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69690547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drabant%20Corps%20of%20Charles%20XII | Drabant Corps of Charles XII | The corps counted 147 men, and was formed into one squadron led by Carl Gustaf Wrangel. It fought in the first line (which was commanded by Arvid Horn) on the right Swedish wing, under Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld. To circumvent the advantageous Saxon position, Charles started wheeling his line to the left—until the Polish C... | 2.6875 | 0 |
69690547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drabant%20Corps%20of%20Charles%20XII | Drabant Corps of Charles XII | The Drabants counted up to 145 men, formed into one squadron under Gustaf Hård, and were part of a cavalry contingent led by the king. In response to the Swedish winter offensive, Peter ordered the bulk of his infantry to retreat from Okhtyrka as he wanted to avoid a potentially decisive battle. To delay the Swedes, h... | 2.625 | 0 |
69690550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20H.%20Roscoe | John H. Roscoe | On the way back from the expedition, Roscoe was named as the envoy to the Prime Minister of New Zealand by Admiral Byrd, and was given a tour of New Zealand. After the conclusion of Operation Highjump he left the Marine Corps and joined Navy Intelligence as a civilian. He returned to Antarctica to work on Operation Win... | 2.546875 | 0 |
69690650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irmgard%20Weitlaner-Johnson | Irmgard Weitlaner-Johnson | Irmgard Weitlaner-Johnson (1914–2011) was an American anthropologist who was an expert in Mexican textiles. She studied cultural anthropology and ethnographic textiles at the University of California, Berkeley.
Life and career
In July 1938, in Huautla de Jimenez, she and her husband, anthropologist Jean Bassett Johnso... | 2.203125 | 0 |
69691130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najm%20al-Din%20al-Ghazzi | Najm al-Din al-Ghazzi | Life
The only known biography of Ghazzi himself is by his Damascene contemporary Muhammad Amin al-Muhibbi. Ghazzi, born on 19 January 1570, was the youngest of his siblings. He was a young boy when his father died, but he considerably documented his father's life and works in his own career as a scholar in Damascus.
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69691360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium%20Sapphire | Millennium Sapphire | The Millennium Sapphire is a blue sapphire discovered in 1995 in Madagascar, the natural dark–blue gem weighed 89,850 carats (nearly 40 pounds, or 17.97 kilograms).
History
The Millennium Sapphire was discovered in 1995 by a miner in central Madagascar. Rather than cut it into smaller pieces, Daniel Mckinney, one of ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
69691379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/171st%20Field%20Regiment%2C%20Royal%20Artillery | 171st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery | The 171st Field Regiment was a unit of Britain's Royal Artillery (RA) during World War II. Originally formed to man beach defence batteries, it later became field artillery and briefly converted to heavy artillery. It served in Home Forces and supplied trained gunners to the fighting fronts, but saw no active service. ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
69691395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudleya%20saxosa%20subsp.%20saxosa | Dudleya saxosa subsp. saxosa | Dudleya saxosa subsp. saxosa is a species of succulent perennial plant endemic only to the western Panamint Range of California. It is known commonly as the Panamint liveforever or Panamint dudleya. It is found on north-facing, granitic or limestone slopes and grows up to 20 cm wide. It is characterized by bright yello... | 2.46875 | 0 |
69691616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Mordecai%20L%C3%B6winsohn | Jacob Mordecai Löwinsohn | Jacob Mordecai ben Judah Löb Löwinsohn (; 14 December 1832 – 13 February 1878) was a Russo-Polish scholar and journalist.
Biography
A son of Rabbi Judah Löb, rosh beit din of Grodno, Löwinsohn was trained in Talmud, and then studied Russian, German, Polish, and French, which he mastered in a very short time. Thus equi... | 1.992188 | 0 |
69691732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvariopsis%20dicaprio | Uvariopsis dicaprio | Uvariopsis dicaprio is a species of tropical evergreen tree in the genus Uvariopsis. It is endemic to the Ebo Forest, in the Littoral Region of Cameroon. It was the first new plant species described in 2022, and was named after American actor Leonardo DiCaprio by botanists Martin Cheek and George Gosline, from the Roya... | 2.140625 | 0 |
69691869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They%20Knew%20Too%20Much%20About%20Flying%20Saucers | They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers | Barker describes his interest in the Shaver Mystery and the magazines of Raymond Palmer, which ultimately led him to correspond with Albert K. Bender and join Bender's "International Flying Saucer Bureau. According to the narrative, Bender receives a metal sample allegedly from a UFO, after which he is visited by three... | 1.960938 | 0 |
69691940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Reimann | William Reimann | Reimann's works are in many media and forms, including two dimensional works on paper and mylar, and sculpture and furniture in glass, stone and wood. His method of using steel and Plexiglas was highly labor-intensive. Reimann, like mentor Robert Engman, did not believe in the factory approach to sculpture, preferring ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
69691975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuno%20Semyonov | Yuno Semyonov | Yuno Shaulovich Semyonov (; 1899–1961) was a Soviet Union prose writer, playwright and artistic director. He wrote in the Judeo-Tat language. His work was characterized by plays on the topics of the day, full of sarcasm and humor. He was one of the founders of the Judeo-Tat theatre in Derbent.
