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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amilakhvari%20Dialogue
Amilakhvari Dialogue
The Dimitri Amilakhvari Georgian-French Dialogue is a high-level format of bilateral co-operation between France and Georgia that serves to address a wide range of co-operation issues. A declaration on launching the dialogue was signed in Paris in February 2019 by the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron an...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926%E2%80%9327%20Bowdoin%20Polar%20Bears%20men%27s%20ice%20hockey%20season
1926–27 Bowdoin Polar Bears men's ice hockey season
The 1926–27 Bowdoin Polar Bears men's ice hockey season was the 8th season of play for the program. Season Bowdoin had a difficult time getting on the ice prior to the first game and was forced to find other methods to get ready for the season. Coach Houser had invented a training regimen that mixed football, soccer a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port-Christmas
Port-Christmas
From the permanent base at Port-aux-Français, located 115 km to the southeast, Port-Christmas is one of the most isolated and inaccessible areas of the archipelago. Given its distance and, in particular, its mountainous topography, the site is almost never reached by land. It can, however, be reached by sea after saili...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port-Christmas
Port-Christmas
At various points in the bay, between the hard stratum, a few small coal seams emerge. British explorer James Clark Ross noted this as early as 1840. He also noted the presence of fossilized trees, the first of their kind to be spotted in the archipelago. These petrified woods, or simply lignites, found at Port-Christm...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port-Christmas
Port-Christmas
It only took a few years for the previously untouched Desolation Islands to become a coveted land. The first expedition to hunt marine mammals by American ships from the island of Nantucket was documented as early as 1792. The interest of the Americans in undertaking campaigns in the southern seas was even greater, con...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port-Christmas
Port-Christmas
In 1838, the American writer Edgar Allan Poe was the first to publish "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", translated into French in 1858 by Charles Baudelaire under the title Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym. In it, he describes the nearly one-month stay on Christmas Harbour in 1827 by the crew of the Jane ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny%20Gulick
Fanny Gulick
Fanny Gulick (born Frances Hinckley Thomas; April 16, 1798 – May 24, 1883) was a 19th-century American Presbyterian missionary to the Hawaiian Kingdom and to Japan. Fanny and her husband, Rev. Peter Johnson Gulick had eight children, seven of whom also became missionaries. She was the first to instruct the island women...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20Henrietta%20Reilly
M. Henrietta Reilly
She was a teacher in Cincinnati before and during college, teaching music and English in all grades from 1914 to 1928 at St. Edward School, St. Andrew School, Our Lady of Mercy Academy, Elder High School and Mother of Mercy Academy. During this period she earned a B. A. on June 18, 1923, from St. Xavier College (now Xa...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iacov%20Putneanul
Iacov Putneanul
Iacov Putneanul (January 20, 1719–May 15, 1778) was a Romanian-speaking Orthodox cleric who served as Metropolitan of Moldavia. Born in Rădăuți, his parents Adrian and Maria entered monasticism late in life and are buried in the portico of Putna Monastery church. Their son became a monk at Putna in 1731. He was ordain...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion%20of%20Surinam%20%281667%29
Invasion of Surinam (1667)
The Invasion of Surinam was a Dutch attempt to capture the English held colony of Surinam in February 1667. The Dutch under the command of Abraham Crijnssen captured the colony without much resistance. Background Following the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Dutch deployed a force under Admiral Abraham Cri...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodactyle
Petrodactyle
Petrodactyle (meaning "stone finger") is an extinct genus of ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic Mörnsheim Formation (Solnhofen limestone) of Bavaria, Germany. The genus contains a single species, P. wellnhoferi, known from a partial skeleton belonging to a subadult individual. Petrodactyle is one of the la...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poodle%20Dog%20Pass
Poodle Dog Pass
Poodle Dog Pass is a pass in the Cascade Mountains of Snohomish County, Washington. It is just above Silver Lake in the Henry M. Jackson Wilderness; it was described in 1917 as "The pass at the head of Sunday Creek just before reaching Silver Lake from Monte Cristo" and was formerly part of a route between mining oper...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris%20Kilias
