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71364927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice%20Powers%20Cutter | Eunice Powers Cutter | Career and activism
Between 1848 and 1857, Cutter traveled with her husband and lectured to various women's groups throughout New England about health. He lectured on anatomy, physiology, and hygiene to schools and colleges in thirty states during the same period. Calvin published a textbook Anatomy and Physiology in 1... | 2.875 | 0 |
71364932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qrashel | Qrashel | Qrashel or Krachel () or Lgorss () are Moroccan traditional sweet sesame rolls, made with anise and fennel. They can be served with tea or coffee, and dipped in cheese, olive oil, jam or honey. The rolls are similar to French brioche, but the anise seeds give them an extra flavor.
Qrashel are known in Moroccan cuisine... | 2.265625 | 0 |
71365200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Saskatchewan | List of regions of Saskatchewan | Cardinal regions
The province is regularly divided into three regions of Northern, Central, and Southern Saskatchewan, the latter two of which include the subregions of East-Central, Southeast, Southwestern, and West-Central Saskatchewan. Along with these regions, the terms Northwestern and Northeastern Saskatchewan m... | 2.71875 | 0 |
71366390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20John%20Arabin | William John Arabin | General William John Arabin (1750–1827) was an 18th/19th century British Army commander of Irish/French descent who was a flamboyant figure during the Napoleonic Wars. In the terminology of the day, he was a "macaroni".
Life
He was born in Dublin on 27 December 1750, the son of Colonel John Arabin (1703–1757) famed f... | 1.953125 | 0 |
71366545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Andalusia | History of Andalusia | Apparently, Tartessos also maintained commercial exchanges with the Greek Phocians who according to Herodotus were their allies. However, after the battle of Alalia, around 537 BC, the Phocaean trade was also blocked by the Carthaginians or Punics, who around the year 500 BC definitively relieved the Phoenicians in the... | 2.96875 | 0 |
71366949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teodors%20Za%C4%BCkalns | Teodors Zaļkalns | Teodors Zaļkalns (born Teodors Grīnbergs; 30 November 1876 – 6 September 1972) was a Latvian sculptor, poet, medalist and teacher who was among the first professional Latvian sculptors.
Biography
He was born in 1876 in Allažu parish in the family of a farmer and merchant. Grīnbergs studied at the Allaži parish school... | 2.4375 | 0 |
71366949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teodors%20Za%C4%BCkalns | Teodors Zaļkalns | During this period he created and installed two monuments, one to the democratic revolutionary Nikolai Chernyshevsky and to the member of the Paris Commune, Auguste Blanqui. He also created models of monuments to composers Modest Mussorgsky and Alexander Scriabin and revolutionary lieutenant Pyotr Schmidt.
In 1920, h... | 2.15625 | 0 |
71367234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Dickens%20in%20His%20Study | Charles Dickens in His Study | Charles Dickens in His Study is an oil on canvas painting by English artist William Powell Frith, created in 1859. The painting is signed and dated at the lower left, 'W P Frith fecit 1859'. It is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London.
History and description
It was John Forster, a friend and biographer of... | 2.5625 | 0 |
71367494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac%20Bourke | Cormac Bourke | Cormac Bourke (born in Dublin) is an Irish archeologist specialising in Medieval studies, early church history and insular Christianity. He is a former, long term, curator of Medieval Antiquities at the Ulster Museum, Belfast, and currently works at the antiquities department of the National Museum of Ireland.
His pub... | 2.1875 | 0 |
71367872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial%20segregation%20in%20Canada | Racial segregation in Canada | Ontario
In Sarnia, a 1946 property deed for a Lake Huron community of approximately 100 cottage lots specified that property could only be owned by whites of a particular racial background. These clauses were all upheld by court decisions until the Canadian constitution came into effect.
In 1944, Ontario enacted the ... | 3.140625 | 0 |
71368642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment%20in%20Myanmar | Capital punishment in Myanmar | Capital punishment in Myanmar is a legal penalty. Myanmar is classified as a "retentionist" state. Before 25 July 2022, Myanmar was considered "abolitionist in practice," meaning a country has not executed anyone in the past ten years or more and is believed to have an established practice or policy against carrying ou... | 2.703125 | 0 |
71369011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Espinoza%20%28writer%29 | Alex Espinoza (writer) | Alex Espinoza is an American writer and educator, living in Los Angeles. He has written the novels Still Water Saints (2007) and The Five Acts of Diego León (2013), as well as Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime (2019).
Life and work
Espinoza was born in Tijuana, Mexico and moved with his family to the ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
71369185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotoca%20goslinei | Allotoca goslinei | Allotoca goslinei, commonly known as the banded allotoca or tiro rayado in Spanish, is a species of fish in the family Goodeidae. First described in 1987, it was once endemic only to the Ameca River basin in the Mexican state of Jalisco. It is now known to be extinct in the wild.
