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77206993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Slunj | Siege of Slunj | The JNA’s slow drive toward Slunj began in early November, as Bulat’s tactical group converged on the town, systematically destroying Croatian villages in its path. The JNA/TO advance appears to have featured successive drives by the reinforced battle groups, each moving along a main road and probably led by a company ... | 2 | 0 |
77208325 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha%20Wiernik | Bertha Wiernik | Bertha Wiernik (March 21, 1884 – 1951) was a Lithuanian-born American writer who wrote for Jewish publications in English and Yiddish.
Bertha Wiernik was born on March 21, 1884 in Vilnius, the daughter of Hirsch Wolf Wiernik, a maggid, and Sarah Rachel (Milchiger) Wiernik, a merchant. She was the younger sister of jo... | 1.976563 | 0 |
77208325 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha%20Wiernik | Bertha Wiernik | Wiernik's anti-communist drama Destruction premiered at the Chanin Auditorium on the 50th floor of the Chanin Building on June 30, 1932. Performed by the American Classic Players, Destruction tells the story of Eleazur Amon (Claude Tosnik), the son of a minister who is recruited into communism by Dr. Porzowsky, but hi... | 2.1875 | 0 |
77208519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Douzou | Pierre Douzou | Pierre Douzou (August 25, 1926 – June 9, 2000) was a French biochemist and a pioneer in cryobiology who led parallel scientific careers in both civic and military institutions. He founded the field of cryoenzymology and developed antifreeze solvents, which found particularly use in agronomy. Douzou is recognized worldw... | 2.421875 | 0 |
77209052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Louis%20Julius%20of%20Savoy | Prince Louis Julius of Savoy | Prince Louis Julius of Savoy (2 May 1660 – 13 July 1683) was an Italian soldier and the brother of the famous Savoyard leader Prince Eugene of Savoy who distinguished himself as a general in the service of the Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Empire.
Biography
Louis Julius was born in Toulouse on 2 May 1660 to Count Eu... | 2.359375 | 0 |
77209286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Petzoldt | Joseph Petzoldt | Petzoldt's philosophy, developed in the late 19th and early 20th century, and called "relativistic positivism" by him since 1912, was based on the positivistic-phenomenalistic philosophy of Empirio-criticism by Ernst Mach and Richard Avenarius. He emphasized the relative nature of all phenomena from the perspective of... | 2.078125 | 0 |
77209590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism%20in%20Zambia | Feminism in Zambia | Organizations
Organizations that deal with feminism in Zambia play a vital role in promoting gender equality and empowering women. These organizations are instrumental in challenging patriarchal norms and gender stereotypes that have perpetuated gender-based discrimination and inequality in the country. One example is ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
77209913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Army%20Physical%20Training%20Corps%20Museum | Royal Army Physical Training Corps Museum | The Royal Army Physical Training Corps Museum is the regimental museum for the Royal Army Physical Training Corps (RAPTC) which is based in Aldershot in Hampshire. The museum is located in the grounds of the Army School of Physical Training on Fox Lines in the Military Town, and tells the story of the RAPTC from its fo... | 2.859375 | 0 |
77210374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmotho%C3%AB | Harmothoë | In Greek mythology, Harmothoë () is a minor character, the wife of Pandareus and the mother of his children. Harmothoë usually joins Pandareus in his demise when he angers the gods.
Family
Harmothoë's parentage and homeland are unknown. She married Pandareus, who hailed from Asia Minor, and had three daughters by him... | 2.5 | 0 |
77210813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987%20Dhein%20massacre | 1987 Dhein massacre | Police role
During the massacre, the police largely abandoned their duties, with many leaving the scene as the violence began. Eyewitnesses described a policeman in traditional attire participating in the killings, including the murder of Deng Alwel, a Dinka chief. Additionally, some police extorted money from the Din... | 2.34375 | 0 |
77211023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text%20shaping | Text shaping | Text shaping is the process of converting text to glyph indices and positions as part of text rendering. It is complementary to font rendering as part of the text rendering process; font rendering is used to generate the glyphs, and text shaping decides which glyphs to render and where they should be put on the image p... | 2.59375 | 0 |
77211074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherko%20Fatah | Sherko Fatah | Sherko Fatah () is a German writer of descent from Iraqi Kurdistan. A novelist, his stories often address the violence in the Middle East, especially in Kurdish areas. Fatah has won many awards for his contributions to German literature, including the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize.
