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77197978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufyan%20Mosque | Sufyan Mosque | Sufyan Mosque (Arabic: جامع سفيان) is a historic mosque located in the city of Lahij in Yemen. It was built in 1215 and contains a madrasa as well as the mausoleum of the mosque's namesake that is attached to a cemetery.
History
Originally, the site was the burial place of Sufyan ibn Abdullah al-Abini al-Yamani, a Mu... | 2.15625 | 0 |
77198024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcian%20of%20Syracuse | Marcian of Syracuse | After the writing of the Encomium, other works describing the life of the martyr are dated. Many new elements appear in these later works.
Precise dates are established: the year 39 or 40 for the departure, and 68 for the year of martyrdom.
In the biography published posthumously by Gaetani, it is also stated that Ma... | 2.46875 | 0 |
77198024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcian%20of%20Syracuse | Marcian of Syracuse | The iconography of Marcianus, the mature appearance given to him and the white head could represent a reference to the figure of the apostle Peter.
Similarities are also revealed with the frescoes of the Commodilla catacomb in Rome (6th century) and with the early medieval frescoes, also Roman, of the Pontian and Ge... | 2.5625 | 0 |
77198024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcian%20of%20Syracuse | Marcian of Syracuse | In any case, tradition has it that the body of the martyr lay there for eight centuries, until Syracuse was conquered by the Arabs in 878, although other sources say that it was during the first attempt to conquer the city in 827-828.
Therefore, in order to keep the body of the protobishop safe, the Syracusans took th... | 2.5625 | 0 |
77198432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20R.%20Mead | Albert R. Mead | Albert Raymond Mead (July 17, 1915–March 13, 2009) was a malacologist who studied the invasive giant African land snail. He was born in San Jose, California. He served as a 2nd Lieutenant for American forces during World War II, acting as a parasitologist for the Inter-Allied Malaria Control Unit from 1943-1945.
While... | 2.46875 | 0 |
77198518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdue%20University%20School%20of%20Mechanical%20Engineering | Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering | The School of Mechanical Engineering (ME) is the oldest academic unit at Purdue University College of Engineering. The School of ME offers both an undergraduate B.S. degree as well as M.S. and PhD graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering. The school enrolls over 2,000 undergraduates (sophomores through seniors) and o... | 2.078125 | 0 |
77198650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Roergas%20Serviez | Manuel Roergas Serviez | Shortly after the victory, Serviez tired and riddled with poor health sought rest in a house near where the battle had taken place. He was soon murdered in suspicious circumstances by a group of three men who showed up at his door one night. Serviez's death has never been solved, although it has often been suspected th... | 2.21875 | 0 |
77198650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Roergas%20Serviez | Manuel Roergas Serviez | The arrested officers arrived in Santafe on January 8, 1814, and on January 18, their case ended with military tribunal ruling in their favor and allowing them to rejoin the army. At the end of that month both officers left the city, with Campomanes traveling to Cartagena, meanwhile Serviez was transferred to Medellín ... | 2.78125 | 0 |
77198650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Roergas%20Serviez | Manuel Roergas Serviez | During the following days, Serviez and his army marched through the eastern Andes mountain range using the royal road that led to the town of Cáqueza. Already plagued by desertion, the march was difficult as the road was narrow and hugged the mountain on one side while the other side at times was cliff that fell hundre... | 2.265625 | 0 |
77198650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Roergas%20Serviez | Manuel Roergas Serviez | Death
Shortly after the battle, Serviez who had been complaining about his health, retired to a small farm near Yagual to recuperate his health, one night three men showed up at the door claiming to be messengers from the army with orders to go at once to the camp, they then took Serviez to a forest and killed him the... | 2.296875 | 0 |
77199427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadian%20architecture | Acadian architecture | The shelters and houses constructed during this period were hastily built. In 1761, Gamaliel Smethurst observed that after an attack on their village, the Acadians of Nipisiguit constructed shelters in two or three days. These houses were small, rectangular, and almost square, with a single room and three or four openi... | 3.171875 | 0 |
77199427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadian%20architecture | Acadian architecture | Due to the favorable economic situation in Madawaska during the early 19th century, residential construction improved. In 1815, surveyor J. Bouchette observed that the majority of houses were well-constructed. In 1831, American census takers J.G. Deane and E. Kavanagh noted that some houses had up to two rooms, but rar... | 2.9375 | 0 |
69660141 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue%20of%20Andr%C3%A9s%20Manuel%20L%C3%B3pez%20Obrador | Statue of Andrés Manuel López Obrador | The statue of Andrés Manuel López Obrador was a limestone sculpture of the 65th president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. It was installed on 29 December 2021 at the intersection of Isidro Fabela Avenue and Circuito José Jiménez Cantú, in the municipality of Atlacomulco, State of Mexico. Roberto Téllez Monroy, ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
69660394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Meyerson | Matthew Meyerson | Career
Meyerson joined the faculty at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) in 1998 where he continued to focus on using genomic approaches to understand the biology and genetics of human lung carcinomas. As an assistant professor, Meyerson co-developed a new mathematical tool that uses the process of elimination to ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
69660422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20and%20Illinois%20Western%20Railroad | Chicago and Illinois Western Railroad | The Chicago and Illinois Western Railroad was an industrial switching railroad serving the west side of Chicago and southwest Cook County. From a connection with a now defunct north–south railroad line near 31st Blvd. and Western Ave. it went west along 33rd St. to Cicero. Just before Cicero Ave. (Ill. 50) it turned s... | 2.25 | 0 |
69660434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baur%27s%20short-horned%20lizard | Baur's short-horned lizard | Baur's short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma bauri) is a species of small horned lizard that is endemic to the United States.
