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72848360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suit%20of%20Lights%20%28song%29 | Suit of Lights (song) | "Suit of Lights" is a song written and performed by new wave musician Elvis Costello that was first released on his 1986 album King of America. Written about Costello's memories of his father, the song includes introspective lyrics about the "dubious embrace of celebrity" while also featuring the sole performance of th... | 2.109375 | 0 |
72848946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handojo%20Tjandrakusuma | Handojo Tjandrakusuma | Handojo Tjandrakusuma (born Tjan Dhiam Bo, 20 November 1938, Pacitan Regency) is a doctor who devotes himself to the rehabilitation of people with disabilities.
Early life and education
Tjan Dhiam Bo was born on 20 November 1938 in Pacitan Regency, Indonesia. He studied medicine at Airlangga University, Surabaya, gra... | 2.234375 | 0 |
72849002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrodon%20subulatus | Acrodon subulatus | Acrodon subulatus, the Overberg tiptoothfig, is a species of mesemb from South Africa.
Description
Acrodon subulatus is a compact perennial succulent. It lacks adventitious roots and has only a tap root. The internodes are not visible. The dark green leaves have a broad base and a pointed tip. The leaves are long an... | 2.640625 | 0 |
72849486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Bieuzy | Saint Bieuzy | Saint Bieuzy was a 6th-century Breton hermit and companion of Saint Gildas who gave his name to the villages of Bieuzy (also known as Bieuzy-les-Eaux) and Bieuzy-Lanvaux, both in Morbihan. His name probably comes from the Old Breton biu, bihui, "living". His feast day is 24 November.
Life
Bieuzy was, it is said, a ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
72849486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Bieuzy | Saint Bieuzy | According to the hagiographer Guy Autret de Missirien, Saint Bieuzy performed a curious miracle. Around 570, a servant asked him to interrupt his mass to go and heal his lord's pack of dogs suffering from rabies, but Bieuzy refused. The furious Breton lord came to split his skull with a sword (an axe, knife or cutlas... | 2.171875 | 0 |
72850092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazran%20uprising | Nazran uprising | The uprising affected neighboring Ingush societies that were also were raising movements. On May 28, the Khamkhins held a public meeting to provide assistance to the Nazranians; they invited the Feappii and Dzherakh but these societies did not attend the meeting. At the same time, according to one Russian report, "a hu... | 2.015625 | 0 |
72850092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazran%20uprising | Nazran uprising | In August 1858, Shamil and a force of 4,000 again tried to break through to the Nazran area but in the Sunzha Valley, Russian forces led by Colonel Mishchenko immediately attacked Shamil's forces, which were completely destroyed, leaving Shamil no choice but to retreat. Shamil lost 370 of his men and 1,700 weapons whil... | 2.3125 | 0 |
72850203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christer%20Kierkegaard | Christer Kierkegaard | Rear Admiral Sören Christer Douglas Kierkegaard (17 July 1918 – 24 December 1999) was a Swedish Navy officer. Swedlund's senior commands include as Commander-in-Chief of the Coastal Fleet from 1970 to 1977 and commander of the East Coast Naval Base from 1977 to 1983.
Early life
Kierkegaard was born on 17 July 1918 at ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
72850375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penstemon%20whippleanus | Penstemon whippleanus | The flowers are large, usually 20–27 mm in length and occasionally up to 30 mm in length with a width of 8–10 mm at the mouth. The flowers are most often a gothic black purple, but also can be violet, blue, and creamy white. The white form of the flower is mostly found in the mountains in the Great Basin and on Colorad... | 3.015625 | 0 |
72850591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawbyite | Mawbyite | Chemical properties
The pure ferric end-member of the mineral is dimorphous with carminite, meaning they share the same formula but form different crystal structures. Furthermore, the unit cells of the two minerals are related. Mawbyite does not show any radioactive or fluorescent properties. It mainly consists of lea... | 2.09375 | 0 |
72850861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/152830%20Dinkinesh | 152830 Dinkinesh | Name
Dinkinesh is the Amharic name for the Lucy fossil, after which NASA's Lucy mission is named. The name means "you are wonderful" in the Amharic language (). "Din(i)k’i" means "wonderful" and "nesh" means "you are" in feminine form of this pronoun and verb. The asteroid was unnamed when it was selected for explorat... | 2.484375 | 0 |
72850861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/152830%20Dinkinesh | 152830 Dinkinesh | Visible light spectroscopy of Dinkinesh by two independent teams of researchers in November–December 2022 showed that it is an S-type asteroid, meaning it is mainly composed of rocky silicates and small amounts of metal. Spectral data obtained from the 10-meter Keck I telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii indicates that Dinki... | 2.734375 | 0 |
72851094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythian%20genealogical%20myth | Scythian genealogical myth | In consequence, the following Scythian kings kept the gold objects as both a royal and national treasure which acted as the symbol and legitimising source of their power and position, and which they had to renew each year through religious rituals to preserve the walfare and unity of the Scythians. Thus, priest-kings w... | 2.90625 | 0 |
