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75659500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20A.%20Rothschild%20%26%20S%C3%B6hne | M. A. Rothschild & Söhne | After Amschel's death in 1855, the management of the bank officially passed to his nephews Mayer Carl von Rothschild (1820–1886) and Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild (1828–1901), both of which had been partners since 1852. From then on, the bank was managed prudently but increasingly lost prominence against more dynamic com... | 2.125 | 0 |
75659622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aceria%20cynodoniensis | Aceria cynodoniensis | Aceria cynodoniensis, the bermudagrass mite, is widely distributed, but only infests bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) and its hybrids. It lives and develops under the leaf sheaths of its host plant. Infestations of the mite can cause destructive damage to bermudagrass turf and it is often regarded as a harmful pest.
Di... | 2.96875 | 0 |
75659753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Institute%20for%20Rubber%20Technology | German Institute for Rubber Technology | The German Institute for Rubber Technology. is a publicly funded nonprofit organization, based in Hanover Germany, whose purpose is the advancement of applied research in rubber technology. The mission includes both the chemical and physical behavior of rubber, and the reduction to practice of applications. It has been... | 2.0625 | 0 |
75659955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%202024%20United%20Kingdom%20budget | March 2024 United Kingdom budget | The March 2024 United Kingdom budget was delivered to the House of Commons by Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on 6 March 2024. It was the second budget presented by Hunt since his appointment as Chancellor, the last to be delivered during his tenure as chancellor and the last budget to be presented by the... | 1.96875 | 0 |
75660305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksa%20Shatkivsky | Oleksa Shatkivsky | Shatkivsky died in Lviv on 28 June 1979, and is buried in the Lychakiv Cemetery, plot No. 32. The gravestone was designed by Theodosia Bryzh.
In 1981, a large posthumous exhibition of his works took place in Lviv and Ternopil.
Works
Oleksa Shatkivsky's works are housed in the Lviv and Lutsk art galleries, the Nation... | 1.921875 | 0 |
71335814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-linked%20Charcot%E2%80%93Marie%E2%80%93Tooth%20disease | X-linked Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease | X-linked Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 1: This subtype is characterized by childhood-onset progressive severe muscle weakness and atrophy of the distal lower limbs and intrinsic hand muscles, bilateral foot drop, high-arched feet, hyporeflexia or areflexia of the tendons, and variable sensory loss of the lower limbs... | 2.609375 | 0 |
71336892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20Noxolo | Patricia Noxolo | Patricia Noxolo is a British geographer who is a professor at the University of Birmingham. She is the Chair of the Society for Caribbean Studies.
Early life and education
Noxolo was born in Birmingham. She was an undergraduate student at the University of Manchester, where she studied French studies. She earned her ... | 2.25 | 0 |
71338593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ll%20Never%20Tire%20of%20You | I'll Never Tire of You | "I'll Never Tire of You" is a 1941 big band song written by Richard Kollmar, Cy Walter and Jimmy Dobson. The song was copyrighted on September 6, 1941. It was recorded in New York City on November 12, 1941, by the Sam Donahue Orchestra as a RCA Victor - Bluebird 78 rpm single. There were four takes. The master recordin... | 2.015625 | 0 |
71338606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fay%20Chew%20Matsuda | Fay Chew Matsuda | Fay Chew Matsuda, born Fay Lai Chew (Chinese: 陈丽妃; pinyin: Chén Lìfēi; April 11, 1949 – July 24, 2020), was a Chinese American museum curator and activist. She directed the Museum of Chinese in America from 1997 to 2006.
Biography
Matsuda was born Fay Lai Chew, on April 11, 1949, in Manhattan to immigrants from Taisha... | 2.203125 | 0 |
71338785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%20Eastman | Gilbert Eastman | Gilbert Eastman (September 12, 1934 – December 2, 2006) was an American educator, actor, playwright, author, and television host. He acted in American Sign Language (ASL) plays and wrote many of them. Eastman taught and performed at the National Theatre of the Deaf (NTD), while writing and performing in many of their p... | 2.234375 | 0 |
71340188 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Tartar%20%281702%29 | HMS Tartar (1702) | HMS Tartar was a 32-gun fifth rate built by the Woolwich Dockyard in 1702. Her initial commissioning was in time for the War of the Spanish Succession. She partook in the Battle of Velez Malaga in 1704. She spent the rest of her career on counter piracy and trade protection patrols. She was rebuilt as a 20-gun sixth r... | 2.078125 | 0 |
71340902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio%20Tinto%20massacre | Rio Tinto massacre | On February 4, 1888, Spanish civil guards fired on a crowd of protesting Rio Tinto Company mineworkers in Zalamea, killing 13 and injuring 35.