Taxonomy
Populations assigned to this species were long classified in the pygmy short-horned lizard (P. douglasii) and greater short-horned lizard (P. hernandesi), within several different subspecie... | 2.40625 | 0 |
69661508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Ah%20Hang | William Ah Hang | Post-service life
William Ah Hang moved from Boston, Massachusetts, where he was discharged, to Staten Island, New York. There, he opened and managed a grocery store. On September 22, 1875, Hang made an appearance at the Court of Common Pleas to make his sworn declaration of intention to become a naturalized American... | 2.65625 | 0 |
69661999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond%20inclusions | Diamond inclusions | Mineral inclusions can preserve materials formed under the extreme environments in Earth's mantle back to surface conditions. This enables the discovery of the natural form of minerals which have previously been only synthesized in the laboratory. For instance, the natural calcium silicate perovskite (CaSiO3), was rece... | 2.71875 | 0 |
69662091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterogenite | Heterogenite | Heterogenite is a natural tri-valent cobalt oxyhydroxide mineral. It is the most abundant oxidised cobalt mineral in the Katanga Copperbelt, a region in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. About 70% of known heterogenite is located in the DRC.
The name heterogenite came from Greek, "of another kind", as the mineral ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
69662099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquired%20homosexuality | Acquired homosexuality | Acquired homosexuality is the idea that homosexuality can be spread, either through sexual seduction or recruitment by homosexuals, or through exposure to media depicting homosexuality. According to this belief, any child or young person could become homosexual if exposed to it; conversely, through conversion therapy, ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
69662164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lundey%2C%20Skj%C3%A1lfandi | Lundey, Skjálfandi | Lundey (Icelandic: , "Puffin Island") is a small, uninhabited island in Skjálfandi bay located about from Húsavík, in northern Iceland. It is the smaller of two islands in the bay, the other being Flatey.
Lundey is about long and wide. Its highest point lies about above sea level.
Its name in Icelandic means "Puffi... | 2.171875 | 0 |
69662589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberheim%20DSX | Oberheim DSX | The Oberheim DSX is a 9-track digital sequencer equipped with the Oberheim Serial Buss for connecting with the company's OB-Xa or OB-8 synthesizers and DMX drum machine. Connected and used together, Oberheim marketed these products as "The System". In addition to the Oberheim Serial Buss, the DSX has an 8-channel CV/Ga... | 2.09375 | 0 |
69662604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acinocricus | Acinocricus | Acinocricus is a genus of extinct panarthropod belonging to the group Lobopodia and known from the middle Cambrian Spence Shale of Utah, United States. As a monotypic genus, it has one species Acinocricus stichus. The only lobopodian discovered from the Spence Shale, it was described by Simon Conway Morris and Richard ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
69662739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yegor%20Kovalevsky | Yegor Kovalevsky | Egor or Yegor Petrovich Kovalevsky (; 18 February 1809 or 1811, in Kharkov Governorate – 2 October 1868, in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian traveller, writer, and diplomat.
