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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wife%20from%20the%20Dragon%20Palace
The Wife from the Dragon Palace
Mongolia According to Boris L. Riftin, variants of the tale type are attested in the Oirat and Mongolian versions of the compilation The Bewitched Corpse. German linguist translated a Mongolian tale from the Siddi Kur ("The Bewitched Corpse") wherein an Indian king's animal tamer releases a dancing golden frog back ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wife%20from%20the%20Dragon%20Palace
The Wife from the Dragon Palace
In a Tibetan tale translated into Russian with the title "Девушка-дракон" ("The Dragon Girl"), a father dies and his three sons, named First Brother, Second Brother and Third Brother divide their inheritance: a golden box, a silver box and a wooden box. Third Brother takes the wooden box and goes to live a humble life....
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wife%20from%20the%20Dragon%20Palace
The Wife from the Dragon Palace
Russian ethnographer Grigory Potanin collected a "Tangut" (19th century designation for Tibetan people) tale he titled "Дочь Водянаго Царя" ("Daughter of the Water King"): a youth hits a whirlwind that burrows underground and goes to tell the king. The king sends some men with the youth and they rescue a princess from ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wife%20from%20the%20Dragon%20Palace
The Wife from the Dragon Palace
In a Tibetan tale translated as The Castle in the Lake, rumors and stories surround a certain lake in the mountains, where people swear they can see a castle reflected in its waters: "Castle Lake". One day, poor shepherd Rinchen takes his yaks to graze near the lake, and goes to rest a bit. Reflecting on his life and t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wife%20from%20the%20Dragon%20Palace
The Wife from the Dragon Palace
In a Tuvan tale titled "Оскюс-оол и Золотая царевна" ("Oskyus-ool and the Golden Princess"), a youth named Oskyus-ool lives with his dying father and a little goat herd. His father asks the youth to bury him under a white stone near the Arzayty Mountains, and for him to move near the Golden Lake. The youth fulfills his...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wife%20from%20the%20Dragon%20Palace
The Wife from the Dragon Palace
Bhutan Author Kunzang Choden published a Bhutanese tale titled The Shepherd: a poor shepherd grazes his sheep near a lake. He then sees a white rat and a black rat fighting, the black rat clearly superior. The shepherd intervenes and protects the white rat. Some time later, two women come out of the lake and introduce...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wife%20from%20the%20Dragon%20Palace
The Wife from the Dragon Palace
In another tale from the Lepcha people, collected by Danish ethnologist Halfdan Siiger from an informant named Tsering with the title The Story of an Orphan Boy, an orphan boy lives alone and goes to hunt in the forest. One day, he sees an eagle poised to attack an eight-year-old boy who is the son of lu pŭ nŭ, an unde...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wife%20from%20the%20Dragon%20Palace
The Wife from the Dragon Palace
In a tale from the Shor people, titled "ЧАГЫС - ОДИНОКИЙ ПАРЕНЬ" ("Chagys, the Lonely Fellow"), a poor man trades his sheep for a pike caught by fishermen and releases the fish back to the sea. Some time later, an emissary of the хозяин (master) of the waters demands his presence in the underwater court. Down there, th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace%20of%20Alb%C3%A9niz
Palace of Albéniz
Due to the desire to transform the palace into a true royal residence, since the Palau Reial de Pedralbes was not to the future King Juan Carlos I pleasure, in the 1970s the gardens were enlarged. The expansion project was carried out by Joaquim Maria Casamor, chief architect of the Department of Parks and Gardens of B...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%CA%BBeia%20Fishpond
Heʻeia Fishpond
Hawaii lacks the lagoons found at atolls elsewhere in the Pacific Ocean, and Heeia Fishpond, like other Hawaiian fishponds, in effect creates a marine environment similar to that found in many lagoons. The brackish water maintained in the fishpond and its depth are ideal for the growth of phytoplankton and a wide vari...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa%20%27Pink%20Flamingo%27
Rosa 'Pink Flamingo'
Rosa 'Pink Flamingo' (aka MEIkolyma) is a deep pink Grandiflora rose cultivar, bred by Alain Meilland before 2006. Meilland International introduced the rose in France after 1997 as 'Candy Love'®. It was introduced in the U.S. by Meilland–Star Roses Inc. as 'Pink Flamingo' in 2010. In 2014, the rose was awarded Best...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjulal%20Majmudar
