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559815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna | Lenna | Lenna (or Lena) is a standard test image used in the field of digital image processing, starting in 1973. It is a picture of the Swedish model Lena Forsén, shot by photographer Dwight Hooker and cropped from the centerfold of the November 1972 issue of Playboy magazine. The image has attracted controversy in recent yea... | 2.625 | 0 |
559815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna | Lenna | In a 1999 issue of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing "Lena" was used in three separate articles, and the picture continued to appear in scientific journals throughout the beginning of the 21st century.
Lenna is so widely accepted in the image processing community that Forsén was a guest at the 50th annual Conferen... | 2.1875 | 0 |
559818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacktown | Blacktown | The arrival of the railway led to the formation of a town around the station. A post office was opened in 1862 and a school in 1877. In 1906, the Shire of Blacktown was formed and in 1930, electricity was introduced to the town. The population in 1933 was then around 13,000. In the 1950s and 1960s, there was a large am... | 2.5625 | 0 |
559818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacktown | Blacktown | Winters are cold and moderately dry. Due to its inland position further from the Tasman Sea, it typically records 11.0 nights below 5 °C (41 °F) and 2.3 nights below 0 °C (32 °F), which is cold compared to the Sydney CBD, which on an average year, records zero nights below 5 °C (41 °F), allowing light frosts on many wi... | 2.296875 | 0 |
559818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacktown | Blacktown | Busways provides services to Northern areas (Rouse Hill, Castle Hill, Kellyville, Glenwood and Stanhope Gardens), West areas (Mount Druitt, Plumpton, Oakhurst, Quakers Hill, Dean Park, Woodcroft) and South districts (Prospect, Arndell Park, Huntingwood, Tallawong, Doonside, Blacktown Hospital), whilst CDC NSW provides ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
559831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudnaya%20Pristan | Rudnaya Pristan | Rudnaya Pristan (, lit. Ore Wharf) is a village (selo) located at the mouth of the Rudnaya River, on the Pacific coast of Primorsky Krai. It is situated 35 km east of Dalnegorsk (also in Primorsky Krai) and approximately 514 km north of Vladivostok. Its population was 2,107 in 2010, 2,389 in 2002, and 2,947 in 1989.
L... | 2.3125 | 0 |
559834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manapouri%20Power%20Station | Manapouri Power Station | Manapōuri Power Station is an underground hydroelectric power station on the western arm of Lake Manapouri in Fiordland National Park, in the South Island of New Zealand. At 854 MW installed capacity (although limited to 800 MW due to resource consent limits), it is the largest hydroelectric power station in New Zealan... | 2.09375 | 0 |
559834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manapouri%20Power%20Station | Manapouri Power Station | Early history
The first surveyors mapping out this corner of New Zealand noted the potential for hydro generation in the 178-metre drop from the lake to the Tasman Sea at Doubtful Sound. The idea of building a power station was first formulated by Peter Hay, the Superintending Engineer of the Public Works Department, a... | 2.484375 | 0 |
559834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manapouri%20Power%20Station | Manapouri Power Station | Political history
In July 1956, the New Zealand Electricity Department announced the possibility of a project using the Manapōuri water, an underground power station and underground tailrace tunnel discharging the water at Deep Cove in Doubtful Sound. Five months later, Consolidated Zinc Proprietary Limited (later know... | 2.375 | 0 |
559834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manapouri%20Power%20Station | Manapouri Power Station | In 1972, New Zealand elected a new Labour government. In 1973, the Prime Minister, Norman Kirk, honoured his party's election pledge not to raise the levels of the lakes. He created an independent body, the Guardians of Lake Manapōuri, Monowai, and Te Anau, to oversee management of the lake levels. The original six Gua... | 2.28125 | 0 |
559837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Manapouri | Lake Manapouri | Lake Manapouri () is located in the South Island of New Zealand. The lake is situated within the Fiordland National Park and the wider region of Te Wahipounamu South West New Zealand World Heritage Area.