Biography
He was born to Pyotr Ivanovich Kovalevsky, a noble Court Councilor. From 1825 to 1828, he studied in the philosophy department at Khark... | 2.40625 | 0 |
69663539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa%20Jos%C3%A9%20Ferrada | María José Ferrada | One of her most-well known works is a collection of poems titled Ninos (Children) published in 2013, which chronicles the thoughts, aspirations, and lives of Chilean children and was dedicated to the minors who experienced political violence during the Chilean dictatorship. Ninos received several awards, including an a... | 2.234375 | 0 |
69663763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne%20Honor%C3%A9 | Suzanne Honoré | Suzanne Honoré (1909-2000) was a French librarian, archivist and historian for decades at the National Library of France. She was also known as Suzanne Duvergé. She was conferred with honorific awards in recognition of her input to librarianship. These awards were: Commander of the Order of Academic Palms, Ordre nation... | 2.328125 | 0 |
69664295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages%20of%20science | Languages of science | Languages of science are vehicular languages used by one or several scientific communities for international communication. According to science historian Michael Gordin, scientific languages are "either specific forms of a given language that are used in conducting science, or they are the set of distinct languages in... | 2.8125 | 0 |
69664295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages%20of%20science | Languages of science | English standardization
Nearly all the scientific publications indexed on the leading commercial academic search engines are in English. In 2022, this concerns 95.86% of the 28,142,849 references indexed on the Web of Science and 84.35% of the 20,600,733 references indexed on Scopus.
The lack of coverage of non-Englis... | 1.9375 | 0 |
69664295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages%20of%20science | Languages of science | Overall, the social sciences and the humanities have preserved more diverse linguistic practices: "while natural scientists of any linguistic background have largely shifted to English as their language of publication, social scientists and scholars of the humanities have not done so to the same extent." In these disci... | 2.296875 | 0 |
69665405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeath%20region | Macbeath region | In mathematics, a Macbeath region is an explicitly defined region in convex analysis on a bounded convex subset of d-dimensional Euclidean space . The idea was introduced by and dubbed by G. Ewald, D. G. Larman and C. A. Rogers in 1970. Macbeath regions have been used to solve certain complex problems in the study of ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
69665543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lundey%2C%20Skagafj%C3%B6r%C3%B0ur | Lundey, Skagafjörður | Lundey (Icelandic: , "Puffin Island") is a small, uninhabited island in Skagafjörður fjord located about from the eastern mouth of the Héraðsvötn River, in northern Iceland. It is one of three islands in the bay, the others being Málmey, and Drangey.
Lundey is low lying and grassy with an area of approximately . The ... | 2.375 | 0 |
69665579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision%20Tunisienne | Télévision Tunisienne | The Établissement de la Télévision Tunisienne (TT, French for Establishment of the Tunisian Television or simply Tunisian Television; in Arabic: مؤسسة التلفزة التونسية) is Tunisia's national state-owned public service television broadcaster. The company was established by the country's president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali... | 2.34375 | 0 |
69665731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate%20of%20Multan | Emirate of Multan | Fateh Daud was then deposed by Mahmud of Ghazni, in the course of his conquest of Multan. He fled to a fort where he immured himself and was finally pardoned by Mahmud of Ghazni on the promise of payment of ransom. Abul Fatah Daud offered a yearly tribute of 200,000 golden dirhams and conversion from Shia Ismaili fiqh ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
69665778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lythrichthys | Lythrichthys | Lythrichthys, the red deepwater scorpionfishes, is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, belonging to the subfamily Setarchinae, the deep-sea bristly scorpionfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. They are native to the Pacific Ocean.
Taxonomy
Lythrichthys was first described as a genus in 1904 by the American ichthyol... | 2.234375 | 0 |
69666073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20T.%20Montgomery | Catherine T. Montgomery | Catherine T. Montgomery (April 1, 1867 – September 17, 1957) was a Canadian-born American educator, clubwoman, and hiker based in Bellingham, Washington. She donated money and land to improve Federation Forest State Park, and is known as the "Mother of the Pacific Crest Trail".
Early life
Montgomery was born in Valle... | 2.40625 | 0 |
69666114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20and%20music | Islam and music | The relationship between Islam and music is complex and has been long debated. Some Muslims believe that the Qur'an and Sunnah prohibit music (instruments and singing); however, others believe that some forms of music are permissible. Even so, music flourished in the Islamic world, although it was often confined to ... | 2.78125 | 0 |
69666237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinbago%20Unified%20Calypsonians%27%20Organisation | Trinbago Unified Calypsonians' Organisation | The Trinbago Unified Calypsonians’ Organisation (TUCO) is a professional body representing the interests of calypsonians in Trinidad and Tobago and working to promote calypso music nationally and internationally. TUCO was established in 1993 and incorporated by an Act of Parliament in 1998. TUCO serves as the governing... | 2.21875 | 0 |
69666302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Salvador%2C%20Zacatecas | El Salvador, Zacatecas | El Salvador is a municipality in the Mexican state of Zacatecas, located approximately northeast of Zacatecas City, the state capital.
