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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico%27s%20School
Pico's School
Pico's School is a 1999 Flash game developed by Tom Fulp for his website Newgrounds. At the time of its release, it was "one of the most sophisticated" browser games, exhibiting "a complexity of design and polish in presentation that [was] virtually unseen in amateur Flash game development". It has been widely credited...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Coloured%20Women%27s%20Club%20of%20Montreal
The Coloured Women's Club of Montreal
Attending to veterans returning from the Boer War was one of the first projects undertaken by the club. Its activities relating to organizing, feeding, and providing shelter and care, continued throughout the First World War, the Great Depression and World War II. During these years, the Club women operated across Cana...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20John%27s%20Point%2C%20County%20Down
Saint John's Point, County Down
The early 20th century saw further refinements to the lighthouse and 1902, when three black bands were added to the tower. The gas burners were upgraded, and in 1908 an 920mm Fresnel lens was installed. The daymark was changed to black with two yellow bands in 1954. The dwellings and the auxiliary light were provided ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterophylla%20%28plant%29
Pterophylla (plant)
Pterophylla is a genus of trees of the family Cunoniaceae, with species found growing naturally in Madagascar, Malesia, Papuasia, and the Pacific Islands, formerly included in Weinmannia. Range and habitat Species of Pterophylla are native to Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, and to Malesia (Peninsular Thailand and M...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloch%20Labhrais
Cloch Labhrais
Legend There are several legends surrounding the stone, but almost all of them feature the stone revealing whether a person is lying. One version of the story tells of a disloyal young wife and her husband. The husband began to suspect that his wife and the man who was her lover may have had some indecent relationship....
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Polak
Henry Polak
Henry Salomon Leon Polak (1882 — 31 January 1959) was a British-born lawyer, journalist and activist in South Africa who worked in collaboration with Mohandas Gandhi against racial discrimination. He served as an editor for the journal Indian Opinion and influenced by Theosophy, he believed in humanism and worked for t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaribullah%20Nasiru%20Kabara
Qaribullah Nasiru Kabara
Khalifa Sheikh Qaribullah Sheikh Muhammad Nasir Kabara Al-Malikiy, Al-Ash’ariy, Al-Qadiriy (born 17 February 1959) is the leader of the Qadriyyah Sufi Movement in Nigeria and the West African region. He became the Khalifa in 1996 after the death of his father, Sheikh Muhammad Nasir Kabara. With adherents stretching fro...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemadactylus%20valenciennesi
Nemadactylus valenciennesi
Nemadactylus valenciennesi (common names include blue morwong, queen snapper, the queen fish, sea carp or southern blue morwong), is a species of marine ray-finned fish, traditionally regarded as belonging to the family Cheilodactylidae, the members of which are commonly known as morwongs. It is endemic to southern A...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubbock%20Subpluvial
Lubbock Subpluvial
Lubbock Subpluvial is a discredited paleoclimate theory about a wet period in early Holocene Texas and New Mexico. During this period, part of the Llano Estacado was supposedly covered with pine and spruce forest but later research has found that vegetation there scarcely changed from grasslands through the Quaternary....
