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75587704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo%20Oliveira | Gustavo Oliveira | Gustavo Batista de Oliveira (born 25 September 2002), known as Gustavo Bala Loka, is a Brazilian freestyle cyclist who represents Brazil in BMX. Finished 6th at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Career
Gustavo was born in Cohab 2, on the outskirts of Carapicuíba. He started at the age of seven. On the track called Caracas Tr... | 2.25 | 0 |
75587853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/190th%20Rifle%20Division | 190th Rifle Division | The 190th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army, originally formed as part of the prewar buildup of forces, based on the shtat (table of organization and equipment) of September 13, 1939. It began forming just months before the German invasion in the Kiev Special Military District, where it was soon a... | 2.21875 | 0 |
75588064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami%20Al-Fayez | Sami Al-Fayez | Sami Mithqal Al-Fayez (Arabic: سامي مثقال الفايز, Sami Al Fayiz; 1932 – 18 November 2012) was a Jordanian senator and Arabian tribal figure who was the paramount sheikh the Bani Sakher.
Family and early life
Sami was born to Sheikh Mithqal bin Sattam and Sat'a Hatmal Al-Zaben in 1932. He was Mithqal's sixth son and t... | 1.90625 | 0 |
75588164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphaea%20paganuccii | Nymphaea paganuccii | Nymphaea paganuccii is a species of waterlily endemic to Brazil.
Description
Vegetative characteristics
Nymphaea paganuccii is an aquatic herb. It has cylindrical tubers, which are not stoloniferous. The glabrous, green, non-brittle petioles have four primary central and four secondary peripheral air canals. The elli... | 2.421875 | 0 |
75588233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFP62 | ZFP62 | Orthologues
ZFP62 orthologues are only found in mammalian species. The orthologues appear primarily in placental mammals, including Primates, Rodentia, Cetacea, Chiroptera, Aritodactyla, Perissodactyla, and Carnivora.
Conservation across orthologues
Conservation is varied across orthologous species, with the least s... | 2.40625 | 0 |
75588771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerri%20Cahoy | Kerri Cahoy | Professor Kerri L. Cahoy is an electrical and aerospace engineer and a professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. She is also the co-founder of laser communications firm SpaceRake. Cahoy is the leader of the Space Telecommunications, Astronomy and Radiation Laboratory (STAR) at MIT, and she is most well known fo... | 2.375 | 0 |
75588771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerri%20Cahoy | Kerri Cahoy | Cahoy's research has investigated heavily in technology demonstrations with nanosatellites, or CubeSat platforms. She directs the STAR lab at MIT which is focused on four key areas: weather sensing, connectivity, exoplanet detection and characterization, and nanosatellite technology. Her work aims to get groups, or "co... | 2.546875 | 0 |
75588771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerri%20Cahoy | Kerri Cahoy | Her research also contributes to the field of weather sensing in which she studies how CubeSats (or small satellites) with instrumentation for weather sensing "can passively make precise measurements of atmospheric temperature at different altitudes". Her team has flown 3 CubeSats so far, and the success has proven tha... | 2.453125 | 0 |
71261166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk%20drawer | Junk drawer | A junk drawer or junkdrawer is a drawer used for storing small, miscellaneous, occasionally useful objects of little to no (or unclear) monetary value, and possibly significant sentimental value. Junk drawers are often located in residential kitchens, but they may exist anywhere with cabinetry or furniture used for sto... | 2.5 | 0 |
71261288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Weidman%20Schneider | Susan Weidman Schneider | Susan Weidman Schneider (born March 17, 1944) is a Canadian author, activist and editor of the feminist magazine Lilith. She has written several books and articles on a variety of topics including intermarriage, fertility, domestic abuse, conversion, Orthodosy and feminism and LGBTQ issues.
Childhood and education
Su... | 2.09375 | 0 |
71261554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%20Saulitis | Eva Saulitis | Eva Lucia Saulitis (May 10, 1963 – January 16, 2016) was an American marine biologist and poet, based in Alaska.
Early life and education
Saulitis was born in the Bronx and raised Silver Creek, New York, the daughter of Latvian immigrants Janis (John) Saulitis and Asja Ivins Saulitis. She studied oboe at Northwestern... | 2.03125 | 0 |
71261586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willeya | Willeya | Willeya is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has 12 species. Most species are found in southeast Asia, although individual representatives are known from Australia, Europe, and North America.
Taxonomy
Willeya was originally proposed by Swiss lichenologist Johannes... | 2.328125 | 0 |
71261755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20von%20Ferraris | Arthur von Ferraris | Arthur von Ferraris (or di Ferraris; 1856–1936) was a Hungarian-born artist known for his portraits of society figures of his day and for his "orientalist" paintings.
