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75664744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peeter%20Pedaja | Peeter Pedaja | In 1951, he attempted to register a design for a "slot constructed toy house." His application was rejected, however, as he had only included one simple line drawing that was determined to be "not to the standard of a competent draughtsman."
In 1952, he advertised in The Age newspaper for young men to join him on an e... | 2.359375 | 0 |
75664852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphaea%20vaporalis | Nymphaea vaporalis | Nymphaea vaporalis is a species of waterlily endemic to Queensland, Australia.
Description
Vegetative characteristics
Nymphaea vaporalis is an annual or perennial species with globose rhizomes. The elliptic-suborbicular, 33 cm long, 28 cm wide leaves have an entire-sinuate margin.
Generative characteristics
The frag... | 2.171875 | 0 |
75665033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi%20ballistic%20missile%20attacks%20on%20Saudi%20Arabia | Iraqi ballistic missile attacks on Saudi Arabia | Between 18 January and 26 February 1991, Ba'athist Iraq launched 46 al-Husayn Scud missiles against Saudi Arabian and American military targets in Dhahran and the Saudi capital of Riyadh amidst the Gulf War. Attacks began hours after US General Norman Schwarzkopf emphasized large-scale efforts taken to comb the vast ex... | 2.421875 | 0 |
75665148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal%20drug%20trade%20in%20Lebanon | Illegal drug trade in Lebanon | In the 1980s, Syria, which had a significant military presence in Lebanon, particularly in the Beqaa Valley, played a central role in controlling and benefiting from the drug trade according to the Washington Post. Syrian military and intelligence officers stationed in the Beqaa were directly or indirectly involved in ... | 2.625 | 0 |
75665166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hodson%20Kearsley | John Hodson Kearsley | John Hodson Kearsley (28 February 1785 - 2 October 1842) was a British politician, who served as the Member of Parliament for Wigan from 1831 to 1832, and from 1835 to 1837.
Kearsley was the third son of Edward Kearsley and his wife Ann (née Hodson); his father was a partner in a Wigan cotton mill along with his mothe... | 2.234375 | 0 |
75665781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detty%20December%20%28Nigeria%29 | Detty December (Nigeria) | While Detty December is mostly associated with the cities, many of the returnees also use this opportunity to visit their countryside villages. Igbos refer to this as Nbịarute or ịlota ụlọ̀ (homecoming/Journeying home), during which close friends and families both from the diaspora and the cities specifically go home t... | 2.09375 | 0 |
75665910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry%20Falls%20Hydro-Electric%20Scheme | Kerry Falls Hydro-Electric Scheme | Operation
In 2002, the Renewables Obligation (Scotland) legislation was introduced. It was conceived as a way to promote the development of small-scale hydro-electric, wave power, tidal power, photovoltaics, wind power and biomas schemes, but by the time it came into force, the definition of small scale had been increa... | 2.71875 | 0 |
75665910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry%20Falls%20Hydro-Electric%20Scheme | Kerry Falls Hydro-Electric Scheme | Loch Bad an Sgalaig also receives some water from Loch na h-Oidhche, some distance to the south-east. This is a comparatively deep loch, with a maximum depth of . It has a surface area of , drains an area of , and is located at AOD. Its ouflow descends quite rapidly, but when it reaches Meall Lochan na Geala, a hill t... | 2.390625 | 0 |
75666385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Harvest%20of%20Death | A Harvest of Death | However, photographers didn't necessarily photograph their subjects as they found them. Photography remains a work of composition. With living subjects, one adopts a pose; with immobile corpses, as Susan Sontag points out, the photographer remains the one who arranges the elements in the image. Similarly, André Kaspi, ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
75666391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthaptychia%20aurantiaca | Xanthaptychia aurantiaca | Xanthaptychia aurantiaca, the Arctic orangebush lichen, is a species of terricolous (ground-dwelling), fruticose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae. This small orange lichen is endemic to the Canadian Arctic and is known from a few scattered collections across this region. It was classified as an endangered species b... | 2.34375 | 0 |
75666874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odonteus%20armiger | Odonteus armiger | Odonteus armiger is the only European species of the genus Odonteus. It belongs to the superfamily Scarabaeoidea. This species lives a very hidden life and is therefore little known about it, despite its wide distribution.
Description
Its body length is of . The deep black, shiny body is short, rounded, and strongly ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
75666979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediasound%20Studios | Mediasound Studios | Mediasound was an American independent recording studio facility located at 311 West 57th Street in New York City established in 1969 by Harry Hirsch and Bob Walters with financial backing from Joel Rosenman and John P. Roberts.