Life
Born in East Berlin on 28 Novemb... | 1.921875 | 0 |
77211815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower%20East%20and%20Carlyle | Eisenhower East and Carlyle | Alexandria African American Heritage Park
The Alexandria African American Heritage Park, donated to the city by Norfolk Southern in 1995, is located in the Eisenhower Valley, at the foot of the adjacent Wilkes Street Cemetery Complex. The 7.6-acre park is a satellite of the Alexandria Black History Museum, and was desi... | 2.71875 | 0 |
77212389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyanshila%20%28Mithila%29 | Gyanshila (Mithila) | Gyanshila (romanised: Jñānaśilam) also called as Jnanakshetram is one of the various names of Mithila region in Brihadvishnupurana. This name is a descriptive epithet of the region.
Etymology
Gyanshila is a composite Sanskrit word made by the composition of words Gyan and Shila. Gyan means knowledge and Shila means p... | 2.75 | 0 |
77212428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella%20Salomon | Bella Salomon | Bella Salomon (née Itzig) (8 November 1749 - 9 March 1824) was a prominent Jewish collector of music. Along with her more famous sister Sara Levy she was influential in maintaining the musical legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach. She was also the grandmother of Felix Mendelssohn.
Family life
Bella was born in Berlin on 8 ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
77212566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puttea | Puttea | Puttea is a genus of lichen-forming fungi with uncertain familial placement in the order Lecanorales. The genus comprises four species. Finnish lichenologists Soili Stenroos and Seppo Huhtinen established the genus Puttea in 2009 for the lichen species formerly known as Lecidea margaritella, which has undergone various... | 2.546875 | 0 |
69674784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ese%20%28river%29 | Ese (river) | The Ese () is a river in the department of Corse-du-Sud, Corsica, France. It is a tributary of the Prunelli river, which it joins in the Lac de Tolla.
Course
The Ese is long.
It crosses the communes of Bastelica, Ciamannacce, Frasseto, Guitera-les-Bains, Tasso and Tolla.
It rises in the commune of Ciamannacce to the... | 1.914063 | 0 |
69674876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy%20Theatre%20%28New%20York%20City%29 | Embassy Theatre (New York City) | In October 1929, William Fox took over the Embassy, with plans to use the theater exclusively for displaying Movietone newsreels. The theater was the first of its kind to feature newsreels with sound (although the first sound newsreel had been created in 1927 at the Sam H. Harris Theatre), and it was the first exclusiv... | 2.109375 | 0 |
69674876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy%20Theatre%20%28New%20York%20City%29 | Embassy Theatre (New York City) | The Embassy Theatre's lease expired in January 1934, and the theater was dark for several weeks because of conflicts over the lease. In early February 1934, the Bethlehem Engineering Corporation leased the theater to Newsreel Theatres Inc., managed by Francis C. Wood Jr. Newsreel Theatres Inc. announced plans to reope... | 2.09375 | 0 |
69674876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy%20Theatre%20%28New%20York%20City%29 | Embassy Theatre (New York City) | Return to feature films
Norman Elson, a son-in-law of prolific theater architect Herbert J. Krapp, took over the Embassy in 1950. When the Embassy was revived as a feature-film theater, it was renamed the "Broadway-Embassy", with the films Quartet and The Hidden Room. The Broadway Embassy had only showed films for two... | 2.171875 | 0 |
69675310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita%20Fern%C3%A1ndez%20Queimadelos | Rita Fernández Queimadelos | In 1941 Fernández Queimadelos acquired her architect license becoming the first female architect to officially sign her own architectural projects in Spain.
Career
After graduation one of Fernández Queimadelos’ teachers Modesto López Otero offered her to work in the project of Devastated Regions of Madrid where she ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
69675430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20Detachment%2C%20Air%20Warning%20Service%2C%20Philippines | Marine Detachment, Air Warning Service, Philippines | In March 1942, short on gasoline and only operating periodically, the detachment packed up gear and moved to a hidden spot in the jungle on high ground about a mile from Bataan Airfield. The detachment served as part of an early warning system and was linked to headquarters of the 5th Interceptor Command at Mariveles. ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
69675613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude%20Strohm | Gertrude Strohm | Gertrude Strohm (July 14, 1843 – November 4, 1927) was an American author, compiler, and game designer of Dayton, Ohio. Between 1875 and 1892, she engaged in various types of compilations including cookbooks, social fireside games, and calendars. Strohm also contributed to magazines. She died in 1927.
