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78614290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20King%27s%20Theatre%2C%20Stratford | The King's Theatre, Stratford | In 1991 a non-profit trust, the Stratford District Theatre Trust, was formed with the intent of purchasing the theatre and restoring it. The trust was formed following a successful Shakespeare Festival in town the year prior. Films were screened again in 1992 and continue to be shown. Many local organisations have prov... | 2.015625 | 0 |
78615339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Tungabhadra%20River%20%281543%29 | Battle of Tungabhadra River (1543) | The departure of Ibrahim Adil Shah I marked a turning point, as it unleashed widespread rebellion against Tirumala. Rama Raya along with the majority of the nobles who had professed loyalty to him, broke their promises and began preparing for a decisive march upon Vijayanagara to punish Tirumala for his perceived betra... | 2.234375 | 0 |
78615748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siete%20tratados | Siete tratados | On Genius (Del genio)
He begins this treatise by defending himself from the attacks of a language purist who had criticized him for using the Gallicism "genio" when Spanish has the word "ingenio". For Montalvo, there are two different concepts that must be expressed with two different words, and to explain what "genio... | 2.125 | 0 |
78616535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban%20invasion%20of%20Panama | Cuban invasion of Panama | Arrival of invasion force
The invasion force arrived in Panamanian jungles on 25 April 1959. During the landing attempt, Enrique Morales, leader of the 22nd May Youth Revolutionary Movement drowned leaving the group without a commander. After landing the group soon split up into several detachments to recruit locals an... | 2.484375 | 0 |
74290756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%2C%20Cuckney%2C%20Holbeck%20and%20Welbeck | Norton, Cuckney, Holbeck and Welbeck | Holbeck
The hamlet was not recorded in Domesday Book and there is no documentary evidence of an early church or chapel. in 1329 it had ecclesiastical connections to John Hotham, Bishop of Ely, who held free warren there as well as 114 acres. Also in that year, the bishop of Ely granted the whole manor of Cuckney and i... | 2.03125 | 0 |
74290756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%2C%20Cuckney%2C%20Holbeck%20and%20Welbeck | Norton, Cuckney, Holbeck and Welbeck | Norton
Norton came under the same parallel ownership and history as Cuckney, which was considered the chief local town by the 1800s. It later developed Welbeck estate workers houses and farm buildings. The village has since had ten buildings designated as listed. In Norton during World War Two, a prisoner of war camp ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
74292158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austroasiatic%20carrying%20basket | Austroasiatic carrying basket | The austroasiatic carrying basket or kapha is a wicker basket common to many Austroasiatic and Austronesian peoples in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines and Thailand. It is carried on their back to go to the fields, but also at parties, where it serves as an adornment for the girls. Weaving these carr... | 2.5 | 0 |
74292158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austroasiatic%20carrying%20basket | Austroasiatic carrying basket | Craftmanship
An austroasiatic carrying basket is usually made of bamboo, a bamboo that only men are authorized to fetch in the forest, in June and July during the monsoon season in Southeast Asia. Only during these months have the bamboos reached an ideal level of development. They are neither too young nor too old. S... | 2.75 | 0 |
74292297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayerische%20Hypotheken-%20und%20Wechsel-Bank | Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank | The Hypo-Bank was shaken by hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic in 1921–1923, when it had to sell to Allianz, but was able to rebuild balance sheet strength in the later 1920s. By 1930, it was Germany's ninth-largest joint-stock bank with 271 million Reichsmarks in total deposits, and the third-largest one headquart... | 2.484375 | 0 |
74292431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial%20conceptions%20of%20Jewish%20identity%20in%20Zionism | Racial conceptions of Jewish identity in Zionism | Jewish scientists who espoused assimilation and accepted the broad parameters of the racial paradigm tended to rethink race in terms of Lamarckism, which allowed that environmental factors could modify an inherited genetic makeup. Zionist scientists, contrariwise, were often convinced that the supposed defects of the "... | 2.046875 | 0 |
74292431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial%20conceptions%20of%20Jewish%20identity%20in%20Zionism | Racial conceptions of Jewish identity in Zionism | Early Zionism
As the older Christian antisemitic prejudices were reformulated in an age of racialised thinking, some Jews, disappointed with what they perceived to be the failures of full emancipation, began to be drawn to Theodor Herzl's proposed Zionist solution to the quandary. Herzl's Zionism arose in reaction to t... | 2.546875 | 0 |
74292431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial%20conceptions%20of%20Jewish%20identity%20in%20Zionism | Racial conceptions of Jewish identity in Zionism | Zionist physicians and scientists varied notably in the way they used race to illustrate any number of social, economic, or political notions. According to Dafna Hirsch of the Open University of Israel, writing in 2009, many Zionists supported the concept of Jews as a race, often believing it "offered scientific 'proof... | 2.25 | 0 |
