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75523655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20Sri%20Lanka%20blackouts | 2023 Sri Lanka blackouts | The 2023 Sri Lankan blackouts were a series of nationwide electrical blackouts which occurred in Sri Lanka on 9 December 2023. Blackouts began at around 5.00 pm SLST (UTC+5:30) and lasted for over three hours. The nationwide blackouts occurred due to a systematic failure in the main supply chain and due to a breakdown ... | 2.25 | 0 |
75523756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova%20Innovation | Nova Innovation | Shetland Tidal Array
After deploying the Nova 30, the company developed plans for an array of five turbines in the Bluemull Sound, to the northeast of Cullivoe Harbour. The company was awarded £1.9m in grants and loans from Scottish Enterprise, and they raised a further £1.85m from Belgium based green energy company ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
75523833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre%20of%20Arabs%20during%20the%20Zanzibar%20Revolution | Massacre of Arabs during the Zanzibar Revolution | The leaders of the Zanzibar Revolution encouraged Black African militiamen to attack non-Blacks, leading to a massacre. Thousands of unarmed Arab civilians were murdered. Motivated by racial hatred and promises of wealth and women, enraged African militiamen went from house to house, murdering, torturing, and raping ev... | 1.976563 | 0 |
75524438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E2%20Linux | E2 Linux | Hardware
Devices designed for Enigma2 (i.e. satellite receivers, set-top boxes and IPTV receivers, often collectively referred to as "box") are equipped with one or more DVB-S, DVB-C and DVB-T tuners (unless it is a pure IPTV receiver), a remote control receiver and an Ethernet and/or Wi-Fi network adapter. One or more... | 1.921875 | 0 |
75525404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%202023%20Tennessee%20tornado%20outbreak | December 2023 Tennessee tornado outbreak | A significant, late-season severe weather and tornado outbreak affected portions of the Southern United States, primarily across the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi. Tennessee was most affected by the outbreak, with multiple damaging tornadoes touching down, including a high-end EF1 tornado that damaged ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
75525404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%202023%20Tennessee%20tornado%20outbreak | December 2023 Tennessee tornado outbreak | Strong storms affected the Northeastern United States on December 10–11. The heaviest rain in the New York metropolitan area was on Long Island, where over of rain fell in certain areas, including up to in Fort Salonga. High winds were also reported, with gusts reaching in Kew Gardens and in Orient. Light backend s... | 2.078125 | 0 |
75525406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltodextrin%20phosphorylase | Maltodextrin phosphorylase | Maltodextrin phosphorylase is a phosphorylase enzyme (EC 2.4.1.1), more specifically one type of glycosyltransferase (EC 2.4). Maltodextrin phosphorylase plays a critical role in maltodextrin metabolism in E. coli. This bacterial enzyme, often referred to as MalP, catalyzes the phosphorolysis of an α-1,4-glycosidic bon... | 2.1875 | 0 |
75525406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltodextrin%20phosphorylase | Maltodextrin phosphorylase | Structure
The maltodextrin phosphorylase protomer is a large protein, composed of 796 amino acids with a mass of roughly 90 kDa in E. coli. While the enzyme can exist as an inactive monomer or tetramer, it is biologically active as a dimer of two identical subunits. Each MalP protomer contains one pyridoxal 5ʹ-phospha... | 2.046875 | 0 |
75525451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Fork%20tributaries%20at%20Hazard%2C%20Kentucky | North Fork tributaries at Hazard, Kentucky | The Bearville postoffice on Troublesome Creek, where there are also several Combs family mines and a Combs Branch, was named after "Bear" Combs; the Fisty post office there was named after "Fisty Sam" Combs; and the Tunnel and later Dwarf post office was named twice after Combses, first after Sam and Felix Combs's min... | 2.140625 | 0 |
75525511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnocalycium%20berchtii | Gymnocalycium berchtii | Gymnocalycium berchtii is a species of Gymnocalycium from Argentina.