Background and e... | 2.09375 | 0 |
69675966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adri%C3%A1n%20Vidal | Adrián Vidal | Adrián J. Vidal (May 9, 1845–June 14, 1865) was a Mexican soldier who fought in both the American Civil War (for both the Confederate and Union Armies) and the Mexican War against France in the 1860s. He served the Confederate States of America Army from October 1862 to 1863, when he and his troops defected. He was bra... | 2.15625 | 0 |
69676148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howling | Howling | Howling consists of a fundamental frequency that may lie between 150 and 780 Hz, and consists of up to 12 harmonically related overtones. The pitch usually remains constant or varies smoothly and may change direction as many as four or five times. Howls used for calling pack mates to a kill are long, smooth sounds simi... | 3.296875 | 0 |
69676148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howling | Howling | Human accounts of wolf behavior are typified by depictions of howling, and this has been incorporated into fictional and mythical representations, such as the werewolf. Virgil, in his poetic work Eclogues, wrote about a man called Moeris, who used herbs and poisons picked in his native Pontus to turn himself into a wol... | 2.71875 | 0 |
69676178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political%20history%20of%20Finland | Political history of Finland | Finland's first political parties grew out of the language struggle. Those advocating full rights for Finnish-speakers formed the so-called Fennoman group that by the 1890s had split into the Old Finns and the Young Finns, the former mainly concerned with the language question, the latter urging the introduction of pol... | 2.65625 | 0 |
69676178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political%20history%20of%20Finland | Political history of Finland | The time of independence (1917–present)
The Finnish Senate issued a declaration of independence on December 6, 1917, after Russia's second revolution in October 1917. The Council of People's Commissars of Soviet Russia, chaired by Lenin, recognized Finland's independence on December 31, 1917, and soon after that many ... | 2.953125 | 0 |
69676295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail%20Alam | Ismail Alam | Abū al-ʿAzīz Muḥammad Ismāʿīl ʿAlī (; 1868–1937) was a Bengali politician, teacher and activist of the Khilafat Movement. He wrote poetry in Urdu under the pen name of Ālam (Urdu: ). His Diwan-i-Alam poem led to the Calcutta Alia Madrasa awarding him the title of Parrot of Bengal in 1910.
Early life and family
Abul A... | 2.53125 | 0 |
69676342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Shiromoni | Battle of Shiromoni | Ambush at Badamtola
The Battle of Shiromoni officially started on 13th December. The Mukti Bahini under the command of Major Manzur started to fire heavily with machine guns at Pakistani soldiers stationed at Shiromoni. Simultaneously, the Indian forces established communication with Kolkata to launch air strikes at Sh... | 1.976563 | 0 |
69676489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takht-i%20Kuwad | Takht-i Kuwad | Takht-i Kuwad ("throne" or "platform of Kuwad"), also Takht-i Kuwat, Kawat, Kuad, Kawadian or Kobadian, is an archaeological site in the Kuliab district, Tajikistan. It is located near the junction of the Vakhsh and Pyandzh rivers, which continue they course as the Amu Darya (ancient Oxus).
It is generally considered ... | 2.125 | 0 |
69677157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naohide%20Yatsu | Naohide Yatsu | Naohide Yatsu (September 8, 1877 – October 2, 1947) was a Japanese biologist, geneticist, and embryologist. Yatsu received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and was a pioneer in embryonic induction and laid the foundations for zoology research in Japan.
Education
Yatsu was born in Tokyo in 1877. He moved to Hokkaido... | 2.59375 | 0 |
69677180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerson%20Leong | Kerson Leong | Kerson Leong (born 26 February 1997) is a Canadian violinist. He has been described by Jonathan Crow, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra concertmaster, as “not just one of Canada’s greatest violinists but 'one of the greatest violinists, period.'”
Life and career
Leong was born in Ottawa, Canada to a pianist mother and p... | 2.28125 | 0 |
69677518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Cresswell | Mary Cresswell | Mary Morris Cresswell (formerly Meyerhoff, née Howard; born 1937) is a poet and science writer living on the Kāpiti Coast, New Zealand.
Early life
Cresswell was born Mary Morris Howard in 1937 in Los Angeles, California. She grew up in Evanston, Illinois, and Los Angeles. She attended the University of California, Riv... | 2.078125 | 0 |
69677801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Moorsom%20%281914%29 | HMS Moorsom (1914) | Moorsom was one of eight destroyers of the Tenth Flotilla sent with the destroyer leader to Dunkirk on 19 January 1917 to provide reinforcement to the Dover Patrol in the event of German torpedo attacks on the Dover Barrage and shipping in the English Channel. On 22 January, an intercepted German radio signal warned t... | 2.203125 | 0 |
69677858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative%20hearing%20of%20William%20McAndrew | Administrative hearing of William McAndrew | During the first weeks of proceedings, McAndrew sat, often reading a newspaper. On October 24, 1927, a hearing was canceled when McAndrew failed to show. Before the proceedings were canceled, Chicago Board of Education attorney Righeimer asked "what is the superintendent doing that is more important than this trial", t... | 1.921875 | 0 |
69678164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Seattle%20%28Washington%29 | Mount Seattle (Washington) | Mount Seattle is a mountain summit deep within Olympic National Park in Jefferson County of Washington state. Part of the Olympic Mountains, Mount Seattle is situated 7.5 miles southeast of Mount Olympus, and set within the Quinault Rainforest and Daniel J. Evans Wilderness. The nearest higher neighbor is Mount Meany,... | 2.515625 | 0 |
69678794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicon%20Wormatiense | Chronicon Wormatiense | The Chronicon Wormatiense is a fragmentary anonymous Latin chronicle of the city of Worms, Germany. It was probably composed in the last quarter of the 13th century. There is an English translation by David Bachrach.