Von Ferraris was born in Galkovitz, Hungary but moved to Vienna as a teenager to study with Joseph Matthaus Aigner. In 1876, at twenty, he moved to Par... | 2.5 | 0 |
71261928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty%20Years%27%20War%2C%201621%E2%80%931648 | Eighty Years' War, 1621–1648 | Economic warfare (1620s)
Although Spain took a defensive stance, economic warfare was intensified in a way that amounted to a veritable siege of the Republic as a whole. In the first place, the naval war intensified. The Spanish navy harassed Dutch shipping, which had to sail through the Strait of Gibraltar to Italy a... | 2.671875 | 0 |
71261928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty%20Years%27%20War%2C%201621%E2%80%931648 | Eighty Years' War, 1621–1648 | With the peace negotiations dragging on, events elsewhere in Europe of course had not stood still. While Spain was busy fighting the Mantuan war, the Swedes had intervened in the Thirty Years' War in the Holy Roman Empire under Gustavus Adolphus in 1630, supported by French and Dutch subsidies. The Swedes improved upon... | 2.78125 | 0 |
71261928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty%20Years%27%20War%2C%201621%E2%80%931648 | Eighty Years' War, 1621–1648 | While the peace negotiations were progressing at a snail's pace, Frederick Henry managed a few final military successes: in 1644 he captured Sas van Gent and Hulst in what was to become States Flanders. In 1646, however, Holland, sick of the feet-dragging in the peace negotiations, refused to approve the annual war bud... | 2.640625 | 0 |
71262255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croesus%20Track | Croesus Track | The Croesus Track is a historic miners trail to the south of Paparoa National Park in the Grey District of South Island of New Zealand. The route crosses the Paparoa Range from Blackball in the Grey Valley to Barrytown on the Tasman Sea coast. The first section, starting from the Blackball end, is shared with the Pap... | 2.546875 | 0 |
71262320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Library%20of%20Tajikistan | National Library of Tajikistan | The National Library of Tajikistan (NLT; , КМТ; ) located in Dushanbe, Tajikistan is the main library of the country, specializing in preserving cultural heritage of the peoples of the Republic of Tajikistan. While the original library state library in Dushanbe was founded in 1933 and named after Persian author Ferdows... | 2.03125 | 0 |
71262472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Light%20%28comics%29 | Alan Light (comics) | Alan L. Light (b. September 15, 1953) is a publisher involved in comics and pop culture fandom. He is best known as the founder of The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom (later known as the Comics Buyer's Guide), which was the longest-running English-language periodical reporting on the American comic book industry.
Publi... | 1.953125 | 0 |
71262865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20submarine%20Sfax | French submarine Sfax | French Navy
When World War II began on 1 September 1939, Sfax — along with Achille, Casabianca, and Pasteur — was still assigned to the 2nd Submarine Division in the 4th Submarine Squadron in the 1st Flotilla, a component of the Forces de haute mer (High Seas Force), based at Brest. On either 3 September 1939, the day ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
71264074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi%20W%C5%8Fngye | Yi Wŏngye | Yi Wŏngye (; 1330–1388), later posthumously promoted to Grand Prince Wanp'ung, was a warrior and painter in the late Goryeo period. He was the oldest child and son of Yi Cha-ch'un, making him the older half-brother to Yi Sŏnggye, who later founded the Joseon dynasty.
After repulsing the Red Turban invasions and Japane... | 2.234375 | 0 |
71264306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantgarw%20dance%20tradition | Nantgarw dance tradition | The Nantgarw dance tradition (Welsh: Traddodiad dawns Nantgarw) is a Welsh dancing tradition that originates from the Nantagarw area in south Wales.
Tradition
Nantgarw tradition is a style of Welsh folk dancing from the South and Valleys regions of Wales, specifically associated with the small village of Nantgarw. Th... | 2.84375 | 0 |
71264374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrmecopterula%20velohortorum | Myrmecopterula velohortorum | Myrmecopterula velohortorum is a species of fungus in the family Pterulaceae. It is associated with fungi cultivating ants of the genus Apterostigma.
Taxonomy
M. velohortorum was originally classified as Pterula velohortorum by the American mycologist Bryn Tjader Mason Dentinger in 2014. Before being formally classif... | 2 | 0 |
71264779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith%20Thomson | Edith Thomson | Edith Elizabeth Bruce Thomson was a British historian that specialized in early-modern Scottish political history. She was the second woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in History from the University of St Andrews.
Academic career
Thomson started undergraduate studies at the University of St Andrews in October 1919. She gra... | 2.4375 | 0 |
71264786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20J.%20Leib | Thomas J. Leib | Thomas Jefferson Leib (1806-1851) was an American naval officer of the early 19th-century sailing ship era, active in Florida's Second Seminole War as well as anti-piracy and smuggling suppression patrols throughout the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and West Indies.