Description
Gymnocalycium berchtii grows individually with cloudy blackish gray or blackish brown, flattened shoots with a slightly sunken apex and reaches heights of up to 2 centimeters with diameters of 4 to 6 centimeters. A conical shoot and a tap... | 2.375 | 0 |
75525748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive%20Irvine | Clive Irvine | Archibald Clive Irvine (January 1893 – 1974) was a Scottish medical missionary to Kenya. He was an early proponent to stopping female circumcision. He worked primarily in Chogoria, Kenya, where he introduced coffee cultivation. He was the founder of the PCEA Chogoria Hospital and is the namesake of the Clive Irvine Col... | 2.390625 | 0 |
75525911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancalagon%20the%20Black | Ancalagon the Black | At the end of the First Age, in the year 587, a few years after the fall of Gondolin and the destruction of the kingdom of Doriath, Eärendil and Elwing set sail for Valinor to convince the Valar to save Middle-earth from the yoke of Morgoth. Thanks to their intervention, the armies of the Valar led by Eönwë, the herald... | 2.125 | 0 |
75525928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavra%20Icon%20Painting%20Workshop | Lavra Icon Painting Workshop | The workshop had its system of artistic education. Students of the school represented different social strata of society—clergy, townspeople, peasants. At the first stage of training, they mastered the ability to depict plants, natural landscapes, animals, and people. At the second stage, they created easel icon painti... | 2.453125 | 0 |
75525928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavra%20Icon%20Painting%20Workshop | Lavra Icon Painting Workshop | The high skill of the icon painters in the workshop is evidenced by the remarkable monuments of Ukrainian monumental painting. For many centuries, the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra endured numerous attacks by enemies, fires, and destruction, yet the churches and temples were consistently rebuilt and repainted. For example, after... | 2.203125 | 0 |
75526064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20courtship%20in%20the%20United%20States | History of courtship in the United States | In the early days of the colonies, parents played a decisive role in choosing their offspring's partner, as it was considered a critical decision with both financial and social consequences for the individuals and the community. Wealth, social position, and love were considered to be the primary objectives of marriage,... | 3.21875 | 0 |
75526064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20courtship%20in%20the%20United%20States | History of courtship in the United States | The sexual revolution of the 1960s that introduced casual sex and questioned gender roles contributed to the abolishment of traditional courtship. The norms of dating relaxed to incorporate intercourse prior to engagement. More couples chose cohabitation before (or instead of) marriage. For many members of Generation X... | 2.484375 | 0 |
75526064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20courtship%20in%20the%20United%20States | History of courtship in the United States | By the 1980s, there were few remaining rules for courtship. Clear expectations for how a couple would meet, socialize, and commit to each other were gone, leaving only uncertainty and occasional nostalgia for "traditional" courtship customs. The median age at marriage in 1980 had risen to 24.7 for men and 22 for women;... | 2.40625 | 0 |
75526406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi%20Rifles%20%28Mexican%E2%80%93American%20War%29 | Mississippi Rifles (Mexican–American War) | There were three distinct groups known as Mississippi Rifles that responded to governor Albert Gallatin Brown's call for volunteers to supplement the forces of the regular army during the Mexican–American War.
The 1st Mississippi Rifles, led by future U.S. Senator and CSA president Jefferson Davis, had a glorious vict... | 2.171875 | 0 |
75526509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20J.%20Safrit | Margaret J. Safrit | Margaret JoAnne Safrit (June 16, 1935 – January 17, 2023), also known as Jo Safrit, was an American kinesiologist and college professor. She gave over a million dollars to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, her alma mater, to support women's sports and the kinesiology program.
Early life and education
Saf... | 2.125 | 0 |
75526509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20J.%20Safrit | Margaret J. Safrit | Publications
Safrit's research involved quantitative studies of exercise and fitness, and devising standards for evaluating fitness. Her work appeared in academic journals including American Journal of Occupational Therapy, Quest Journal of Motor Behavior, Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, and Research... | 2.046875 | 0 |
75527230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna%20V.%20Clark | Joanna V. Clark | Joanna V. Clark is a geoscientist working for the NASA Johnson Space Center, where she is a collaborator on the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) and Mars Science Lab (MSL) science teams. Her research includes conducting laboratory experiments to understand better ground and mineral samples acquired by the curiosity rover ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
75527230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna%20V.%20Clark | Joanna V. Clark | Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM)
Clark is a payload uplink lead for the Curiosity rover, in which she delivers commands to collect samples for the SAM instrument to analyze. From there, results are sent back to Earth for her team to further assess past habitability and gather data to use for future exploration projects s... | 2.890625 | 0 |
75527363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular%20mechanics | Angular mechanics | In physics, angular mechanics is a field of mechanics which studies rotational movement. It studies things such as angular momentum, angular velocity, and torque. It also studies more advanced things such as Coriolis force and Angular aerodynamics. It is used in many fields such as toy making, aerospace engineering, an... | 3.203125 | 0 |
74115807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern%20Cottage%20%28California%29 | Fern Cottage (California) | After the death of Joseph Russ, his wife Zipporah continued the family business as Z. Russ & Sons. Beef cattle continued to be integral to the business with 240 head of cattle shipped on the ship Pomona as reported by the Ferndale Enterprise on October 19, 1897.