Manjulal Majmudar
Manjulal Ranchhodlal Majmudar (18 September 1897 – 11 November 1984) was a Gujarati language writer and scholar. He was awarded the Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 1968. Biography Manjulal Majmudar was born on 18 September 1897 at Petlad (Peṭalāda), in the Anand district of Gujarat, India. Majmudar got his education at ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim%20Ujani
Ibrahim Ujani
Muhammad Ibrahim Ujani (; 1863 – 1943) was a Bengali Deobandi scholar and founder of the Jamia Islamia Ibrahimia. He was a senior disciple of Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, and his khalifa Syed Muhammad Ishaq was the founder of the Charmonai Darbar. Early life and education Ibrahim was born in 1863, to a Bengali Muslim family ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atelier%20Lack
Atelier Lack
Atelier Lack was a studio school of drawing and painting established in 1969 by Minnesota artist Richard F. Lack. It was incorporated as a non-profit corporation in 1971. Richard Lack had studied with Boston artist, R. H. Ives Gammell, in the 1950s. In 1967 Lack had written "On the Training of Painters," an examination...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro%20Juan%20Pepiny%C3%A1
Pedro Juan Pepinyá
Pedro Juan Pepinyá, S.J. (1530 - October 28, 1566) was a Spanish Jesuit humanist who contributed to the development of the Jesuit Cursus Conimbricensis commentaries on Aristotle and who revised Cypriano Soarez' De arte rhetorica. Life Pepinyá was born at Elche in Valencia to Melchior Pepinyá and Eleanora Clapes. He ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirriemuir%20Town%20Hall
Kirriemuir Town Hall
Kirriemuir Town Hall is a municipal structure in Reform Street in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. The structure, which is used as a community events venue, is a Category C listed building. History The first municipal building in the town was the Kirriemuir Town House in the High Street which was completed in 1604. In the...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praseodymium%20diiodide
Praseodymium diiodide
Praseodymium diiodide is a chemical compound with the empirical formula of PrI2, consisting of praseodymium and iodine. It is an electride, with the ionic formula of Pr3+(I−)2e−, and therefore not a true praseodymium(II) compound. Preparation Praseodymium diiodide can be obtained by reacting praseodymium(III) iodide ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%20Albion%20F.C.
Lincoln Albion F.C.
Lincoln Albion Football Club was an English football club from Lincoln. History The club was formed from players of the Lincoln Albion cricket club, which had been active since at least 1850, and started playing football in 1875, with a match against Market Rasen. Its first reported football match was a draw with the...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme%20Overvalued%20Beliefs
Extreme Overvalued Beliefs
Of note, the phrase Mr. Booth yelled after assassinating President Lincoln means “thus always to tyrants”. It has frequently served as a justifying rallying cry against dictators. Some have even used it to justify radical views and acts of violence. This same phase was found on a T-shirt worn by Timothy McVeigh when he...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie%20Leask
Julie Leask
Julie Leask , also known as Julie-Anne Leask, is an Australian social scientist and professor in the School of Public Health and Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is a leading researcher on social and behavioural aspects of vaccination and infectious disease prevention. Le...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion%20of%20Madonna
Fashion of Madonna
Madonna told Kim Kardashian during the premiere of her documentary film Madame X (2021) that she has preserved many of her outfits and her fashion archive is located in Brooklyn. In 2013, Madonna hand-picked pieces from her fashion archives, and contributed to Madonna's Fashion Evolutions, a pop-up exhibition on the h...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spondyloepimetaphyseal%20dysplasia-short%20limb-abnormal%20calcification%20syndrome
Spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia-short limb-abnormal calcification syndrome
Spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia-short limb-abnormal calcification syndrome is a rare genetic disorder which is characterized by osseous anomalies resulting in short stature and other afflictions. Signs and symptoms It consists of the following symptoms: disproportionately short stature, shortened upper and lower li...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osvaldo%20Vieira