72851094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythian%20genealogical%20myth | Scythian genealogical myth | Unlike the negative role of Echidna and of various snakes in Greek mythology, the partially serpentine anatomy of the "Scythian Echidna" denoted her connection with the earth, and therefore of her autochthony, and her theft of the mares of Hēraklēs was more akin to the jokes played on their lovers by beautiful maidens ... | 2.8125 | 0 |
72851094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythian%20genealogical%20myth | Scythian genealogical myth | In Roman mythology, the story of the encounter of Hercules, who was the Italic equivalent of Hēraklēs, with the thief Cacus exhibits some parallels with the story of Hēraklēs's stay in Scythia: Cacus stole four bulls and four cows from the cattle of Geryon that Hercules was driving; this was a model for the historical ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
72851513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign%20of%20Juan%20Carlos%20I | Reign of Juan Carlos I | Faced with the loss of support for his government, President Rodríguez Zapatero decided to bring forward the general elections by four months, to November 2011. The People's Party won an absolute majority of 186 deputies – its best result in history – while the PSOE only managed 110 deputies – its worst result until th... | 2.015625 | 0 |
71316808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Poole%20%281696%29 | HMS Poole (1696) | HMS Poole was a 32-gun fifth rate built by Joseph Nye & George Moore of East Cowes on the Isle of Wight in 1695/96. She spent the first part of her career on trade protection and counter piracy patrols. After 1719 she was converted to a fireship. She was finally sunk as a breakwater at Harwich in July 1737.
She was th... | 2.046875 | 0 |
71316974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Ryan%20%28priest%29 | Arthur Ryan (priest) | Arthur Ryan (1852–1922), was an Irish priest and poet, who served as president of St. Patrick's College, Thurles (1887–1903).
Arthur Ryan was born in 1852 the son of John Ryan, in Scarteen, Co. Limerick, into Catholic gentry, Ryan family of Scarteen House and Emily House. He was educated for the priesthood in Oscott Co... | 2.0625 | 0 |
71317320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padre%20%C3%8D%C3%B1igo%20Bridge | Padre Íñigo Bridge | Padre Íñigo Bridge (Spanish: Puente Padre Íñigo), also known as the Coamo Bridge (Puente de Coamo) or Bridge #174, is a historic lattice girder bridge that crosses the Coamo River in the municipality of the same name in southern Puerto Rico. It was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places in 1995... | 2.546875 | 0 |
71317546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphyarachne | Murphyarachne | Murphyarachne is a monotypic genus of Peruvian tarantulas, with one species, Murphyarachne ymasumacae. It was first described by Sherwood and Gabriel in 2022. The genus is named after Frances Mary Murphy (1926 to 1995) and John Alan Murphy (1922 to 2021) for their contributions to arachnology, and the Greek term "arach... | 2.359375 | 0 |
71317594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winifred%20Brown | Winifred Brown | Winifred Sawley Brown (also known as Winifred Adams; 26 November 1899 – 30 July 1984) was an English sportswoman, aviator and author. She was the first woman to win the King's Cup air race (in 1930). The race has been running annually since 1922.
Early life and career
Brown was born in 1899 in Cheshire. Her father wa... | 2.4375 | 0 |
71317594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winifred%20Brown | Winifred Brown | In 1935, she moved from flying and exploring to sailing. This had been her father's interest; she bought a boat, and had it re-fitted by the original builders. She sailed together with Adams, and they set off for the Arctic, travelling to Spitzbergen. In 1939, her book about sailing off the Norwegian coast, Duffers on ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
71317791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curial%20e%20G%C3%BCelfa | Curial e Güelfa | Curial e Güelfa is an anonymous Catalan chivalric romance of the fifteenth century, notable for incorporating elements of Italian humanism. Known from a single manuscript and unpublished until the twentieth century, it is today considered a highly original masterpiece.
The romance is set in the late thirteenth century... | 2.078125 | 0 |
71318197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovecraft%20studies | Lovecraft studies | Lovecraft studies is the body of research that has emerged surrounding the works of H. P. Lovecraft. It began with the dissemination of Lovecraft's works by Arkham House during the decades after his death. The scholars in the field sought to establish Lovecraft as a major author of American speculative fiction during i... | 2.21875 | 0 |
71318211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thridrangaviti%20Lighthouse | Thridrangaviti Lighthouse | Þrídrangaviti Lighthouse (transliterated as Thrídrangaviti) is an active lighthouse off the southwest coast of Iceland, in the archipelago of Vestmannaeyjar. It is often described as one of the most isolated lighthouses in the world. Þrídrangar means "three rock pillars", referring to the three named sea stacks at tha... | 2.71875 | 0 |
71318256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Grace%20Alexander | Jane Grace Alexander | Jane Grace Alexander (October 26, 1848 – March 10, 1932) was an American banker, the first woman banker in New Hampshire. Alexander was elected treasurer of the Security Savings Banks in Winchester, New Hampshire. She worked at the city's national bank for 52 years before retiring.
