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78472003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20term%20Wallon | History of the term Wallon | Before the 14th century, the verb walesquier ("to speak an incomprehensible language") also appears, notably in the Roman de Cassidorus by an author believed to be Baudoin Butor. Butor, who lived in the northern Picard-speaking region, implies, according to Albert Henry, the prior existence of wallesc and its use among... | 2.375 | 0 |
78472112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remsen%20Bird | Remsen Bird | Remsen DuBois Bird (January 3, 1888 in New York City - April 9, 1971) was the President of Occidental College from 1921-1946. Bird was a native of New York City and had lost both of his parents by the time he was a teenager. Bird earned degrees from Lafayette College in 1909 and Princeton Theological Seminary in 1912... | 2.140625 | 0 |
72685432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddeshwar%20Swami | Siddeshwar Swami | Siddeshwar Swami (born Siddagonda Ogappa Biradar; 5 September 1940 – 2 January 2023) was an Indian spiritual preacher and philosopher known for his teachings on yoga and spirituality. Swami was the head of Jnanayogashrama, an ashram in the city of Vijayapura (formerly Bijapur), in the Indian state of Karnataka. He decl... | 2.0625 | 0 |
72685667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yichang%E2%80%93Xingshan%20high-speed%20railway | Yichang–Xingshan high-speed railway | The Yichang–Xingshan high-speed railway, also referred to in Chinese under the acronym Yichang-Zhengwan high-speed railway connection line (), is a high-speed railway under construction between Yichang on the Wuhan–Yichang railway and Xingshan on the Zhengzhou–Wanzhou high-speed railway in Hubei province, China. It wi... | 2.265625 | 0 |
72686256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20London%20Hard%20Courts%20Championships | North London Hard Courts Championships | The North London Hard Courts Championships was a combined men's and women's clay court tennis tournament founded in 1920. The tournament was jointly held at the Gipsy Lawn Tennis Club, Stamford Hill, and the North London Hard Courts Tennis Club, Highbury London, England It ran until 1939.
History
The North London Har... | 2.109375 | 0 |
72686785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Freiburg%20%281677%29 | Siege of Freiburg (1677) | Siege
On 10 November, Créquy began shelling the suburb of Neuburg with artillery. At the same time Meinhardt Schomberg attacked the Freiburg Charterhouse towards the Schlossberg. During the night of 10/11 November, Colonel Kaunitz made a sally to disrupt the French in digging the trenches. On 11 November, Freiburg exp... | 2.328125 | 0 |
72686785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Freiburg%20%281677%29 | Siege of Freiburg (1677) | Créquy insisted that the town and castle had to be handed over by 8 AM on 16 November. After dark, gun fire was heard in Freiburg from the stronghold near Emmendingen, announcing the arrival of relief troops. During the night, messengers came from Hermann of Baden-Baden, who was approaching with an Imperial corps and w... | 2.78125 | 0 |
72687162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wives%20of%20Pompey%20the%20Great | Wives of Pompey the Great | The first-century-BCE Roman statesman and commander Pompey the Great was married five times. These marriages were not only romantic matches, but political arrangements, often dictated by Pompey's political career and need to form alliances with other powerful Roman men.
Pompey's first marriage, in 86 BCE, was to Antis... | 2.75 | 0 |
72687179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Helvetia%20Cemetery | New Helvetia Cemetery | New Helvetia Cemetery, initially named Sutter Fort Burying Ground, was a cemetery founded in c. 1845 and closed in 1912, formerly located at the northeast corner of Alhambra Boulevard and J Street (present-day 924 Alhambra Boulevard) in the East Sacramento neighborhood of Sacramento, California. It was the first cemete... | 2.1875 | 0 |
72687630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael%20Fishing%20Company | Raphael Fishing Company | The Raphaël Fishing Company Ltd is a Mauritian fishing company incorporated on 7 July 1927 in Port Louis, Mauritius. It is the second oldest commercial company in Mauritius, after Mauritius Commercial Bank (1828).
The company is a fisheries company which is notable under common law for having set legal precedent in th... | 1.984375 | 0 |
72688275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20Madison%20%28Alabama%29 | Fort Madison (Alabama) | Construction
In July 1813 Fort Glass was built as a protective stockade around the home of Zachariah Glass by local settlers in present-day Clarke County, Alabama. After the Battle of Burnt Corn, General Ferdinand Claiborne feared retaliatory attacks by the Red Sticks against local settlers. Claiborne sent Colonel Jose... | 2.515625 | 0 |
72688440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Crumpe | Mary Crumpe | Mary Grace Susanna Crumpe, Comtesse de Milon de Villiers (1790s - 20 January 1861) was an Irish novelist.