Osvaldo Vieira
Osvaldo Máximo Vieira (1938 – 31 March 1974) was a Bissau-Guinean revolutionary and prominent military commander during the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence. He was the cousin of João Bernardo Vieira, who would later serve two separate terms as president. Vieira was one of many early recruits from the so-called "revo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerive%20Beach%2C%20Tasmania
Bellerive Beach, Tasmania
Marine life Bellerive Beach is home to a variety of marine life. A colony of little penguins (Eudyptula minor) nests behind the dunes, and they can often be seen coming ashore after dark. The Clarence City Council enforces dog restrictions to protect the penguins. In 2021, the reduction of off-leash dog areas around Be...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarete%20Hoenerbach
Margarete Hoenerbach
Margarete Hoenerbach (Deutz, Cologne, 19 September 1848 – Berlin, 1924) was a German painter, graphic artist, medallist, and sculptor. Life Margarete Hoenerbach trained privately with Otto Rethel and Alfred Hertel in Düsseldorf and settled in Berlin after stays in Paris and Italy. She initially devoted herself to por...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetiana%20Balahura
Tetiana Balahura
Tetiana Ivanivna Balahura (; ; born 12 January 1960) is a Ukrainian language teacher. She began working as a teacher of the Ukrainian language and literature in 1980 and has been at the Poltava Lyceum No. 1 named after Ivan Kotliarevskyi since 2001. Balahura is the author of textbooks on the Ukrainian language, her ow...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue%20of%20Amenemhat%20III%20%28Berlin%29
Statue of Amenemhat III (Berlin)
The Statue of Amenemhat III in the Egyptian Museum in Berlin (inv. no. 1121) was found in 1854 by Joseph Hekekyan (1807–1875) at Memphis in Egypt. It was bought by the Egyptian Museum in 1855. The statue is one of the highlights of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin and one of the most important sculptures of Ancient Egypt ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile%20Doux
Émile Doux
During the Patuleia, or Little Civil War, in 1846–1847, theatrical activities in Lisbon were disrupted. After it was over the owners of the Teatro do Ginásio sought out Doux to ask him to take over directing at the theatre. This he did with some success, in part by introducing vaudeville. During his 20 years in Lisbon,...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste%20Bertrand%20%28physician%29
Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (physician)
Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (July 12, 1670, in Martigues – September 10, 1752) was a French doctor and a member of the Académie de Marseille. Biography Jean-Baptiste Bertrand comes from a commercial family in Martigues. He studied at the Jesuit college in Marseille. His father intended him for the ecclesiastical state, bu...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotik%20Massacre
Sotik Massacre
Shortly after the creation of Maasai reserve and relocation of some of the ethnic Maasai as a result, the Kipsigis raided the Maasai and stole cattle, women and children. Attempts to negotiate the return of the Masai captives, and their cattle failed, and provoked The British East Africa Protectorate government to orga...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey%20Thomas%20McCluskey
Audrey Thomas McCluskey
Audrey Thomas McCluskey is an American writer and professor emeriti. She is an alumna of Indiana University where she was an African-American and African Diaspora Studies professor. She received a B.A. magna cum laude from Clark Atlanta University, an M.A. in African Studies, from Howard University, and a Ph.D. in His...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheut
Scheut
Scheut (; ) is a district of Anderlecht, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium. Located in the north of Anderlecht, it is bounded by the border with the municipality of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean to the north, the historical centre of Anderlecht to the south, the Birmingham district to the east, the Scheutveld district to the ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastery%20of%20St.%20Nicodemus%20%28Jerusalem%29
Monastery of St. Nicodemus (Jerusalem)
The Monastery of St. Nicodemus is a monastery and church of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, dedicated to Nicodemus. It is in Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter, south of Herod's Gate and 90 metres north of the Via Dolorosa. According to an Orthodox belief, Saint Peter's prison was in its basement, where he was j...
