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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upke%C5%9Ba%20Gaccha
Upkeśa Gaccha
Upkeśa Gaccha is the oldest gaccha (monastic order) of Śvetāmbara Jainism. It is one of the 84 gacchas of the Śvetāmbara sect that were once in existence. Unlike most other gacchas that follow Mahavira's lineage and begin with his disciple Sudharmaswami, it follows the lineage of the 23rd Tirthankara Parshvanatha and i...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Caples
John Caples
John Caples (May 11, 1900 – June 18, 1990) was an American advertiser, writer, copy editor, and engineer. Born in New York City, Caples grew up in an educated household. He attended the Horace Mann School for elementary education and later enrolled at Columbia University. However, he transferred to the United States N...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th%20Mississippi%20Infantry%20Regiment
13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
The 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment was a unit of the Confederate States Army from Mississippi. As part of the Army of Northern Virginia, the 13th Mississippi took part in many battles of the Eastern theater of the American Civil War, as well as some battles in Georgia and Tennessee. The 13th Mississippi Regiment su...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macuquina
Macuquina
Water-powered roller die and punch technology, capable of making high quality, round coinage was imported to Segovia, Spain from Germany in the 1580s, yet the old Royal mint at Segovia continued to make macuquina (cobs). The Royal Mint of Potosi was the last to establish this advanced technology, making them until 1772...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ%20and%20Sinner
Christ and Sinner
Christ and Sinner is a large-format painting by the Polish and Russian painter-academist Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902). It was completed in 1873 and is currently held in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg (Inventory Zh-5674). The dimensions of the painting are 250 × 499 cm. The subject of the painting is rela...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ%20and%20Sinner
Christ and Sinner
Sketches, studies and repetitions A significant proportion of Henryk Siemiradzki's graphic legacy is held in Polish museums. The National Museum in Kraków houses the artist's sketchbook, which includes 32 sketches for the painting Christ and Sinner, along with other prepatory materials (the following inventory numbers ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20%C5%BBeromski%20Park%20%28Szczecin%29
Stefan Żeromski Park (Szczecin)
In 1873, the city fortifications, including Fort Leopold, were dismantled. The cemetery was expanded in their place, including the area between current Matejki Street, Malczewskiego Street, Parkowa Street, Wawelska Street, Starzyńskiego Street, and Zygmunta Starego Street. To the southeast, it bordered the French Refo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20%C5%BBeromski%20Park%20%28Szczecin%29
Stefan Żeromski Park (Szczecin)
After 1945, the Grabowo Gardens were renamed as Stefan Żeromski Park, while the former cemetery north of Malczewskiego Street was turned into the Stanisław Nadratowski Park. Most of the remaining gravestones were removed in the early 1950s, although a few of them survived to as far as the 1980s. The graves themselves w...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%20Ann%20Walters
Jo Ann Walters
Jo Ann Walters (born December 10, 1952) is an American photographer. A 1985 Guggenheim Fellow, she is known for her 2018 book Wood River Blue Pool, and her photographs focus on landscapes, women, and the American working class. Biography Jo Ann Walters was born in December 10, 1952, in Alton, Illinois, and raised in t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ourisia%20macrophylla%20subsp.%20macrophylla
Ourisia macrophylla subsp. macrophylla
Ourisia macrophylla subsp. macrophylla is a subspecies of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to the North Island of New Zealand. William Jackson Hooker described O. macrophylla in 1843. Plants of this subspecies of New Zealand foxglove are showy, perennial, large-leaved, tufted, rhizomatous he...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly%20Warn
Holly Warn
Holly Warn (born 26 March 2009) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. She was the youngest Australian swimmer at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. Personal life Warn was born with cerebral palsy that affects her left side. In 2023, a diagnosis of epilepsy kept her out of the pool. She attended Sacred Heart Catholic Primary...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YMCA%20Building%20%28San%20Diego%29
YMCA Building (San Diego)
The YMCA Building is a historic building in San Diego, California. It was built in 1924, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007, before the YMCA moved out in 2014. During that time, the group served over 125 million military personnel in the facility. The building now houses the luxury Guild Hote...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20F.%20Baldwin
Charles F. Baldwin
Baldwin returned to work as a Foreign Service Officer in 1961 when he was offered an ambassadorship. When asked why he decided to come out of retirement to become an ambassador, Baldwin said "because any Foreign Service officer who wouldn't should have his head examined." After declining the ambassadorship to Cambodia ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peary%20Mohan%20Chatterjee