Biography
Jane Grace Alexander was b... | 1.921875 | 0 |
71318289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivienne%20Sze | Vivienne Sze | Vivienne Sze is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist whose research focuses on low-power electronics and on the trade-offs between energy use and computing power in the combined design of software and hardware, for applications including video coding and deep neural networks. She is an associate profe... | 1.9375 | 0 |
71318656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973%20Nobel%20Prize%20in%20Literature | 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature | The 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Australian writer Patrick White (1912–1990) "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature." He is the first and the only Australian recipient of the prize.
Laureate
The historical themes of Patrick White's novels... | 2.546875 | 0 |
71318853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baya%20Gamani%20of%20Singu | Baya Gamani of Singu | Yazathingyan, who became the chief minister of the new king, may have kept his older brother alive but could not keep him out of prison. For the next year and a half, Gamani was imprisoned in iron ankle shackles. His opportunity to escape came in late 1427 when an invasion force led by Prince Minye Kyawhtin, a claimant... | 2.8125 | 0 |
71319007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha%20V.%20Fontaine | Bertha V. Fontaine | Bertha Mae Van Landingham Fontaine (September 3, 1929 – November 2, 1986) was an American home economist with the National Marine Fisheries Service. She was tasked with promoting the home use of seafood, through demonstrations, recipes, and media appearances, to support the fishing and canning industries in the Gulf Co... | 2.4375 | 0 |
71319015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Beautiful%20Palace%20East%20of%20the%20Sun%20and%20North%20of%20the%20Earth | The Beautiful Palace East of the Sun and North of the Earth | In a Sámi tale collected by Norwegian scholar Just Qvigstad from a source in Lyngen and titled Det forgylte slott (English: "The golden castle"), an old woman has three sons, the youngest named Askeladden ("Gudnabađǫš", in the original). The local king wants to hire someone to watch over his fields at night, whose crop... | 2.390625 | 0 |
71319073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandibulofacial%20dysostosis-microcephaly%20syndrome | Mandibulofacial dysostosis-microcephaly syndrome | Bilateral choanal atresia can cause respiratory distress and, in most cases, arrest.
Esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula can be deadly if they are left untreated. The latter causes an abnormal connection between the esophagus and the trachea, which causes esophageal fluids to enter the airways and cause r... | 2.40625 | 0 |
71319102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugo%20Brusati | Ugo Brusati | Ugo Pio Enrico Natale Brusati, was an Italian General who participated in the First Italo-Ethiopian War and World War I. He gained notability for his service at the Battle of Adwa as well as being the First Adjudant General of Vittorio Emanuele III on 2 June 1902 until 23 October 1917, when Luigi Cadorna forced him ou... | 2.0625 | 0 |
71319235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna%20and%20sexuality | Madonna and sexuality | Madonna donated a percentage of "Papa Don't Preach" (1986) profits to programs advocating sexual responsibility, although it was Planned Parenthood of New York that initially requested it. In a 1988 advertisement for schoolkids, Madonna told "avoid casual sex and you'll avoid AIDS" and "stay away from people who shoot ... | 1.945313 | 0 |
71319408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centinela%20Park | Centinela Park | Edward Vincent Jr. Park is a municipal park in Inglewood, Los Angeles County, California. Originally Centinela Park, the historic location was renamed in 1997 to honor Edward Vincent Jr., the first African-American mayor of the city. It was described as the "largest and most popular developed park in the Centinela-Sou... | 2.390625 | 0 |
71319865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant%20general%20%28Nigeria%29 | Lieutenant general (Nigeria) | Lieutenant general (Lt Gen), is the second-highest rank of the Nigerian Army and generally it is the highest active rank as the Nigerian army do not have any appointment in the rank of full general but in the case of the appointment of Chief of Defence Staff, the rank of full general is given (if the chief is appointed... | 2.140625 | 0 |
71320572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia%20University%20Bicentennial | Columbia University Bicentennial | "The Unity of Knowledge" was held at Arden from October 27 to 30. As the final conference of the official series, its discussions touched directly on the theme of the Bicentennial, "Man's Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof". Participants included Niels Bohr, biologist Julian Huxley, Librarian of Congress Archi... | 2.046875 | 0 |
71321280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence%20Industries%20Limited%20Pickering%20Works | Defence Industries Limited Pickering Works | A week later, DIL hired Alex Russell, the former personnel director at General Motors, and tasked him with hiring and screening the plant personnel. At its peak, the DIL plant would require 9,000 workers to produce over 40 million rounds of shells. The government procured several thousand workers from the General Motor... | 2.484375 | 0 |
71321280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence%20Industries%20Limited%20Pickering%20Works | Defence Industries Limited Pickering Works | Many men released from DIL found work at General Motors in Oshawa, as the auto industry revived after the war. The government encouraged women to discontinue work and take up roles as housemakers.
