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71247570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nhandu%20coloratovillosus | Nhandu coloratovillosus | Nhandu coloratovillosus also known as the Brazilian black & white tarantula or the bombardier tarantula, is a species of tarantula first described by Günter Schmidt in 1998. They are found in the grasslands of Brazil and Paraguay, and are terrestrial tarantulas.
Description
Females live 15 years, while males only to... | 2.59375 | 0 |
71247604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment%20in%20Chad | Capital punishment in Chad | Capital punishment was abolished for all crimes in Chad on April 28, 2020, following a unanimous vote by the National Assembly of Chad. Prior to April 2020, Chad's 003/PR/2020 "anti-terrorism" law maintained capital punishment for terrorism-related offenses. Chad's new penal code, which was adopted in 2014 and promulga... | 2.109375 | 0 |
71247716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depopulation%20of%20Muang%20Phuan | Depopulation of Muang Phuan | The depopulation of Muang Phuan in 1834 was a forced migration campaign carried out by Siam in the course of their 1833–1834 war with Vietnam, in order to deny the Vietnamese the chance to re-establish control over the Xiangkhoang Plateau.
Background
During the early 19th century, Laos was fragmented into several kin... | 2.640625 | 0 |
71247769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A1rbara%20Heliodora%20%28poet%29 | Bárbara Heliodora (poet) | Bárbara Heliodora Guilhiermina da Silveira (São João del-Rei, c. 1759 – São Gonçalo do Sapucaí, May 24, 1819) was a Brazilian poet, gold miner and political activist.
Life
Her parents were José da Silveira e Sousa and Maria Josefa Bueno da Cunha. For some scholars, she was descended from one of the most illustrious f... | 2.3125 | 0 |
71247784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Dawson | Jane Dawson | Jane Elizabeth Anne Dawson is a British academic and historian. Her specialism is early modern history within the British Isles and the Protestant reformation.
Dawson is Professor Emerita of Reformation history at the University of Edinburgh and has previously served as a lecturer and honorary lecturer in modern hist... | 2.4375 | 0 |
71247912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20F.C.%20%28Liverpool%29 | Stanley F.C. (Liverpool) | Stanley F.C., often referred to from 1887 to 1890 as Liverpool Stanley, was an English association football club, from Liverpool in Merseyside.
History
The club was founded in 1882 by cricketers from the Stanley Cricket Club, who played their matches in Stanley Park in Liverpool. The club optimistically entered the L... | 2.203125 | 0 |
71247922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20nude%20in%20art | History of the nude in art | Greece was the first place where the human body was represented in a naturalistic way, far from the hieratism and schematization of previous cultures. Greek culture was humanistic, the human being was the main object of study of their philosophy and art, since their religion was more mythological than an object of wors... | 2.6875 | 0 |
71247922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20nude%20in%20art | History of the nude in art | The first exponent of the male nude is a type of figures representing athletes, gods or mythological heroes, called kouros (kouroi in plural), belonging to the Archaic period (7th century–5th century BC)—their female variant is the kore (korai in plural), which, however, they used to represent dressed. Although in orig... | 2.546875 | 0 |
71247922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20nude%20in%20art | History of the nude in art | In contrast, Leonardo da Vinci departed from classical canons, with naturalistic figures designed according to his extensive studies of anatomy. Early on he was inspired by the energetic forms of Pollaiuolo, and The Battle of Anghiari is influenced by Michelangelo's The Battle of Cascina. Later, his deepening in anatom... | 2.421875 | 0 |
71247922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20nude%20in%20art | History of the nude in art | Disciples of Titian were Paris Bordone (Sleeping Venus with Cupid, 1540; Bathsheba Bathing, 1549; Venus and Mars with Cupid, 1560) and Tintoretto, whose ambition—not entirely achieved—was to reunite Michelangelo's drawing with Titian's coloring. The works of the latter are large, with a multitude of figures, with dazzl... | 2.25 | 0 |
71247922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20nude%20in%20art | History of the nude in art | Hans Baldung was also a disciple of Dürer, author of allegorical works of strong moralizing content, generally with personifications of death or the ages of man, recalling the ephemeral nature of life: St. Sebastian Triptych (1507), The Two Lovers and Death (1509–1511), The Three Ages of Woman and Death (1510), Eve, th... | 1.992188 | 0 |
71247922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20nude%20in%20art | History of the nude in art | In Spain, the Renaissance influence arrived late, with Gothic forms surviving until almost the middle of the 16th century. Otherwise, the innovations were more stylistic than thematic, with religious themes predominating as in medieval times. El Greco was one of the main innovators of Spanish painting of the time: trai... | 2.484375 | 0 |
71247922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20nude%20in%20art | History of the nude in art | In the French field, Nicolas Poussin, an artist of a serene classicism, was perhaps the inaugurator of the academic nude, for being cultured and idealized, based on the representation in images of the erudite culture that had mythology and ancient history as its thematic base. Of Raphaelesque influence, he was interest... | 2.375 | 0 |
71247922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20nude%20in%20art | History of the nude in art | Jean-Antoine Watteau was one of the initiators of the style, with his scenes of gallant parties and bucolic landscapes full of mythical characters or, when not, anonymous people enjoying life. Influenced by Rubens and the Venetian school, his palette was brightly colored, with a nervous style of rapid, expressive and v... | 1.992188 | 0 |