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution%20%28Wilson%20novel%29
Resolution (Wilson novel)
The novel interleaves the second voyage of James Cook with the rest of George Forster's life. The first scene is set in 1772 on board of on the way to Cape Town. It contains a review of George Forster's early life, accompanying his father to Russia and then to England, and the preparations for Cook's journey including...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation%20of%20the%20Metropolis%20of%20Kyiv%20by%20the%20Moscow%20Patriarchate
Annexation of the Metropolis of Kyiv by the Moscow Patriarchate
Despite the guarantees given by the government of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1686, Greek Catholic propaganda was not stopped. As a result, by the beginning of the 18th century, the Lviv, Lutsk, and Przemyśl dioceses finally became Catholic. So, twenty-five years after joining the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensioner%20Guard%20Cottage
Pensioner Guard Cottage
In 1893, William sold lot 114 to Edmund Ralph Brockman for £160. Amelia received ten shillings as executor of the estate. Brockman then sold the property to his daughter Frances Jane Brown and her husband Aubrey Brown. Either Brockman or the Browns built a separate, five room bungalow-style house next to the cottage in...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleomenes%2C%20the%20Spartan%20Hero
Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero
Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero or Cleomenes, The Spartan Heroe: A Tragedy is a 1692 tragedy by the English writer John Dryden. It was first staged at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane by the United Company. It portrays the reign of Cleomenes, the King of Sparta, inspired by Plutarch's history of the period. Dryden's version i...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1555%20Kashmir%20earthquake
1555 Kashmir earthquake
The Medlicott-Wadia Thrust is expressed on the surface as two branching fault structures; the Scorpion and Rain faults. Paleoseismic studies have identified three large earthquakes on the Rain Fault, and two on the Scorpion Fault in the past 3,500 years. An account in Persian describing a destructive earthquake in 1250...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1555%20Kashmir%20earthquake
1555 Kashmir earthquake
Many towns and villages were completely destroyed in Kashmir. In the communities of Jalu and Damper, the force of the earthquake sheared off the foundations of homes and roots of trees, and displaced them onto the opposite bank of the Jhelum River. The town of Madar, located at the base of a hill, was buried by a lands...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa%20de%20S%C3%A3o%20Bernardo
Casa de São Bernardo
Casa de São Bernardo is a building in Cascais in the Lisbon District of Portugal that was owned by Bernardo Pinheiro Correia de Melo, First Count of Arnoso, who was private secretary to King Carlos. It is considered to be an example of the summer architecture found in Cascais and neighbouring Estoril from the 1870s onw...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20Munster%20abuse%20case
2021 Munster abuse case
Eighteen months after the children were taken into care, a pediatrician examined all five. She noted some injuries consistent with accidental injury, along with scarring from burn wounds and other unexplained scarring. A general practitioner gave evidence at trial saying that the youngest of the children, who was 18 ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20Munster%20abuse%20case
2021 Munster abuse case
The foster parents of the girl and second eldest boy gave details about the amount of support the children needed after entering foster care: they were brought to a speech and language therapist, a physiotherapist, an occupational therapist, a dietitian, an eye specialist, a dentist and orthodontist, a psychotherapist,...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa%20%27The%20Squire%27
Rosa 'The Squire'
Rosa 'The Squire' (aka AUSquire) is a crimson shrub rose, bred by British rose breeder, David C. H. Austin in 1976. It was widely praised as the best crimson rose of Austin's English Roses collection, when it was first introduced. Description 'The Squire' is an upright, open shrub rose, in height, with a spread. M...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Cotton
Carl Cotton
He helped to create an adaptive coloring exhibit on birds, but Cotton also branched out into other organisms, working on mammals, reptiles, and eventually insects and the salmon display. In 1966, the museum opened its new official exhibitions department and made Cotton the first staff member, giving him the responsibil...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith%20Minkler
Meredith Minkler
Meredith Minkler (born September 23, 1946) is an American public health researcher who is emeritus Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She is known for her work on community-based participatory research and its use in public policy, criminal justice reform and democratizing access to food. Early life ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus%20spike%20protein
Coronavirus spike protein
The gene encoding the spike protein is located toward the 3' end of the virus's positive-sense RNA genome, along with the genes for the other three structural proteins and various virus-specific accessory proteins. Protein trafficking of spike proteins appears to depend on the coronavirus subgroup: when expressed in is...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus%20spike%20protein