Geography
The municipality of El Salvador lies at an elevation between in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental in northeastern Zacatecas. It borders the municipalities of Conce... | 2.578125 | 0 |
69666366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20history%20of%20animation | Early history of animation | The Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c. 99 BCE – c. 55 BCE) wrote in his poem De rerum natura a few lines that come close to the basic principles of animation: "...when the first image perishes and a second is then produced in another position, the former seems to have altered its pose. Of course, this must be sup... | 2.609375 | 0 |
69666468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Springs%20Artesian%20Basin | Hot Springs Artesian Basin | The Hot Springs Artesian Basin is a geological formation and thermal water aquifer located in the floodplain of the Rio Grande, in Sierra County, New Mexico.
The rocks that make up the Hot Springs Artesian Basin and the surrounding the basin area include igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. These range in age... | 2.515625 | 0 |
69666602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Cropper | Paul Cropper | Paul Cropper, MBE, (1913-2006) was a British violist and principal viola of the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (later named the BBC Philharmonic) from 1947 to 1982.
Biography
Paul Cropper was born in Wallasey, Cheshire, England, on 12 March 1913. His father Horace Sydney Cropper was the principal violinist of the Liv... | 2.53125 | 0 |
69667034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elean%20War | Elean War | The Elean or Eleian War (c. 400 BC) was a conflict between the Greek city-states of Sparta and Elis.
Background
Sparta and Elis had been allies against Athens during the early Peloponnesian War, but relations between them soured after Elis refused to endorse the Peace of Nicias in 421 BC. In 420, the Eleans, claiming ... | 2.921875 | 0 |
69667034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elean%20War | Elean War | At this juncture, a wealthy citizen of Elis, Xenias, who was an agent () of Sparta inside the city as well as a personal friend of Agis, attempted to stage a pro-Spartan oligarchic coup, instigating a slaughter and killing a man who resembled the democratic leader Thrasydaeus. Xenias's partisans then gathered in the ag... | 2.109375 | 0 |
69667602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovea%20asperifolia | Hovea asperifolia | Hovea asperifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a shrub with hairy branchlets, narrowly oblong to narrowly linear leaves with stipules at the base, and mauve, pea-like flowers.
Description
Hovea asperifolia is a shrub that typically ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
69667654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna%20of%20Constantinople | Madonna of Constantinople | Madonna of Constantinople is a tempera painting created by Greek painter Angelos Pitzamanos. Angelo was from the island of Crete. He was active from 1482 to 1535. His teacher was famous painter Andreas Pavias. Angelo finished commissions with his brother Donatus Pitzamanos. Eleven remaining works are attributed to... | 2.609375 | 0 |
69667654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna%20of%20Constantinople | Madonna of Constantinople | The artist constructed a figure that has substance, dimensionality, and spatial depth. The Virgin wears a bright red cloak. The hems are decorated with gold lines. The garment illustrates the artist's knowledge of advanced shadowing techniques prevalent at that time. The Virgin is wearing a bluish tunic under her h... | 2.296875 | 0 |
69667813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Red | Star Red | is a Japanese science fiction manga series written and illustrated by Moto Hagio. It was serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine Shūkan Shōjo Comic from 1978 to 1979.
Synopsis
In the near future, overpopulation on Earth has led humanity to colonize space. Mars was colonized in 2050, though extremely high rates of st... | 2.046875 | 0 |
69667903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy%20Ghost%20hole | Holy Ghost hole | A Holy Ghost hole, or Holy Spirit hole, is a circular opening in the ceiling of a church which symbolises the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. The openings are often used for liturgical performances.
They were most commonly built in churches in Austria and southern Germany during the Middle Ages and... | 2.703125 | 0 |
69668001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish%20Deer%20Centre | Scottish Deer Centre | The Scottish Deer Centre is a zoological park near Cupar in Fife, Scotland.
The attraction is set on the estate of Over Rankeilour, at the former Over Rankeilour Farm close to the hamlet of the Bow of Fife. Opened in 1988 by the farm's owners, the centre attracted over 70,000 visitors in 2019, making it Fife's second... | 2.140625 | 0 |
69668003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradoryphoribius | Paradoryphoribius | Paradoryphoribius is an extinct genus of tardigrades from the order Parachela. It is the third fossil tardigrade to be named, described in 2021 from Miocene Dominican amber from the Dominican Republic. The type, and currently only species, is P. chronocaribbeus.