Biography
Born in Derbe... | 2.265625 | 0 |
69692553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Book%20of%20Aron | The Book of Aron | The Book of Aron is a historical fiction novel by Jim Shepard, published May 12, 2015 by Knopf Publishing Group.
Reception
The Book of Aron received starred reviews from Kirkus, Library Journal, Shelf Awareness, and Booklist, as well as positive reviews from The Guardian, The Boston Globe, The New York Times Book Rev... | 1.921875 | 0 |
69692696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20the%20Gianh%20River%20%281643%29 | Battle of the Gianh River (1643) | Background
The Dutch East India Company (VOC) had conflicted with Nguyen-ruled Cochinchina (southern Dai Viet) since 1641 because of their alliance with Trinh lords in the north who was fighting in a civil war against their rivals, the Nguyen clan in the south. As the two domains' war raged, lord Trịnh Tráng welcomed t... | 2.453125 | 0 |
69693266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaventure%20Laurens | Bonaventure Laurens | Jean-Joseph Bonaventure Laurens (14 July 1801, Carpentras – 28 June 1890, Montpellier) was regarded by some as a "universal spirit", as attested not only by his paintings, watercolours and lithographs, but also by his vocation as a musician, archeologist, geologist and theorist.
Biography
The eldest of five children... | 2.5625 | 0 |
69693528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA%20transfer%20portal | NCAA transfer portal | The NCAA transfer portal is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) application, database, and compliance tool created to manage and facilitate the process for student athletes seeking to transfer between member institutions. It is intended to bring greater transparency to the transfer process and to enable s... | 2.15625 | 0 |
69693796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farshid%20Guilak | Farshid Guilak | Duke
Following his PhD, Guilak joined the faculty at Duke University as an assistant professor and shortly thereafter became the director of research for the Division of Orthopedic Surgery. Shortly after joining the faculty, Guilak was honored with the Kappa Delta Award from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons... | 1.945313 | 0 |
69693846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20Such%20a%20Full%20Sea | On Such a Full Sea | Background and Publication History
Initially, this novel was meant to be a social realist piece about Chinese manual workers in Shenzhen, centering on their code of conduct and psyche. However, after returning from a research trip to China where he toured a factory, Lee's direction for the novel evolved because he did... | 2.46875 | 0 |
69694012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Turtle%20Prince%20%28folktale%29 | The Turtle Prince (folktale) | In this tale, King Venkataja, from the city of Mallikârjunapurî, is married to a wife who has not borne him a son. He divorces her, places the former queen in a separate pavilion next to the palace, and marries a second time. The new queen also does not bear him children. The King searches for answers to this problem, ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
69694012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Turtle%20Prince%20%28folktale%29 | The Turtle Prince (folktale) | Venkataswami's version
In a tale collected by author M. N. Venkataswami with the title The Nymph of Wire Hill, a king has two wives, but no sons. He goes to the forest and meets an anchorite who directs him to a mango tree. The king takes the mangoes and brings them home to his wives. The younger wife eats the fruits, ... | 2.125 | 0 |
69694012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Turtle%20Prince%20%28folktale%29 | The Turtle Prince (folktale) | With some help from his father, the turtle prince begins his journey and swims to Udaya mountain, where he prays to the sun god. The deity himself appears before him, explains that the prince's animal shape is penance for a misdeed in a past life, and transforms him into a handsome human prince. Continuing on his journ... | 1.984375 | 0 |
69694807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panmana%20Ramachandran%20Nair | Panmana Ramachandran Nair | Prof. Panmana Ramachandran Nair (13 August 1931 – 5 June 2018) was a Malayalam language writer, translator, linguist and academic from Kerala, India. He has received Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize and Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Overall Contributions in the field of Malayalam literature. His autobiography Smrit... | 2.125 | 0 |
69694829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Roloff | Alfred Roloff | Alfred Gustav Christian Roloff (19 March 1879, Lassan - 7 December 1951, Rade bei Rendsburg) was a German artist and illustrator; best known for his dime novel covers and paintings of horses.
Life and work
He was born to Wilhelm Roloff (1850–1936), a naval officer, and his wife Caroline née Sadewasser (1855–1924). H... | 2.3125 | 0 |
69694893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Utin | Nikolai Utin | Nikolai Isaakovitch Utin (, French: Nicolas Outine; 8 August 1841 – 1 December 1883) was a Russian socialist and revolutionary. He grew up in Saint Petersburg, and became a charismatic leader of the student movement. Because of his revolutionary activities, he spent most of his adult life in political exile in Switzerl... | 2.140625 | 0 |
69694982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding%20the%20Mother%20Tree | Finding the Mother Tree | Finding the Mother Tree is a memoir by the Canadian forest ecologist Suzanne Simard. It has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.