Mary Crumpe was born in the 1790s to Dr. Samuel Crumpe, a Limerick physician and author, and Susanna Ingram. She lived in Limerick, Dublin, and London.
Her first novel was a society novel called Isabel St. Albe:... | 1.960938 | 0 |
72688771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Jewelled%20Serpent | The Jewelled Serpent | The Jewelled Serpent, a Study of To-day was an 1872 young adult novel by E. J. Richmond. Published in New York City by the National Temperance Society and Publishing House, it was cloth-bound and had 271 pages. Through its story, the book inculcated those principles of morality associated in the temperance movement era... | 2.3125 | 0 |
72689017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanburia | Kanburia | Kanburia is a genus of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to Thailand. The genus was established in 2019. Kanburia species are twining woody vines.
Description
Kanburia species are robust twining woody vines. Their young stems are covered with soft hairs (pubescent). Their leaves are evergreen and generall... | 2.4375 | 0 |
72689075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Noirmoutier%20%281794%29 | Battle of Noirmoutier (1794) | On 2 November 1793, the council of war of the army of the West charged Brigadier General Nicolas Haxo with forming a corps of 5,000 to 6,000 men to retake the island of Noirmoutier. He was ordered to attack and defeat Charette "wherever he might encounter him, pursuing him into Noirmoutier itself". Haxo planned his off... | 2.484375 | 0 |
72689106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic%20Culture%20and%20Urban%20Change | Civic Culture and Urban Change | Civic Culture and Urban Change: Governing Dallas is a non-fiction book by Royce Hanson, published in 2003 by Wayne State University Press.
The book described the politics and government of Dallas.
The book argues that the culture around municipal governance had been damaged by an obsession by those in governance to k... | 2.3125 | 0 |
72689153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serawaia | Serawaia | Serawaia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, first established in 2019. Its only species is Serawaia strobilifera, endemic to Borneo. The species was first described in 1994 as Callerya strobilifera.
Description
Serawaia strobilifera is a twining vine scrambling up trees and river banks to... | 2.421875 | 0 |
72689365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Coast%20Get%20Down | West Coast Get Down | The West Coast Get Down is an American jazz collective formed in Los Angeles in 2006. Its members include saxophonist Kamasi Washington, bassists Miles Mosley and Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner, drummers Ronald Bruner Jr. and Tony Austin, pianists Cameron Graves and Brandon Coleman, trombonist Ryan Porter, and multi-inst... | 2.328125 | 0 |
72690119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative%20divisions%20of%20Thailand | Administrative divisions of Thailand | Unorganized Administrative Region
During the reign of Rama III, there was a massive settlement effort, in which many city and town were created during this time. This caused a "great reshuffling" of the provinces' territory. This ended up leading to the creation of the unorganized region of Promthep. This region was t... | 2.640625 | 0 |
72690347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throxenby | Throxenby | Governance
Historically, Throxenby and the surrounding area was part of the wapentake of Pickering Lythe.
In 1831, Throxenby was a township in parish of Scalby, in 1866 Throxenby became a separate civil parish, in 1894, it was partnered with Newby in that civil parish. In 1901 the parish had a population of 253. On 1... | 2.359375 | 0 |
72690944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara%20Gwendolen%20Foulke | Sara Gwendolen Foulke | Sara Gwendolen Foulke (26 June 1863 – 13 December 1936) was an American zoologist, marine biologist and poet. She worked on microscopic water inhabiting animals and her obituary described her work as "genius."
Biography
Foulke was born at Bala Farm, Chester County, Pennsylvania, to Julia DeVeaux Powel (daughter of J... | 2.3125 | 0 |
72691030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yella%20Hertzka | Yella Hertzka | Exile and later life (1938–1948)
Aware that a woman's nationality was tied to that of her husband, Hertzka decided to marry her cousin, Edgar Taussig, to gain his Czechoslovakian nationality. As a Czech, she would be able to emigrate to England and travel freely. With help from her friend Hofer, in December 1938 Hertzk... | 2.40625 | 0 |
72691077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Gray%20%28British%20artist%29 | Elizabeth Gray (British artist) | Elizabeth Gray (1928 - 2022), also known as Ben Venuto and Emmie Gee, was an artist specialising in sporting and wildlife pictures.
Gray was born in 1928 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. She began working as a musician and in broadcasting. However she also began to produce illustrations for magazines. She develope... | 1.921875 | 0 |
72691105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Tiracol | Siege of Tiracol | The Battle of Tiracol was a military engagement between Portuguese forces under the command of the Viceroy of India Dom Pedro Miguel de Almeida Portugal e Vasconcelos against the Bhonsles at Tiracol. It was part of the Novas Conquistas or "New Conquests" campaigns.