Peary Mohan Chatterjee
Peary Mohan Chatterjee (1 August 1883 – 24 December 1951), was an Indian educationist and lawyer during the British colonial rule in India. He was the founder of Beltala Girls' High School and South Calcutta Girls' College. Early life and education Peary Mohan Chatterjee was born in 1883 into a Bengali Hindu Brahmin...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy%20Wilson%20%28swimmer%29
Poppy Wilson (swimmer)
Polly Wilson (born 13 January 2004) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. She competed at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.. Personal life Wilson was born in Ipswich, Queensland on 13 January 2004. She was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at nine months. She is a learn to swim teacher. Swimming She focused on swimming after ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save%20the%20Cat%21%3A%20The%20Last%20Book%20on%20Screenwriting%20You%27ll%20Ever%20Need
Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need is a 2005 non-fiction book on screenwriting by spec-screenwriter Blake Snyder, exploring plot structure in mainstream film. Snyder's approach has been widely adopted throughout the film industry and the book has remained a bestseller since publication, thoug...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save%20the%20Cat%21%3A%20The%20Last%20Book%20on%20Screenwriting%20You%27ll%20Ever%20Need
Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
Chapter 5: Building the Perfect Beast Snyder introduces his method of story planning, which he refers to as The Board: a cork board or similar divided into four rows (Act One, the first half of Act Two, the second half of Act Two, and Act Three), on which are pinned index cards corresponding to scenes. The writer creat...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barisan%20Pemuda
Barisan Pemuda
Members of BARIP were concerned when the BMA first returned to Brunei in 1945 and did not fly the flag of Brunei alongside the Union Jack. Peel answered by saying there wasn't enough material to make the Brunei flag. Members of BARIP called an urgent meeting to get the required supplies in response. Though yellow mater...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce%20Antler
Joyce Antler
Activism In the 1970s, Joyce Antler's activism was crucial to the eventual repeal of New York's abortion ban, three years before Roe v. Wade made abortion legal on a federal level (until June 2022 when Roe v. Wade was overturned). The change Antler helped with made New York the first state to allow abortions on demand...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer%20%28soundtrack%29
Oppenheimer (soundtrack)
Nolan did not give specific direction on how he wanted the score to sound; the only suggestion he gave Göransson was to represent Oppenheimer's character and the film's main theme with a solo violin. Nolan explained, "There's a tension to the sound in a way that I think fits the highly-strung intellect and emotion of R...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment%20in%20California
Impeachment in California
On February 11, a two-member committee of assemblymen informed the Senate of the impeachment action and declared that the Assembly, in due time, was to present the Senate with specific articles of impeachment. A committee of five assemblymen was established to serve as the impeachment managers, being tasked with author...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum%20Geology%20%26%20Experiment
Petroleum Geology & Experiment
Petroleum Geology & Experiment () is a bimonthly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering the survey, exploration, engineering, and production of petroleum resources. It was established in 1963 and is sponsored by the China Petrochemical Corporation Petroleum Exploration and Production Research Institute a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20debt%20relief
History of debt relief
Debt relief, or debt forgiveness, has been practiced in many societies since antiquity. Periodic debt remission was institutionalised in the Ancient Near East and contributed to the stability of its societies. In ancient Greece and Rome the laws were more creditor-friendly and debt cancellation was one of the major dem...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20debt%20relief
History of debt relief
The earliest known debt cancellation was proclaimed by Enmetena of Lagash . Similar measures were enacted by later Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian rulers of Mesopotamia, where they were known as "freedom decrees" (ama-gi in Sumerian). This same theme was found in an ancient bilingual Hittite-Hurrian text entitled "Th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed%20buildings%20in%20Mansfield%20%28inner%20area%29
Listed buildings in Mansfield (inner area)
Mansfield is a town in the Mansfield District of Nottinghamshire, England. The town and its surrounding area contain over 200 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, nine at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Camillo%20Ciabilli
Giovanni Camillo Ciabilli
Giovanni Camillo Ciabilli (6 July 1675, Castello di Signa - 28 August 1746, Florence) was an Italian Baroque painter. Life and work His career began in the workshops of the decorative painter, Simone Pignoni. From 1694 to 1696, he created an Assumption and a Coronation of the Virgin for the family. He also painted p...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Donkey%27s%20Head