Doris Kilias
Doris Kilias (née Galuhn, formerly Erpenbeck, 22 July 1942 – 1 June 2008) was a German Arabist and literary translator, best known for being the German translator of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. Biography Kilias grew up in post-war Bernau near Berlin in East Germany and attended Humboldt University of Berlin, w...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20M.%20Levesque
André M. Levesque
Levesque is president of Amicitia France-Canada, an organization which commemorates the historical friendship between France and Canada. He is Delegate General of Souvenir français au Canada, and president of the delegation of Canadian military medals at the Société Nationale d'Entraide de la Médaille Militaire. He is ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery%20in%20al-Andalus
Slavery in al-Andalus
Slavery in al-Andalus was a practice throughout Al-Andalus and the Iberian Peninsula (present-day Spain and Portugal) between the 8th-century and the 15th century. This includes the periods of the Emirate of Córdoba (756–929), the Caliphate of Córdoba (929–1031), the Taifas (11th century), Almoravid rule (1085–1145), A...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery%20in%20al-Andalus
Slavery in al-Andalus
Islamic law prohibited Muslims from enslaving other Muslims, and there was thus a big market for non-Muslim slaves in Islamic territory. The Vikings sold both Christian and Pagan European captives to the Muslims, who referred to them as saqaliba; these slaves were likely both Pagan Slavic, Finnic and Baltic Eastern Eur...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery%20in%20al-Andalus
Slavery in al-Andalus
The slaves of the Caliph were often European saqaliba slaves trafficked from Northern or Eastern Europe. The Saqaliba were mostly assigned to palaces as guards, concubines, and eunuchs, although they were sometimes privately owned. While male saqaliba could be given work in a number of tasks, such as offices in the ki...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvation%20Army%20Headquarters%20%28Manhattan%29
Salvation Army Headquarters (Manhattan)
The Salvation Army Headquarters is a building at 120–130 West 14th Street in the Chelsea and Greenwich Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. The building, owned by charitable organization the Salvation Army, is composed of a four-story auditorium named the Centennial Memorial Temple, a 12-story office bu...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvation%20Army%20Headquarters%20%28Manhattan%29
Salvation Army Headquarters (Manhattan)
The Salvation Army had developed its first building on the site in the 1890s, at which time the adjacent stretch of 14th Street was largely commercial. At the time of the original building's opening, 14th Street was a busy entertainment district with many theaters, hotels, and stores. The building formerly faced a New ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvation%20Army%20Headquarters%20%28Manhattan%29
Salvation Army Headquarters (Manhattan)
Construction and opening After Catherine Booth died in 1890, American Salvationists began raising money for the construction of a regional headquarters in her honor. Ballington Booth acquired an approximately site at 120–124 West 14th Street in March 1893 to erect a six-story building dedicated to his mother. Balling...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvation%20Army%20Headquarters%20%28Manhattan%29
Salvation Army Headquarters (Manhattan)
Early 20th century The Salvation Army opened a women's home at 127 West 13th Street in December 1900. This dormitory could shelter up to 15 women at once. Under the Booth-Tuckers' tenure, the Salvation Army expanded its services and outreach programs for the needy. The organization also operated a training school in a...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina%20Marsh
Lina Marsh
Lina Marsh (born 1972/73) is a mixed-media artist, arts educator and curator based in Gisborne, New Zealand. Her works often feature elements of handicrafts such as weaving and embroidery, and explore issues of identity as a Niuean-Māori woman and incorporate her personal experiences. Early life and education Marsh g...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina%20Marsh
Lina Marsh
Artwork At Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, Marsh incorporated her personal experiences as a Pasifika-Māori woman into her paintings and addressed issues such as feminism, colonisation, assimilation, migration and contemporary Pacific cultures. She has continued to explore these themes in her post-graduation car...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Reinhart
Friedrich Reinhart
Political activity in the Weimar years In an attempt in January 1920 to get a number of banks to support the Kapp Putsch against the government of the Weimar Republic, Reinhart expressed his approval in writing. As a conservative and a German nationalist, Reinhart was sympathetic with the rising fascist movement of the...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/159th%20Fighter%20Aviation%20Regiment