History
The studio was founded by former JAC Recording engineer Harry Hirsch and Bob Walt... | 1.929688 | 0 |
75667189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan%20intrastate%20war | Uruguayan intrastate war | The main Jail of the People, which remained in activity, was discovered on 26 May and its two prisoners, Ulysses Pereira Reverbel and Carlos Frick Davie were released. The jail was placed below a normal house in which a family lived. The Army had engaged in search and seizure in nearby homes, and carried out a large-sc... | 2.015625 | 0 |
75667305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal%20des%20gal%C3%A8res | Arsenal des galères | Master Antoine Moulinneuf: a galley surgeon
Born in La Rochelle in 1668, his personal and professional life is best known through the abundant correspondence he preserved. Fatherless from an early age, a surgeon-major had him embark with him "as surgeon" on the Hasardeux, Mr. Colbert de Saint-Mars's vessel, during the... | 2.125 | 0 |
75667441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halgaitosaurus | Halgaitosaurus | Halgaitosaurus is an extinct genus of araeoscelidian reptile from the late Pennsylvanian of Utah. It contains a single species, Halgaitosaurus gregarius, which is known from the "Virgilian" (Gzhelian)-age Halgaito Formation in Bears Ears National Monument. The fossils of Halgaitosaurus include a number of partial skele... | 2.765625 | 0 |
75667640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%20Venegas | Art Venegas | Arturo "Art" Venegas (born 1951) is a former track and field coach, specializing in the throwing events. During his coaching career, Venegas led 63 athletes to conference titles, and he coached 33 throwers to NCAA championships. The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) said that he "left ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
75667640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%20Venegas | Art Venegas | While at UCLA in 1994, Venegas was a defendant in a defamation lawsuit by Brent Noon, who alleged that Venegas spread rumors through the track community about Noon using steroids, which resulted in schools not recruiting him. They reached an undisclosed six-figure settlement outside of court. Two years later Noon teste... | 1.960938 | 0 |
75667721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira%20Sintra-Mele%C3%A7as%20railway%20station | Mira Sintra-Meleças railway station | Mira Sintra-Meleças Station () is a railway station located in the city of Sintra, Portugal. Located in the Western line, it is served by all Western line services as well as a CP Lisboa Sintra Line commuter service connecting to Rossio. It is operated by CP and managed by Infraestruturas de Portugal.
Service
The sta... | 1.9375 | 0 |
75667849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinhotel%20Dreesen | Rheinhotel Dreesen | In March 1945, General Richard Schimpf moved into the hotel, only to hand over Godesberg to the American troops the next day. The hotel then became the quarters of the American commander-in-chief and later President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower. After July 1945 the confiscated hotel was available as a con... | 2.15625 | 0 |
75667864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphaea%20%C3%97%20daubenyana | Nymphaea × daubenyana | Nymphaea × daubenyana is a species of waterlily endemic to Chad, but has been introduced to Florida, USA. It is a natural hybrid of Nymphaea micrantha and Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea.
Description
Vegetative characteristics
It has a tuberous rhizome. The cordate, elliptical-roundish, 30 cm wide leaves have an enti... | 2.125 | 0 |
75667959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seringia%20collina | Seringia collina | Seringia collina is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a low growing, small rounded shrub with hairy branches, oblong to egg-shaped leaves and usually purple flowers in groups of 3 to 6.
Description
Seringia collina is a low growing, small rounded suckering shrub t... | 2.578125 | 0 |
75668022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Luis%20Obispo%20County%20wine | San Luis Obispo County wine | On November 10, 2014, TTB issued the final rule in the Federal Register establishing eleven distinct appellations within the existing Paso Robles viticultural area.
The county's western terrain, where SLO Coast AVA lies, is composed of coastal terraces, foothills, and small valleys along the Pacific Coast oriented on a... | 2.296875 | 0 |
75668263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20expedition%20to%20Calabria%20%28788/789%29 | Byzantine expedition to Calabria (788/789) | Battle and aftermath
The Byzantines landed in Calabria and marched towards the border with the Duchy of Benevento. The main battle took place in Calabria, near the frontier. The Annals credits victory to the Franks and Lombards. Theophanes describes John as the commander "defeated by the Franks". He was captured in bat... | 2.40625 | 0 |
75668265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazel%20F.%20Lazear | Bazel F. Lazear | Actions at Second Battle of Independence
The battle unfolded in Independence, Missouri, where Lazear assumed a role in General Alfred Pleasonton's strategy for a synchronized assault. The objective was for General Brown's brigade to engage with support from Edward Winslow's men. However, the execution was slow, allowi... | 2.53125 | 0 |
75668427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza%20genocide | Gaza genocide | Since 2007, Israel and Hamas, along with other Palestinian militant groups based in Gaza, have engaged in conflict, including four wars in 2008–2009, 2012, 2014, and 2021. These conflicts killed approximately 6,400 Palestinians and 300 Israelis. In 2018–2019, there were large weekly organized protests near the Gaza-Isr... | 2.203125 | 0 |
75668612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Indian%20Chicago%20Conference | American Indian Chicago Conference | The American Indian Chicago Conference (AICC) was an influential, week-long conclave of 460 American Indians from 90 tribes from June 13 to June 20, 1961. One convener of the event, University of Chicago anthropologist Sol Tax, the founder of "action anthropology," described the purpose of the event as helping "all Ind... | 2.734375 | 0 |
75668756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20T.%20Shafer | William T. Shafer | William Thompson Shafer (February 17, 1825 – April 3, 1882) was an American politician from Pennsylvania. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing Chester County from 1859 to 1861.