Early life
Thomas Jefferson Leib was born in Phila... | 2.296875 | 0 |
71264786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20J.%20Leib | Thomas J. Leib | In early June 1836, USS Concord was at Tampa Bay. Leib was directed to take the Army contract schooner Motto, along with a detachment of 20 sailors and Marines, and investigate a reported cache of Seminole gunpowder stored on Indian Key in the northern Florida Keys. He did not find much gunpowder at Indian Key; however... | 2.75 | 0 |
71265020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seema%20Alavi | Seema Alavi | In 2002, Alavi edited The Eighteenth Century in India, as part of Oxford University Press' series of Debates in Indian History and Society, consisting of key documents and debates in 18th century Indian historiography. It contained contributions from Irfan Habib, Bernard S. Cohn, P.J. Marshall, and C.A. Bayly. In 2008,... | 2.25 | 0 |
71265032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20Lynne%20Williams | Laura Lynne Williams | Williams and her sons followed Shpilenok and in 2006, Williams helped establish the WWF office in Kamchatka. In 2009, she headed the Kamchatka’s Wild Salmon Center. As recalled by Guido Rahr, WSC executive director, the center’s performance declined dramatically in Kamchatka and they needed someone who could understand... | 2.140625 | 0 |
71265401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20J.%20Forster | Frank J. Forster | Frank Joseph Forster (1886 – March 4, 1948) was an American architect who designed homes in the style of French provincial architecture during the early 20th century. He was also the author of two books about the French provincial architecture style.
Early life
Forster was born in New York City in 1886. From 1903 to 1... | 2.453125 | 0 |
71265403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Socialist%20Party%20%28Romania%29 | United Socialist Party (Romania) | The United Socialist Party (, abbreviated P.S.U.) was a political party in Romania, formed in 1933 through the merger of the Independent Socialist Party (PSI) and the Socialist Party (led by Constantin Popovici). PSU was a small party but played an important role within the left-wing movement, especially through its re... | 2.09375 | 0 |
71265519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-armed%20flathead | Semi-armed flathead | The semi-armed flathead (Leviprora semermis) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Platycephalidae, the flatheads. This species is endemic to the coastal waters of southern Australia. It was confirmed as a valid species in 2020.
Taxonomy
The semi-armed flathead was first formally described in ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
71265609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiraz%20%28Vivier%29 | Shiraz (Vivier) | "Shiraz" is a virtuosic piano piece by Claude Vivier, written in 1977. It is named after the eponymous Iranian city, and contains a flurry of interlocking rhythmic combinations and pulses at great speed. Vivier was inspired to write the piece after listening to blind singers perform in the city's market square. He wrot... | 2.046875 | 0 |
71265869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%201116%20ship | Design 1116 ship | The Design 1016 ship (full name Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1016) was a wood-hulled cargo ship design approved for production by the United States Shipping Board's Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFT) in World War I. As part of a larger effort to rapidly increase the country's shipping capacity, the EFT approved se... | 2.34375 | 0 |
71266018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita%20Rivas | Anita Rivas | Anita Carolina Rivas Párraga (born May 4, 1972) is an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician. She was the mayor of Puerto Francisco de Orellana from 2005 to 2019. In 2009 she visited the United Kingdom, Luxembourg and Spain to propose that oil in her area could remain unexploited if compensation could be found and Yasuni Nat... | 2.046875 | 0 |
71266299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%9323%20North%20American%20winter | 2022–23 North American winter | Early February cold wave
Following an arctic front moving in the night of February 2, extremely cold temperatures settled into the Northeast on February 3 and 4. Schools in Boston, Massachusetts closed on February 3 in anticipation of the cold temperatures. On February 4, 2023, Boston experienced a temperature of , th... | 2.390625 | 0 |
71266648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDU-414 | KDU-414 | The KDU-414 (Russian Корректирующая Двигательная Установка, Corrective Propulsion Unit), is a pressure-fed liquid rocket Propulsion Unit developed and produced by the Isayev Design Bureau (today known as KhimMash). From 1960 onward, it powered several unmanned Soviet Spacecraft, including the first series of Molniya s... | 2.3125 | 0 |
71266747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadia%20%28region%29 | Acadia (region) | Acadia's main rivers are the Restigouche and Nepisiguit rivers which flow into the Chaleur Bay, the Miramichi River which flows into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the Petitcodiac and Saint John rivers which flow into the Bay of Fundy. Acadia has many small lakes and wetlands. Wetlands are particularly common on the Aca... | 2.875 | 0 |
71266789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Hall%20%28governor%29 | James Hall (governor) | James Hall (April 9, 1802August 31, 1889) was an American physician who founded the colony of Maryland-in-Africa. Hall served as its governor from 1833 to 1836.