Discovery and naming
The holotype was discovered in Mio... | 2.1875 | 0 |
69668024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20accolades%20received%20by%20West%20Side%20Story%20%282021%20film%29 | List of accolades received by West Side Story (2021 film) | West Side Story is a 2021 American musical romantic drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Tony Kushner. It is the second feature-length adaptation of the 1957 stage musical of the same name. It stars Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler in her film debut with Ariana DeBose, David Alvare... | 1.929688 | 0 |
69668987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimi%20Levin%20Lieber | Mimi Levin Lieber | Mimi Levin Lieber (March 22, 1928 – October 16, 2021), born Miriam Leah Levin, was a sociologist who developed new techniques in consumer attitude research. As a member of the New York State Board of Regents, she became a significant figure in shaping elementary education policy in New York. Much of her early professi... | 2.6875 | 0 |
69669263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Vallot | Joseph Vallot | Joseph Vallot (; 16 February 1854 – 11 April 1925) was a French scientist, astronomer, botanist, geographer, cartographer and alpinist and "one of the founding fathers of scientific research on Mont Blanc". He is known mainly for his fascination with Mont Blanc and his work in funding and constructing a high-altitude o... | 2.515625 | 0 |
69669263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Vallot | Joseph Vallot | Joseph Vallot's contributions to cartography and to high-altitude science (many made jointly with his wife) led to him receiving many honours and accolades over his lifetime.
In 1895 Vallot was awarded a gold medal from the Société d'Encouragement for his work in establishing the Mont Blanc Observatory.
He was also a... | 2.53125 | 0 |
69669389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/211th%20%28Wessex%29%20Field%20Hospital | 211th (Wessex) Field Hospital | Reorganisation
On 1 March 1970, the Royal Army Medical Corps went through an internal reorganisation which saw the old medical designations replaced by modern terms. The old casualty clearing stations became field hospitals (a term which will disappear in the British Army in 2022), and the old field dressing stations... | 2.375 | 0 |
69670000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Prior%20%28doctor%29 | Ian Prior (doctor) | Prior's career in epidemiology was sparked by a report in 1960 into the incidence of coronary disease, diabetes and hypertension in Māori people and the questions this raised about lifestyle and the wider causes of illness. With assistance from a Ngāi Tūhoe leader, he undertook a study in Whakatāne.
He extended his in... | 2.625 | 0 |
69670096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepraria%20salazinica | Lepraria salazinica | Lepraria salazinica is a species of rock-dwelling, leprose lichen in the family Stereocaulaceae. It is found in the eastern United States.
Taxonomy
The lichen was described as a new species in 2007 by the Norwegian lichenologist Tor Tønsberg. The type specimen was collected by Tønsberg along Balsam Mountain road in th... | 2.453125 | 0 |
69670295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial%20to%20Victims%20of%20Violence%20in%20Mexico | Memorial to Victims of Violence in Mexico | Felipe Calderón served as the president of Mexico from 1 December 2006 to 30 November 2012. Days after taking office, Calderón enlisted the Mexican Armed Forces in the global war on drugs. During his presidency, the low-intensity conflict led to casualties of an estimated 70,000 people in collateral damage, with Calder... | 2.375 | 0 |
69670370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Ross%20%28farmer%29 | George Ross (farmer) | George Arthur Emilius Ross (some sources say Aemilius, Æmilius, or Emileus; 1829 – 23 November 1876) was a New Zealand farmer and provincial politician. A cultured and well-educated man, he suffered a breakdown while at Oxford University and relocated to Christchurch for health reasons before he finished his degree. Af... | 2.4375 | 0 |
69670564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anuradha%20Patil | Anuradha Patil | Anuradha Patil (born 5 April 1953) is an Indian poet, writing in the Marathi language. In 2019, she won the Sahitya Akademi Award, India's highest literary honor, for her collection of poetry Kadachit Ajoonahi.
Biography
Patil was born in Pahur, Maharashtra, into a family of farmers. She received no formal education ... | 1.953125 | 0 |
69671736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Baranyanka | Pierre Baranyanka | Baranyanka served as head of a chiefdom near Gitega until the Belgians appointed him chief of Ndora-Kayanza, Ngozi District in 1929. Ndora-Kayanza was the former domain of a Hutu leader, Kilima, and the territory had experienced several bouts of rebellion under his rule and until his death in 1920. Baranyanka establish... | 2.453125 | 0 |
69671742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal%20Head%20Holey%20Dollar | Hannibal Head Holey Dollar | The Hannibal Head Holey Dollar is a one of a kind holey dollar coin made from a Spanish eight Reale coin that bore the image of Joseph Bonaparte. The coin was sold by Coinworks to a private collector in July 2018, fetching $500,000.
History
The original Spanish eight reale coin that the Hannibal Head Holey was made ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
69671789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashmi%20Narzary | Rashmi Narzary | Rashmi Narzary is an Indian writer of Bodo origin, who writes in English language. She is best known for her children's book His Share of Sky (2012), for which she won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2016.