Background
In early 1888, Anti-Smoke League agriculturalists and Rio Tinto workers came together to protest the company practice of open-air pyrite calcination in blast furna... | 2.46875 | 0 |
71341313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulken-Karoy | Ulken-Karoy | Ulken-Karoy or Ulken Karaoy, meaning "Big Karoy" (; or Большой Карой —Bolshoy Karoy), is a salt lake in Akzhar District, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan.
The lake lies about to the northwest of the northern end of larger Siletiteniz lake. to the east lies lake Teke. The nearest inhabited localities are Kulykol ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
71341575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amhara%20Association%20of%20America | Amhara Association of America | August to September 2022 War Crimes in Raya Kobo
On September 24, 2022, AAA released a report on atrocities committed against Amhara civilians by TPLF forces in Raya Kobo Woreda in North Wollo Zone of Amhara Region. The report stated at least 53 Amhara civilians were killed by TPLF militants since the full-scale invasi... | 1.9375 | 0 |
71342019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthes%20candalaga | Nepenthes candalaga | Nepenthes candalaga is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Mt. Candalaga, in the Municipality of Maragusan, Davao de Oro, island of Mindanao, Philippines. This bringing the total number of Nepenthes species in this island to 38, making Mindanao the island with the highest concentration of Nepenthes species in the Phili... | 2.21875 | 0 |
71342125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianxin%20Cai | Tianxin Cai | Cai Tianxin (, born March 3, 1963, in Taizhou, Zhejiang) is a Chinese mathematician, poet and essayist noted for his books Mathematical Legends, A Brief History of Mathematics, Mathematics an Arts, A Modern Introduction to Classical Number Theory, Little memory: my Childhood in Mao’s Time, etc. He is a professor in th... | 2.125 | 0 |
71342531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing%20cycling | Standing cycling | Standing cycling or cycling out of the saddle is a form of cycling in which the rider stands up while applying force to the pedals.
Muscle activation
One reason for cycling standing up is to vary the muscles used and avoid fatigue.
Efficiency and power output
Standing cycling is less efficient especially at lower in... | 3.09375 | 0 |
71342666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Trulli | Giovanni Trulli | Giovanni Trulli, latinized as Ioannes Trullius Verulanus (20 March 1599 – 27 December 1661), was an Italian surgeon, best known for examining Galileo's blindness. He taught surgery at the La Sapienza and worked at the Santo Spirito Hospital.
Trulli was born in Veroli where his father's name is recorded as Leonardo whi... | 2.640625 | 0 |
71342686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabana-Merquly | Rabana-Merquly | Rabana-Merquly is a cluster of archaeological sites in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It consists of at least two separate fortified settlements, Rabana and Merquly, and at least two rock reliefs, probably all dating to the Middle Parthian period ( CE). It has been suggested that Rabana-Merquly was t... | 2.3125 | 0 |
71342728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardised%20Precipitation%20Evapotranspiration%20Index | Standardised Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index | The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) is a multiscalar drought index based on climatic data. It was developed by Vicente-Serrano et al. (2010) at the Institute Pirenaico de Ecologia in Zaragoza, Spain. It can be used for determining the onset, duration and magnitude of drought conditions with r... | 2.28125 | 0 |
71343353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20L.%20Hayes%20Jr. | Thomas L. Hayes Jr. | On February 20, 1942, Hayes took part in a bomber escort of A-20 Havocs and LB-30 Liberators on a bombing mission against Japanese ships off Bali. After the formation reached over south of Bali, they were intercepted by Japanese A6M Zeroes. During the dogfight, Hayes's P-40 was attacked and damaged by the Zeros. As a r... | 2.171875 | 0 |
71343353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20L.%20Hayes%20Jr. | Thomas L. Hayes Jr. | During World War II, Hayes was credited with the destruction of 8.5 enemy aircraft in aerial combat plus 1 probable and 1 shared destruction in missions over Europe. He was also credited with 2 enemy aircraft destroyed on the ground while strafing an enemy airfield in the Pacific.
While serving with the 357th FG, he fl... | 2.328125 | 0 |
71344983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939%20Nobel%20Prize%20in%20Literature | 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature | The 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Finnish writer Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888–1964) "for his deep understanding of his country’s peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature." He is the first and the only Finnish recipient of the pri... | 2.578125 | 0 |
71345107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Musgrave%20of%20Bewcastle | Thomas Musgrave of Bewcastle | In July 1596 Musgrave was captured, despite trying to find refuge at Brackenhill, and taken into Scotland by Kinmont Willie Armstrong and transferred to royal custody at Hawick. James VI was said to be pleased because Musgrave was a lawful prisoner in comparison with Armstrong's recent detention at Carlisle Castle. He ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
71345296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucocoprinus%20griseofloccosus | Leucocoprinus griseofloccosus | Leucocoprinus griseofloccosus is a species of mushroom producing fungus in the family Agaricaceae.
