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68301340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion%20of%20the%20Indus%20Valley%20Civilisation | Religion of the Indus Valley Civilisation | A common class of terracotta statuettes have been identified as figurines of a "mother goddess" (and goddess of fertility, by extension) by a spectrum of scholars — Ernest J. H. Mackay, Marshall, Walter Fairservis, Bridget Allchin, Hiltebeitel, Jim G. Shaffer, and Parpola among others — thus positing links to the Shak... | 2.171875 | 0 |
68301404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20services%20and%20supply%20in%20the%20Siegfried%20Line%20campaign | American services and supply in the Siegfried Line campaign | Shortages
Ammunition usage is difficult to forecast, as it is dependent on tactical and operational factors that are difficult to predict. Moreover, different tactical circumstances demand different calibers and types of ammunition. Ammunition shortages developed in the early days of the campaign in Northwest Europe ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
68301507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%20Yukun | Ma Yukun | On February 24, 1895, during the Japanese offensive on Haicheng, Ma Yukun led his troops to defend villages such as Qiligou in Beishan, climbing the ice and laying by the snow, overseeing the battle. The Japanese attacked from three sides and set up dozens of cannons to continuously bombard the Qing army. After a day o... | 2.671875 | 0 |
68302270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20Elizabeth%20Shearburn%20Clark | Helen Elizabeth Shearburn Clark | Later career
Following this period, she took up a position as a research associate at the National Museum of New Zealand at its original location. Her time at the museum included a major study published in Nature suggesting a new class of echinoderms, Xyloplax medmiformis which represents a radical departure in morpho... | 2.328125 | 0 |
68302277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing%20and%20Publishing%20House%20of%20Orujov%20brothers | Printing and Publishing House of Orujov brothers | In addition to translations of works, the folk literature was also published there. In 1910, the printing house published the book "A Check for Twenty-Five Million" by the American writer Mark Twain. This was the first work of the writer translated into Azerbaijani. In 1917, the work "Amir Timur" by the Hungarian orien... | 2.21875 | 0 |
77116899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Blidebro | Battle of Blidebro | The Battle of Blidebro (, ) was a battle between Danish–German and Swedish–Holsteinian forces near Copenhagen in 1342 during the Kalundborg War. The battle ended in a Danish–German victory and it is estimated that 350 Swedes were killed in the initial action.
Background
In 1340, Valdemar IV of Denmark became king of ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
77117585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pituophis%20melanoleucus%20mugitus | Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus | As a powerful constrictor, P. m. mugitus preys on small mammals, rabbits, and other rodents, primarily. Less commonly, they can eat ground-dwelling birds, bird eggs, and lizards. They actively forage above and below ground. For example, they are known to use their snout to dig into pocket gopher burrows. They are also ... | 2.921875 | 0 |
77118001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent%20Nguy%E1%BB%85n%20V%C4%83n%20B%E1%BA%A3n | Vincent Nguyễn Văn Bản | On February 21, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him bishop of Ban Mê Thuột. He received episcopal consecration on May 12, 2009, from archbishop Étienne Nguyễn Như Thể. Within the Vietnamese Episcopal Conference, he served as chairman of the committee for sacred music for three consecutive terms from 2010 to 2019. In ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
77118030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%20NIRSA%20National%20Soccer%20Championship | 1997 NIRSA National Soccer Championship | The division was composed of 4 teams, three of which were region II teams. The teams were Virginia Tech, Florida, Tennessee, and Colorado State's "Green" team (also known as their "B" team as their "A", or "Gold", team competed in the championship division). In the group stage opening round, Florida would defeat Colora... | 2.171875 | 0 |
77119134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murehe%20Forest | Murehe Forest | The Murehe Forest (; ) is an area of forest in the north of the Kirundo Province of Burundi.
It is protected by the Murehe Reserve (), part of the Lacs du Nord Aquatic Landscape.
Location
The Victoria Basin forest–savanna mosaic centers around Lake Victoria and extends through parts of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda,... | 2.46875 | 0 |
77119134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murehe%20Forest | Murehe Forest | The Lacs du Nord Aquatic Landscape Protected Area was created in 2006, expanding on the Lake Rwihinda protected area.
In theory this conserves over of aquatic environment with integrated community management, agricultural production, and lake conservation.