Early life
William Thompson Shafer was born on February 17, 1825, to Martha (née Neilor) and John ... | 1.90625 | 0 |
75669787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Lesevich | Vladimir Lesevich | Vladimir Viktorovich Lesevich (Ukrainian: Володимир Вікторович Лесевич, Russian: Владимир Викторович Лесевич; 27 January [O.S. 15 January] 1837 – 26 November 1905) was a Ukrainian-Russian philosopher and sociologist of the poitivist and later Empirio-Criticist school as well as an ethnographer, folklorist, literary his... | 2.078125 | 0 |
75670428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucile%20Messageot | Lucile Messageot | Marguerite Françoise Lucie Messageot, or Lucile Franque (13 September 1780, Lons-le-Saunier - 23 May 1803, place unknown) was a French painter and author.
Biography
She was born to Jean-Joseph Messageot, a cavalry officer, and his wife Marie Françoise, née Clerc. Her sister Fanny was a novelist. While still very youn... | 2.15625 | 0 |
75671185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Days%20at%20Forcados%20High%20School | The Last Days at Forcados High School | The Last Days at Forcados High School is a 2013 young adult novel by Nigerian author A. H. Mohammed. The narrative follows Jimi Solade, a student at Forcados High School in Lagos, and his experiences with various aspects of life. The novel discusses themes such as youth, friendship, parental roles, school roles, transi... | 2.109375 | 0 |
75671809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphaea%20pulchella | Nymphaea pulchella | Nymphaea pulchella is a species of waterlily native to the regions spanning from Central and Southern Mexico to Brazil, as well as from the Bahamas to the Virgin Islands, including St. Croix.
Description
Vegetative characteristics
Nymphaea pulchella is an aquatic herb with cylindrical to subglobose tubers. The ellipt... | 2.703125 | 0 |
75672404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%20M.%20J.%20Cooley | Emily M. J. Cooley | Emily M. J. Cooley ( Jones; 1831–1917) was an American religious and temperance leader affiliated with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) and the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Early life and education
Emily Maria Jones was born in Lima, New York, November 1, 1831.... | 2.171875 | 0 |
75672553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Horace%20St%20Paul%2C%202nd%20Baronet | Sir Horace St Paul, 2nd Baronet | Sir Horace St Paul, 2nd Baronet (29 December 1812 – 1891) was a British landowner and politician, who represented East Worcestershire in Parliament between 1837 and 1841.
Horace St Paul was born on 29 December 1812, the only son of Horace St Paul, MP for Bridport, and Anna Maria, the illegitimate daughter of John Ward... | 2.1875 | 0 |
75672726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec%20Challenge%20Cup | Quebec Challenge Cup | History
The Quebec Curling Club bought a silver trophy meant to "foster inter-club play" among clubs in the Dominion of Canada on January 19, 1874, for $400 or $700. The first competition was held on February 16, 1874, and involved playing 18 ends with iron stones, instead of the granite rocks used in today's curling. ... | 2.125 | 0 |
75672946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphaea%20carpentariae | Nymphaea carpentariae | Nymphaea carpentariae is a species of waterlily native to Queensland and Western Australia.
Description
Vegetative characteristics
Nymphaea carpentariae is a perennial plant with 4 cm wide, globose to elongate rhizomes. The 45 cm wide, orbicular-elliptic leaves have dentate margins.
Generative characteristics
The fr... | 2.34375 | 0 |
75673054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucja%20Rucinska | Lucja Rucinska | Lucja Miller Rucinska (1817, 1818, or 1820 - 6 August 1882) was a Polish composer and pianist who lived in Ukraine for many years. She published and performed under the name Lucja Rucinska.
Rucinska’s father was the Polish lawyer Ignacy Miller. She married the poet and dissident Justynian Rucinski on 4 May 1838. That ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
75673172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard%20Sch%C3%A4dler | Gebhard Schädler | Josef Gebhard Schädler (21 September 1776 – 20 November 1842) was a surgeon from Liechtenstein.