Coronavirus spike protein
Like other class I fusion proteins, the spike protein in its pre-fusion conformation is in a metastable state. A dramatic conformational change is triggered to induce the heptad repeats in the S2 region to refold into an extended six-helix bundle, causing the fusion peptide to interact with the cell membrane and bringi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus%20spike%20protein
Coronavirus spike protein
Spike protein mutations raise concern because they may affect infectivity or transmissibility, or facilitate immune escape. The mutation D614G has arisen independently in multiple viral lineages and become dominant among sequenced genomes; it may have advantages in infectivity and transmissibility possibly due to incre...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students%20of%20Azerbaijan%20Democratic%20Republic%20abroad
Students of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic abroad
Many of the graduates of Western universities who returned to Azerbaijan were arrested in the 1930s by the NKVD as German spies and supporters of the restoration of Azerbaijan's independence. According to the analysis of archival materials about the repressed, in the 1930s, citizens of the republic were suspected of di...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika%20Diettes
Erika Diettes
Erika Diettes (born 1978) is a Colombian visual artist. Born in Cali, Colombia she currently lives and works in Bogota, Colombia. At the age of 15, Erika and her family moved to Washington DC where her father worked as a police attaché at the Colombian Embassy. Once settled into her new school, she began to study art, ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Karapetyan
Maria Karapetyan
Maria Karapetyan (born 20 February 1988) is an Armenian politician and a member of the National Assembly of Armenia for the Civil Contract. She has worked as a teacher at the Quality Schools International in Yerevan and was elected to parliament in 2018. She is a feminist and known for her support of the Armenian LGBT ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitra%20%28art%29
Chitra (art)
Chitra or citra is an Indian genre of art that includes painting, sketch and any art form of delineation. The earliest mention of the term Chitra in the context of painting or picture is found in some of the ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism and Pali texts of Buddhism. Nomenclature Chitra (IAST: Citra, चित्र) is a Sa...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitra%20%28art%29
Chitra (art)
A good painting is one that is alive, breathing, draws in and affects the viewer. It captivates the minds of viewers, despite their diversity. Installed in a sala (hall or room), it enlivens the space. The ornaments of a painting are its lines, shading, decoration and colors, states the 6th-century Visnudharmottara Pu...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitra%20%28art%29
Chitra (art)
The six limbs in Jayamangala likely reflect the earliest and more established Hindu tradition for chitra. This is supported by the Chitrasutras found in the Vishnudharmottara Purana. They explicitly mention pramanani and lavanya as key elements of a painting, as well as discuss the other four of the six limbs in other ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%20Hirsh-Dickinson
Sally Hirsh-Dickinson
Sally Hirsh-Dickinson (born January 7, 1971) is an American academic who is a producer and host for New Hampshire Public Radio, a New Hampshire politician, and an English professor at Rivier University, where she teaches courses on American literature, gender studies and public speaking. Previously, she was a professor...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20B.%20Judson
Edward B. Judson
Edward Barker Judson (January 11, 1813 – January 15, 1902) was an American politician and banker who served as president of the First National Bank of Syracuse. Early life Judson was born on January 11, 1813, at Coxsackie in Greene County, New York. Career At the age of twenty-one, Judson went into the lumber busines...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halospora
Halospora
Halospora is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) fungi in the family Verrucariaceae. Species in the genus parasitise calcicolous crustose lichens, i.e., those that prefer lime-rich substrates. Taxonomy The grouping was first proposed in 1914 by German lichenologist Georg Hermann Zschacke as a subgenus of Polybl...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimelea%20aquilonia
Pimelea aquilonia
Pimelea aquilonia is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to far north Queensland. It is a shrub with narrowly elliptic leaves and small clusters of hairy, white or cream-coloured, tube-shaped flowers. Description Pimelea aquilonia is a perennial shrub that typically grows to a heigh...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattray%20Marsh%20Conservation%20Area
Rattray Marsh Conservation Area
Settlement The area was inhabited by the Mississauga people of the Wendake-Niowentsïo territory before the settlers arrived. A treaty was signed between the Mississauga people and new settlers in 1805 for land from Etobicoke creek to Burlington Bay and other areas reaching up to the north of Dundas street. In 1806, th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STARAD