Early life and education
James Hall was born on April 9, 1802, in Cornish, New Hampshire, to parents Nathaniel and Prudence Hall. James studied medicine with ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
71267284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty%20Years%27%20War%2C%201599%E2%80%931609 | Eighty Years' War, 1599–1609 | Both sides now embarked on an intensification of the fortress-building spree that had begun in the mid-1590s, enveloping the Republic in a double belt of fortresses on its outer borders (an outer Spanish and an inner Dutch belt). This belt ran from Emden in the northeast via Bourtange, Coevorden, Zwolle, the line of th... | 2.5625 | 0 |
71267331 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969%20Major%20League%20Baseball%20postseason | 1969 Major League Baseball postseason | The 1969 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1969 season. It was the first edition of the new playoff system introduced by MLB, coinciding with the beginning of the "Divisional Era." Each league expanded from 10 teams to 12 teams and was divided into two 6-team d... | 2.421875 | 0 |
71267389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltkiln | Maltkiln | Harrogate District's Council development plan stated that the number of affordable homes should be between 20–40% of available housing (600–1,200 homes on the 3,000 home development). However, to keep the project financially viable, the number of affordable homes was dropped to only 20%. Residents of both Cattal and Gr... | 1.960938 | 0 |
71267494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93Commonwealth%20of%20Independent%20States%20relations | Ukraine–Commonwealth of Independent States relations | As of 2019, Ukraine had minimized its participation in the Commonwealth to the critically necessary minimum. A review of the 236 CIS agreements Ukraine had joined was ongoing, with the aim of denouncing them. Ukraine was invited to attend in a meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the CIS in October 2019, but did... | 2.046875 | 0 |
71267602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateshead%20Association%20F.C. | Gateshead Association F.C. | Gateshead Association F.C. was an English association club based in Gateshead, then in County Durham. The Association was part of the club's name and habitually referred to as Gateshead Association or Gateshead (A).
History
The club was founded in 1884 by a Dr A. Dougall, who acted as club secretary until 1888. The... | 2.09375 | 0 |
71267668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20Quartet%20No.%201%20%28G%C3%B3recki%29 | String Quartet No. 1 (Górecki) | The First String Quartet was commissioned by Doris and Myron Beigler and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for the Kronos Quartet, and marked a revival in Górecki's interest in purely instrumental and chamber music. He composed the piece between 20 October and 30 November 1988, in the Highlander town of Chocho... | 2.171875 | 0 |
71267668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20Quartet%20No.%201%20%28G%C3%B3recki%29 | String Quartet No. 1 (Górecki) | This section recalls the music of the Polish Highlanders and explores irregular rhythmic divisions, and, typical for the composer, repetition. It begins with the violins playing a simple dissonant ostinato accompaniment, while the viola and cello play a new theme in rhythmic unison, a major ninth apart from each other.... | 2.453125 | 0 |
71267782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna%20and%20contemporary%20arts | Madonna and contemporary arts | Her early visuals/presentation were often described as pop art. In the 1990s, critic Martha Bayles said she cultivated a "heavy-duty pop art image". Editor Paul Flynn called her "a pop artist in the Warholian sense of the word", while John R. May in 1997, from Louisiana State University describes her a "successful piec... | 2.125 | 0 |
71267782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna%20and%20contemporary%20arts | Madonna and contemporary arts | Madonna has been depicted by various artists around the world, including those who were influenced by her. Speaking about her artistic depictions of over two decades, in 2003, Walker said: "Naturally [...] many visual artists have been inspired to depict Madonna". The book Madonna in Art (2004) compiled portraits and p... | 2.15625 | 0 |
71267967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20White%20Wolf%20%28fairy%20tale%29 | The White Wolf (fairy tale) | In a German tale from Schleswig-Holstein with the title König Medowulf ("King Medowolf"), a woodcutter has an only daughter. One day, a wolf appears to him and declares that his daughter is to become his wife. The woodcutter gives his daughter to the wolf, which takes her to his castle. They live like husband and wife.... | 2.484375 | 0 |
71268102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat%20of%20arms%20of%20Panama%20City | Coat of arms of Panama City | The coat of arms of Panama City was granted by King Charles I of Spain via Royal Charter issued in Burgos, on 15 September, 1521. The coat of arms was granted as part of the municipality achieving the status of City.
History
King Charles I of Spain, by means of the Royal Decree of Burgos, dated 15 September of 1521,... | 2.5 | 0 |
71268145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20Kherson%20counteroffensive | 2022 Kherson counteroffensive | On 24 July, Serhii Khlan, a Kherson region official, stated that "the Kherson region will definitely be liberated by September, and all the occupiers' plans will fail".