Early life
Schädler was born on 21 September 1776 as the son of surgeon Johann Georg Gebhard Schädler and his mother Maria Sabine Bayer as one of three children. He attended high school in Feldkirch and from 1796 to 1798 h... | 2.015625 | 0 |
75673342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faculty%20of%20Archaeology%2C%20Warsaw | Faculty of Archaeology, Warsaw | Archaeology at University of Warsaw has been famous of existence of "warsaw school" in Slavic archaeology (Witold Hensel, Włodziemirz Antoniewicz), and Mediterranean Archaeology (Kazimierz Michałowski)
1975–2020 (Institute of Archaeology)
In 1975 the Departments of Prehistoric and Early Medieval Archaeology, Papyrol... | 2.09375 | 0 |
75673427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tip%20on%20a%20Dead%20Jockey%20and%20Other%20Stories | Tip on a Dead Jockey and Other Stories | Critical appraisal
Literary critic James R. Giles reports that the stories in Tip on a Dead Jockey expose "a disturbing shift in focus and emphasis" in Shaw's thematic concerns. Giles attributes this to Shaw's increasing personal wealth and his association with affluent Americans expatriates in Europe in the post-war p... | 2 | 0 |
75674284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Piacenza%20%28217%20BC%29 | Battle of Piacenza (217 BC) | The Battle of Piacenza, which took place in January 217 B.C. during the Second Punic War, represented a double clash of secondary importance between the army of the consul Tiberius Sempronius Longus and the Carthaginian army led by Hannibal. This occurred following Hannibal's victories at the Ticinus.
Background
In D... | 2.9375 | 0 |
75674646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BAlia%20Rajk | Júlia Rajk | On 6 October 1956, László Rajk was buried at Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest. Júlia Rajk attended, as well as Imre Nagy, leading a 300 000 person march. The event was a prelude to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 which started at the end of that same month. Rajk was in Berlin at the start of the events, and only returned... | 1.992188 | 0 |
75674683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Georgia%20%28region%29 | South Georgia (region) | South Georgia is a seventeen-county region in the U.S. state of Georgia, with a 2020 population of 292,759. The most populated county in the region is Laurens County, which had a 2020 census population of 49,570. The Dublin micropolitan area had a population of 65,903 in 2020. Largest cities in the region: Dublin (pop.... | 2.515625 | 0 |
75674975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printed%20circuit%20board%20manufacturing | Printed circuit board manufacturing | Micro vias
When vias with a diameter smaller than 76.2 micrometers are required, drilling with mechanical bits is impossible because of high rates of wear and breakage. In this case, the vias may be laser drilled—evaporated by lasers. Laser-drilled vias typically have an inferior surface finish inside the hole. These h... | 2.40625 | 0 |
75674975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printed%20circuit%20board%20manufacturing | Printed circuit board manufacturing | PCBs may be plated with solder, tin, or gold over nickel.
After PCBs are etched and then rinsed with water, the solder mask is applied, and then any exposed copper is coated with solder, nickel/gold, or some other anti-corrosion coating.
It is important to use solder compatible with both the PCB and the parts used. A... | 2.390625 | 0 |
75674975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printed%20circuit%20board%20manufacturing | Printed circuit board manufacturing | Protection and packaging
PCBs intended for extreme environments often have a conformal coating, which is applied by dipping or spraying after the components have been soldered. The coat prevents corrosion and leakage currents or shorting due to condensation. The earliest conformal coats were wax; modern conformal coat... | 2.484375 | 0 |
75675184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack%20on%20Tichla%20%281979%29 | Attack on Tichla (1979) | The Attack on Tichla took place on July 12, 1979, in the town of Tichla, in Western Sahara. It marked the final engagement between Mauritania and Polisario before the peace treaty in Algiers and Mauritania's withdrawal from the Western Sahara War.
Background
On 10 July 1978, facing a severe economic crisis due to the... | 2.40625 | 0 |
75675193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York%20Minster%20fire | York Minster fire | The York Minster fire was a blaze that caused severe destruction to the south transept of York Minster, in the city of York, England, on 9 July 1984. Believed to have been started by a lightning strike, the roof burnt for three hours between 1:00 and 4:00 am before it was made to collapse by the fire brigade to stop it... | 2.265625 | 0 |
75675193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York%20Minster%20fire | York Minster fire | The most likely explanation, that of a lightning strike, was accepted to be the cause, and a storm with light rain had occurred over the Minster during the night of the 8 and 9 July 1984. It is thought that the fire burned for 90 minutes before detection, making the start time around 1:00 am on 9 July. Consideration ha... | 2.171875 | 0 |
75675313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen%20Jones%20Ellis%20Nanney | Owen Jones Ellis Nanney | Major Owen Jones Ellis Nanney (27 September 1790 - 27 October 1870) was a Welsh politician, who very briefly represented Carnarvon Boroughs in Parliament in 1833.
He was born Owen Jones, and adopted the Ellis Nanney (or Ellis-Nanney) surnames on inheriting an estate from his uncle.