Māori History
According to Māori legend Lake Manapouri was created by the tears of two sisters, Moturua and Koronae... | 2.46875 | 0 |
559837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Manapouri | Lake Manapouri | Geography
Lake Manapouri was formed by glaciers during the last Holocene. The lake is New Zealand’s second deepest lake measuring deep. Lake Manapouri is above sea level however due to glaciers, Lake Manapouri has been cut deep into the ground and the bottom of the lake now lies below sea level. The lake has four ar... | 2.890625 | 0 |
559837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Manapouri | Lake Manapouri | Biodiversity
The area is well renowned for its fishing and high water quality. Both Lake Manapouri and Lake Te Anau lie within the ultra-oligotrophic index on the trophic state index with clear highly oxygenated waters of very low biological productivity. Both lakes along with the connecting Waiau River contain the New... | 2.71875 | 0 |
559837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Manapouri | Lake Manapouri | Submerged vegetation within Lake Manapouri is mostly native species. Lake Manapouri has a high diversity of submerged vegetation. The rare Hydatella inconspicua an endemic shallow water plant was found in many of the Fiordland lakes including Lake Manapouri in 1998, this was the first reporting of it being in the South... | 3.15625 | 0 |
559837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Manapouri | Lake Manapouri | The water pumped through the station is discharged into Doubtful Sound, accounting for 41 percent of the fresh water consumed in New Zealand in 2010. In 2002, the Government — under pressure from the environmental movement — rejected an application of a business, Southland Water 2000, to bottle 40,000 cubic metres of w... | 2.71875 | 0 |
559844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunsinane%20Hill | Dunsinane Hill | Dunsinane Hill ( ) is a hill of the Sidlaws near the village of Collace in Perthshire, Scotland. It is mentioned in Shakespeare's play Macbeth, in which a vision informs Macbeth that he "shall never vanquished be, until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him."
The hill has a height of and co... | 2.453125 | 0 |
559846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boza | Boza | Boza, also bosa, is a fermented beverage originating from Central Asia and made in parts of the Balkans, Turkey, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and North Africa. It is a malt drink made by fermenting various grains: maize (corn) and wheat in Turkey. It is one of the oldest Turkic beverages. It has a thick consistency, a l... | 2.4375 | 0 |
559856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpoena%20duces%20tecum | Subpoena duces tecum | A subpoena duces tecum (pronounced in English ), or subpoena for production of evidence, is a court summons ordering the recipient to appear before the court and produce documents or other tangible evidence for use at a hearing or trial. In some jurisdictions, it can also be issued by legislative bodies such as county... | 2.671875 | 0 |
559856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpoena%20duces%20tecum | Subpoena duces tecum | Order pursuant to a deposition
In the United States, a notice to a party deponent (a person called to testify in a deposition) may be accompanied by a request for production of documents and other tangible things during the taking of a deposition. The notice to produce (literally: "bring these documents with you to the... | 2.03125 | 0 |
559856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpoena%20duces%20tecum | Subpoena duces tecum | Similarly, a continuance may be granted in a criminal case if there is good reason documents pertinent to the case could not be produced at the time of trial. For example, a continuance should be granted for failure to produce a transcript of testimony given at a previous trial. In general, it is reversible error to pr... | 2.171875 | 0 |
559856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpoena%20duces%20tecum | Subpoena duces tecum | Commitment of witness; contempt of court
A witness who has refused to obey a lawful order to produce books, documents and papers may be incarcerated for contempt of court. A writ of habeas corpus will not apply unless it can be shown the witness could not have legally had possession of such documents. In such a situati... | 2.015625 | 0 |
559856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpoena%20duces%20tecum | Subpoena duces tecum | Public access to documents filed with the court
The right of the public to access judicial records is fundamental to a democratic state and is analogous to the United States' First Amendment right of freedom of speech and of the press and the Sixth Amendment right to public trials. While the right to access trial reco... | 2.0625 | 0 |
559856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpoena%20duces%20tecum | Subpoena duces tecum | The 1962 Social Security Amendments require each state to make child welfare services available throughout the state to all children and provide coordination between child welfare services (Title IV-B) and social services provided under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children Act (ADC, later known as AFDC; now cal... | 2.640625 | 0 |
559856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpoena%20duces%20tecum | Subpoena duces tecum | Mandatory reporting of wounds and injuries
Physician-patient privilege is defined and limited by statute. Many jurisdictions have mandatory reporting laws requiring treating physicians or other medical personnel to report any suspicious injury to police or other appropriate authorities. These requirements may be impo... | 1.921875 | 0 |
559858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioJava | BioJava | BioJava is an open-source software project dedicated to provide Java tools to process biological data. BioJava is a set of library functions written in the programming language Java for manipulating sequences, protein structures, file parsers, Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) interoperability, Distribu... | 2.3125 | 0 |
559858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioJava | BioJava | A major change between the legacy BioJava project and BioJava3 lies in the way framework has been designed to exploit then-new innovations in Java. A sequence is defined as a generic interface allowing the rest of the modules to create any utility that operates on all sequences. Specific classes for common sequences su... | 2.375 | 0 |