STARAD
STARAD (STARfish RADiation) was a radiation-monitoring satellite used to track the artificial radiation belt created by the Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test. Background On 9 July 1962, decay of debris the Starfish Prime nuclear test utccreated an unexpected increase in high-energy particles in the Earth's ma...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Rose%20%28Clerk%20of%20the%20Parliaments%29
William Rose (Clerk of the Parliaments)
Sir William Rose (19 July 1808 – 19 November 1885) was a British barrister and civil servant who served as Clerk of the Parliaments from 1875 to 1885, succeeding his father. From a Tory background, he was well-connected in the political world. Early life Rose was born the son of Sir George Henry Rose and Frances Dun...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20submarine%20Le%20Centaure
French submarine Le Centaure
Free French Naval Forces Le Centaure was still in the 3rd Submarine Division at Dakar as of 1 November 1942. After Allied forces landed in French North Africa in Operation Torch on 8 November 1942 and a ceasefire between Allied and Vichy French forces in North Africa ensued on 11 November 1942, Le Centaure joined the F...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20submarine%20Le%20Centaure
French submarine Le Centaure
At Philadelphia, Le Centaure′s Schneider diesel engines underwent a full overhaul, her batteries were replaced, her hull was thickened and her diving planes reinforced to increase her test depth, and some of her ballast tanks were transformed into fuel tanks to increase her range. A significant effort went into improvi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled%20town%20of%20Po%C4%8Ditelj
Walled town of Počitelj
The Gavrankapetanović House is built at the end of the 16th century, it was named after and housed the captains of Počitelj, who belonged to the Gavrankapetanović family. It is typical example of the residential architecture of the village. It is the only house in town to have separate rooms for men and women. The hous...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled%20town%20of%20Po%C4%8Ditelj
Walled town of Počitelj
The earliest mention of or recorded reference to Počitelj is in charters of king Alfonso V and Fridrich III from 1444 to 1448. However, the village most likely predates these documents. The exact date can't be pinpointed but it is likely that fortified town along with its complementary settlements was built by Bosnian ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled%20town%20of%20Po%C4%8Ditelj
Walled town of Počitelj
The town's layout and appearance, as well as its importance has altered during the course of its history. Three significant periods can be distinguished in the development of Počitelj: The period of the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus during which the town had a major strategic importance (1463–1471) The period of ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman%20destroyer%20N%C3%BCmune-i%20Hamiyet
Ottoman destroyer Nümune-i Hamiyet
Shortly thereafter, Nümune-i Hamiyet began to experience problems with her turbines, and she was laid up for repairs. The work was done by April, allowing her to resume operations with the division. Early that month, reports of a Greek cruiser and four destroyers blockading the Gulf of İzmir prompted the Ottoman Navy t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris%20Ketelbey
Doris Ketelbey
In December 1942, Ketelbey petitioned the University Court for promotion to Lecturer ‘on account of her long service with the ‘approval and consent’ of Professor Williams, however, this request was denied. In 1945, after 11 years at the university, Ketelbey was finally promoted to Lecturer. In 1946, she was appointed a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boccaccio%27s%20notebooks
Boccaccio's notebooks
Giovanni Boccaccio's notebooks or zibaldoni have been preserved in three codices, known as the Zibaldone Laurenziano, the Miscellanea Laurenziana and the Zibaldone Magliabechiano. These are autograph manuscripts containing both texts copied by Boccaccio and original compositions, plus many notes. All three date from hi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty%20Years%27%20War%2C%201572%E2%80%931576
Eighty Years' War, 1572–1576
Flushing and Veere defected to the rebels on 3 May. Orange quickly responded to this new development, by sending a number of emissaries to Holland and Zeeland with commissions to take over local government on his behalf, in his old capacity of stadtholder, which he now re-assumed. Diederik Sonoy persuaded the cities of...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority%20Report%20%28soundtrack%29
Minority Report (soundtrack)
Minority Report (Original Motion Picture Score) is the score album to the 2002 film of the same name directed by Steven Spielberg. The music was released on June 18, 2002 by DreamWorks Records in CD, vinyl and cassettes. The score was composed and conducted by Spielberg's regular collaborator John Williams, with orches...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdan-Dawid%20Wojdowski
Bogdan-Dawid Wojdowski
Bogdan-Dawid Wojdowski (,30 November 1930 –21 April 1994) was a Polish-Jewish writer of Yiddish (Ashkenazic) background. Name The writer was born Dawid Wojdowski. During World War II, under German occupation, he used an 'ethnically Polish' (that is, more Catholic-sounding) pseudonym 'Bogdan Kamiński'. After the war, i...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdan-Dawid%20Wojdowski