74292431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial%20conceptions%20of%20Jewish%20identity%20in%20Zionism | Racial conceptions of Jewish identity in Zionism | These matters and discussions were not widely disseminated in the Jewish population before the 1930s. Not all Zionists using concepts such as "race" at this time agreed on its biological dimension. Some Zionists – for example Robert Weltsch and Israel Zangwill – did not embrace the racial idea. Cultural Zionists such a... | 2.125 | 0 |
74292431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial%20conceptions%20of%20Jewish%20identity%20in%20Zionism | Racial conceptions of Jewish identity in Zionism | In the mid-70s, a growing sense of crisis compounded anxieties among Israel's dominant class as the Mizrachi began to challenge the cultural, social and political ascendency of the Ashkenazi elite, a challenge which was to culminate in the victory of Menachem Begin's Likud party in the 1977 Israeli legislative election... | 2.15625 | 0 |
74292431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial%20conceptions%20of%20Jewish%20identity%20in%20Zionism | Racial conceptions of Jewish identity in Zionism | In responses that challenged Patai's claims, two analytical teams, one led by Dorit Carmelli and Cavalli-Sforza, the other headed by Bonné-Tamir, Bodmer and Karlin, developed two different statistical models to evaluate the genetics of common Jewish origins, dispersion, drift and admixture. While they shared similar as... | 2.015625 | 0 |
74292431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial%20conceptions%20of%20Jewish%20identity%20in%20Zionism | Racial conceptions of Jewish identity in Zionism | In 2012, two important books appeared providing different overviews of results and approaching the subject from seemingly antithetical positions, while drawing on the same data sets: Harry Ostrer's A Genetic History of the Jewish People, and Nadia Abu El-Haj's The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and... | 1.929688 | 0 |
74292431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial%20conceptions%20of%20Jewish%20identity%20in%20Zionism | Racial conceptions of Jewish identity in Zionism | According to Michael Satlow, Professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies at Brown University, whatever implications might be read into these researches, Jewish religious law and the Law of Return have not been affected by Jewish population genetics.
Genetic research has raised issues that affect the definition of... | 2.40625 | 0 |
74292892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%207678 | NGC 7678 | NGC 7678 is an intermediate spiral galaxy located in the constellation Pegasus. It is located at a distance of about 130 million light years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 7678 is about 95,000 light years across. It was discovered by William Herschel on September 15, 1784.
Characteris... | 3.015625 | 0 |
74293509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobst%20von%20Scholten | Jobst von Scholten | Scholten also designed Kronborg's Kronværk. Kronborg's Kronværk consisted of three bastions shaped like a crown, hence the name. Kronborg's Kronværk was built between 1689 and 1690. Scholten would continue to expand Kronborg's fortifications, and one of Kronborg's ravelins was named Scholtens Ravelin in his honour. Sch... | 2.78125 | 0 |
74293509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobst%20von%20Scholten | Jobst von Scholten | Denmark opened the Great Northern War in 1700 by launching a military campaign against Holstein-Gottorp. Scholten, still commanding the Holsteiner Fortifications Service, led the engineers under Overgeneral Ferdinand Vilhelm. The Danish army split into two columns, and Scholten followed Ferdinand Vilhelm's column on it... | 2.765625 | 0 |
74293520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Chronicles%20of%20Clovis | The Chronicles of Clovis | The Chronicles of Clovis (1911) is the third volume of short stories by by Saki, the pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro. The collection features 28 stories, the majority of which had earlier appeared in various newspapers and magazines. Many of the stories follow privileged characters in Edwardian England. The collection ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
74293560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20A.%20Poore | Benjamin A. Poore | Early life
Benjamin Andrew Poore was born in Centre, Alabama on June 22, 1863, the son of Andrew Poore and Keziah (Brooks) Shropshire Poore. Andrew Poore was a veteran of the War of 1812 and was nearly 70 years old when Benjamin Poore was born. Keziah Poore was Andrew Poore's second wife, and she died in 1864. After he... | 2.59375 | 0 |
74293672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%20Hudson%20Valley%20UFO%20sightings | 1984 Hudson Valley UFO sightings | Mahopac resident Irene Lunn reported a sighting on Monday, August 20, 1984, about 9pm. She said it was heading South over a pond, "just clearing the trees....There was no sound at all, you could hear the crickets... about three-quarters the size of my house, with an L-shaped structure suspended underneath it.... At one... | 2 | 0 |
74293672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%20Hudson%20Valley%20UFO%20sightings | 1984 Hudson Valley UFO sightings | Discover Magazine in 1984 reported that a group of pilots practicing their formation skills, first in the day time, then when they became more confident, at night, "became tight formations of aircraft with as little as 6 inches between wingtips." According to skeptical writer Brian Dunning, "there's no evidence that th... | 2.109375 | 0 |
74294223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Two%20O%27Clock%20Secret | The Two O'Clock Secret | The Two O'Clock Secret is a 1992 book by children's author Bethany Roberts, with illustrations by Robin Kramer. The book, about a boy's attempt to guard the secret behind his father's birthday, received mixed to positive reviews.