In her memoir, Simard asserts that trees in forests are interdependent with fungi mycelium. Trees and ot... | 2.25 | 0 |
69695702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20von%20Wedel | Karl von Wedel | Family
Born into the ancient Holsteinian noble House of Wedel, he was the youngest child and son of (1798–1872), a lieutenant general in the Oldenburg army who was head of the Department of Military Affairs and chief of staff to Grand Duke Peter II, and his wife Baroness Wilhelmine Bertha Sophie von Glaubitz (1802–18... | 2.671875 | 0 |
69695891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20in%20reptile%20paleontology | 2022 in reptile paleontology | A study on the dietary adaptations of juvenile specimens of Hauffiopteryx typicus and Stenopterygius triscissus from the Toarcian Strawberry Bank Lagerstätte (United Kingdom) is published by Jamison-Todd et al. (2022), who interpret their findings as indicating that S. triscissus had more robust rostrum and scavenged a... | 2 | 0 |
69695948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalya%20Avseenko | Natalya Avseenko | Natalya Anatoliyevna Avseenko (; born February 13, 1975) is a Russian freediver, former free diving world champion in the team competition in 2006 and 2008, featured in a photographic series illustrating the Orda Cave, a gypsum crystal cave underneath the western Ural Mountains.
Biography
Natalya Avseenko is a world ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
69695997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Radcliffe%20of%20Hunstanton | Robert Radcliffe of Hunstanton | Sir Robert Radcliffe or Radclyffe (died 1497) was an English landowner.
He was a son of Sir Thomas Radcliffe, and not, as is sometimes stated, a member of the Attleborough branch of the family. His estates were at Hunstanton in Norfolk. He was Steward of the Lincolnshire estates of the Duke of York.
Radcliffe married... | 1.976563 | 0 |
69695997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Radcliffe%20of%20Hunstanton | Robert Radcliffe of Hunstanton | Katherine's children by Robert Radcliffe included Ann Radcliffe and Elizabeth Radcliffe. In his will, written in 1496, Robert Radcliffe bequeathed Ann four gold rings, one engraved with an image of the five wounds of Christ, with a bed of gold or gold beads. Elizabeth was given an enamelled gold jewel or beads decorate... | 2.09375 | 0 |
69696018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucigeniidae | Hallucigeniidae | Hallucigeniidae is a family of extinct worms belonging to the group Lobopodia that originated during the Cambrian explosion. It is based on the species Hallucigenia sparsa, the fossil of which was discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1911 from the Burgess Shale of British Columbia. The name Hallucigenia was creat... | 2.5625 | 0 |
69696018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucigeniidae | Hallucigeniidae | In 1991, Lars Ramsköld (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Hou Xian-guang (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) described a new specimen, Microdictyon, from the lower Cambrian Maotianshan shales. With this relatively complete fossil, they assigned the animal to and reinterpreted Hal... | 2.265625 | 0 |
69696055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry%20Nolan | Garry Nolan | Research
His areas of research include autoimmunity and inflammation, cancer and leukemia, hematopoiesis, and using computation for network and systems immunology. He is perhaps best known for his early work in the Baltimore lab at the Whitehead Institute, where he worked on developing 293T cell rapid retroviral produ... | 1.921875 | 0 |
69696660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Leonard%27s%2C%20Edinburgh | St Leonard's, Edinburgh | The North British Railway purchased the Edinburgh & Dalkeith in 1845 and the railway began to use steam engines the following year. St Leonard's Station closed to passengers in 1847, while remaining in use for coal. There was an abortive attempt to reintroduce passenger trains in 1860. The introduction of steam engines... | 2.578125 | 0 |
69696842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengt%20Andersson%20%28Swedish%20officer%29 | Bengt Andersson (Swedish officer) | Major General Bengt Erik Lennart Andersson (born 31 August 1955) was a senior officer in the Swedish Amphibious Corps. Andersson served as head of the Naval Tactical Command (2003–2005), as Deputy Chief of Joint Operations (2007–2008), as Chief of Logistics (2008–2013) and as commanding officer of Nordic Battlegroup 08... | 1.945313 | 0 |
69697389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk%20crisis | Walk crisis | By the summer of 1919, entire northern Latvia was liberated by joint Estonian-Latvian force. In October 1919 the situation became critical for the Latvian government once again. On 8 October, a German-Russian force based in Courland and led by General Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, launched an offensive to overthrow the Latvia... | 2.734375 | 0 |
69697676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Else%20Winther%20Andersen | Else Winther Andersen | In 1974, Andersen was employed as a course leader and teacher at Landbrugets Oplysnings og Konsulenttjeneste. She trained to become a social worker at Aalborg University between 1976 and 1983 with a dispensation and she went on to gain employment at Randers Municipality as a social consultant, where she worked part-tim... | 1.960938 | 0 |
69697884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpaeninae | Scorpaeninae | Scorpaeninae is a subfamily of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae in the order Scorpaeniformes, it includes the scorpionfishes, the lionfishes and turkeyfishes. They bear venomous spines in the anal, dorsal and pelvic fins which can cause severe pain in envenomated humans. The subfamily is distributed... | 2.234375 | 0 |
69697937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity%20Lutheran%20Church%20%28St.%20Louis%2C%20Missouri%29 | Trinity Lutheran Church (St. Louis, Missouri) | Trinity Lutheran Church is a Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) congregation in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. It is considered the "mother church" of the LCMS.