Her debut novel, BLOODSTONE, Legend of the Last Engraving, is a literally, socially and academically acclaimed work ... | 2.25 | 0 |
69672581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara%20Hepner | Clara Hepner | Career as a writer
Clara Hepner discovered a talent for writing late in life, publishing her first book in 1906 (Sonnenscheinchens Erste Reise, The Little Sunbeam's First Journey) at age 46, still under the German Empire. Her manuscript translation of Gaspard de la Nuit from French to German had been rejected for pub... | 2.578125 | 0 |
69672746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20bisexuality | History of bisexuality | These practices are recounted in countless literary works, most of which have yet to be translated. English translations are available, however, for Ihara Saikaku, who featured a bisexual man in The Life of a Man in Love (1682), for Jippensha Ikku's account of the first gay relationship in the post-publication 'Preface... | 2.09375 | 0 |
69672750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewellery%20of%20the%20Berber%20cultures | Jewellery of the Berber cultures | History
In their documented history, going back to prehistoric times, The different indigenous Berber peoples of North Africa, ranging from the Siwa Oasis in Egypt to Morocco and Mauritania, and historically including the Guanches of the Canary Islands, have undergone constant changes in lifestyles and culture. Most n... | 3.09375 | 0 |
69672750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewellery%20of%20the%20Berber%20cultures | Jewellery of the Berber cultures | While the Arabized and urban inhabitants of North Africa preferred jewellery made of gold, the rural Berbers held on to silver jewellery for centuries. This provided the economic basis for the silversmiths in medium-sized towns, such as Tiznit or Sefrou in Morocco or in the Kabylia mountains in Algeria, which were ofte... | 3.03125 | 0 |
69672750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewellery%20of%20the%20Berber%20cultures | Jewellery of the Berber cultures | Tuareg and Mauritanian jewellery
Jewellery made of silver, coloured glass or iron is also a special tradition of the Tuareg people. They belong to the Berber peoples and mostly still live as semi-nomads in parts of the Sahara in the Hoggar region of modern-day Algeria, Libya, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. Their jewell... | 2.625 | 0 |
69672750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewellery%20of%20the%20Berber%20cultures | Jewellery of the Berber cultures | Typical basic forms of jewellery are triangles and almond shapes, as well as the so-called khmissa (local pronunciation of the Arabic word khamsa for the number five), which is called as in the Berber language (Tamazight). This form represents the five fingers of the hand and is traditionally believed both by Muslims a... | 2.84375 | 0 |
69672750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewellery%20of%20the%20Berber%20cultures | Jewellery of the Berber cultures | For his illustrated book Costumes du Maroc (1942), he identified three basic categories of costumes: rural Berber dress, Jewish dress and urban citizens' costumes, some of which with Arab elements of dress. Further, each of the portraits of his 60 gouache paintings was attributed to a specific social role (married woma... | 2.859375 | 0 |
69672750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewellery%20of%20the%20Berber%20cultures | Jewellery of the Berber cultures | Studies by ethnologists
Henriette Camps-Fabrer (1928–2015), a French ethnologist who specialized in North African culture, wrote several books about the Berber jewellery of Algeria and the neighbouring Maghreb countries between the 1970s and 1990. She and her husband, Gabriel Camps (1927–2002) had grown up in colonial... | 2.421875 | 0 |
69672750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewellery%20of%20the%20Berber%20cultures | Jewellery of the Berber cultures | Commenting on the central and gender-specific roles of women as producers of clothing and textiles and as beneficiaries of costumes and jewellery, Becker wrote in her 2006 study, Amazigh Arts in Morocco. Women Shaping Berber Identity,: "Women both created the artistic symbols of Berber identity and wore them on their b... | 2.578125 | 0 |
69673103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aakar%20Patel | Aakar Patel | Aakar Patel is an Indian journalist, activist and author. He served as the head of Amnesty International in India between 2015 and 2019, and currently serves as the chair of the Board of Amnesty International in India. He is the author of Our Hindu Rashtra, an account of majoritarianism in India, and of Price of the M... | 2.046875 | 0 |
69673552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olle%20Rimfors | Olle Rimfors | Olof “Olle” Alfred Rimfors (14 May 1896 – 26 February 1994) was a Swedish ski pioneer, ski instructor, military officer, and sports official. In 1934 he introduced alpine skiing in Sweden together with Sigge Bergman, after studying for a month at the ski school of Hannes Schneider in St. Anton am Arlberg and competing ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
69673865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentanogmius | Pentanogmius | Pentanogmius is an extinct genus of sail-finned ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Europe and the United States. Five species are currently recognized, 2 from Cenomanian to Turonian Europe and 3 better known species from Coniacian to Campanian North America. The American species inhabi... | 2.484375 | 0 |
69673865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentanogmius | Pentanogmius | Plethodus pentagon was revised in the year 2000, determined to be a distinct genus and named Pentanogmius and a year later Louis Taverne determined that both Bananogmius evolutus and Bananogmius crieleyi (named by Applegate in 1970) did not match the autapomorphies defining Bananogmius and must instead represent a diff... | 2.203125 | 0 |
