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78643952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanne%20Pierce%20Misko | Joanne Pierce Misko | Pierce's first posting as an agent was in St. Louis, Missouri, where she focused on white-collar crimes. In early 1973, she acted in the FBI response in a tribal war of the Wounded Knee Occupation on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. In the late 1970s, Pierce became "one of the first female supervisors... | 1.953125 | 0 |
78644216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovietization%20of%20Western%20Byelorussia%20%281939-1941%29 | Sovietization of Western Byelorussia (1939-1941) | The captured natives of Western Byelorussia were divided into two categories: those released and those sent to camps. On October 3, 1939, the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union, Lavrenty Beria, by order No. 4441/B, ordered that captured soldiers of the Polish army (Ukrainians, Belarusians and ot... | 2.5 | 0 |
78644216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovietization%20of%20Western%20Byelorussia%20%281939-1941%29 | Sovietization of Western Byelorussia (1939-1941) | The Polish system was different in two ways. Firstly, it was Polonized - most schools taught in Polish, university education was only in Polish, and there were no schools in Belarusian or Ukrainian. Secondly, it was only possible to study for free in primary school, which did not give the right to enter a university. T... | 2.609375 | 0 |
78644216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovietization%20of%20Western%20Byelorussia%20%281939-1941%29 | Sovietization of Western Byelorussia (1939-1941) | On January 1, 1940, a pedagogical higher educational institution was opened in Białystok, Pinsk, Grodno and Baranovichi. Moreover, in Białystok there was a four-year pedagogical institute that trained teachers for secondary specialized educational institutions, and in Pinsk, Grodno and Baranovichi there were two-year t... | 2.46875 | 0 |
78644216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovietization%20of%20Western%20Byelorussia%20%281939-1941%29 | Sovietization of Western Byelorussia (1939-1941) | After the defeat of France, the Union of Armed Struggle decided to refrain from armed uprisings on former Polish lands. Moreover, in mid-1940, most of the Polish partisan units were defeated by the NKVD (the partisan headquarters were particularly severely defeated on June 23, 1940, in the Kobelno tract and on July 10 ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
78644292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teungku%20Fakinah | Teungku Fakinah | Teungku Fakinah (1856 – 10 October 1940) was an Acehnese female warrior and Islamic scholar.
Early life and education
Fakinah was born in Lam Beunot in 1856 to Tengku Datuk, who was an Aceh Sultanate Government official, and Tengku Fathimah. She received education from her parents. Her mother taught her the Quran, Is... | 2.890625 | 0 |
78644974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habib%20Kambanga | Habib Kambanga | Habib Gallus Kambanga (/hɑˈbiːb ˈɡæl.əs kæmˈbæŋ.ɡə/, Hah-beeb Gal-luhs Kam-bahn-gah; born 4 April 1968) is a Tanzanian politician who has been serving as an ambassador for The United Republic of Tanzania since 23rd June 2024. Before being appointed as a new ambassador, he was the Deputy Director General of Tanzanian In... | 2.296875 | 0 |
78645152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi%20K%C3%BChn | Heidi Kühn | Heidi Kühn, an American from California, was the 2023 winner of the World Food Prize for her work with the nonprofit organization Roots of Peace to remove landmines around the world and turn the land into productive agricultural areas.
Early life and education
Kühn comes from Marin County, California, and traces her a... | 2.140625 | 0 |
78645157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Fanc%C3%A1 | Battle of Fancá | The Battle of Fancá (1886) was a military engagement that took place in Fancá, modern-day Gabú, Guinea-Bissau, between Portuguese colonial forces, commanded by Marques Geraldes, supported by local allies under Nbuku, and the forces of Fuladu, led by Musa Molo.
Background
The Fuladu kingdom was founded by Alfa Molo in ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
78645308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem%20Vliegen | Willem Vliegen | Wilhelmus Hubertus "Willem" Vliegen (20 November 1862 – 29 July 1947) was a Dutch journalist and politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1909 until 1915, and again from 1922 until 1937. He also served as a member of the Senate from 1917 until 1922.