71247922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20nude%20in%20art | History of the nude in art | David's disciples and followers followed his classical ideal, but moving away from his rigorous severity and drifting towards a certain sensualist mannerism, with an erotic grace that Max Friedländer called volupté décente ("decent voluptuousness"). François Gérard sought the perfection of ideal beauty, through the sof... | 1.914063 | 0 |
71247922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20nude%20in%20art | History of the nude in art | If David was the great neoclassical painter par excellence, in sculpture his equivalent was Antonio Canova. Although he studied the work of the great Renaissance masters (Ghiberti, Donatello, Michelangelo), it was in classical Greco-Roman statuary where he found inspiration, which he was able to study in the great coll... | 2.453125 | 0 |
71247922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20nude%20in%20art | History of the nude in art | Romanticism had two notable precursors in Great Britain: Johann Heinrich Füssli and William Blake. The former, of Swiss origin, developed a mannerist style influenced by Dürer, Pontormo, Baccio Bandinelli and Michelangelo, with a work of a certain conceptual duality: on the one hand erotic and violent themes, on the ot... | 2.09375 | 0 |
71247922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20nude%20in%20art | History of the nude in art | His disciples were: Antoine-Jean Gros, chronicler of the Napoleonic deeds, made in Bonaparte visiting the plague victims of Jaffa (1804) some nudes of intense dramatism, showing with crudeness the effects of the disease; and Théodore Chassériau, who tried to synthesize the line of Ingres with the colorfulness of Delacr... | 2.359375 | 0 |
71247922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20nude%20in%20art | History of the nude in art | Eugène Delacroix was one of the first artists to deviate from the official academic art, replacing the outlined contour drawing with a less precise and fluid line, dynamic and suggestive, and a chromatism of vibrant adjacent tones and an effectiveness based on a certain divisionism of color. During his training he made... | 2.125 | 0 |
71247922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20nude%20in%20art | History of the nude in art | One of the characteristics of symbolism is the dark attraction to the perverse woman, the femme fatale, the Eve turned into Lilith, the enigmatic and distant, disturbing woman, the woman that Manuel Machado defined as "brittle, vicious and mystical, pre-Raphaelite virgin and Parisian cat". She is a woman loved and hate... | 2.296875 | 0 |
71247922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20nude%20in%20art | History of the nude in art | Following in his footsteps were artists such as Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, who created large mural decorations in which he returned to linearity after the Impressionist experiments, with melancholic landscapes where the nude figure abounds, as in The Work (1863), Autumn (1865), Hope (1872), Young Girls by the Seashore ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
71247922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20nude%20in%20art | History of the nude in art | Other exponents of Dadaism were: Francis Picabia, a subversive artist with a strong individualistic temperament, author of nudes such as Woman and Idol (1940), The brunette and blonde (1941), Two Nudes (1941), Nudes (1942) and Five Women (1942). Man Ray was a painter, sculptor and photographer, one of the most original... | 2.234375 | 0 |
71247922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20nude%20in%20art | History of the nude in art | In Spain, the artistic avant-garde had a slower implementation, although many Spanish artists were pioneers of the international avant-garde (Picasso, Dalí, Miró). At the beginning of the century, the Spanish artistic scene was still dominated by academicism, coexisting to a lesser extent with impressionism and moderni... | 2.3125 | 0 |
71247922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20nude%20in%20art | History of the nude in art | In Italy, Sandro Chia creates an autobiographical work, portraying moments of his own existence, together with references to the history of art, especially the artists he is most interested in, such as Cézanne, Picasso or Chagall. In The Slave (1980) he made a symbiosis of Michelangelo's Dying Slave and Botticelli's Th... | 2.046875 | 0 |
71247922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20nude%20in%20art | History of the nude in art | The nude in Japanese art was not widely represented in official media, even though it was seen as something natural, everything related to sexuality was considered to be related to private life. Even if a nude body could appear in a Japanese image, it would be in the context of an intimate, everyday scene, such as a pu... | 2.515625 | 0 |
71248005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velio%20Spano | Velio Spano | Provenance and early years
Velio Spano was born at Teulada, a little town close to the southern tip of Sardinia, which had been part of Italy since unification. Attilio Spano, his father, worked for the government. Antonietta Contini, his mother, was a school teacher. When Velio was just 5 the family relocated s... | 2.515625 | 0 |
71248097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derbent%20Lighthouse | Derbent Lighthouse | The Derbent Lighthouse is the southernmost lighthouse in Russia, located in the city of Derbent, a city in the Russian Republic of Dagestan. It is in the center of the city, on the fortress wall between the parks named after Sergei Kirov and Nizami Ganjavi and about half a kilometer from the coastline. The lighthouse i... | 2.5 | 0 |
69647414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%20Hornak | Rosemary Hornak | Rosemary Hornak (born February 3, 1951) is an American visual artist, known for her late twentieth-century contributions to American Folk Art; art collector; philanthropist; the sister of founding Photorealist and Hyperrealist artist, Ian Hornak; and the mother of art dealer and historian, Eric Ian Spoutz
Early life, ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
69648016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakwenza%20Rukirabashaija | Kakwenza Rukirabashaija | Kakwenza Rukirabashaija (born 1 October 1988) is a Ugandan novelist and lawyer. He is the author of The Greedy Barbarian and Banana Republic: Where Writing is Treasonous. He was named winner of the English PEN 2021 Pinter International Writer of Courage Award.