It was last lived in by a family member in 1972 before b... | 2.078125 | 0 |
74116101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East-west%20cultural%20debate | East-west cultural debate | The East-West cultural debate provides different interpretations and definitions of the meaning, old and new, advantages, and disadvantages of Chinese culture. Wang Yuanhua believes that the debate between Chen Duxiu and Du Yaquan on Eastern and Western cultures opened up a "pioneer in cultural research" in China. Duri... | 2.296875 | 0 |
74116101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East-west%20cultural%20debate | East-west cultural debate | On October 1, 1919, Zhang Dongsun refuted the theory of reconciliation proposed by Zhang Shizhao in his speech at the Chinese Student Union of Huanqiu in September of that year, using "Mutation and Latent Change" in the "Current Affairs News". He believed that biological changes were divided into mutation and latent ch... | 2.03125 | 0 |
74116101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East-west%20cultural%20debate | East-west cultural debate | In 1923, Deng Zhongxia, a member of the Chinese Communist Party, criticized the opponents of the New Culture Movement and named it the "Oriental Culture Faction". Deng Zhongxia regarded Liang Qichao, Carsun Chang, and Zhang Dongsun as a group of Eastern Culture Factions, believing that this faction was "fundamentally C... | 2.09375 | 0 |
74116101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East-west%20cultural%20debate | East-west cultural debate | East-West Culture and its philosophy
Between 1920 and 1921, Liang Shuming, who studied Chinese and Indian philosophy, gave a speech titled "East-West Culture and Its Philosophy" at Peking University and other places, and published the speech manuscript in 1921. Liang Shuming believed that culture is the "way of life" ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
74116101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East-west%20cultural%20debate | East-west cultural debate | The East-West cultural debate before and after the May Fourth Movement did not reach a conclusion, leading to the resurgence of controversies over the "Chinese cultural standard theory" and the "overall Westernization theory" in the 1930s. In the 1930s, the Chiang Kai Shek government resumed respecting Confucius and re... | 2.4375 | 0 |
74116101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East-west%20cultural%20debate | East-west cultural debate | Mainland China
After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, Japanese aggression triggered a national crisis in China, and the recognition and preservation of Chinese cultural traditions became a trend. By the Proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Marxism had become the guiding Ideology and Ideologic... | 2.421875 | 0 |
74116101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East-west%20cultural%20debate | East-west cultural debate | Taiwan
After the war in Taiwan and Hong Kong, there were conflicts among positivism-liberalism led by Hu Shih and Yin Haiguang, New Confucianism, scholars of the Three Principles of the People, and the Government of the Republic of China regarding whether Chinese cultural tradition, science, and democracy could coexis... | 2.171875 | 0 |
74116240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer%20Singh | Sumer Singh | Sumer Singh (1847-1903) was a Sikh historian, a writer and poet of Braj literature, interpreter of Sikh Scripture, and teacher. Sumer Singh was called Sahibzada, prince, and Bābā, because of his direct lineage to the Bhalla clan, associated with Guru Amar Das.
Titles
For some time he also was the Mahant (now termed J... | 2.265625 | 0 |
74116745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary%20of%20San%20Martino | Sanctuary of San Martino | The sanctuary of San Martino Vescovo (Italian: Santuario di San Martino Vescovo) in Balsamo (of which he is the patron saint and protector) is a religious building in the city of Cinisello Balsamo, located at the confluence of Via San Saturnino (south) and Via San Martino (north), facing the Avenue of Remembrances. His... | 1.914063 | 0 |
74116745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary%20of%20San%20Martino | Sanctuary of San Martino | In 1856 the present bell tower, more than sixty metres high, was completed and inaugurated, commissioned by Don Giovanni Prato, then parish priest of Balsamo. Until 1877 in the immediate vicinity of the church stretched linearly southward the historic cemetery of Balsamo, identified by a stationary cross dating from th... | 2.234375 | 0 |
74116745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary%20of%20San%20Martino | Sanctuary of San Martino | The interior features a cycle of frescoes made starting in 1892 by Lombard painter Carlo Farina, commissioned by the then parish priest of Balsamo Don Giuseppe Molgora. They cover the ceiling of the nave, with putti in flight alternating with bishop's emblems, and the four pendentives of the dome, with the four evangel... | 2.140625 | 0 |
74116859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianthus%20granulatus | Marianthus granulatus | Marianthus granulatus is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the southwest of Western Australia. It is a twining shrub or climber with often clustered, egg-shaped to heart-shaped leaves and pale blue flowers with darker blue spots and yellow streaks, arranged... | 2.59375 | 0 |
74116880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo%20water%20rights | Navajo water rights | The tribe brought a lawsuit against the federal government in 2003, seeking to force the federal government to assess the Nation's water needs and "devise a plan to meet those needs." The states of Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado intervened in the suit to protect their access to water from the Colorado River.
In 2021, t... | 2.25 | 0 |
74116919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester%20da%20Cunha | Sylvester da Cunha | Da Cunha was best known for his creation of the Utterly Butterly campaign for the Indian dairy cooperative Amul, which saw the introduction of the Amul girl. The campaign was created in 1966, by which time da Cunha was ASP's managing director, where he was given the task to create a mascot and help position Amul as a b... | 2.109375 | 0 |
74116963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braithwaite%2C%20Oklahoma | Braithwaite, Oklahoma | Braithwaite is a ghost town in Washita County, Oklahoma, United States. Nothing currently remains there, besides a rail depot.