... | 2.078125 | 0 |
78646124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecistocephalus%20diversisternus | Mecistocephalus diversisternus | This species shares an especially extensive set of traits with its closest relative, M. japonicus. For example, both species feature trunks without dark patches and cephalic pleurites without setae. Furthermore, both species feature a furrow on their sternites that is not forked. These close relatives, however, can be ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
75643627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Marta | Battle of Marta | The Battle of Marta is a military confrontation between a coalition of rebellious Berber tribes led by Carcasan and the forces of John Troglita and his Berber ally Cusina, at Marta (current-day Mareth, Tunisia), in the summer of 547. It follows a significant Byzantine victory through which John Troglita managed to supp... | 2.625 | 0 |
75643627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Marta | Battle of Marta | Aftermath
This defeat is a setback for John Troglita, who had embarked on a campaign to eradicate the Berber rebellion. However, his defeat is mitigated by his ability to organize the retreat of his troops and avoid the annihilation of his army. According to Corippus, the author of "La Johannide," an epic dedicated to... | 2.515625 | 0 |
75643901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qemberxanim | Qemberxanim | In the early 1950s, she created and choreographed the dances "The Liberated Girl", "The War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea", and adapted "Liberation Army Dance". In 1956, she visited the Soviet Union with the Chinese Dancers Investigation Group. She successively served as the director of the ethnic department ... | 1.9375 | 0 |
75644284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance%20art%20in%20Bergamo%20and%20Brescia | Renaissance art in Bergamo and Brescia | The works he produced in this short period, not all of which have come down to us, demonstrate a general reworking of his artistic language in the light of the increasingly pressing Renaissance innovations, derived primarily from Leonardo da Vinci's teachings, while remaining faithful to his characteristic "archaizing"... | 2.09375 | 0 |
75644284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance%20art%20in%20Bergamo%20and%20Brescia | Renaissance art in Bergamo and Brescia | The "intermediate generation"
Vincenzo Foppa and Moretto constitute the two cornerstones of Brescian Renaissance painting, and it was the latter who would eventually become the major exponent of the local school. However, in order to fully understand the development of Brescian Renaissance art, it is not possible to o... | 2.390625 | 0 |
75644284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance%20art%20in%20Bergamo%20and%20Brescia | Renaissance art in Bergamo and Brescia | It was Ferramola's art that attracted the vast majority of civil and religious patrons in early 16th-century Brescia: his famous Stories of Saints found widespread success in a variety of monasteries in the city and territory, for example in Santa Giulia, San Giuseppe, Santa Croce, and Santa Maria del Carmine (in colla... | 2.265625 | 0 |
75644384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20L.%20Devereux | Dorothy L. Devereux | Dorothy Louise Devereux ( Nelson; November 9, 1911 – January 15, 1994) was an American politician from the state of Hawaii. She was one of the first women elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives after statehood in 1959.
Devereux was a native of Spokane, Washington, the daughter of John and Olive ( Davis) Nelson... | 1.960938 | 0 |
75644590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphaea%20novogranatensis | Nymphaea novogranatensis | Nymphaea novogranatensis is a species of waterlily native to Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela.
Description
Vegetative characteristics
Nymphaea novogranatensis is an aquatic herb with ovoid rhizomes, which are stoloniferous in the initial growth phase. The broadly elliptic-ovate to suborbicular, subcoriaceous to skin-l... | 2.28125 | 0 |
75644663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20McCune%20Gallaher | Sarah McCune Gallaher | Sarah McCune Gallaher (June 8, 1864 – July 23, 1964) was an American politician from the state of Pennsylvania. She was one of the first women elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1923, alongside Alice Bentley, Rosa de Young, Helen Grimes, Sarah Gertrude MacKinney, Lillie Pitts, Martha Speiser, and M... | 2.40625 | 0 |
75644763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus%20Van%20Dijk | Jacobus Van Dijk | In 1986, Geoffrey Thorndike Martin the field director of a combined British and Dutch eight person archaeological team that included Jacobus Van Dijk rediscovered the tomb of Maya, Tutankhamun's treasurer, after a 10-year search at Saqqara. Maya's tomb at Saqqara had been partly discovered in the 19th century and the s... | 2.71875 | 0 |
75644882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%932024%20Gaza%20Strip%20preterm%20births | 2023–2024 Gaza Strip preterm births | The Gaza Strip faced a premature baby crisis during the Israel–Hamas war. The situation escalated when the Israeli Defense Forces raided Al-Shifa Hospital, Al-Nasr Children's Hospital, and Kamal Adwan Hospital. Reports of premature babies in intensive care having to be evacuated from Al-Shifa, as well as the destructio... | 2.1875 | 0 |
75644898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIFA%20railway%20station | AIFA railway station | AIFA will be the northern terminus of a branch of the Tren Suburbano. It will be located in the Municipality of Zumpango, State of Mexico. The station is expected to be opened in summer 2024.
Overview
The terminal will be housed in the basement of the user parking building. It will provide a fast and efficient servic... | 1.953125 | 0 |
75645349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonha%20language | Sonha language | The Sonha language also known as Sonaha, Sunha, or Sunah is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Sonha people in Lumbini Province, specifically in Bardiya District, covering Geruwa and Rajapur municipalities. It is also spoken in Sudurpashchim Province, particularly in Kanchanpur District and Bhimdatta of Nepal. Sonha ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
75645696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murina%20guilleni | Murina guilleni | Murina guilleni is a species of vesper bat found in Thailand and the Nicobar Islands.