Early life and education
Kakwenza was born on 1 October 1... | 1.960938 | 0 |
69648172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon%20June%20%281954%29 | Typhoon June (1954) | Storm warnings were placed for some areas in Japan and the east coast of the Korean Peninsula as June slowly approached these areas. In the former, military bases in Okinawa were sheltered while evacuations of people were initiated over the affected areas, particularly over Miyazaki, Miyakonojo and Nobeoka, where 120,0... | 2.4375 | 0 |
69648172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon%20June%20%281954%29 | Typhoon June (1954) | Korean Peninsula
The Korean Peninsula also didn't escape June's impacts, where areas over the region received torrential rainfall from the storm. Before noon by September 14, the Yomsok-chon River over Pyeongtaek overflowed due to the typhoon's rainfall. This incident forced the troops of Republic of Korea and United... | 2.53125 | 0 |
69648722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljutomer%20Trotter | Ljutomer Trotter | The Ljutomer Trotter is a middle-sized warmblood (stallions around 155–165 cm and mares approximately 150–165 cm in height) of proportionate figure. Its thin head is of middle size, while a well muscled neck is medium to long. In general, a horse's trunk is long, wide and deep, withers are well pronounced, medium-sized... | 2.78125 | 0 |
69649069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah%20Ropes | Hannah Ropes | Hannah Anderson Ropes ( – ) was an American nurse, abolitionist, and writer.
Early life and marriage
Ropes was born Hannah Anderson Chandler on in New Gloucester, Massachusetts (which became part of Maine in 1820). She was the seventh of ten children of Peleg Chandler, a Maine lawyer, and Esther Parsons Chandler. He... | 2.734375 | 0 |
69649069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah%20Ropes | Hannah Ropes | Military nurses were under the charge of the formidable Dorothea Dix, though Ropes declared she didn't "care a fig" for Dix. Though nurses were at the bottom of the chain of command, Ropes did not hesitate to use her social and political connections to improve conditions. When Dr. A. M. Clark, the chief hospital surg... | 2.5 | 0 |
69649175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerindo | Gerindo | In 1931, Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge became Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies and took a more hardline approach to Indonesian nationalist movements than his predecessor. As part of the clampdown, non-cooperative nationalist leader Sukarno was arrested in November 1934 followed by Hatta and Sjahrir three months... | 2.359375 | 0 |
69649708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helle%20Stangerup | Helle Stangerup | She published the historical novel Christine about the 16th century daughter of Christian II of Denmark known as Princess Christina of Denmark in 1985. Stangerup's objective of the novel was to convey "the power and influence that women had before they fell victim to the moral view of Victorianism and changed social co... | 2.265625 | 0 |
69649885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berachah%20the%20Hero | Berachah the Hero | Berachah the Hero was a Polish-Jewish soldier who was killed in the battle near Moscow in the Polish–Muscovite War in 1610.
Biography
He was the son of Aaron ha-Kadosh ('The Martyr') of Tishovitz, Lublin Governorate, and served in the cavalry. In the responsa of Rabbi Meir Lublin and of Joel Särkes, details are given... | 2.28125 | 0 |
69649898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn%20Dahlb%C3%A4ck | Björn Dahlbäck | Björn Dahlbäck (born 1949) is a Swedish physician, medical researcher, and professor of clinical chemistry, specializing in hematology and the molecular mechanisms of blood coagulation. He determined that activated protein C (APC) resistance is the most common inherited risk factor of venous thrombosis.