The Donkey's Head
In a Jewish-Tunisian tale published by author Sonia Koskas with the title La tête d'âne ("The Donkey's Head"), a poor old woman, widow and childless, earns her living by begging for alms. One day, she finds a donkey's head by her door, and the thing asks to be brought in. Afraid, she brings it in, and the head says the...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittoria%20Tarquini
Vittoria Tarquini
Vittoria Tarquini, (3 March 1670 – 1746) also known as La Bombace and Bambagia, was an Italian soprano singer of the Baroque era. She was one of the most celebrated singers of her time and was considered one of the best, if not the greatest, tragic opera singer. Career Born in the parish of San Pantalon in Venice, Ta...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances%20Hobart
Frances Hobart
In 1647 her husband died and she decided never to remarry. Her only daughter, Phillipa, married her husband's nephew and his heir, Sir John Hobart, 3rd Baronet. She moved to a house in Norwich called Chapelfield where her chaplain, John Collinges, followed. While she was still agile she would start her prayers at four ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espacio%20Solo
Espacio Solo
Presented at Solo Space, A.I.C.C.A. is a performative sculpture—a dog-shaped robot generating critical essays on observed artworks autonomously. Challenging AI's traditional role, it blurs sculpture, technology, and performance, raising questions about art criticism's subjectivity. Inspired by vintage toys, A.I.C.C.A. ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20Pakistan%20heat%20wave
2023 Pakistan heat wave
In 2023, Pakistan experienced an intense heat wave that lasted from March to June. The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) had warned of higher than usual temperatures during the summer season on 13 March 2023. Background Climate change was cited as a contributing factor to the heat wave, with developing countrie...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20B.%20Walker
Ann B. Walker
In 1980, she became the creator and host of WCMH-TV's new public affairs program. That same year, President Jimmy Carter appointed Walker as special assistant to the director of The White House Public Affairs Office. She became the first Black woman from Franklin County to receive a presidential appointment. Walker we...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Countess%20%28courtesan%29
The Countess (courtesan)
Berloget was drafted to serve in the French Army, and had to spend that time presenting as a man. She wrote about the sadness that her temporary detransition caused her. She later deserted from her post. In 1861, Berloget was arrested for desertion and theft, and was sentenced to ten years in prison. While in prison, s...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith%20Schloss
Edith Schloss
Schloss completed her studies at the Art Students League in 1946 and somewhat tentatively settled into a career in art. In her memoir she said at this time she sometimes saw herself as a painter and other times as a writer. Despite this ambivalence she devoted much time and effort to her art. From the mid-1940s through...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith%20Schloss
Edith Schloss
In the early 1950s Schloss also began to participate in exhibitions at an artists' co-op called the Tanager Gallery. She continued her relationship with the Tanager until 1961. In that year a trio exhibition at Tanager with Lawrence Campbell and Gabriel Laderman drew an extensive review in ARTnews. Praising Schloss's "...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith%20Schloss
Edith Schloss
Not long after she settled in New York her friends Rudy Burckhardt and Edwin Denby introduced Schloss to some of the city's avant-garde musicians including John Cage, Paul Bowles, and Elliott Carter. She remained close to Carter and his wife Helen for many years thereafter. In 1962 he was named composer in residence at...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie%20Tokuda-Hall
Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Maggie Tokuda-Hall (born 1984) is an American author of children's and young adult novels. While introducing Tokuda-Hall as an emcee for their annual Locus Awards, Locus said her "works have captivated readers and critics alike with her vibrant sense of story, history, and characterization." Personal life and educati...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie%20Tokuda-Hall
Maggie Tokuda-Hall
In 2017, Bank Street College of Education included Also an Octopus on their list of the year's best children's books. The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea (2020) The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, published May 5, 2020, by Candlewick Press, follows Flora (a girl), who becomes Florian (a man) aboard the pirate ship ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie%20Tokuda-Hall
Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Love in the Library (2022) Love in the Library, illustrated by Yas Imamura and published February 8, 2022, by Candlewick Press, is a children's picture book. The book takes places in Minidoka, a War Relocation Center for Japanese Americans during World War II, and follows Tama, who enjoys working in the camp's library....