The original text of the Chronicon does not survive complete. The definitive critical edition, superse... | 1.96875 | 0 |
69679338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charmane%20Eastman | Charmane Eastman | Melatonin and bright light. Eastman's laboratory has conducted numerous studies using bright light or melatonin or the two combined to phase-shift human subjects in the laboratory. They generated phase response curves to two popular doses of melatonin which showed that for making circadian rhythms earlier (phase advanc... | 2.90625 | 0 |
69679733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Advaita%20Vedanta | History of Advaita Vedanta | Advaita Vedānta is the oldest extant tradition of Vedānta, and one of the six orthodox (āstika) Hindu philosophies (). Its history may be traced back to the start of the Common Era, but takes clear shape in the 6th-7th century CE, with the seminal works of Gaudapada, Maṇḍana Miśra, and Shankara, who is considered by tr... | 2.265625 | 0 |
69679733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Advaita%20Vedanta | History of Advaita Vedanta | Mandukya Karika
Gauḍapāda wrote or compiled the , also known as the or the . The is a commentary in verse form on the Māṇḍūkya Upanishad, one of the shortest Upanishads consisting of just 13 prose sentences. Of the ancient literature related to Advaita Vedānta, the oldest surviving complete text is the Māṇḍukya Kārik... | 2.1875 | 0 |
69679733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Advaita%20Vedanta | History of Advaita Vedanta | Until the 11th century, Vedanta itself was a peripheral school of thought; Vedanta became a major influence when Vedanta philosophy was utilized by various sects of Hinduism to ground their doctrines, such as Ramanuja (11th c.), who aligned bhakti, "the major force in the religions of Hinduism," with philosophical thou... | 2.296875 | 0 |
69679735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xingqinggong%20Park | Xingqinggong Park | Xingqinggong Park () is a city park in Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, China. With an area of 743 acres, it is the largest park in Xi'an's city proper. Meanwhile, Xingqing Palace was a famous palace in the Tang Dynasty and was the center of political gravity during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dyna... | 1.929688 | 0 |
69679964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon%20Lorna | Typhoon Lorna | By September 17, meteorologists of Japan first noticed the threat of Lorna, alerting Tokyo about tropical-storm force winds as Lorna travels towards the country. Many boats and vessels were also warned about the weakening storm, with some of them being asked to leave the harbours. Some of this marine vessels were also ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
69679964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon%20Lorna | Typhoon Lorna | Lorna was first tracked by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) as a system at 06:00 UTC of September 10, northeast of Guam. Early the next day, the Fleet Weather Central (FWC) started to monitor the storm's progress, indicating that it intensified into a minimal tropical storm at this time while traveling westwards.... | 2.1875 | 0 |
69680143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Kemp | Maurice Kemp | Maurice Leroy Kemp Jr (born February 2, 1991) is an American basketball player for the Pistoia Basket 2000 of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He played college basketball for Alabama A&M, Miami Dade College, and East Carolina, with whom he led Conference USA in scoring in his senior year.
Kemp has previously played for... | 1.953125 | 0 |
69680143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Kemp | Maurice Kemp | 2011–2013: East Carolina
Kemp then attended East Carolina University (ECU), where he majored in child development and family relations, and played basketball for the East Carolina Pirates as a junior in 2011–12. Here, he averaged 10.5 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. He also shot 77.9% on free throws across the entir... | 2.078125 | 0 |
69680337 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20useful%20plants%20of%20the%20Dutch%20East%20Indies | The useful plants of the Dutch East Indies | The book also sparked the formation of an organization: the PROSEA programme. PROSEA is short for ‘Plant Resources of South-East Asia’. The scientific enterprise was founded in 1985 and produced a manual on tropical economic botany. It was to become a multi-volume hand-book on approximately 5000 useful plants in South-... | 2.125 | 0 |
69680579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Marie%20Kimball | Ann Marie Kimball | In her policy studies regarding novel human infections, Kimball has also discussed new challenges and health security against pandemic threats. Since 2015, she has served as a Senior Consulting Fellow for Chatham House, London. In 2019, she introduced Innovative fellowship program based on the strengthening of public h... | 2.03125 | 0 |
69680642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphingomonas%20aliaeris | Sphingomonas aliaeris | Sphingomonas aliaeris is a rod-shaped, strictly aerobic, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming, red-orange-pigmented species of bacteria, which has been isolated primarily from pork steak packed under CO2-enriched modified atmosphere. Its name derives from Latin alius (for “other”) and aer (for “air” or “atmosphere”). It wa... | 2.421875 | 0 |
69680686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meher%20Ali | Meher Ali | Meher Ali (1 January 1941 – 17 May 1971) was a politician and community leader from Netrokona, East Pakistan, known for his local leadership during the Bengali nationalist movements in East Pakistan and his assassination at the onset of Bangladesh liberation war.