Bogdan-Dawid Wojdowski
After the fall of communism, Wojdowski hoped for a revival of Jewish cultural life in postcommunist Poland. To this end, in 1991, he founded the journal Masada, which however, went defunct after the publication of the first issue. In 1993 the writer published his famous essay 'Judaizm jako los' (Judaism as Fate), on wh...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stowe%20Gardens
Stowe Gardens
Located in a grove of trees at the eastern end of the Grecian Valley, at the north-east corner of the gardens, the structure is a small belvedere designed by James Gibbs in 1729. It was moved to its present position in the 1760s; it originally stood where Queen Caroline's statue stands. It is square in plan with chamfe...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stowe%20Gardens
Stowe Gardens
The work of so many major architects gives the gardens and park at Stowe a unique architectural flavour. It is less a horticultural garden and more of a picturesque landscape of lawns, water and trees, with carefully contrived vistas which culminate in eye catching structures. Other gardens of the period, such as Clare...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poeloegoedoe
Poeloegoedoe
Poeloegoedoe (also: Pulugudu and Pori Gudu) is a village in the Tapanahony River at the confluence with the Lawa River. It is named after the Poeloegoedoe Falls and is inhabited by maroons of the Ndyuka people. The village is located in the Tapanahony resort of Sipaliwini District, Suriname. History The Poeloegoedoe F...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pact%20of%20Territet
Pact of Territet
Pact of Territet () was an attempt to mend the long-standing dynastic feud between two Spanish Borbón branches and their supporters, known as the Alfonsists and the Carlists. In September 1931 it was agreed between two competitive exiled claimants, posing as Alfonso XIII and Jaime III. The deal envisioned that a new Sp...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pact%20of%20Territet
Pact of Territet
When the Second Spanish Republic was born, the Alfonsist dynastic head was the 45-year-old Alfonso de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena, who as king Alfonso XIII ruled Spain between 1886 and 1931 (furtherly referred as Don Alfonso). At the time he had 6 children, including 4 sons. His oldest son Alfonso de Borbón y Battenberg ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pact%20of%20Territet
Pact of Territet
During later decades there were other attempts to end the dynastic conflict. In the 1940s within Carlism there was a current known as Juanismo or Rodeznismo, which advocated that under the regency of Don Javier and in line with guidelines from late Don Alfonso Carlos, there is a grand Carlist assembly organized; during...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent%20event%20analysis
Recurrent event analysis
Multi-state model In multi-state models, the recurrent event processes of individuals are described by different states. The different states may describe the recurrence number, or whether the subject is at risk of recurrence. A change of state is called a transition (or an event) and is central in this framework, whi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul%20Hamid%20%28politician%2C%20born%201886%29
Abdul Hamid (politician, born 1886)
Abdul Hamid (, 1886–1963), popularly known as Minister Abdul Hamid, was a Bengali lawyer, educationist and politician. He was a former president and education minister of the Assam Legislative Council. From 1947 to 1954, he served as the education minister of East Bengal. Early life and education Abdul Hamid was born...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floe%20Edge
Floe Edge
Floe Edge: Contemporary Art and Collaborations from Nunavut was an exhibition of contemporary Inuit art and fashion staged by Quebec artist collective Axe Néo-7 and curated by Kathleen Nicholls of the Nunavut Arts and Crafts Association. The exhibition featured contemporary works from 18 artists in multiple media, incl...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prabhudas%20Gandhi
Prabhudas Gandhi
Prabhudas Gandhi (4 December 1901 – 6 May 1995) was an Indian Gujarati language writer and translator. He was a son of Mahatma Gandhi's nephew Chhaganlal Gandhi. He was awarded the Narmad Suvarna Chandrak (1948) for his book Jivannu Parodh. (). Biography Prabhudas Gandhi was born to father Chhaganlal Gandhi and mothe...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Pinckney
William Pinckney
When Pinckney regained consciousness, he discovered the compartments around him wrecked completely. He made his way through the burning wreckage to an open hangar deck hatch, where he found the only other surviving sailor, Gunner's Mate James Bagwell. The other sailor could not get up through the hatch and fell unconsc...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20History%20Digital%20Library
Media History Digital Library
The Media History Digital Library (MHDL) is a non-profit, open access digital archive founded by David Pierce and directed by Eric Hoyt that compiles books, magazines, and other print materials related to the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound and makes these materials accessible online for free. The M...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral%20of%20St.%20George%20the%20Victorious%20of%20Derbent
Cathedral of St. George the Victorious of Derbent