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Johnson%20Jr.
Andrew Johnson Jr.
Andrew Johnson Jr. (August 5, 1852 – March 12, 1879), generally known as Frank Johnson, was the fifth and last child born to Eliza McCardle Johnson and her husband Andrew Johnson, who served as the 17th U.S. president from 1865 to 1869. Like his brothers, he died young, possibly due to complications from alcoholism. E...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Johnson%20Jr.
Andrew Johnson Jr.
Working life and pursuit of political office At the time of the 1870 census he was enumerated as Franklin Johnson and was working as a "clerk in store" at Greeneville. This was apparently the shop owned by his brother-in-law William R. Brown, his sister Mary's second husband. In 1870 a visiting reporter from Cincinnat...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching%20of%20Paulo%20Boleta
Lynching of Paulo Boleta
The lynching of Paulo Boleta took place on December 14, 1916, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in the U.S. state of New York. Boleta, a working-class Italian immigrant, was beaten and trampled by a mob of 500 men and boys after randomly firing his revolver on the street. Hospitalized, Boleta died of a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham%20Fashion%20Week
Birmingham Fashion Week
Birmingham Fashion Week (BFW), was a series of annual fashion week events, held between 2011 and 2016 in Birmingham, Alabama. The event showcased three nights of runway shows, featuring both local designers and national brands. The event has been inactive since 2016. Student Competition The event included a Rising De...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield%20Terminal%20Railway%20%28Vermont%29
Springfield Terminal Railway (Vermont)
The Springfield Electric Railway, affectionately referred to as the Toonerville Trolley, was an electric trolley system that operated in the town of Springfield, Vermont. The railway, which later became the Springfield Terminal Railway, was initially funded by the town in 1896 with the aim of establishing connections t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hin%20Lek%20Fai%2C%20Hua%20Hin
Hin Lek Fai, Hua Hin
Hin Lek Fai () is a tambon (subdistrict) of Hua Hin district, Prachuap Khiri Khan province, western Thailand. History The area is named after a local hill "Khao Hin Lek Fai" (เขาหินเหล็กไฟ, "flintstone hill"). The hill is a scenic viewpoint of Hua Hin, it is also known locally as "Radar Hill". It is west of downtown ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20service%20vessel
Special service vessel
Special service vessel (SSV) is a designation used by the Royal Navy for a miscellaneous group of ships in service; a catch-all term for ships that did not fit into its more regular categories. The Navy List of 1906 records 19 SSVs, mainly tenders assigned to shore establishments. In the First World War the category ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martina%20Viarengo
Martina Viarengo
Research Professor Viarengo has written numerous peer-reviewed articles published in leading academic journals. An example of some of her international peer-reviewed publications include the following: "Crime, Inequality and Subsidized Housing: Evidence from South Africa," World Development (2023), "The Gender Aspe...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20character%20orders
Chinese character orders
The first radical system in history was created by a Chinese Scholar Xu Shen in his Shuowen Jiezi dictionary almost two thousand years ago in the Eastern Han Dynasty. This dictionary is still available today, with a total number of 540 radicals. Another milestone is the Kangxi radical system employed in the Kangxi Dict...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Brown%20%28steward%29
Henry Brown (steward)
Henry Brown ( – died October 25, 1866) was an American servant who worked in the U.S. executive mansion, the White House, as an assistant steward. He had worked for Andrew Johnson "for many years past," and was likely enslaved by him, and had continued with him as a paid servant after emancipation. Andrew Johnson is be...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruncu%20Spina
Bruncu Spina
Bruncu Spina, with its 1,829 meters is the second highest peak in Sardinia after Punta La Marmora. It is located in the Gennargentu massif, in the province of Nuoro, in the administrative territory of the municipalities of Villagrande Strisaili and Desulo. The territorial portion in the head of the municipality of Vill...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Fuenmayor
House of Fuenmayor