559858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioJava | BioJava | Parsers for PDB and mmCIF file formats allow the loading of structure data into a reusable data model. This feature is used by the SIFTS project to map between UniProt sequences and PDB structures. Information from the RCSB PDB can be dynamically fetched without the need to manually download data. For visualization, an... | 1.96875 | 0 |
559858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioJava | BioJava | Differences
BioJava is applicable to nucleotide and peptide sequences and can be applied for entire genomes. STRAP cannot cope with single sequences as long as an entire chromosome. Instead STRAP manipulates peptide sequences and 3D- structures of the size of single proteins. Nevertheless, it can hold a high number of... | 2 | 0 |
559858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioJava | BioJava | In BioJava sequence positions are realized by the class Location. Discontiguous Location objects are composed of several contiguous RangeLocation objects or PointLocation objects. For the class StrapProtein however, single residue positions are indicated by integer numbers between 0 and countResidues()-1. Multiple posi... | 1.945313 | 0 |
559864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioPerl | BioPerl | BioPerl is a collection of Perl modules that facilitate the development of Perl scripts for bioinformatics applications. It has played an integral role in the Human Genome Project.
Background
BioPerl is an active open source software project supported by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation. The first set of Perl codes... | 2.484375 | 0 |
559865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C4%ABja | Bīja | In Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, the Sanskrit term Bīja () (Jp. 種子 shuji) (Chinese 種子 zhǒng zǐ), literally seed, is used as a metaphor for the origin or cause of things and cognate with bindu.
Buddhist theory of karmic seeds
Various schools of Buddhist thought held that karmic effects arose out of seeds that were la... | 2.0625 | 0 |
559865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C4%ABja | Bīja | There are certain masters who give different names to these seeds, each according to his own understanding. Some call them subsidiary elements (anudhatu), others call them impressions (vasana); still others call them capability (samarthya), non-disappearance (avipranasa), or accumulation (upacaya).
The theory is consi... | 2.28125 | 0 |
559869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20adaptation%20syndrome | Space adaptation syndrome | Space adaptation syndrome (SAS) or space sickness is a condition experienced by as many as half of all space travelers during their adaptation to weightlessness once in orbit. It is the opposite of terrestrial motion sickness since it occurs when the environment and the person appear visually to be in motion relative t... | 2.828125 | 0 |
559869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20adaptation%20syndrome | Space adaptation syndrome | According to the sensory conflict hypothesis, space sickness is the opposite of the kinds of motion-related disorientation that occur in the presence of gravity, known as terrestrial motion sickness, such as becoming carsick, seasick, or airsick. In such cases, and in contrast to space sickness, one's surroundings seem... | 2.578125 | 0 |
559869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20adaptation%20syndrome | Space adaptation syndrome | Management
Just as space sickness has the opposite cause compared to terrestrial motion sickness, the two conditions have opposite non-medicinal remedies. The idea of sensory conflict implies that the most direct remedy for motion sickness in general is to resolve the conflict by re-synchronizing what one sees and what... | 2.65625 | 0 |
559869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20adaptation%20syndrome | Space adaptation syndrome | Garn's purpose on the mission was in part to subject him to experiments on space motion sickness. Predicting whether someone will experience space sickness is not possible. Someone who suffers from car sickness may not suffer from space sickness, and vice versa. In excellent physical condition, Garn did not become sick... | 2.375 | 0 |
559870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmain%2C%20New%20South%20Wales | Balmain, New South Wales | The area now known as Balmain was part of a grant to colonial surgeon William Balmain (1762–1803) made in 1800 by Governor John Hunter. A year later, Balmain transferred his entire holding to settle a debt to John Borthwick Gilchrist before returning to Scotland. The legality of the land transfer from Balmain to Gilch... | 2.3125 | 0 |
559870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmain%2C%20New%20South%20Wales | Balmain, New South Wales | Darling Street, Balmain's main thoroughfare, features boutique shops, quality restaurants and cafes alongside old drinking establishments. Landmarks on this street include the Post Office and Court House, alongside Balmain Town Hall, the historic Westpac Bank, Balmain Fire Station and Balmain Working Men's Institute. O... | 2.046875 | 0 |
559871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Bioinformatics%20Foundation | Open Bioinformatics Foundation | The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is a non-profit, volunteer-run organization focused on supporting open source programming in bioinformatics. The mission of the foundation is to support the development of open source toolkits for bioinformatics, organise developer-centric hackathon events and generally assist in the ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
559874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic%20myelogenous%20leukemia | Chronic myelogenous leukemia | Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), also known as chronic myeloid leukemia, is a cancer of the white blood cells. It is a form of leukemia characterized by the increased and unregulated growth of myeloid cells in the bone marrow and the accumulation of these cells in the blood. CML is a clonal bone marrow stem cell dis... | 2.46875 | 0 |
559874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic%20myelogenous%20leukemia | Chronic myelogenous leukemia | Some patients are initially diagnosed in the blast phase in which the symptoms are most likely fever, bone pain and an increase in bone marrow fibrosis.