Taxonomy and systematics
Murina guilleni was described as a new species in 2013. Its description was the result of a taxonomic split of the round-eared tube-nosed bat (Murina cyclotis). The holotype had been collected in 2010 by P. S... | 2.234375 | 0 |
75645727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986%20First%20Union%20400 | 1986 First Union 400 | The 1986 First Union 400 was the seventh stock car race of the 1986 NASCAR Winston Cup Series and the 36th iteration of the event. The race was held on Sunday, April 20, 1986, before an audience of 29,500 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina at the North Wilkesboro Speedway, a oval short track. The race took the schedu... | 2.234375 | 0 |
75646123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas%20and%20Bacchus%20%28Poussin%29 | Midas and Bacchus (Poussin) | Midas and Bacchus (German: Midas und Bacchus) is an oil painting usually attributed to Nicolas Poussin and dated to about 1624–1629, which is now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
Description
This subject exhibits the avaricious King of Phrygia, attired in a blue vesture and a yellow mantle, bending on one knee supplic... | 2.234375 | 0 |
75646378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20of%20St.%20Jerome%20Tourneux | Mary of St. Jerome Tourneux | Mary of St. Jerome Tourneux was a French Roman Catholic nun who established the first monastery of the Order of Our Lady of Charity in the United States.
Biography
Julie Josephine Adelaide Tourneux de la Galaiserie was born on 16 November 1808 in Piré-sur-Seiche, France. She was the seventh of eleven children born t... | 1.992188 | 0 |
75646672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Beatriz | Santa Beatriz | The urbanization section was planned according to North American characteristics (very consistent with Leguía's time), with main avenues (Arenales, Arequipa and Petit Thouars), two-storey mansions, garages for cars and large gardens similar to mansions. Its urbanization in the early 1930s broke all the residential patt... | 2.1875 | 0 |
75646946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shang%20ancestral%20deification | Shang ancestral deification | The Shang dynasty developed a complex viewpoint of tomb building, and the layout of their works was dictated by the status of the person buried. The largest place for the "afterlife" lay in the Royal Cemetery, located in what is now Xibeigang (西北岡), Anyang. The site, located in the ancient capital city of Yin, served a... | 2.40625 | 0 |
75646987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn%20Adams%20%28rower%29 | Evelyn Adams (rower) | Evelyn Adams (born 1950) née Gardiner and later Sommer, is an Australian pioneer representative rower. With Lydia Miladinovic she rowed in Australia's first international representative women's crew. A ten-time Australian national champion, accomplished as both a sculler and sweep-oarswoman, Adams' two World Rowing Cha... | 1.945313 | 0 |
75647084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-1808%20importation%20of%20slaves%20to%20the%20United%20States | Post-1808 importation of slaves to the United States | Enforcement of the law was initially poor, as the slave trade was banned in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars and Latin American Wars of Independence. Privateers loyal to all sides were active in the Caribbean and used their existing smuggling networks in the United States to also bring slaves into the country. There we... | 3.15625 | 0 |
75647258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calocephalus%20platycephalus | Calocephalus platycephalus | Calocephalus platycephalus commonly known as western beauty-heads or yellow top, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is an upright to sprawling herb with white hairy branches and yellow ball-shaped flower heads and is endemic to Australia.
Description
Calocephalus platycephalus is a herb with... | 2.5 | 0 |
75647537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdwood%20Van%20Someren%20Taylor | Birdwood Van Someren Taylor | Birdwood Van Someren Taylor (1852 – 31 July 1939) was an English physician, teacher and clergyman. He was the second Church Mission Society medical missionary to go to China in 1878, working during the height of the Opium War, with a focus on Fuzhou (Fuh-Chow), Fukien, and Hinghwa. Noted for his work addressing opium a... | 1.953125 | 0 |
75647747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair%20Pay%20Agreements%20Act%202022 | Fair Pay Agreements Act 2022 | Introduction and first reading
The Fair Pay Agreements Bill was introduced to Parliament on 29 March 2022. The Bill passed its first reading on 5 April 2022 by a margin of 77 to 43. While the Labour, Green parties and Te Pati Māori supported the Bill, it was opposed by the opposition National and ACT parties. The bill'... | 1.992188 | 0 |
75647929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1871%20Liberian%20coup%20d%27%C3%A9tat | 1871 Liberian coup d'état | The 1871 Liberian coup d'état, also known as the Roye affair, resulted in the overthrow and death of President Edward James Roye of the True Whig Party and his eventual replacement by Joseph Jenkins Roberts of the Republican Party.