Its specific name honors American icht... | 2.78125 | 0 |
71369359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner%20ear%20decompression%20sickness | Inner ear decompression sickness | Classification
DCS is classified by symptoms. The earliest descriptions of DCS used the terms: "bends" for joint or skeletal pain; "chokes" for breathing problems; and "staggers" for neurological problems. In 1960, Golding et al. introduced a simpler classification using the term "Type I ('simple')" for symptoms involv... | 2.09375 | 0 |
71369359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner%20ear%20decompression%20sickness | Inner ear decompression sickness | Predisposing factors
Several factors are considered likely to increase the risk of IEDCS:
Environmental: Deep depth of dive; long exposure at depth, causing relatively high saturation of the affected tissues; gas switches, particularly of gases with significantly different diffusivity, such as helium and nitrogrn. Hel... | 2.109375 | 0 |
71369359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner%20ear%20decompression%20sickness | Inner ear decompression sickness | Diagnosis
IEDCS and inner ear barotrauma (IEBt) are the inner ear injuries associated with ambient pressure diving, both of which manifest as cochleovestibular symptoms. The similarity of symptoms makes differential diagnosis difficult, which can delay appropriate treatment or lead to inappropriate treatment.
A test o... | 2.296875 | 0 |
71369375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Hervey%20Fox | Paul Hervey Fox | Paul Hervey Fox (March 13, 1894 November 1, 1956) was an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. He wrote several films during the pre-Code era and Hollywood golden age, including Mandalay (1934), Grand Finale (1936), The Last Train from Madrid (1937), Safari (1940), A Gentleman at Heart (1942), and The Stars... | 1.953125 | 0 |
71369519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20for%20Economic%20Security%20Act | Education for Economic Security Act | Title I: National Science Foundation Mathematics and Science Programs
Title I created programs to support math and science teachers through grants and training programs. Part A authorized the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide grants for state governments, local governments, and institutions of higher educat... | 2.359375 | 0 |
71369834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrifice%20to%20Heaven | Sacrifice to Heaven | Sacrifice to Heaven () is an Asian religious practice originating in the worship of Shangdi in China. In Ancient Chinese society, nobles of all levels constructed altars for Heaven. At first, only nobles could worship Shangdi but later beliefs changed and everyone could worship Shangdi.
Modern Confucian churches make ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
71370516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow%20Plunge | Willow Plunge | In the early 1920s, Kinnard had a small pond on his property that was being used as a swimming hole by local youth. He intended to enlarge it and make a fish pond, but the local citizens, mostly young people, begged him to make it into a bona fide swimming pool and he agreed. He named it "Willow Plunge" because of the ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
71370551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Antelope%20%281802%29 | HMS Antelope (1802) | HMS Antelope was a ship of the line in the Royal Navy launched in 1802 during the Napoleonic Wars.
Service history
She was designed by Sir John Henslow and built by Nicholas Diddams at Sheerness Dockyard. Her keel was laid in June 1790, but she took many years to complete, and was not launched until 10 November 1802. ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
69783452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Heyser | Friedrich Heyser | Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser (September 12, 1857 in Gnoien – September 7, 1921 in Dresden) was a German portrait, landscape, and history painter.
Life
Friedrich Heyser studied from 1880 to 1883 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden as a student of Leon Pohle and Paul Mohn. From 1883 to 1885, he studied with Ferd... | 2.5625 | 0 |
69783808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandaean%20name | Mandaean name | Matronymic names
Lay Mandaeans historically did not have actual family names or surnames, but were rather referred to by the names of their mothers in their malwasha using the prefix bar (written as br in the Mandaic script) for a male and beth (written as pt in the Mandaic script) for a female, such as Mhattam Yohan... | 2.046875 | 0 |
69784339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingue%20grammar | Interlingue grammar | The ending of the definite article can be modified to lo (masculine), la (feminine), lu (neuter), lis (plural), los (masculine plural), e las (feminine plural). Of these, the forms lu and lis are most common: lu in the same sense as Spanish lo and English that which, as in Ne li aprension de un lingue es lu essential, ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
69785821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrographic%20Institute%20of%20the%20Republic%20of%20Croatia | Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia | The first of these in the Adriatic was by the French hydrographer Beautemps-Beaupré, as he conducted surveys of the East Adriatic ports, bays and channels, between 1806 and 1809. To mark the 200th anniversary of that survey, the Croatian Hydrological Institute published a special edition entitled "Eastern Adriatic in t... | 2.46875 | 0 |
69786186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilad%20Efrat | Gilad Efrat | Gilad Efrat (Hebrew: גלעד אפרת; born 1969) is a leading contemporary Israeli painter and a professor at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel.