Background
Due to persistent raids by the Bhonsles a... | 2.625 | 0 |
72691465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie%20Coates | Marie Coates | Marie Coates (19 March 1916 – 31 May 2004) was a British biologist who was an expert in gnotobiosis. She served as President of the Nutrition Society. She used plastic isolators to research the impact of gut microbes on food additives.
Early life and education
Coates grew up in Wanstead. She attended Ilford County Hi... | 2.53125 | 0 |
72691816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarn%20Wadling | Tarn Wadling | Tarn Wadling (formerly spelled Turnewathelane, Terne Wathelyne, among others) was a lake between Carlisle and Penrith, near the village of High Hesket in Cumbria, England. In the Middle Ages, it was famous for its carp, but it was drained in the 19th century, and is now no more than a depression. The name remains today... | 2.46875 | 0 |
72691816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarn%20Wadling | Tarn Wadling | In 1816 it was owned by a Mr. Milbourne, according to Daniel and Samuel Lysons, the lord of the manor who owned the Castle Hewen, situated "on a lofty eminence near this tarn" (and thus having military potential). Bynum cites a source from 1895, which notes that it "has been filled up and converted into grazing land", ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
72691816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarn%20Wadling | Tarn Wadling | In the 15th-century poem The Awntyrs off Arthure, the tarn is the setting for the ghost of Queen Guinevere's mother, who speaks to Guinevere and Sir Gawain and warns them about pride. She mentions that she is in hell right now (Jean E. Jost notes the similarity to Mephistopheles's claim in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus), ha... | 2.328125 | 0 |
72691982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukui%20cave | Fukui cave | The is an archaeological site consisting of a Japanese Paleolithic period to the early incipient Jōmon period cave dwelling in the Yoshii neighborhood of the city of Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1978. Humans have been occupyin... | 2.765625 | 0 |
72692264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decabromodiphenyl%20ethane | Decabromodiphenyl ethane | Decabromodiphenyl ethane is a chemical compound used as a brominated flame retardant. It was commercialised in the 1990s as an alternative for decabromodiphenyl ether, following safety concern over that compound. The two molecules are chemically very similar, which gives them a similar application profile. Decabromodip... | 2.25 | 0 |
72692370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choy%20Wai-Chuen | Choy Wai-Chuen | Choy Wai-Chuen (5 March 1914 – 29 July 1951) was a Chinese tennis player.
Born in Hong Kong, Choy received an education in England and was a graduate of Framlingham College. He attended Cambridge University, gaining his blue for tennis.
Choy, a player of slight build, was described as playing his tennis like a game o... | 2.453125 | 0 |
72693292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapaima%20agassizii | Arapaima agassizii | Arapaima agassizii is a species of freshwater fish endemic to Brazil. It is a member of the arapaimas, a genus of air-breathing fish that contains some of the world's largest freshwater fish.
It is known only from a single now-lost holotype collected between 1817 and 1820 from an unspecified region in the lowlands of ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
72693764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mzala%20Nxumalo | Mzala Nxumalo | Exile and Further Activism
Following the Soweto Uprising, the apartheid South African regime would mark Nxumalo as a threat. As a result, Nxumalo, like many others, would leave South Africa in exile. While in exile, Nxumalo would join the ranks of ANC's Umkhonto weSizwe and the Communist Party. He would Dedicate time ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
72693955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindo%20family | Lindo family | He owned multiple transatlantic vessels and traded in all types of merchandise. For example, one of his vessels, the Esther Lindo, described by Lloyd's Register as a constant trader on the London-Jamaica run, cleared Jamaica for London on May 28, 1790 laden with sugar, cotton, pimento, Nicaragua wood, coffee, ginger, r... | 2.40625 | 0 |
72694372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tshering%20Dorje | Tshering Dorje | Research and scholarship
Despite his limited formal education, Dorje came to be known for his extensive knowledge of western and Trans-Himalayan regions including Ladakh, Lahaul, Spiti, and Kinnaur. In Lahaul and Spiti district and neighboring regions, he was widely referred to as an 'encyclopedia of the Himalayas'. H... | 2.0625 | 0 |
72694551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice%20Erskine%20Lane%20Suzuki | Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki | Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki ( 1878–1939) was an American Theosophist, who was instrumental in promoting Theosophy in Japan. Lane Suzuki is often eclipsed by her famous husband, Japanese writer and scholar D. T. Suzuki.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Lane was educated at Radcliffe College, where one of her tutors was Will... | 2.484375 | 0 |
72695015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfrid%20Alden%20Stearns | Winfrid Alden Stearns | Winfrid Alden Stearns (13 July 1852 – 10 May 1909) was an American naturalist, specimen collector, and writer who took an interest in the birds of Labrador and also wrote on the birds of New England.