It includes the integrated Natural Reserve of Murehe; the man... | 2.671875 | 0 |
77119201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Cooper%20%28American%20football%29 | Gordon Cooper (American football) | College career
Cooper attended the University of Denver from 1948 to 1951. He won nine varsity letters while playing three sports, as an end in football, shortstop in baseball and a participant in the javelin throw for the track and field team. In three years on the football team, he and quarterback Sam Etcheverry form... | 2.046875 | 0 |
77119243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Ward | Kate Ward | Ward captained the team at the 2021 Deaflympics in Brazil, where she led the United States to another gold medal, though she had to be subbed out in the final due to injury while the team prevailed on penalties. Following the tournament, she was a finalist for the Best Female Athlete with a Disability ESPY Award. She w... | 2.1875 | 0 |
77119448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%3A%20Sex%2C%20Drugs%2C%20Motherhood%20and%20the%20Recovery%20of%20the%20Feminine | Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine | British academic Rehan Qayoom, in his paper about the book, found that it shows that "the life-choices of mothers, pushed by a system of obstetric norms, are literally destroying life right from birth. The use of ‘dummies’ is shown to be closely linked to babies’ developmental problems in motor skills, breathing, spea... | 1.90625 | 0 |
77119693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%20bin%20Abdul%20Wahhab%20Al%20Faihani%20Palace | Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab Al Faihani Palace | During the period of the first and second Saudi state, from 1797 AD to 1871 AD, the castle was used as a defensive Castle and a center for collecting customs duties on Tarout Island. Some reports said that Saudi rulers who ruled the Qatif region from 1797 to 1871, during the first and second phases of the Saudi state b... | 2.46875 | 0 |
77120179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20of%20cardinal%20de%20Bourbon | Master of cardinal de Bourbon | Religious, historical and moralizing books
Other manuscripts attributed to the Master include two liturgical manuscripts, three historical chronicles and two moralizing books. Three other works are simply collaborations in which the Master of Cardinal de Bourbon's contribution is occasional.
Other proposals for the a... | 2.171875 | 0 |
77120587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album%20covers%20of%20Blue%20Note%20Records | Album covers of Blue Note Records | Miles's first 12-inch designs were for reissues of Milt Jackson's Milt Jackson and the Thelonious Monk Quintet (1956) and the two volumes of Monk's Genius of Modern Music (1956). He continued designing for Blue Note throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s, employing a number of techniques across the covers; on some, ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
77120587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album%20covers%20of%20Blue%20Note%20Records | Album covers of Blue Note Records | The Blue Note album covers, particularly those designed by Reid Miles, have been described as being definitive of the visual identity of jazz, serving as a symbol of the genre's imagery. In a 2019 Vox article, Estelle Caswell praised the covers as iconic and considered them to be "the 'look' of jazz", while in 2005 Dav... | 1.960938 | 0 |
77120630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20de%20Beatis | Antonio de Beatis | The purpose of the cardinal's trip was pleasure, taking advantage of a lull in the Italian Wars. According to De Beatis, the cardinal was familiar with Spain and Italy and so resolved that "he would also get to know Germany, France and all those other regions bordering the northern and western ocean and make himself kn... | 2.421875 | 0 |
77120641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses%20in%20Germany | Horses in Germany | The equine sector in Germany is one of the country's leading sporting industries, housing the largest population of horses in Europe. Germany is renowned for breeding sport horses, with the most distinguished animals originating from the Hanoverian, Holstein, and Oldenburger studbooks. The state actively supports the G... | 2.5625 | 0 |
77120921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanelixia%20albertana | Melanelixia albertana | Melanelixia albertana was part of a 2016 phylogenetic analysis that investigated evolutionary relationships within the Melanohalea clade. This study, which included complete concatenated alignments of internal transcribed spacer and mitochondrial small subunit DNA sequences, revealed that Melanelixia albertana forms a ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
77120921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanelixia%20albertana | Melanelixia albertana | The lower surface is black with a smooth brown marginal rim, and features rhizines (root-like structures) that are the same colour. Soralia (clusters of soredia) are numerous, (lip-shaped), and contain coarsely soredia that are partly white and partly dark brown. The lobes are 180–240 μm thick, with an upper cortex (... | 2.3125 | 0 |
77121022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20Generations | Shadow Generations | is a 2024 platform game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega. The second mainline Sonic the Hedgehog game to feature Shadow as a protagonist, its plot runs parallel to Sonic Generations (2011) and sees Shadow travel through time as he faces his archenemy, the evil alien conqueror Black Doom. Like Sonic Generat... | 2.125 | 0 |
77121157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen%20Ash-Milby | Kathleen Ash-Milby | Chapters
"Indian Identity and Evaluating the Past: Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez, an Indian Princess Painter". By Kathleen Ash-Milby. In Joyce M. Szabo (ed.): Painters, Patrons, and Identity: Essays in Native American Art to Honor J.J. Brody (2001). Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press.