Education and ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
69650091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20Regiment%2C%20Royal%20Military%20Police | 1st Regiment, Royal Military Police | As a result of the Options for Change reforms announced in 1991 following the End of the Cold War, the old 1st Armoured Division was redesignated as the 1st (United Kingdom) Armoured Division and its provost companies reorganised. As a result of the reorganisation, the 1st Regiment, Royal Military Police was stood up ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
69650120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julka%20Hlapec%20%C4%90or%C4%91evi%C4%87 | Julka Hlapec Đorđević | Julka Hlapec Đorđević (Serbian Cyrillic: Јулка Хлапец Ђорђевић; 1882–1969) was a Serbian writer, feminist, critic, activist, philosopher, translator.
In the interwar period, along with Ksenija Atanasijević, with whom she had a very developed and close professional relationship and who regularly wrote about her books, ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
69650204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Pocock | Ian Pocock | Ian Randell Pocock (born 16 August 1958) is a British engineer.
Career
Pocock studied mechanical engineering and completed his PhD studies at the Cranfield Institute of Technology. Developed the potential of an active suspension system for Jaguar Cars. At Cranfield, he was a consultant engineer for the Benetton team.... | 2.375 | 0 |
69650227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teofil%20Herineanu | Teofil Herineanu | Teofil Herineanu (November 11, 1909–November 3, 1992) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian cleric.
Biography
Origins and Greek-Catholic priesthood
Born into a family of Greek-Catholic peasants in Arcalia village, Beszterce-Naszód County, Austria-Hungary, he attended primary school in Lemniu. From 1920 to 1921, after... | 2.046875 | 0 |
69650272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip%20Coleman%20%28spree%20killer%29 | Phillip Coleman (spree killer) | Coleman, who had previously refused religious counsel, had been baptized a Catholic in prison, and when brought before the gallows, he again expressed that he was sorry for what he had done and that he was ready to face judgment from God. He was hanged at the Missoula County Jail on September 10, 1943, at exactly 7:07 ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
69650473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamra%20%28Mandaeism%29 | Hamra (Mandaeism) | In Mandaeism, hamra () is sacramental water mixed with raisins that have been macerated (i.e., softened via soaking). Although it is often translated as "wine" (its Semitic etymological source) or "grape juice," hamra used in Mandaean rituals is non-alcoholic, and it is also not freshly pressed grape juice. It is used ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
69650529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20in%20Scotland%20%282022%29 | Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland (2022) | April 2022
1 April – Figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest that 451,200 people in Scotland had COVID infection in the week ending 26 March, or one in every 12, but that the figure was down from the previous week's total of 473,800. Hospital numbers remain high.
4 April – Rules requiring people to wear... | 2.21875 | 0 |
69650590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropterotriton%20casasi | Chiropterotriton casasi | Chiropterotriton casasi, also known as the Tlapacoyan salamander, is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It was last seen in 1969, and is possibly extinct.
Taxonomy
The Tlapacoyan salamander was first described in 2020, and was given its specific name in honor of Mexican herpetologist Gustavo Casas ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
69650627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20in%20archosaur%20paleontology | 2022 in archosaur paleontology | This article records new taxa of fossil archosaurs of every kind that are scheduled described during the year 2022, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleontology of archosaurs that are scheduled to occur in the year 2022.
Pseudosuchians
New pseudosuchian taxa
General pseudosuchian resea... | 2.25 | 0 |
69650627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20in%20archosaur%20paleontology | 2022 in archosaur paleontology | A study on the osteoderm histology of Cretaceous notosuchians from Brazil is published by Sena et al. (2022), who report evidence of Sharpey's fibres in Armadillosuchus arrudai, Itasuchus jesuinoi and baurusuchids interpreted as indicative of the presence of thick leathery layer of skin overlying osteoderms, and report... | 1.984375 | 0 |
69650627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20in%20archosaur%20paleontology | 2022 in archosaur paleontology | Tracks of probable hatchling tyrannosaurids, medium and large ornithomimids, small and medium-sized ornithopods and a small hadrosaurid, some of which might document gregarious behaviour, are described from the Campanian–Maastrichtian St. Mary River Formation (Alberta, Canada) by Henderson et al. (2022).
A study on th... | 2.03125 | 0 |
69650627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20in%20archosaur%20paleontology | 2022 in archosaur paleontology | Ornithischian research
A study on the evolutionary relationships of ornithischian dinosaurs, based on a modified version of the dataset from the study of Müller & Garcia (2020), is published by Norman et al. (2022), who recover silesaurids as an evolutionary grade of early ornithischian dinosaurs, reintroduce the nam... | 2.046875 | 0 |
69650627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20in%20archosaur%20paleontology | 2022 in archosaur paleontology | Cerapod research
A study on the anatomy and evolution of the brains of ornithopod dinosaurs is published by Lauters, Vercauteren & Godefroit (2022), who report evidence which might be indicative of hadrosaurids having more developed cognitive abilities than previously assumed.