Towards the end of the war, Ajax became a warehousing location for the War Assets Corporation, which was responsible for d... | 2.734375 | 0 |
71321481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domni%C8%9Ba%20B%C4%83la%C8%99a%20Church | Domnița Bălașa Church | The present church, the fourth in the area, was built on the same site between 1881 and 1885, in Romanesque and Gothic Revival style. Metropolitan led the project. Alexandru Orăscu was the architect, assisted by Carol Benesch and Friedrich Hartmann; his plans were reviewed by Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ. King C... | 2.09375 | 0 |
71324533 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut%20Paulus | Helmut Paulus | Helmut Paulus (29 April 1900 – 17 July 1975) was a German poet and writer.
Life
Paulus was born in Genkingen on 29 April 1900. As the son of a pastor, Paulus grew up in a pietistic environment in Sindelfingen and Böblingen. His training as a bookseller in Ludwigsburg was interrupted for a while due to the First World... | 2.03125 | 0 |
71324954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Chesney%20Wilson | Gordon Chesney Wilson | Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Chesney Wilson (3 August 1865 – 6 November 1914) was a British Army officer and husband of the war correspondent Lady Sarah Wilson. As an Eton College student he assisted in thwarting Roderick Maclean's assassination attempt on Queen Victoria in 1882, before joining the Royal Horse Guards in ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
71324954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Chesney%20Wilson | Gordon Chesney Wilson | Churchill published a record of the trip in the book My African Journey in 1909, including photographs provided by Wilson. In 1910 Wilson spent some time in Jerusalem, and in early 1911 he became involved in his younger brother Clarence's work as part of the Parker Expedition, an attempt to find treasure in excavations... | 2.546875 | 0 |
71324998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxarium | Myxarium | Myxarium is a genus of fungi in the family Hyaloriaceae. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are gelatinous and effused or pustular. The genus is cosmopolitan. All species grow on dead wood or dead herbaceous stems.
Taxonomy
History
The genus was originally described by Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth in 1833 based on the vi... | 2.375 | 0 |
71325352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20E.%20Higgins | Frank E. Higgins | Frank E. Higgins (19 August 1865 – 4 January 1915) was an American Presbyterian minister and evangelist to logging camps in Minnesota. He was known as the "Lumberjacks' Sky Pilot".
Higgins was born in Toronto and grew up in Shelburne, Ontario. He moved to the United States in 1890, and studied at Hamline University in... | 2.21875 | 0 |
71325415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s%20Right%20to%20Knowledge | Man's Right to Knowledge | Man's Right to Knowledge was a radio program that ran from January 3, 1954 to December 26, 1954 on CBS. Created by Columbia University on the occasion of its bicentennial, the show consisted of two weekly lecture series, each episode featuring a different prominent academic or world leader. The university's president, ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
71325928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drakos%20family | Drakos family | The Drakos family () is a Greek family that originated from Epirus. The family name first appeared in the 16th century with the Armatolos Poulios Drakos, in a failed Venetian backed revolt in Arta and Epirus. Later, it would appear alongside the main Souliote clans, and later on in the history of the Greek nation.
His... | 2.484375 | 0 |
71326919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three%20%28comics%29 | Three (comics) | Characters
Klaros: The main protagonist of the story. A Helot who served in the Spartan army. He was one of 2000 of the best Helot soldiers promised their freedom, but were instead marked for death. He escaped the slaughter and hid from the Spartiates as a crippled farm laborer. His full name is Stenyklaros, the site ... | 2.671875 | 0 |
71326957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle%20Rock%20%28formation%29 | Eagle Rock (formation) | Eagle Rock, L.A. Historic-Cultural Monument No. 10, is a large dome-shaped rock formation with an indentation that resembles an eagle in flight. The neighborhood of Eagle Rock, where the rock is located is named after the rock. Once known as Eagle Rock Valley, it incorporated in 1911 and was annexed by Los Angeles in ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
71326993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmed%20Tahir%20M%C3%BCnif%20Pasha | Mehmed Tahir Münif Pasha | Mehmed Tahir Münif Pasha (1828-1910) was an Ottoman writer and statesman. A veteran official, he served thrice as Minister of Education (1877; 1878–1880 and 1885–1891) and twice as ambassador to Qajar Iran (1872–1877, and 1896–1897). During his first ambassadorship to Iran, he was awarded the Order of the Lion and the ... | 2.375 | 0 |
71326999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Young%20Mother%20%28Dou%29 | The Young Mother (Dou) | The Young Mother is an oil painting by Dutch artist Gerrit Dou, from 1658. The signature of the artist appears subtely in the stained glass window, GDOV.1658. This genre piece has been part of the collection of the Mauritshuis, in The Hague, since 1822.