From the marriage of Captain Alonso de Fuenmayor and María Magdalena de Belalcázar, among other children, Isabel de Fuenmayor y Belalcázar was born in the city of Santiago de Cali. Isabel de Fuenmayor y Belalcázar married the aforementioned Captain Rodrigo Díez de Fuenmayor, her relative, who was born in Agreda in 1528...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20Alagoas
List of people from Alagoas
The people who are born in the Brazilian State of Alagoas, independent of the city, are called as Alagoanos in Brazil. These people made extensive contributions to Brazil's (and the world's) history, culture, music, literature, education, science, and technology and a great hub of Brazilian growth and innovation in al...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte%20Carew%20Pole
Charlotte Carew Pole
Charlotte Louise Campbell Carew Pole, Lady Carew Pole (née Watkins), is a British women's rights advocate and Conservative political activist. She is the director of Daughters' Rights, a political campaign advocating for the end of male primogeniture in the British peerage and baronetage and for women to have hereditar...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Lewandowski
Richard Lewandowski
Richard Andrew Lewandowski (born 1957 or 1958) is an Australian plastic and reconstructive surgeon. He is best known for performing reconstructive craniofacial surgery for children and young adults with such issues as cleft lips, cleft palates and facial deformities. In 1999, Lewandowski founded the Australian chapt...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Middle-earth
Economy of Middle-earth
The Tolkien scholar Patrick Curry links the search for economic progress in Middle-earth to industrialisation and a dark sort of magic, that of the wizardry of Sauron and Saruman with wheels and fires and labouring workers, writing that "the Enemy is thus 'Lord of magic and machines. He contrasts this with the Elvish m...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%9324%20Liga%20de%20Expansi%C3%B3n%20MX%20season
2023–24 Liga de Expansión MX season
The 2023–24 Liga de Expansión MX season is the fourth professional season of the second-tier football division in Mexico. The season is divided into two championships—the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura—each in an identical format. The Apertura tournament began on 21 July 2023. The Clausura tournament will begi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksons%20Creek%20biik%20wurrdha%20Regional%20Parklands
Jacksons Creek biik wurrdha Regional Parklands
The following quotes indicate the history and ongoing significance of the cultural landscape to the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people Traditionally, biik wurrdha and its associated wetlands and billabongs are an essential element of Healthy Country in the Sunbury region. Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung traditional cultural knowle...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sap%2C%20Grosuplje
Sap, Grosuplje
Sap () is a formerly independent settlement in the eastern part of the settlement of Šmarje–Sap in central Slovenia. It belongs to the Municipality of Grosuplje. It is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region. Geog...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasa%20Alom
Qasa Alom
Qasa Alom is a British journalist, radio and television presenter, and documentary film-maker. Early life Alom was born in Birmingham to a British-Bangladeshi family. His father is called Saiful, and his mother is called Ratna. He attended King Edward VI Aston School and speaks five languages. Career Alom joined the...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazid%20bin%20Abdul%20Qadir%20Jawas
Yazid bin Abdul Qadir Jawas
Yazid bin Abdul Qadir Jawas (1963 – 11 July 2024) was an Indonesian Salafi scholar and writer. He is also known for writing many religious Islamic books in Indonesian. His lectures which are considered controversial make Yazid often receive criticism from a number of Indonesian Muslims. Early life Yazid studied at LI...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Sidon
History of Sidon
Each of the coastal cities was an independent city-state noted for the special activities of its inhabitants. Tyre and Sidon were important maritime and trade centers; Gubla (later known as Byblos; in Arabic, Jbeil) and Berytus (present-day Beirut) were trade and religious centers. Gubla was the first Canaanite city to...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Sidon
History of Sidon
The fighting came several days after the Allied forces from the Australian 21st Brigade, under Brigadier Jack Stevens, crossed the Litani River as part of Operation Exporter. After preliminary moves by the 2/27th Infantry Battalion around Adloun, the 2/14th Infantry Battalion had carried the advance north along the co...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum%20of%20Santal%20Culture