Cause
In most cases, no obvious cause for CML can be isolated.
Risk factors
CML is more common in males than in females (male to female ratio of 1.4:1) and appears ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
559874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic%20myelogenous%20leukemia | Chronic myelogenous leukemia | The fused BCR-ABL protein interacts with the interleukin 3beta(c) receptor subunit. The BCR-ABL transcript is continuously active and does not require activation by other cellular messaging proteins. In turn, BCR-ABL activates a cascade of proteins that control the cell cycle, speeding up cell division. Moreover, the B... | 2.203125 | 0 |
559874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic%20myelogenous%20leukemia | Chronic myelogenous leukemia | Controversy exists over so-called Ph-negative CML, or cases of suspected CML in which the Philadelphia chromosome cannot be detected. Many such patients in fact have complex chromosomal abnormalities that mask the (9;22) translocation, or have evidence of the translocation by FISH or RT-PCR in spite of normal routine k... | 2.203125 | 0 |
559874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic%20myelogenous%20leukemia | Chronic myelogenous leukemia | Chronic phase
In the past, antimetabolites (e.g., cytarabine, hydroxyurea), alkylating agents, interferon alfa 2b, and steroids were used as treatments of CML in the chronic phase, but since the 2000s have been replaced by Bcr-Abl tyrosine-kinase inhibitors drugs that specifically target BCR-ABL, the constitutively act... | 1.945313 | 0 |
559881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20McMullan | Bob McMullan | Robert Francis McMullan (born 10 December 1947) is a former Australian politician. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was a cabinet minister in the Keating government as Minister for Arts and Administrative Services (1993–1994) and Minister for Trade (1994–1996). He was a member of federal parliament for ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
559918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beate%20Sirota%20Gordon | Beate Sirota Gordon | Beate Sirota Gordon (; October 25, 1923 – December 30, 2012) was an Austrian and American performing arts presenter and women's rights advocate. Born in Vienna, Austria, she moved to the Empire of Japan in 1929 with her father, the pianist Leo Sirota. After graduating from the American School in Japan, she moved to Oak... | 2.3125 | 0 |
559918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beate%20Sirota%20Gordon | Beate Sirota Gordon | Early life and education
Born in Vienna on October 25, 1923 and educated in Tokyo, Beate Sirota was the only child of pianist Leo and Augustine Sirota (née Horenstein), Russians of Jewish descent. Leo had emigrated from Russia because of anti-Semitic violence and settled in Austria-Hungary. Her maternal uncle was condu... | 2.625 | 0 |
559918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beate%20Sirota%20Gordon | Beate Sirota Gordon | When the U.S. began drafting a new constitution for Japan in February 1946, Sirota was enlisted to help and was assigned to the subcommittee dedicated to writing the section of the constitution devoted to civil rights. She was one of only two women in the larger group, the other being economist Eleanor Hadley. Sirota p... | 2.859375 | 0 |
559918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beate%20Sirota%20Gordon | Beate Sirota Gordon | Performing arts
After returning to the United States with her parents, in 1948, Beate Sirota married Lieutenant Joseph Gordon, who had been chief of the interpreter–translator team for the military intelligence section at the Allied Supreme Commander GHQ and was also present for the negotiations on the constitution. Se... | 2.703125 | 0 |
559918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beate%20Sirota%20Gordon | Beate Sirota Gordon | Gordon was also a consultant and adviser to producers such as Harold Prince for his production of the Stephen Sondheim musical, Pacific Overtures. In the early 1960s, she was influential in bringing koto music to the attention of Americans by introducing composer Henry Cowell to the great Japanese koto player, Kimio Et... | 2.625 | 0 |
559956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woore | Woore | Woore ( ) is a village and civil parish in the north east of Shropshire, England. The population of the village as recorded in the 2011 census is 633, and for the civil parish is 1,069. The civil parish extends to about 3,950 acres (1,600 hectares).