Roye, a wealthy businessman, had been elected president of Liberia at the 1869 general ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
75648038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20of%20the%20Mamluk%20Sultanate | Military of the Mamluk Sultanate | This policy has left coastal countries such as Cyprus, Rhodes, the Crusader state of Acre, and others living in a state of constant fear of any Egyptian attack. Acre was conquered in 1291 after the Crusaders of Acre killed Egyptian merchants there, and Cyprus was conquered in 1426 after the Cypriots stole the goods of ... | 2.84375 | 0 |
75648038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20of%20the%20Mamluk%20Sultanate | Military of the Mamluk Sultanate | Horses: Horses, naturally, were very important to the army because they were the vehicles of the knights, and for this reason they cared about horses in Egypt. One of the tricks that the Egyptian army used in battles to fight the enemy's horses was the drum, and the second trick was to release the horses’ spurs so that... | 3.015625 | 0 |
75648647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Bettolo | Giovanni Bettolo | Later career
Though he never returned to ministerial office after 1910, Bettolo remained an active member of the Chamber of Deputies. In 1913 he argued in the chamber that the navy did not need to have technically detailed and fixed specifications laid down in law as it needed to move forward as naval science evolved, ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
75649184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macar%20Tarihi | Macar Tarihi | The Macar Tarihi ('Hungarian History') is a small Ottoman Turkish chronicle about the history of the Hungarians, written in 1740. The manuscript is a source of the history of Transylvania during the Ottoman–Habsburg wars and the Great Turkish War.
Manuscript
The 39-page manuscript was preserved in a codex (3386/5, pag... | 2.421875 | 0 |
75649484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder%20City%20Conservation%20Easement | Boulder City Conservation Easement | The BCCE borders the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area to the northwest, the Lake Mead National Recreation Area to the east, and the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument to the south, and with other protected areas in California forms a much larger contiguous protected area system in the Mojave Desert. Bureau of Land Ma... | 2.5625 | 0 |
75649678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Eritrea | Climate change in Eritrea | Eritrea, a small coastal nation situated along the Red Sea in the Horn of Africa, is one of the most vulnerable countries of the world to the adverse effects of climate change and increased climate variability has already been evidenced in the country.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Eritrea's CO2 emissions in 2020 were 6,2... | 3.046875 | 0 |
75649678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20in%20Eritrea | Climate change in Eritrea | Temperature and weather changes
Since the 1960s, there has been an increase in temperature of approximately 1.7 °C, with an average rate of 0.37 °C per decade. Eastern Africa, including Eritrea, has witnessed a more frequent occurrence of extreme precipitation changes, such as droughts and heavy rainfall events, durin... | 3.046875 | 0 |
75649962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinney%20Roughs%20Nature%20Park | McKinney Roughs Nature Park | The first discovery at the McKinney Roughs archaeological site revealed a compact fireplace with charcoal, charred rocks, and lithic rubble. These findings provided evidence for archaeologists, indicating the presence of ancient campfires. Subsequent extensive excavations uncovered additional campsites from the same Ar... | 2.59375 | 0 |
75649962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinney%20Roughs%20Nature%20Park | McKinney Roughs Nature Park | McKinney Roughs is home to various mammals, reptiles, birds, and amphibians. Common wildlife sightings at the park include gray foxes, rabbits, white-tailed deer, and squirrels. The park and other parts of the Lost Pines forest serve as a habitat for a diverse array of over 250 bird species. The park collaborates with ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
75650093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Mays | Richard Mays | Richard Leon Mays Sr. (born August 5, 1943) an American retired politician, judge, lawyer, and businessman from the U.S. state of Arkansas. Elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1972, he was one of the first three African Americans to serve in the Arkansas General Assembly since the Reconstruction era. Go... | 2.5 | 0 |
75650098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavoplaca%20oasis | Flavoplaca oasis | Flavoplaca oasis is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae. It is widely distributed across Europe, and has been reported in Western Asia, China, and North Africa.
Taxonomy
It was first formally described in 1856 by the Italian lichenologist Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo... | 2.109375 | 0 |
75650118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovannini%20%28Coronel%20Fabriciano%29 | Giovannini (Coronel Fabriciano) | In Coronel Fabriciano, Alberto Giovannini worked as a businessman, merchant, landowner and banker. He inaugurated the Banco da Lavoura, the city's first bank branch, and donated land for the construction of the Senhor do Bonfim Municipal Cemetery, and the municipality's first state school, inaugurated in 1969 and named... | 2.234375 | 0 |
75650438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse%20Trap%20%281986%20video%20game%29 | Mouse Trap (1986 video game) | Mouse Trap is a platform game written by Dave Mann (using the pseudonym Chris Robson) and published by Tynesoft in 1986 for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro home computers. One year later the game was released for the Atari 8-bit computers, Atari ST, Amiga, and Commodore 64.