Early life
Meher Ali was born on 1 January 1941 at Netr... | 2.1875 | 0 |
69681099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibatuddin%20Shahrestani | Hibatuddin Shahrestani | Educations and careers
Shahrestani spent his childhood in Karbala. From the age of ten, he studied the basics and elementary Islamic courses. In addition to the common Arabic literary sciences (such as morphology, syntax, logic, meanings, expression, novelty), he learned the sciences of Arabic prosody, arithmetic, geo... | 2.234375 | 0 |
69681255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footprint%20%28company%29 | Footprint (company) | Footprint is a materials science organization that engineers fiber-based packaging in an effort to address the environmental crisis of plastic pollution. Its plant-based fiber alternatives to plastic are made from sources like double-lined kraft. These can be compostable, biodegradable, and recyclable. Footprint operat... | 2.328125 | 0 |
69681861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Halcke | Paul Halcke | Paul Halcke (also: Halcken or Halke), born 1662 in Elmshorn, died 1731 in Buxtehude was a German mathematician, writer, computer, and calendar maker.
He was the brother of writer and computer Johann Halcke and founded, in 1690, together with Heinrich Meißner, the Hamburgischen Kunst-Rechnungs lieb- und übenden Societä... | 2.171875 | 0 |
69683201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Kluntz | Barbara Kluntz | Contacts and concerts
Barbara Kluntz maintained contacts in Berlin through correspondence and probably had the latest musical works sent from there so that she could study and perform them. She probably accompanied herself and others herself on the clavichord and on the organ. Since the Ulm collection women were free ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
69683261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Ironside | Catherine Ironside | While on hiatus from her work in Persia, she worked as a medical officer at the London Temperance Hospital and for her work she was awarded the O.B.E or Officer of the Order of the British Empire. On February 21, 1920, Ironside boarded the Morea and headed off to Bombay, from where she made her way back to Persia to co... | 2.609375 | 0 |
69683596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Brecht | Walter Brecht | Walter Brecht (20 June 1900 – 27 September 1986) was a German scientist and longtime lecturer at the Institut für Papierfabrikation in the Technische Universität Darmstadt. He died in Darmstadt.
Life
Early life
He was born in Augsburg to Berthold Friedrich Brecht and Wilhelmine Friederike Sophie (née Brezing, 1871–19... | 2.265625 | 0 |
69684274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinko%20Smrekar | Hinko Smrekar | After the outbreak of World War II in Slovenia, he was captured by the fascists on a street march in late September 1942. Smrekar was brutally interrogated and hastily shot on 1 October of the same year in the Gravel Pit in Ljubljana. There were no friends or acquaintances at the funeral, but the next day his grave was... | 2.546875 | 0 |
69684739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Revoy | David Revoy | David Philippe Revoy (; born in 1981 in Reims) is a French artist best known as the creator of the free webcomic series Pepper&Carrot which is translated into 27 languages to a degree of 90 percent or more. It is published as books via Glénat.
After work in traditional painting, Revoy started using digital tools in 20... | 2.3125 | 0 |
69684780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive%20Order%2014059 | Executive Order 14059 | Executive Order 14059, officially titled Imposing Sanctions on Foreign Persons Involved in the Global Illicit Drug Trade, was signed on December 15, 2021, and is the 75th executive order signed by U.S. President Joe Biden. The telos of the order is to enforce sanctions upon foreigners involved in global illicit drug tr... | 2.03125 | 0 |
69684794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%20Samuel%2023 | 1 Samuel 23 | David saved the city of Keilah (23:1–13)
The narrative describes how David acted like a good king to protect the territory of Israel from foreign aggressor (cf. 1 Samuel 9:16), although he was on the run from the actual king, Saul. At this time David was shown to have access to YHWH through the oracle (before the arriv... | 2.796875 | 0 |
69685025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue%20of%20Alexander%20Macomb | Statue of Alexander Macomb | Creation and dedication
In the early 1900s, erecting a monumental statue in honor of Macomb became a primary goal of the Michigan chapter of the National Society of United States Daughters of 1812, a civic group consisting of descendants of veterans from the War of 1812. In March 1901, several sources reported that th... | 2.515625 | 0 |
69685198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Fairfax%20%28delegate%29 | John Fairfax (delegate) | John Fairfax farmed using enslaved labor. While the first Virginia census (in 1782, before he arrived) showed 23 families in Monongalia County who owned slaves, Fairfax became the only county resident who would have been classified as a planter. In the 1810 census, his household included 13 whites people (7 of them chi... | 2.90625 | 0 |
69685289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus%20P.%20Knox | Columbus P. Knox | He painted a life-size portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that hangs at the school that bears the name of the civil rights leader.