Standing as a Tory, Nanney contest... | 2.21875 | 0 |
75675455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxneriopsis | Oxneriopsis | Oxneriopsis is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Teloschistaceae. It has four species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichens.
Taxonomy
The genus was circumscribed in 2017 by the lichenologists Sergey Kondratyuk, Dalip Kumar Upreti, and Jae-Seoun Hur, with Oxneriopsis oxneri assigned as the type s... | 2.453125 | 0 |
75675716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried%20of%20Ballhausen | Siegfried of Ballhausen | Siegfried of Ballhausen (or Balnhusen) was a priest of Ballhausen who wrote a universal history in Latin. His history is known from two versions. The original Historia universalis was completed in 1304, but he later revised it and continued it down to 1306 under the title Compendium historiarum. The autograph manuscrip... | 2.171875 | 0 |
75676041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pania%20Tyson-Nathan | Pania Tyson-Nathan | Toluma'anave Dame Pania Tyson-Nathan is a New Zealand businesswoman who has served as the chief executive officer of New Zealand Māori Tourism since 2008. During her tenure, the value of the Māori tourism sector has increased from about $500 million to almost $2 billion.
Of Māori and Scottish descent, Tyson-Nathan af... | 1.992188 | 0 |
68459074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ise%20Kokubun-ji | Ise Kokubun-ji | The history of this temple is very uncertain. It is believed to have been built in 741 AD, soon after the order to build the kokubunji temples in each province was issued. The area had been dominated by the Oshika clan since the Kofun period and there are many ancient burial mounds in the vicinity. In 809 AD, it was re... | 2.28125 | 0 |
68459432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20A.%20Hood | David A. Hood | David A. Hood is a Canadian professor, exercise physiologist, and Director of the Muscle Health Research Centre at York University. A holder of an NSERC Tier I Canada Research Chair in Cell Physiology, Hood is credited with making significant research advances in understanding of the biology of exercise, mitochondria ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
68459766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triamyxa | Triamyxa | Triamyxa is an extinct genus of myxophagan beetle in the monotypic family Triamyxidae from the Carnian stage of Late Triassic, approximately 230 million years ago. It was found in the Keuper Claystone of Poland. The type species is Triamyxa coprolithica and it was identified from specimens found in the coprolite ZPAL A... | 2.28125 | 0 |
68459862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammadu%20Bello%20Kagara | Muhammadu Bello Kagara | Muhammadu Bello Kagara (1890 - 1971) was an educator, a writer and a royalist. He wrote the famous book novel known as Gandoki, the novel is a manuscript written during a literature bureau competition organized in 1933 by Rupert East. His book Ganɗoki was considered either first or second book to be published in the e... | 2.375 | 0 |
68460149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Mastick | Donald Mastick | On August 1, 1944, Mastick and his laboratory partner, Arthur Wahl, were working with a vial containing 10 milligrams of plutonium chloride dissolved in an acid solution when the vial exploded. Gases had built up in the vial overnight, most likely through the dissociation of water molecules due to alpha radiation from ... | 2.375 | 0 |
68460615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soraya%20Dhillon | Soraya Dhillon | Soraya Dhillon MBE holds the title professor emeritus at the University of Hertfordshire known for her work in the field of clinical pharmacokinetics, drug handling, patient safety, and the evaluation of the role of the pharmacist in health care. She is a fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Education and caree... | 1.992188 | 0 |
68460702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Arnell | Peter Arnell | Peter Eric Arnell (born April 22, 1958) is an American designer and branding executive, author, photographer, and founder of Arnell Group. He is known for creating products, brands and campaigns for companies including Chrysler, PepsiCo., Reebok, Fontainebleau Resorts, Donna Karan and Unilever, and he has written exte... | 2.1875 | 0 |
68460889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iga%20Kokubun-ji | Iga Kokubun-ji | Located 200 meters to the east of the site of the Iga Kokubun-ji is another temple ruin which has been dated to the same period. As the actual name of the temple was unknown, it was designated after the name of a hill behind the site. Based on its location and the remnants of the earthen bases for a Kondō and Lecture ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
68461381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silutitan | Silutitan | Silutitan (meaning "Silk Road giant") is a genus of euhelopodid sauropod dinosaur from the Shengjinkou Formation of Xinjiang, China. It contains only the type species, Silutitan sinensis.
Discovery and naming
In 2006, a Konservat-Lagerstätte was reported from the Shengjinkou Formation in the Hami region of Xinjiang, ... | 2.5 | 0 |
68462788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore%20Baldassarre | Ettore Baldassarre | Ettore Baldassarre (27 April 1883 – 26 June 1942) was an Italian general during World War II.