Construction On May 8, 1849, at noon, in the presence of Prince Mikhail S. Vorontsov and his wife, the foundation was laid. The project of the church was developed by Prince Grigory Gagarin in the Russian-Byzantine style. The construction was supervised by field engineer captain V. I. Gerschelman. The church was built...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Lord%20Bailey
Sarah Lord Bailey
Sarah Lord Bailey (, Lord; after first marriage, Bailey; after second marriage, Sanborn; September 9, 1856 – July 9, 1922) was a British-born American elocutionist and teacher of dramatic elocution. Biography Sarah Lord was born in Tottington, Metropolitan Borough of Bury, England, 9 September 1856. She was the only c...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterian%20Church%20of%20Panama
Presbyterian Church of Panama
The Presbyterian of Panama Church (, IPP) is a Protestant Reformed denomination, founded in Panama in 2011, by the missionary Gilberto Botelho, sent by the Presbyterian Agency for Transcultural Missions of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil. Based on its growth, the denomination was recognized by the government of Panam...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport%20Club%20Corinthians%20Paulista%20in%20international%20football
Sport Club Corinthians Paulista in international football
Corinthians first participated in international club competitions in 1977, when they took part in the group stage of the 18th edition of the Copa Libertadores – the highest level of competition in South American club football – as the runners-up in the previous year's Brazilian championship. Their debut was against Int...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport%20Club%20Corinthians%20Paulista%20in%20international%20football
Sport Club Corinthians Paulista in international football
One of eight teams participating in the inaugural FIFA Club World Cup in 2000, Corinthians were nominated by the Brazilian Football Confederation as the host country's representative in the new competition. The 1999 Brazilian Championship holders had just claimed their third national league title, with key players such...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20H.%20Smart
James H. Smart
The Big Ten Conference In an initiative led by Smart, he and the presidents of the University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, Northwestern University, and Lake Forest College met on January 11, 1895, to discuss regulation of collegiate athletics. At a second meeting...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/233rd%20Rifle%20Division
233rd Rifle Division
Battle for the City In the last act of the battle, beginning on January 26, the 67th Guards, 233rd and 24th Divisions were ordered to orient their assaults on the western edge of the Krasny Oktyabr village and the southwestern edge of Barrikady village, where they were to link up with the forces on 62nd Army's right wi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/233rd%20Rifle%20Division
233rd Rifle Division
On October 28 elements of 75th Corps relieved units of 46th Army and occupied their defensive lines; following this the entire 57th Army was ordered on October 31 to cross to the west bank of the Danube. The crossing operations were led by 75th Corps overnight on November 7/8 in the area of BatinaApatin. The Corps' art...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/233rd%20Rifle%20Division
233rd Rifle Division
Hungarian Campaign On the same day that the Pitomača battle took place the Hungarian capital was encircled, and the Axis forces began operations to relieve the garrison on January 1, 1945. The third such operation, called Konrad III, began on January 18. On the morning of January 20 the German forces continued to atta...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeks%2C%20Texas
Meeks, Texas
Meeks is an unincorporated community in Bell County, in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 15 in 2000. It is located within the Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood metropolitan area. History Meeks also went by the name of Casey. A post office was established at Meeks in...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigolimax%20waterstoni
Ambigolimax waterstoni
Ambigolimax waterstoni is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Limacidae. Taxonomy This is one of the several species formerly confused under the name Limax nyctelius and later Lehmannia nyctelia or Ambigolimax nyctelius. In the early 1930s A.R. Waterston wrote...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuenca%20Alta%20del%20Manzanares%20Regional%20Park
Cuenca Alta del Manzanares Regional Park
In the southern part of the park, the Manzanares River has notably widened its valley and collects the streams of Manina and Trofas, which come from the Sierra del Hoyo. It is also retained in the El Pardo reservoir, of great ecological interest. The Viñuelas stream, which flows through the mountain with the same name...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitated%20arc%20routing%20problem
Capacitated arc routing problem
In mathematics, the capacitated arc routing problem (CARP) is that of finding the shortest tour with a minimum graph/travel distance of a mixed graph with undirected edges and directed arcs given capacity constraints for objects that move along the graph that represent snow-plowers, street sweeping machines, or winter ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20New%20Parisienne
The New Parisienne