Knox was involved with the Odunde Festival in Philadelphia, illustrating the annual commemorative posters sold by the organization as a fundraiser. He also illustrated a coloring book ... | 2.8125 | 0 |
69685439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%20Smith | Gray Smith | Gray Smith (13 February 1919 – 7 August 1990) was an Australian artist, poet and jeweller who was part of the Heide Circle. While best known as the famous Australian artist Joy Hester's spouse, his most productive artistic period came later while married to Joan Upward in the '60s and '70s. Smith's modernist paintings ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
69685439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%20Smith | Gray Smith | After about a year, they returned to Melbourne, settling in Hurstbridge, then later moved to Box Hill where they could easier access medical treatment as Hester had Hodgkin lymphoma and Smith continued to struggle with epilepsy. During this time in the country, Smith refined his solitary man in the bush motif drawing o... | 1.984375 | 0 |
69685454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitation%20and%20Logistics%20Outpost | Habitation and Logistics Outpost | Science
HALO will host two scientific packages at launch aimed at improving the understanding of space weather and prediction models. The NASA-built Heliophysics Environmental and Radiation Measurement Experiment Suite and the ESA-built European Radiation Sensors Array (ERSA).
Heliophysics Environmental and Radiation... | 2.625 | 0 |
69685595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota%20Octantis | Iota Octantis | Iota Octantis, Latinized, from ι Octantis is a double star in the southern circumpolar constellation Octans. The "A" component has an apparent magnitude of 5.83, making it faintly visible to the naked eye under ideal conditions, but the "B" component can't be seen due to its faintness. The system is located at a distan... | 2.09375 | 0 |
69685659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look%20Both%20Ways%20%28novel%29 | Look Both Ways (novel) | Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks is a young adult novel written by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Alexander Nabaum, and published October 8, 2019 by Atheneum Books. The book is a New York Times best seller, National Book Award for Young People's Literature finalist (2019), Coretta Scott King Award honor book (... | 2.015625 | 0 |
69685743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petru%20Cre%C8%9Bia | Petru Creția | Petru Creția (January 21, 1927–April 15, 1997) was a Romanian essayist, poet and translator.
Born in Cluj, his parents were Aurel, a civil servant, and his wife Călina (née Humița). He started at George Barițiu High School in his native city, followed by in Bucharest, graduating in 1945. He earned a degree in Classic... | 2.109375 | 0 |
69685940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920%20Detroit%20Stars%20season | 1920 Detroit Stars season | The 1920 Detroit Stars baseball team competed in the Negro National League (NNL) during the 1920 baseball season. The Stars compiled a 37–27 record () and finished in second place in the NNL behind the Chicago American Giants.
The Stars played their home games at Mack Park located on the east side of Detroit, about f... | 1.9375 | 0 |
69686084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20in%20paleoichthyology | 2022 in paleoichthyology | New fossil material of Xampylodon dentatus, including more complete teeth or specimens representing teeth of different positions than most previous records, and the oldest fossil material of Rolfodon tatere reported to date is described from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of James Ross Island (Antarctica) by dos Sant... | 1.96875 | 0 |
69686084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20in%20paleoichthyology | 2022 in paleoichthyology | Ray-finned fish research
A new database of the occurrences of Paleozoic ray-finned fishes is presented by Henderson et al. (2022), who evaluate the impact of fossil record biases, as well as taxonomic and phylogenetic issues, on the knowledge of the early evolution of ray-finned fishes; subsequently Henderson, Dunne &... | 2.015625 | 0 |
69686084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20in%20paleoichthyology | 2022 in paleoichthyology | General research
A study on the evolution of swimming speed in early vertebrates, inferred from caudal fin morphology of Paleozoic cyclostomes (Myxinidae and Petromyzontidae), jawless stem gnathostomes (Conodonta, Anaspida, Pteraspidomorphi, Thelodonti and Osteostraci) and placoderms, is published by Ferrón & Donoghue... | 1.945313 | 0 |
69686319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20amendment%20to%20the%20Constitution%20of%20Malaysia | 2021 amendment to the Constitution of Malaysia | amending Article 1(2) to restore the definition of Sabah and Sarawak as constituent "territories" of Malaysia
adding to Article 160(2) a formal definition of Malaysia Day as the day when Sabah and Sarawak joined the Federation
amending in Article 160(2) the definition of the Federation
amending in Article 161A the ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
69686602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abantennarius%20analis | Abantennarius analis | Abantennarius analis, the tailjet frogfish, tailjet anglerfish or dwarf frogfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Antennariidae, the frogfishes. This species is found in the eastern Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
Taxonomy
Abentennarius snalis was first formally described in ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
69686640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Kavazanjian | Edward Kavazanjian | Edward Kavazanjian Jr. (born 1951) is an American civil engineer who specializes in geotechnical engineering. He is the Ira A. Fulton Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the Arizona State University School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environmental.