"Finding Our... | 1.960938 | 0 |
77121206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audley%20Clarke | Audley Clarke | Slave voyages
Audley Clarke was deeply enmeshed in the West Indies and transatlantic slave trade during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His involvement began in 1790, financing at least thirteen voyages to West Africa, facilitating the transportation of enslaved people until the trade's abolition in 1808. Initi... | 2.875 | 0 |
77121367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%20O%27Neill%20%28Irish%20noblewoman%29 | Rose O'Neill (Irish noblewoman) | The Calendar of State Papers makes reference to "some breach between Tirone and O Donnell about Tirone's daughter" on 2 April 1596, probably referring to Rose and her husband's eventual divorce. The divorce was likely against Tyrone's wishes. Later in 1600, O'Donnell schemed to marry Joan, sister of royal ally James Fi... | 2.15625 | 0 |
77121382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking%20a%20Snow%20Town | Taking a Snow Town | In the summer of 1887, after completing the painting Boyarda Morozova, Vasily Surikov, together with his wife Elizaveta Augustovna and daughters Olga and Elena, went to his native Krasnoyarsk, where his mother Praskovya Fedorovna and brother Alexander lived. There he stayed until late autumn, made many sketches of urba... | 1.9375 | 0 |
77121382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking%20a%20Snow%20Town | Taking a Snow Town | In order to change the environment and to distract himself from heavy thoughts, in May 1889 Vasily Surikov came back to Krasnoyarsk with his daughters, where this time he lived for about a year and a half. The girls studied at the gymnasium, and the artist's brother Alexander tried with all his might to entertain Vasil... | 1.914063 | 0 |
77121382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking%20a%20Snow%20Town | Taking a Snow Town | The Siberian winter landscape plays an important role in the composition. In the right part of the painting, the snow-covered roofs of a Siberian village can be seen above the heads of the viewers. In the middle and left parts of the canvas, mountain ranges recede toward the horizon, their outlines lost in the soft, ai... | 2.53125 | 0 |
77121459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DENND2C | DENND2C | DENN/MADD domain containing 2C (DENND2C) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the DENND2C gene.
Gene
DENND2C is located on human chromosome 1 at 1p13.2 on the minus strand. The gene spans about 87,200 nucleotides. and has 21 exons.
It is a member of the DENN (Differentially Expressed in Normal and Neoplastic ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
77122078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Mythes%20du%20Temple%20Solaire | Les Mythes du Temple Solaire | is a book by religious historian Jean-François Mayer. It was published in 1996 by . The book covers the Order of the Solar Temple (, OTS) a group notorious for the deaths of many of its members through both murder and suicide in several incidents throughout the 1990s. Mayer had access to many of the OTS's records while... | 2.015625 | 0 |
77122323 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsieh%20Li-fa | Hsieh Li-fa | Hsieh Li-fa did not want the historical chapter of Taiwanese art to exist only in the corridors of art museums. After returning to China, in addition to continuing to engage in artistic creation, he also devoted himself to the field of literature. He wrote the history of Taiwan's art movement during the Japanese era, w... | 1.9375 | 0 |
77122524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6%20Sierpnia%20Street%2C%20%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA | 6 Sierpnia Street, Łódź | The street was gradually extended, and by the 1870s, it ended near Wiązowy Market (later Green Market, now Norbert Barlicki Square), before the planned Pańska Street (now Stefan Żeromski Street). In 1870, two corner tenement houses were built at the intersection with Piotrkowska Street (at No. 1/3 and 63 Piotrkowska St... | 2.078125 | 0 |
77122943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20economic%20inequality | History of economic inequality | Globally the poorest 50% hold 2% of the world's wealth, compared with 76% for the richest 10%, of which 38% goes to the richest 1%, and 12% to the richest 0.01%. As a result, wealth inequality will have increased by 50% between the poorest 50% and the richest 0.01% between 2008 and 2022.
Many economists fear that ineq... | 2.53125 | 0 |
77123233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table%20of%20Comparison%20between%20Standard%2C%20Traditional%20and%20Variant%20Chinese%20Characters | Table of Comparison between Standard, Traditional and Variant Chinese Characters | In addition to the characters from the General List of Simplified Chinese Characters and the List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese, 226 groups of characters such as "髫, 𬬭, 𫖯" that are widely used in the society are included in the table.
Based on the adjustment of variant characters in previous relevant ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
77123305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straboviridae | Straboviridae | Straboviridae is a family of bacteriophages in the class Caudoviricetes. The viruses in this family were formerly place in the morphology-based family Myoviridae, which was found to be paraphyletic in genome studies and abolished in the 2021 International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) classification, although... | 2.296875 | 0 |
77123576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jopie%20Roosenburg-Goudriaan | Jopie Roosenburg-Goudriaan | Johanna Margaretha Alida Roosenburg-Goudriaan (27 May 1913 – 13 October 1996), better known as Jopie Roosenburg-Goudriaan, was a Dutch painter. Born in Rotterdam, South Holland, she attended the Academy of Art in that city and opened a studio by 1938. After it was destroyed during the German bombing of 1940, she moved ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
77123690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Rose%20%28Konkani%20actor%29 | Joe Rose (Konkani actor) | Jose Maria Mathias Thomas Ignatius D'Souza (born 31 July 1946), known professionally as Joe Rose, is an Indian actor, singer, composer, playwright, and theatre director known for his work in Konkani films and tiatr productions.