The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris is a 2020 non-fiction book written by New York Times journalist Lindsey Tramuta and with photography by Joann Pai. It was originally slated to release in April 2020, but was pushed to July later that year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the murder of George Floyd. It...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Winchelsea%20%281694%29
HMS Winchelsea (1694)
HMS Winchelsea was a 32-gun fifth rate vessel built under contract at Redbridge (Southampton) in 1693/94. After commissioning she was employed for trade protection in the North Sea, guard ship at Plymouth, briefly with Shovell's Fleet in the Channel and a brief visit to the West Indies. While on fisheries protection in...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Scarlet%20Letter%20%281917%20film%29
The Scarlet Letter (1917 film)
The Scarlet Letter is an American silent drama film distributed by Fox Film Corporation and based upon the 1850 eponymous novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with some additional plot added taking place before the events of the novel. It was written and directed by Carl Harbaugh. An incomplete print of the film in 1 reel exi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Bingham%20%28Indiana%20politician%29
James Bingham (Indiana politician)
James Bingham (March 16, 1861 – August 19, 1940) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the nineteenth Indiana Attorney General from January 1, 1907, to January 1, 1911. Biography Early life and education Bingham was born in Fountain County, Indiana. His father was Alexander Bingham, a farmer. Growing u...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olotia
Olotia
Olotia is a genus of fungi in the family Psathyrellaceae. The genus is monotypic and contains the single species Olotia codinae which was previously classified as Psathyrella codinae. Taxonomy The genus Olotia was created in 2020 by the German mycologists Dieter Wächter & Andreas Melzer when the Psathyrellaceae famil...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Slattery
William Slattery
William Slattery, O.F.M., is an Irish-born Franciscan who served as Bishop of Kokstad from 1993 to 2010, before being appointed Archbishop of Pretoria and Bishop of South Africa, Military. Biography William Mathew Slattery was born at Portlaoise on 6 September 1943; he is a native of Killenaule, County Tipperary, Irel...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Waldman%20%28palaeontologist%29
Michael Waldman (palaeontologist)
Michael Waldman is a British palaeontologist known for his work on fossil fish, mammals, and reptiles. He also discovered the globally important fossil site of Cladach a'Ghlinne, near Elgol on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. This site exposes the Kilmaluag Formation and provides a valuable record of Middle Jurassic ecosyst...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrax%20analis
Anthrax analis
Anthrax analis, the black bee fly, is a species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae. It can be found throughout North America, from the Yukon east to Quebec in Canada, the entire mainland United States, most of Mexico, and as far south as Costa Rica and Cuba. As an adult it is a pollinator, and as a larva it is a para...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith%20MacQueen
Edith MacQueen
Edith Edgar MacQueen (1900–1977) was a Scottish parliamentary historian and a historian of Scottish emigration to North America. She was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in history from the University of St Andrews. Early life MacQueen was the daughter of George MacQueen of Mongus, Angus, Scotland. Academic career...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20Saint%20John%20the%20Theologian%2C%20Kythnos
Church of Saint John the Theologian, Kythnos
Saint John the Theologian (Greek: Άγιος Ιωάννης Θεολόγος) is a Greek Orthodox church and a historical monument located in Chora, on the island of Kythnos, Greece. The church is dedicated to John the Evangelist. Location and description The church is located in the neighbourhood of Panochori, near Mazarakis Square in ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royce%20Williams
Royce Williams
The story of his battle with the Soviet-piloted MiGs led to Williams being debriefed at the time by admirals, the Secretary of Defence, and a few weeks later by newly inaugurated President Dwight D. Eisenhower. These authorities made a decision to cover up the specifics of the battle, because at that time the Soviet Un...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%20Burras
Lewis Burras
Lewis Edward Burras (born 12 February 2000) is a British competitive swimmer. He is the former British record holder in the long course 100-metre freestyle. He is a 2022 Commonwealth Games silver medalist in the 50-metre freestyle, 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay, and 4×100-metre mixed freestyle relay, swimming on the fi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20M.%20Honan
Thomas M. Honan
Thomas Michael Honan (August 8, 1867 - September 21, 1932) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the sixty-fifth Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives (from November 7, 1908, to November 9, 1910) and the twentieth Indiana Attorney General (from January 1, 1911, to January 1, 1915). Biography E...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Am%20More%20Than%20a%20Wolf%20Whistle