69673865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentanogmius | Pentanogmius | Like other plethodid fish, Pentanogmius had enlarged and high dorsal and anal fins. The dorsal fin starts just posterior to the skull and extends over most of the body until just before the deeply bifurcated caudal fin. In P. evolutus every fin ray posterior to the apex is slightly shorter than the one preceding it, gi... | 2.34375 | 0 |
69673865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentanogmius | Pentanogmius | Little can be said about the European species of Pentanogmius, as both P. pentagon and P. furcatus are poorly understood and were named from fragmentary remains. However, Taverna (2004) does show clear differences between the species based on the dermobasihyal morphology. This part of the anatomy could not be observed ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
69673943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh%20Back%2C%20Bristol | Welsh Back, Bristol | Welsh Back is a wharf and street alongside the floating harbour in the centre of the city of Bristol, England. The wharf and street extend some along the west side of the harbour between Bristol Bridge and Redcliffe Bridge. At the northern (Bristol Bridge) end, the street and wharf are immediately adjacent, but to the... | 2.296875 | 0 |
69674341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Mencap%20Society%20v%20Tomlinson-Blake | Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake | Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake [2021] UKSC 8 is a UK labour law case, concerning the right to be paid when an employer constrains their worker's freedom.
Facts
Mrs. Tomlinson-Blake and another care-worker claimed that they should be paid the minimum wage which included her time while she was asleep and still w... | 2.03125 | 0 |
78520943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjuna%27s%20Dilemma | Arjuna's Dilemma | Arjuna's Dilemma is a chamber opera created by Douglas Cuomo in 2008. The philosophical dilemma faced by Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita is dramatized in operatic form with a blend of Indian classical music, Western Classical music, and jazz with lyrics in Sanskrit.
Arjuna’s Dilemma is an 80-minute opera-oratorio. The op... | 2.171875 | 0 |
78521022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race%20%28French%20Constitution%29 | Race (French Constitution) | The debate regularly resurfaced in Parliament from the early 2000s.
Historico-legal background
The question of removing the concept of race from the Constitution inevitably gives rise to the issue of amending the entire body of legislation, particularly criminal law. The term race first emerged in French legislation... | 2.328125 | 0 |
78521604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency%20Reform%20of%201948 | Currency Reform of 1948 | Effects
The most immediate effect of the currency reform was the sudden availability of retail products on store shelves. Though the increase in production was quick in coming, it was not fast enough to explain the sudden relative abundance of goods – at first it was primarily the result of the black market dissolving... | 2.578125 | 0 |
78521934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leishabithol | Leishabithol | Between Uchathol and Mullargao, there are tribal villages such as Phaitol, Kamarangkha Khasi and Ngahmunphai, which are administratively in Tamenglong district. Mullargao and Leishabithol are however in Jiribam district. The overlapping jurisdictions of districts makes it difficult to draw clear district boundaries. In... | 2.078125 | 0 |
78522103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Up-and-Under%20%28novel%20series%29 | The Up-and-Under (novel series) | A review in Kirkus Reviews wrote that Over the Woodward Wall "draws heavily on the tropes of a stock 20th-century children’s fantasy." Nevertheless, McGuire's "sharp and thoughtful perspective" turns the novel into a commentary on those 20th century works. The fictional A. Deborah Baker was presented as a contemporary ... | 1.914063 | 0 |
78522113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20Wars%20Memorial%2C%20Auckland | New Zealand Wars Memorial, Auckland | Composition
The monument consists of a short obelisk mounted on a square plinth, with a life-size bronze statue of Zealandia on its eastern side. The obelisk and plinth are constructed of grey and white Takaka marble.
The inscription on the obelisk facing Symonds Street reads as follows:
In memory of the brave men b... | 2.484375 | 0 |
78522273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects%20of%20Hurricane%20Irma%20in%20the%20Lesser%20Antilles | Effects of Hurricane Irma in the Lesser Antilles | On Saint John, described as "perhaps the site of Irma's worst devastation on American soil," it took six days for an active-theater disaster zone to be established, leading to criticism of the U.S. government response. The National Guard was delayed in reaching Saint John due to the number of overturned boats left in t... | 2.0625 | 0 |
78522351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population%20of%20Racib%C3%B3rz | Population of Racibórz | Information from the 16th century indicates an economic decline, leading to a reduction in population. In 1532, Racibórz had 288 houses, 229 of which belonged to citizens, 12 to the nobility, 10 to the clergy, and 37 were vacant. The city's growth was also hindered by fires that plagued Racibórz between 1546 and 1574. ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
78522358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fer%20L%C3%B3pez | Fer López | Fernando López González (born 24 May 2005) is a Spanish footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for RC Celta Fortuna.
