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71377514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender%20and%20sexual%20minorities%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire | Gender and sexual minorities in the Ottoman Empire | The Ottoman official Mehmet Cemaleddin Efendi was offered male prostitutes while on his stay in Paris between 1903 and 1906 by his hosts, who thought that being Turkish, he would be interested. This discomfited him, who later wrote that the streets of Paris had "1500 boys exclusively occupied in sodomy" with their avai... | 2.53125 | 0 |
71377644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20of%20Nigeria | Climate of Nigeria | The 2017 flooding that occurred during the rainy season in Benue state was another disaster that displaced a thousand people. In 2021, 32 out of Nigeria's 36 states had cases of flooding according to the National Emergency Management Agency, reporting 155 lives lost between August and October.
Droughts
Nigeria was al... | 2.890625 | 0 |
71377677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim%20uprisings%20in%20Kars%20and%20Sharur%E2%80%93Nakhichevan | Muslim uprisings in Kars and Sharur–Nakhichevan | Ardahan–Kars
Since its annexation of the Kars Oblast, the Armenian administration had delegated authority to local Muslim officials in the subdistricts Çıldır (consisting of 40 Muslim villages), Aghbaba (present-day Amasia, consisting of 42 Muslim villages), and Zarushad (present-day Arpaçay, consisting of 45 Muslim a... | 2.328125 | 0 |
71377690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20lichen%20terms | Glossary of lichen terms | The increasing availability of the optical microscope as an aid to identifying and characterizing lichens led to the creation of new terms to describe structures that were previously too small to be visualized. Contributions were made by Julius von Flotow (e.g. ), Edmond Tulasne (e.g ), and William Nylander (e.g. , ). ... | 2 | 0 |
71378095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Knapp%20%28artist%29 | Dorothy Knapp (artist) | Dorothy Knapp (1907–1986) was an American cover artist who designed commercial first day covers.
Biography
Knapp was an envelope artist and art teacher in Rhinebeck, New York. She designed commercial first day covers (FDC) mainly for Fleetwood, one of the largest FDC publishers.
Her career started in the late 1930s ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
71378155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Nicholls%20%28surgeon%29 | John Nicholls (surgeon) | Ralph John Nicholls (born 20 May 1943), FRCS (Eng), EBSQ is a retired British colorectal surgeon, Emeritus Consultant Surgeon at St Mark's Hospital London and Professor of Colorectal Surgery, Imperial College London.
R. John Nicholls is best known for his work in the development of ileal pouch surgery. With the advanc... | 2.03125 | 0 |
71378155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Nicholls%20%28surgeon%29 | John Nicholls (surgeon) | Parks operated on his first ileo-anal pouch patient in 1976 at the London Hospital and subsequently at St Mark's Hospital where he was also a consultant. Nicholls was his first assistant having spent 1976 carrying out research under Fritz Linder on an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in the Department of Surgery at t... | 2.046875 | 0 |
71378575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue%20of%20Subhas%20Chandra%20Bose | Statue of Subhas Chandra Bose | The statue was formally dedicated on 8 September 2022. Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose to the nation near India Gate in New Delhi. In the inauguration ceremony, the Prime Minister said, "Today the Rajpath ceases to exist and has become a Kartavya Path. Today when the stat... | 1.929688 | 0 |
71379043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visit%20by%20Pope%20Francis%20to%20Canada | Visit by Pope Francis to Canada | Pope Francis visited Canada from July 24 to 29, 2022, with stops in the provinces of Alberta and Quebec and the territory of Nunavut. The trip mainly focused on apologizing for the Catholic Church's role in the Canadian Indian residential school system and on reconciliation with the country's Indigenous peoples. It was... | 2.421875 | 0 |
71379215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20S.%20Laws | Robert S. Laws | Rev. Dr. Robert Simon Laws, a formerly enslaved person and Howard University graduate, founded two African American Baptist churches in the 19th century that have active congregations in the 21st century.