Stearns was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Rev. William Augustus Stearns (1805-1876) and his first wife Rebecca A... | 2.265625 | 0 |
72695326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliet%20E.%20K.%20Walker | Juliet E. K. Walker | Juliet E. K. Walker is a professor emerita and author in the United States. Her books on Free Frank and African American businesses have won various awards.
She received a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Chicago where John Hope Franklin was one of her professors. Her postdoctoral studies have been at ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
72697065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Eliza%20Knapp | Mary Eliza Knapp | Mary Eliza Knapp (1 July 1825 – 22 March 1905) was an American landowner, amateur archaeologist and scientific collector. She was also one of the founders of The Aesthetic Club, a women’s club formed in Arkansas in 1883.
Biography
Knapp was born Mary Eliza Feild on 1 July 1825 in Pulaski, Tennessee to Mary Amanda Flo... | 2.171875 | 0 |
72697182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eorhynchocyon | Eorhynchocyon | Eorhynchocyon is an extinct mammal genus from the macroscelidid superfamily.
Fossils of an unknown animal were found in Namibia. The fossils descended from Bartonian-Priabonian stage.
Authors describe it as a Macroscelidea member of middle size. As a diagnostic trait they enlisted convex mandible profile and ascendin... | 2.5 | 0 |
72697300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki%20Gokoku%20Shrine | Nagasaki Gokoku Shrine | Nagasaki Gokoku Shrine () is a Gokoku Shrine located in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is dedicated to the spirits of the approximately 60,000 people from Nagasaki Prefecture who died between the Meiji Restoration and Pacific War (World War II).
It is dedicated to war dead. Such shrines were made to serve to... | 2.65625 | 0 |
72697698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic-Persian-Greek-Serbian%20Conversation%20Textbook | Arabic-Persian-Greek-Serbian Conversation Textbook | Arabic-Persian-Greek-Serbian conversation textbook is a book written in the 15th century in the Ottoman Empire.
History
The work was created at the Sublime Porte. There is no exact year of publication, but it is considered that the textbook was created during the time and needs of Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror and hi... | 2.5 | 0 |
72698191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey%20Travers | Stacey Travers | Anastasia "Stacey" Travers is an American politician, scientist, and U.S. Army veteran. She is a Democratic member of the Arizona House of Representatives elected to represent District 12 in 2022.
Life
Travers was born in Athens to a U.S. military father and a Greek mother. She served in the U.S. Army as a Russian In... | 1.960938 | 0 |
72698196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage%20to%20New%20York | Homage to New York | Homage to New York was a 1960 kinetic artwork and performance by Jean Tinguely.
Description
Homage to New York was a kinetic artwork composed of found mechanical parts including multiple bicycle wheels, a weather balloon, a piano, a radio, an American flag, a bassinet, and a toilet, all painted white. In its first a... | 2.109375 | 0 |
72698250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%84lplermagronen | Älplermagronen | Älplermagronen (also spelled Älplermakkaronen, lit. "Alpine herdsman’s macaroni" in German) is a dish from the Alpine regions of Switzerland, consisting of pasta, potatoes, cream, cheese, and onions. The name is made up of "Älpler" as a designation for the Alpine herder and "Magronen", which was taken as a loan word fr... | 2.125 | 0 |
72698372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20E.%20Bradshaw | Margaret E. Bradshaw | Margaret Elizabeth Bradshaw, (born January 1926) is an English botanist and conservationist. She has been a long term advocate and recorder of the flora of Upper Teesdale in County Durham. Her first book was published when she was 97.
Early life and education
Margaret Elizabeth Bradshaw was born in January 1926, and ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
72698606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeeby%20Beck | Skeeby Beck | Skeeby Bridge, a grade II listed structure which carries the A6108 road, straddles Skeeby Beck to the east of the village of Skeeby. The bridge has four unevenly-spaced arches, with the northernmost being almost sunk completely into the ground. In 1973, an armoured vehicle belonging to the British Army, crashed through... | 2.390625 | 0 |
68322765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Isbr%C3%BCcker | Julia Isbrücker | Julia Catharina Isbrücker-Dirksen (22 September 1887 - 14 January 1971) was a Dutch esperantist, Honorary Member of the Universal Esperanto Association (UEA), member of the International Central Committee and of the examination committee, member of the Soroptimist Club, president of the group in The Hague and wife of t... | 1.921875 | 0 |
68323060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazan%20Al-Bawwab | Yazan Al-Bawwab | Yazan Al-Bawwab (; born 30 October 1999) is a Saudi-born Palestinian and Italian swimmer. He competed for Palestine at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Early and personal life
Al-Bawwab was born in Saudi Arabia to Palestinian parents with Italian citizenship, which they acquired after a long stay ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
68323194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%2C%20Iowa | Bailey, Iowa | The Bailey post office, historically the second post office in Section 22 of the township, was established on March 10, 1887. Bailey's population was 50 residents that year.