Early life
López was born on 24 May 2004 in Madrid, Spain to a psychologist mother and a lawyer father. After he attended the University of Vigo, where he studied law and business administratio... | 2.140625 | 0 |
78522640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otomar%20Pravoslav%20Nov%C3%A1k | Otomar Pravoslav Novák | Otomar Pravoslav Novák (16 November 1851 – 28 July 1892) was a Czech paleontologist. A student of Joachim Barrande, he worked at the University of Prague and specialized in the trilobites.
Novák was born in Königgrätz (Hradec Králové), son of government officer Johann and Aloisia née Piperger. He became interested in ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
78523040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20United%20States%20drone%20sightings | 2024 United States drone sightings | The reported sightings and ensuing investigations prompted responses from officials at various levels of government. Representatives called for greater transparency from investigative agencies, and additional resources for state and local officials to investigate the sightings. Legislation was introduced to help addres... | 2.21875 | 0 |
78523040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20United%20States%20drone%20sightings | 2024 United States drone sightings | Drone expert William Austin's analysis of imagery and reports related to the sightings led him to believe that "many of the reported 'large drones' were actually manned aircraft mistakenly identified" while others were the lights of cell towers, or smaller, personal use drones. By December 15, Austin reported having co... | 2.40625 | 0 |
78523738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizocarpon%20austroamphibium | Rhizocarpon austroamphibium | Rhizocarpon austroamphibium is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Rhizocarpaceae. It is found in alpine environments in southwestern Tasmania, Australia.
Taxonomy
The lichen was formally described by the lichenologists Alan Fryday and Gintaras Kantvilas in 2012. This species is dist... | 2.46875 | 0 |
78523917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coscinodon%20lawianus | Coscinodon lawianus | Coscinodon lawianus is a species of moss in the family Grimmiaceae endemic to East Antarctica. It is one of only two species of moss found only in continental Antarctica (alongside Bryum bharatiense), out of 23 species found on the continent. It is found on exposed rocks on nunataks and oases scattered across the regio... | 2.453125 | 0 |
78523917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coscinodon%20lawianus | Coscinodon lawianus | Although relatively rare, C. lawianus is spread across much of East Antarctica, where it is present on nunataks and Antarctic oases. It is found in Queen Maud Land, Mac. Robertson Land and portions of coastal Enderby Land and Princess Elizabeth Land. It was initially attested only in the northern portion of the Prince ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
78524636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhopalosiphum%20oxyacanthae | Rhopalosiphum oxyacanthae | Rhopalosiphum oxyacanthae, commonly known as the apple-grass aphid (and sometimes referred to as the apple-grain aphid) is a species of aphid in the phylum Arthropoda. This species is considered a pest in agriculture and has a wide distribution around the world. These aphids can be commonly found on the fruits of apple... | 2.78125 | 0 |
78524636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhopalosiphum%20oxyacanthae | Rhopalosiphum oxyacanthae | Adults experience several different generations, one wingless and one winged. As wingless females mature, they can produce offspring without fertilization. Adults that develop wings, the second generation, will migrate to other hosts such as grasses in mid-May. The second generation of aphids that do not develop wings... | 3.125 | 0 |
78525174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20Gethin | Jessica Gethin | Jessica Gethin is an violinist and orchestral conductor from Western Australia. Gethin is internationally recognised for her dynamic conducting style and has engaged with symphonic ensembles across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the United States. Her expertise as a conductor encompasses symphonic works, opera, balle... | 1.960938 | 0 |
78525221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20Dolby%20Shelton | E. Dolby Shelton | In the second quarter of 1885, Shelton married Frances Elizabeth Stroulger; they had one son, Percival. Shelton relocated to London in May of the same year. Initially, his household was divided on the subject of vegetarianism, but over time, his wife came to accept the lifestyle. In 1888, the family moved to Ventnor on... | 2.421875 | 0 |
78525309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9phanie%20Louise%20de%20Bourbon-Conti | Stéphanie Louise de Bourbon-Conti | Stéphanie Louise de Bourbon-Conti (1762–1825), also known as Amélie-Gabrielle Stéphanie Louise de Bourbon-Conti, Anne Louise Billet, Stephanie Louise de Bourbon, and the Comtesse Stephanie Louise de Montcairzain, was a French author, musician, aristocrat and student of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. After the French Revolution... | 2.859375 | 0 |
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