Writing a few months later in The Atlantic, military historian Phillips O'Brien remarked that it was unusual for a side to openly signal an intended o... | 1.90625 | 0 |
71268267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebru%20Desta | Gebru Desta | Gebru Desta also known as Kantiba Gebru and Aleqa Gebru Desta (1855 – January 1950) was an Amhara intellectual, and former mayor of Gondar and Addis Abeba. Gebru was one of the few foreign educated Ethiopians during Menelik II’s reign, and served the emperor and his successors in various positions ranging from diplomat... | 2.171875 | 0 |
71268686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeneocharis | Greeneocharis | Greeneocharis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae. There are two species, and it has a disjunct distribution in the western United States and northwestern Mexico in North America and western Argentina in southern South America. It is part of subtribe of Amsinckiinae.
It was once thought to be a ... | 2.25 | 0 |
71268767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yondaru%20Kimu | Yondaru Kimu | Yondaru Kimu, also known as Kim Young Dal (; October 7, 1948 – 2000), was a Korean-Japanese historian who focused on Sōshi-kaimei. He was also a civil rights activist focused on North Koreans fleeing North Korea.
Early life and education
Yondaru Kimu was born on October 7, 1948, in Kasugai, Aichi, Japan. His parents w... | 2.140625 | 0 |
71268793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20impacts%20of%20war%20in%20Afghanistan | Environmental impacts of war in Afghanistan | Open-air burn pits
Open-pit burning was the dominant method used by the DoD to dispose of waste from their military bases in the US War in Afghanistan until 2013. Trash was set afire on open fields using JP-8 jet fuel and diesel as propellants. The open-air burn pits were unregulated and unmonitored. Waste consisted o... | 2.796875 | 0 |
71268991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula%20Richman | Paula Richman | Paula Richman is an Emerita William H. Danforth Professor of South Asian Religions at Oberlin College. She is an expert in the Tamil language and has edited a series of books about the Ramayana, including Many Ramayanas, Questioning Ramayana, Ramayana Stories in Modern South India and Performing the Ramayana Tradition.... | 2.25 | 0 |
71269046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20F.%20Harmer | Alexander F. Harmer | Alexander Francis Harmer (1856 – January 10, 1925) was an American painter in Southern California. He has been described as the first prominent painter of California. Works by Harmer are part of several major collections.
Biography
Harmer was born in 1856 in Newark, New Jersey. He began painting early, supposedly sell... | 2.328125 | 0 |
71269154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Zakian | Michael Zakian | Michael Zakian (April 7, 1957 – January 14, 2020) was an American art historian and museum curator. He was the director of the Frederick R. Weisman Museum in Malibu, California for 25 years until his death in 2020. His academic research focused on abstract expressionism.
Early life and education
Michael Zakian was bor... | 2.296875 | 0 |
71269421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsilano%20Trestle | Kitsilano Trestle | The Kitsilano Trestle (also known as CPR trestle and CPR Kitsilano trestle) was a former railway bridge over False Creek, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The first bridge, a timber trestle was begun in 1886 or 1888 to carry the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) to a proposed port on English Bay on the Kitsilano s... | 2.234375 | 0 |
71269800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordlingen%20%28wargame%29 | Nordlingen (wargame) | However, in a change from the Napoleon at Waterloo rules:
zones of control are "rigid" but not "sticky": a unit moving adjacent to an enemy unit can continue to move onwards without stopping, but if the unit chooses to stop adjacent to an enemy, combat must ensue.
artillery can fire and be captured, but cannot be move... | 2.296875 | 0 |
71270045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Shape%20of%20Water%20%28soundtrack%29 | The Shape of Water (soundtrack) | The Shape of Water (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the Academy Award-winning film of the same name. It featured 26 tracks — most of the tracks were from the original score composed by Alexandre Desplat and some tracks are incorporated songs, being originated from the 1940s and 1960s as t... | 2.1875 | 0 |
71270061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buford%20High%20School%20%28South%20Carolina%29 | Buford High School (South Carolina) | Buford High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in Lancaster, South Carolina. It is one of four high schools in the Lancaster County School District.
History
Buford High School opened on September 7, 1925. The school is named after Colonel Abraham Buford of the Continental Army, and is currently loc... | 2.75 | 0 |
71270336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus%E2%80%93NATO%20relations | Cyprus–NATO relations | Cyprus is one of four European Union (EU) member states which is not a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the only one not to participate in NATO's Partnership for Peace (PfP) program.
The others are Austria, Ireland and Malta.
History
1949–1960: Period within NATO as a British crown colony
... | 2.703125 | 0 |
71270548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland%20Kenney | Rowland Kenney | Rowland Kenney (28 December 1882 – 1961) was a British diplomat, propagandist, author and editor. During World War I and World War II, Kenney directed British propaganda in Norway and Scandinavia.