Taxonomy
It was first described in 2018 by the French mycologists Vincent Lagardère & Guillaume Eyssartier from specimens found in 2017 in Mouréou, Arengosse in the South West Landes region of France. It was noted to be... | 2.046875 | 0 |
71345322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snijders%20Blok%E2%80%93Campeau%20syndrome | Snijders Blok–Campeau syndrome | Snijders Blok–Campeau syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by mutations in the CHD3 gene. It is characterized by impaired intellectual development, macrocephaly, dysarthria and apraxia of speech, and certain distinctive facial features.
Snijders Blok–Campeau syndrome is typically a de novo mutation which generally oc... | 2.921875 | 0 |
71345459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Returning%20to%20Haifa | Returning to Haifa | The novel narrates that on this date, there was an explosion in Haifa coming from Mount Carmel. Said S felt overwhelmed as he saw everything getting worse, from armies arriving to more explosions happening, making it hard for him to navigate through. He and Safiya were on opposite sides of the city; as she rushed throu... | 2.015625 | 0 |
71345459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Returning%20to%20Haifa | Returning to Haifa | According to Israeli sociologist Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani, "the tremendous resonance in the media of 'Return to Haifa' established Kanafani's status at the apex of Palestinian and Arab culture. Despite his critical position towards the Jews, he sees them in the story; he speaks with Jews and gives them agency. That w... | 2.078125 | 0 |
71345884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucocoprinus%20cygneus | Leucocoprinus cygneus | Leucocoprinus cygneus is a species of mushroom producing fungus in the family Agaricaceae.
Taxonomy
It was first described in 1940 by the Danish mycologist Jakob Emanuel Lange who classified it as Lepiota cygnea until 1952 when it was classified as Pseudobaeospora cygnea by the French mycologist Marcel Locquin.
In 1... | 2.140625 | 0 |
71346095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat%20of%20arms%20of%20Police | Coat of arms of Police | The coat of arms of the town of Police in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland depicts the head of a red griffin with a yellow (golden) beak, and a yellow (golden) crown, place on the white (silver) background.
Design
The coat of arms is a white (silver) Iberian style escutcheon with square top and rounded base. It de... | 2.53125 | 0 |
71346185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos%20Morris-Reich | Amos Morris-Reich | Photography and Jewish History
Morris-Reich's 2022 book Photography and Jewish History: Five Twentieth Century Cases turns to five twentieth-century cases in which photography and Jewish history intersect: Albert Kahn's utopian attempt to establish a photographic archive in Paris in order to advance world peace; the f... | 2.328125 | 0 |
71346297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fairest%20of%20Roses%20%28Magle%29 | The Fairest of Roses (Magle) | The Fairest of Roses (Danish: Den yndigste rose) is a fanfare for two trumpets and organ written in 2017 by Frederik Magle and published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen.
The work was premiered in Saint Paul's church in Copenhagen on 3 December 2017, on the occasion of the church's 140-year jubilee as well as the rededicati... | 2.265625 | 0 |
71346326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan%20Chiau%20Jit%20Pao | Nan Chiau Jit Pao | Nan Chiau Jit Pao (, also known as the Nan Chiau Jit Pau), was a pro-communist Chinese-language newspaper published in Singapore. Founded by Tan Kah Kee, it was an organ of the China Democratic League in Singapore. It was banned along with the Xian Dai Ri Bao in 1950.
History
The Nan Chiau Jit Pao was founded by promi... | 2.09375 | 0 |
71346490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLASS-z12 | GLASS-z12 | GLASS-z12 (formerly known as GLASS-z13) is a Lyman-break galaxy discovered by the Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS) observing program using the James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam in July 2022. Spectroscopic observations of GLASS-z12 by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in August 2022 confirmed tha... | 2.375 | 0 |
71347140 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfspined%20flathead | Halfspined flathead | The halfspined flathead (Ratabulus prionotus) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Platycephalidae, the flatheads. This species is found in the western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.
Taxonomy
The halfspined flathead was first formally described as Platycephalus prionotus in 1873 by the French ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
71347236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writers%27%20assistant | Writers' assistant | Writers' assistant is a junior role in the television industry, providing clerical support and record keeping for writers' room meetings and basic office support for writing teams.