Early life
Jose Maria Mathias Thomas Ignatius D'Souza was born on 31 July 1946 in Bombay, B... | 2 | 0 |
77123840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Nikolaevich%20Yusupov | Boris Nikolaevich Yusupov | Prince Boris Nikolaevich Yusupov (Russian: Борис Николаевич Юсупов; 20 July 1794 – 6 November 1849) was a Russian landowner, chamberlain and philanthropist. He was the heir and only son of Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov, and one of Russia's wealthiest aristocrats. He owned the Rakitnoye estate and was the first owner of th... | 2.3125 | 0 |
77123842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Holsclaw | Bill Holsclaw | John William Holsclaw (born c. 1936) is a former American football player and coach. He played quarterback for the Virginia Tech Hokies.
Holsclaw attended Charleston High School in Charleston, West Virginia. He played at the tailback position in high school.
Holsclaw played college football at Virginia Tech under hea... | 2.109375 | 0 |
77125313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20boys%20of%20Pointe%20du%20Hoc | The boys of Pointe du Hoc | "The boys of Pointe du Hoc" was a speech delivered by United States president Ronald Reagan on the 40th anniversary of the Normandy landings at Pointe du Hoc to a crowd of soldiers who fought at the battle. The speech was written by Peggy Noonan.
The speech is often viewed as one of the best remembrance speeches by a ... | 2.75 | 0 |
77125617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Orleman | Jane Orleman | Paintings to 1989
Orleman's early paintings address themes of domesticity, and assert her disapproval of traditionally-held notions of femininity, according to museum studies scholar Janet Marstine. Her paintings of this era often depict interiors, with contrasting themes of sanctity and chaos. Marstine comments that ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
77125679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltraud%20Schoppe | Waltraud Schoppe | Schoppe was appointed to serve as a deputy member on the Committee for Economic Affairs and the Committee for Labor and Social Order. She was a full member of the Committee for Youth, Family and Health. Her first term in office was marked by her advocacy for women's equality, elimination of the criminalization of abort... | 2.265625 | 0 |
77125769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gys%20Hofmeyr | Gys Hofmeyr | Onze Jan revered Dutch and did not want to reject it in favour of the simplified version of the language spoken by the people in the Cape. "I am a better man" he once said, "... I go further, I am a better Afrikander – because as well as Dutch I also know English".
Onze Jan summarised it thus: "firstly, equal rights fo... | 2.46875 | 0 |
77125769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gys%20Hofmeyr | Gys Hofmeyr | A consensus had been emerging that the time was right for the merger of the Cape Colony, the Colony of Natal, the Orange River Colony, the Transvaal Colony and perhaps Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), Basutholand (now Lesotho), Swaziland Protectorate (now eSwatini and Bechuanaland (now ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
77125769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gys%20Hofmeyr | Gys Hofmeyr | Later proclamations from 1921 extended the temporary mining monopoly held by the South-West Africa Company and other companies.
Various forms of taxation were introduced for Natives in both the urban and rural areas of the Police Zone. The white population of the territory paid no income tax or personal tax at this ti... | 2.875 | 0 |
77125769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gys%20Hofmeyr | Gys Hofmeyr | Land Policy: Native Reserves
The Germans had created a few Native Reserves in South West Africa – the Witboois Reserve (1898), the Hoachanas Reserve for the Namas (1903) and the small Otjimbingwe Reserve for the Herero (1903). At the end of the German regime these Reserves occupied an area of just over a million hectar... | 2.765625 | 0 |
77125769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gys%20Hofmeyr | Gys Hofmeyr | But the actual proclamation of Reserves by Hofmeyr was only half of that recommended by the Commission: he returned to the Natives only 2,500,000 hectares (so around 4.4% of the land available) (including the 1,000,000 hectares already occupied by the Bondelswarts, the Bersebas and the Damaras). This was approximately ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
77125769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gys%20Hofmeyr | Gys Hofmeyr | Hofmeyr did little to improve Black education. In his 1922 Administrator's Report, Hofmeyr stated that "since the arrival of the missionaries, from the earliest times, the teaching of the Native children has been entirely in the hands of the missionaries who were subsidised by the late government. Owing to the ravages ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
77125769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gys%20Hofmeyr | Gys Hofmeyr | Before the Germans arrived the Bondelswarts (now the ǃGamiǂnun, a clan of the Nama people) occupied an area of 40,000 square kilometres (4 million hectares) from the Orange River northwards to beyond the Great Karas Mountains and westwards to the Fish River.