Early life
Kenney was born on 28 December 1882 in Springhead, West Riding of Yorkshire (now part of Oldham). He was a son... | 2.234375 | 0 |
71270592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty%20Years%27%20War%2C%201576%E2%80%931579 | Eighty Years' War, 1576–1579 | Unions of Arras and Utrecht (January 1579)
On 6 January 1579, prompted by the new Spanish governor Farnese, and upset by aggressive Calvinism, the Catholic nobility of the counties of Artois and Hainaut, and of the city of Douai, left the alliance agreed upon by the Pacification of Ghent and signed the Union of Arras... | 2.609375 | 0 |
71270666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20American%20P-51%20Mustang%20in%20New%20Zealand%20service | North American P-51 Mustang in New Zealand service | Developed as a fighter interceptor, the North American P-51 Mustang was widely used during the Second World War. New Zealand ordered 130 Mustangs in early 1945 but the first 30 of these were placed in storage when they arrived in the country later in the year due to the end of the war. The remainder of the order was ca... | 2.265625 | 0 |
71270883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen%20Littmann | Ellen Littmann | Ellen Littmann (1909-1975) was a German-Jewish scholar of Judaism and the first woman to graduate from the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, the rabbinic seminary of German Jewry. Littmann was later associated with the Leo Baeck College of London where she taught biblical studies.
Biography
Born in Danzi... | 2.0625 | 0 |
71271084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor%20Bjurstr%C3%B6m | Tor Bjurström | Tor Bjurström () was a Swedish artist specialising in landscape and portrait works.
Early life and career
Tor Bjurström was born in Stockholm in 1888 to Per Gustaf Bjurström and Gustava Matilda Johanna Johansson. His father Per Gustaf was a wholesaler. Bjurström studied at the Swedish Artists Asscoaition school in th... | 1.9375 | 0 |
71271498 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20Nobel%20Prize%20in%20Literature | 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature | The 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Chinese émigré writer Gao Xingjian (born 1940) "for an æuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama." He is the first Chinese recipient of the prize followed by Mo Yan in 2012.
Lau... | 2.25 | 0 |
71271663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obaidullah%20Hamzah | Obaidullah Hamzah | Obaidullah Hamzah (; born 1972) is a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, educator and economist. He is the sixth Director-General of Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya and the head of its Arabic department. He is also the secretary-general of the Bangladesh Tahfizul Quran Organisation, chairman of the sharia supervisory committee of ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
71271779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balhuticaris | Balhuticaris | Description
Balhuticaris was the largest bivalved arthropod in the fossil record, beating the previous holders of this title Nereocaris exilis and Tuzoia. This animal's body was very long, and had extreme segmentation compared to other Cambrian arthropods, with over 100 distinct segments. In total this creature had ab... | 2.71875 | 0 |
71271894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley%20Kwaku%20Pinkrah | Kingsley Kwaku Pinkrah | Kingsley Kwaku Pinkrah is a Ghanaian social entrepreneur and business advisor. He founded Cedi Ghana, an NGO that addresses poverty and youth unemployment in Ghana.
Education
Kingsley completed T. I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School in 2009 before graduating from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology with a ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
71272654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinwill%20sisters | Pinwill sisters | The Pinwill sisters (consisting of Mary (1871–1962), Ethel (1872–1951) and Violet (1874–1957)) were British professional woodcarvers in Devon from 1890 onwards. Although in their era there were women who produced stained glass, sculpture, wood and metalwork for churches, those women were largely unacclaimed and regarde... | 2.265625 | 0 |
71272654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinwill%20sisters | Pinwill sisters | By September 1890, Mary had set up a workshop in Plymouth and also offered lessons in carving. Not long afterwards Edmund H. Sedding located the offices of his architectural practice in Plymouth at the same address. Sedding worked in the context of the Arts and Crafts movement, which emphasised localness, the promotion... | 2.578125 | 0 |
71272660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme%20Academy%20of%20Fine%20Arts | Lyme Academy of Fine Arts | The Lyme Academy of Fine Arts is an art school in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
History
The Lyme Academy was founded in 1976 by Elisabeth Gordon Chandler as a figurative academy for the teaching of sculpture, figure drawing, Illustration and painting dedicated to the fine arts. The school offered a Bachelor of Fine Arts deg... | 2.203125 | 0 |
71272964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious%20Confucianism | Religious Confucianism | Religious Confucianism is an interpretation of Confucianism as a religion. It originated in the time of Confucius with his defense of traditional religious institutions of his time such as the Jongmyo rites, and the ritual and music system.