Early 1900s
Bailey became an incorporated town in 1901. In the early 1900s, the community included a bakery and grocery, an apiarist, and a dry g... | 2.328125 | 0 |
68323206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed%20Hamada | Mohammed Hamada | Mohammed Khamis Haidar Hamada (; born 14 March 2002) is a Palestinian weightlifter from Gaza. He was the first Palestinian to compete in the sport at the Olympics.
Career
Hamada participated in the men's 96-kilogram event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, making him the first-ever weightlifter from Palestine to compete at ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
68323528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoecy | Monoecy | Monoecy (; adj. monoecious ) is a sexual system in seed plants where separate male and female cones or flowers are present on the same plant. It is a monomorphic sexual system comparable with gynomonoecy, andromonoecy and trimonoecy, and contrasted with dioecy where individual plants produce cones or flowers of only on... | 3.078125 | 0 |
68323528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoecy | Monoecy | Maize is monoecious since both pistillate (female) and stamenate (male) flowers occur on the same plant. The pistillate flowers are present on the ears of corn and the stamenate flowers are in the tassel at the top of the stalk. In the ovules of the pistillate flowers, diploid cells called megaspore mother cells unde... | 3.09375 | 0 |
68323649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn%20Theodore | Shawn Theodore | Shawn Theodore (born 1970) is a Philadelphia contemporary artist, writer and photographer. Theodore's work focuses on a variety of photographic genres within the context of Blackness. His work is an intersection of visual and written narratives, illusory perspectives, and culturally significant photographic imagery and... | 1.96875 | 0 |
68323649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn%20Theodore | Shawn Theodore | In 2016 Theodore photographed a cover for Smithsonian Magazine a special edition issue titled, "Black In America". This issue was a four-part magazine cover project, the other covers were created by the artists Amy Sherald, Lorna Simpson, and Delphine Diallo. In 2019 Theodore was published in the New York Times for an ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
68323705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorquette | Jorquette | The jorquette (horqueta; molinillo) is the point at which the vertical stem changes to fan growth on the cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao).
The whorl of lateral branches which grow out at an angle of approximately 45 degrees is called the jorquette.
For mostly of Theobroma sp, one of the two kinds of branch grows vertical... | 2.640625 | 0 |
68324322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Selwyn%20Copleston | Frederick Selwyn Copleston | Frederick Selwyn Copleston (1850–1935) was a member of the Indian Civil Service. He was the Chief Judge of the Chief Court of Lower Burma from 1900 to 1902.
Biography
Copleston was the son of Rev. R. E. Copleston, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford and Vicar of Edmonton. He was a member of the Copleston family, lords o... | 2.015625 | 0 |
68324498 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham%20Negev | Avraham Negev | Avraham Negev (1923–2004) was an Israeli archaeologist.
Life
Negev, surname at birth Eisenberg, was born in the town of Pinsk in Poland, today in Belarus.
He was a commander in the Haganah police force, and lost his right hand in 1947.