159th Fighter Aviation Regiment
The regiment took part in the Krasnoye Selo–Ropsha offensive in January 1944 and in June supported the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive on the Karelian Isthmus. During the summer of 1944 the 159th supported the Narva offensive, the Tartu offensive, and the Tallinn offensive into Estonia. On 11 September 1944 the regiment ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaragig%C5%8D%20Site
Ayaragigō Site
The is an archaeological site with a Yayoi period settlement, located in the Ayaragi neighborhood of the city of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi in the San'yō region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site in 1969 with the area under protection expanded in 1981. Overview The Ayaragigō site is located about ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointe%20V%C3%A9nus%20Lighthouse
Pointe Vénus Lighthouse
The Pointe Vénus lighthouse ( or ) is a lighthouse located in the commune of Mahina, in the far north of the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia. It marks the north of the island and marks the bay of Matavai. It was the first lighthouse in the South Pacific. History Point Venus owes its name to the observatory that ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Binns%20%28radio%20operator%29
Jack Binns (radio operator)
John "Jack" Robinson Binns (16 September 1884 – 8 December 1959) was a British merchant seaman, journalist, and the wireless officer on the ocean liner RMS Republic during her last voyage. He holds the distinction of being the first person in history to send a CQD distress signal, which led to a successful rescue at se...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motunau%20/%20Plate%20Island
Motunau / Plate Island
Motunau / Plate Island is a small island in the Bay of Plenty, roughly off New Zealand's North Island at Okurei Point and a similar distance east-south-east from the much larger Mōtītī Island. The island is split into northern and southern portions by a small channel as narrow as across, with several small sea stacks...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motunau%20/%20Plate%20Island
Motunau / Plate Island
Māori interaction with the island was limited to temporary visits, due to the lack of a permanent freshwater source on the island. Despite this, the island has maintained its connection with local Māori throughout the history of Pākehā settlement in New Zealand, forming part of the rohe of Ngāti Whakahemo and continuin...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature%20and%20Dogma
Literature and Dogma
Chapters VI–VII The two chapters which follow are entitled, respectively, "The New Testament Record" and "The Testimony of Jesus to himself". According to Arnold, there is no call for profound historical or philological study to aid in the treatment of the questions which come up; we have the account of one man, who, ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manteri
Manteri
The Manteri (Minister or Officer) are a group of royal dignitaries within the Sultanate of Brunei whose position ranks the fourth-highest official in the country behind the Sultan. There are two main groups in the Manteri, namely the Manteri Berchiri and the Manteri Bertauliah. Each person who is given a position in th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manteri
Manteri
Functions Although titles are still awarded today, the functions that they entail have changed to reflect the needs of the contemporary political structure. For instance, Jamil Al-Sufri, the current bearer of the noble title Pehin Orang Kaya Amar Diraja, which is charged with monitoring information, is the Principal o...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concepci%C3%B3n%20Castella%20Garc%C3%ADa-Duarte
Concepción Castella García-Duarte
María Concepción Castella y García-Duarte (1889–1966) was a Spanish writer, in literature known by the name of Concepción Castella de Zavala. She was the author of some 25 novels, published between 1936 and 1950. Intended for a popular audience, they combined action and romance; they also promoted traditional values li...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concepci%C3%B3n%20Castella%20Garc%C3%ADa-Duarte
Concepción Castella García-Duarte
Before the war Castella “collaborated with one or another magazine”. Her first works identified were stories serialized in Barcelona-based reviews; La piedra filosofal in a literary magazine Lecturas (1935) and ¿Heroes? in a Catholic weekly La Hormiga de Oro (1936). The latter told a story of a young officer, who sacri...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concepci%C3%B3n%20Castella%20Garc%C3%ADa-Duarte
Concepción Castella García-Duarte
The Francoist press of the late 1930s and the early 1940s used to acknowledge Castella's novels favorably on literary or culture pages, though without particular fanfare; many notes were reproduced literally across various newspapers. According to one historian, she was “among the women writers who have received scant,...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina%20Andriievska