I Am More Than a Wolf Whistle
I Am More than a Wolf Whistle: The Story of Carolyn Bryant Donham is a memoir by Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused the African American 14-year-old Emmett Till of touching her hand and flirting with her at her store in 1955, an incident which led to his lynching. Written before 2008, the manuscript was...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20depictions%20of%20Adelaide%20of%20Italy
Cultural depictions of Adelaide of Italy
Adelaide of Italy was an important medieval ruler and holy figure, having been called "the most important woman of her century", "the most powerful of Ottonian women" and one of the most powerful queens of the entire Middle Age. As princess of Burgundy (as daughter of Rudolph II of Burgundy), queen of Italy (consort of...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20depictions%20of%20Adelaide%20of%20Italy
Cultural depictions of Adelaide of Italy
Adelaide and Theophanu are often compared and contrasted in historiography. Some modern commentators like Gunther Wolf (in his book Kaiserin Theophanu. Prinzessin aus der Fremde) see Theophanu as the one who looked forward to the future, to modern forms of ruling, while Adelaide was the conservative who looked to the p...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20Mieg
Miguel Mieg
Miguel Mieg Alonso (29 September 1896 – 19 April 1981), was a Spanish footballer who played as a midfielder for Athletic Club de Madrid. A historical member of Athletic Madrid in the late 1910s, he was one of the first footballers to play for them for his entire career, and thus to be part of the so-called one-club men...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Calandra
Tommy Calandra
Beatle George Harrison sent Peter Asher to sign the band with Apple Records, saying "Raven is one of the best American bands I've ever heard." They signed, instead, with Columbia Records. They toured the US and England but turned down an invitation to perform at the Woodstock in August 1969. In March 1970, they returne...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Sybrandus%20Keverling%20Buisman
Albert Sybrandus Keverling Buisman
Albert Sybrandus Keverling Buisman (2 November 1890 – 20 February 1944) was a Dutch civil engineer and Professor of Applied Mechanics, who was instrumental in establishing the (English: Soil Mechanics Laboratory) in Delft. He made notable contributions to the development of soil mechanics in the Netherlands. In addit...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza%20Scudder
Eliza Scudder
Eliza Scudder (1821–1896) was a 19th-century American hymnwriter. Among her productions are several notable hymns including, "The Love of God", written in 1852; "Truth", which begins with the line, "Thou long disowned, reviled, oppressed"; "Lines for Music", which begins with "As the lost who vainly wander"; and the ly...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client%20kingdoms%20in%20ancient%20Rome
Client kingdoms in ancient Rome
During its heyday, from 95 B.C. to 66 B.C., the kingdom of Armenia had control over parts of the Caucasus, present-day eastern Turkey, Lebanon and Syria. It came under the sphere of influence of the Romans in 66 B.C., with the campaigns of Lucullus and Pompey. Because of this, the kingdom of Armenia was the scene of co...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client%20kingdoms%20in%20ancient%20Rome
Client kingdoms in ancient Rome
Such a political design was applied in the West to the Cottian Alps (entrusted to Cottius, an indigenous prince, and his son, Cottius II, until 63 when they became part of the Roman Empire) to the Maroboduus kingdom of the Quadi and Marcomanni (as early as 6), of Noricum, Thrace (where continued Roman interventions wer...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Canadian%20Pacific%20Railway
History of the Canadian Pacific Railway
On 3 November 1909, the Lethbridge Viaduct over the Oldman River valley at Lethbridge, Alberta, was opened. It is long and, at its maximum, high, making it one of the longest railway bridges in Canada. In 1916, the CPR replaced its line through Rogers Pass, which was prone to avalanches (the most serious of which kil...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra%20%28boat%29
Indra (boat)
Indra is the largest solar-powered boat in India. It started operations in Kochi waters in the Indian state of Kerala on 22nd December, 2023. The design and construction was done by Navalt at their Kochi headquarters and their Navgathi Panavally Yard. Statistics Ever since the boat started operating, it has been a hi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coniocarpon
Coniocarpon
Coniocarpon is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Arthoniaceae. It has eight species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) lichens. This genus is distinct for its crystalline orange, red, and purple quinoid pigments in the ascomata that turn purple in potassium hydroxide solution, its colourless, transversely septa...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyplolabia%20afzelii
Dyplolabia afzelii
Dyplolabia afzelii is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), script lichen in the family Graphidaceae. It has a pantropical distribution. The lichen has a thallus with colours ranging from yellow to pale olive buff, dark brownish tan, or grey, characterised by its smooth texture and considerable thickness. Its ascom...
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