Biography
Gilad Efrat was born in 1969 in Beersheba, Israel. In 1995 he completed his BA in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. In 1997 he pre... | 2.1875 | 0 |
69788014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via%20Sebaste | Via Sebaste | The Via Sebaste was a Roman military road in southern Anatolia. Its starting point (caput viae) was Pisidian Antioch on the central plateau, and it ran over the Taurus Mountains, through the Climax Pass (now Döşeme Boğazı) down to Perga on the coast. The Roman colonia of Comama and Apollonia lay along its route. There ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
69788043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Azenha%20Bridge | Battle of Azenha Bridge | Prelude
On the night of 18 September 1835, at a meeting attended by José Mariano de Mattos (a separatist politician), Gomes Jardim (cousin of Bento Gonçalves and future president of the Riograndense Republic), Antônio Vicente da Fontoura (an anti-separatist liberal), Pedro Boticário, Paulino da Fontoura (politician an... | 2.078125 | 0 |
69788301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Goins | David Goins | David Goins (born July 26, 1960) is an American politician who was elected in 2021 as the first African American mayor of Alton, Illinois.
Biography
Goins was born on July 26, 1960, the son of Mark and Opal Goins. His mother died in 1967 and his father died in 1971. He was raised thereafter by his grandparents. In 197... | 2.078125 | 0 |
69788360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Juliana%20Falconieri%20Church | St. Juliana Falconieri Church | Early history
In 1882, J. L. Miner offered land near the Burlington depot to build St. Juliana Falconieri Catholic Church, so named after his wife, Julia Miner. In 1883 (the year Willa Cather moved to Red Cloud), the church was constructed using bricks made of native clay and fired by the Ludlow Brick Company in Red Cl... | 2.40625 | 0 |
69788448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr%20Bogdanov | Pyotr Bogdanov | Pyotr Alekseevich Bogdanov (Russian: Пётр Алексеевич Богданов; 1 June 1882 – 12 May 1939) was a Soviet statesman, engineer and economist who was chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy of the Russian SFSR.
Biography
Early life and career
Born in the family of a Moscow merchant of the second guild. He... | 2.203125 | 0 |
69788886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Kilgore | Kenneth Kilgore | Kenneth Kilgore (January 26, 1947 – April 14, 2011) was an American jazz musician, a Minister of Music, and an educator. He founded the Ambassadors' Concert Choir in 1979 and the choir performed with other musicians at multiple events. He won several awards and a bridge in Oklahoma City was named in his honor two years... | 2.546875 | 0 |
69789356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff%20Cave%20Park | Cliff Cave Park | Cliff Cave Park is a 525-acre public park located in St. Louis County, Missouri. The park is owned and operated by the St. Louis County Department of Parks and Recreation. It is named after Cliff Cave, a natural cave located in the park that is a historical and archaeologic site. The park contains woodlands, wetlands, ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
69789640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplocardia%20meansi | Diplocardia meansi | Diplocardia meansi, the Means's giant earthworm, or Rich Mountain giant earthworm, is a species of earthworm endemic to the United States. It is the second longest earthworm in North America. It was discovered by D. Bruce Means on June 11, 1973, in Polk County, Arkansas. and later described by Gates in 1977. It occurs ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
69789902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinocereus%20websterianus | Echinocereus websterianus | Echinocereus websterianus, commonly known as the San Pedro Nolasco hedgehog cactus or Webster's hedgehog cactus, is a species of cactus. It is named after American philanthropist Gertrude Webster, who cofounded the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona.