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71230528
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From%20the%20Ashes%20%28memoir%29
From the Ashes (memoir)
From the Ashes is a 2019 memoir by Métis-Cree academic and writer Jesse Thistle. The memoir documents Thistle's difficult upbringing, struggles with homelessness, addiction and his Indigenous identity, yet is centred on the theme of love. It concludes with his success in academia, finding love, and community emplaceme...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Taylour
William Taylour
Lord William Desmond Taylor (3 January 1904 – 2 December 1989) was a British archaeologist, specialising in Mycenaean Greece. Biography William Desmond Taylour was the second son of Geoffrey Taylour, 4th Marquess of Headfort, and the Irish Gaiety Girl Rosie Boote. He was born on January 3, 1904, at Pennington House (...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Azim
Adam Azim
Adam Azim is a British-Pakistani professional boxer. He held the European super-lightweight title between 2023 and 2024. Early life Azim was born to British Pakistani parents on 21 July 2002 in Slough, Berkshire and grew up in Cippenham, with his family roots in Kotli, Azad Kashmir. His father was a boxing trainer whi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20depictions%20of%20Sigismund%2C%20Holy%20Roman%20Emperor
Cultural depictions of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
According to historian Ansgar Frenken, for a long time, Sigismund was not even considered a subject worthy of his own field of research, due to both the lack of resonance in the public and scholarly circles, as well as technical difficulty (studying the polyglot emperor, who himself was fluent in six languages, require...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20depictions%20of%20Sigismund%2C%20Holy%20Roman%20Emperor
Cultural depictions of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
Thomas Brady Jr. praises the emperor's vision especially regarding the reform project for both the Church and the Empire, but criticizes him for making too many mistakes, especially in Bohemia: "In August 1436, King Sigismund, now seventy years old, rode into Prague for the first time since 1420. Even in victory he mad...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphiximorpha%20willistoni
Sphiximorpha willistoni
The face is long, flat, black with varying yellow marks.It is yellow in the middle with a large black arrowhead shaped spot and the broadly rounded apex rests on the oral margin and its base and is narrowly connected with the broad black field below the antennae. This black field extends transversely to the orbit of t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphiximorpha%20willistoni
Sphiximorpha willistoni
Thorax The scutum is black with inconspicuous, very minute, brownish pubescence on mesonotum. There is an oblique, oval spot on presutural callus. An elongated spot is on the mesopleurae along the mesopleural suture. Below it is an oval oblique yellowish spot along the posterior end of the sterno-pleural suture. The...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphiximorpha%20willistoni
Sphiximorpha willistoni
Abdomen The abdomen is black, much contracted at the base of the second segment, provided with short, appressed yellowish pubescence and yellow, stripes that are slightly raised. The ventral segments are black, posteriorly margined with pale yellow on the second, third and fourth segments, very narrowly on the fourth...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphiximorpha%20willistoni
Sphiximorpha willistoni
Wings The anterior half of the wings are brown while the posterior is hyaline. The brown is limited posteriorly by the fourth vein at base, and by the spurious vein to barely beyond the anterior cross vein. The brown also extends to the R4+5 vein, narrowly bordering it posteriorly a short distance before the stump of...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%20Cristina%20Cash
Ana Cristina Cash
Ana Cristina Cash ( Álvarez; 2 June 1985) is a Cuban-American singer-songwriter. Early life and career beginnings Ana Cristina Cash was born on 2 June 1985, in Miami, Florida and is of Cuban-American descent with ancestry from Asturias via her paternal grandmother whose parents both migrated to Cuba from Spain. Her f...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moty%20Heiblum
Moty Heiblum
Mordehai "Moty" Heiblum (Hebrew: מוטי הייבלום – sometimes called Moti Heiblum, born May 25, 1947, in Holon) is an Israeli electrical engineer and condensed matter physicist, known for his research in mesoscopic physics. Biography Moty Heiblum was born and raised in Holon. His mother was the only Holocaust survivor in ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veternica%20%28cave%29
Veternica (cave)
Veternica is a cave located on Medvednica mountain in Zagreb, Croatia. At long, it is the longest known cave on its massif, and an estimated 6 km or more remain unexplored. In the 1960s, briefly became the longest cave in Croatia. The first is available to visitors. In 2019, it had 5787 visitors. It is an archeologic...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veternica%20%28cave%29
Veternica (cave)
In 1960, Božičević divided the cave into four sections: The entrance itself with entrance chamber, in which the anthropological finds were made. The tourist section, ending 380 m from the entrance at Kalvarija, beyond which the original explorer Gršetić did not reach. Because this part and the first part of Majmunski...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veternica%20%28cave%29
Veternica (cave)
Much of the formation of Veternica formed in lacustrine conditions at least about 380 ka BP at the unconformable contact between Miocene marly limestone and underlying Triassic dolostone, as a largely phreatic subterranean paleolake 475 m upstream inside the cave. It was during this period that the shelfstones in Majmu...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veternica%20%28cave%29
Veternica (cave)