Synopsis
A boy named Michael tries to guard the secret behind his father's birthday and ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
74294743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20Kurzeme%20Upland | Eastern Kurzeme Upland | The Eastern Kurzeme Upland () is a region located in Courland and Zemgale. It is situated in the western part of Latvia between the in the west and the in the east. The Abava Valley separates it from the to the north, and the adjoins it to the south.
Composition
The East Curonian Upland consists of a broad bedroc... | 2.3125 | 0 |
74294743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20Kurzeme%20Upland | Eastern Kurzeme Upland | Reliefs
The altitude around the top of the highlands ranges from 80 to 150 meters. Most of the highlands are gently curved basic moraine plains with an average altitude of 100 m above sea level. In the western part of the highlands, south of , is Ķirmeskalns (138 m), which is elevated only slightly above the surroundi... | 2.609375 | 0 |
74295133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20City%20Council%20tenure%20of%20Michelle%20Wu | Boston City Council tenure of Michelle Wu | Economic matters
In April 2015, the Boston City Council passed a paid parental leave ordinance that was authored by Wu. The ordinance provided city employees with six weeks of paid parental leave after childbirth, stillbirth, or adoption. Roughly a month before its passage in the City Council, Wu and Mayor Marty Walsh ... | 1.9375 | 0 |
74296425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystobasidium | Cystobasidium | Cystobasidium is a genus of fungi in the order Cystobasidiales. The type species is a fungal parasite forming small gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) on various ascomycetous fungi (including Lasiobolus and Thelebolus spp) on dung. Microscopically, it has auricularioid (laterally septate) basidia producing basidios... | 2.484375 | 0 |
74296721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig%20Sylow | Ludvig Sylow | Abel and the theory of equations
During his studies, Sylow had become interested in the work of Niels Henrik Abel, and especially in an unfinished work on equation theory that had been left behind. However, it was only at Hartvig Nissen School (1856–58) that he began to research that work more deeply, in part thanks to... | 2.3125 | 0 |
74296910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian%20Architecture%20Medal | Victorian Architecture Medal | The first medal was presented to Francis House at 107 Collins Street in Melbourne, a narrow fronted five storey office building with a ground level shopfront, designed by architects and cousins Blackett and Forster. William Blackett was the then president of the RVIA in his second term (1928–1930). The building still s... | 1.960938 | 0 |
74297070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare%20Forni | Cesare Forni | Cesare Forni (Vespolate, 17 November 1890 – Milan, 2 July 1943) was an Italian politician.
Life
Born in 1890 into a wealthy family of lomellini agricultural tenants, he studied engineering at the Turin Polytechnic without completing his studies. Of a restless and rebellious character, he participated with the rank of... | 2.15625 | 0 |
74297446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moana%20Leota | Moana Leota | Moana Takes Flight (2014) was a fundraising concert initiated by 13-year-old Leota to raise money to visit her grandparents in Malawi with the plan of giving out 10 ukuleles to local children and teaching them to play. The concert featured Leota, Little Bushman, Warren Maxwell and Wellington International Ukulele Orche... | 2.265625 | 0 |
74298360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonora%20taylori | Sonora taylori | Sonora taylori, also known commonly as Taylor's ground snake, the southern Texas ground snake, and la culebrilla de Taylor in Mexican Spanish, is a species of snake in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to the southwestern United States and adjacent northeastern Mexico.
Etymology
... | 2.78125 | 0 |
74298666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Davies%20Heritage%20Airpark | Joe Davies Heritage Airpark | The Joe Davies Heritage Airpark at Palmdale Plant 42, formerly known as the Palmdale Plant 42 Heritage Airpark is an aviation museum and airpark located in Palmdale, California with various United States military aircraft on display. The park is located adjacent to the United States Air Force Plant 42 and the Blackbird... | 1.976563 | 0 |
74299166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper%20and%20the%20Ghostly%20Trio%20%28video%20game%29 | Casper and the Ghostly Trio (video game) | Casper and the Ghostly Trio is a 2006 platform game developed by Data Design Interactive and published by Blast! Entertainment. It is based on the Casper the Friendly Ghost character by Harvey Comics. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 exclusively in the PAL region, where it was unanimously panned by critics ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
74299474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanics%20and%20Latinos%20in%20San%20Diego | Hispanics and Latinos in San Diego | Californios secured cultural and social recognition in the region, but were unable to control the political system. By 1860, most had left the area and the remainder were on the decline economically. Many Mexican Americans in San Diego left for Tijuana and other parts of Baja California, those who stayed faced various ... | 2.9375 | 0 |
74299896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius%20Boyle | Cornelius Boyle | Returning to Virginia, Boyle took up running the White Silver Springs Spa in Fauquier, and in June 1868 invited the American Medical Association to hold their next convention on his property. His wife Fanny and infant child died in childbirth in 1869, less than a year after the birth of Eustacia. In the 1870 census, he... | 1.960938 | 0 |
74300439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement%20for%20the%20Ordination%20of%20Women%20%28newsletter%29 | Movement for the Ordination of Women (newsletter) | The Movement for the Ordination of Women was an Australian newsletter published by the Movement for the Ordination of Women (Sydney, NSW). The newsletter, which had multiple title variations over the years, was produced between 1984 and 1997, and provides a record of the history of the movement.