Job description
The term "writer's assistant" is somewhat of a misnomer; the person in this position assists the "writing process" more th... | 1.953125 | 0 |
71347627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptogyps | Cryptogyps | History and naming
Cryptogyps has a long and complicated taxonomic history. It was initially described as “Taphaetus” lacertosus by Charles Walter De Vis in 1905 based on the lower part of a humerus and a quadrate bone of Middle-Late Pleistocene age, found around Kalamurina in South Australia. The assignment of the fos... | 2.703125 | 0 |
71347660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards%20S.%20Sanford | Edwards S. Sanford | At the start of the U.S. Civil War, he volunteered his expertise in telegraph communications to the Union Army and was commissioned a Colonel of the U.S. Volunteers and served as Military Supervisor of Telegraphic Messages for the Union Army. In April 1861, the lines of the American Telegraph Company "were extended fro... | 2.421875 | 0 |
71347842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Woman%20Reading | Old Woman Reading | Dou depicts the old woman in a remarkably realistic approach for his time by Northern European standards. He gives the viewer the feeling that he is close to the old woman, while she does not seem to notice it because of her rendering in profile and concentration on reading. The use of chiaroscuro, which he had learned... | 2.140625 | 0 |
71348114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristo%20Kondak%C3%A7i | Kristo Kondakçi | Kristo Kondakçi (born 30 June 1991) is an Albanian-American conductor, recognized for his influential roles in the music community and his commitment to social impact through music. He currently serves as the David and Janet McCue music director of the Kendall Square Orchestra, where he actively collaborates with profe... | 2.109375 | 0 |
71348314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qikiqtania | Qikiqtania | CT scans of the rock containing the fin revealed a complete limb inside. These scans allowed the describing authors to better understand and interpret the fossil material. The fin bones of Qikiqtania were not sturdy enough to support its body on land, so it would have lived entirely in the water. Its humerus does not s... | 2.78125 | 0 |
71348627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual%20and%20music%20system | Ritual and music system | The Chinese ritual and music system () is a social system that originated in the Zhou dynasty to maintain the social order. Together with the patriarchal system, it constituted the social system of the entire ancient China and had a great influence on the politics, culture, art and thought of later generations. The feu... | 3.140625 | 0 |
71349389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro%20de%20la%20Sota%20%28footballer%29 | Alejandro de la Sota (footballer) | Alejandro de la Sota Izagirre (1881 – 8 February 1963) was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward for Athletic Club. He was one of the most important figures in the early history of Athletic, having been one of its co-founders in 1901, as well as a team captain, and then serving as the seventh president of the cl... | 2.1875 | 0 |
71349564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US%20Senate%20career%20of%20Strom%20Thurmond | US Senate career of Strom Thurmond | In November 1987, Thurmond introduced legislation that if enacted would require "alcoholic beverages to carry health warning labels similar to those on cigarettes", saying the legislation would be effective if it prevented anyone from drinking while being in a compromising position of health. The following year, Thurmo... | 2.046875 | 0 |
71349663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Romani | Early Romani | Grammar
The morphology exhibited a split between two strata - native (including both inherited words and loans from before the immigration into the Byzantine Empire) and foreign (predominantly loans from Byzantine Greek and some from Slavic; later borrowings from other languages also join this group in descendant diale... | 2.515625 | 0 |
71349663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Romani | Early Romani | Definite article
Early Romani had a definite article, which was also used, as in Greek, with proper nouns and to express generic reference in various constructions (e.g. content or origin, lit. 'made out of the X'). The exact forms are difficult to reconstruct due to great dialectal variation. According to Yaron Matra... | 2.65625 | 0 |
71349663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Romani | Early Romani | Adjectival suffixes and prefixes
Adjectives were formed with various native suffixes ending in -no and -lo: -alo, -valo, -no, -ano, -ikano, -uno, -utno, -avno, e.g. balo 'pig (noun)' - balikano 'pig (adj.)'. Only -no could also be used with borrowed stems.
With foreign stems, the Greek suffix -itiko was used.
The ge... | 2.71875 | 0 |
71349663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Romani | Early Romani | Verbal suffixes
Verbs could be formed from non-verbs by the addition of the verbs d- 'give' and ker- 'do': e.g. kan-d- 'to give ear', i.e. 'to listen', buti-ker- 'to do work', i.e. 'to work'. The second could also be added to verb roots to produce a causative meaning: mar-ker- 'to cause to beat'.
There was an archaic... | 2.40625 | 0 |
71349663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Romani | Early Romani | There also appears to have been a newer, competing intransitive marker -áv-, originating from the verb av- 'to come' (but nevertheless receiving the stress). The older intransitive marker -(j)ov- (past stem allomorph (j)il-) was obligatorily added to it (forming a combination meaning literally 'to become one that has c... | 1.9375 | 0 |
71349865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phebe%20Ann%20Jacobs | Phebe Ann Jacobs | Phebe Ann Jacobs (July 1785 – February 28, 1850) was an American Congregationalist, laundress, and free woman. Best known for her posthumous biography Narrative of Phebe Ann Jacobs, Jacobs was born into slavery on the Beverwyck plantation in Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey.