Biography
Baldassarre was born in Trani, Apulia, on April 27, 1883, the son of Michele Baldassarre and Amalia Manganaro. In his youth he moved with his family to Messina, where he obtained his high school license. After enli... | 2.09375 | 0 |
68462823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20De%20Stefanis | Giuseppe De Stefanis | From 3 May of the same year he assumed the post of Operations Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army, replacing General Carlo Vecchiarelli who had been transferred to Athens in command of the 11th Army. From 19 to 31 May he temporarily served as Army Chief of Staff, after the departure of Ezio Rosi and before the appointmen... | 2.140625 | 0 |
68463197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Symonds | Mary Symonds | Mary Ramsden, née Symonds (1772 – 1854), was an English watercolour painter. In 1801, she travelled with her sister, Elizabeth Gwillim, and her sister's husband, Sir Henry Gwillim, to Madras, India (now Chennai). She resided in Madras until 1808, and during this time she produced a series of watercolours of local lands... | 1.90625 | 0 |
68463197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Symonds | Mary Symonds | Fish
The Blacker-Wood Library at McGill University holds an album of 30 watercolours of fish, purchased by Casey A. Wood from the same dealer who sold him Elizabeth Gwillim's bird paintings. This set was, per Wood, “a parcel containing about thirty small (10 x 14 in.) mounted and coloured drawings of Indian Fishes.” H... | 2.40625 | 0 |
68464772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading%201251 | Reading 1251 | Reading 1251 is a preserved B-4a class 0-6-0 "Switcher" type Steam locomotive built by the Reading Company's own locomotive shops in Reading in 1918 as the only tank locomotive to be rostered by the Reading after World War I. It served as a shop switcher to pull and push locomotives in and out of the Reading's shops, u... | 2.09375 | 0 |
68464860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexahydrocannabinol | Hexahydrocannabinol | Hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) is a hydrogenated derivative of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). It is a naturally occurring phytocannabinoid that has rarely been identified as a trace component in Cannabis sativa, but can also be produced synthetically by firstly acid cyclization of cannabidiol and then hydrogenation of tetrahyd... | 2.1875 | 0 |
68464860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexahydrocannabinol | Hexahydrocannabinol | Chemistry
Several research groups have successfully synthesized (+)-HHC and (-)-HHC using citronellal and olivetol, as well as other related compounds. While similar compounds have previously been identified in cannabis, hexahydrocannabinol itself has rarely been isolated from the plant. The de Las Heras group in 2020... | 1.992188 | 0 |
68465059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiria%20Anderson | Hiria Anderson | Hiria Anderson is a New Zealand artist whose work focuses on Māori culture in the 21st century. In 2018 she was awarded the New Zealand Paint and Printmaking award and her work has been exhibited at the Auckland Art Gallery, Te Tuhi and Tim Melville Gallery.
Biography
Anderson was born in 1974 within the King Country... | 2.15625 | 0 |
68465294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Association%20of%20Latino%20Independent%20Producers | National Association of Latino Independent Producers | The National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) is a non-profit advocacy organization that promotes the visibility of Latine/x creators and producers in various media and their projects. The organization was formed in 1999 in New York, and is now headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.
History
NALIP was for... | 2.015625 | 0 |
68465307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunbergia%20atriplicifolia | Thunbergia atriplicifolia | Thunbergia atriplicifolia, the Natal primrose, is a species of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae, native to South Africa and Eswatini. It is a favored browse of the steenbok (Raphicerus campestris).
Etymology
The genus name Thunbergia is named for Swedish naturalist Carl Thunberg, the father of South African ... | 2.625 | 0 |
68465483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Maison%20Nucingen | La Maison Nucingen | La Maison Nucingen (English "The House of Nucingen", also translated as “The Firm of Nucingen”) is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It was published in 1837 and is one of the Scènes de la vie Parisienne of La Comédie humaine.
Plot summary
The story is told in the first person by an anonymous narrator. In the private... | 2.0625 | 0 |
68466200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Bowen%20%28colonial%20settler%29 | George Bowen (colonial settler) | Although most of the high parts of the Blue Mountains are sandstone country and relatively infertile, Mt Tomah and the surrounding area has deep, rich, volcanic soil. Bowen probably first encountered the area himself, while surveying the boundaries of the new County of Cook.
Bowen's mother, Susannah, came out to New S... | 2.71875 | 0 |
68466327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahre%20Sol | Nahre Sol | Alice Gi-Young Hwang (born 1991), also known as Nahre Sol, is an American composer, pianist, and YouTuber.