Geography
Braithwaite was west of Bessie, Oklahoma, and from the county seat of New Cordell, Oklahoma.
History
Braithwaite was established in 1907, four miles west of Bessie. It was named... | 2.015625 | 0 |
74117145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila%20Schwartz | Laila Schwartz | Performance art
Schwartz's independent artistic endeavours began during her time working as a cleaning lady in Brussels, Belgium. Schwartz offered herself as a singing act to the hotel owner who was her boss. She performed a party for aristocrats, where she "was not allowed to finish the first number".
During her tim... | 2.03125 | 0 |
74117167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazale%20Rana | Fazale Rana | Fazale “Fuz” Rana (born February 6, 1963) is an American biochemist, Christian Apologist, author, and science lecturer. Since July 2022, he has advanced from the position of Vice President to become the President and CEO of Reasons to Believe, a nonprofit organization that promotes day-age forms of old Earth creationis... | 2.1875 | 0 |
74117167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazale%20Rana | Fazale Rana | Adam and Eve
Rana believes that a literal, historical Adam and Eve is central to the truth claims of the Christian faith for many reasons. One is that the Genesis account makes man unique, created in the image of God — not a descendant of lower primates. Second, it tells a story of how evil came into the world, and it... | 2.1875 | 0 |
74117708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noemi%20Smilansky | Noemi Smilansky | Noemi Smilansky (; née Noemi Wellman; 1916 – 2016) was an Austro-Hungarian Empire-born Israeli painter, engraver, and illustrator. Her name is also spelled Naomi Smilanski, Noʻomi Smilanski, and Naomi Smilansky.
Biography
Noemi Smilansky was born as Noemi Wellman on December 22, 1916, in Grand Duchy of Kraków (now K... | 2.21875 | 0 |
74117927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jozef%20Miaczinsky | Jozef Miaczinsky | Joseph Miaczinski or Józef Miączyński (1743/1751-1793) was a Polish-Lithuanian general (chef de brigade) who joined the French Army of the North on 25 July 1792, the day Brunswick Manifesto was published. He supported General Dumouriez, defending France against the Prussian and Austrian armies, occupying the Austrian N... | 2.203125 | 0 |
74118165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Hirsch | Leonard Hirsch | Leonard Hirsch FRMCM, FRCM, (19 December 1902 – 4 January 1995) was a British violinist, conductor and professor.
Biography
Hirsch was born in Dublin. His father, Maurice Hirschowitz, a draper, was from Friedrichstadt, Courland in the Pale of Settlement, Russia. The family changed their name to Hirsch in 1902 when Leo... | 2.640625 | 0 |
74118701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%20mining%20in%20Scotland | Lead mining in Scotland | Lead ore has been mined and refined in Scotland for centuries, primarily in the form of galena. It was a versatile material used for roofing material high-status buildings, fabricating the pipework of Linlithgow Palace fountain, glazing windows, and producing alloys such as pewter and latten. Lead was a valuable commod... | 2.8125 | 0 |
74118701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%20mining%20in%20Scotland | Lead mining in Scotland | James IV
James IV of Scotland encouraged lead mining. He employed a specialist, a "fineur" or refiner, Andrew Ireland, to process lead ore. He employed miners at Wanlockhead, directed by a priest "schir" James Pettigrew. William Striveling managed a mine on Islay. The lead from Islay was shipped to Dumbarton, and possi... | 2.484375 | 0 |
74118701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%20mining%20in%20Scotland | Lead mining in Scotland | Luke Wilson
The Earl of Atholl arranged for Luke Wilson, with James Johnston of Kellobank and Robert Ker, to manage his mining contract with the queen. The treasurer's accounts include the receipt of duty on exported ore. The Wilson family gained a property in the area at "Bakke", near Roberton, when Luke's son married... | 2.6875 | 0 |
74118701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%20mining%20in%20Scotland | Lead mining in Scotland | Hope also tried to obtain and work the silver mine at Hilderston near Bathgate. He was haunted by an image in a dream of the potential riches as a tree of pure silver. He exported lead with a partner, Francis Vanhoght of Middelburg. He travelled to meet his commercial contacts and see new technology; visiting and worki... | 2.3125 | 0 |
74118708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erivan%20Teachers%27%20Seminary | Erivan Teachers' Seminary | Erivan Teachers' Seminary () was an educational institution operating in the city of Yerevan at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.