Nina Andriievska
Andriievska's writings have been published in the publishing houses "Musical Ukraine," "Mystetstvo," and "A Soviet Composer" (Moscow), as well as on the pages of magazines and newspapers. Her author's gramophone record of songs was published by the Melodiya record company (Moscow), and an author's audio cassette, If I ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pati%20Unus
Pati Unus
Second invasion In 1521, all 375 ships had been completed. Despite serving as sultan for only three years, Pati Unus decided to directly join the expedition along with his two sons from his marriage to Raden Patah's daughter, and another son from another wife. The war fleet was prepared to depart from the port of Dema...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Afro-descendant%20Women%27s%20Day
International Afro-descendant Women's Day
The observance of International Afro-descendant Women's Day serves to commemorate and strengthen the fight against racial discrimination, aiming to eliminate prejudice based on ethnic and racial origins. It seeks to recognize the achievements, values, culture, and wisdom of Afro-descendant women in society. The day hig...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus%20Aemilius%20Paullus
Marcus Aemilius Paullus
Marcus Aemilius Paullus was a Roman statesman and general during the middle era of the Roman Republic. He was one of the consuls of 255 BCE, serving with Servius Fulvius Paetinius Nobilior. As consul Paullus led the Republic's forces in the ongoing First Punic War against Carthage; he and Paetinus led a Roman fleet of ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kajikurihama%20Site
Kajikurihama Site
The is an archaeological site with a Yayoi period cemetery located in the Kajikuricho neighborhood of the city of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in the San'yō region of Japan. It was designated a National Historic Site in 1980. Overview The Kajikurihama site is located 500 meters from the present-day coast of Hib...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doigahama%20Site
Doigahama Site
Two of the burials in the cemetery were found to be unusual. During the 1958 excavation, the bones of a middle-aged woman were found with the bones of a cormorant on her chest. It is known that the people of the Yayoi period thought of birds as messengers to mediate between the gods and the human world. From this, it ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%20Antonio%20Bonciari
Marco Antonio Bonciari
Marco Antonio Bonciari or Bonciario (9 February 1555 – 9 January 1616) was an Italian Renaissance scholar and writer. Biography Marco Antonio Bonciari was born at Antria, a small village near Perugia, on 9 February 1555. He studied humanities with the French scholar Muretus at Rome. His patron Fulvio Giulio della Cor...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliocene%20flora%20of%20Frankfurt%20am%20Main
Pliocene flora of Frankfurt am Main
It is suggested a late Pliocene age (Reuverian) for this flora. Palynofloras from drill cores in the surroundings of Frankfurt am Main and Hanau also suggests a late Pliocene age. The Pliocene flora of Frankfurt am Main described by Karl Mädler during the first half of the twentieth century is a key flora for the Europ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando%20de%20C%C3%B3rdoba
Fernando de Córdoba
Fernando de Córdoba (1421/2–1486) was a Spanish theologian, canonist, curialist and philosopher. He travelled Europe in 1444–1446, amazing audiences with public dispuations and displays of erudition, but fell into obscurity until resurfacing during the Plato–Aristotle controversy in 1466. Life Early life in Spain Fer...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando%20de%20C%C3%B3rdoba
Fernando de Córdoba
Philosophy In 1466, at the start of the Plato–Aristotle controversy, Fernando penned a preliminary defence of Plato, De Laudibus Platonis ex Testimoniis Tum Sacrorum Interpretum, Tum Ethnicorum adversus Quosdam Doctrinam Eius et Vitam Carpere Solitos. Commissioned by and dedicated to Cardinal Bessarion, De Laudibus is ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col%20Visentin
Col Visentin
Col Visentin (1,763 m a.s.l.) is a mountain in the Bellunes Alps, in the Veneto region of Italy, which marks a geographical border point between the province of Belluno and the province of Treviso. Description Col Visentin is located at the steepest tip of the southern slope of Nevegal belonging territorially to the ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20altitude%20breathing%20apparatus
High altitude breathing apparatus
Pressure swing adsorption oxygen concentrators use a molecular sieve to adsorb gases and operate on the principle of rapid pressure swing adsorption of atmospheric nitrogen onto zeolite minerals at high pressure. This type of adsorption system is therefore functionally a nitrogen scrubber, leaving the other atmospheric...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanhiper%C3%A4