A study on the phylogenetic relationship... | 2.09375 | 0 |
69650627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20in%20archosaur%20paleontology | 2022 in archosaur paleontology | Review of the fossil record of titanosaur sauropods from the Campanian and Maastrichtian of South America is published by Santucci & Filippi (2022).
Lourembam, Dhiman & Prasad (2022) report the preservation of a mineralized Membrana Testacea layer in titanosaur eggshells from a marlstone facies interbedded with the De... | 1.914063 | 0 |
69650627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20in%20archosaur%20paleontology | 2022 in archosaur paleontology | A study on the anatomy of the appendicular skeleton and on the affinities of Rinconsaurus caudamirus is published by Pérez Moreno et al. (2022).
A study on the microstructure of axial bones of Austroposeidon magnificus, Gondwanatitan faustoi and Maxakalisaurus topai, and on its implications for the knowledge of growth... | 2.078125 | 0 |
69650627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20in%20archosaur%20paleontology | 2022 in archosaur paleontology | A study aiming to determine how the developmental stage of well-preserved oviraptorosaur embryos can be estimated is published by Deeming & Kundrát (2022), who argue that known articulated oviraptorosaur embryos, including the oviraptorid specimen from the Hekou Formation (China) described by Xing et al. (2021), were n... | 2.125 | 0 |
69650627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20in%20archosaur%20paleontology | 2022 in archosaur paleontology | A study on the proportions of the feet of bipedal and potentially bipedal archosaurs (including dinosaurs), and on their implications for the identification of trackmakers of putative Late Triassic–Early Jurassic dinosaur footprints, is published by Farlow et al. (2022), who argue that the majority of well-preserved Eu... | 2.0625 | 0 |
69651244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo%20Savelli | Paolo Savelli | In 1394, Savelli returned to Rome, where he allied himself with Giovanni Colonna, the lord of Palestrina. On 24 July 1394 the two men tried to stage a coup by riding to the Capitol Hill, but the attempt failed to gain any support.
In September 1395 he attended the ceremony of investiture of Gian Galeazzo Visconti as D... | 2.25 | 0 |
69651427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Spider%20%28magazine%29 | The Spider (magazine) | The Spider was an American pulp magazine published by Popular Publications from 1933 to 1943. Every issue included a lead novel featuring the Spider, a heroic crime-fighter. The magazine was intended as a rival to Street & Smith's The Shadow and Standard Magazine's The Phantom Detective, which also featured crime-fig... | 2 | 0 |
69651427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Spider%20%28magazine%29 | The Spider (magazine) | Lead novel writers
The first novel introduced Richard Wentworth, a rich New Yorker, the secret identity of the Spider, a crime-fighter. Wentworth's character was based on that of Scott's Secret Service Smith: like Smith, Wentworth had an Indian servant, though Wentworth's servant Ram Singh was "more ferocious" than S... | 2.3125 | 0 |
69651589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic%20%281849%20ship%29 | Atlantic (1849 ship) | The Collins Line suffered a number of setbacks in the mid-1850s. It lost Pacific and Arctic to shipwreck. In August 1856 Congress reduced the mail subsidy, which had risen to $858,000 per year, back to its original $385,000. The surviving ships, Atlantic and Baltic, were worked hard for less profit. In March 1857, ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
69652150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Trek%3A%20Strange%20New%20Worlds%20season%201 | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 1 | Legacy Effects provided alien prosthetics for the series. Horak's Aenar prosthetics took three-and-a-half hours to apply each morning. The character's original design included contact lenses to give Hemmer white eyes, but Horak found them painful to wear and an eye specialist suggested that Horak not risk further damag... | 1.992188 | 0 |
69652202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%2C%20Bishop%20of%20Veszpr%C3%A9m | George, Bishop of Veszprém | George () was a Hungarian prelate in the 11th century, who served as Bishop of Veszprém around 1061.
Bishop of Veszprém
George contributed to the foundation of Zselicszentjakab Abbey in 1061, when he already served as bishop. George formulated and drafted the establishing charter of the Benedictine monastery. Therefor... | 2.046875 | 0 |
69652592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeburg%20plotting%20table | Seeburg plotting table | The Seeburg plotting table (German: Seeburg-Tisch) was a mechanical plotting table used by Nazi Germany in their operation rooms to track aircraft and coordinate operations during World War II. It was produced by Siemens.