Australian MOW history... | 2.1875 | 0 |
74300654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramps%20and%20the%20Fire%20Dragon | Gramps and the Fire Dragon | Gramps and the Fire Dragon is a 2000 book by children's author Bethany Roberts, with illustrations by Melissa Iwai. The book, which tells of a grandson and grandfather who must escape a dragon that emerged from the flames of their fireplace, was published to positive reviews.
Plot
One night, a boy named Jesse asks his... | 2.28125 | 0 |
74301156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin%20of%20the%20Palestinians | Origin of the Palestinians | The historical discourse regarding the origin of the Palestinians has been influenced by the ongoing effort of nation-building, including the attempt to solidify Palestinian national consciousness as the primary framework of identity, as opposed to other identities dominant among Palestinians, including primordial clan... | 3.046875 | 0 |
74301156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin%20of%20the%20Palestinians | Origin of the Palestinians | The pace of Islamization among the Christian, Jewish, and Samaritan communities in Palestine varied during the early period (661–861). After the 630s most of the urban centers declined, which caused local ecclesiastical administrations to weaken or disappear altogether, leaving Christians most susceptible to conversion... | 2.84375 | 0 |
74301156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin%20of%20the%20Palestinians | Origin of the Palestinians | In the Crusader, Ayyubid and Mamluk periods
When the Crusaders arrived in Palestine during the 11th century, they made no distinction between Christians who for the Latin rite were considered heretics, Jews and Muslims, slaughtering all indiscriminately. The Crusaders, in wresting holy sites such as the Holy Sepulchre... | 3.171875 | 0 |
74301156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin%20of%20the%20Palestinians | Origin of the Palestinians | Pre-Islamic influence on Palestinian identity
While Palestinian culture is today primarily Arab and Islamic, many Palestinians identify themselves with earlier civilizations that inhabited the land of Palestine, including Natufians and Canaanites. According to Walid Khalidi, in Ottoman times "the Palestinians consider... | 2.984375 | 0 |
74301156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin%20of%20the%20Palestinians | Origin of the Palestinians | Arabs in Palestine, both Christian and Muslim, settled and Bedouin were historically split between the Qays and Yaman factions. These divisions had their origins in pre-Islamic tribal feuds between Northern Arabians (Qaysis) and Southern Arabians (Yamanis). The strife between the two tribal confederacies spread through... | 3.296875 | 0 |
74301156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin%20of%20the%20Palestinians | Origin of the Palestinians | According to Bassal, Palestinian Arabic dialects contain layers of languages spoken in earlier times in the region, including Canaanite, Hebrew (Biblical and Mishnaic), Aramaic (particularly Western Aramaic), Persian, Greek, and Latin, indicating the impact of former peoples and civilizations on the linguistic profile ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
74301446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum%20of%20Japanese%20Colonial%20History%20in%20Korea | Museum of Japanese Colonial History in Korea | The Museum of Japanese Colonial History in Korea () is a privately owned history museum in the Yongsan District of Seoul, South Korea. Its collections cover the period between 1910 and 1945 when Korea was under Japanese rule. The museum is operated by Center for Historical Truth and Justice.
Collections
The museum's... | 3.078125 | 0 |
74301693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%20FIVB%20Women%27s%20Volleyball%20World%20Championship | 2025 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship | Based on the FIVB World Rankings at the end of August 2024, the tournament seeding followed a protocol where Thailand, as the host country, was automatically assigned to position A1, and the top seven teams in the World Rankings were placed as the first position in their respective pools. These top-seeded teams include... | 1.960938 | 0 |
74302708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof%20Bergh | Olof Bergh | Along with his wife Anna, Bergh was the second owner of South Africa's oldest wine estate "Groot Constantia" which he purchased after the division of the former estate (Constantia) into three parts following the death of Simon Van Der Stel. A number of Bergh and his wife's possessions (including portraits of Bergh and ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
74303384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueWhale%20%28UUV%29 | BlueWhale (UUV) | The BlueWhale is an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) produced by from Israeli manufacturer Elta Systems Ltd. is used to gather information using radar, SIGINT and communications technologies.