Hanhiperä
Hanhiperä is a district and a statistical area of Jyväskylä, Finland. It is a remote part of Jyväskylä with only a few houses and only 6 permanent inhabitants as of 2021. The district of Hanhiperä borders Valkeamäki in the north, Keltinmäki in the east, Taka-Keljo in the south and Vesanka in the west. It also has a sm...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanhiper%C3%A4
Hanhiperä
Hanhiperä was uninhabited hinterland of Keljo until the 19th century, when the first farms in the area were established during the Great Partition. The first farm to be established was Pirttimäki, which was separated from Sysmälä(inen), one of the oldest farms in Keljo, in 1805. This was followed by the establishment o...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB1900
GB1900
The GB1900 project was a crowd-sourced initiative to create a gazetteer, released under an open licence, by transcribing and geolocating all the place names on the second edition County Series of six inch to one mile (i.e. 1:10,560) maps of Great Britain, published by Ordnance Survey between 1888 and 1914, and thus out...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroniella%20capillacea
Baroniella capillacea
Baroniella capillacea is a species of plant in the Apocynaceae family. It is endemic to Madagascar. Jens Klackenberg, the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after very narrow or thread-like ( in Latin) leaves. Description It is twining plant that is woody only at the base of its stem. The hair...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Seawolf%20%281918%29
HMS Seawolf (1918)
Armament consisted of three QF Mk IV guns on the ship's centreline. One was mounted raised on the forecastle, one on a platform between the funnels and one aft. The ship also mounted a single 2-pounder "pom-pom" anti-aircraft gun for air defence. Four torpedo tubes were carried in two twin rotating mounts aft. Four...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison%20Verrett
Harrison Verrett
Harrison Verrett (February 27, 1907 – October 13, 1965) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues guitarist/banjoist who performed and recorded for over 40 years. Early life Harrison Verrett was born to Joseph Verrett and Mary (Lee) Verrett in Napoleonville in Assumption Parish, Louisiana. The family moved to New Orlea...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nam%20Myeong-ryeol
Nam Myeong-ryeol
Nam Myeong-ryeol (, born May 14, 1959) is a highly regarded South Korean actor in the fields of film, theater, and television. He embarked on his stage career in 1978 and has since made notable appearances in various Korean theatrical productions, films, and TV shows. Nam has established himself as a prominent figure ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villard-de-Lans%20%28cattle%20breed%29
Villard-de-Lans (cattle breed)
Breeding Most Villard-de-Lans breeders also keep animals of other breeds, and thus have a mixed herd. Only 25% of farms are purebred. It should also be noted that most breeders keep a limited number of animals, generally fewer than 5. Breeding systems are quite varied, although often traditional, with animals fed main...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interoceanic%20Corridor%20of%20the%20Isthmus%20of%20Tehuantepec
Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
In 1850, Hargous approached Judah P. Benjamin, a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, to negotiate the purchase of the Garay grant with the New Orleans businessmen. Benjamin and the businessmen formed The Tehuantepec Railroad Company of New Orleans (TRCNO), of which Benjamin became chairman, which would la...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interoceanic%20Corridor%20of%20the%20Isthmus%20of%20Tehuantepec
Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
On 4 July 2024, the Corridor's first freight service after the inauguration of Line Z was performed, carrying 13,500 tons of maize from Topolobampo, Sinaloa to Chinameca, Veracruz. The train traveled from Salina Cruz to its destination, arriving after approximately 10 hours. On September 11, the long Coatzacoalcos–P...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Elias
Pseudo-Elias
Some modern scholars have suggested that the author was a physician by profession giving introductory lectures on logic, given that although the philosophical content of the work is rather weak, the author demonstrates special interest in Ancient Greek medicine and especially in the writings of Galen. Lectures on Porp...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Laure%20de%20Decker
Marie-Laure de Decker
Marie-Laure de Decker (; 2 August 1947 – 15 July 2023) was a French photographer. She was recognised for her war photography, including her coverage of the Vietnam War. She also covered conflicts in countries such as Yemen, Chad, and South Africa. Besides war photography, de Decker was a highly regarded portrait photog...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave-Trading%20in%20the%20Old%20South