Early life and education
Kavazanjian was born in 195... | 2.296875 | 0 |
69686675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS%20Norwalk | USNS Norwalk | US Navy
On 10 October 1962 she was transferred to the US Navy. In New Orleans, Louisiana she was refitted to be a Fleet Ballistic Missile Cargo Ship, to support Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) submarine tenders at Holy Loch, Scotland and Naval Station Rota in Spain. As a fleet ballistic missile cargo ship, she transporte... | 2.359375 | 0 |
69686754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guennol%20Stargazer | Guennol Stargazer | The Guennol Stargazer is a nine-inch, 5,000-year-old marble idol from Anatolia.
The statue depicts a nude human figure, referred to as a "stargazer" as the figure appears to look upward. Approximately fifteen intact stargazer statues exist, along with fragments of other stargazer figures. Like other stargazer figures,... | 2.265625 | 0 |
69687066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korkodon | Korkodon | The Korkodon (; ) is a river in Magadan Oblast, Russian Far East. It is a right tributary of the Kolyma, with a length of a drainage basin of . The upper reaches of the river are in Omsukchansky District, then it flows across the Srednekansky District in its lower course. The name of the river originated in the Northe... | 2.40625 | 0 |
69687318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera%20Dwyer | Vera Dwyer | Vera Gladys Dwyer (23 February 1889 – 10 September 1967) was an Australian novelist. She also contributed stories to magazines and newspapers.
Life
Dwyer was born in Hobart on 23 February 1889, the second daughter of reporter, George Lovell Dwyer and Margaret Jane (née Shield). Her older sister, Ella Maggie Dwyer (9 ... | 1.984375 | 0 |
69687478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTK%20Computer | DTK Computer | Datatech developed its own chipsets in addition to purchasing ones from VLSI and Chips and Technologies. The company's ASIC division comprised 20 employees under the supervision of Dr. Chen Kunnan in 1989. Most employees in this division were trained on the job, although some were also taught at seminars hosted by othe... | 2.25 | 0 |
69687649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York/New%20Wave | New York/New Wave | New York/New Wave was an exhibition curated by Diego Cortez in 1981. Held at the Long Island City gallery P.S.1, it documented the crossover between the downtown art and music scenes. The show featured a coalition of No wave musicians, painters, graffiti artists, poets, and photographers.
History
The New Wave was a b... | 2.34375 | 0 |
69687658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supriyo%20Bandyopadhyay | Supriyo Bandyopadhyay | Supriyo Bandyopadhyay is an Indian-born American electrical engineer, academic and researcher. He is Commonwealth Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he directs the Quantum Device Laboratory.
Bandyopadhyay has authored over 400 research publications on a wide ran... | 2.578125 | 0 |
69688463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Propp | William Propp | William H. C. Propp (born 1957) is an American historian of Near-East civilizations. Propp served as a professor of history at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) from 1983 until his retirement in 2017. Propp studied Near eastern languages and civilizations at Harvard University before teaching at UC San Dieg... | 2.421875 | 0 |
69688528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater%20Madonna | Bridgewater Madonna | Raphael made many drawings and paintings of the Virgin and Child in Florence. The artful combination of gestures are particularly graceful, with an elegant contraposto twist. The gaze between the exquisite Mother and Child underlines its tenderness. Technical X-ray analysis shows that originally the artist painted a la... | 2.5 | 0 |
69688601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6hm%20scandal | Röhm scandal | Political views of homosexuality
In 1928, the Nazi Party responded negatively to a questionnaire about their view of Paragraph 175, and declared "Anyone who even thinks of homosexual love is our enemy." Nazi politicians regularly railed against homosexuality, claiming that it was a Jewish conspiracy to undermine the Ge... | 2.359375 | 0 |
68392512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevado%20Tres%20Cruces | Nevado Tres Cruces | Nevado Tres Cruces is a massif of volcanic origin in the Andes Mountains on the border of Argentina and Chile. It has two main summits, Tres Cruces Sur at and Tres Cruces Centro at and a third minor summit, Tres Cruces Norte . Tres Cruces Sur is the sixth highest mountain in the Andes.