History
The Erivan Teachers' Seminary was established in accordance with the decision of the State Council of the Russian Empire dated October 20, 1880. Th... | 2.09375 | 0 |
74119262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bafuliiru%20Chiefdom | Bafuliiru Chiefdom | Hydrology
The Bafuliiru Chiefdom exhibits diverse hydrographic features, including plains, plateaus, and lakes. The easternmost part of the community is primarily characterized by expansive plains that encompass regions such as Luvungi, Lubarika, Katogota, Kiliba, Runingu, and Kawizi. These areas form an integral part... | 2.734375 | 0 |
74119262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bafuliiru%20Chiefdom | Bafuliiru Chiefdom | The chiefdom has two primary climatic zones: a hot semi-arid climate in the Ruzizi Plain and a cooler, more temperate climate in the highlands. The Ruzizi Plain is characterized by a semi-arid climate, with minimal rainfall during the dry season from June to September, where monthly precipitation is less than 50 mm. Av... | 2.890625 | 0 |
74119642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Elder%20F.C. | John Elder F.C. | John Elder Football Club was a Scottish association football club based in Govan, now part of Glasgow. It was the football side for workers with the John Elder & Co. shipbuilding company.
History
The club was founded in 1876, and had enough players for two XIs in its first season.
The club joined the Scottish Footb... | 1.984375 | 0 |
74119693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee%20Volunteers%20football%20rivalries | Tennessee Volunteers football rivalries | Georgia Tech and Tennessee have played 44 times since 1902, with Tennessee leading the series 25–17–2. The two schools are among college football's most historic programs all time and they hold a combined 10 national championships (Georgia Tech has 4, Tennessee with 6). When Georgia Tech was part of the SEC, both teams... | 1.914063 | 0 |
74119745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acehnese%E2%80%93Portuguese%20conflicts | Acehnese–Portuguese conflicts | Early conflicts, 1519
The conflicts between Aceh and Portugal started in 1519, when a Portuguese ship under Gaspar de Costa was lost near Aceh and attacked by the Acehnese, killing its crew. Gaspar was captured and later ransomed, and it was not long after this that another ship under Joano de Lima was attacked near Ac... | 2.46875 | 0 |
74119745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acehnese%E2%80%93Portuguese%20conflicts | Acehnese–Portuguese conflicts | After Malacca was sieged in 1573 and 1574, the garrison was left decimated, crops destroyed, and foodstuffs and gunpowder in the city nearly exhausted.
In the final day of January 1575, a new Acehnese armada of 113 vessels, once more laid siege to Malacca. The Acehnese defeated the Portuguese vessels led by Joao Perei... | 2.90625 | 0 |
74121143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20White%20Giant | Operation White Giant | Afterward, the government troops began to advance from Nioka-Ngote toward Aru, Aba, and Faradje. These border settlements served as major rebel hubs for supply and reinforcements. In this push, the government forces organized into three columns: 5 Commando in the center, 14 Commando (mostly Katangese) under Christian T... | 2.125 | 0 |
74121187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Black%20Vulture | The Black Vulture | “The Black Vulture” is a nature-poem pure and simple. There are few poems into which some kind of symbolism cannot be read, with a little imagination—and a good many where symbolism was intended. But I am not guilty in this case.
The folk of the Santa Lucia mountains call our California condor “the black vulture,” an... | 2.234375 | 0 |
74121187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Black%20Vulture | The Black Vulture | Later critics offered more varied opinions. In 1933, University of Oregon Professor Ernest G. Moll said that among recent sonnets “stand two great sonnets, “The Black Vulture” and “Aldebaran at Dusk” by George Sterling”, citing “The Black Vulture,” “because in it the poet has achieved a complete mastery of form, becaus... | 1.984375 | 0 |
74121900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau%20du%20Parc-Soubise | Château du Parc-Soubise | The Château du Parc-Soubise near Mouchamps in Pays de la Loire, France. It was built in the 16th or 17th century but among the outbuildings, there is a barn from the 14th century. A multiple-level building was used as a salting-house and a granary. The château, located between a lake and a forest, is southeast of Vend... | 2.125 | 0 |
74122214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexell%27s%20theorem | Lexell's theorem | In planar hyperbolic geometry, there is a similar antipodal transformation, but any two antipodal points lie in opposite branches of a double hyperbolic plane. For a hyperboloid of two sheets embedded in Minkowski space of signature known as the hyperboloid model, the antipodal transformation is a point reflection thr... | 2.28125 | 0 |
74122240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreck%20of%20the%20Mexico%20%281837%29 | Wreck of the Mexico (1837) | The wreck of the Mexico killed 115 people off the coast of Long Island, New York, United States, on January 2, 1837. The casualties were mostly immigrants who froze to death not far from shore. Daniel Melancthon Tredwell recalled "seeing the drowned and the frozen being brought from the beach in sleds and being placed ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
74122534 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Nchabeleng | Peter Nchabeleng | Apel: 1970s–1980s
Upon his release from Robben Island in 1972, Nchabeleng and his family were banished to Apel, his homeland, where he had not lived for some 25 years. The Nchabeleng home in Abel became a key hub for ANC-affiliated political activists as Nchabeleng, his sons, and some friends "kept alive something of ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
74122639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotilde%20Cerd%C3%A0 | Clotilde Cerdà | Clotilde Cerdà Bosch (28 February 186112 April 1926) was a Spanish harpist. She made her solo debut at the Vienna World's Fair when she was eleven, directed by Johann Strauss II. Her performance was praised by Isabel II and Victor Hugo who together coined her stage name, Esmeralda Cervantes. She played in Europe and to... | 2.6875 | 0 |
74123090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurana%20White | Lurana White | Religious life and the "palace of lady poverty"
In May 1893, at age 23, she attended a prayer service at the Church of the Redeemer Episcopal/Anglican in Queens, New York. There she heard the Reverend Henry Adams invite young people to commit themselves to God. In 1894, when she was 24, she told her family she wanted ... | 2.25 | 0 |
74123096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.S.-Funk | N.S.-Funk | N.S.-Funk ("National Socialist Radio") was a German magazine published from Munich and Berlin between 1933 and 1939. It provided listings of radio programming schedules and reviewed programmes in accordance with the party line.