History
In order to appease the English king Charles II, who had ... | 1.945313 | 0 |
71327733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verrucaria%20vitikainenii | Verrucaria vitikainenii | Verrucaria vitikainenii is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling) crustose lichen in the family Verrucariaceae. It is found in Finland, where it occurs on calcareous rock outcrops.
Taxonomy
The lichen was formally described as a new species in 2017 by Juha Pykälä, Annina Launis, and Leena Myllys. The type specimen wa... | 2.09375 | 0 |
71328927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maudrie%20M.%20Walton%20Elementary%20School | Maudrie M. Walton Elementary School | Maudrie M. Walton Elementary School is a public elementary school in Stop Six, Fort Worth, Texas. It is a part of the Fort Worth Independent School District. In 2003 PBS released a documentary called A Tale of Two Schools which features the school's reputational growth and educational methods used from fall 2000 to spr... | 2.5625 | 0 |
71329202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20J.%20Watson | Richard J. Watson | Richard J. Watson (born 1946) is an American artist. He was born in Badin, North Carolina. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In the 1970s, he collaborated with Walter Edmonds to create murals for the Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia, which was a center of activity for the civil rights movemen... | 2.53125 | 0 |
71329362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20A.%20Theaker | Hugh A. Theaker | Hugh Albert Theaker (1842–1903) was an American colonel who participated in the American Civil War and the Spanish–American War. He was known for commanding the 16th Infantry Regiment throughout both wars and participating in several major battles during the Spanish–American War.
Military career
Hugh was born on Febru... | 2.375 | 0 |
71329599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9rica%20de%20Cali%20%28women%29 | América de Cali (women) | América de Cali Femenino, commonly known as América Femenino, is the women's association football section of América de Cali based in the city of Cali, Colombia. They participate in Liga Profesional Femenina, the highest category of women's football, organized by Dimayor. Like their male counterpart, they play their ho... | 2.046875 | 0 |
71329650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naxalite%20movement%20in%20Bhojpur | Naxalite movement in Bhojpur | Demography and economic status of castes
In Bhojpur, according to Arun Sinha, most of the landlords were from the upper-caste; they were Rajput, Bhumihar, Brahmin and Kayastha. The agricultural labourers belonged to the Schedule Caste or the Backward Castes like Yadav, Kurmi and Koeri. It was evident that in the absenc... | 2.421875 | 0 |
71329650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naxalite%20movement%20in%20Bhojpur | Naxalite movement in Bhojpur | The practice of taking Dola– a custom in which newly wed bride of a labourer was forced to spend her first night with the Rajput and Bhumihar landlords, was also prevalent in some pockets. Another face of 'sexual oppression' against the lower-caste women was legitimisation of the sexual assaults through the cult of Mat... | 2.34375 | 0 |
71330209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951%20Nobel%20Prize%20in%20Literature | 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature | The 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the Swedish author Pär Lagerkvist "for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind." Lagerkvist is the fourth Swedish recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature after... | 2.578125 | 0 |
71330328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikojir%C5%8D%20Ijichi | Hikojirō Ijichi | Hikojirō Ijichi (1860–1912) was a Japanese Vice Admiral during the Russo-Japanese War. He commanded the during the war, notably commanding it during the Battle of Tsushima.
Biography
Hikojirō was born as the second son of Sueyoshi Ijichi at the Satsuma Domain. In October 1874, he entered the Imperial Japanese Naval A... | 2.125 | 0 |
71330359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagobert%20Karl%20de%20Daldorff | Dagobert Karl de Daldorff | Daldorff was born in Kiel (although some sources claimed that he was born in Moscow) and obtained a doctorate from the University of Kiel in 1795 under J.C. Fabricius. He joined the Danish East India Company army serving as a lieutenant captain. He was sent to conduct natural history studies, supported by Count Schimme... | 2.15625 | 0 |
71330675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martiniano%20Urriola | Martiniano Urriola | Urriola then participated in the Occupation of Lima along with the forces of Patricio Lynch and returned to the Peruvian capital after briefly returning to Chile in 1882. In the Sierra campaign, Urriola joined Marco Aurelio Arriagada's expedition against Andrés Avelino Cáceres. After the Peruvian defeat at the Battle o... | 2.78125 | 0 |
71330924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komogovina%20Monastery | Komogovina Monastery | Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Lord is a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Komogovina, Croatia that was in operation between 1693 and 1777.