In layer F, several stone implement fragments were discovered, which Malez assigned to the Aurignacian solely on stratigraphic grounds, but thanks to these implements being mixed with the Mousterian implements, it was not possible to identify them during a verification attempt. The same applies to the chert and quartz ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okuyoshino%20dialect
Okuyoshino dialect
Phonology The Okuyoshino dialect possesses a nairin (Tokyo-style pitch accent); the same type as those used in the Nagoya, Tango and Okayama dialects, among others, although somewhat different from that of Tokyo. There are some differences depending on the area, however. For example, the usually flat kaze ga (かぜが) can...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodatabase%20%28Esri%29
Geodatabase (Esri)
A Geodatabase is a proprietary GIS file format developed in the late 1990s by Esri (a GIS software vendor) to represent, store, and organize spatial datasets within a geographic information system. A geodatabase is both a logical data model and the physical implementation of that logical model in several proprietary fi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso%20Torelli
Alfonso Torelli
Alfonso Torelli (11 November 1856 – 16 September 1913) was an Italian General who was killed in a battle against Libyan rebels. Born in Apricena, in the province of Foggia. He first attended the College of Nobles in Naples, and then admitted to the military academy in Turin in 1875, becoming a sublieutenant of artille...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordtail%20platyfish
Swordtail platyfish
The swordtail platyfish (Xiphophorus xiphidium) is a species of ray-finned fish within the family Poeciliidae. The species is endemic to the Soto la Marina River basin in Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon. It lives in springs, streams, arroyos, ditches, marshes, and ponds in slow-flowing clear to muddy waters, often over mud, ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20F.C.%20%28Scotland%29
Central F.C. (Scotland)
Central Football Club was a football team from Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire, which once reached the quarter-finals of the Scottish Cup. History The club was formed in November 1879. The club's recorded name was Central, the name referring to Lennoxtown being close to the centre of the parish of Campsie. The media some...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwyn%20Singleton
Gwyn Singleton
Gwyn Singleton nee Gwynifer Begbie,(1933–2021) was a Scottish pioneer of educational support for dyslexia. She published a spelling dictionary and associated teaching aids for children with dyslexia, based on an aural coding system, with David Moseley and founded Dyslexia ScotWest support group for families with childr...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell%20Field
Roswell Field
Field had arranged for Montgomery Blair, a high-profile lawyer living in Washington, D.C. to serve as the defense counsel and argue the Scott's case before the United States Supreme Court. Dred Scott was the slave of a United States Army physician, who had taken his enslaved servant along for prolonged stays in free te...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perikatan%20Perempuan%20Indonesia
Perikatan Perempuan Indonesia
The Perikatan Perempuan Indonesia (PPI) (Indonesian Women Association) was a women's organization in Indonesia, founded in 1928. It changed its name to Persatuan Perkumpulan Istri Indonesia (PPII) (Federation of Indonesian Wives/Women's Association) in 1929. It was the first national organization for women in Indonesia...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undesigned%20coincidences
Undesigned coincidences
The Jews knew that Jesus was going to destroy the temple and restore it in three days (Mark 15:29) because he told them (John 2:19). James and John were mending their nets (Matthew 4:21) because Jesus’ miracle producing fish broke the nets (Luke 5:6), even though Matthew makes no mention of this miracle whatsoever. Th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlos%20D.%20Vasileiadis
Pavlos D. Vasileiadis
Pavlos D. Vasileiadis (; born 1974 in Thessaloniki) is a Greek biblical scholar. His research is focused on biblical theology and biblical translation, with emphasis on the textual criticism of the New Testament and the research of the diachronic reception of the Tetragrammaton in Greek literature. He has been an autho...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896%20Duquesne%20Country%20and%20Athletic%20Club%20season
1896 Duquesne Country and Athletic Club season
The Duquesne Country and Athletic Club (DC&AC) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania played its second season of American football in 1896. The team finished with a record of 6–3–1. Season summary The team suffered a heavy turnover in personnel from its previous season, with only five players returning. It spent much of its ear...
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72702069
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20military%20logistics
History of military logistics
Beasts of burden were used as vehicular transport for the food and supplies, either by carrying the supplies directly on their backs—the average medieval horse and mule could carry roughly 100 kilograms—or by pulling carts or wagons, depending on the weather conditions. A force with 1,000 pack and draft animals require...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20military%20logistics
History of military logistics
Seventeenth century By the mid-seventeenth century, the French under Secretary of State for War Michel Le Tellier began a series of military reforms to address some of the issues which had plagued armies. Besides ensuring that soldiers were more regularly paid and combating the corruption and inefficiencies of private ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20military%20logistics
History of military logistics
First World War Between 1870 and 1914, the population of Europe grew from 293 million to 490 million. The expansion of armies and navies was even more rapid. With the spread of military conscription and reserve systems in the decades leading up to the 20th century, the potential size of armies increased substantially. ...