History
In 1932, the Nazi party leadership decided to start a radio magazine of its own to ... | 1.914063 | 0 |
74123434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia%20boat | Columbia boat | Use
Columbia boats were used to carry passengers, baggage, and correspondence on the York Factory Express that left Fort Vancouver, HBC's Columbia District headquarters, in late March, bound for the company's North American headquarters on Hudson Bay. They went as far as Boat Encampment, 981 miles (1,477 km) from Fort ... | 2.625 | 0 |
74123920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror%20noir | Horror noir | 1950s and 1960s expansion
The blending of horror and noir elements continued through the 1950s and 1960s, as Cold War anxieties and social tensions found expression in horror genres. Horror noir films like Night of the Hunter (1955) and Carnival of Souls (1962) further cemented the genre, incorporating noir’s visual a... | 2.578125 | 0 |
74123920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror%20noir | Horror noir | Key figures in the genre
Directors and cinematographers known for their work in the horror noir genre often combine noir’s shadow-driven visual style with horror’s intense atmosphere. Figures such as Roman Polanski, John Carpenter, and William Lustig are frequently noted for their use of suspenseful imagery, psycholog... | 2.359375 | 0 |
74124017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea%20Melandri | Lea Melandri | Lea Melandri (born 1941) is an Italian feminist scholar, journalist and writer. She is one of the leading feminists in Italy and is part of the second-wave feminist movement. She has established various magazines and published books on feminist theory.
Biography
Melandri was born in Fusignano in 1941. She graduated fr... | 2.125 | 0 |
74124045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%20Sketches%20for%20a%20Sonata | Two Sketches for a Sonata | The "Two Sketches for a Sonata" (also known as the "Two Études for a Piano Sonata") are parts of an unfinished piano work by Igor Stravinsky. He dated the manuscript 1966 and it is composed in his late twelve-tone style. It is his last attempt at original composition.
Background
According to Robert Craft, Stravinsky ... | 1.945313 | 0 |
74124050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pengiran%20Bahrin | Pengiran Bahrin | Following Brunei's full independence on 1 January 1984, Pengiran Bahrin was appointed minister of law and concurrently minister of communication. In 1985, he served as the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah's special envoy, presenting a B$210,000 donation to the United Nations International School to commemorate both the United N... | 2.3125 | 0 |
74124460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona%20v.%20Navajo%20Nation | Arizona v. Navajo Nation | Later Supreme Court cases such as Winters v. United States would go on to assert that treaties establishing reservations must be construed with enough water to establish a homeland. Water claims would further be noted upon in United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation which stated that Tribal Nations suing the Federal Go... | 2.625 | 0 |
74124736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Piggott | Patrick Piggott | Patrick Piggott (15 June 1915 – 9 May 1990) was an English composer, pianist and musicologist.
Piggott was born in Dover. He studied with Harold Craxton (piano) and Benjamin Dale (composition) at the Royal Academy of Music, and took further study with Emile Bosquet and Julius Isserlis (piano) and with Nadia Boulanger ... | 2.125 | 0 |
74125279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Oneida%20Rural%20Historic%20District | Port Oneida Rural Historic District | The Port Oneida Rural Historic District is a historic district located along M-22 between Glen Arbor and Lake Leelanau in Leelanau County, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
History
The first European residents of Port Oneida, Carsten and Elizabeth Burfiend, arrived in the ar... | 2.203125 | 0 |
74126033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petaserpes%20rosalbus | Petaserpes rosalbus | Petaserpes rosalbus is a species of millipede within the family Polyzoniidae. It is one of six recognised species within the genus Petaserpes. The species is native to North America, where it can be found living within the state of Virginia. P. rosalbus has been recorded to inhabit mountainous habitat at elevations up ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
74126153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab-Barb | Arab-Barb | The Arab-Barb or Arabian-Berber (Arabic: حصان عربي بربري) is a breed of saddle horses originating from the Maghreb. It is the result of crossing the Arab and Barb breeds and shares a common genetic origin with the latter. The first Arab-Barb studbook was created in 1948.