Attached to the plotting table was a Freya radar and two Würzburg-Riese radars. Freya radars woul... | 2.84375 | 0 |
69652804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20E.%20Ireland | Mary E. Ireland | Mary E. Ireland (, Haines; pen name, Marie Norman; January 9, 1834 – October 29, 1927) was an American author and translator. Born in Maryland, she lived a busy life in Washington, D.C., looking upon her literary labors as a recreation. Though she is remembered as "the poetess of Cecil County", she commenced to write p... | 2.0625 | 0 |
69652804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20E.%20Ireland | Mary E. Ireland | Early life and education
Mary Eliza Haines was born in the village of Brick Meeting House (now Calvert), Maryland, January 9, 1834. She was a daughter of Joseph and Harriet (Kirk) Haines. On father's side, sixth in descent from Richard Haines, English Quaker, who came from Oxfordshire in 1682. On mother's side, Scotch-... | 2.5 | 0 |
69652807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerstin%20Br%C3%BCckweh | Kerstin Brückweh | Kerstin Brückweh (born in Hannover, Germany) is a historian with a focus on German and British modern and contemporary history. She is a professor in economic and social history at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology in Berlin, Germany.
Career
Brückweh received her PhD from the History Department... | 2.109375 | 0 |
69653068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Son%20of%20the%20Ogress | The Son of the Ogress | In a Kabylian tale titled Azejjig Ireqqen (French: Bourgeon d'Or; English: Gold Bud), two brothers, one poor and the other rich, live next to each other with their families: the rich one has seven sons and the poor one has seven daughters. One day, the poor man, a woodcutter, goes to the forest to earn his living, when... | 1.929688 | 0 |
69653068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Son%20of%20the%20Ogress | The Son of the Ogress | In the second part of the tale (which is type ATU 709A, "The Sister of Nine Brothers"), the girl escapes the ogress's house and runs into the forest, where she takes shelter with a group of ogres who welcome her as their sister. One day, the ogres go on a hunt and warn her about their evil blind ogre uncle. When the em... | 2.015625 | 0 |
69653068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Son%20of%20the%20Ogress | The Son of the Ogress | Professors Óscar Abenójar, Ouahiba Immoune and Fatima-Zohra Menas collected another Kabylian tale from a 90-year-old teller from Great Kabylia. In this tale, titled La princesa cautiva y el pájaro del viento ("The captive princess and the bird of the wind"), a sultan's daughter spends her days trapped at home. One day,... | 2.375 | 0 |
69653068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Son%20of%20the%20Ogress | The Son of the Ogress | In a Moroccan tale titled Le Cheval Persan, collected by Dr. Françoise Légey from teller Jema'a, slave to Sultan Moulay-Ḥasan, a king has a daughter and a "cheval persan" (Persian horse). The princess regularly feeds the horse with a bucket of milk and some almonds. The horse - actually, a Roûḥânî (translated as "spiri... | 2.40625 | 0 |
69653370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panmure%20Bridge | Panmure Bridge | Tenders to replace the ferro-concrete bridge were sought in 1956. A variety of designs for the bridge were proposed, including a steel box-girder bridge, pre-stressed concrete and welded plate girder designs. The final accepted design used reinforced concrete supported by steel girders. A three-lane reinforced high-lev... | 2.484375 | 0 |
69653505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning%20to%20Stone | Turning to Stone | Turning to Stone is a Canadian docudrama television film, which was broadcast by CBC Television in 1986. Directed by Eric Till and written by Judith Thompson, the film stars Nicky Guadagni as Allison Campbell, a woman who is sent to Ontario's Prison for Women after being set up by her boyfriend to smuggle drugs from Me... | 1.929688 | 0 |
69653556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalceus%20spilogyros | Chalceus spilogyros | The genus name Chalceus comes from the Greek word "chalkos", which means "copper". Georges Cuvier, who originally described the genus, named it so because he observed that the original specimen's scales were copper-colored ("sometimes golden") when preserved in alcohol. This is an observation replicated by modern resea... | 2.8125 | 0 |
69653655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Authors%20and%20Books | American Authors and Books | American Authors and Books is a reference work about American literature. Editions, with varying subtitles, were published in 1943, 1962, and 1972.
The first edition, American Authors and Books: 1640–1940, edited by William Jeremiah Burke and Will D. Howe, was published in 1943 by Gramercy Publishing Company (now part... | 2.359375 | 0 |
69653710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romemu | Romemu | Romemu is a non-denominational Jewish congregation, that worships in the West End Presbyterian Church, 165 West 105th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in New York City, New York, United States. The congregation was founded by Rabbi David Ingber in March 2006. Romemu holds Shabbat and holiday services and ad... | 2.03125 | 0 |
69653776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Are%20Okay | We Are Okay | We Are Okay is a young adult novel by Nina LaCour, published February 14, 2017 by Dutton Books for Young Readers.