Gameplay
The player takes on the role of a... | 1.984375 | 0 |
75650503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Funoun%20Palestinian%20Popular%20Dance%20Troupe | El Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe | El Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe () is a Palestinian dance troupe that was established in 1979. They are also called El Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe. They currently are based in Ramallah and have a direct mission to "resist the genocide of their people and culture." As of 2021, the dance troupe has... | 2.65625 | 0 |
75650620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Polus | David Polus | In Eretz Israel
Polus was a member of the Labor Battalion and the excavation group of Yitzhak Sadeh. His first sculpture in the Land of Israel was unveiled while he was in the Labor Battalion in Migdal Tzedek: a bust of Aharon David Gordon. In February 1932, Paulus sent a proposal, published in the newspaper "Davar," ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
75650786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Cothran | Tom Cothran | Thomas Walter (Tom) Cothran (1947–1987) was an American musicologist and composer, notable for his professional collaboration and personal relationship with American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein.
Early life and education
Tom Cothran was born in San Antonio to parents Walter M. and Betty (Nogle) Cothran. Wa... | 2.140625 | 0 |
75650935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwackhia%20viridis | Zwackhia viridis | Zwackhia viridis is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), script lichen in the family Lecanographaceae. It has a cosmopolitan distribution, and has been documented in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania.
Taxonomy
The lichen was first formally described by the Swedish lichenologist Erik Acharius, as Ope... | 2.078125 | 0 |
75651099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20Tamang | Eastern Tamang | Eastern Tamang is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is spoken in mainly in Bagmati and Koshi provinces of Nepal as well as the states of Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal (Darjeeling), and Sikkim in India by the Tamang people.
The Eastern Tamang language is a SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) struc... | 2.640625 | 0 |
75651113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra%20Zero | Astra Zero | Astra Zero, born Dustin Nicholls, is a Canadian digital artist, illustrator, photographer, creative director, graphic designer and musician.
He began to use the name Astra Zero as a teenager in a punk band "and we all decided we wanted alter egos and for whatever reason".
Family and early life
Nicholls grew up in Far... | 1.921875 | 0 |
75651204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Tamang | Western Tamang | Western Tamang, also known as Gyot Tamang, is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Tamang people in Nepal. It belongs to the Tamangic branch within the Tamang languages, which is part of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
Its sentences are structured in a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order and uses postpositions fo... | 2.796875 | 0 |
75651407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphaea%20divaricata | Nymphaea divaricata | Nymphaea divaricata is a species of waterlily native to Angola, Zambia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Description
Vegetative characteristics
The elongate rhizome is 1-2 cm wide. The leaves are 8-24 cm long. The foliage of Nymphaea divaricata is distinctive in that it predominantly consists of submerged le... | 2.46875 | 0 |
75651411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugend%20voraus | Jugend voraus | Background
There were suspicions that someone had manipulated Jugend voraus against Else Ury's will and Nazified it without her knowledge. Meidingers Jugendschriften Verlag was a subsidiary of the Jewish department store conglomerate Wertheim. In 1941, Meidingers’ name ceased to exist, and its assets were taken over by... | 1.90625 | 0 |
75651452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco%20legislation%20in%20Switzerland | Tobacco legislation in Switzerland | Tobacco advertising
Unlike other European countries, tobacco advertising is still very present in Switzerland, particularly at points of sale, discotheques and youth festivals. Advertising is regulated, but the legislation is not as strict as elsewhere.
Federal law
Tobacco product advertising is banned on radio and... | 1.914063 | 0 |
75651702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmin%20Khakoo | Yasmin Khakoo | Yasmin Khakoo (born 1964) is an Indian-American pediatric neuro-oncologist and editor-in-chief of the medical journal Pediatric Neurology since 2022. In 2023, she won the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine award of the Child Neurology Society for her mentorship and work with minorities and underserved commu... | 2.046875 | 0 |
75651812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman%20Liberman | Hyman Liberman | Hyman Liberman (1853 - June 23, 1923) was a Polish-born South African politician, produce merchant and philanthropist. He served three consecutive terms as the Mayor of Cape Town between 1904 and 1907. He was the city's first elected Jewish mayor. David Bloomberg, who served as mayor of the city in the 1970s, said that... | 1.976563 | 0 |
75652014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BAlia%20Kubitschek%20%28Coronel%20Fabriciano%29 | Júlia Kubitschek (Coronel Fabriciano) | The name of the neighborhood was suggested by the then federal deputy Aníbal Teixeira de Souza, a friend of Fábio's, to honor Professor Júlia Kubitschek, mother of former president Juscelino Kubitschek, who had died that same year. He attended the founding ceremony of the JK, the abbreviation by which the residential a... | 1.914063 | 0 |
75652200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20J.%20Helble | Joseph J. Helble | Joseph J. Helble is an American academic who has served as the dean of Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering from 2005 to 2018, as Dartmouth's provost from 2018 to 2021, and as President of Lehigh University since 2021.