It was established by monks from Bosanska Krajina in XVII century in 1693. Their earlier monastery below the Kozara Mountain was destroyed in war against the Ottoman Empire. ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
71331447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20McCutcheon | Bob McCutcheon | Selected bibliography
Notes for a New History of Stirling (1985)
Stirling's Neebour Villages (1986)
Stirling (1986)
Pictures from the Past (1989)
Tempus 2000 (2000)
Personal life
McCutcheon was born on 21 October 1939. He traced his family back to the 17th century in the Bannockburn area of Stirling. A materna... | 2.03125 | 0 |
71332046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Coffey%20%28physician%29 | Denis Coffey (physician) | Denis J. Coffey was an Irish Professor of Physiology at the Catholic University Medical School, Dean of Medicine at UCD, and served as president of University College Dublin from 1910 until 1940.
Denis Joseph Coffey was born in 1865 in Tralee, County Kerry. Educated locally at the Christian Brothers in Holy Cross, Tra... | 2.140625 | 0 |
71332514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly%20House%2C%20Singapore | Butterfly House, Singapore | Butterfly House, also known as 23 Amber Road, was a unique house, with a convex, semicircular plan, the 'wings' of which gave rise to the 'butterfly' nickhame for the house. It is not, in fact, laid out on a true butterfly plan in the more usual Arts and Crafts sense of the name. It was the only historic residence in S... | 2.1875 | 0 |
71332728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinesh%20Majumdar | Dinesh Majumdar | Dinesh Majumdar was a Marxist visionary and youth communist leader. A legendary student leader of the 1950s to the 1970s and a pioneer of the youth movement from the mid-1960s.
He was a three-term member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly between 1971 and 1980.
Early life
Dinesh Majumdar was born on 1 June 1937 ... | 1.921875 | 0 |
71332782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis%20Dolliole | Jean-Louis Dolliole | Jean-Louis Dolliole (1779 – January 9, 1861) was an African-American architect in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, during the 19th century. He was a free man of color who also worked as a cabinetmaker, home builder, contractor, planter and leader of the African-American community of New Orleans in the time of the Antebellu... | 2.4375 | 0 |
71333041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earlstoun%20Castle | Earlstoun Castle | Earlstoun Castle, sometimes spelled Earlston Castle, is a derelict tower house near St John's Town of Dalry in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Built in the late sixteenth century, it was home to members of the Gordon family, including William Gordon of Earlston who was killed at the battle of Bothwell Bridge. It is un... | 2.015625 | 0 |
71334147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940%20Nobel%20Prize%20in%20Literature | 1940 Nobel Prize in Literature | The 1940 Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded when the Nobel committee's deliberations were upset by the start of World War II on September 1, 1939. Instead, the prize money was allocated with 1/3 to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section. This was the fourth occasion in Nobel history... | 2.484375 | 0 |
71334368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941%20Nobel%20Prize%20in%20Literature | 1941 Nobel Prize in Literature | The 1941 Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded due to the ongoing World War II that started in September 1, 1939. Instead, the prize money was allocated with 1/3 to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section. This was the fifth occasion in Nobel history that the prize was not conferred.
N... | 2.515625 | 0 |
71334545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra%20quarry | Alexandra quarry | In order to develop the quarry, a second Alexandra Slate Company Ltd was formed in 1874, with Samual Bateson as its managing director and Sir Thomas Bateson and two of his brothers being major shareholders. The quarry produced 891 tons of product in 1875. Samuel Bateson seems to have spent another £15,000 of his own mo... | 2.453125 | 0 |
71334545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra%20quarry | Alexandra quarry | Output and profits were variable, not helped by a 13-week coal strike in 1921, when only Alexandra could continue operating, due to its use of electricity. A fourth Blondin cableway was constructed at Alexandra in 1925, to make the removal of rock from pits 1 and 2 easier. A serious rock fall stopped production at Alex... | 2.15625 | 0 |
71334578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatar%20literature | Tatar literature | Tatar literature () consists of literature in the Tatar language, a Turkic language spoken in the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. Tatar literature is a part of Tatar society and has been part of Tatar history since the existence of a Tatar state. Famous Tatar poets include Kasim Bikkulov, Ğabdulla Tuqay, and Näqi İsä... | 2.640625 | 0 |
71334730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anahita%20Razmi | Anahita Razmi | Anahita Razmi (b.1981; Persian: آناهیتا رزمی) is a German-born contemporary artist, of Iranian and German descent. She works with installation, sculpture, video art, and performance. Razmi’s work deploys an art processes of appropriation, in which the meaning(s) of existing images are altered by situating them in anoth... | 2.0625 | 0 |
71335141 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent%2C%20Michigan | Crescent, Michigan | Crescent is a ghost town located on the west shore of North Manitou Island off the Leelanau Peninsula, in Leelanau County, Michigan. The small town was first settled in the 1860s with the arrival of logging and farming industries and European immigrants, reaching its heyday in the early 1900s with the peak of the loggi... | 2.25 | 0 |
71335141 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent%2C%20Michigan | Crescent, Michigan | Logging, Peak, and Decline
Crescent became a boomtown with the arrival of large-scale logging operations to North Manitou Island. In 1906 the Smith & Hull Lumber Company purchased 4,000 acres of forest on the west side of the island. The town quickly grew around the base of operations set up around the dock at Crescent... | 2.609375 | 0 |
71335405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte%20San%20Giorgio%20%28Cottian%20Alps%29 | Monte San Giorgio (Cottian Alps) | The Monte San Giorgio is a mountain in the Cottian Alps, Metropolitan City of Turin in Piedmont, north-western Italy. It is located in the comune of Piossasco.