Slave-Trading in the Old South
Bancroft's book thus became a "definitive study of the domestic slave trade" for decades. The book has a recognizable quality of "moral outrage" but "the evidence he presents has stood the test of time...research that followed has confirmed many of his points." Contemporary researchers continue to draw on Bancroft's wo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave%20Lyon
Gustave Lyon
Gustave Lyon (19 November 1857 – 12 January 1936) was a French piano maker, acoustician and inventor. He was head of Pleyel et Cie from 1887. Life Lyon was born in Paris in 1857, son of Jacob Lyon, a singing teacher, and his wife Fanny née Coche. He was educated at the Lycée Saint-Louis and at the École polytechnique;...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Petre
Anna Petre
Anna Maria Barbara Petre, Lady Petre born Anna Maria Barbara Radcliffe (1716–1760) was a Roman Catholic noblewoman. She was of Royal descent and she kept her husband's memory alive after he was executed as a Jacobite. Life Petre was born in 1716. She was descended from Moll Davis and Charles II via their daughter Lady...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclogue%207
Eclogue 7
Eclogue 7 (Ecloga VII; Bucolica VII) is a poem by the Latin poet Virgil, one of his book of ten pastoral poems known as the Eclogues. It is an amoebaean poem in which a herdsman Meliboeus recounts a contest between the shepherd Thyrsis and the goatherd Corydon. The poem is imitated from the sixth Idyll of Theocritus. ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclogue%207
Eclogue 7
It was common for Servius and other ancient commentators to propose that the various characters mentioned in the Eclogues may also represent real persons or fellow poets in Virgil's circle in Rome; thus the character Menalcas in Eclogues 3, 5, 9, and 10 was thought to represent Virgil himself. Sometimes modern critics ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclogue%207
Eclogue 7
Paraskeviotis notes that in this Eclogue, Virgil imitates Theocritus's Idyll 5, in which the goatherd Comatas who begins the contest also wins an unexpected victory. The final line, however ("from that time Corydon is Corydon for us") recalls the end of Idyll 8 ("from that time Daphnis became first among the herdsmen")...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget%20Bennet
Bridget Bennet
Bridget Bennet born Bridget Howe was an English book collector. She lived at two houses and her husband was a member of Parliament who became Baron Ossulston. Her notes and the changing lists of her books give an insight into her interests, book-lending and self-education. Life Bennet's birthplace and date are unknown...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte%20Rich%2C%20Countess%20of%20Warwick
Charlotte Rich, Countess of Warwick
Charlotte Rich, Countess of Warwick (1680 – 1731), formerly Lady Charlotte Myddelton became Charlotte Addison after her second marriage. She was an English noblewoman and the wife of Edward Rich, 6th Earl of Warwick. Her second husband was the satirist Joseph Addison. Early Life Born Charlotte Myddelton, she was the ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortifications%20of%20the%20Russian%20invasion%20of%20Ukraine
Fortifications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Structure In 2014, the Ukrainian government announced that the defense lines will include a 60-kilometer stretch of a "non-explosive barrier," thousands of kilometers worth of trenches for personnel, armored vehicles and communication lines, and 4,000 army dugouts. The structure also includes barbed wire, watchtowers,...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucocoprinus%20magnicystidiosus
Leucocoprinus magnicystidiosus
Leucocoprinus magnicystidiosus is a species of mushroom-producing fungus in the family Agaricaceae. Taxonomy It was first described in 1982 by the mycologists Helen Vandervort Smith and Nancy S. Weber who classified it as Leucocoprinus magnicystidiosus. The specimens studied and documented were collected by Ervin Hil...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucocoprinus%20magnicystidiosus
Leucocoprinus magnicystidiosus
This mushroom is described as being 'extremely fragile'. The stem is so fragile that when the caps are fully open and mature even a slight breeze or human breath can cause them to break. Larger specimens may collapse under their own weight and hot sun causes these mushrooms to deteriorate and disappear very quickly. So...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart-hand%20syndrome%2C%20Slovenian%20type
Heart-hand syndrome, Slovenian type
Heart-hand syndrome, Slovenian type is a rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder belonging to the heart-hand syndromes. Signs and symptoms Individuals with this condition typically exhibit progressive heart conduction disease, tachycardia, arrhythmia, dilated cardiomyopathy which begins during a patient's adulthood...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucocoprinus%20longistriatus