The Chinese name for religious Confucianism is Rujiao, in contrast with non-re... | 2.859375 | 0 |
71272964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious%20Confucianism | Religious Confucianism | At present, the General Confucian Church of Indonesia (MAKIN) has about 200 branches throughout Indonesia. Confucian churches organize their members to engage in religious prayers, singing hymns and studying scriptures on a regular basis mainly in auditoriums, and also carry out activities such as traditional Chinese f... | 2.40625 | 0 |
71273036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Arab%20League%20relations | Japan–Arab League relations | Japan–Arab League relations are the bilateral relations between the Japan and Arab League.
History
The Arab Japanese political relations date back to at least the early 20th century, manifested in Japan’s recognition of Egypt immediately after its independence in 1922 and opened its first consulate in Port Said in 19... | 2.296875 | 0 |
71273111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20at%20the%201896%20Summer%20Olympics | Football at the 1896 Summer Olympics | Background
The organization of a football tournament at the 1896 Games was directly raised during the first-ever IOC meeting held in November 1894, which means that an Olympic football tournament was originally planned to be held at the games. By early 1896, the Greek Olympic Organizing Committee had been informed tha... | 2.203125 | 0 |
71273457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%3A%20The%20Roleplaying%20Game | Alien: The Roleplaying Game | Alien: The Roleplaying Game is a science fiction horror role-playing game based on the Alien film franchise. It was published by Free League Publishing in 2019. The game has won three ENNIE Awards.
Description
Alien is a role-playing game set in space in the far future that has two modes:
Campaign: The usual role-pl... | 2.09375 | 0 |
71273648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark%20Highlands%20Spirits | Ozark Highlands Spirits | Ozark Highlands Spirits refers to a category of distilled liquor codified by the Missouri General Assembly of the U.S. State of Missouri in 2022. It was signed by the Missouri Governor on July 1, 2022, and became law on August 28, 2022.
History
The Ozark Highlands are known for their limestone bluffs and caves that ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
78539879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latta%20University | Latta University | Tuition, room, and board cost $6.75 a month for male students and $5.75 a month for female students. This included linens, furnishings, heat, light, and washing. Those who could not afford tuition worked on the school's farm or as construction workers on campus. In his autobiography, Latta wrote that one-third of the s... | 2.109375 | 0 |
78540078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians%20in%20Toru%C5%84 | Russians in Toruń | The Russian community in Toruń, predominantly adhering to the Eastern Orthodox faith, became significantly present in the city during the interwar period. The Russians who settled in Toruń at that time were mostly opponents of the October Revolution, belonging to the Russian white émigré, or those who fought on the Pol... | 2.65625 | 0 |
78540078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians%20in%20Toru%C5%84 | Russians in Toruń | On 15 August 1926, the first meeting of the Toruń Branch of the Russian Relief Committee for Emigrants in Poland took place at 6 Mostowa Street. The branch aimed to implement the committee's statutory tasks locally, including providing assistance to Russian émigrants, refugees, and former prisoners of war in Poland, re... | 2.265625 | 0 |
78540078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians%20in%20Toru%C5%84 | Russians in Toruń | The Russians permanently residing in Pomerania were followers of Orthodoxy, although there were occasional cases of conversion to Catholicism. A temporary Orthodox chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas operated in the Internment Camp. This parish remained active even after the formal closure of the camp until the status of ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
78540078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians%20in%20Toru%C5%84 | Russians in Toruń | During World War II, the existing POW camp in Toruń was expanded in 1941 to include a section designated for captured soldiers of the Red Army. These prisoners were confined in an area near the Toruń-Bydgoszcz railway line in the district, housed in barracks or in dugouts they excavated themselves. The Soviet prisoner... | 2.671875 | 0 |
78541390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagestan%20Museum%20of%20Fine%20Arts | Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts | The museum's collection includes Russian graphics: M. A. Vrubel "Ismail Bey" and "Prisoner", a sketch by I. E. Repin "In the Tea House", watercolor by V. A. Serov "Horse Warrior", landscapes by A. N. Benois; works by artists of the Soviet period, mainly Dagestani, such as Kh.-B. Askar-Sarydzha, E. M. Puterbrot, S. M. S... | 2.4375 | 0 |
78542575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall%20of%20the%20Riau%20Islands | Fall of the Riau Islands | On 8 February 1942, General Tomoyuki Yamashita led a decisive attack against Allied forces in Singapore. Despite being outnumbered, the Japanese overwhelmed the Allies under Lieutenant General Arthur Ernest Percival through swift and accurate strategies. With the threat from Japanese forces growing stronger, Singapore ... | 2.625 | 0 |
78542575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall%20of%20the%20Riau%20Islands | Fall of the Riau Islands | Aftermath
The Japanese administration of the Riau Islands was managed by the Imperial Japanese Navy in Syonanto (Singapore). Governance in Riau was overseen by a Resident appointed from Syonanto, with the position initially held by G. Yogi, a former elite member of the Kwantung Army. District areas such as Tanjungpina... | 2.4375 | 0 |
78542577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyoti%20Jeetun | Jyoti Jeetun | Jyoti Jeetun is a Mauritian businesswoman and politician.