Features
The mountain overlooks the centre of Piossasco and belongs to the North flank of the Chisola valley. On its summit three ridges meet: the Eastern on... | 2.171875 | 0 |
77261621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan%20Jovan%20Zograf | Metropolitan Jovan Zograf | Metropolitan Jovan Zograf (the Icon Painter) lived and worked in the 14th and early 15th centuries in what was then Medieval Serbia, now North Macedonia. He is known only by his baptismal name, Pribila. His father, a builder named Hajko, became a monk and took the name Hariton at the Monastery of Zrze, not far from Pri... | 2 | 0 |
77262152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorkoye%20%28Novichikhinsky%20District%29 | Gorkoye (Novichikhinsky District) | Gorkoye () is a salt lake in Novichikhinsky District, Altai Krai, Russian Federation.
The lake lies roughly in the middle of the Krai. The nearest town is Melnikovo close to the southern end. Novichikha, the district capital, lies to the east of the southeastern shore. The lake and its surrounding area is a tourist a... | 1.984375 | 0 |
77262226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C5%ABrin | Fūrin | A is a small, bowl-shaped Japanese wind chime typically hung during the summer. A piece of paper called tanzaku (短冊) is usually hung from each fūrin to cause it to ring even with just a slight breeze. The sound of the fūrin and the sight of the paper blowing in the wind are seen by many Japanese people as having a co... | 2.78125 | 0 |
77262372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredl%20Fesl | Fredl Fesl | Alfred Raimund Fesl (7 July 1947 – 25 June 2024), better known as Fredl Fesl, was a Lower Bavarian musician and singer who was said to be the one who invented Bavarian musical Kabarett.
Early life
Fesl grew up in the town of his birth, Grafenau in the Bavarian Forest and then moved with his parents to Greding in Middl... | 2.359375 | 0 |
77262511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosif%20Loveyko | Iosif Loveyko | Although the architect's own style had not yet been fully formed, architect Karo Alabyan drew attention to his work in the article "Against formalism, simplification, eclecticism", which was published in the April issue of "Architecture of the USSR" in 1936. The article set the standards of Soviet architecture and at t... | 2.078125 | 0 |
77262733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%20Red%20Army%20Monument%2C%20Harbin | Soviet Red Army Monument, Harbin | The monument became one of Harbin's cultural relics protection sites in 1995 and on November 11, 1997, then President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, during his state visit to China, visited Harbin and laid a wreath in front of the monument. On January 10, 1999, the monument was listed as the fourth batch of Heilongjiang Prov... | 2.078125 | 0 |
77262953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belitung%20Malay | Belitung Malay | Belitung Malay is a spoken language used by Belitung speakers when talking with family members, friends, and co-workers on informal occasions in markets, shops, stalls, and so forth. It also functions as a lingua franca; non-Malay people, such as Chinese and Bugis, among others in the area, often choose to speak Belitu... | 2.921875 | 0 |
77263046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swar%20Dharohar%20Festival | Swar Dharohar Festival | Swar Dharohar Festival () is a celebration of music, art, and literature that highlights the rich cultural diversity and artistic legacy of India. As part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, it has been arranged by the Swar Dharohar Foundation in association with the Indian Ministry of Culture every year.
The festival aims t... | 2.34375 | 0 |
77263093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%20Winnett | Taylor Winnett | Taylor Winnett (born April 24, 1999) is an American Paralympic swimmer who will represent the United States at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.