Leucocoprinus longistriatus
Leucocoprinus longistriatus is a species of mushroom producing fungus in the family Agaricaceae. Taxonomy It was first described in 1898 by the American mycologist Charles Horton Peck and classified as Lepiota longistriata. In 1982 it was reclassified as Leucocoprinus longistriatus by the mycologists Helen Vandervor...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%20P.%20Artz
Curtis P. Artz
Curtis P. Artz (1915–1977) was an American trauma surgeon and burn care specialist. He served in the U.S. Army working in surgical research, founded and led several organizations dedicated to surgery and burn care, published medical textbooks and academic articles, and taught as a Professor of Surgery at multiple colle...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon%C4%8Dulj%20Agreement
Končulj Agreement
The Končulj Agreement is a colloquial name for two statements, the Basic UÇPMB statement signed about the Insurgency in the Preševo Valley, signed by the Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac (UÇPMB) and the Statement on conditional amnesty for members of the UÇPMB, signed by the Republic of Serbia within F...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat%20of%20arms%20of%20the%20%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA%20Voivodeship
Coat of arms of the Łódź Voivodeship
Design The coat of arms of the Łódź Voivodeship consists of an Iberian style escutcheon with square top and rounded base. It is divided horizontally into three stripes (pales), that area from left to right: yellow (golden), red, and yellow (red), with the middle stripe being twice as big as the other stripes. It also ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat%20of%20arms%20of%20the%20%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA%20Voivodeship
Coat of arms of the Łódź Voivodeship
The proposed design of the coat of arms consisted of an Iberian style escutcheon with square top and rounded base, that was divided into four parts in the shape of a chessboard. The field in the top left corner consisted of two equal horizontal stripes, white on the right, and red on the left. It included the charge of...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Ray%20%28artist%29
Joe Ray (artist)
Ray's resin works convey his interests in science and spirit, euphoric perception, the individual human body and its systems, and the cosmos. His later Rings and Spheres (1980–3) has been described as a work of painstaking craftsmanship whose seven deep-colored, opaque rings and spheres placed side-by-side conjure a wi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushi%20Narrative%20Tablet
Ushi Narrative Tablet
The Ushi Narrative Tablet, sometimes Ushi's Narrative Tablet, is a cuneiform tablet dated to around 3200BC and the Uruk III period of ancient Sumer, containing a narrative inscription attributed to a scribe by the name of "Ushi". It was discovered at some point during the German Oriental Society's excavations of Warka ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Case
Isaac Case
Isaac Case (February 2, 1761 – November 3, 1852) was an itinerant Baptist pastor, evangelist, and church planter in Maine and the Maritimes, who was recognized by Baptists of the 19th century as "one of the most useful ministers of his day." Case was born in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, near the eastern bo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alena%20Analeigh%20Wicker
Alena Analeigh Wicker
Career While completing high school, Wicker "noticed the racial and gender disparities in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields," which led her to develop the Brown STEM Girl (BSG) website. She imagined using BSG to "create this culture of Brown girls in STEM." She developed a business pla...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susie%20Billie
Susie Billie
Susie Jim Billie (1900–2003) was a Seminole traditional maker of medicine and grand matriarch of the Panther clan in her region. She was born at the turn of the last century in Collier County, Florida in the United States, and resided on the Big Cypress Reservation, where she practiced traditional healing arts for her ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carola%20Su%C3%A1rez-Orozco
Carola Suárez-Orozco
Carola Suárez-Orozco is a cultural developmental psychologist, academic, and author. She is a Professor in Residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Director of the Immigration Initiative at Harvard. She is also the co-founder of Re-Imagining Migration, a nonprofit organization. Suárez-Orozco has ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979%20Yugoslav%20Mount%20Everest%20expedition
1979 Yugoslav Mount Everest expedition
Two days later, after Božić, Belak and Phu reached the summit, and had to plan for their descent as well. A snowstorm had crept in during their 12-hour climb, and down-climbing the 'American Step' was going to be difficult. Božić was pinned down in an exposed position by strong gusts of wind and stuck for half an hour....