Early life, education & career
Jyoti Jeetun was born in a Bhojpuri-speaking Hindu family of nine children in the village of Triolet, Mauritius which is located in the Pamplemousses District in the north of Mauritius. Jeetun's father was a bus driver and her mot... | 2.140625 | 0 |
78542585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Phuket | History of Phuket | Gerolamo Emilio Gerini, an Italian man known by Siamese title Phra Sarasat Phonlakhan (), served as a military instructor at Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy from 1897 to 1905. Gerini studied Siamese history and culture, composing Historical Retrospect of Junkceylon Island in 1905, the first modern historical narra... | 2.5625 | 0 |
78542585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Phuket | History of Phuket | The name "Phuket" came from the Malay term Bukit ("Mountain"), substantiated into Thai term "Phukej" () from Phu ("Mountain") and Kej ("Diamond"), meaning "Diamond Mountain", which was related to Siamese title of the governors of Thalang "Phraya Phetkhiri" (, "Lord of the Diamond Mountain"). Thalang and Phukej are two ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
78542585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Phuket | History of Phuket | By the reign of King Prasat Thong in mid-seventeenth century, there were many Southern Siamese ports that exported tin including Nakhon Si Thammarat (Ligor), Chumphon, Chaiya, Phunphin, Thalang and Bangkhli, on both coasts of Southern Siam, of which Thalang and Bangkhli were on the Andaman Coast (Bangkhli is in modern ... | 2.765625 | 0 |
78542585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Phuket | History of Phuket | Dutch–Siamese Treaty of 1664
King Prasat Thong of Ayutthaya had been in favor of the Dutch. In the reign of his son King Narai, however, Dutch–Siamese relations deteriorated. In the seventeenth century, Ayutthayan government had been sending royal ships to bring Siamese products such as deerskin and sappanwood to trad... | 3.25 | 0 |
78542585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Phuket | History of Phuket | After five-month-long siege, Phetracha reached an agreement with Desfarges in November 1688, allowing Desfarges to peacefully evacuate his French troops out of from Siam. The French and the Siamese exchanged hostages to enforce agreement terms. Leaving Siam with three Siamese noblemen hostages in November 1688, Desfarg... | 2.71875 | 0 |
78542585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Phuket | History of Phuket | In 1718, Alexander Hamilton the commander of Bombay Marine, on his journey to Ayutthaya, visited "Jonceyloan" or Junkceylon or Phuket. Hamilton narrated that Junkceylon was a part of the Siamese kingdom (it lies in the dominions of the king of Siam). Hamilton mentioned two different ports on Phuket, each for a differe... | 2.421875 | 0 |
78542585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Phuket | History of Phuket | Northumberland Incident (1756)
Northumberland, a British sloop carrying tin from Kedah and Selangor to return to Madras, anchored at Phuket in April 1756. Its captain, John Mackmath, went ashore to visit the Siamese governor of Junkceylon or Phuket. During this visit, eight Malay men from Phuket and Langkawi, led by a... | 2.265625 | 0 |
78542654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuoritsalo | Vuoritsalo | History
The northernmost tip of the island, Muuttokanta, is so named because rowboats () from Oravasaari and Toivakka coming to the church of Jyväskylä switched their rowers there. After steamships were introduced, Muuttokanta acted as a stop for ships traveling between the town of Jyväskylä and Vaajakoski.
Vuoritsal... | 1.914063 | 0 |
78542730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambutan | Sambutan | Sambutan () is a district of Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. As of 2023, it was inhabited by 62,429 people, and currently has the total area of 100.59 km2. It was split from Samarinda Ilir on 14 December 2010. Its district seat is located at the village of Sambutan.
Sambutan borders Kutai Kartanegara Regency (s... | 2.03125 | 0 |
78543100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%20Ethnographic%20Expedition | Jewish Ethnographic Expedition | The expedition began on July 1, 1912, when An-sky, Yudovin, and Engel departed on a train from Kiev to a station near Ruzhin. An-sky planned to visit "three hundred of the most important Jewish communities throughout the Pale", but because of multiple problems and the outbreak of the war, they were able to visit around... | 2.40625 | 0 |
78543100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%20Ethnographic%20Expedition | Jewish Ethnographic Expedition | An-sky's team tried to pay for the stories and songs in some shtetls, and sometimes local children invented such songs to get money. Gathering of women's traditional songs was usually difficult, because it wasn't customary to Jewish women to sing in the presence of men, as it was considered immodest. In some shtetls wo... | 2.765625 | 0 |
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