Reception
We Are Okay received starred reviews from Booklist, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness, and School Library Journal, as well as a positive review from Horn Book Guide.
Kirkus called the ... | 1.953125 | 0 |
69653824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990%E2%80%9391%20Alto%20Mayo%20earthquakes | 1990–91 Alto Mayo earthquakes | An 5.5 aftershock on June 9, 1990, caused one death and destroyed 14 homes. In April 1991, two more earthquakes separated by hours caused further damage in the region. The largest shock occurred on 5 April 1991; it killed approximately 53 people and left 252 others injured. It was preceded by a 6.4 foreshock the prev... | 2.265625 | 0 |
69654044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20Papua%20New%20Guinean%20general%20election | 2022 Papua New Guinean general election | In December 2019, the autonomous region of Bougainville voted in a landslide for independence from Papua New Guinea. Due to the country's immense ethnic and linguistic diversity, some national parliament members feared that Bougainville's departure could inspire other regions to demand independence from Papua New Guine... | 2.3125 | 0 |
69654183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament%20Buildings%20%28Kenya%29 | Parliament Buildings (Kenya) | The Parliament Buildings in Nairobi are the seat of the Kenyan Parliament.
History
The buildings were constructed in 1954 and became the home of the colonial legislature of the Kenya Colony, the Legislative Council of Kenya, which sat there until 1963, when the council was replaced by the National Assembly. The buil... | 2.4375 | 0 |
69654277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroussia%20%28Tunisia%29 | Kroussia (Tunisia) | According to Foucher, the seventh line of the engravings XXCVII corresponds to the number 87, which could refer to the distance of a secondary route connecting Sufetula (now known as Sbeitla) to Hadrumetum and passing by Kroussia. This hypothesis was rejected by several researchers since there is lack of evidence that ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
69654395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-COVID | Zero-COVID | Through November 2020, border quarantine measures prevented nearly 4,000 infected international travelers from entering the wider community within China. Each month, hundreds of travelers who tested negative before flying to China subsequently tested positive while undergoing quarantine after arrival.
Contact tracing,... | 2.59375 | 0 |
69654395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-COVID | Zero-COVID | After a much smaller second wave in late March and April 2020, Hong Kong saw a substantial uptick in COVID cases in July. Experts attributed this third wave to imported cases – sea crew, aircrew members, and domestic helpers made up the majority of 3rd wave infections. Measures taken in response included a suspension ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
69654395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-COVID | Zero-COVID | The government is providing citizens with information in Korean, English, Chinese, and Japanese on how to not become infected and how to prevent spreading the disease as part of its "K-Quarantine" measures. This includes information on cough etiquette, when and how to wear a face mask, and the importance of physical di... | 2.578125 | 0 |
69654909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Beal | Fred Beal | In fiction
Strike! by Mary Heaton Vorse (1930) was the first of several "Gastonia novels" inspired by the Loray Mill strike of 1929. Vorse, who in the Lawrence strike of 1912 established herself as a labor journalist, produced the most historically accurate of these. When she first met Beal in Gastonia her impression... | 2.140625 | 0 |
69655373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jashar%20Salihu | Jashar Salihu | Jashar Salihu (10 February 1953 – 16 December 2000) was a Kosovo Albanian general, diplomat and activist who fought for the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the Kosovo War. He was known for his political efforts and advocacy for the independence of Kosovo, his diplomatic role with the People's Movement of Kosovo (L... | 2.171875 | 0 |
69655677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Derosne | Charles Derosne | Louis-Charles Derosne (23 January 1780 – 21 September 1846) was a French chemist and an inventor of industrial manufacturing machinery who was actively involved in the French industrial revolution.
Biography
Derosne was born in Paris where his father François belonged to a family of apothecaries who ran the Cadet-Der... | 2.578125 | 0 |
69655959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong%20Lin%20Wang | Zhong Lin Wang | Zhong Lin Wang (; born November 1961) is a Chinese-American physicist, materials scientist and engineer specialized in nanotechnology, energy science and electronics. He was awarded the Albert Einstein World Award of Science in 2019, and is often dubbed the ‘father of nanogenerators’.