During her life, she was enslaved by the family of... | 1.960938 | 0 |
71350094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Catherine%20Blaikie | Margaret Catherine Blaikie | She was the first president of the Free Church of Scotland Manse Ladies' Temperance Association, formed in 1884, and became one of the two president of the United Free Church of Scotland Manse Ladies' Temperance Association, when the two churches (United Presbyterian and the Free Church of Scotland) united in 1900. On ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
71350128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portages%20of%20New%20Zealand | Portages of New Zealand | The Whau river and portage serves as a rohe (boundary) point between Te Kawerau ā Maki and the tribes of the Auckland isthmus: Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei and in earlier times the Waiohua.
In the latter 19th century, a canal was proposed along the Whau Portage, however this was abandoned after the North Island Main Trunk rail... | 2.703125 | 0 |
71350437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isola%20Rizza%20dish | Isola Rizza dish | The Isola Rizza dish is a sixth-century silver dish with a relief medallion in the centre depicting a scene of warfare. It was part of a hoard discovered by a local in a field near the parish church in Isola Rizza in the winter of 1873. Besides the dish, the hoard contained six silver spoons, two silver and gold disc f... | 2.6875 | 0 |
71350510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanda%20Nandan%20Mahapatra | Nanda Nandan Mahapatra | Nanda Nandan Mahapatra (born 14 March 1959) is an Indian textile technocrat and author of books on textiles.
Early life and education
N. N. Mahapatra was born in Cuttack, Odisha. He went on to do B.Sc. Tech in Textile Chemistry from University Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT) now it is ICT (Institute of Chemi... | 2.15625 | 0 |
71350605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Schwinge | Friedrich Schwinge | He began to have marital difficulties in 1898, after Fernanda's son, Edgar, died at the age of twenty-three. The divorce was finalized in 1904. A few months later, he married Martha Christine Margarethe Hüttmann, the daughter of a coal dealer, who was twenty-five years his junior.
In August, 1913, as many as twenty of... | 2.046875 | 0 |
71351393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment%20in%20Samoa | Capital punishment in Samoa | Capital punishment is not a legal penalty in Samoa. The death penalty was used in the colonial era, but the practice had ceased by the time of independence in 1962, with death sentences being commuted to life imprisonment, and it was formally abolished in 2004. The last execution was carried out in 1952.
Colonial era
... | 2.640625 | 0 |
71351474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinia%20leptantha | Darwinia leptantha | Darwinia leptantha is a flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is an upright, small shrub with white flowers turning pink with age, triangular-shaped leaves and is endemic to New South Wales.
Description
Darwinia leptantha is an upright shrub high with smooth, flattened leaves long. The slender tubular flowers ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
71351598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952%20Nobel%20Prize%20in%20Literature | 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature | The 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French Catholic writer François Mauriac (1885–1970) "for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life." He is the eight French author to receive the prize after the novelist André Gide in 19... | 2.296875 | 0 |
71351729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955%20Nobel%20Prize%20in%20Literature | 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature | Nominations
In total, the Nobel Committee received 59 nominations for 46 writers. 17 of the nominees were newly nominated including Ezra Pound, Edith Sitwell, Adriaan Roland Holst, William Somerset Maugham, Eugenio Montale (awarded in 1975), Henri Bosco, Ernst Robert Curtius, Giorgos Seferis (awarded in 1963), Saint-Jo... | 2.359375 | 0 |
71352804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyotirmoy%20Ghosh | Jyotirmoy Ghosh | Jyotirmoy Ghosh (Jyotirmay, Jyotirmaya) (1896–1965) was an Indian mathematician, physicist, academic, writer, and a practitioner of homeopathic medicine. He frequently published non-academic works under the alias Bhaskar (Bhaskara, Baskar) Ghosh.
Early life and education
Ghosh was born on January 1, 1896, in the villa... | 2.140625 | 0 |
71352813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto%3A%20An%20Unexplored%20Corner%20of%20Japan | Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan | Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan is a travel book written by the American businessman, mathematician and astronomer Percival Lowell, first published in 1891. It is dedicated to the British academic and Japanologist Basil Hall Chamberlain.