The volcano has an extended hi... | 2.796875 | 0 |
68392512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevado%20Tres%20Cruces | Nevado Tres Cruces | Off the western coast of South America, the Nazca Plate subducts into the Peru-Chile Trench underneath the South America Plate at a rate of . The subduction has given rise to three volcanic belts in the Andes, from north to south these are the Northern Volcanic Zone, the Central Volcanic Zone (CVZ) and the Southern Vol... | 2.875 | 0 |
68392512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevado%20Tres%20Cruces | Nevado Tres Cruces | Nevado Tres Cruces has erupted rocks ranging from dacite to rhyodacite which define a potassium-rich calc-alkaline suite. They feature biotite and hornblende phenocrysts and there is evidence that magma mixing took place during the genesis of the magmas. Older volcanic rocks are andesites with clinopyroxene, hornblende... | 2.8125 | 0 |
68393020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soerjadi%20Soedirdja | Soerjadi Soedirdja | Soerjadi Soedirdja (11 October 1938 – 3 August 2021) was an Indonesian politician and military general.
He was Governor of Jakarta from 1992 to 1997 and also Minister of Home Affairs from 1999 to 2001.
Career
Governor of Jakarta
During his leadership, he made projects to build flats, create green areas, and also inc... | 1.90625 | 0 |
68393038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAGR%20G%20class%20G233%20Leschenault%20Lady | WAGR G class G233 Leschenault Lady | In 2012, the Boyanup museum was reopened, under the new name "South West Rail and Heritage Centre". The question most frequently asked by local visitors to the reopened museum was, 'What's happening to Leschenault Lady, are you going to restore it?' The following year, 2013, RHWA volunteers began dismantling the locomo... | 2.09375 | 0 |
68393620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20Lao%20and%20Thai | Comparison of Lao and Thai | Epenthetic vowels
Abugida scripts traditionally do not notate all vowels, especially the short vowel /a/, usually realized as /aʔ/ in Thai and Lao phonology. This especially affects the polysyllabic loan words of Sanskrit, Pali or Khmer derivation. Instances of when or when not to pronounce a vowel have to be learned i... | 2.421875 | 0 |
68393620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20Lao%20and%20Thai | Comparison of Lao and Thai | To turn a pronoun into a plural, it is most commonly prefixed with mu ( ) but the variants tu ( ) and phuak ( ) are also used by some speakers. These can also be used for the word hao, 'we', in the sense of 'all of us' for extra emphasis. The vulgar pronouns are used as a mark of close relationship, such as long-standi... | 2.515625 | 0 |
68393620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20Lao%20and%20Thai | Comparison of Lao and Thai | Despite the differences in pattern, the orthography used to write words is nearly the same in Thai and Lao, even using the same tone marks in most places, so it is knowing the spoken language and how it maps out to the rules of the written language that determine the tone. However, as the Tai languages are tonal langua... | 2.515625 | 0 |
68393822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammalsvenska | Gammalsvenska | (locally ; literally "Old Swedish") is an Estonian Swedish dialect spoken in the neighborhood of Gammalsvenskby in Zmiivka, Ukraine.
History
It derives from the Estonian Swedish dialect of the late 1700s as spoken on the island of Dagö (Hiiumaa). While rooted in Swedish, the dialect shows influence and borrowings from... | 2.28125 | 0 |
68393822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammalsvenska | Gammalsvenska | In another article published in 2020, Linguist Alexander Markov described the Gammalsvenska's phonology on the basis of three speakers' speech production: Anna Lyutko (born in 1931), Melitta Prasolova (born in 1926) and Lidia Utas (born in 1933). The phonology of Gammalsvenska is characterized by the lack of rounded fr... | 2.421875 | 0 |
68394072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsley%20F.%20Kimball | Lindsley F. Kimball | Lindsley Fiske Kimball (1895 – August 16, 1992) was an American nonprofit administrator who served as an associate to John D. Rockefeller Jr. and was the former president of the United Service Organizations and the National Urban League.
Biography
Kimball was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Columbia University in... | 2.109375 | 0 |
68394165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin%20Park%20%28Baldwin%20Harbor%2C%20New%20York%29 | Baldwin Park (Baldwin Harbor, New York) | Baldwin Park (also known as Baldwin Harbor Town Park) is a park in Baldwin Harbor, in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. It is located within and operated by the Town of Hempstead.
Description
Baldwin Park was created in the early 1960s, and its creation was funded in part by then-Governor Nel... | 1.9375 | 0 |
68394227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Anne%27s%20Church%2C%20Liverpool%20%281772%E2%80%931871%29 | St Anne's Church, Liverpool (1772–1871) | St Anne's Church was a Church of England parish opened in Liverpool, on 25 October 1772.
History
It had been built at the expense of Thomas and Richard Dobb, cabinetmakers, of Williamson Square and Henry North, fruit merchant, Dale Street. They owned the land on which it was built. At the time the area was still quit... | 2.40625 | 0 |
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