Career
Negev has excavated Nabataean sites in the Negev, at Caesarea Maritima (... | 2.1875 | 0 |
68324563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Engelhardt%20von%20L%C3%B6hneyss | Georg Engelhardt von Löhneyss | Georg Engelhardt von Löhneyß (also Löhneiß, Löhneyß, Löhneyßen) (7 March 1552 – 1 December 1622) was a German nobleman and cameralist known for printing plagiarized but carefully produced books, including one on mining. He served as an economic advisor in the courts of Elector Augustus I of Saxony and Heinrich Julius o... | 2.15625 | 0 |
68324584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenville%2C%20New%20Jersey | Stephenville, New Jersey | Stephenville's 300 dwellings were to be situated in a "parklike community" with 100-foot by 200-foot plots of land and modern ranch-style houses. Each five-room house was to include a complete kitchen with an electric range, Formica sink top, refrigerator, washing machine and exhaust fan, a bathroom with a tile bath an... | 2.015625 | 0 |
68324584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenville%2C%20New%20Jersey | Stephenville, New Jersey | In late May 1951, residents began taking possession of completed houses on Sky Top Road; in mid-June 1951, residents began taking possession of completed houses on Richard Road; and in mid-July 1951, residents began taking possession of completed houses on Stephenville Parkway. Around this time, Stephenville began to b... | 2.046875 | 0 |
68324584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenville%2C%20New%20Jersey | Stephenville, New Jersey | In mid-December 1951, Stephenville residents again brought up a complaint against the Oak Tree school district. While the school district had earlier that year agreed to provide bus transportation to Stephenville children via Park Avenue (because it consisted of a greater-than two mile distance from the school), the sc... | 2.203125 | 0 |
68324584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenville%2C%20New%20Jersey | Stephenville, New Jersey | On February 13, 1952, Stephenville's unsanitary conditions complaint was heard in Trenton courts. Assistant Public Health Engineer Ernst Segesser testified that new sanitation tests had been conducted in the community. One such test included pouring a colored dye into exposed raw sewage flowing into a storm drain. Sege... | 2.234375 | 0 |
68324584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenville%2C%20New%20Jersey | Stephenville, New Jersey | On July 10, 1963, residents of Stephenville and the Stephenville Parkway area (including the former Oakview Heights, Carriage Hill, Tamarack North, Briarwood East and Timber Grove) gathered at the Edison Township Council meeting to protesting the Master Plan proposal of Stephenville Parkway being turned into a high-spe... | 1.953125 | 0 |
68324652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bence%20Bics%C3%A1k | Bence Bicsák | A local coach, István Góczán, of the Triathlon Association in Zalaegerszeg contacted Bicsák and asked him to participate in an aquathlon competition. Aquathlon is a race combining swimming and running. Bence did well in the swim and ran his way up to finish first. To his surprise, Bence had earned a gold medal. He had... | 2.171875 | 0 |
68324825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiwassee%20Island | Hiwassee Island | The Cherokee had developed a loose sociopolitical "tribal state", where earlier settlements of the late prehistoric (before 1550) and early historic periods (from 1550) had a more autonomous village-ceremonial-center groupings. There were three Cherokee historic districts by the early 19th century. 1) Ridge and Valley,... | 2.8125 | 0 |
68324825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiwassee%20Island | Hiwassee Island | The Dallas culture was differentiated from the Hiwassee Island culture by their greater production of shell-tempered, cord-wrapped pottery. Lug handles and straps were added to jars. They made Late Mississippian Dallas Decorated and Modeled pottery with new designs, like effigy motifs and incising.
There were periods ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
68324825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiwassee%20Island | Hiwassee Island | Tennessee Valley Authority
In 1940, the Chickamauga Dam on the Tennessee River was completed. As a result, about one half of the island was submerged. The island is owned by the United States government, under the stewardship of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge
An easement has been prov... | 2.84375 | 0 |
68325888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Strothmann | Frederick Strothmann | Frederick Strothmann (1872–1958) was an American illustrator of magazines and books. He also drew political cartoons and
posters.
Early life
Strothmann was born in New York City in 1872, although some sources say in Philadelphia in 1879. Little is known about his early life, except that his parents were migrants to t... | 2.5 | 0 |
68325979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikael%20Levin | Mikael Levin | Photographing borders in 1993 brought Mikael Levin to thinking of his father’s frequent crossings of those same borders at the close of the Second World War, when, as an American war correspondent, Meyer Levin followed the Allied advance into Germany. In War Story (1996), Mikael Levin used his father’s autobiography, I... | 2.453125 | 0 |
68325979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikael%20Levin | Mikael Levin | His research on Notes from the Periphery led Levin to his next project, looking into the story of a branch of his family that had settled in Guinea-Bissau, further south along the coast of Africa. He realized that this family’s migration story over three generations encapsulated the turbulent eras of industrialization... | 2.921875 | 0 |
68326237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongda%20Lisu%20Ethnic%20Township | Tongda Lisu Ethnic Township | Tongda Lisu Ethnic Township () is an ethnic township in Huaping County, Yunnan, China. As of the 2017 statistics it had a population of 8,317 and an area of .