Early life and education
Hwang attended the Orange County High School of the Arts and graduated from the Idyllwild Arts Academy in 2009, where she was class valedictorian and recipient of The Most Outstanding Art... | 2.09375 | 0 |
68466356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Vitor%20Leme | José Vitor Leme | José Vitor Leme Batista (born August 15, 1996) is a Brazilian professional rodeo cowboy who specializes in bull riding. He is the 2020 and 2021 Professional Bull Riders (PBR) World Champion, and holds the record on the bull Woopaa for the highest-scored ride in PBR history with 98.75 points. Since 2022, he has ridden f... | 2.3125 | 0 |
68466504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herat%20campaign%20of%201862%E2%80%931863 | Herat campaign of 1862–1863 | Siege of Herat
On July 27, the city of Herat was surrounded by Dost Mohammad Khan. Kohzad gives August 10. The people of Herat were determined to resist Dost Mohammad Khan and his army. Despite his failing health, Sultan Ahmad Khan did not show the slightest inclination to submit. For 5 days the Mohammadzais dug trenc... | 2.75 | 0 |
68466848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murarmau | Murarmau | Murarmau is a village in Sareni block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located 21 km from Lalganj, the tehsil headquarters. Murarmau historically served as the seat of the largest taluqdar estate in the district, held by the most senior branch of the Tilokchandi Bais. As of 2011, it has a population ... | 1.96875 | 0 |
68466855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah%20D.%20Hank%20Jr. | Josiah D. Hank Jr. | Josiah Dickenson Hank Jr. (April 19, 1875 – July 29, 1924) was an American attorney and politician. Appointed assistant Attorney General of Virginia in August 1917, he served as Attorney General after John Garland Pollard resigned the following year.
Early life and education
The son of Rev. Josiah Dickenson Hank, a Me... | 2.34375 | 0 |
68467035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomen%20Street%20Corporation%20Baths | Newcomen Street Corporation Baths | Concerts were held at the baths, in an attempt to draw bigger crowds. These concerts raised money for local hospitals and charities.
There were also shops on the site, including a florist and places where people could buy refreshments.
Problems and complaints
Complaints about cleanliness of the baths began as early ... | 2.671875 | 0 |
68467482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorandum%20on%20Genuine%20Autonomy | Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy | The Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy for the Tibetan People provides a framework for the governance of Tibet within the People's Republic of China (PRC). In 2008 a group led by the Dalai Lama presented the memorandum to China. Beijing invited Dalai Lama's delegation to talk about his middle path, which promoted autonomy ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
68467868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProVeg%20Incubator | ProVeg Incubator | The incubator was established to support the development of food startups in the plant-based, fermentation, and cellular agriculture spaces, by assisting them with business planning, strategy, and networking. Since its creation in 2018, it has fostered the development of over 50 startups, including Formo (previously Le... | 2.03125 | 0 |
68468069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20Basso | Antonio Basso | In May 1943 he was promoted to full general and appointed civil commissioner for Sardinia as well as commander-in-chief of all troops in the island, numbering 130,000 men divided between the XIII Corps of General Gustavo Reisoli in southern Sardinia, with headquarters in Nuraminis, and the XXX Corps of General Gian Gia... | 2.203125 | 0 |
68468376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masha%20Enzensberger | Masha Enzensberger | Maria Alexandrovna "Masha" Enzensberger (Maria Alexandrovna Makarova) was born in Moscow and settled in London, UK, in 1969. Through her, aspects of Russian culture of the 20th century reached Anglophone readers, especially in relation to film and poetry. Her life and work bore witness to many aspects of Russian and Eu... | 2.109375 | 0 |
68468385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Mudge | Trevor Mudge | Research
Mudge has worked extensively on computer architecture, with specific emphasis on computer systems design, computer-aided design, parallel processing, low power computing, and the impact of technology. His research has been characterized by the construction of prototypes as proof of concept.
Mudge and his coll... | 2.046875 | 0 |
68468417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool%20slave%20trade | Liverpool slave trade | Liverpool, a port city in north-west England, was involved in the transatlantic slave trade. The trade developed in the eighteenth century, as Liverpool slave traders were able to supply fabric from Manchester to the Caribbean islands at very competitive prices.
History
On 1 December 1699 the successful tobacco and s... | 3.125 | 0 |
68469178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut%20Freitag | Helmut Freitag | Helmut Freitag (born July 1960) is a German pianist, organist, conductor and academic teacher.
Education
Born in Bad Kreuznach, Freitag studied church music, music school (state examination in history and music) and orchestral conducting (diploma with distinction) in Saarbrücken, Düsseldorf and Geneva. His teachers w... | 2.359375 | 0 |
68469182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ay%C3%A9%20Aton | Ayé Aton | Ayé Aton (born Robert Underwood, January 29, 1940, Versailles, Kentucky; died October 30, 2017, in Lexington, Kentucky), was an American painter, designer, muralist, musician, and teacher.
Aton played percussion in Sun Ra's Arkestra for several years in the 1970s. As a visual artist he was known for his outer space-th... | 2.46875 | 0 |
68469644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Barrow%20%28cricketer%29 | Charles Barrow (cricketer) | Charles Deans Barrow (4 April 1875 — 20 September 1944) was an English first-class cricketer, British Army officer and landowner.