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72703006
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Reed%20Taylor
Henry Reed Taylor
Henry Reed Taylor (6 October 1866 – 23 September 1917) was an American ornithologist from Alameda, California. He founded and edited the magazine Nidiologist from 1893 to 1897. Taylor was born in Cape Town to Methodist Bishop William Taylor and Isabella A. Kimberlin. He grew up in Alameda where he began to collect bi...
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72703016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelalopus
Adelalopus
Description The furcula has a wide U-shape and on the caudal surface of the extremitas sternalis there is a marked depression like in Palaelodus. Unlike in Palaeolodus however the center of this element contains a deep and elongated cavity, which is regarded as one of the genus' diagnostic features. The apophysis of th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Le%20Blond
Max Le Blond
Max Le Blond (born 1950) is a Singaporean theatre director and academic. He was awarded the Cultural Medallion for Theatre in 1987. Early life and education Le Blond was born in Singapore in 1950. He studied at St. Joseph's Institution, and joined the school's debate team and drama club. He placed second in the Rotary...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20Relations%3A%20Menstruation%20and%20the%20Origins%20of%20Culture
Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture
Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture is a book by the evolutionary anthropologist Chris Knight. Published by Yale University Press in hardback 1991 and in paperback four years later, it has remained in print ever since. The book outlines a new theory of human origins, focusing particularly on the e...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20Relations%3A%20Menstruation%20and%20the%20Origins%20of%20Culture
Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture
Largely unnoticed by academics until 'Blood Relations' drew attention to it, what Knight terms 'the hunter's own kill rule' is almost universally recognized, even under deteriorating economic conditions which have prompted it to be evaded or ignored. Among the Mountain Arapesh people of Papua New Guinea: Most signific...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20Relations%3A%20Menstruation%20and%20the%20Origins%20of%20Culture
Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture
Knight notes that all of us find it hard to accept unfamiliar ideas or internalize concepts that form no part of our own culture. For this reason, we have a history of attempts to reduce the Dragon, Plumed Serpent or Anaconda to 'water', 'fertility', 'fear of venomous snakes' or some other concept or phenomenon familia...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20Relations%3A%20Menstruation%20and%20the%20Origins%20of%20Culture
Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture
Knight makes much of the fact that in north-east Arnhem Land, Australia, the rainbow snake was once acted out in elaborate ritual performances as part of the initiation of young men. These boys traditionally had their flesh cut during the ceremony and were encouraged to bleed together in synchrony with one another. Kni...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumpei%20Usui
Bumpei Usui
In addition to floral subjects, still lifes, and cityscapes, Usui painted realistic scenes of everyday city life. Two critics, writing in 1929, associated these paintings with a style called American Scene Painting. More recently, critics noted a connection between these urban paintings and paintings in the Ashcan styl...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAPadura%20Xique-Chico
RAPadura Xique-Chico
Francisco Igor Almeida do Santos (born 1984), better known by his stage name RAPadura Xique-Chico or simply Rapadura, is a Brazilian rapper and composer. He is considered to be a pioneer in successfully blending Hip-Hop music with Forró. In 2020, Rapadura was nominated for the Latin Grammy award. Biography Francisco w...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20largest%20non-human%20primates
List of largest non-human primates
This is a list of large extant primate species (excluding humans) that can be ordered by average weight or height range. There is no fixed definition of a large primate, it is typically assessed empirically. Primates exhibit the highest levels of sexual dimorphism amongst mammals, therefore the maximum body dimensions ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sascha%20Wiederhold
Sascha Wiederhold
Sascha Wiederhold (born 9 March 1904 in Münster; died 20 January 1962 in West Berlin), was a German painter, graphic artist and stage designer. Life Wiederhold was born Ernst Walter Wiederhold in his parents' Münster flat at Grevener Straße 17/18. His father Heinrich Wiederhold (1875–1915) was a sergeant and married ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sascha%20Wiederhold
Sascha Wiederhold
In July 1925 Wiederhold was able to show his first exhibition at the gallery Der Sturm in Berlin, run by Herwarth Walden. This first exhibition demonstrated a wide spectrum of Wiederhold's artistic skills and was evidence of the development the artist had taken within a year. Wiederhold exhibited works at the Der Sturm...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger%20in%20the%20Shogun%27s%20City
Stranger in the Shogun's City
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World is a biographical book by Amy Stanley which was published on July 14, 2020 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Summary The book is about the history of Tokyo at half of nineteenth century and also the story of a discontented and rebellious woman who sacrificed eve...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Irish%20Americans%20in%20Washington%2C%20D.C.