Etymology
The name means "boundary" in ancient Celtic or Anglo-Saxo... | 2.171875 | 0 |
559959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20XB-42%20Mixmaster | Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster | The Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster is an experimental American bomber aircraft, designed for a high top speed. The unconventional approach was to mount the two engines within the fuselage driving a pair of contra-rotating propellers mounted at the tail in a pusher configuration, leaving the wing and fuselage clean and free of... | 2.375 | 0 |
559961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Genoa | Republic of Genoa | The Republic of Genoa ( ; ; ) was a medieval and early modern maritime republic from the years 1099 to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast. During the Late Middle Ages, it was a major commercial power in both the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Between the 16th and 17th centuries, it was one of the major fin... | 2.609375 | 0 |
559961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Genoa | Republic of Genoa | Background
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the city of Genoa was invaded by Germanic tribes, and, in about 643, Genoa and other Ligurian cities were captured by the Lombard Kingdom under the King Rothari. In 773 the Kingdom was annexed by the Frankish Empire; the first Carolingian count of Genoa was Ademaru... | 2.8125 | 0 |
559961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Genoa | Republic of Genoa | Before 1100, Genoa emerged as an independent city-state, one of a number of Italian city-states during this period. Nominally, the Holy Roman Emperor was overlord and the Bishop of Genoa was president of the city; however, actual power was wielded by a number of "consuls" annually elected by popular assembly. At that t... | 2.78125 | 0 |
559961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Genoa | Republic of Genoa | Genoa started expanding during the First Crusade. In 1097 Hugh of Châteauneuf, Bishop of Grenoble and William, Bishop of Orange, went to Genoa and preached in the church of San Siro in order to gather troops for the First Crusade. Twelve galleys, one ship, and 1,200 soldiers from Genoa joined the crusade. The Genoese t... | 2.640625 | 0 |
559961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Genoa | Republic of Genoa | The Republic's role as a maritime power in the region secured many favorable commercial treaties for Genoese merchants. They came to control a large portion of the trade of the Byzantine Empire, Tripoli (Libya), the Principality of Antioch, Cilician Armenia, and Egypt. Although Genoa maintained free-trading rights in E... | 2.640625 | 0 |
559961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Genoa | Republic of Genoa | The commercial and cultural rivalry of Genoa and Venice was played out through the thirteenth century. The Republic of Venice played a significant role in the Fourth Crusade, diverting "Latin" energies to the ruin of its former patron and present trading rival, Constantinople. As a result, Venetian support of the newly... | 2.859375 | 0 |
559961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Genoa | Republic of Genoa | Genoa and Pisa became the only states with trading rights in the Black Sea. In the same century the Republic conquered many settlements in Crimea, where the Genoese colony of Caffa was established. The alliance with the restored Byzantine Empire increased the wealth and power of Genoa, and simultaneously decreased Vene... | 2.625 | 0 |
559961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Genoa | Republic of Genoa | Genoese merchants pressed south, to the island of Sicily, and into Muslim North Africas, where Genoese established trading posts, pursuing the gold that traveled up through the Sahara and establishing Atlantic depots as far afield as Salé and Safi. In 1283 the population of the Kingdom of Sicily revolted against the An... | 2.921875 | 0 |
559961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Genoa | Republic of Genoa | In 1396, in order to protect the republic from internal unrest and the provocations of the Duke of Orléans and the former Duke of Milan, the Doge of Genoa Antoniotto Adorno made Charles VI of France the difensor del comune ("defender of the municipality") of Genoa. Though the republic had previously been under partial ... | 2.75 | 0 |
559961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Genoa | Republic of Genoa | Threatened by Alfonso V of Aragon, the Doge of Genoa in 1458 handed the Republic over to the French, making it the Duchy of Genoa under the control of John of Anjou, a French royal governor. However, with support from Milan, Genoa revolted and the Republic was restored in 1461. The Milanese then changed sides, conqueri... | 2.671875 | 0 |
559961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Genoa | Republic of Genoa | Thereafter, Genoa underwent something of a revival as a junior associate of the Spanish Empire, with Genoese bankers, in particular, financing many of the Spanish crown's foreign endeavors from their counting houses in Seville. Fernand Braudel has even called the period 1557 to 1627 the "age of the Genoese", "of a rule... | 2.1875 | 0 |