Early life
Raised in North Haledon, New Jersey, Helble is a Lehigh graduate from the cla... | 1.976563 | 0 |
75652539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerivoula%20depressa | Kerivoula depressa | Kerivoula depressa, commonly called Miller's flat-headed woolly bat or the flat-skulled woolly bat, is a species of vesper bat found in Southeast Asia.
Taxonomy and etymology
Kerivoula depressa was initially described by American zoologist Gerrit Smith Miller Jr. The holotype had been collected near Taungoo, Myanmar b... | 2.234375 | 0 |
75653133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Sebastian%27s%20Church%2C%20Lima | St. Sebastian's Church, Lima | St. Sebastian's Church () is a Catholic church in the historic centre of Lima in the corners of Ica and Chancay streets, one block from Tacna Avenue, in the old neighbourhood of Monserrate (then Cuartel Primero). Its pink and white front faces Jirón Ica. In antiquity, it is the third parish in Lima founded in 1554; It ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
75653472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20in%20American%20public%20domain | 2024 in American public domain | Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1928, films released in 1928, and other works published in 1928, enter the public domain in 2024. Sound recordings that were published in 1923 enter the public domain.
The most famous work to enter the public domain in the United States in 2024 is Walt Disney ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
75653575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20separation%20in%20American%20slavery | Family separation in American slavery | The death from cholera of Harriet Beecher Stowe's toddler in 1849 was one of the reasons she began writing about slavery; her grief at his death connected her to enslaved mothers who were irrevocably separated from their children by slave traders. Henry Watson recorded losing his mother in his 1848 slave narrative: "Th... | 2.609375 | 0 |
75653586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan%20Armed%20Forces%20Nursing%20Service | Pakistan Armed Forces Nursing Service | The Pakistan Armed Forces Nursing Service is a joint military administrative and staff service branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces— since it is not restricted to the army but service members of other branches of the Pakistan's military are also its part.
Overview
The staff branch was established by the British Royal... | 2.3125 | 0 |
75653754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olgotrelvir | Olgotrelvir | Olgotrelvir (STI-1558) is an experimental antiviral medication being studied as a potential treatment for COVID-19. It is believed to work by inhibiting the SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro), a key enzyme that SARS-CoV-2 needs to replicate, and by blocking viral entry.
Mechanism of action
Olgotrelvir is a prodrug that f... | 2.1875 | 0 |
75653844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace%20William%20Heyman | Horace William Heyman | Sir Horace William Heyman, B.Sc., F.I.E.E., C.Eng. (March 13, 1912 - September 4, 1998) was a pioneer in the development of electric vehicles in the United Kingdom, and prominent in the economic development of the North East of England after World War II. After a successful career as Managing Director of Smith's Elect... | 2.359375 | 0 |
75654077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varena%20gens | Varena gens | The gens Varena or Varenia, rarely Vorena, was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Only a few members of this gens are mentioned in Roman literature, but many others are known from inscriptions. Several of the Vareni held minor magistracies at Rome or in other towns during imperial times, including Lucius Varenu... | 1.96875 | 0 |
75654114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta-coumba%20T.%20Aiken | Ta-coumba T. Aiken | Ta-coumba T. Aiken (born 1952, Evanston, Illinois) is a painter and public artist who identifies his work as superlative realism. He has created over 600 murals and public art works. A mural Aiken designed in 2013 using over 596,000 Lite Brite pegs holds the Guinness World Record for the largest picture made of Lite Br... | 2.1875 | 0 |
75654300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayan%20fossil%20hoax | Himalayan fossil hoax | The Himalayan fossil hoax, or simply the Himalayan hoax, or technically the peripatetic fossils, is a case of scientific misconduct perpetrated by an Indian palaeontologist Vishwa Jit Gupta of Panjab University. Since his doctoral research in the 1960s and following the next two decades, Gupta worked on the geology and... | 2.03125 | 0 |
75654300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayan%20fossil%20hoax | Himalayan fossil hoax | Talent publicly revealed Gupta's misconduct at the International Symposium on the Devonian System held at Calgary, Canada, in 1987. His systematic criticism was published in German serial Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg the next year, but was not widely read. Dubbed the Himalayan peripatetic (misplaced) fossils,... | 2.3125 | 0 |
75654300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayan%20fossil%20hoax | Himalayan fossil hoax | Over 25 years, Gupta published over 458 research articles and five books. His publications were recognised as standard references on the geology and fossil record of the Himalayan region. As an honour, the Panjab University awarded him a D.Sc. and in 1972 created him a separate chair, Director of the Institute of Paleo... | 2.15625 | 0 |
75654300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayan%20fossil%20hoax | Himalayan fossil hoax | In 1978, American geologist Gilbert Klapper from the University of Iowa met Willi Ziegler at the University of Marburg in Germany to discuss the progress of research on extinct jawless vertebrates, the conodonts. At that time, Ziegler had Australian guests, John W. Pickett from the Geological Survey of New South Wales ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