History
Located at 812 Soulard Street in the Soulard neighborhood, it is the oldest Lutheran church of the contiguous United States west of the Mississippi Riv... | 2.21875 | 0 |
69698081 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%20Loomis | Clarence Loomis | Clarence Loomis (December 13, 1889 July 3, 1965), an American composer, pianist, and teacher, was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Biography
He studied piano and composition at the American Conservatory in Chicago and also privately in Vienna. Loomis taught at Butler University in Indianapolis, at Highlands Univers... | 2.40625 | 0 |
69698083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus%20Philippus%20Snyman | Jacobus Philippus Snyman | General Snyman's father was a farmer in the Marico district, a pioneer hunter, a leader of the Jerusalemgangers movement in the Marico and one of three leaders of the 'hunter's faction' of the Transvaal Republic. Some time before David Livingstone reached the Victoria Falls, the famous falls were also reached from the ... | 2.75 | 0 |
69698083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus%20Philippus%20Snyman | Jacobus Philippus Snyman | The Barolong
On 15 November 1870, a conference aimed at an agreement on the issue of land boundaries was held on the border near Mafeking at a place called Buurmansdrift attended by General Snyman, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, Paul Kruger, Hendrik Adriaan Greeff and five other representatives of the South African Republ... | 2.8125 | 0 |
69698314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20Qinghai%20earthquake | 2022 Qinghai earthquake | On January 8, 2022, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck Menyuan County, Qinghai Province near the border with Gansu Province, China. It was the largest earthquake in China since the 2021 Maduo earthquake.
Earthquake
The earthquake occurred as a result of shallow (10 km depth) strike-slip faulting at the northeastern Tib... | 2.140625 | 0 |
69698499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habibullah%20Qurayshi | Habibullah Qurayshi | Ḥabībullāh Qurayshī (; 1865 – 1943) was a Bengali Islamic scholar and educationist of the Deobandi movement. He was the founding director-general of Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam.
Early life and family
Habibullah Qurayshi was born in 1865, to the Bengali Muslim Mianji family in Qazipara, Chariya village, ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
69698526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassmoor%2C%20Hasland%20and%20Winsick | Grassmoor, Hasland and Winsick | In the 13th century the Welbeck Abbey cartulary register mentions Grayhirst and Greyhyrst, the name Gresmore is shown in an unpublished Court Roll dated 1549 and as Grassmore in Chesterfield parish registers from 1568. Only a few rough paths crossed the "moor" at this time, from north to south diagonally one ran along ... | 1.96875 | 0 |
69698977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20natura%20rerum%20%28Cantimpr%C3%A9%29 | De natura rerum (Cantimpré) | Thomas of Cantimpré's De natura rerum depends on several sources, that include in primis the great philosopher Aristotle (a fundamental authority in the Middle Ages, particularly starting from XIII century) and two Latin authors, Pliny the Elder and Gaius Julius Solinus, respectively of the I and the III century. Other... | 2.0625 | 0 |
69699019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doreen%20Colondres | Doreen Colondres | Doreen Colondres is a Puerto Rican chef wine educator and food writer, who is the author of La Cocina No Muerde (The Kitchen Doesn't Bite). She is considered a sommelier, television presenter and specialist in Hispanic cuisine.
Biography
Born in Puerto Rico, Colondres' grandfather was a professional chef. She has a B... | 1.921875 | 0 |
69699029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta%20Permuy | Marta Permuy | Marta and Jesús married in 1962 soon after resettling in Miami, Florida. They later relocated to Washington D.C. in 1966 where Jesús Permuy received his Master in Regional and City Planning (MRCP) from the Catholic University of America and served as chief planner for Anne Arundel County. The Permuy family then returne... | 2.21875 | 0 |
69699029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta%20Permuy | Marta Permuy | In 1969 the Permuys were introduced to Juan González by Baruj Salinas. Shortly after, González, then a graduate fine arts student in the University of Miami, became close to Marta who, in turn, became an early supporter of his art career. By 1971 she helped secure him a studio space in a Coral Gables apartment at 1901 ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
69699577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agraphydrus | Agraphydrus | Agraphydrus is a genus of water scavenger beetle in the family Hydrophilidae represented by 205 described species. It is distributed across the Afrotropical, Australasian, and Indomalayan realms.