History of Irish Americans in Washington, D.C.
Robert Emmet Park is located on Embassy Row in D.C. In 1916, a bronze statue "Robert Emmet" was sculpted by Irish artist Jerome Connor in honor of Irish Republican Robert Emmet. The statue was a gift to the Smithsonian Institution on loan to the National Park Service. In 1924, a sculpture, "Nuns of the Battlefield," w...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance%20Philpitt%20Warner
Constance Philpitt Warner
Constance Philpitt Warner was a photographer who specialized in natural history photography and worked with the Smithsonian's National Zoo. Biography Warner was born in Hyattsville, Maryland on May 25, 1897. She studied nursing and worked as a nurse before turning to photography. Through her marriage to Dr. Carden War...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stablemates%20%28jazz%20composition%29
Stablemates (jazz composition)
Stablemates is a jazz composition by the American saxophonist Benny Golson written in 1955. The song was first recorded by Miles Davis for the 1956 album Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet. It is widely regarded as a jazz standard and has been recorded by many notable jazz artists. Background According to his autobi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeziorka%20%28river%29
Jeziorka (river)
The Jeziorka River is a river in central Poland, a left tributary of the Vistula river with a length of 66 kilometers. It rises near the Dębiny Osuchowskie village, and enters the Vistula near Obórki village, close to Konstancin-Jeziorna. The river passes through the villages of Głuchów, Prażmów, Żabieniec and Chylicz...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/244th%20Rifle%20Division
244th Rifle Division
The third formation of the 244th took place within weeks, also in Southwestern Front, and may have incorporated survivors of the second formation under new leadership. It was formed while the German summer offensive was already underway and barely escaped being disbanded for a third time. Instead, it was sent to the 57...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/244th%20Rifle%20Division
244th Rifle Division
Southwestern Front made its first effort to advance into the Donbas against 1st Panzer Army on July 17, but this was defeated after two weeks. The Front commander, Army Gen. R. Ya. Malinovskii, then regrouped his forces for a renewed effort that began on August 13. 1st Panzer again held its ground in the early going, b...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20Well
Animal Well
Animal Well is a Metroidvania video game developed by Billy Basso and published by Bigmode. The player controls a blob and explores a labyrinth filled with animals. The game was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Windows on May 9, 2024, and for Xbox Series X/S on October 17, 2024. It released to critical ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20Well
Animal Well
Basso developed the engine from scratch in C++, wanting to free himself from working in the limitations of third-party engines like Unity and Unreal. The engine has low latency, allowing for precise platforming. The gameplay code was written into its own DLL that can be recompiled while the game is running. Basso used ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20Awareness%20Center
Islamic Awareness Center
The Islamic Awareness Center, also known as Masjid Al-Tawheed (Arabic: مسجد التوحيد), is a mosque and Dawah institution for the purpose of Islamic proselytization in Binghamton, New York. Since 2011, the Islamic Awareness Center has been located in the historic former building of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shephe...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Soun-Gui
Kim Soun-Gui
Early life Kim was born in 1946 in Buyeo, Chungnam, South Korea. She grew up in Daejeon, and then Seoul. Kim's mother was a well-known calligrapher and painter exhibiting work under the name Sang Man, and Kim's grandfather practiced calligraphy as well. As a result, Kim studied calligraphy since early childhood, and a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%20%28novel%29
Logan (novel)
Harold champions the cause of Native Americans before the British Parliament before he and Elvira return to North America. Just before they are married, Harold leaves Elvira for Loena, but learns that Loena is in love with Oscar, who did not die, but was rescued after jumping ship in the Atlantic. On a moonlit night, a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.%20T.%20M.%20Iqbal
K. T. M. Iqbal
Mohamed Iqbal (born in 1940), better known as K. T. M. Iqbal, is a Singaporean poet and essayist. He was awarded the Cultural Medallion in 2014. Early life and education Iqbal was born in Kadayanallur, India in 1940. He and his father left for Singapore in 1951 after his mother and his three younger brothers died from...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Michigan%20Triangle
Lake Michigan Triangle