559961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Genoa | Republic of Genoa | In the meantime in 1635 Don Sebastián Hurtado de Corcuera, the then governor of Panama, had recruited Genoese, Peruvians, and Panamanians, as soldiers to wage war against Muslims in the Philippines and to found the city of Zamboanga upon the conquests of the Sultanates of Sulu and Maguindanao. In this situation Genoese... | 2.46875 | 0 |
559961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Genoa | Republic of Genoa | In a climate of constant economic and power decline, in 1729 the Republic had to face another revolt in Corsica. It is considered the first moment of real rupture between the island and the Genoese Republic: perhaps the most important, because the representatives of the Church in full harmony with the Roman Curia, "jus... | 2.640625 | 0 |
559961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Genoa | Republic of Genoa | The Convention of Turin of 1742, in which Austria allied with the Kingdom of Sardinia, caused some consternation in the Republic. However, when this provisional relationship was given a more durable and reliable character in the signing of the Treaty of Worms, in 1743, the fear of diplomatic isolation had caused the Ge... | 2.515625 | 0 |
559961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20Genoa | Republic of Genoa | The direct intervention of Napoleon (during the Campaigns of 1796) and his representatives in Genoa was the final act that led to the fall of the Republic when in early June, the old elites who had ruled the state for all of its history were overthrown, giving birth to the Ligurian Republic on June 14, 1797, under the ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
559964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Greenwich%2C%20Isle%20of%20Dogs | North Greenwich, Isle of Dogs | North Greenwich is a formal 19th century name for an area now in Millwall situated at the very southern tip of the Isle of Dogs, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies to the south of the commercial estates of West India Docks including Canary Wharf and has a short shoreline along London's Tideway part of the... | 2.203125 | 0 |
559970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetty | Jetty | A jetty is a man-made structure that protrudes from land out into water. A jetty may serve as a breakwater, as a walkway, or both; or, in pairs, as a means of constricting a channel. The term derives from the French word , "thrown", signifying something thrown out.
For regulating rivers
Wing dams
One form of jetties,... | 2.765625 | 0 |
559970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetty | Jetty | When a new channel was cut across the Hook of Holland to provide a straighter and deeper outlet channel for the river Meuse, forming the approach channel to Rotterdam, low, broad, parallel jetties, composed of fascine mattresses weighted with stone, were carried across the foreshore into the sea on either side of the n... | 2.09375 | 0 |
559970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetty | Jetty | A small tidal rise spreading tidal water over a large expanse of lagoon or inland backwater causes the influx and efflux of the tide to maintain a deep channel through a narrows no longer confined by a bank on each side, becomes dispersed, and owing to the reduction of its scouring force, is no longer able at a moderat... | 2.25 | 0 |
559974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Somerset%2C%20Marquess%20of%20Worcester | Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester | Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester (25 December 1660 – 13 July 1698) was an English nobleman and politician.
He was the eldest surviving son of Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort and Mary Capell, and was styled Lord Herbert of Raglan from 1667 until 1682 and Marquess of Worcester thereafter.
He attended Christ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
559991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Cabannes | Jean Cabannes | Jean Cabannes (; 12 August 1885 – 31 October 1959) was a French physicist specialising in optics.
Education and career
Cabannes studied at the Lycée de Nice and entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1906. From 1910 to 1914, Cabannes worked in the laboratory of Charles Fabry at Aix-Marseille University on the topic ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
560003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Montana | Bob Montana | Robert William Montana (October 23, 1920 – January 4, 1975) was an American comic strip artist who created the original likenesses for characters published by Archie Comics and in the newspaper strip Archie.
Early life
He was born in Stockton, California, to Roberta Pandolfini Montana and Ray Montana. Both were in sho... | 2.390625 | 0 |
560009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aridity | Aridity | Aridity is the condition of geographical regions which make up approximately 43% of total global available land area, characterized by low annual precipitation, increased temperatures, and limited water availability. These areas tend to fall upon degraded soils, and their health and functioning are key necessities of r... | 3.296875 | 0 |
560012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%20Tilke | Hermann Tilke | Hermann Tilke (born 31 December 1954) is a German engineer, racing driver and circuit designer, who has designed numerous Formula One motor racing circuits. His son is architect Carsten Tilke.