Mission
It is used for intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), including covert operations in coastal ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
74303552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl-Erik%20Sj%C3%B6stedt | Carl-Erik Sjöstedt | Carl-Erik Sjöstedt (born 1900, died 1979) was a Swedish mathematician, teacher, and philosopher. Sjöstedt focused much of his work on the teaching of mathematics in the Swedish curriculum, especially in the fields of geometry and logic. Sjöstedt was a follower of the Swedish philosopher Adolf Phalén, and a supporter of... | 2.390625 | 0 |
74303552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl-Erik%20Sj%C3%B6stedt | Carl-Erik Sjöstedt | Career
Sjöstedt worked as a teacher for much of his career, teaching at various private school until 1931, before lecturing in mathematics at the (then the Högre allmänna läroverket i Östersund; Higher General Education Agency in Östersund). In 1939, Sjöstedt acted as headmaster at the (form of Swedish secondary sc... | 2.484375 | 0 |
74303598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar%20bending | Bar bending | Bar bending or iron bending is a display of physical strength derived from early circus strongman performers, which was used in a sporting context in strength competitions such as the World's Strongest Man. It requires the strongmen to grip long iron rods from their edges, use their arm and grip strength, and bend unt... | 2.234375 | 0 |
74304128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Giant%20Leap%20%28book%29 | One Giant Leap (book) | One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon is a 2019 nonfiction book by journalist Charles Fishman, about the Apollo program, that focuses on thousands of people who worked on it.
Background
Fishman wrote the book concentrating not on the biographies of Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin, but writing... | 2.859375 | 0 |
74304503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Schieffelin | Jacob Schieffelin | In 1776 he made his way to trade goods with the British fort and frontier settlement of Detroit. Jacob Schieffelin took ill and had a high fever. During his illness he was visited by the governor Henry Hamilton (1734–1796). Hamilton took care of Jacob, giving him medicine and treating him like his own son. When Jacob w... | 2.671875 | 0 |
74304804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel-le-Dale%20%28valley%29 | Chapel-le-Dale (valley) | Since the Dissolution, livestock farming has been the predominant lasting occupation for those who lived in the dale. Quarrying was carried out at the lower end of Chapel-le-Dale and many workers came in either from, or brought prosperity to Ingleton. In 2015, about eleven farms were still active in the dale, one of th... | 2.390625 | 0 |
74304804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel-le-Dale%20%28valley%29 | Chapel-le-Dale (valley) | River names
The confusion over river names was something that The Leeds Mercury attempted to clarify in 1890, recommending that whilst the Ordnance Survey mapping was incorrect, it was best to adopt their standard in the face of differing claims on the river names. The paper stated that the Ordnance Survey dictated th... | 2.390625 | 0 |
74304804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel-le-Dale%20%28valley%29 | Chapel-le-Dale (valley) | The head of the dale is at the viaduct of Ribblehead, with water flowing westwards as Winterscales Beck in the upper dale, and the flow of the River Ribble flowing southwards to form Ribblesdale. Winterscales Beck drains Whernside and Blea Moor, but in times of normal flow, will disappear into the cave system below Cha... | 2.3125 | 0 |
74304901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Roe%20Nugent | Peter Roe Nugent | Peter Roe Nugent (1893–September 24, 1975) was an American politician who served as mayor of Savannah, Georgia and as vice-chairman and pioneer member of the Georgia Ports Authority.
Biography
Nugent was born to a prominent Catholic family in Savannah in 1893, the son of Nellie Roe and Thomas Nugent. His father was an... | 2.078125 | 0 |
74305349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kven%20flag | Kven flag | The Kven flag () has been officially used as a symbol to represent the Kven people of Norway, Sweden, and Finland since 2009. It was designed by Bengt Johansson-Kyrö.
Design
The Kven flag was designed by the artist Bengt Johansson-Kÿrö. The flag has a dark blue background and a motif of a sunflower or sunflower ( or ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
74305669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kura%20%28al-Andalus%29 | Kura (al-Andalus) | Middle March. The capital of the March was in Tulaytulah (present-day Toledo) and its scope practically did not vary between the Emirate and the Caliphate. In it were located the Kūras of al-Belat, ax-Xerrat and al-Ulga. The first of these remained almost unchanged until the fall of the Caliphate. The second occupied t... | 2.203125 | 0 |
74305669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kura%20%28al-Andalus%29 | Kura (al-Andalus) | Kūra of Ŷayyān.