On the evening of June 23, 1950, Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501, carrying 55 passengers and three crew, left the LaGuardia Airport in New York City for Minneapolis. Although a preflight review of the weather revealed thunderstorms and possible squalls along the route of the flight, it was not a great concern to ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Michigan%20Triangle
Lake Michigan Triangle
Don Schaller and Don Rodriguez On July 3, 1998, Donald Schaller flew a two-seat Aero L-39 Albatros, a high-performance single-engine jet often used as a military trainer by Eastern European countries. Schaller, a veteran pilot, was planning on participating in his first air show for the National Cherry Festival in Tra...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Zollinger
Robert Zollinger
Robert Milton Zollinger (September 4, 1903 – June 12, 1992) was an American general surgeon and professor of surgery at Ohio State University. He described Zollinger–Ellison syndrome. In 1947, he became a professor of surgery and chair of the department of surgery at Ohio State University. Early life Zollinger was bor...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Zollinger
Robert Zollinger
In 1947, Zollinger returned to Ohio to take up the position of a professor of surgery and chair of the department of surgery at Ohio State University; he remained in those positions until his retirement in 1974. He and Edwin H. Ellison were the first to describe the association between peptic ulcers and pancreatic tumo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhojpuri%20grammar
Bhojpuri grammar
Bhojpuri grammar () is the grammar of the Bhojpuri language. In many aspects, it is quite similar to other Eastern Indo-Aryan languages. Modern Bhojpuri grammar was written in 1915 by Pt. Shivadas Ojha. Nouns Nouns in Bhojpuri have three forms, viz. short, long and redundant. Thus, for ghōṛā (Horse), the forms will ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhojpuri%20grammar
Bhojpuri grammar
Number To form the plural in Bhojpuri, the final long vowel is shortened and -n, -nh or -ni is added. In some cases, nouns of multitude like sabh (all) or lōg (people) are added to nouns to make plurals. Cases Cases are generally formed by adding prepositions to the Nominative case or the oblique form (if exists) of...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhojpuri%20grammar
Bhojpuri grammar
In the second person, tē is the most non-honorific form, used toward people younger than the speaker, to servants, and also while speaking disrespectfully. It can also show deep affection, informality and intimacy in a relationship. For instance, a son always uses tē for his mother. tū is ordinarily respectful term and...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investiture%20of%20the%20Archangel%20Michael
Investiture of the Archangel Michael
The Investiture of the Archangel Michael (alternatively, the Book of the Investiture of the Holy Archangel Michael or the Book of the Investiture of Michael) is an apocryphal text of the New Testament. It is an Old Nubian-language text, purportedly written by John the Apostle, which describes the importance of Michael,...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suratman%20Markasan
Suratman Markasan
Suratman bin Markasan (29 December 1930 – 27 February 2024) was a Singaporean poet, novelist and literary pioneer. He was awarded the Cultural Medallion, the S.E.A. Write Award, the Anugerah Sasterawan Mastera and the Singapore Literature Prize. He was also known by his pen names S. Markasan and Suman Mali. Biography...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natchez%20Institute
Natchez Institute
The Natchez Institute was a segregated K-12 public school "for whites-only" established in 1845 and closed in ? in Natchez, Mississippi. It was the first public, co-educational school in the city that offered a full course of classes. It is listed as a Mississippi Landmark since June 20, 1985. History Local merchant...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t%20Look%20Up%20%28soundtrack%29
Don't Look Up (soundtrack)
Development Britell said that each of his project was a tonal experiment and Don't Look Up was the most challenging as "it had to be a mixture of tones, incredibly comedic and at the same time it had to be about the existential crisis of the planet". After going through the initial prospects of the script, he was aske...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20Chomel
Raymond Chomel
Organisation of the internal military resistance After the armistice, Colonel Chomel was appointed Chief of Staff for the 9th Military Division. Chomel was tempted to join de Gaulle in London but opted to stay in Châteauroux in the Armistice Army, with plans to organise a military resistance for his region. He and a Co...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20Chomel
Raymond Chomel
Surrender of the Saint-Nazaire Pocket On 26 October 1944, General de Larminat, commander of the French Forces of the West, appointed Colonel Chomel commander of the subordinate French Forces of the Loire-Inférieure (FFLI), which included, in addition to the Charles Martel Brigade, 5 marching battalions of the FFI of th...
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