75654300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayan%20fossil%20hoax | Himalayan fossil hoax | Another colleague, Shashi Bhushan Bhatia recalled his suspicion when Gupta told him that the rock samples from Kurig were of Devonian, but Bhatia's later exploration of the same site gave much younger geological age, Permo-Carboniferous. Bhatia could not remember an instance of Gupta visiting Kurig, but he gave ostraco... | 2.09375 | 0 |
75654300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayan%20fossil%20hoax | Himalayan fossil hoax | Gupta's case had lingering effect on Indian palaeontology, and the controversy was blamed as the reason "paleontology lost prestige" in India and caused "irreparable damage to Indian science." Indian discoveries on fossils were seen with suspicion. An example of such prejudice was the discovery of one of the oldest mul... | 2.21875 | 0 |
75654352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bote%20people | Bote people | The Bote people are an ethnic group indigenous to the inner Terai regions of Nepal. They speak Bote language. The Bote people are well-known for ferrying travellers across the rivers through the boats, which often are prepared from the trunks of the trees. They are scattered around the bank of Kaligandaki, Narayani and... | 2.859375 | 0 |
75654359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide%2C%20infanticide%2C%20and%20self-mutilation%20by%20slaves%20in%20the%20United%20States | Suicide, infanticide, and self-mutilation by slaves in the United States | European slavers of the 19th century maintained a number of folk beliefs about which ethnic groups were most likely to commit suicide or use certain methods to kill themselves. The Ibo of Nigeria were asserted to be especially likely to kill themselves if abducted into slavery.
Mary Gaffney, interviewed for the WPA Sl... | 2.859375 | 0 |
75654359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide%2C%20infanticide%2C%20and%20self-mutilation%20by%20slaves%20in%20the%20United%20States | Suicide, infanticide, and self-mutilation by slaves in the United States | Similar crimes appear throughout slave narratives and in contemporary newspaper reports. In 1828, Annice was executed by the state of Missouri for deliberately drowning five children, two of which were her own. In 1837, Dorcas Allen and her four children were put up for sale by her old owner's wife's new husband. While... | 2.25 | 0 |
75654713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Cross%2C%20Cambridgeshire | Norman Cross, Cambridgeshire | Norman Cross is a hamlet in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies south of Peterborough, between the villages of Folksworth, Stilton and Yaxley, and at the junction of the A1 and A15 roads. Traditionally in the county of Huntingdonshire, Norman Cross gave its name to one of the hundreds of Hu... | 1.976563 | 0 |
75655110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivienne%20Newson | Vivienne Newson | Vivienne Elizabeth (Viv) Newson born Vivienne Elizabeth Dobney (21 September 1891 – 16 August 1973) was an Australian women's rights activist and editor. She was vice-president of the United Associations (of Women) (UAW) and she edited a related news sheet from 1945 to a year before she died.
Life
Newson was born in 1... | 2.140625 | 0 |
75655123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skykomish%20people | Skykomish people | Housing
In traditional Skykomish culture, several kinds of houses were built. The largest longhouses, often called potlatch houses, were centers of religion, learning, culture, governance, and the eponymous potlatch. The owners of a potlatch house often invited people from all over to take part in the potlatch, a gift... | 2.875 | 0 |
75655123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skykomish%20people | Skykomish people | Berries, roots, and other plants were another prolific resource in the Skykomish subsistence economy. Women were the primary berry-gatherers. Berries were mainly gathered downstream, along the river or in prairies. Mountain berries were gathered and sold fresh to settlers at lower elevation, or made into dried cakes fo... | 3.171875 | 0 |
75655282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Gian%20Maillu | David Gian Maillu | Comb Books
Maillu established Comb Books in 1972, publishing dozens of books over the next five years. These were mostly written by Maillu himself.
The first release from Comb Books was also the first book of poetry ever published in Kikamba. Appearing under the title Kĩ Kyambonie: Kĩkamba nthimo, the book sold poorl... | 1.976563 | 0 |
75655419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Christian%20Lund | Peter Christian Lund | Peter Christian Lund (born 25 October 1814 in Copenhagen , died 3 November 1891 Onsbjerg, Samsø) was a Danish physician and early pioneer in the study of disease transmission between humans and animals in tuberculosis. He was the last doctor at the Samsø Quarantine Station on Kyholm from August 1853 to April 1855. Its ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
75655508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akikaze%20massacre | Akikaze massacre | On the same day, around 10 pm, Akikaze entered the port of Rabaul. Sub-lieutenant Yajirō Kai, who was assigned to the Akikaze crew at Wewak as a translator, testified after the war that he and Commander Sabe went to the 8th Fleet headquarters, where they were received by Lieutenant Shigetoku Kami. The two filed an exec... | 2.359375 | 0 |
75656359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godly%20Play | Godly Play | Godly Play is a Montessori method for Christian education. The method has been utilized in churches around the world.