Description
Webster's hedgehog is a short barrel cactus gr... | 2.53125 | 0 |
69790139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20sun%20of%20La%20Tolita | Golden sun of La Tolita | The Golden sun of La Tolita has 48 symmetrically located rays. Most of them are broken, only 12 are complete. A raised line runs through the center of each ray. The serpent heads in this piece hold in their mouths another head called "Trophy Head", which has a face in the same T-shape as the central face. These heads h... | 2.75 | 0 |
69790231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbe%20Mausoleum%20%28Biha%C4%87%29 | Turbe Mausoleum (Bihać) | The turbe belongs to the type with an octagonal base covered by a dome. The walls' edges are all equal, 2.60 meters in length. The wall material is a mixture of stone and brick, with the complete external facade made of bihacite stone, a very soft and light local limestone. The turbe is divided by a horizontal profiled... | 2.25 | 0 |
69790319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechtild%20Widrich | Mechtild Widrich | Research
Widrich works on monuments, architecture, and performance in public space. In her book Performative Monuments, Widrich coins the title phrase, 'performative monument', to explain why live body art influenced interactive memorials since the 1980s, building on the definition of anti-authoritarian countermonument... | 2.171875 | 0 |
69790805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/218th%20Rifle%20Division | 218th Rifle Division | 218th Motorized Division
The division began forming in February 1941, based on the 12th Motorized Rifle Brigade, as part of the prewar buildup of Soviet mechanized forces in the Odessa Military District as part of the 18th Mechanized Corps. Once formed its order of battle was as follows:
658th Motorized Rifle Regimen... | 2.296875 | 0 |
69790856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbmac | Corbmac | Dates
Such are the facts recorded in the Book of Lecan. The question, however, of the date at which he flourished is one of peculiar difficulty, owing to the anachronisms which abound in it. Colgan thought he flourished in the fifth century, and Lanigan considered that some indications pointed to the seventh; but ther... | 1.992188 | 0 |
69791351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa%20de%20la%20Aduana | Casa de la Aduana | Casa de la Aduana (which means Customs House in Spanish; also known as the Tayrona Gold Museum) is a colonial building located in the Plaza de Bolívar in the city of Santa Marta, Magdalena.
It is the regional headquarters of the Gold Museum, which is part of the Bank of the Republic of Colombia. This museum offers the... | 2.3125 | 0 |
69791889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20colonization%20attempt%20of%20the%20Strait%20of%20Magellan | Spanish colonization attempt of the Strait of Magellan | When the next English navigator, Thomas Cavendish, landed at the site of Ciudad Rey Don Felipe in 1587, he found the ruins of the settlement as well as a handful of survivors whom he refused to assist. He removed six cannons from the settlement and renamed the place "Port Famine."
The last known survivor was rescued i... | 2.78125 | 0 |
69792044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Gignoux | Maurice Gignoux | Maurice Irénée Marie Gignoux (19 October 1881 – 20 October 1955) was a renowned French geologist who was a specialist on the stratigraphy of the Alps. His 1925 book Geologie stratigraphique was a landmark publication in stratigraphy and was translated into several languages and went into many editions.
Gignoux was bor... | 2.265625 | 0 |
69792076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoese%E2%80%93Mongol%20Wars | Genoese–Mongol Wars | In 1453, an Ottoman fleet arrived in Crimea and attempted to seize the Genoese colonies. Giray allied himself with the Ottomans, providing 7,000 soldiers to assist in an Ottoman siege of Kaffa. Though the allies were unable to break through Kaffa's defenses, the alliance strengthened ties between the Crimean Khanate an... | 2.578125 | 0 |
69792237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Koppitz | Anna Koppitz | At the Nazi 'farming school' in Burg Neuhaus, the "Reich School of the Reichsnährstand for Physical Exercises" Darré promoted Nordic racial purity through eugenics and the "New nobility of blood and soil."
Anna was to illustrate the experiment, and in 1939, alongside German sports photographer Hanns Spudich, she made ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
69792358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Kaldestad | Steve Kaldestad | Steve Kaldestad is a Canadian saxophonist and music educator.
Early life and education
Originally from Saskatchewan, Kaldestad attended McGill University, where he received both his bachelor's and master's degree in music. During this period, he studied under the tutelage of Lee Konitz.
Career
Kaldestad has appeare... | 1.945313 | 0 |
69793148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COAT%20platelet%20defect | COAT platelet defect | A collagen- and thrombin-activated (COAT) platelet defect is a platelet function disorder that is due to a reduced ability to generate procoagulant platelets. It is associated with a clinically relevant bleeding phenotype.
During physiological platelet activation, a fraction of platelets expresses phosphatidylserine o... | 1.953125 | 0 |
69793199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyza | Eyza | Eyza or Heyza (, Ajza, Ajsza or Ejze; died after 1305) was a noble at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was born in a Muslim family, but he converted to Roman Catholicism. Based on the 15th-century Buda Chronicle, former historiographical works also referred incorrectly to him as Liz... | 2.46875 | 0 |
69793555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaynagar%E2%80%93Bardibas%20railway%20line | Jaynagar–Bardibas railway line | The Jaynagar–Janakpur–Bardibas railway line (Hindi/ Nepali: जयनगर–जनकपुर–बर्दिबास रेलवे) is a cross-border railway line between India and Nepal. The railway links Bijalpura with Jaynagar, crossing the India–Nepal border near Inarwa. An extension to Bardibas is being constructed. The line began as a freight railway in ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
69793610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante%20Dahlstr%C3%B6m | Svante Dahlström | Svante Dahlström (14 October 1883 – 21 January 1965) was a Finland-Swedish historian. He married music educator Greta Dahlström in 1925 and was the father of musicologist .