In 1889 the Bondelswarts "sold" 60,000 square kilometres of ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
77125769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gys%20Hofmeyr | Gys Hofmeyr | Members of the Rehoboth community opposed to the treaty elected an alternative Peoples Council headed by Nicolaas van Wijk on April 23, 1924, and the Peoples Council declared the independence of Rehoboth on December 1, 1924 and proclaimed a republic.
This alternative People's council appealed to the Mandates Commissio... | 1.90625 | 0 |
77125803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20C.%20Elliott | Richard C. Elliott | Richard C. "Dick" Elliott (1945-2008) was an American multimedia artist, based in Ellensburg, Washington. Elliott's site-specific works used layered and patterned retroreflectors on an epic scale. Elliott and his wife Jane Orleman are the creators of Dick and Jane's Spot, an art installation at their residence in Ellen... | 2.109375 | 0 |
77125803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20C.%20Elliott | Richard C. Elliott | In the final years of his life, Elliott returned to two-dimensional works, revisiting the themes of his 1980s works. His compositions of the 2000s, on canvas and inkjet prints, reference the intricate, psychedelic geometric patterns of 127 Meditations. Elliott's final two-dimensional works are the Vibrational Field Pai... | 1.945313 | 0 |
77125967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Brno | Siege of Brno | The siege of Brno, which occurred from 3 May 3 to 23 August 1645, was the second Swedish siege of the city of Brno in the last years of the Thirty Years' War. The Brno garrison, consisting of 500 soldiers and about 1,000 Brno residents, successfully defended the city against about 28,000 soldiers of General Lennart Tor... | 2.65625 | 0 |
77126135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schorne%20College%20F.C. | Schorne College F.C. | Schorne College F.C., more formally (and originally) known as Schorne College (Past & Present), was an association football team made up of current and former pupils of Schorne College in North Marston, Buckinghamshire.
History
Although the club gave its foundation date as 1887, it was playing football by 1883 at the... | 2.234375 | 0 |
77126234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20Air%20Defense%20Bureau%20of%20the%20National%20Defense%20Mobilization%20Department%20of%20the%20Central%20Military%20Commission | Civil Air Defense Bureau of the National Defense Mobilization Department of the Central Military Commission | The CCAD has the responsibility of verifying the building standards of these facilities, and ensuring that a sufficient amount of dual-use shelters are in fact built (plus some primary shelters in some jurisdiction), a task usually assigned to the local CCAD's quality supervision stations. Dual use structures are highl... | 2.453125 | 0 |
77126411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Parker%20%28innkeeper%29 | James Parker (innkeeper) | James Parker (March 24, 1687 – February 4, 1732) was an American innkeeper and figure of the American Indian Wars. He was the first inn owner in what was then North Yarmouth, Province of Massachusetts (now Yarmouth, Maine). The town's Parker Point, off Gilman Road, is now named for him.
His home became a garrison, set... | 1.921875 | 0 |
77127865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbondio%20Collina | Abbondio Collina | Abbondio Collina (sometimes written Abondio), O.S.B. Cam. (169121 December 1757) was an Italian Camaldolese monk, priest, mathematician, and geographer.
Life
Abbondio Collina was born (al secolo) Giovanni in Bologna to Pietro Collina and Giacoma Santi. In Ravenna at the monastery of Classe he became a Camaldolese monk... | 2.015625 | 0 |
77128002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleohistology | Paleohistology | Paleohistology is the study of the microstructure of fossilized skeletal tissues, offering insights into the biology, growth patterns, and physiology of extinct organisms.
Despite the decay of organic components, the inorganic elements of bone preserve critical structures such as osteocyte lacunae, vascular canals, an... | 2.796875 | 0 |
77128194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pooley-Tupy%20theorem | Pooley-Tupy theorem | The Pooley-Tupy theorem is an economics theorem which measures the growth in knowledge resources over time at individual and population levels.
The theorem was formulated by Gale Pooley and Marian Tupy who developed the approach in 2018 in their paper: The Simon Abundance Index: A New Way to Measure Availability of Re... | 2.6875 | 0 |
77128200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanbongi-d%C5%8Dri | Sanbongi-dōri | Public transport
Kyoto City Bus services do not directly pass through the street, but some stops are close due to its proximity to Kawaramachi-dōri. Nearby stops include Kōjin-guchi (荒神口, lines 3, 4, 17, 37, 59, and 205) and Kawaramachi Marutamachi (河原町丸太町, lines 3, 4, 10, 17, 37, 59, 65, 93, 202, 204, and 205).
The ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
77128220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die%20Transvestiten%3A%20Eine%20Untersuchung%20%C3%BCber%20den%20Erotischen%20Verkleidungstrieb | Die Transvestiten: Eine Untersuchung über den Erotischen Verkleidungstrieb | Die Transvestiten: Eine Untersuchung über den Erotischen Verkleidungstrieb is a classic 1910 book on crossdressing and transvestism that was written by German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld. An illustrated companion second volume to the book was published by Hirschfeld and Max Tilke in 1912. In addition, a second edition... | 1.90625 | 0 |
77128297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaikh%20Imam-ud-Din | Shaikh Imam-ud-Din | By 1846, the politics in the Lahore Darbar were fast deteriorating due to the defeat of the Sikhs in the First Anglo-Sikh War. In the treaty of Lahore, signed between Sikhs and the British on 9 March 1846, Sikh Maharaja was forced to cede Kashmir Valley along with other territories to the British as war reparations, an... | 2.421875 | 0 |
77128629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20Stone%20Bridge%20and%20Caves | Natural Stone Bridge and Caves | Natural Stone Bridge and Caves is park with a system of eleven marble caves and karst formations, operated as a show cave located in Pottersville, New York. Visitors to the park can walk a trail which features the eponymous Stone Bridge Cave, advertised as the "largest marble cave entrance in the eastern United States"... | 2.515625 | 0 |
77128866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s%20National%20Parks%20%28TV%20series%29 | America's National Parks (TV series) | America's National Parks is an American television nature documentary series released on National Geographic and Disney+.
Development and release
Wildstar Films produced the series for National Geographic. Wildstar's Anwar Mamom and Dan Rees are executive producers on the series, as is National Geographic's Drew Jones... | 2.046875 | 0 |
77128934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Daulatabad%20%281633%29 | Siege of Daulatabad (1633) | Surrender
Confronted by the fall of Mahakot, the continuing failure to secure supplies for the fort garrison, general famine in the area, and the breakout of disease among troops, Fath Khan decided to surrender to the Mughal force. He sent his son Abdul Rasul on his behalf, to issue an apology to Mahabat Khan for his ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
77129418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owha | Owha | The Department of Conservation has said that relocating Owha is not an option, as the tranquilisers needed for it could kill her, due to a dive reflex seals have which stops them from breathing. Another problem is that due to the fact that leopard seals often travel long distances, it is possible that if Owha were to b... | 2.046875 | 0 |
77130219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning%20the%20light%20around | Turning the light around | Turning the light around (Ch. fǎn zhào 返照, J. henshō; K. panjo), also translated as “tracing back the radiance,” or “counter-illumination,” is a Zen Buddhist expression referring to turning attention from outward phenomena to awareness itself. In Mahayana Buddhism, the true nature of awareness is related to concepts su... | 2.546875 | 0 |
77130550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dream%20%28Dafydd%20ap%20Gwilym%20poem%29 | The Dream (Dafydd ap Gwilym poem) | "The Dream" (Welsh: Y Breuddwyd) is a medieval Welsh poem in the form of a cywydd. Though it is included in both of the modern editions of the works of Dafydd ap Gwilym, widely seen as the greatest of the Welsh poets, it is not typical of his work and doubts have been expressed as to his authorship. The poet's dream is... | 2.1875 | 0 |
77130899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthocleista%20nobilis | Anthocleista nobilis | Anthocleista nobilis, commonly known as cabbage tree, candelarum, and cabbage palm, is a species of plant in the Gentianaceae family. It is a tree that is found from West Tropical Africa to Angola.
Distribution
Anthocleista nobilis has been recorded from Angola, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'... | 2.3125 | 0 |
77130973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Evans%20%28scholar%29 | Jonathan Evans (scholar) | Shaun Hughes, reviewing Tolkien the Medievalist in Tolkien Studies, writes that Evans's essay "The anthropology of Arda", on humans in Tolkien's world of Middle-earth, is "long and densely argued". Hughes disagrees with Evans's restriction of this to Tolkien's "Men", as Tolkien, he writes, followed the Old Norse concep... | 2.359375 | 0 |
77131396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesopus%20urania | Aesopus urania | Aesopus urania is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.