The Arab-Barb is of medium size and has a squar... | 2.46875 | 0 |
74126363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot%20and%20Anton | Dot and Anton | Dot and Anton (German:Pünktchen und Anton) is a children's book by Erich Kästner that was published in 1931.
Plot
The novel is about the girl Luise Pogge, called Dot, who lives in Berlin with her wealthy parents, and about the boy Anton Gast, whose standard of living is far below that of Dot.
Anton lives alone with h... | 2.4375 | 0 |
74126379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuad%20Kayode%20Laguda | Fuad Kayode Laguda | Fuad Kayode Laguda, popularly known as FKL, was born on July 23, 1977, to the family of Late Ramota Olanrewaju and Muyideen Akinola Laguda of the Laguda Family of Lagos Island in Lagos State.
Educational background
He had his primary education at K. Kotun Memorial Nursery and Primary School, Surulere, Lagos before pr... | 1.921875 | 0 |
74126511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruprechtia%20salicifolia | Ruprechtia salicifolia | Ruprechtia salicifolia (native name viraró) is a timber tree native to South America. Its wood withstands decay and is good for making springboards and other articles.
Description
A thicket-forming shrub or dioecious tree native to South America, it is a perennial phanerogamous or seed producing plant in the Polygona... | 2.40625 | 0 |
74126940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario%27s%20Long-Term%20Care%20COVID-19%20Commission | Ontario's Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission | Findings
On April 30, 2021, the commission released its 322-page-long final report. A key finding was that, "Ontario had no plan to address pandemic or protect residents in long-term care." The report also found that Ontario was not prepared for a pandemic and chronic under funding and staffing shortages lead to death... | 1.96875 | 0 |
74126973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20and%20immortality%20in%20Middle-earth | Death and immortality in Middle-earth | Tolkien's Elves remain unwearied with age. They can recover from wounds which would be fatal to a Man, but can be killed in battle. Spirits of dead Elves go to the Halls of Mandos in Valinor, a sort of Earthly Paradise, for an afterlife. After a period of rest that serves as "cleansing", their spirits are clothed in bo... | 2.25 | 0 |
74126973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20and%20immortality%20in%20Middle-earth | Death and immortality in Middle-earth | Against the deserved obliteration of the adversaries, The Lord of the Rings sets the heroic deaths of two leading figures of the free peoples, King Théoden of Rohan and Boromir of Gondor. Like King Theodoric I of the Visigoths, Théoden dies leading his men into battle. He rallies his men shortly before he falls and is ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
74126973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20and%20immortality%20in%20Middle-earth | Death and immortality in Middle-earth | Anna Milon writes that Tolkien introduces two concepts in one of his letters, "serial longevity" and "hoarding memory" as "escapes" from both death and immortality. In her view, this means that immortality, normally defined as "exemption from death", is not death's opposite, as both can be "escape[d]". She comments tha... | 2.390625 | 0 |
74127568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archora | Archora | Archora (stylized as ARCHORA) is a 2022 orchestral composition written by the Icelandic composer Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir. It is in one movement with a duration of about 19 minutes. The work was jointly commissioned by BBC Radio 3, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the Iceland... | 1.953125 | 0 |
74127817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imad%20ad-Din%20Zengi%20II | Imad ad-Din Zengi II | In November 1182, Saladin, seeking to unify Muslim Syria under his rule, laid siege to Mosul, but the Muslim princes, concerned about Saladin's ambitions, formed a coalition that forced him to lift the siege. He then turned in May 1183 against Aleppo and besieged the city. The city is said to be impregnable, its inhabi... | 2.34375 | 0 |
74127843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astyanax%20brevimanus | Astyanax brevimanus | For many years, T. brevimanus was thought to be a name mistakenly applied to specimens of either Astyanax mexicanus (sometimes called Tetragonopterus mexicanus in the relevant publications) or Psalidodon fasciatus (which was mostly known as Astyanax fasciatus or Tetragonopterus fasciatus at the time). British ichthyolo... | 2.59375 | 0 |
74127847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otreus | Otreus | In the Greek mythological tradition, Otreus () was the legendary founder of Otrea in southern Bithynia (Hellespont Phrygia). His name has also been linked to Otrous, a Phyrgian town on the Eucarpitic plain. He is possibly depicted on coins found in the area of Ilium.