Dahlström was born in Turku, Finland, in 1883 to Johan Edvard Dahlström and Augusta Charlotta Hallqvist. After graduating in 1901, he received his... | 2.25 | 0 |
69794138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northbrook%20Park%2C%20London | Northbrook Park, London | currently managed by Glendale Grounds Management for the London Borough of Lewisham. It is one of Lewisham's open spaces, and is open all year from 08:00 every morning, and closes near dusk, with times ranging from 16:00 to 21:00 in the evening, depending on time of year. The park is roughly in size, approximately w... | 1.914063 | 0 |
69794138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northbrook%20Park%2C%20London | Northbrook Park, London | There was a pond in the southwest corner of the Ten-Acre Field from at least the 1870s, which was incorporated as a feature at the back of Northbrook Park. Two drinking fountains were installed in the park near the path, one at the front where the plinth still remains, and another at the rear in the northwest corner. I... | 2.03125 | 0 |
69795184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%2014%E2%80%9317%2C%202022%20North%20American%20winter%20storm | January 14–17, 2022 North American winter storm | The January 14–17, 2022 North American winter storm brought widespread impacts and wintry precipitation across large sections of eastern North America and parts of Canada. Forming out of a shortwave trough on January 13, it first produced a swath of snowfall extending from the High Plains to the Midwestern United State... | 2.359375 | 0 |
69796647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy%20balloon%20A-5598 | Navy balloon A-5598 | The U.S. Navy balloon A-5598 was an American naval free balloon which went off-course and its crew of three were recorded missing for several weeks.
History
The balloon departed Rockaway Naval Air Station (Queens, New York) on December 13, 1920, and went missing the following day. It crash landed north of Moose Facto... | 2.296875 | 0 |
69796648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s%20Reformatory | Children's Reformatory | Children's Reformatory () is a 1907 French silent short film directed by Charles Decroix, inspired by the eponymous novel by Aristide Bruant.
Plot
A young orphan is thrown out into the street by a ruthless janitor after the death of his mother. He wanders pitifully through the streets, soliciting in vain the charity o... | 2.28125 | 0 |
69796835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A9ment%20Siatous | Clément Siatous | Work
Clément Siatous is a self-taught painter. He earns most of his artistic income from portraits of famous people, but became increasingly well known for his scenes of daily life in Chagos. His aim is to keep the memory of the Chagossians alive, and to prove that his archipelago was permanently inhabited before the ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
69796868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qadi%20al-Fadil | Qadi al-Fadil | In Christian sources, Qadi al-Fadil is blamed for the anti- purge of the early years of Saladin's rule, which saw Christians evicted and banned from holding posts in the public fiscal administration. At the same time, however, Qadi al-Fadl sponsored a number of Jewish physicians, among them the celebrated philosopher M... | 2.578125 | 0 |
69796868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qadi%20al-Fadil | Qadi al-Fadil | Writings and patronage of learning
Already during his lifetime, Qadi al-Fadil was highly esteemed, chiefly due to the "exceptional quality of his private and official epistolary style", which was praised, held up as a model, and emulated by subsequent generations of writers. This style was similar to that of Imad al-Di... | 2.21875 | 0 |
69797134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%20Juliana | India Juliana | Historian views
Based on Cabeza de Vaca's original account, several different and contradictory versions of the India Juliana's story have emerged over time, some of them through history works and others through literary works. Depending on the ideological position, some discourses portray her as a warrior and an icon ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
69797280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson%20Ford | Benson Ford | World War II service
During World War II, Benson was twice rejected from service as status 4-F, due to blindness in his left eye. However, Benson persisted in his desire to serve his country and would not give up. Despite his left eye blindness, Benson insisted and persisted, and was finally allowed to enlist in the U... | 2.46875 | 0 |
69797280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson%20Ford | Benson Ford | Return to Ford
After World War II Ford was re-organized in the image of General Motors into profit centers and a line and staff components. On January 30, 1948, Benson was elected a vice president of the company and appointed the director of the newly formed Lincoln-Mercury Division, carrying on in his father's foot-s... | 2.234375 | 0 |
69797551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepra%20%28lichen%29 | Lepra (lichen) | Lepra is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Pertusariaceae. Although the genus was created in 1777, it was not regularly used until it was resurrected in 2016 following molecular phylogenetic analyses. It has more than a hundred species, most of which were previously classified in genus Pertusaria.
Taxonomy... | 2.375 | 0 |
69797648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaghat%20people | Vaghat people | The Vaghat people are an ethnic group who traditionally inhabited just over a dozen villages in the hills of Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro LGAs in southwestern Bauchi State, Nigeria. Today, the Vaghat have also moved to many towns and settlements spread across Bauchi State, Plateau State, and Kaduna State (mostly near Zaria... | 2.640625 | 0 |
69797753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Wilkenfeld | Jonathan Wilkenfeld | Jonathan Wilkenfeld (born March 24, 1942) is an American political scientist and professor emeritus at University of Maryland, specialized in foreign policy, terrorism and simulation methodology in political science. He is the Founding Director of the International Communication and Negotiation Simulations Project.