It was one of the most extensive of al-Mawsat, extending over the current province of Jaén, plus the north of Granada and Almería and part of the provinces of Ciudad Real and Albacete, since its northeastern limit was located around El Bonillo, since the first population of the neighboring Kūra of Tudm... | 2.390625 | 0 |
74305669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kura%20%28al-Andalus%29 | Kura (al-Andalus) | Kūra of Elvira
It was also a large Kūra, which covered the coast from Šat (Jete) and what is now La Herradura, west of al-Munacab (Almuñécar, Granada), to the present Guardias Viejas, in Almería. Inland, it reached north to Priego, al-Qibdat (Alcaudete), al-Uqbin (Castillo de Locubín) and Walma (Huelma). Its eastern b... | 2.265625 | 0 |
74305669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kura%20%28al-Andalus%29 | Kura (al-Andalus) | According to the abundant data collected in his work by the Andalusian historian al-Udri, Tudmir included numerous cities, among which are Uryula (Orihuela), Laqant (Alicante), Mula (Mula or La Mola {Novelda}), Bqsara (Begastri {Cehegín, Murcia} or Bogarra {Caudete, Albacete}), Blntla or Billana (Valentula {Elche} or V... | 2.265625 | 0 |
74305707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kollel%20Hod | Kollel Hod | History
The Kollel was founded in the 19th century, and grew to become the richest Jewish association in the Land of Israel, with more funding and members than the Sephardic settlement in the region. It grew further in the 1830s during the governance of Muhammed Ali Pasha. Although most of their efforts were focused i... | 2.6875 | 0 |
74305718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20Battle%20of%20Lahore%20%281759%29 | Second Battle of Lahore (1759) | The Second Battle of Lahore was fought in November 1759 by the Sikh forces led by Jassa Singh Ahluwalia and the Afghan forces led by Jahan Khan.
Background
Ahmad Shah Abdali invaded India for the fifth time during 1759 with the main goal to recapture all the territories taken by his enemies. The Maratha Empire had le... | 2.34375 | 0 |
74305829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haydar-Khana | Haydar-Khana | Haydar-Khana () is an old locality and neighborhood located in Baghdad, Iraq. Located at the beginning of al-Rashid Street and near al-Maidan Square, it's one of the oldest localities in Baghdad which dates back to the Abbasid Caliphate. The locality was also home to many personalities of Iraq such as Iraqi artist Naze... | 1.953125 | 0 |
74306726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta%20Astfalck-Vietz | Marta Astfalck-Vietz | Marta Astfalck-Vietz (née Vietz; 21 July 1901 – 14 February 1994) was a German photographer, social worker and painter associated with the Bauhaus movement. She is remembered for her pioneering series of self-portraits from around 1930. As well as Ilse Bing, Lotte Jacobi, Marianne Breslauer, Germaine Krull, and Lucia ... | 1.976563 | 0 |
74306910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Scammell | Thomas Scammell | Thomas E. Scammell is an American neurologist, known for his research in sleep medicine pertaining to neurobiology of sleep and sleep disorders, particularly narcolepsy and cataplexy. Scammell is a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, serving the department of neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Cen... | 2.3125 | 0 |
74306940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Ellis%20%28photographer%29 | Alfred Ellis (photographer) | Alfred Ellis (5 May 1854 – 13 April 1930) was an English photographer who mainly photographed "theatrical royalty" such as Oscar Wilde and Dan Leno. Over 180 of his photographic portraits are held by the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Early life and career
Ellis was born in St Pancras, London in 1854, the son of... | 2.3125 | 0 |
74307028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Menagerie%20of%20Versailles | Royal Menagerie of Versailles | Nobles from many European courts imitated the splendor of Versailles by creating their own menagerie. These included the Château de Chantilly in 1663, the Het Loo Palace in the Netherlands in 1672, the Belém Palace in Lisbon in 1726, the Retiro Park in Madrid in 1774, the Belvedere Palace in Vienna in 1716 and the Sans... | 2.5 | 0 |
74308378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radu%20Golescu | Radu Golescu | The future Great Ban was born on 3 May 1746, from Anița's marriage to Nicolae Șirbei, a Polcovnic in the Wallachian military. Nicolae's father, Ilie, had joined Leurdeanu Golescu in his political endeavors and his eventual exile to Oltenia; at the time of Radu Jr birth, the latter region had been retaken by Wallachia, ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
74308378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radu%20Golescu | Radu Golescu | Radu's political advancement was manifest in 1784, when he became Spatharios of Wallachia's military. In 1785 his liege, Michael Drakos Soutzos, ordered him to carry out restoration work on the Old Princely Cort of Târgoviște—including new frescoes by Popa Ioan Zugravu. An inscription in the princely church, dated Augu... | 2.046875 | 0 |
74308378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radu%20Golescu | Radu Golescu | Historian Constantin Dinu argues that Golescu was one of the "boyars most interested in developing capitalism, one in the a category of those who set up manufactures and advanced commercial life." Much of his life was spent on accumulating a personal wealth; in his last will, dated to February 1815, he notes: ("never ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
74308378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radu%20Golescu | Radu Golescu | In 1788, Golescu-Știrbei was again Clucer. The following year, he participated in the reopening of Târgoviște church, with a ceremony also attended by Prince Nicholas Mavrogenes. A Habsburg invasion in November 1789 chased out Mavrogenes, and left the country occupied until 1791. The Habsburgs governed using a revamped... | 2.078125 | 0 |
74308769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katarina%20Bogdanovi%C4%87 | Katarina Bogdanović | When the National University, later the Kolarč National University, was founded in 1922, Bogdanović, Ksenija Atanasijević, Isidora Sekulić, and Zorka Vulović were the first women to lecture there. They attracted wide attendance, often because it was so unusual for a woman to be engaged in academic and scientific work. ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
74308955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%202023%20Northeastern%20United%20States%20floods | July 2023 Northeastern United States floods | In July 2023, multiple rounds of heavy rainfall led to a destructive and significant flash flood event occurring in the Northeastern United States beginning from July 9 to 29, 2023. The floods were caused by slow-moving showers and thunderstorms that produced heavy rainfall and flooding over areas that were already sat... | 2.484375 | 0 |
74309112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20J.%20Harrigan | Henry J. Harrigan | Personal life
Harrigan's parents were born in Ireland, but he was born in Dedham. He attended the Dedham Public Schools. He married Mary Loiuse Maher of Malden; together they had four daughters. In addition to being a firefighter, he also worked as a blacksmith.