Administrative division
As of 2016, the township is divided into five villages:
Tongda ()
Weixin ()
Shuanglong ()
Dingwang ()
Baiguhe ()
History
During... | 2.171875 | 0 |
68326281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cec%C3%ADlia%20Colony | Cecília Colony | Representation in popular culture
The stories experienced in Cecília Colony were represented in several artistic interpretations, such as in literature and the dramaturgy of Brazilian television. In literature, there was the work of Zélia Gattai, Anarquistas, Graças a Deus (1979), where it deals with stories involving ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
68326845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Salt | George Salt | At King's College, Cambridge, George Salt was elected in 1933 to a Fellowship. In the zoology department of the University of Cambridge, he was University Lecturer from 1937 to 1965 and the Reader in Animal Ecology from 1965 to 1971, when he retired as Emeritus. In 1939 he married Joyce Laing. They had two sons, Michae... | 2.5625 | 0 |
68327030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batok | Batok | Tattooing was a complicated labor-intensive process that was also very painful to the recipient. Tattoos are acquired gradually over the years, and patterns can take months to complete and heal. The tattooing process were usually sacred events that involved rituals to ancestral spirits (anito) and the heeding of omens.... | 2.859375 | 0 |
68327030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batok | Batok | Indigenous Filipino tattoos have regained some of their popularity in the modern Philippines, especially with the surge of interest in Apo Whang-od of the Butbut Kalinga. Though unlike in the past, where tattoos were closely tied to ethnic identity, modern tattoos based on ancestral designs are more often used as a for... | 2.546875 | 0 |
68327041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Dental%20Hospital | Royal Dental Hospital | The Royal Dental Hospital was a dental hospital in Leicester Square, London, which operated from 1858 until 1985. In 1859, it opened the London School of Dental Surgery, later renamed to the Royal Dental Hospital of London School of Dental Surgery, which was the first dental school in Britain.
After the hospital close... | 1.984375 | 0 |
68327583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony%20Donaldson | Antony Donaldson | Marco Livingstone wrote ‘A startling characteristic of British Pop was the speed and confidence with which many of the artists discovered their language and subject matter at a very early age. Donaldson whose first boldly simplified, exuberantly colourful, large scale and sexy Pop canvases were created in 1962 when he ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
68328269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodia%20Mann | Rhodia Mann | During many years spent among the Samburu people studying their lifestyle and culture, Mann began documenting what she saw. She is the author of six books and the producer of a documentary, The Butterfly People. Each of these publications provides insights into the vibrant Samburu culture and their relationship with th... | 2.453125 | 0 |
68328865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Henry%20Twenhofel | William Henry Twenhofel | William Henry Twenhofel (16 April 1875 – 4 January 1957) was an American sedimentary geologist who wrote a landmark text Treatise on Sedimentation (1926) which went into more editions. He served for many years as a professor of geology at the University of Wisconsin. The Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralo... | 2.515625 | 0 |
68329022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Cooper%20%28publisher%29 | Edward Cooper (publisher) | Beside from prints, Cooper also sold paintings and artists' materials, and was widely acknowledged among England's leading connoisseurs. In 1703, he valued Robert Hooke's print collection and by 1711 he was distributing catalogues of important auction sales of paintings; it is likely that he was the cataloguer and poss... | 2.125 | 0 |
68329241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarabaeus%20gangeticus | Scarabaeus gangeticus | Scarabaeus gangeticus, is a species of dung beetle found in many Indo-African countries including; India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Botswana, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
Description
This large broadly oval, slightly convex species has an average length of about 23 to 35 mm. Body black... | 2.4375 | 0 |
68329366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobostemon%20argenteus | Lobostemon argenteus | Lobostemon argenteus, or the silver healthbush, blue rocket bugloss or disselblaarluibos, is a species in the forget-me-not family that is endemic to South Africa.
Description
This shrublet grows up to in height, although more typically it will be tall. The stalkless leaves are lance shaped and possess long and sho... | 2.125 | 0 |
68329632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard%20Bukowski | Ryszard Bukowski | Ryszard Bukowski (2 January 1916 in Cieszkowy – 19 May 1987 in Wrocław) was a Polish composer, teacher, and music critic.
Biography
Ryszard Bukowski was the only child of Stefan Bukowski of the Ossorya coat of arms (1878–1929) and Maria Harriet (Molly) née Schulze (1883–1970). Both his parents were active visual arti... | 2.234375 | 0 |
68329632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard%20Bukowski | Ryszard Bukowski | Education
He graduated from the State Junior and Senior Adam Mickiewicz Secondary School in Warsaw, today's , whose graduates included Jan Lechoń, Władysław Broniewski, Miron Białoszewski, Jan Białostocki, Władysław Marconi, Jan Świderski (friend of the composer), Magdalena Zawadzka, Edward Dziewoński, Ryszard Matusze... | 2.34375 | 0 |
68329736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte%20Hym | Charlotte Hym | Charlotte Hym (born 30 October 1992) is a French street skateboarder and neuroscientist based in Paris.
Early life and education
Hym was born in Paris and grew up close to Boulevard Richard-Lenoir. She asked for a skateboard at the age of twelve because she saw so many people skateboarding in her local area.
Hym obt... | 2.375 | 0 |
68329777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%20Coleman | Chuck Coleman | Charles Thomas Coleman (1962 or 1963 – October 20, 2024) was an American aviator, aerospace engineer and airshow & test pilot. He worked as a design and performance engineer for several aircraft corporations such as McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, Bede Jet Corporation and Scaled Composites. Coleman was a member of the ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
68329871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea%20Edghill | Chelsea Edghill | Chelsea Edghill (born July 6, 1997) is a Guyanese table tennis player who has competed at the Commonwealth Games and became the first player from Guyana to compete at the Olympic Games in Table Tennis.