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Beatrix%20of%20Austria-Este
Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este
Maria Beatrix Anna Frances of Austria-Este (1824–1906) () was a high aristocrat from the Austria-Este branch of the House of Habsburg. As daughter to the ruling Duke of Modena she was born archduchess of Austria-Este and princess of Modena. Following her 1847 marriage she became Infanta of Spain and Countess of Montizó...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Beatrix%20of%20Austria-Este
Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este
The only horror moment of her youth came during a revolutionary attempt in 1831; together with her mother and siblings during a night they escaped in a small convoy of carriages to the Austrian-held fortress of Mantua, to return few months later. Unlike was customary in her sphere, she was educated not by personal tuto...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Alexander%20%28pianist%29
Arthur Alexander (pianist)
Arthur Alexander (25 March 1891 8 July 1969) was a New Zealand-born pianist, teacher and composer who spent most of his career in the United Kingdom. Education and early career Alexander was born in Dunedin and educated at Wellington College, where he studied piano with Maughan Barnett and composition and harmony with...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Alexander%20%28pianist%29
Arthur Alexander (pianist)
Marriage Alexander married the composer Freda Swain in 1921, and before World War II the couple toured South Africa and Australia, lecturing, broadcasting and performing recitals. On the outbreak of war, Alexander was in South Africa and was unable to leave. Swain wrote a piano concerto for him, scoring it on very thin...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucocoprinus%20breviramus
Leucocoprinus breviramus
Habitat and distribution L. breviramus is scarcely recorded and little known. The specimens studied were gathered in Brazoria county, Texas in 1971 and Washington county, Mississippi in 1979. The mushrooms were reported as fruiting singly or sometimes in small clusters on grass and on wet hay in the Summer and Autumn. ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine%20Holm%20Hoch
Geraldine Holm Hoch
Geraldine Holm Hoch (June 10, 1924 – May 3, 1973) was an American chemical engineer who was one of the first women to work at Pratt & Whitney, Northrop Grumman, Bendix Corporation, the Midwest Research Institute and Lockheed Martin. She patented corrosion prevention systems for the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar and used on...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus%20and%20the%20Non-Aligned%20Movement
Cyprus and the Non-Aligned Movement
The Mediterranean island country of Cyprus was one of the founding members of the Non-Aligned Movement with Makarios III attending the 1st Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia in 1961, just one year after the Cypriot independence. Membership in the movement was perceived as one of two major fo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karol%20Miarka%20%28son%29
Karol Miarka (son)
Karol Miarka known as the Younger or Son (11 June 1856 – 12 May 1919) was a Polish printer and publisher, social activist in Upper Silesia, fighting to maintain Polishness. Biography He was the son of Karol. He graduated from the gymnasium in Cieszyn. After his father, he took over a printing shop in Mikołów, which h...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish%20national%20road%2022
Finnish national road 22
The Finnish national road 22 (; ; also known as Kainuuntie, "Kainuu Road") is the main route between the major cities of Oulu and Kajaani in northern Finland. The road is long, and it is part of the national transport route network that connects two regions, North Ostrobothnia and Kainuu. At the Oulu end, the road con...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RR%20Lyncis
RR Lyncis
RR Lyncis is a star system in the northern constellation of Lynx, abbreviated RR Lyn. It is an eclipsing binary of the Algol type; one of the closest in the northern sky at an estimated distance of approximately 263 light years based on parallax measurements. The system is faintly visible to the naked eye with a combin...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20history%20of%20Harar
Early history of Harar
In 18th and 19th century, three handwritten documents published in Amharic, Arabic and French described Harar being liberated by Dawud dynasty from Imamate of Aussa in 1647 and ruled until Egyptian conquest in 1875. History Walashma dynasty The imams of Harar came to conflict with Walasma ruling classes that exacerb...
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71364629
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucocoprinus%20medioflavus
Leucocoprinus medioflavus
Leucocoprinus medioflavus is a species of mushroom producing fungus in the family Agaricaceae. Taxonomy It was first described in 1894 by the French mycologist Jean Louis Émile Boudier who classified it as Lepiota medioflava. Boudier also provided various illustrations of the mushroom in different stages of growth. ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899%20Ayd%C4%B1n%E2%80%93Denizli%20earthquake
1899 Aydın–Denizli earthquake
A long surface rupture and up to of vertical displacement was measured during geological fieldworks in the 1960s and 1970s. Near Sarayköy, an offset of was measured. The rupture also produced a right-lateral strike-slip component. In 1998, Nicholas Ambraseys measured the surface rupture length to be . A 2013 study ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Bennett%20%28artist%29
Mike Bennett (artist)
Mike Bennett is an American visual artist based in Portland, Oregon. He studied art education and has worked as a preschool teacher. Early life and education Originally from Massachusetts, Bennett was raised in central Pennsylvania. In 2012, he studied animation, art education, computer design, and illustration at Sh...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20McClay%20Williams
Alexander McClay Williams
Alexander McClay Williams (July 23, 1914 – June 8, 1931) was an African-American teenager wrongfully convicted and executed for the 1930 murder of 33-year-old Vida Robare, a matron of the Glen Mills reform school he attended, in Pennsylvania. Williams confessed to the murder, although he later recanted his confession. ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20L%C3%BCneburg
Battle of Lüneburg
When Cossacks showed up at the southern city gate at 6 am, Morand thought he was dealing with patrols as before. He sent two guns with an infantry cover and his 75 horsemen in front of the city to drive off the enemy. His troops ran into one of Dörnberg's traps: surprised, they saw themselves exposed to a massive flank...
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