Early life and education
Winnett was born on April 24, 1999, in Hershey, Pennsylvania. She committed to swim at Loyola University Maryland, the summer before her senior year in hi... | 2.0625 | 0 |
77263134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaroslav%20Onyshchuk | Yaroslav Onyshchuk | Yaroslav Onyshchuk (; born 4 June 1967) is a Ukrainian archaeologist, historian, scientist. Doctor of Historical Science (2019).
Biography
Yaroslav Onyshchuk was born on 4 June 1967 in Popivtsi, now the Pidkamin Hromada of Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
In 1991, he graduated from the Faculty of History of Ivan... | 2.078125 | 0 |
77264241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell%20of%20Hector%20and%20Andromache | Farewell of Hector and Andromache | The State Tretyakov Gallery houses a study entitled Young man presenting a shield. Arm bent at the elbow (early 1770s, grey primed paper, Italian pencil, chalk, 28.7 × 22.4 cm, Inventory No. 26513, album, folio 18, pasted on the album sheet) and The head of a crying woman (early 1770s, blue primed paper, lead pencil, 1... | 2.09375 | 0 |
77264594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfield%20Public%20School | Fairfield Public School | In November 2016, Fairfield Public School had recorded the biggest increase of students in its Intensive English Centre. In January 2017, over 200 families enrolled their children in the school, many of whom were recent refugees from overseas, including Syria – The new students received a pencil case, teddy bear and dr... | 2.78125 | 0 |
77264594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfield%20Public%20School | Fairfield Public School | Welfare and trauma
Many of the school's refugee students have experienced trauma and poor education prior to immigrating, in addition to some who have had gaps in their education and others who have family members killed or lost in war. Some of the refugee students who first enrolled poor health such as vitamin D defic... | 3.0625 | 0 |
77264856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadian%20theatre | Acadian theatre | Playwrights and directors
The quality of Acadian dramaturgy has demonstrably improved since the 1970s, with contemporary infrastructure likely providing a stimulus for authors.
The work of Antonine Maillet (born in Bouctouche in 1929) is of great significance in Acadian culture, whether in literature —she was awarded... | 2.625 | 0 |
77264856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadian%20theatre | Acadian theatre | The Acadian theater has frequently centered on Acadia, according to Zénon-Chiasson, falling into clichés and frequently using various Acadian symbols like the national flag, typical dishes, and fishing gear. However, this has helped develop an authentic theater that is not "colonized." Antonine Maillet's works, notably... | 2.765625 | 0 |
77264908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Berk | Ernest Berk | In 1968, his work was presented at two pioneering London electronic music concerts – at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 15 January 1968, and later at the Planetarium – alongside the music of other early electronic music contemporaries in the UK, such as Peter Zinovieff, Brian Dennis, Hugh Davies, Delia Derbyshire, Tristram... | 2.265625 | 0 |
77265172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surname%20inflection | Surname inflection | In some languages and countries, surname inflection (, , ) refers to the transformation of a surname, most often in the masculine gender, into a surname for a person of the opposite sex—thus usually a woman—by modifying the initial form of the surname.
The purpose is usually the expression of the family status of the ... | 2.671875 | 0 |
77265172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surname%20inflection | Surname inflection | Czech
For historical and linguistic reasons, the forms of female surnames are mainly the result of the inflection of male surnames.
Development and methods of inflection
As historical records testify, women's names used to be as free as men's names. A woman was therefore a separately named person, often independent ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
77265172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surname%20inflection | Surname inflection | The trend of not changing the surname intensified after 2000, especially among cosmopolitan layers of the population, i.e. among Czechs who married foreigners or are in more intensive contact with foreign countries and foreign nationals. The reasons given by the women are, for example, that some foreigners "do not und... | 2.234375 | 0 |
77265172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surname%20inflection | Surname inflection | Jana Valdrová reminds that in Czech there are a number of uninflected first names (Dagmar, Miriam), but also uninflected surnames (Martinů, Janů, Krejčů, Hrejsemnou, Osolsobě, Šerých), in the case of some names and surnames, the feminine variant is uninflectionable (Krejčí), while the masculine has different forms in d... | 2.109375 | 0 |
77265172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surname%20inflection | Surname inflection | Slovak language inflects in a very similar way to Czech, but has fewer exceptions to inflection. Specifically, for example, the bearer's express wish not to change her name is more often respected in Czech language. For example, Kateřina Emmons in Slovak language it is often obliquely Kateřina Emmonsová, almost never ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
77265172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surname%20inflection | Surname inflection | Inflection rules
In Polish, surnames are inflected in a similar fashion as in Czech, with the main exception of the surnames of unmarried women. Currently, however, the inflection pattern previously used for unmarried women (daughters) is being abandoned, and married women also often use unchanged (masculine form) sur... | 2.734375 | 0 |
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