Taxonomy
The genus Agraphydrus was described for the first time by Régimbart in 1903.
It currently contains 205 described... | 2.609375 | 0 |
69699612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismar%20David | Ismar David | Ismar David (27 August 191026 February 1996) was a calligrapher, graphic designer, type designer architectural designer, illustrator and educator.
Ismar David was born on 27 August 1910, in Breslau (Wrocław), then part of the German Empire, to Rosa and Wolff David. He was apprenticed to a house painter in Breslau from... | 2.34375 | 0 |
69699756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bemalambda | Bemalambda | Bemalambda (meaning "stepped lambda") is a genus of extinct mammal, belonging to the pantodonts. It lived in the lower-middle Paleocene (about 63–58 million years ago) and the fossil remains have been found in China.
Description
It was a medium-size animal, and could reach the size of a large dog. The body was stro... | 2.609375 | 0 |
69700012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Lin | Nancy Lin | Nancy Lin is an American oncologist who works at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her research considers new diagnostic strategies and treatment pathways for HER2 positive breast cancer.
Early life and education
Lin was trained in medicine at Harvar... | 2.34375 | 0 |
69700169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelica%20Morales%20von%20Sauer | Angelica Morales von Sauer | Performances and recordings
Her first performance in Carnegie Hall was in 1929, and she went on to recitals in Europe, Mexico, and the United States. After the death of her husband, she returned to Mexico where her endurance in her performances was noted. She also returned to venues such as Carnegie Hall which she pla... | 2.21875 | 0 |
69700278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Ethel%20Muir%20Donaldson | Mary Ethel Muir Donaldson | Mary Ethel Muir Donaldson known as M.E.M. Donaldson (19 May 1876 – 17 January 1958), was an early 20th century British author and photography pioneer, and described as an 'unconventional ethnographer'.
Life
Her father, Alexander Murray Donaldson (1834-1883), had emigrated from Scotland to Adelaide, Australia and retu... | 2.78125 | 0 |
69700858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crephelochares | Crephelochares | Crephelochares is a genus of water scavenger beetle in the family Hydrophilidae represented by 29 described species. It is distributed across the Afrotropical, Australasian, Indo-Malayan, and Palaearctic realms.
Taxonomy
The genus Crephelochares was described for the first time by August Ferdinand Kuwert in 1890 as ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
69701007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace%20T.%20Elmo | Horace T. Elmo | Horace T. Elmo (3 April 1903 – October 23, 1992) was an American comic strip cartoonist particularly active in the 1930s and 1940s; he also ran a comic strip syndication service whose main claim to fame was that it employed Jack Kirby in the late 1930s.
Biography
He was born Arazio Theodore Elmo in Manhattan (later m... | 2.390625 | 0 |
69701144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucisternum | Crucisternum | Crucisternum is a Neotropical genus of water scavenger beetle in the family Hydrophilidae represented by seven described species known from the Guiana Shield Region.
Taxonomy
The genus Crucisternum was described for the first time by Girón & Short in 2018.
It belongs in the subfamily Acidocerinae and contains seven ... | 2.25 | 0 |
69701496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Sinclair%20%28physiologist%29 | Jack Sinclair (physiologist) | John Desmond Sinclair (14 March 1927 – 11 February 2018) was a New Zealand neurophysiologist and middle-distance athlete who represented his country at the 1950 British Empire Games. He was involved in the establishment of the medical school at the University of Auckland in 1968, and was the school's foundation profess... | 2.25 | 0 |
69701795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanders%27%20Knoxville%20Raid | Sanders' Knoxville Raid | Sanders' column forded the Holston River at Hayworth's Bend and headed for Powder Springs Gap in Clinch Mountain. The Union raiders soon found a Confederate force in front with a second pursuing force coming up behind. The column used country roads to evade the force in front and passed through the gap without resistan... | 2.078125 | 0 |
69702770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibervillea%20sonorae | Ibervillea sonorae | Ibervillea sonorae is a tuberous perennial plant in the Cucurbitaceae family known by the common names wereke, wareque, guarequi, and coyote melon. It is a highly variable species characterized by a large, succulent tuberous root, which in the dry sand of its native habitat resembles a gray, dust-covered boulder. Emerg... | 2.078125 | 0 |
69703027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligodon%20churahensis | Oligodon churahensis | Oligodon churahensis, the Churah Valley kukri snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. It was discovered when a photo of it was posted in Instagram and noticed by two biologists, leading to them contacting the poster and collecting specimens of the species. It is known only from the state of Himachal Prad... | 2.34375 | 0 |
69703124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles-Fran%C3%A7ois%20Boulduc | Gilles-François Boulduc | Gilles-François Boulduc (born 20 February 1675 in Paris; died 17 January 1741 in Versailles) was a French pharmacist and chemist.