He received his PhD from Arizona ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
69656494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%20Aquino%20Siapno | Joy Aquino Siapno | Jacqueline "Joy" Aquino Siapno (born c. 1968) is a Filipina-born American political economist, academic, analyst, writer, and musician specializing in Southeast Asia. She served as the First Lady of East Timor from February 13, 2008, until April 17, 2008, during the interim presidency of her husband, Fernando de Araújo... | 2.015625 | 0 |
69656789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime%20Mystery%20Magazine | Dime Mystery Magazine | Publishing history
In 1929, Harry Steeger was employed at Dell Publishing as a magazine editor, and Harold Goldsmith was at Ace Publications, working as a business manager. Steeger persuaded Goldsmith to partner with him in starting a pulp magazine publishing company, and the new company, Popular Publications, was la... | 2.34375 | 0 |
69656789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime%20Mystery%20Magazine | Dime Mystery Magazine | Dime Mystery competed with two magazines that also published a complete novel in each issue: Detective Novels Magazine and Detective Classics. Both were published by Fiction House and, although both cost twice as much as Dime Mystery, at 20 cents, they were well-established, reprinting long stories by well-known write... | 2.515625 | 0 |
69656908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosrodiningrat%20V | Sosrodiningrat V | During the Japanese occupation, Sosrodiningrat was first appointed as a member of the Central Advisory Council (Chūō San'gi In), before becoming a member of the Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence. On 17 October 1945, during the chaos in the early days of the Indonesian National Revolution, he... | 2.09375 | 0 |
69657470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly%20line | Fly line | In 1952, the Cortland Line Company pioneered the use of vinyl to coat braided cores creating the first plastic coated fly lines that are the mainstream today. Throughout the last half of the 20th century, plastic fly line technology facilitated all manner of fly line innovation to address fly fishing for cold-water, w... | 2.609375 | 0 |
69657479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holymoorside%20and%20Walton | Holymoorside and Walton | Holymoorside and environs
The Holymoorside area was a part of Brampton with Wadshelf in 1086 AD at the time of Domesday, which was shared between the Derbyshire tenants-in-chief Ascoit (or Hascoit) Musard and Walter D'Aincourt. Later, the consolidated Musard manor of Brampton was granted by Henry II to Peter de Brampt... | 2.296875 | 0 |
69658010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kistat%20Lund | Kistat Lund | From 1974, she exhibited her works solo in Denmark, Greenland and Iceland as well as being a part of group exhibitions in Alaska, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greenland, Japan and the rest of Scandinavia between 1986 and 1992. Lund won the Malene Lund Legacy Award in 1984; each of the Dronn. Ingrid's Legacy and the Greenl... | 2.203125 | 0 |
69658243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StudyTube | StudyTube | StudyTube, sometimes referred to as EduTube, is an informal group of content creators on YouTube whose content focuses on studying, test and exam preparation, and school. These types of YouTubers are known as StudyTubers. The term can also refer to the genre of YouTube video characterized by its focus on the same topic... | 2.71875 | 0 |
69658284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Americans%20in%20Arkansas | African Americans in Arkansas | Black people were brought to Arkansas as slaves as part of French colonization in the 1720s. At the time of the first US census of Arkansas in 1810, they numbered 188, comprising roughly 18 percent of the population. The African American population of Arkansas would grow in proportion, comprising 110,000 and 25% of the... | 3.40625 | 0 |
69658284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Americans%20in%20Arkansas | African Americans in Arkansas | Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, claiming his only goal was to preserve the peace, deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent Blacks from entering the school. Faubus defied federal court orders, whereupon President Dwight D. Eisenhower intervened. He federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent them home.
Eise... | 2.578125 | 0 |
69659066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Hirsch | Hans Hirsch | Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Between 1903 and 1914 Hirsch worked as a full-time employee of the "Vienna Diplomata" department of the "Monumenta Germaniae Historica", a vast archives-based project that ran under various configurations between 1819 and 1945 which concerned itself with the careful editing and publicatio... | 2.03125 | 0 |
69659066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Hirsch | Hans Hirsch | Academic memberships and other marks of recognition
In 1931 Hans Hirsch became a full member ("wirkliche Mitglied") of the Vienna-based "Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften" (Austrian Academy of Sciences and Humanities / ÖAW), becoming secretary of its "Philosophy-History Class" in 1938.
In 1934 Hirsch was... | 2.0625 | 0 |
69659809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth%20or%20Consequences%20Hot%20Springs | Truth or Consequences Hot Springs | During the 1920s, those who developed bathhouses often drilled artesian wells to tap into the hot water. By 1930, 20 thermal wells existed. Of these, 9 were used to bring hot water to apartment buildings, 8 were used for bathhouse establishments, one was used at a physician's office, and one was on private property. In... | 2.546875 | 0 |
69659809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth%20or%20Consequences%20Hot%20Springs | Truth or Consequences Hot Springs | Geothermal energy
The New Mexico Department of Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources created two demonstration projects using geothermal energy in Truth or Consequences in the 1980s. The Carrie Tingley Hospital, for children with physical disabilities, used state funding to create a physical-therapy program in Truth ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
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