an art form and cultural phenomenon. The society was founded in October 2010 by University of Regina professor Sy...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshevik%E2%80%93Makhnovist%20conflict
Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict
Pursued by the Red Army, which was under orders to annihilate the Makhnovshchina before Christmas, the insurgent core subsequently made for Novospasivka, where they joined up with Vdovychenko's insurgent detachment, before finally moving on to Berdiansk. There, on 12 December, the Makhnovists encountered a small and il...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshevik%E2%80%93Makhnovist%20conflict
Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict
Defeat By the summer of 1921, the Makhnovshchina had effectively been defeated, both militarily and politically, with Red Army garrisons everywhere and their peasant base exhausted by the long war. The season brought with it a drought, which forced the insurgent core out of Ukraine on a series of raids around Southern ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes%20or%20On%20Virtue
Diogenes or On Virtue
Diogenes' speech (11-35) contains three parts. In the first part (11-19), Diogenes explains that he has come to the games "not to watch but to compete" (11). His "rivals" are not athletes but "hardships" (), such hunger, thirst, cold, exile, and disreputable things. He explains how this competition is superior to the a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes%20or%20On%20Virtue
Diogenes or On Virtue
The third part of Diogenes' speech (27-35) is a revisionist account of the labours of Heracles, presenting him as a paragon of the Cynic lifestyle, rather than the athletic one. Heracles, like Diogenes, was ignored in favour of flashier heroes in life, only receiving the honours he deserved after death (27-28). Heracle...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasidas%20cavernosus
Brasidas cavernosus
Joseph Redtenbacher examined three animals in 1906, more precisely one male and two females, which he assigned to this species. The male from the Natural History Museum, Berlin was collected on Luzon, the females from the National Museum of Natural History, France in Paris were collected on Mindanao. He mentions at the...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefania%20Wojtulanis-Karpi%C5%84ska
Stefania Wojtulanis-Karpińska
Stefania Cecylia Wojtulanis-Karpińska, (22 November 1912 – 12 February 2005) was a Polish aviator. She was a sports pilot in the inter war period and was a Captain in the Polish Air Force. She flew in the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in the Second World War, when she was known as Barbara Wojtulanis. She was on...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla%20M%C3%A1chov%C3%A1
Karla Máchová
In 1908, using a legal loophole, together with Božena Zelinková and Marie Tůmová, Máchová was among the first three women to run for the Bohemian Diet. Even though she received a second spot on the Social Democrat list, her party did not invite her to its large pre-election meeting, creating for her a perfunctory women...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsema%20Thomas
Arsema Thomas
Arséma Angela Adeoluwayemi Hamera Thomas (born June 19, 1994) is an American actress. She plays young Lady Agatha Danbury in the Netflix period drama series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (2023). Early life and education Thomas was born in Atlanta, Georgia to a Yoruba Nigerian father and an Ethiopian mother, bot...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancha%20Pakshi%20Shastra
Pancha Pakshi Shastra
Pancha Pakshi Shastra (IAST: Pañca-pakṣi-śāstra, "science of the five birds") is a system of divination historically popular among Hindu astrologers of southern India. In this system, the nakshatras (lunar mansions) are organized in groups named after five birds: hawk, owl, crow, cock, and peacock. These birds are sai...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia%20Aroha%20College
Kia Aroha College
In 2021, the school received approval to become a composite school, providing courses for students aged between year 1 and year 6. This began with a Māori bilingual unit in 2023, followed by a Pasifika bilingual unit in 2024. Learning environment The school's aim is to provide a learning environment where Māori and ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20chimera
Human chimera
Non-intentional chimerism related to treatments Several cases of chimera phenomena have been reported in bone marrow recipients. In 2019, the blood and seminal fluid of a man in Reno, Nevada (who had undergone a vasectomy), exhibited only the genetic content of his bone marrow donor. Swabs from his lips, cheek and to...
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