Legacy
In 1994, a difficult fire broke out on Rockland S... | 2.078125 | 0 |
74309145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger%20Forchhammer | Holger Forchhammer | Holger Forchhammer (21 October 1866 – 19 May 1946) was a Danish senior physician, footballer, and football executive, who was the 2nd chairman of the Danish Sports Confederation (DIF) from 1897 to 1899. He was just 31 years old when he took office, thus being the youngest chairman of DIF to date. He became known for hi... | 2.453125 | 0 |
74309432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Pearmain | Blue Pearmain | The 'Blue Pearmain' is an American apple variety, mentioned by Henry David Thoreau in his 1862 essay "Wild Apples."
History
The Blue Pearmain's origin is uncertain, but it was known in the US, and widely planted near Boston, in the early 1800s.
Henry David Thoreau describes picking and eating "Blue-Pearmain" apples i... | 2.78125 | 0 |
74309656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom%20style%20architecture | Boom style architecture | Glass
During this era, coloured glass became a popular feature in private homes, adorning both modest terraces and grand mansions. The availability of relatively inexpensive glass due to the Industrial Revolution, its suitability as ballast on returning ships, and the public's inclination for ornamentation all contri... | 2.6875 | 0 |
74309902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzuriageae | Luzuriageae | Luzuriageae is a tribe of monocotyledonous plants belonging to the family Alstroemeriaceae. It consists of very few species of perennial plants native to South America (Luzuriaga) and Australia and New Zealand (Drymophila). They are climbing plants with more or less woody stems and can be recognised by their distichous... | 2.421875 | 0 |
74310389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Lisle%2C%201st%20Baron%20Lisle%20of%20Wootton | John Lisle, 1st Baron Lisle of Wootton | John I Lisle, 1st Baron Lisle of Wootton (died 1304), from Wootton in the Isle of Wight, was an English landowner, soldier and administrator who from 1299 to 1302 was summoned to Parliament as a baron.
Origins
His family, whose name appears in French as de Lisle and in Latin as de Insula, had been landowners and admin... | 2.078125 | 0 |
74310950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid3 | Liquid3 | Liquid 3 (also known as Liquid Trees) is a clean energy photobioreactor project designed to replace the function of trees in heavily polluted urban areas where planting and growing real vegetation is not viable.
The project was designed by the Institute for Multidisciplinary Research at the University of Belgrade. Th... | 2.71875 | 0 |
74311301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enegi | Enegi | Enegi or Enegir was an ancient Mesopotamian city located in present-day Iraq. It is considered lost, though it is known that it was one of the settlements in the southernmost part of lower Mesopotamia, like Larsa, Ur and Eridu. Attempts have been made to identify it with multiple excavated sites. In textual sources, it... | 2.078125 | 0 |
74311318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronouncing%20Orthography | Pronouncing Orthography | Pronouncing Orthography was used to teach literacy; children were taught to read and write in a phonemic orthography and then transitioned to conventional English orthography. The concept originated when a predecessor, orthography, English Phonotypic Alphabet aka Phonotypy, was trialled to teach literacy and promote or... | 2.9375 | 0 |
74311420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindh%20Coastal%20Highway | Sindh Coastal Highway | The Sindh Coastal Highway is a road that links Karachi with coastal towns in Sindh. It begins at N5, between Dhabeji and Gharo, and finishes close to Keti Bunder. The highway was created to help farming, bring new life to the fishing industry in the delta area, and make it easier to transport clean drinking water to th... | 2.40625 | 0 |
74312032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%20Mill | Boyer Mill | Estuary contamination
One of the primary concerns is the discharge of effluent into the nearby River Derwent. The mill releases wastewater in the form of sludge and wood residues that contain various pollutants, including organic matter, suspended solids, and chemical substances such as lignin used in the paper-making ... | 3.0625 | 0 |
74312424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclogue%201 | Eclogue 1 | After the defeat of Brutus and Cassius at Philippi (42 BC) the Triumvirs promised to assign to their veterans the lands of eighteen Italian cities. According to Wilkinson (1966), in 40 BC, after the Perusine War, the task of dividing up lands on the plain of northern Italy was handed over to Alfenus Varus, while Cornel... | 2.296875 | 0 |
74312677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20de%20Pimodan | Georges de Pimodan | Georges de Rarecourt de La Vallée, Marquis de Pimodan (January 29, 1822, in Échenay – September 18, 1860, in Castelfidardo), was a French legitimist émigré officer, who served Austria and the Papal States.