The father of Otreus is supposed by the scholiast o... | 2.640625 | 0 |
74127994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Steven%20Morton | Mark Steven Morton | Cooking with Shakespeare
Cooking with Shakespeare (Greenwood Press, 2008) explores food culture in Shakespeare's England: what was eaten, how it was cooked and served, how different classes ate different foods, customs at the dining table, and so on. It include sixteenth-century recipes in facsimile and in modern rend... | 2.640625 | 0 |
74128212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sial%20dynasty | Sial dynasty | Sial dynasty was a Punjabi Muslim chieftaincy that ruled over the Sial state (–1816) in central Punjab during the 18th and 19th centuries. It was centred around the city of Jhang.
History
Jhang has been historically the stronghold of the Punjabi Sial tribe for centuries. The 13th Sial chief, Walidad Khan established... | 2.453125 | 0 |
74128233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte%20Porrara | Monte Porrara | Mount Porrara (2137 m a.s.l.) is a mountain in the Abruzzi Apennines, located between the lower province of L'Aquila and the province of Chieti, a natural geomorphological continuation south of the Maiella, included in the Maiella National Park.
Description
Geography
Its ridge develops for 9 km, in a north-south co... | 2.359375 | 0 |
74128233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte%20Porrara | Monte Porrara | The flora and fauna present are purely mountainous and reflect the representative species of the reserve and more broadly of the park and the Maiella massif itself. In the forests, transitory high forest trees or the result of young reforestation, coppice and barren areas alternate with specimens of medium age, such as... | 2.296875 | 0 |
74128393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20territories%20of%20Brazil | Federal territories of Brazil | The Federal territories of Brazil (Portuguese: Territórios federais do Brasil) are sub-national administrative divisions overseen by the federal government of Brazil. Unlike the federative units of Brazil, federal territories are directly administered by the federal government. The 1988 Constitution of Brazil was the f... | 3.015625 | 0 |
74129089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Noble%20%28poet%29 | Thomas Noble (poet) | Thomas Noble (1772–1837) was an English poet.
Works
The Dawn of Peace, an Ode, with other pieces ([London]: Ginger, 1801);
Zelomer, a romance, translated from the French (12mo., 1801)
Blackheath; a Poem in Five Cantos. Lumena; or the Ancient British Battle: and Various Other Poems; Including a Translation of the ... | 1.953125 | 0 |
74129363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20lorisoids | List of lorisoids | Lorisoidea is a superfamily of nocturnal primates. Members of this superfamily are called lorisoids, and include lorises, angwantibos, pottos, galagos, and bushbabies. Lorisoidea is one of two superfamilies that form the suborder Strepsirrhini, itself one of two suborders in the order Primates. They are found in Asia a... | 2.953125 | 0 |
74129363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20lorisoids | List of lorisoids | Classification
The superfamily Lorisoidea consists of two extant families: Galagidae and Lorisidae. Galagidae contains nineteen species in six genera, while Lorisidae is divided into two subfamilies: Lorisinae, containing eleven species divided between three genera, and Perodicticinae, containing five species divided b... | 2.8125 | 0 |
74129450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado%20outbreak%20sequence%20of%20June%2020%E2%80%9326%2C%202023 | Tornado outbreak sequence of June 20–26, 2023 | Meteorological synopsis
On the heels of another tornado outbreak sequence, a second tornado outbreak sequence began on June 20 with a few weak tornadoes in North Dakota and Minnesota. On June 21, strong southwesterly winds associated with a large upper-level trough over the Western United States began overspreading cen... | 2.671875 | 0 |
74129450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado%20outbreak%20sequence%20of%20June%2020%E2%80%9326%2C%202023 | Tornado outbreak sequence of June 20–26, 2023 | On June 23, the focal point for active weather shifted northward into eastern Wyoming and The Dakotas, where the SPC outlined a level 3/Enhanced risk. Stronger wind shear associated with an approaching shortwave trough overspread an unstable airmass with mixed-layer CAPE upwards of 2,500 J/kg. Through the afternoon, co... | 2.5 | 0 |
74129518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina%20Purtell | Regina Purtell | In 1919, over the objections of the doctors where she served in Indiana who did not want to lose her, she went to Carville, Louisiana to care for patients with leprosy (Hansen's disease). She worked at United States Marine Hospital #66 on an island in the Mississippi River that became the National Leprosarium, under th... | 2.21875 | 0 |
74130369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachitherium | Bachitherium | In 2008, Jan van der Made reviewed the Oschiri fauna from the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, which dates back to MN3 (the early Miocene, or within the Burdigalian), or some 20 Ma. It is the oldest-recognized instance of island endemism within the region (fossils dating to the Eocene are known although rare, but the ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
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