Founding
The method was developed by Jerome Berryman, an Episcopal priest. Berryman had studied the Montessori method in Italy, and had been trained in The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. Berryma... | 2.859375 | 0 |
75656671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Polachek | John Polachek | John Polacheck Bronze & Iron Works Company
In 1910, after saving enough money, Polachek left Tiffany Glass Studios and opened his own bronze architectural company in a loft, called the John Polacheck Bronze & Iron Works Company at 480-494 Hancock Street & 577-591 Boulevard, Long Island City, Queens. But three months la... | 1.992188 | 0 |
75657015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mater%20Dei%20Parish | Mater Dei Parish | Mater Dei Parish (French: Paroisse Mater Dei), also known simply as Mater Dei, is a Roman Catholic parish church located in the Kimbondo neighborhood of the Mont Ngafula commune, within the Lukunga District in Kinshasa, situated in the western region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is part of the Ital... | 2.078125 | 0 |
75657358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Esfahani | Judeo-Esfahani | Judeo-Esfahani, also spelled Judeo-Isfahani, is a spoken variety of the Judeo-Iranian languages. It originated in Isfahan, Iran, and is used today in Israel and the United States. In 2023 there were an estimated 2,000-7,000 speakers of Judeo-Esfahani, compared to 100,000 in 1900.
History
Judeo-Esfahani is part of the ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
75657977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candelaria%20Rodr%C3%ADguez | Candelaria Rodríguez | Early life and education
Candelaria Rodríguez Hernández was born on 23 October 1928 in Havana, Cuba into the affluent family of a middle-class merchant. She attended elementary and secondary Catholic schools, before enrolling in law courses at University of Havana. She graduated in 1949 with a Doctorate of Law winning ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
75658035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Alice%20Douglas | Mary Alice Douglas | Mary Alice Douglas (1860–1941) was an English headmistress at Godolphin School.
Early life and education
She was born 29 November 1860 at Salwarpe, Worcestershire, the eighth of sixteen children of rector William Douglas and his wife Frances, née How. Educated at home, she taught at Worcester Girls’ High School at th... | 2.171875 | 0 |
75658222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuettlingeria%20soralifera | Kuettlingeria soralifera | Kuettlingeria soralifera is a saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen species in the family Teloschistaceae, first described in 2006. It is similar to Kuettlingeria xerica but distinguished by the presence of soredia on its thallus.
Taxonomy
Caloplaca soralifera was described by the lichenologists Jan Vondrák and ... | 2.125 | 0 |
75658284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20of%20Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric%20Chopin | Heart of Frédéric Chopin | Composer Frédéric Chopin had poor health throughout his life. He suffered from respiratory problems, chronic diarrhea, and weight loss. As an adult, he weighed less than . In 1849, knowing that he would soon die, Chopin made arrangements for his funeral. He had a fear of being buried alive (taphophobia) and requested t... | 2.953125 | 0 |
75658781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Lithuanian%20offensive%20of%20October%201920 | Central Lithuanian offensive of October 1920 | The Central Lithuanian offensive of October 1920 was a military offensive of the Central Lithuanian Army ordered by General Lucjan Żeligowski against the Lithuanian army in October 1920 and was a continuation of Żeligowski's Mutiny that began on October 8.
Background
After General Żeligowski's "Mutiny" Polish troops ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
75659084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuettlingeria%20teicholyta | Kuettlingeria teicholyta | Apothecia in Kuettlingeria teicholyta, though uncommon, are quite conspicuous when present. They can reach up to 0.8 mm in diameter and are scattered or sometimes crowded on the thallus. Initially, these apothecia are immersed within the thallus and deeply concave, but they eventually become flat. The , when present, i... | 2.015625 | 0 |
75659195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laid%20edges | Laid edges | Laid edges, also called slayed edges or swooped edges, refers to a style of arranging the fine "baby hairs" at the edge of the hairline into flat, decorative waves or swirls. The style is sometimes referred to as simply baby hairs, and originates with African-American fashions of the 1990s.
History
The inspiration f... | 2.546875 | 0 |
75659252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith%20and%20Confidence | Faith and Confidence | Faith and Confidence is a Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph of two-year-old Allan Weaver asking police officer Maurice Cullinane a question. The 1957 image was captured by photographer William C. Beall in Washington, D.C.
Beall was the chief photographer for The Washington Daily News and he attended a parade in Chinat... | 2.328125 | 0 |
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