Biography
Pimodan was the son of Camille de Pimodan, a cavalry captain and gentleman of the King's Chamber, and ... | 1.914063 | 0 |
74312779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN-MEDICIS | CERN-MEDICIS | CERN-MEDical Isotopes Collected from ISOLDE (MEDICIS) is a facility located in the Isotope Separator Online DEvice (ISOLDE) facility at CERN, designed to produce high-purity isotopes for developing the practice of patient diagnosis and treatment. The facility was initiated in 2010, with its first radioisotopes (terbium... | 2.53125 | 0 |
74312795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Benjamin%20de%20Lyra | Carlos Benjamin de Lyra | Carlos Benjamin de Lyra (Pernambuco, 23 November 1927 – São Paulo, 21 July 1974) was a prominent Brazilian mathematician, a pioneer in algebraic topology in Brazil and professor at the University of São Paulo.
Born in Recife, Pernambuco, he came from a family of sugarcane plantation owners and his dad was the owner of... | 1.9375 | 0 |
68426497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalonidia%20udana | Phalonidia udana | Until 2012, P. udana was classified under the P. manniana taxon. In 2009, irregular Phalonidia specimens (resembling, but not identical to, P. manniana) were obtained in Finland, and DNA barcode sequence data and morphology were used to investigate. Researchers soon discovered the distinctness of P. udana, the details ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
68426601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youssef%20Ramadan | Youssef Ramadan | 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Ramadan led off the 4×100 metre freestyle relay on the first day of pool swimming competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships with a time of 48.90 seconds, helping achieve a 15th-place finish in the preliminaries with a combined relay time of 3:19.46 and setting an Egyptian re... | 2.046875 | 0 |
68426755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth%20Liesegang | Helmuth Liesegang | Helmuth Heinrich Liesegang (18 July 1858, Duisburg – 31 July 1945, Leipzig) was a German landscape painter; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.
Life and work
He was the son of a gymnasium teacher, Helmuth Karl Albert Liesegang, and his wife, Agnes née Jüngel. In 1868, his family moved to Kleve, where his fa... | 2.421875 | 0 |
68427635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Lanoto%27o%20National%20Park | Lake Lanoto'o National Park | Lake Lanoto'o National Park is a national park in Samoa. Established in 2003, the park covers 470 hectares of the central portion of the Tuamasaga district of Upolu and includes three volcanic crater-lakes: Lake Lanoto'o, Lanoata’ata and Lanoanea. In 2004 it was designated as a wetland of international importance under... | 2.8125 | 0 |
68427636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Heath | Ron Heath | He was notable for developing understanding of a number of key aspects of the oceans around New Zealand in a time when ocean data were difficult to obtain and numerical simulation tools were embryonic. He developed early understanding of the tidal mechanics of Cook Strait/Te Moana-o-Raukawa and the presence of a virtua... | 2.5625 | 0 |
68427719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama%20Cheung | Mama Cheung | Mama Cheung (born 1957/1958; ), known as Lee Wai-ji () and Tessa Cheung, is a Hong Kong YouTuber who makes videos about cooking Cantonese dishes.
When she first got married, Mama Cheung was not experienced in cooking, so she learned how to cook from her mother-in-law. After having been a housewife for around 40 years,... | 2.046875 | 0 |
68428275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uladzimier%20Tera%C5%ADski | Uladzimier Teraŭski | After his release, he worked as a choirmaster in Soviet Belarus and wrote music for a number of plays (the best known of which was "On Kupala Night" (На Купалле) by Michaś Čarot) and set to music poems by Janka Kupala, Jakub Kolas, Zmitrok Biadula, Michaś Čarot and others. He recorded and arranged folk songs, some of w... | 2.234375 | 0 |
68428784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20Savings%20Bank | Edinburgh Savings Bank | The Edinburgh Bank for Savings quickly opened four branches in the city but, according to the official history, it appears to have dwindled away to vanishing point by 1835, “not helped by its unyielding attitude” of some trustees to the new legislation, A fresh start was decided and (presumably dissenting trustees) dec... | 2.546875 | 0 |
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