Lowell lived in Japan periodically from 1883–1893, and the book is one of thr... | 2.5 | 0 |
71353445 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | Desert Reconnaissance Battalion | The DRB was founded in the late 1980s. It has largely served on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. It has a base nearby at Kissufim. The battalion serves alongside the Bedouin Trackers on patrols, using tracking techniques to search for terrorists and to prevent infiltration of the border. Because some me... | 2.03125 | 0 |
68448095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retreat%20of%20the%20state%2C%20advance%20of%20the%20private%20sector | Retreat of the state, advance of the private sector | Retreat of the state, advance of the private sector, or state retreats and people advance, known in Chinese as guo jin min tui (国进民退), is an economic term referring to the phenomenon of private companies moving forward as state-owned enterprises retreat from economic life. In the Chinese context, the notion specificall... | 2.0625 | 0 |
68448126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Godfrey | Ed Godfrey | Broadcast news career
Godfrey's 41 year journalism career saw him become a news director by steadily moving up the ranks, starting as a film news photographer, then news producer and finally news director. He maintained a life-long insistence on integrity in journalism. A staunch defender of the First Amendment, he als... | 1.992188 | 0 |
68448206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20H.%20Lattin | Frank H. Lattin | In 1896, Lattin retired from the natural history business and began studying at the University of Buffalo Medical School. He graduated from there in 1899, after which he worked as a physician and surgeon. He also worked as a fruit grower, with farms in Orleans and Oswego Counties. His farms included over 200 acres of a... | 2.015625 | 0 |
68448441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belter%20Creole | Belter Creole | The pronunciation of the language was developed by Nick Farmer and Eric Armstrong, a dialect coach. During development, they came to the conclusion that the language's pronunciation and tone had become too similar to that of Jamaican English. As a result, Armstrong suggested that Farmer make various modifications to th... | 2.203125 | 0 |
68448441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belter%20Creole | Belter Creole | Tenses and aspects
The language has three basic tenses which are the past, the present, and the future. Sentences without tense indicators are in the present tense. For example: mi showxa, which means I speak. The past tense is indicated by adding ta after the pronoun. For example: mi ta showxa, which means I spoke. T... | 3.25 | 0 |
68448441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belter%20Creole | Belter Creole | Novel language
The concept of the language had appeared for the first time in the 2011 book Leviathan Wakes, published under the pen name James S. A. Corey, used by the collaborators Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. Following that, Belter Creole had appeared in the next books from The Expanse series. The language present... | 2.25 | 0 |
68448490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad%20Kurzbold | Conrad Kurzbold | Conrad's historically significant achievement was his victory at the Battle of Andernach on October 2, 939, in which he, together with his cousin Odo of Wetterau defeated the dukes Eberhard of Franconia (a cousin of Conrad and Odo) and Gilbert of Lorraine, who were in revolt against Otto the Great. With the greater pa... | 2.453125 | 0 |
68448505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle%20Alcock | Merle Alcock | Merle Alcock, born Merle Tillotson, (February 6, 1884 - March 1, 1975) was an American contralto who sang with the Metropolitan Opera in 236 performances from 1919 to 1929, officially signing in with them in 1924.
Early life and education
Born Merle Tillotson in Andover, Missouri on February 6, 1884, Merle Alcock was ... | 2.25 | 0 |
68449099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neston%20Town%20Hall | Neston Town Hall | The foundation stone for the new building was laid by the wife of a member of the local board, John Gaitskell Churton, on 6 September 1888. It was designed by David Walker of Liverpool in the Queen Anne style, built by William Pritchard of Little Neston in red brick with stone dressings at a cost of £2,000 and was comp... | 2.34375 | 0 |
68449208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundisalvus%20of%20Lagos | Gundisalvus of Lagos | Gundisalvus of Lagos, O.E.S.A. (; – 15 October 1422) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and Augustinian friar.
Gundisalvus was the prior of several Augustinian houses, among them the important Convent of Our Lady of Grace in Lisbon (the seat of the Province of Portugal of the Augustinians). He was a theologian and prea... | 1.914063 | 0 |
68449304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie%20exchanger | Tie exchanger | The tie extractor/inserter arrives on site, and begins its work by identifying a tie for removal.
The operator stops the vehicle so the arm is positioned directly above the tie to be removed, and then drops rollers which have clamps attached to them. These clamps grab the rails and lift them slightly to make extractin... | 2.125 | 0 |
68449669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babo%20Jan | Babo Jan | Mirmon Halima also known as Babo Jan or Bobo Jan (fl. 1880), was an Afghan royal consort. She was married to Abdur Rahman Khan (r. 1880–1901).
Biography
She was born to Amir Dost Mohammed Khan, the confidant and adviser of Abdur Rahman Khan.
She was one of the many wives of the king. It was the custom of the monarc... | 2.640625 | 0 |
68450165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asela%20Mera%20de%20Jorge | Asela Mera de Jorge | Asela Altagracia Mera Checo de Jorge (December 28, 1933 – June 14, 2007) was a Dominican politician, women's rights activist, and member of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD). She served as the First Lady of the Dominican Republic from 1982 to 1986 during the presidency of her husband, Salvador Jorge Blanco. Asela... | 2.03125 | 0 |
68450365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20B.%20Young | P. B. Young | Plummer Bernard Young Sr. (July 27, 1884 – October 9, 1962), better known as P. B. Young was a newspaper editor, publisher, community leader, and founder of the Norfolk Journal and Guide. He was African American.