Ca... | 2.25 | 0 |
69797801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bad%20Guys%20%28book%20series%29 | The Bad Guys (book series) | The Bad Guys is an illustrated children's graphic novel series written by Australian author Aaron Blabey. It revolves around a gang of anthropomorphic animals known as the "Bad Guys", who attempt to perform good deeds to change society's perception of them as criminals.
DreamWorks Animation acquired the rights to the... | 2.203125 | 0 |
69797936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol%20in%20association%20football | Alcohol in association football | Alcohol companies are sponsors of major association football teams and tournaments. Branding has been voluntarily removed from children's replica kits and banned outright in France. Alcohol cannot be consumed in parts of English football grounds with view of the pitch, or anywhere in Scottish grounds outside of corpora... | 2.40625 | 0 |
69798338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew%20James | Bartholomew James | In June Captain Luttrell was superseded in command of the Charon by Captain Thomas Symonds, and the ship sailed from Spithead in the beginning of August. At Cork she joined the Bienfaisant and two frigates, which put to sea on the 12th with a convoy of a hundred victuallers for North America. On the 13th they fell in w... | 2.28125 | 0 |
69798351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20Sabras | Four Sabras | Four Sabras is a short composition for solo piano by American composer Leonard Bernstein. Sabras (in Hebrew, צבר, "tsabár") refers to vignettes or portraits of different fictitious Israeli children.
Background
Best evidence suggest it was written throughout the early 1950s (the first piece, for example, was written i... | 2.515625 | 0 |
69798426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichenomphalia%20tasmanica | Lichenomphalia tasmanica | Lichenomphalia tasmanica is a species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae. It is found in Tasmania, Australia. It has a bright scaley thallus that grows like a green crust on rich soil between rocks. Occasionally. the lichen produces small, bright yellow-orange mushroom-like fruiting bodies.
Taxonomy
The lic... | 2.234375 | 0 |
69798614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund%20von%20Storchenau | Sigismund von Storchenau | Sigismund Maria Laurentius von Storchenau SJ (14 August 173113 April 1797) was an Austrian Catholic priest, philosopher and theologian.
Biography
Storchenau was born at Köttmannsdorf in Carinthia. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1747, and became professor of philosophy in Vienna in 1762. In the years 1781–90, he wa... | 2.078125 | 0 |
69799148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1909-S%20VDB%20Lincoln%20Cent | 1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent | History
Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th U.S. president, thought American coins were common and uninspiring. He had the opportunity to pose for a portrait with a young Lithuanian-born Jewish artist, Victor David Brenner. The artist had become one of the nation's premier medalists. Roosevelt had learned of Brenner's talents... | 2.796875 | 0 |
69799191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichenomphalia%20altoandina | Lichenomphalia altoandina | Lichenomphalia altoandina is a species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae. Found in Chile, it was described as a new species in 2017 by Pablo Sandoval-Leiva and Nicolas Niveiro.
Taxonomy
The type specimen was collected close to Colpitas (General Lagos, Arica y Parinacota Region) at a height above mean sea l... | 2.03125 | 0 |
69799219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background%20and%20causes%20of%20the%20Syrian%20revolution | Background and causes of the Syrian revolution | After winning the 2007 presidential election in Syria with 99.82% of the declared votes, Bashar al-Assad implemented numerous measures that further intensified political and cultural repression. Numerous journalists were arrested and independent press centres were shut down. Syrian government intensifed its censorship ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
69799302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Stiebel%20%28businessman%29 | George Stiebel (businessman) | After his ship is said to have sunk off the coast of Venezuela in 1856, he returned a wealthy man in 1873. With three other black men he is said to have discovered a gold mine, which is said to have had a monthly income of 80,000 pounds sterling for several years. While the others gave away their shares at a ridiculous... | 2.1875 | 0 |
69799361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monpe | Monpe | The origins of monpe are found in hakama, which were introduced to the Japanese court around the sixth century, and primarily used as professional clothing for men. Once conceived, owing to their simple construction, monpe did not change significantly in style for centuries, and continued to be practical garments to we... | 2.875 | 0 |
69799518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized%20crime%20in%20London%2C%20Ontario | Organized crime in London, Ontario | 1920
On December 1, 1920, there was a robbery at the Merchants Bank, which is now known as the South London Branch of the Bank of Montreal, located on Wortley Road. Two masked gunman entered the bank and began demanding money. J. Lackie, who was working as an assistant accountant for the bank, was injured when he was s... | 2.21875 | 0 |
69799603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel%3A%20The%20Battle%20of%20Dien%20Bien%20Phu | Citadel: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu | Citadel:The Battle of Dien Bien Phu is a board wargame published by Game Designers Workshop (GDW) in 1977 that is a simulation of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu that marked the end of the First Indochina War in 1954.