Museum of Santal Culture
Alongside the Rolf Schoembs Vidyashram (RSV), a school run by individuals of the Santali community for their children in the neighbouring Ghoshaldanga village under the initiative of the Ghosaldanga Adibasi Seva Sangha (GASS), the museum acts as a space for the students of the school and their parents to learn about th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehrbuch%20der%20Psychopathologischen%20Untersuchungs-Methoden
Lehrbuch der Psychopathologischen Untersuchungs-Methoden
(from German: Textbook on research methods of psychopathology) is a book written by German psychiatrist Robert Sommer (1864-1937), first published in 1899 by Urban & Schwarzenberg. In its 388 pages, Sommer presents a framework of ideas delving into the core of psychopathological symptoms, employing new analytical tech...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehrbuch%20der%20Psychopathologischen%20Untersuchungs-Methoden
Lehrbuch der Psychopathologischen Untersuchungs-Methoden
Sommer's engagement with psychophysiological investigation methods led him to the conception of individual reaction types, which he regarded as inherited. His books on "Family Research" (German: "Familienforschung") and "Heredity Theory" (German: "Vererbungslehre") were designed to capture innate responsiveness through...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20and%20Prisons%3A%20Some%20Suggestions%20for%20a%20New%20Penology
Society and Prisons: Some Suggestions for a New Penology
Osborne remained engaged in the discussion about prison reform after the publication of Society and Prisons: Some Suggestions for a New Penology. On October 16, 1916, Osborne resigned as warden of Sing Sing after being exhausted by the troubles caused by his political and ideological opponents. They interfered with his...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street%20art%20influence%20in%20politics
Street art influence in politics
Street art influence in politics refers to the intersection of public visual expressions and political discourse. Street art, including graffiti, murals, stencil art, and other forms of unsanctioned public art, has been an instrumental tool in political expression and activism, embodying resistance, social commentary, ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Senses%20and%20the%20Intellect
The Senses and the Intellect
Book 2 - Intellect In the second book, Bain delves into the study of the intellect, emphasizing its distinctiveness from other mental faculties such as emotion and volition. Bain identifies the intellect's defining feature – the ability to retain and recall sensations and mental states (even without external stimuli),...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallus%3B%20or%2C%20Roman%20scenes%20of%20the%20time%20of%20Augustus
Gallus; or, Roman scenes of the time of Augustus
Gallus, oder, Römische Scenen aus der Zeit Augusts: zur genaueren Kenntniss des römischen Privatlebens is a German book written by Wilhelm Adolf Becker, published in 1938. The book was translated into English and renamed Gallus; or, Roman scenes of the time of Augustus: with notes and excursuses illustrative of the man...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Myths%20and%20Legends%20of%20the%20North%20American%20Indians
The Myths and Legends of the North American Indians
The Myths and Legends of the North American Indians is a book written by Lewis Spence and was first published in 1914 by London George G. Harrap & Company. It contains a collection of legends and myths of different Native American tribes and 32 coloured illustrations relating to some of the stories, which were created ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20Fairy%20Tales
English Fairy Tales
The following chapters feature commonly known tales that have been retold in various versions across a range of literary works, such as Jack and the Beanstalk, The Three Little Pigs, and Little Red Riding Hood. Throughout the book, the tales cover a wide range of themes and characters, including kings, queens, witches,...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Eterno
Adam Eterno
Fictional character biography Adam Eterno was the surly, bitter assistant to 16th century alchemist Erasmus Hemlock. When Hemlock succeeded in his life's work and was able to distil the powerful Elixir of Life. Believing he was more worthy, Adam spitefully drank the tincture himself. Enraged, Hemlock cursed him to imm...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper%20Clydesdale%20F.C.
Upper Clydesdale F.C.