Biography
Boulduc was the son of (1652-1729), apothecary and chemistry demonstrator at the Royal Academy of Sciences. Gilles-François apprenticed as a pharmacist, studied Descartes' physic... | 1.9375 | 0 |
71273811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%2089571 | HD 89571 | HD 89571 (HR 4062) is a binary star located in the northern circumpolar constellation Camelopardalis. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent magnitude of 5.51 and is estimated to be 142 light years away from the Solar System. However, it is receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of .
The... | 2.140625 | 0 |
71274077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liudvika%20Did%C5%BEiulien%C4%97 | Liudvika Didžiulienė | Her first short story Tėvynės sūnus (Son of the Homeland) was published in Varpas in 1892. It was the first Lithuanian work of fiction published by a woman. The story deals with Juozas Baublys, a young Lithuanian doctor who works for the benefit of the Lithuanian people. However, he weds a daughter of Polonized nobles,... | 2.625 | 0 |
71274225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meisterfeldia | Meisterfeldia | Meisterfeldia is a genus of arcellinid testate amoebae erected in 2016 that unites several new species as well as old species previously found in the genus Cryptodifflugia. Five of the newly described species were first found and isolated from subarctic tundra soil surrounding a river near Chokurdakh, Russia, while the... | 2.34375 | 0 |
71274435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polson%20Logging%20Co.%202 | Polson Logging Co. 2 | In 1924, Saginaw Timber agreed to trade No. 2 for a larger steam engine with the North Western Lumber Company, and No. 2 was subsequently moved to North Western Lumber's location in Hoquiam, Washington. From there, No. 2 was reassigned to pull the North Western's logging trains in and out of Hoquiam until 1939. That ye... | 2.03125 | 0 |
71275436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichenopeltella%20stereocaulorum | Lichenopeltella stereocaulorum | Lichenopeltella stereocaulorum is a species of lichenicolous fungus belonging to the class Dothideomycetes. It was described in 2010 from an infected specimen of Stereocaulon botryosum.
It has a similar appearance to Lichenopeltella cladoniarum but L. stereocaulorum has smaller spores and infects Stereocaulon species,... | 2.171875 | 0 |
71275866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974%20Nobel%20Prize%20in%20Literature | 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature | The authors Martin Armstrong, Herbert Ernest Bates, Buddhadeva Bose, Emma L. Brock, Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Arthur J. Burks, Rosario Castellanos, Cyril Connolly, Julius Evola, Marieluise Fleißer, Georgette Heyer, David Jones, Lois Lenski, Eric Linklater, Walter Lippmann, Sigurður Nordal, Howard Pease, Olive Higgins Prou... | 2.1875 | 0 |
71276156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roos%20Vanotterdijk | Roos Vanotterdijk | 2023 Flemish Championships
At the 2023 Flemish Open Swimming Championships, conducted in long course metres and held in February in Antwerp, Belgium, Vanotterdijk set six new Belgian records in individual events over a period of two days. On 10 February, she set a 54.72 in the preliminaries of the 100 metre freestyle a... | 1.90625 | 0 |
71276299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich%20Codex%20Hebraica%2095 | Munich Codex Hebraica 95 | The Munich Codex Hebraica 95 ("Munich, Bayerische Staatbibliothek, Cod. Heb. 95) was written by Solomon b. Samson (Shlomo ben Shimshon) in France. He completed his copying task in 1342. It is the only existing handwritten copy of the entire Babylonian Talmud "without Christian censorship."
Ease of tracing ownership ha... | 2.046875 | 0 |
71276848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokaloka%2C%20Suriname | Lokaloka, Suriname | Lokaloka (also: Loka) is a village of Paramacca maroons in the Sipaliwini District of Suriname. The village is located on an island in the Marowijne River. Lokaloka is the last village of the Paramacca people.
History
The inhabitants of Lokaloka originate from about 150 slaves who escaped plantation around 1830. The ... | 2 | 0 |
71277360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Harry%20S.%20Truman%20Research%20Institute%20for%20the%20Advancement%20of%20Peace | The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace | Activities
The institute hosts the following:
The Stanley and Roberta Bogen Library, whose vast collection of journals and special archives support the institute's research areas.
The Abba Eban Centre for Israeli Diplomacy, which promotes connections among ambassadors and parliamentary representatives from around th... | 2.546875 | 0 |
71277421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europium%28II%29%20titanate | Europium(II) titanate | Europium(II) titanate is a black mixed oxide of europium and titanium, with the chemical formula of EuTiO3. It crystallizes in the perovskite structure.