Early life and education
Plummer Bernard Young was born July 27, 1884, in Littleton, North Carolina. His f... | 2.25 | 0 |
68450625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompholobium%20hendersonii | Gompholobium hendersonii | Gompholobium hendersonii is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with simple leaves, and red and purplish-brown, pea-like flowers.
Description
Gompholobium hendersonii is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
68451200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20Storm%20Fred%20%282021%29 | Tropical Storm Fred (2021) | Fred's circulation continued to become better defined as reconnaissance aircraft data further confirmed the storm had intensified slightly with winds at . Shortly after, Fred made landfall just west of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic at around 18:00 UTC that day. Fred's circulation was quickly disrupted by the ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
68451200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20Storm%20Fred%20%282021%29 | Tropical Storm Fred (2021) | Around 39,200 users of Duke Energy in the Carolinas lost electricity as trees across the state were knocked down while Fred moved north. Even before Fred, some areas had as much as six inches of rain in three days, so the ground was saturated. Fred caused record-breaking flooding in some portions of western North Carol... | 2.203125 | 0 |
68452425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaffa%20Gola%20Dewerahmedo | Chaffa Gola Dewerahmedo | Chaffa Gola Dewerahmedo ("Chaffa Gola and Dewerahmedo") was a woreda in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Oromia Zone, Chaffa Gola Dewerahmedo was bordered on the south by Artuma Fursi Jilee, on the southwest by the Semien Shewa Zone, on the west by the Debub Wollo Zone, on the north by Baati, and on the east ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
68452659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesuba | Gesuba | Gesuba (Ge'ez: ገሱባ) or (Wolaita: Gasuubba) is a city in Offa Woreda, Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia. The approximate distance from the town of Sodo is about 33 kilometers to Southwest. And also the distance from Addis Ababa to Gesuba is 352 km via Butajira-Sodo to South. Gesuba town is used as an administrative capital of Off... | 2.296875 | 0 |
68452692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channa%20aurolineata | Channa aurolineata | Channa aurolineata is a species of Asian snakehead in the family Channidae. It is found natively in most of Myanmar's waterways as well as the Mae Khlong drainage in Thailand. There is also an invasive population found in Southeast Florida, United States. This species was recently split from C. marulius, the bullseye s... | 2.203125 | 0 |
68453225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/127th%20Rifle%20Division%20%28May%201943%20formation%29 | 127th Rifle Division (May 1943 formation) | From January 1945 the 127th attacked during the Vistula–Oder, Sandomierz–Silesian, Lower Silesian, and Berlin Offensives. On 25 April Mladentsev was transferred to serve as deputy commander of the 120th Rifle Corps, and Colonel Nikolai Viktorovich Krasovsky, commander of the 197th Rifle Division of the army, took comma... | 2.125 | 0 |
68453702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Comics%20Grid | The Comics Grid | The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal covering comics studies. The journal also publishes scholarly articles in comics form.
History
The project was originally conceived between 2009 and 2010 by comics scholars Roberto Bartual, Esther Claudio, Ernesto Priego, Gr... | 1.992188 | 0 |
68453981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Kelley%20mansion | Alfred Kelley mansion | The Alfred Kelley mansion was a historic house in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. It was the home of Alfred Kelley, built in 1838. The house stayed in the family for decades, and was later an Ohio governor's mansion, and further on, a Catholic school. It was abandoned in the 1950s, and was deconstructed in 1961 in order to bu... | 2.28125 | 0 |
68453981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Kelley%20mansion | Alfred Kelley mansion | The Kelley mansion was abandoned around 1959, and vandals ruined much of its interior. Around 1960, the building and its land were sold to a developer who built the Christopher Inn, and the Kelley house was offered for free to anyone willing to move it. In March 1961, the Ohio Historical Society and Franklin County His... | 2.140625 | 0 |
68454062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raosaheb%20Gogte | Raosaheb Gogte | Balkrishna Mahadev Gogte (IAST: Bāḷakr̥shṇa Mahādeva Gogaṭe; 16 September 1916 – 26 February 2000), known colloquially as Raosaheb Gogte (IAST: Rāvasāheba Gogaṭe), was an Indian lawyer, industrialist, philanthropist and educationist.
Gogte was the founder of the Gogte Group of companies, involved in mining, minerals,... | 1.953125 | 0 |
68454213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Gilbert%20Livingston | Robert Gilbert Livingston | Maj. Robert Gilbert Livingston (December 24, 1712 – August 27, 1789) was an American merchant and a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War.