The son of John James Barrow, he was born at Paddington in April 1875. He was educated at Eton College, before going up to Lincoln College, Oxford. After graduating from Oxford, he was comm... | 1.921875 | 0 |
68469901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20O%27Neill%20Hencken | Hugh O'Neill Hencken | Specializing in Iron Age Europe, O'Neill Hencken worked in a number of countries, including England, Ireland, Morocco, Algeria, Italy, and Greece. Between 1934 and 1936, he directed the archaeological programme of Earnest Hooton's Harvard Archaeological Mission to Ireland, including excavations in County Antrim, County... | 2.5625 | 0 |
68470017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Wynne%20%28minister%29 | Billy Wynne (minister) | Wynne had a reputation for being unconventional. One of his colleagues described him as 'unpredictable', recalling occasions when toy airplanes, tennis balls and a bicycle were used as props to illustrate points Wynne wished to make during his weekly sermons. Wynne, however, saw himself as an 'old conservative' altho... | 2.0625 | 0 |
68470072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Earle%20%28slave%20trader%29 | Thomas Earle (slave trader) | Thomas Earle (1754–1822) was an English slave trader. He was responsible for at least 73 slave voyages and alongside his brother he transported over 19,000 enslaved people. Of these 3,000 died on board his ships. One of his ships, Annabella, was seized by the British Crown for slave trading with the enemy. He was Mayor... | 2.71875 | 0 |
68470072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Earle%20%28slave%20trader%29 | Thomas Earle (slave trader) | An account of the Earle's slave trading was recorded by William Butterworth, a boy who was tricked into signing up to sail on Hudibras. He wrote that the ship arrived in Old Calabar where two other Earle ships were already in harbour. Butterworth describes the enslaved people as "the unfortunate sons and daughters of A... | 2.765625 | 0 |
68470490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Barrett%20%28parasitologist%29 | Michael Barrett (parasitologist) | Michael Barrett (born 29 December 1964) is Professor of Biochemical Parasitology at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on understanding how drugs work against parasites and how parasites become resistant to drugs. He is also Director of Glasgow Polyomics, a facility specialising in genomic, proteomic and ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
68470615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owo%2C%20Enugu | Owo, Enugu | Owo is a town in Nkanu East Local Government Area (LGA) of Enugu state, Nigeria. Owo consists of six main villages: Ashishi, Ohuani, Ishiegu, Ogere, Emene and Ndiagu. Other settlements which were originally part of the main villages are Ejaogbo, Mbulu, Ekeagu, Obegu ishiagu, Obegu Emene, Obegu Ogere, and Obegu Ohuani. ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
68470615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owo%2C%20Enugu | Owo, Enugu | Owo's tradition and cultural heritage govern the daily lives of her people. These are evident in marriage ceremonies, age grade system, farming, naming ceremonies, entertainment like masquerade (Mmanwu) festival), title taking, burial ceremonies, new yam festival and other social festivities like "Ajuu" festival among ... | 3 | 0 |
68470896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal-storing%20histiocytosis | Crystal-storing histiocytosis | In crystal-storing histiocytosis, histopathology studies reveal macrophages with an epithelioid shape, small nucleoli, and round or oval nuclei. The cytoplasm of these macrophages contains crystals which are eosinophilic. The macrophages tend to be negative for S100 protein, CD1a, Langerin, and cytokeratin when immun... | 2.1875 | 0 |
68471202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuthbert%20Rayne | Cuthbert Rayne | Cuthbert Rayne and the export of deer
In April 1592, the English ambassador in Scotland Robert Bowes decided to ask Cuthbert Rayne to help him organise a gift of deer for James VI, to be sent to stock the park at Falkland Palace. Bowes obtained warrants for deer from the English keepers from Elizabeth I. It would be t... | 2.734375 | 0 |
68471275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang%C3%B8ya%2C%20Sandefjord | Langøya, Sandefjord | Langøya is an island in Sandefjord Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The island is located in the Tønsbergfjorden, just outside the village of Skravestad. The island is accessible through a bridge that connects to the road Sandsveien. The island was named for its long shape. The long island has an area of . It... | 2.1875 | 0 |
68471379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panagyurishte-style%20eggs | Panagyurishte-style eggs | Preparation
A pot of water is prepared with a pinch of salt and a tablespoon of white wine vinegar added (as colored vinegar might discolor the eggs). The water is brought to a boil and then taken off the heat to cool (to 80 °C, for example) to poach the eggs. There are different poaching techniques such as swirling th... | 2.3125 | 0 |
74345418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Yil | Lee Yil | Early life
Lee was born in 1932 in Gangseo, Pyeonggannumdo, an area that later became part of North Korea. Lee's given name is Jin-sik (Korean: 진식, Hanja: 鎭湜), which he later changed to Yil. Lee moved with his family to South Korea after Japanese colonial rule ended.
Education
Lee studied French literature at Seoul ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
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