Racing
During the 1980s, Tilke competed in touring car racing, mainly on the old Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit. He also com... | 2.234375 | 0 |
560047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic%20climate | Oceanic climate | Oceanic climates are not necessarily found in coastal locations on the aforementioned parallels; however, in most cases oceanic climates parallel higher middle latitude oceans. The polar jet stream, which moves in a west to east direction across the middle latitudes, advances low pressure systems, storms, and fronts. I... | 3.1875 | 0 |
560047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic%20climate | Oceanic climate | Oceanic climates in Europe occupy a large stretch of land, from Norway's Atlantic coast, Ireland and the United Kingdom and southeast to some parts of Turkey.
Western Europe is almost exclusively oceanic between 45°N to 54.913°N; including most of France (away from the Mediterranean), nearly all of Belgium, the Neth... | 3.03125 | 0 |
560047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic%20climate | Oceanic climate | The line between oceanic and continental climates in Europe runs in a generally northwest to southeast direction. For example, western Germany is more impacted by milder Atlantic air masses than eastern Germany. Thus, winters across Europe become colder to the east, and (in some locations) summers become hotter. The li... | 3.1875 | 0 |
560047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic%20climate | Oceanic climate | Western sea breezes ease temperatures and moderates the winter, especially if warm sea currents are present, and cause cloudy weather to predominate. Precipitation is constant, especially in colder months, when temperatures are warmer than elsewhere at comparable latitudes. This climate can occur farther inland if no m... | 3.171875 | 0 |
560047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic%20climate | Oceanic climate | Cfb climates are predominant in most of Europe except the northeast, as global temperatures became warmer towards late 20th and early 21st century. They are the main climate type in New Zealand and the Australian states of Tasmania, Victoria, and southeastern New South Wales (starting from the Illawarra region). In Nor... | 2.796875 | 0 |
560047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic%20climate | Oceanic climate | Subtropical highland climates with uniform rainfall (Cfb) usually have rainfall spread relatively evenly throughout the year, similar to other oceanic climates, but unlike these climates, they have a high diurnal temperature variation and low humidity, owing to their inland location and relatively high elevation. Subtr... | 2.953125 | 0 |
560047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic%20climate | Oceanic climate | This type of climate exists in parts of east, south and southeastern Africa, interior southern Africa and elevated portions of eastern Africa as far north as Ethiopia and of western Africa (west region of Cameroon) up to the southwestern Angola highlands also share this climate type. It also exists in the exposed areas... | 2.734375 | 0 |
560047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic%20climate | Oceanic climate | Areas with subpolar oceanic climates feature an oceanic climate but are usually located closer to polar regions, with long but relatively mild winters and short, cool summers. As a result of their location, these regions tend to be on the cool end of oceanic climates, approaching polar regions. Snowfall tends to be mor... | 3.25 | 0 |
560049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil%20Gordon%20Lawson | Cecil Gordon Lawson | Cecil Gordon Lawson (3 December 1849 – 10 June 1882 London) was a British landscapist and illustrator.