History
EuTiO3 was first examined in 1966 by McGuire, Shafer, Joenk, Halperin and Pickart where the magnetic structure was examined. This compound received more atte... | 2.046875 | 0 |
71278038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20Sri%20Lankan%20presidential%20election | 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election | Platforms
Ranil Wickremesinghe highlighted his administration's success in resolving shortages of basic goods. Anura Kumara Dissanayake campaigned on a platform promoting economic freedoms and welfare protections for the working class. Sajith Premadasa vowed to mitigate the impact of the International Monetary Fund's ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
71278089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty%20Years%27%20War%2C%201579%E2%80%931588 | Eighty Years' War, 1579–1588 | Parma had long been hampered by the provision in the Treaty of Arras which prohibited stationing of Spanish mercenaries (the troops of the best quality) in the provinces that belonged to the Southern union. However, after his war with the Turks had finally ended, Philip's finances had significantly improved and he had ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
71278089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty%20Years%27%20War%2C%201579%E2%80%931588 | Eighty Years' War, 1579–1588 | Meanwhile, Anjou had become weary of the restraints placed on his authority by the civilians of the States-General and he attempted to seize power in Flanders and Brabant by way of a military coup. He seized Dunkirk and several other Flemish cities, but in Antwerp the citizens (remembering the 1576 sack) came to arms a... | 2.421875 | 0 |
71278286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulcs%C3%BA%20L%C3%A1d | Bulcsú Lád | Around the same year, Pope Gregory entrusted him to investigate the jurisdictional conflict between the Kolozsmonostor Abbey and Raynald of Belleville, the Bishop of Transylvania; the prelate ignored and violated the monastery's privileges and rights, while Raynald accused the convention of violating his episcopal righ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
71278286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulcs%C3%BA%20L%C3%A1d | Bulcsú Lád | Conflict with the Bizere Abbey
In the 1230s, Bulcsú Lád was embroiled in a harsh and unprecedented confrontation with the Benedictine abbey of Bizere, which laid on the left bank of the river Mureș (Maros) in Arad County (present-day Frumușeni, Romania). Bulcsú intended to exercise right of patronage (ius patronatus) o... | 2.328125 | 0 |
71278286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulcs%C3%BA%20L%C3%A1d | Bulcsú Lád | The bishop justified his absence with his old age and severe diseases, including the near-blindness of his eyes. Therefore, Pope Gregory appointed the abbot of Zirc, the prior of the Knights Hospitaller in Hungary and Lucas, the provost of Győr to verify Bulcsú's claims in his letter issued August 1237. If Bulcsú was f... | 2.09375 | 0 |
71278902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis%20Jeanne%20Creore | Phyllis Jeanne Creore | Creore was Miss Television at the 1939 New York World's Fair, demonstrating TV to fair attendees. As she interviewed people in a garden outside the RCA exhibit, coaxial-cable connections enabled audiences of more than 400 people to watch the interviews indoors on 20 TV sets. She co-starred in Hollywood Dreams, a twice-... | 2.046875 | 0 |
71278904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Nunes%20Nabarro | David Nunes Nabarro | David Nunes Nabarro (27 February 1874 – 3 October 1958) was a British physician who was the first bacteriologist at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, and the hospital's first director of pathology. In 1903, he with David Bruce, Aldo Castellani and Cuthbert Christy established that sleeping sickn... | 2.21875 | 0 |
71278945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aline%20Reese%20Blondner | Aline Reese Blondner | Aline Reese Blondner (April 29, 1841 – June 29, 1931) was an American musician and music educator. Widely known as pianist, organist and teacher, she trained with Asger Hamerik, Carl Reinecke, and Franz Liszt, and performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
Early life and ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
71279630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercidospora%20stereocaulorum | Cercidospora stereocaulorum | Cercidospora stereocaulorum is a species of lichenicolous fungus in the genus Cercidospora but it has not been assigned to a family. It is known to parasitise lichens of the genus Stereocaulon.