Upper Clydesdale Football Club was a 19th-century football club based in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland. History The Strathclyde F.C. was one of the earliest senior clubs in Rutherglen, joining the Scottish Football Association soon after the club's founding in 1877. It entered the 1877–78 Scottish Cup, and beat ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther%20Foster
Luther Foster
Luther Foster (October 8, 1849 – June 17, 1933) was a scientist and pioneer educator of agriculture in the Western United States in the later half of the 1800s and the early 1900s. Foster's 50-year career at agricultural experiment stations throughout the western United States and as a professor of agriculture provided...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther%20Foster
Luther Foster
Agricultural experiment stations were, and still are, important scientific research centers that investigate difficulties and potential improvements to food production and agribusiness. These station scientists work with farmers, ranchers, suppliers, processors and others involved in food production and agriculture. L...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumiko%20Nakamura
Fumiko Nakamura
When the war ended, Nakamura and her family returned to Okinawa Island. They traveled by boat in July 1946 and first were housed in a factory for a week, in Nagoya to await a second boat which would take them to the relocation camp in Kitanakagusuku for another week. When they reached Motobu, Nakamura learned that her ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing%20of%20George%20Smith
Killing of George Smith
The killing of George Smith took place on January 10, 1896, in the village of Ransomville, Niagara County, in the U.S. state of New York. Smith, a white English immigrant, had allegedly murdered his father-in-law, a farmer named Robert Clapsaddle. A posse or mob formed, trapped Smith in a house, and exchanged gunfire w...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatehnama
Fatehnama
Fatehnama (“The Book of Conquest”; ; [Fatehnameh]), also known as Namah-i-Guru Gobind Singh or the Jangnamah (Gurmukhi: ਜੰਗਨਾਮਾ, Persian: جنگ نامه) is a Persian composition attributed to Guru Gobind Singh. It was contained within the Dasam Granth. History Composition The composition is believed to have originated ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%20v.%20United%20States%20%282024%29
Moore v. United States (2024)
Moore v. United States, 602 U.S. 572 (2024), was a United States Supreme Court case related to the ability of the federal government to tax unrealized gains as income. The Supreme Court upheld the Mandatory Repatriation Tax (MRT). Background Charles and Kathleen Moore invested $40,000 in an Indian business named Kis...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamadali%20Topivoldiyev
Mamadali Topivoldiyev
In February 1942, Topivoldiyev was captured by the Hilfspolizei and became a prisoner-of-war.; however, he soon escaped, killing a guard in the process. He then banded up with thirteen soldiers who were scattered amongst local villages, and then they joined the partisan detachment led by Gerasim Kirpich. The detachmen...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrud%20Schwend-Uexk%C3%BCll
Gertrud Schwend-Uexküll
Women's movement During her all too brief time in Stuttgart, Gertrud Schwend-Üxküll's hands-on commitment to improving opportunities for women extended far beyond her teaching work and the founding of a game-changing school. She opened the way for the launch of Stuttgart branch of Hedwig Dohm's "Women's Education an...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Wareing
Alfred Wareing
Alfred John Wareing (26 October 1876 – 11 April 1942) was an English actor-manager. He was a pioneer of the repertory theatre in Britain and an authority on the plays of Shakespeare. Life and career Wareing was born in Greenwich, London on 26 October, the son of Alfred Hooton Wareing and his wife Henrietta Helena, née...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Wareing
Alfred Wareing
In 1909 Wareing founded the Glasgow Repertory Theatre, which he described as the first attempt to establish a citizen's theatre in Britain. Wareing found sufficient interest amongst Glasgow industrialists to provide the £1,000 he needed for a lease of the Royalty Theatre, and the Scottish Playgoers' Company opened on 5...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bren%20Smith
Bren Smith
Bren Smith is an aquaculture professional and former commercial fisherman, best known for pioneering Regenerative Ocean Farming via co-founding the non-profit GreenWave. Born in Maddox Cove, Newfoundland, Canada, Smith left school aged 14 to become a commercial fisherman, plying his trade in the Grand Banks and the Be...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Marks%20%28art%20historian%29
Richard Marks (art historian)
In 1977 Marks was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries London, and was later to serve in an honoraray capacity as the organisation's vice president. Marks has also been active with the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi project, serving as its International President and contributing to its list of Summary Catalogues ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Howard%20%28serjeant-at-arms%29
Charles Howard (serjeant-at-arms)
Brigadier Sir Charles Alfred Howard, GCVO, DSO* (29 July 1878 – 1958) was a British Army officer and parliamentary official from the aristocratic Howard family. He served as Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons from 1935 to 1956. Early life Howard was born at Hazelby Manor, East Woodhay, Hampshire, the youngest o...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maciej%20Jaworek
Maciej Jaworek