Description
Citadel is a two-player game in which one player controls the forces of the French Foreign Le... | 2.4375 | 0 |
69799658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanochelon | Titanochelon | Titanochelon is an extinct genus of giant tortoises known from the Early Miocene to the beginning of the Pleistocene in Europe, extending from the Iberian Peninsula to Anatolia. Some members of the genus were larger than extant giant tortoises, with a shell length of up to .
Taxonomy
There are approximately 10 known ... | 2.5 | 0 |
69799766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eryngium%20ebracteatum | Eryngium ebracteatum | Eryngium ebracteatum Lam., the burnet-flowered sea holly, is a herbaceous perennial native to damp grasslands in South America. The species is occasionally cultivated as an ornamental plant.
Etymology
The specific epithet 'ebracteatum' is derived from the Latin 'e' without and 'bracteatus' bracts. This is notable as ... | 2.625 | 0 |
69799766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eryngium%20ebracteatum | Eryngium ebracteatum | Eryngium ebracteatum is widely distributed in South and Central America, including Brazil, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela. It is native to undegraded frequently flooding pampas as well as humid mesophytic meadows, the species is found at elevations of 130 to 1600 meters.
Conservation
The conservation sta... | 2.828125 | 0 |
69799974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intestine-on-a-chip | Intestine-on-a-chip | Intestines-on-a-chip (gut-on-a-chip, mini-intestine) are microfluidic bioengineered 3D-models of the real organ, which better mimic physiological features than conventional 3D intestinal organoid culture. A variety of different intestine-on-a-chip models systems have been developed and refined, all holding their indivi... | 2.25 | 0 |
69799974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intestine-on-a-chip | Intestine-on-a-chip | In 2009, the development of intestinal organoids marked a milestone in the in vitro modelling of intestinal tissue. Intestinal organoids mimic the in vivo stem cell niche as intestinal stem cells spontaneously give rise to a closed, cystic mini-tissue with outward-facing buds representing the characteristic crypt-villu... | 2.25 | 0 |
78685114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuku%20Mohamad%20Thaher%20Thajeb | Teuku Mohamad Thaher Thajeb | Teuku Mohamad Thaher Thajeb (April 24, 1910 - unknown), also often written as Taher Thajeb, was an engineer and PKI politician who served as a member of the People's Representative Council from 1956 to 1965.
Early life and education
Thajeb was born in Bandung on 24 April 1910. He was of Acehnese noble descent. His fa... | 2.09375 | 0 |
78685593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20Quartet%28s%29 | String Quartet(s) | String Quartet(s) (2000–2023) is a digital four-channel surround-sound composition by Luxembourg-Australian composer Georges Lentz. It is over 43 hours long and plays constantly, day and night, in its permanent sound installation setting, the Cobar Sound Chapel in remote Outback New South Wales, Australia.
Background
... | 2.109375 | 0 |
78685876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dardanian-Celtic%20War | Dardanian-Celtic War | The Dardanian-Celtic War was a conflict that happened during 279 BC between the Illyrian kingdom of the Dardani and the Celtic tribes.
Background
The political situation in the northern Balkans was in constant flux with various tribes dominant over their neighbours at any one time. Within tribes, military expeditions... | 2.765625 | 0 |
78686620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executions%20in%20the%20Valley%20of%20Death | Executions in the Valley of Death | The exhumation in the Valley of Death was conducted hastily and unexpectedly halted by the Security Office. It was never resumed. This may have been related to the fact that the Security Office also carried out executions in this location after the war (on German prisoners).