Early life
Livingston was born on December 24, 1712, in Kingston in the Province of New York, a part of British America. He was the eldest of fourteen children born to Cor... | 2.3125 | 0 |
68454306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Schott | Johannes Schott | Some 130 titles from his press are known, but the real number probably exceeds 150. They include many humanistic works (from Italian scholars and Germans, particularly Ulrich von Hutten), and also classical literature. When Martin Luther began his efforts to reform the Catholic church, Schott put his press to the servi... | 2.015625 | 0 |
68454437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Together%20for%20the%20Gospel | Together for the Gospel | Together for the Gospel (T4G) was a biennial conference for Christian leaders. It was formed in 2006 by Mark Dever, Ligon Duncan, C. J. Mahaney, and Albert Mohler. These men were all associated with the New Calvinism movement although they differed on issues such as baptism and charismatic gifts. The first conference a... | 1.929688 | 0 |
68454851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20L%C3%A9a%20Salgado-Labouriau | Maria Léa Salgado-Labouriau | Maria Léa Salgado-Labouriau (2 August 1931 – 13 July 2013) was a Brazilian scientist specialised in palaeobotany whose work in present and past ecology led her to be internationally known in her field. She was an emeritus professor at the University of Brasília (Brazil).
Biography and scientific career
Maria Léa was ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
68455758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotiana%20insecticida | Nicotiana insecticida | Nicotiana insecticida is a species of plant of the family Solanaceae native to Western Australia. A wild tobacco, it is covered in sticky glandular hairs that trap and kill small insects, including gnats, aphids, and flies. It is the first wild tobacco plant discovered to kill insects. It grows to a height of and has ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
68455897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/96th%20Guards%20Rifle%20Division | 96th Guards Rifle Division | On June 25 the 28th Army broke into the lines of the 35th and 129th Infantry Divisions in five places. The 129th Infantry, by now reduced to the size of a regiment, was forced to rotate to the west, leaving a gap on its corps' north flank. Meanwhile, the 18th Rifle Corps of 65th Army was scattering the remnants of 35th... | 2.21875 | 0 |
68455955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1837%20Poonch%20Revolt | 1837 Poonch Revolt | In 1832, Gulab Singh and his brother Dhian Singh made an appeal to Ranjit Singh, requesting him to put an end to the resistance of Poonch. Their appeal was accepted, and Ranjit Singh attacked Poonch with an army numbering up to sixty-thousand, bringing with him an assortment of hill-cannons. The hill-cannons were parti... | 2.359375 | 0 |
68456850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatle%20Country | Beatle Country | The Beatles' songs the Charles River Valley Boys selected for the album varied chronologically from the December 1963 B-side "I Saw Her Standing There" to the August 1966 A-side "Yellow Submarine". Some picks were from the Beatles' latest and increasingly experimental releases, which Turner writes allowed the album to ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
68457018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellion%20of%20Sheikh%20Ahmad%20Madani | Rebellion of Sheikh Ahmad Madani | In 1732 Mohammad Khan Baloch was sent with some 12,000 men to destroy Sheikh Ahmad Madani. However, he instead dealt with his own feud with the governor of Jahrom and did nothing to stop the rebels. In the autumn of 1733 Mohammad Khan Baloch revolted against Tahmasp Qoli Khan with the help of Sheikh Ahmad Madani, and t... | 2.34375 | 0 |
68457334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampette | Lampette | The miniature 12-volt DC automotive-type #93 lightbulb utilized by Tensor, Lampette, and other designers of similar products, are smaller than the standard household 110/220-volt AC incandescent light bulb but produced more lumens in a smaller area, so that the lamp bulbs burn out at an increased rate. While standard b... | 2.125 | 0 |
68457782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado%20outbreak%20of%20July%2028%E2%80%9329%2C%202021 | Tornado outbreak of July 28–29, 2021 | An unusually prolific summer tornado outbreak affected parts of the Northern United States from the late evening and overnight hours of July 28 into the early morning hours of July 29. It started with a powerful line of severe thunderstorms that produced widespread damaging straight-line winds and multiple embedded wea... | 2.21875 | 0 |
68458542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torreya%20Guardians | Torreya Guardians | The Torreya Guardians is a self-organized group of conservationists dedicated to facilitating the assisted migration of the Florida torreya by rewilding it further north than its native range in Florida and Georgia. Founded in the early 2000s, the group is often mentioned as an instigator of the assisted migration of f... | 2.734375 | 0 |
68458542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torreya%20Guardians | Torreya Guardians | Climate change
Climate change is increasing the average temperatures of American forests. Forests in the contiguous United States have experienced a 0.8 °C increase since 1900. That some native trees already lag in northward range expansion was known in the 20th Century, and has increased during 21st Century warming. ... | 2.9375 | 0 |
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