Career
Edghill competes in the women's singles, women's doubles, mixed doubles, and team table tennis events, and is... | 1.9375 | 0 |
68329886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Ingram | Francis Ingram | African Company of Merchants
Ingram was a member of the African Company of Merchants. The first meeting of the company took place in Liverpool, on 14 July 1777. Its purpose was to lobby the UK government and attempt to prevent the regulation of the slave trade. The Committee took place every Monday morning in Liverpool... | 2.703125 | 0 |
68330004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Allsopp | Bruce Allsopp | Harold Bruce Allsopp FSA FRIBA (4 July 1912 – 22 February 2000) was a British architectural historian, educator and publisher.
Career
Howard Bruce Allsopp was born in 1912 in Oxford to Heny Allsopp, a historian, poet and vice principal of Ruskin College, and his wife Elizabeth May Allsopp (née Robertson). Bruce Allso... | 2.3125 | 0 |
68330182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20protected%20areas%20of%20Colorado | List of protected areas of Colorado | The three National Historic Sites within Colorado are:
Amache National Historic Site near Granada
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site near La Junta
Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site near Chivington
National Recreation Areas
The two National Recreation Areas within Colorado are::
Arapaho National Recreatio... | 2.359375 | 0 |
68330182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20protected%20areas%20of%20Colorado | List of protected areas of Colorado | There are 44 National Wildernesses within Colorado. The United States Forest Service manages 34, the National Park Service manages four, the Bureau of Land Management manages three, the United States Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management jointly manage two, and the United States Forest Service and the Nation... | 2.03125 | 0 |
68330346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Houston%20Jr. | Sam Houston Jr. | Sam Houston, Jr. was born at home on May 25, 1843, at Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas. He was the oldest child of Sam Houston and his third wife Margaret Lea Houston. The elder Houston had no children with his two previous wives. At the time of his son's birth, Sam Sr. was serving as 3rd President of the Republic of T... | 2.6875 | 0 |
68330576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piebald%20Horde | Piebald Horde | The Piebald Horde () is the Russian term for a confederation of Selkup and Ket tribes in the Ob and Tom river basins which existed in the 16th century, in what is called the Narym region. It was the eastern neighbor and ally of the Khanate of Sibir. As Russian encroachment became a bigger threat, Piebald found itself i... | 2.234375 | 0 |
68330613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlie%20Duff | Arlie Duff | Arlie Duff (born Arleigh Elton Duff; March 28, 1924 - July 4, 1996) was an American country musician. His biggest hit was "You All Come" in 1953.
Childhood and adolescence
Arlie Duff was born in Texas in 1924. His father Adolphus taught him to sing and he performed in church services with his sister Lois. After servin... | 2.453125 | 0 |
68330634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jillian%20Crooks | Jillian Crooks | Competing in Alaska
Crooks was born and raised in the Cayman Islands. Following the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021, she temporarily moved to the state of Alaska in the United States when she was just 15 years old to compete scholastically for Homer High School for one season. She moved to Homer, Alaska for a few months, ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
68330858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra%20Aristoteli | Alexandra Aristoteli | Alexandra Aristoteli (born 24 May 1997) is an Australian group rhythmic gymnast who represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Career
Aristoteli began ballet when she was four years old because her mother, Maria Aristoteli, is the director of Queensland Dance and Performing Arts. She began training full-time ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
68330862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther%20Lewis%20%28abolitionist%29 | Esther Lewis (abolitionist) | Esther Fussell Lewis (; March 18, 1782 – February 8, 1848) was an American Quaker abolitionist, Underground Railroad conductor and station master, farmer, school founder, teacher, and nurse.
Lewis managed her family farm near Kimberton, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
She was a conductor of the north-south line of the ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
68330882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20supply%20in%20the%20Wellington%20region | Water supply in the Wellington region | The Waiwhetu artesian aquifer is a zone of water-retaining sand, gravel and boulders beneath the Hutt Valley. Water from the Hutt River starts to flow underground around Taita Gorge. From Melling southwards, the water becomes naturally pressurised beneath a layer of hard clay. This pressurised zone is estimated to be u... | 2.796875 | 0 |
68331422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibbertia%20notabilis | Hibbertia notabilis | Hibbertia notabilis, commonly known as Howe guinea-flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to ranges near the New South Wales - Victoria border. It is a dense, hairy shrub with ridged branches, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and yellow ... | 2.5 | 0 |
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