Description
(Original description in Latin) The shell is thin, fusiform, and narrow, with a shiny brown exterior contrasting with a shining white apex. It has 6-7 whorls, the apical three being very light... | 2.390625 | 0 |
77131729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Constantinople | History of Constantinople | In addition, the most important state, religious and public buildings were located on the stone-paved Mesa Street and in the adjacent quarters (on both sides of the Mesa there were houses with two-storey shaded porticoes and colonnades), along which the imperial cortege and church processions passed. Most of the other ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
77131729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Constantinople | History of Constantinople | From the second half of the 9th century, the Byzantine Empire began an economic and cultural boom that led to an unprecedented flowering of science, literature, and art (especially architecture, painting, and miniature painting) in Constantinople. The activity of higher schools revived, and the faculties of law and phi... | 2.5 | 0 |
77131729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Constantinople | History of Constantinople | In the summer of 941, a huge fleet under the command of Prince Igor of Kiev set out for Constantinople, but was defeated by the Byzantine squadron at the entrance to the Bosphorus with the help of "Greek fire". The remnants of Igor's forces began to ravage the coastal settlements, but were again defeated by the Byzanti... | 2.453125 | 0 |
77131729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Constantinople | History of Constantinople | In 1045, the Armenian king Gagik II arrived in Constantinople at the invitation of Constantine IX, whom the Byzantines had forced to abdicate and cede his lands to the empire. In return, Gagik received vast lands in Asia Minor and a palace in Constantinople itself, while the tax oppression of Byzantine officials and th... | 3.078125 | 0 |
77131729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Constantinople | History of Constantinople | In 1274, the Second Council of Lyon was held, where Michael VIII concluded the so-called Union of Lyon with the Catholics. This union, however, met with strong opposition from the clergy and most of the Byzantine masses, who remembered well the Latin rule and the imposition of Catholicism by the invaders (especially fr... | 2.71875 | 0 |
77131782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Six%20Junior%20College%20Conference | Big Six Junior College Conference | The Big Six Junior College Conference was a junior college athletic conference with member schools located in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas that operated from 1950 to 1954. The conference was formed in December 1949 with six initial members: Cameron State Agricultural College—now known as Cameron University,... | 2.1875 | 0 |
77132133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20Reformed%20Church%20Cemetery | French Reformed Church Cemetery | The French Reformed Church Cemetery was a Reformed Christian cemetery in Szczecin, Poland used by the French community. It was located between current Storrady Street, Wawelska Street, Parkowa Street, and Kapitańska Street, in what now forms part of the Stefan Żeromski Park. The cemetery was founded in the first part o... | 2.046875 | 0 |
77132301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arantepacua | Arantepacua | The following day, Arantepacua set up a makeshift checkpoint to prevent police entry, and began overhauling its local government. In the aftermath of the raid, Arantepacua applied for autonomy, which the Constitution of Mexico allows for Indigenous communities. Arantepacua was formally granted autonomy in 2018.
Demogr... | 2.796875 | 0 |
77132412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostrus%20Stele | Vostrus Stele | Dating the ancient necropolis
The topography of the ancient city of Lisieux has been relatively well known since the work of François Cottin in 1956 and Claude Lemaître in the 1980s.
The cemeteries of the Gallo-Roman city extend north of the town, from Camp Franc to Les Buissonnets. Several necropolises have been iden... | 2.625 | 0 |
77132412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostrus%20Stele | Vostrus Stele | The stele was discovered between April and June 1861, at Madame Leroy-Beaulieu's home and at a depth of 0.50 m, face down in the Grand-Jardin necropolis, during the opening of a street but with no further details as to its precise location or whether it was in its original position or not. At the same depth, seven red ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
77132412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostrus%20Stele | Vostrus Stele | General description
The limestone stele is both an inscription and a funerary monument. The bust is carved in bas-relief. The representation of the deceased is damaged.
The stele was heavily damaged in 1944, if we compare its current state with the way it was depicted in the 19th century. The Vostrus stele is listed ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
77132696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmondichthys | Richmondichthys | Richmondichthys is an extinct genus of large prehistoric marine ray-finned fish known from the Early Cretaceous. It contains a single species, R. sweeti from the late Albian-aged Allaru and Toolebuc Formations of Queensland, Australia.
At over in length, it is the largest known member of the Aspidorhynchidae, a group... | 2.734375 | 0 |
77132778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaulerent%20barn | Vaulerent barn | The Vaulerent or Vaulerand barn is a former Monastic barn in Villeron, on the French plain in eastern Val-d'Oise.
From the 11th century onwards, it was a farm belonging to the Chaalis Abbey. Almost 800 years later, the barn still serves this agricultural function. Operated directly by the Royal Cistercian Abbey and it... | 1.921875 | 0 |
77133072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Mills%20Lusher | Robert Mills Lusher | One year later Alexander was one of the vice-presidents during the Grand Unification Mass Meeting in 1873 to desegregate schools in Louisiana during the Jim Crow era. The movement was met with strong opposition and hostility in the South. Lusher was re-elected to the office of superintendent in 1877 the same year as... | 2.546875 | 0 |
77133203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders%20of%20Wisdom | Orders of Wisdom | The initiative of several masons, including René Guilly, led to an attempt to revive the high degrees of the French Rite. According to Cahier des Chevaliers Maçons (Notebook of Knight Masons), the four orders of the original rite, which had not been practiced in France since 1862 in their original forms, reappeared for... | 1.976563 | 0 |
77133244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcary%20Lifeboat%20Station | Balcary Lifeboat Station | Balcary Lifeboat Station is located at Auchencairn Bay, on the Solway Firth, south east of the village of Auchencairn, in the county of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
A lifeboat was first stationed here by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in 1884.