Similar species
Cercidospora stereocaulorum is very similar to Cercidospora punctillata and Cercidospora decolorella but they... | 2.265625 | 0 |
71279683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining%20in%20ancient%20Rome | Mining in ancient Rome | The Romans usually built quarries near the seas or rivers. Upon finding an adequate place for a quarry, the rock was withered away, usually through trial trenching. Afterwards, a line of holes would be chiseled into the rock surface, and wedges would proceed to be inserted into these holes, which were then used to pull... | 2.953125 | 0 |
71279811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Bjerre | Andreas Bjerre | Personal life and death
In 1904 Bjerre married Countess Amelie Posse, later a noted author, pacifist, and anti-Nazist. Posse's mother Gunhild Wennerberg (1860-1925) married Andreas Bjerre's brother Poul the year after. In the same year Posse gave birth to their only child, Sören Christer Bjerre (1905-1967), who was de... | 2.140625 | 0 |
71280168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%AEr%20Xidir%20Sil%C3%AAman | Pîr Xidir Silêman | After Kurds achieved semi-autonomy in 1991, Yazidis were given an unprecedented freedom to express themselves, Yazidi scholars became active and Yazidi research centers were established. Pîr Xidir, together with his colleague Khalil Jindy, played roles in raising Yazidi awareness through establishing Yazidi research ce... | 2.34375 | 0 |
71280305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20Washington%20wildfires | 2022 Washington wildfires | The 2022 Washington wildfire season officially began in March 2022. As of August 4, 2022, there have been four large wildfires that have burned across the US state of Washington. This season started quieter than normal due to unusually colder weather that kept Eastern and Southeastern Washington burning index's largel... | 2.375 | 0 |
71280843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%20Major%20League%20Baseball%20postseason | 1995 Major League Baseball postseason | Broadcasting
This was the only postseason in which telecasts were produced by The Baseball Network, the broadcasting joint venture between ABC, NBC and Major League Baseball that began in the 1994 season. Under the original plan, NBC was supposed to air both League Championship Series in even-numbered years while ABC w... | 2.109375 | 0 |
71281155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20in%20Buddhism | A in Buddhism | The phoneme A (Nagari: अ, Siddham: 𑖀) is an important symbol and seed mantra in Mahayana Buddhism as well as in Vajrayana Buddhism.
In Mahayana
A is the first vowel of the Sanskrit alphabet. Mahayana Buddhism invested the phoneme with mystical significance, associated with the doctrine of emptiness. In Sanskrit, whe... | 2.703125 | 0 |
71281159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewere | Werewere | Werewere was a seventeenth-century Māori rangatira (chieftain) of Ngāti Kurapoto and Ngāti Tūwharetoa from the region around Lake Taupō, New Zealand. Werewere joined the dominant chieftain of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Tamamutu, on an expedition against Rotorua, but the two men clashed and Tamamutu expelled him from the Taupō r... | 2.390625 | 0 |
71281333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halal%20conspiracy%20theories | Halal conspiracy theories | Halal conspiracy theories revolve around a series of Islamophobic conspiracy theories and hoaxes regarding halal certification in products such as food, beverages and cosmetics. The claims usually made include that the sale of halal-certified goods in stores is a precursor to the terrorization or institution of Sharia ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
71281342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliur%20Rahman | Oliur Rahman | Shah Oliur Rahman (, ; 1916 — 2006) was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, writer, politician and female education activist.
Early life and education
Oliur Rahman was born in 1916 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Batiail in Kanaighat, Sylhet District. He was the son of Ibrahim Ali Tashna, an Islamic scholar, ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
71281612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozad%20Downtown%20Historic%20District | Cozad Downtown Historic District | The Cozad Downtown Historic District in Cozad, Nebraska is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The Hendee Hotel in Cozad, built in 1879 for John J. Cozad, the founder of the city of Cozad, is not included in the district (in fact is just outside of its borders) but... | 1.960938 | 0 |
71281625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray%20Forbes%20Smith | Murray Forbes Smith | Murray Forbes Smith (July 21, 1814 – May 4, 1875) was an American commission merchant best known as the father of Alva Belmont.
Early life
Smith was born on July 21, 1814, in Dumfries, Virginia. He was a son of Edinburgh born George Smith (1765–1822) and Delia ( Forbes) Smith (1780–1841). who married in 1799. His sist... | 1.96875 | 0 |
71281910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20Ola%20Avoseh | T. Ola Avoseh | Chief Theophilus Olabode Avoseh (born in March 1908), known as T. Ola Avoseh, was a local historian, writer and chief of Badagry, Lagos. He wrote several booklets and pamphlets in the English and Yoruba languages on aspects of the history and culture of Badagry and Epe towns in Lagos, Nigeria.
Early life
T. Ola Avose... | 2.4375 | 0 |
71281964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Forrester%20%28cricketer%29 | Alexander Forrester (cricketer) | Alexander Roxburgh Forrester (26 October 1899 — 11 December 1976) was a Scottish first-class cricketer, cricket administrator, and educator.
Forrester was born at Glasgow in October 1899. He was educated at The Glasgow Academy, before matriculating to the University of Glasgow. He briefly served in the British Army in... | 2.109375 | 0 |
71282309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance%20of%20Sumer | Renaissance of Sumer | The Renaissance of Sumer is a period of the history of Mesopotamia that includes the years between the fall of the Akkadian Empire and the period of the Amorite dynasties of Isin and Larsa—both with governments of Semitic origin—between the centuries 22nd B.C. and 21st B.C. Within this stage the years of the so-called ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
71282476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin%20Fast%20Plants | Wisconsin Fast Plants | Flowers bloom. Stamens release pollen from anthers and pistils become pollen receptive at the stigma tip. If pollen is transferred flower-to-flower, pollination occurs. Pollen that lands on the stigma of another flower's pistil grows a tube down into the pistil, where the eggs are housed. Sperm (from inside the pollen ... | 3.234375 | 0 |
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