On 9 May 1947, the coffins containing the v... | 2.265625 | 0 |
78688084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brno-%C3%9At%C4%9Bchov | Brno-Útěchov | In 1903, the organization of Social Democracy in Útěchov was founded, and two years later, a workers' gymnasium was established. Two Útěchov residents died in World War I. In 1923, the local Sokol was founded, and three years later, a volunteer fire brigade was also founded, which became the main organizer of social ev... | 2.3125 | 0 |
78688193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarlan%20Hasanov | Tarlan Hasanov | Coaching career
In August 1972, he started conducting training sessions in judo and sambo at the Lokomotiv Sports Society. At that time, Judo was not developed in Azerbaijan or the Soviet Union. Soviet sambo athletes participated in European championships, but since judo was a Japanese sport and considered "capitalist... | 2.203125 | 0 |
78688515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramuntanasaurus | Tramuntanasaurus | is an extinct genus of moradisaurine captorhinid that lived during the late Early Permian (Artinskian–Kungurian) or early Middle Permian (early Roadian) in what is now the island of Mallorca of the Balearic Islands. The genus is only known by its type species, , which was named in 2023 by Rafel Matamales-Andreu, Eudald... | 2.828125 | 0 |
78688515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramuntanasaurus | Tramuntanasaurus | Tramuntanasaurus differs from all other moradisaurines by a combination of characters such as the presence of a double row of teeth anterior to the tooth plate (unlike Captorhinikos and Moradisaurus), the absence of a diastema (unlike Gansurhinus and Kahneria), the anteriormost dentary teeth oriented forward (unlike Ca... | 2.609375 | 0 |
78688586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCcane%20C%C3%BCndio%C4%9Flu | Dücane Cündioğlu | Dücane Cündioğlu (born January 21, 1962) is a Turkish philosopher and writer.
Life
He was born in Üsküdar, Istanbul on January 21, 1962. He was involved in various political events during the politically turbulent period before the 1980 Turkish coup d'état. Due to these actions, he was convicted twice before he turne... | 1.992188 | 0 |
78688864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20John%27s%20Church%2C%20Magdeburg | St. John's Church, Magdeburg | St. John's church (St.-Johannis-Kirche) is a historic church in Magdeburg, Germany. It is known for its blend of Romanesque and Gothic architectural styles.
History
St. John's Church was first mentioned in 941 when King Otto I donated a church to the monks of the Moritz Monastery. The current structure, however, is n... | 2.515625 | 0 |
78689067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gear%C3%B3id%20%C3%93%20Caireall%C3%A1in | Gearóid Ó Cairealláin | Gearóid Ó Cairealláin (October 1957 – 20 December 2024) was a Northern Irish activist of the Irish language who was credited with playing a huge role in promoting the Irish language in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, especially in Belfast West.
Biography
Ó Cairealláin was born in October 1957. He hailed ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
78689071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCB-01 | XCB-01 | Firepower
The vehicle is equipped with a main weapon system similar to the BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle with main gun P-73-01 (HT-73-01) being a Vietnamese copy and modernization of the 2A28 Grom, which is used to destroy enemy vehicles, fortifications and manpower at a distance of up to 700 m. Compared to the orig... | 1.914063 | 0 |
78689241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecistocephalus%20smithii | Mecistocephalus smithii | Phylogeny
A phylogenetic analysis of ten Mecistocephalus species based on molecular data not only places M. smithii in a clade with M. guildingii, which emerges as the closest relative of M. smithii in a phylogenetic tree, but also places the species M. diversisternus in a sister group for this clade. The species M. g... | 2.609375 | 0 |
78689342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attalus%20%28sophist%29 | Attalus (sophist) | Attalus () was an ancient Greek philosopher in the Second Sophistic tradition, who lived during the second century CE.
He was the son of the renowned sophist Polemon of Laodicea, and grandfather of a sophist named Hermocrates of Phocaea. Most of what we know about Attalus comes from a brief mention in the Lives of the... | 2.328125 | 0 |
78689386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Wood | Johnny Wood | Johnny Wood (or Johnny's Wood) is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) within the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. It is located 300m west of the village of Borrowdale, in the valley of the River Derwent (Borrowdale). This woodland has an exceptional diversity of liverwort species.
Johnny Wood... | 2.171875 | 0 |
78690078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Mushana%20Kwesiga | Brian Mushana Kwesiga | Brian Mushana Kwesiga (born 1987) is a Ugandan-born engineer, author, and civic leader. He is the former President and CEO of the Ugandan North American Association (UNAA) and previously served as the General Manager of the Uganda men's national lacrosse team.
Early life and education
Kwesiga was born in 1987 at Nyaki... | 1.914063 | 0 |
78690171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosforth%20Council%20Offices | Gosforth Council Offices | In the early 20th century, a single storey fire station was erected behind the council offices. The fire brigade was equipped with a horse-drawn fire engine from 1905 and with a motorised fire engine from 1912. The fire station was later augmented by a second storey, and an arched carriageway entrance was built between... | 2.125 | 0 |
78690526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas%20Paulius%20Lenktaitis | Jonas Paulius Lenktaitis | Jonas Paulius Lenktaitis ( – 4 February 2003) was a Lithuanian jurist, businessman, and director of the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society. Lenktaitis's publishing house Patria published multiple authors such as Adolfas Šapoka, Antanas Škėma, Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas, Kazys Bradūnas, Vaclovas Biržiška, Jonas Mekas,... | 1.953125 | 0 |
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