The station was no longer required following the place... | 2.25 | 0 |
77133297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolingual%20fieldwork | Monolingual fieldwork | Monolingual fieldwork is the practice of conducting linguistic fieldwork solely through the target language under investigation, without the use of interpreters or a lingua franca. In this approach, the linguist attempts to acquire proficiency in the target language in order to communicate directly with native speakers... | 2.21875 | 0 |
77133787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf%20Georg%20von%20Maltzan | Adolf Georg von Maltzan | Adolf Georg Otto "Ago" von Maltzan, Baron zu Wartenberg und Penzlin (31 July 1877 – 23 September 1927) was a German diplomat during the Weimar Republic, serving as State Secretary of the Foreign Office and Ambassador in Washington.
Early life
Baron von Maltzan, who was usually called Ago based on the initials of his b... | 1.914063 | 0 |
75501311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Or%C4%99%C5%BCna | Orężna | Orężna is a neighbourhood of Piaseczno, Poland, located in the western part of the town, in the Warsaw metropolitan area.
History
The settlement was established in 1801 under the name Świniary, which came from the word świnia, which means "pig", as the inhabitants were engaged in pig farming. In 1820 it was renamed O... | 2.078125 | 0 |
75501976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous%20Contrasts | Simultaneous Contrasts | Simultaneous Contrasts (French: Contrastes simultanés) is the title of a series of paintings created by Sonia Delaunay, beginning in 1912. The series was inspired by Eugène Chevreul's theory of simultaneous contrast, according to which the perception of color is affected by the presence of adjacent colors.
Background
... | 2.71875 | 0 |
75501981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Para%C3%ADba | History of Paraíba | Encouraged by the victory, some of their relatives and Spanish soldiers landed, but as they approached the coast they were ambushed and more than forty men died, including Spanish nobles, soldiers, Portuguese and Frutuoso's son. The ships returned to the mouth of the river, where they awaited the arrival of Simões Rodr... | 2.921875 | 0 |
75501981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Para%C3%ADba | History of Paraíba | On March 6, Francisco Barreto came across a settlement of around three thousand natives on the banks of the Tibiri River, where Pirajibe lived. Attacking by surprise, he killed many of the natives before they could react and forced the rest to flee. The next morning, Martim Leitão, recognizing that the Tabajara were fr... | 2.546875 | 0 |
75501981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Para%C3%ADba | History of Paraíba | João Tavares (1586-1588)
João Tavares effectively became governor and captain-major of Paraíba at the end of 1586. In January 1587, Martim Leitão ordered the construction of the São Sebastião Fort on the banks of the Tibiri River, near the D'el Rei Mill, to protect the area. When the work on the fort was finished in F... | 2.484375 | 0 |
75501981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Para%C3%ADba | History of Paraíba | Frutuoso Barbosa (1586-1588)
In August 1588, Frutuoso Barbosa was recognized as governor and captain-major of the Captaincy of Paraíba and the town of Nossa Senhora das Neves was recognized as the Royal City of Filipeia de Nossa Senhora das Neves. By the same decree, Pedro de La Cueva became captain of the Spanish sol... | 2.609375 | 0 |
75501981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Para%C3%ADba | History of Paraíba | Feliciano Coelho de Carvalho (1592-1600)
Feliciano Coelho de Carvalho arrived in Paraíba at the end of 1591 and took office at the beginning of 1592. He summoned the Jesuits, the Franciscans and the respective chiefs of the tribes and ordered that the indigenous villages be relocated to improve the defenses of the ter... | 2.953125 | 0 |
75501981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Para%C3%ADba | History of Paraíba | In November 1889, after the collapse of the monarchy and the establishment of the republic in Brazil, Paraíba became a federal state. Its first governor was Venâncio Augusto de Magalhães Neiva, in power from 1889 to 1891, when he was deposed. A triumvirate was installed in his place and governed the state until 1892, w... | 2.75 | 0 |
75502073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berezwecz-Taklinovo%20Death%20Road | Berezwecz-Taklinovo Death Road | The Berezwecz-Taklinovo Death Road was the path of the deadly compelled evacuation of inmates from the prison in the village of in occupied Poland (now part of the city of Hlybokaye in Belarus). The liquidation of the prison, carried out by the NKVD after the German invasion of the USSR, began on the night of June 23–... | 2.125 | 0 |
75502423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobidashi%20B%C5%8Dya | Tobidashi Bōya | is a traffic safety awareness mascot that appears on some flat signs in Japan near school zones to encourage drivers to slow down and remind children to watch for cars. Sometimes warning flags are included.
The sign, produced by Yasuhei Hisada for the city council of Yokaichi, Shiga Prefecture, was first called . Sinc... | 2.390625 | 0 |
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