Maciej Jaworek (born 24 February 1961) is a former international speedway rider from Poland. Speedway career A protégé of Falubaz Zielona Góra, he started competing for them in 1978, when he obtained his license. Recognized as one of the most dynamic riders of the Zielona Góra club, his career development coincided w...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%20Cohen%20Groumi
Gal Cohen Groumi
Gal Cohen Groumi (; born 22 April 2002) is an Israeli Olympic swimmer. At the 2017 European Youth Olympics he won two silver medals in medley relay, at the 2018 European Junior Swimming Championships he won a gold medal in the 4×200 m freestyle relay, and at the 2019 European Junior Swimming Championships he won a bron...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa%20Planas%20Ferrer
Rosa Planas Ferrer
Rosa Planas Ferrer (Palma, 1957) is a writer, philologist, literary critic and history researcher. Biography Planas Ferrer holds a PhD in Philology and Philosophy by UIB as well as two Licentiate degrees in Philosophy and Letters (major in Hispanic Philology, UIB, 1979; major in Catalan Philology, UIB, 1997). Rosa P...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline%20Levine
Caroline Levine
Levine's best-known book is Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network, which argues that forms organize not only works of art but also political life—and our attempts to know both art and politics. Inescapable and frequently troubling, forms shape every aspect of our experience. Yet, forms don’t impose their order in an...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Ch%C3%A2teaudun
Battle of Châteaudun
The Battle of Châteaudun took place in northwestern France during the Franco-Prussian War, which took place on 18 October 1870. In this battle, the Imperial German Army led by General Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Wittich attacked the city of Châteaudun and captured the city. During the nine-hour battle the attackers de...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobostemon%20belliformis
Lobostemon belliformis
Lobostemon belliformis, the Gouriqua lobostemon or beaut healthbush, is a critically endangered species in the forget-me-not family. It is known from a single locality on the Riversdale Plain in South Africa. Description This species is a woody shrub that has a thick basal trunk. It branches freely to and form a bri...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall%20John
Stonewall John
Stonewall John (also known as Nawham or Nawwhun and John Wall-Maker and Stonelayer John) (died July 2, 1676) was a seventeenth century Narragansett leader in Rhode Island who was a skilled stone mason and blacksmith often credited with building stone wall fortifications at Queen's Fort in Exeter and Stony Fort, and blo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20McGavock%20Grider
John McGavock Grider
World War I Grider registered for the draft during WWI on June 1, 1917, and entered the University of Illinois School of Military Aeronautics, Squadron F. He and a number of volunteers were transferred from U.S. military air service to the Royal Flying Corps' no. 2 School of Military Aeronautics at Christ Church, Oxfo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Antoine%20Laurent
Jean Antoine Laurent
Jean Antoine Laurent (Baccarat, 31 October 1763 – Epinal, 11 February 1832) was a French miniaturist and painter. Biography He was born in Baccarat, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France into a family of artists. He studied in Nancy, where he was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Claudot and Jean-Francois Durand. He settled in Paris in 1...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zak%20Skinner
Zak Skinner
Zak Skinner (born 16 October 1998) is a British Paralympic athlete, who competes in the 100m and long jump in the T13 classification. Career Skinner grew up in Tonbridge and Malling. He was born completely blind before gaining some sight at the age of two. He is coached by Aston Moore. Skinner's first accolades came...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yancey%20Williams
Yancey Williams
Yancey Williams (alternatively spelt Yancy Williams, February 1, 1916 – October 22, 1953) was a U.S. Army Air Force/U.S. Air Force officer and pilot with the 85th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron and the 332nd Fighter Group, best known as the Tuskegee Airmen or "Red Tails". Williams is notable for his landmark 1941 federa...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Marie-Louis%20de%20Boisgelin%20de%20Kerdu
Pierre-Marie-Louis de Boisgelin de Kerdu
Pierre-Marie-Louis de Boisgelin de Kerdu (5 May 1758 – 9 September 1816) was a French nobleman known for his works as a member of the Knights of Malta and later as an officer of the émigré unit, Régiment Royal Louis. Biography Pierre-Marie-Louis Kerdu was born on 5 May 1758 at the Château of Ville-Balin in Plélo, Bri...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native%20American%20Community%20Academy
Native American Community Academy
Native American Community Academy (NACA) is a charter K-12 school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. It opened in 2006. Originally it was a grade 6-12 school, with grades 6-10 taking classes at temporary buildings on the grounds of Wilson Middle School, and with grades 11-12 attending classes at University of ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RethinkX
RethinkX
RethinkX is a think tank founded by Tony Seba and James Arbib that focuses on identifying disruptive innovations that could soon impact society. Rethinking Transportation 2020–2030 "Rethinking Transportation", published in 2017, builds on the ideas described in two of Seba's previously published books. The thesis of "...
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