Life
The youngest son of William Lawson of Edinburgh, a well-regarded portrait painter, and of a mother also known for her flower pieces, he was born in Fountain Place in Wellington, Shropshire. Two of his brothers (... | 2.515625 | 0 |
560053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Henry%20Hunt%20%28painter%29 | William Henry Hunt (painter) | William Henry Hunt (London 28 March 1790 – 10 February 1864), was an English watercolourist. Hunt was "one of the key figures
in nineteenth-century English watercolour painting. His work was extensively collected in his lifetime, particularly his genre pictures of children, often in humorous situations, and his detaile... | 2.71875 | 0 |
560061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe%20semilanceata | Psilocybe semilanceata | Psilocybe semilanceata, commonly known as the liberty cap, is a species of fungus which produces the psychoactive compounds psilocybin, psilocin and baeocystin. It is both one of the most widely distributed psilocybin mushrooms in nature, and one of the most potent. The mushrooms have a distinctive conical to bell-shap... | 2.4375 | 0 |
560061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe%20semilanceata | Psilocybe semilanceata | Several molecular studies published in the 2000s demonstrated that Psilocybe, as it was defined then, was polyphyletic. The studies supported the idea of dividing the genus into two clades, one consisting of the bluing, hallucinogenic species in the family Hymenogastraceae, and the other the non-bluing, non-hallucinoge... | 2.25 | 0 |
560061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe%20semilanceata | Psilocybe semilanceata | The mushroom takes its common name from the Phrygian cap, also known as the "liberty cap", which it resembles; P. semilanceata shares its common name with P. pelliculosa, a species from which it is more or less indistinguishable in appearance. The Latin word for Phrygian cap is pileus, nowadays the technical name for w... | 2.8125 | 0 |
560061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe%20semilanceata | Psilocybe semilanceata | On the underside of the mushroom's cap, there are between 15 and 27 individual narrow gills that are moderately crowded together, and they have a narrowly adnexed to almost free attachment to the stipe. Their color is initially pale brown, but becomes dark gray to purple-brown with a lighter edge as the spores mature. ... | 2.625 | 0 |
560061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe%20semilanceata | Psilocybe semilanceata | Other forms
The anamorphic form of P. semilanceata is an asexual stage in the fungus's life cycle involved in the development of mitotic diaspores (conidia). In culture, grown in a petri dish, the fungus forms a white to pale orange cottony or felt-like mat of mycelia. The conidia formed are straight to curved, measuri... | 2.640625 | 0 |
560061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe%20semilanceata | Psilocybe semilanceata | There are several other Psilocybe species that may be confused with P. semilanceata due to similarities in physical appearance. P. strictipes is a slender grassland species that is differentiated macroscopically from P. semilanceata by the lack of a prominent papilla. P. mexicana, commonly known as the "Mexican liberty... | 2.640625 | 0 |
560061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe%20semilanceata | Psilocybe semilanceata | Laboratory tests have shown P. semilanceata to suppress the growth of the soil-borne water mold Phytophthora cinnamomi, a virulent plant pathogen that causes the disease root rot. When grown in dual culture with other saprobic fungi isolated from the rhizosphere of grasses from its habitat, P. semilanceata significantl... | 2.234375 | 0 |
560061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe%20semilanceata | Psilocybe semilanceata | The first reliably documented report of Psilocybe semilanceata intoxication involved a British family in 1799, who prepared a meal with mushrooms they had picked in London's Green Park. According to the chemist Augustus Everard Brande, the father and his four children experienced typical symptoms associated with ingest... | 2.390625 | 0 |
560061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe%20semilanceata | Psilocybe semilanceata | Several studies have quantified the amounts of hallucinogenic compounds found in the fruit bodies of Psilocybe semilanceata. In 1993, Gartz reported an average of 1% psilocybin (expressed as a percentage of the dry weight of the fruit bodies), ranging from a minimum of 0.2% to a maximum of 2.37% making it one of the mo... | 2.203125 | 0 |
560063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbrow | Hillbrow | Hillbrow () is an inner city residential neighbourhood of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is known for its high levels of population density, unemployment, poverty, prostitution and crime.
It had a large and active Jewish community for much of the twentieth century and housed several Orthodox synagogu... | 2.359375 | 0 |
560063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbrow | Hillbrow | History
Prior to the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, the suburb laid on government owned land called Randjeslaagte that now makes up the Johannesburg CBD. It was a triangular shaped piece of waste land not used for farming and the future suburb lies in the northern apex of the triangle. The origin of it... | 2.734375 | 0 |
560063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbrow | Hillbrow | In the 1960s and 1970s, many elderly Jewish people purchased flats in Hillbrow, planning to stay there for the final chapter of their lives. There was an uptick in Jewish migration out of the inner city suburbs into the northern suburbs from the mid-1970s.
In 1967 the press reported confrontations between local Jewish... | 2.1875 | 0 |
560063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbrow | Hillbrow | Photography
The suburb was the subject of several photographs by the renowned photographer, David Goldblatt. "Hillbrow, Johannesburg, South Africa 1973" depicts a white family amid the context of the Group Areas Act designating the area "Whites-only". "Domestic Worker on Abel Road, Hillbrow, Johannesburg March 1973", d... | 2.203125 | 0 |
560068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20John%20Pinwell | George John Pinwell | George John Pinwell (London 26 December 1842 – 8 September 1875 London), was a British illustrator and watercolourist.
Biography
Pinwell was born on 26 December 1842 at 12 Great Mays Buildings, London. He was baptised on 27 July 1845, at St. Mark's, Surbiton, south-west London, along with his younger brother Henry (b... | 2.390625 | 0 |
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