Early life
Laws was born on Wood Farm Plantation in Middlesex County, Virginia. Laws was enslaved by Sarah "Sally"... | 2.65625 | 0 |
71379304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid%20Dragon%20%28missile%20system%29 | Rapid Dragon (missile system) | In the 1980s when the B-1 bomber faced the possibility of cancelation, a lower cost alternative to the B-1 bomber known as the Cruise Missile Carrier Aircraft (CMCA) was designed. It consisted of reconfiguring Boeing 747-200 cargo airframes as special-purpose cruise missile launchers with a capacity of 50 to 100 AGM-86... | 2.109375 | 0 |
71379304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid%20Dragon%20%28missile%20system%29 | Rapid Dragon (missile system) | The concept of loading and launching palletized missiles from American cargo aircraft was first explored by graduate students in preliminary concept studies at the Air Force Institute of Technology in 2003 with explored launch systems including cruise missiles deployed from the aft of the aircraft atop of parachuted pa... | 2.078125 | 0 |
71379358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulla%27s%20proscription | Sulla's proscription | Proscribed men were usually beheaded, because rewards were only given for severed heads. The head of the most prominent of Sulla's enemies were paraded in the streets, then displayed on the rostra—the platform on the forum where orators spoke. Some victims were also brought alive to Sulla and beheaded in an official ma... | 2.328125 | 0 |
71379422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adropin | Adropin | Circadian rhythm
There is evidence to suggest that adropin levels exhibit a circadian rhythm, meaning they follow a natural 24-hour cycle. Circadian rhythms play a vital role in regulating various physiological processes, including sleep-wake cycles, hormone secretion, and metabolism.
Gonads and sexual development
I... | 2.296875 | 0 |
71379424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davies%20Davenport | Davies Davenport | Davies Davenport of Capesthorne Hall and Court Garden, Marlow (29 August 1757 — 5 February 1837) was a politician, soldier and landowner who served as Member of Parliament for Cheshire and High Sheriff of Cheshire.
Early life
Davenport was born on 29 August 1757 to Davies Davenport of Capesthorpe and Phoebe Davenport... | 2.0625 | 0 |
71379464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Denman%20%28sculptor%29 | Thomas Denman (sculptor) | Thomas Denman (1787–1861) was a 19th century English sculptor.
Life
He was born in 1787 the son of William Denman and his wife Ann. They lived on Mansell Street in the Aldgate district of London, close to the Tower of London.
He attended the Royal Academy schools from 1807 and won their Silver Medal for sculpture i... | 2.078125 | 0 |
71379479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20North%20American%20heat%20waves | 2022 North American heat waves | June
A historic heat wave affected the Midwestern United States and Southeastern United States in the second week of June 2022. In Phoenix, a daily record was tied, as the mercury soared up to 114 °F (45.6 °C). In North Platte, Nebraska, a record temperature of was recorded. In Death Valley, a man died when trying t... | 2.375 | 0 |
71379488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Taylor%20%28science%20writer%29 | Jane Taylor (science writer) | Beginning in the 1830s, discussions of anatomy and physiology became popular, and were increasingly seen as necessary information for women to know to maintain the health of their families. Women were expected to be able to transmit information to their children and other women about their bodies, excluding explicit se... | 3.03125 | 0 |
71379615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te%20Rangi-tua-m%C4%81totoru | Te Rangi-tua-mātotoru | Te Rangi-tua-mātotoru was an 18th-century Māori rangatira and tohunga of the Ngāti Te Rangiita hapū and ariki (paramount chieftain) of the Ngāti Tūwharetoa iwi of the region around Lake Taupō, New Zealand. He built three great wharenui (meeting houses) for different sections of Ngāti Tūwharetoa. When the Tūwharetoa chi... | 2.265625 | 0 |
71379615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te%20Rangi-tua-m%C4%81totoru | Te Rangi-tua-mātotoru | Tu-taka-roa of Ngāti Te Aho, who was based at Tokaanu, wanted revenge on Ngāti Tahu for the murder of Kereua and went to Te Rangi-tua-mātotoru to tell him that he planned to get the help of Ngāti Awa in raising a war party to do this. Ngāti Tahu were close allies of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, so Te Rangi-tua-mātotoru tried to d... | 2.046875 | 0 |
71379615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te%20Rangi-tua-m%C4%81totoru | Te Rangi-tua-mātotoru | Shortly after this, Tai-hakoa, a Ngāti Tūwharetoa rangatira joined the Ngāti Whare hapū of Te Arawa in a raid on Tūhoe in Te Urewera and was defeated. His intervention in a conflict that had nothing to do with Tūwharetoa so angered the rangatira of Tūhoe that they decided to attack Tūwharetoa in order to get revenge.
... | 2.234375 | 0 |
71380808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belinda%20Mason | Belinda Mason | Mason testified before the U.S. Senate as part of a joint congressional hearing on the Americans with Disabilities Act in September 1988, making her the first known person with HIV or AIDS to testify before Congress and ultimately contributing to the legislation's passage in 1990.
President George H. W. Bush appointed... | 2.546875 | 0 |
71381128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o%20Mamede%20Filho | João Mamede Filho | João Mamede Filho O.F.M. Conv. (born 21 August 1951) is the Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop of Diocese of Umuarama, being appointed in 2010.
Biography
Born in Caçapava in 1951, he joined the Order of Conventual Friars Minor in 1974, and was ordained a priest in 1978. On April 26, 2006 he was appointed bishop by Pope B... | 1.929688 | 0 |
71381995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust%20for%20Linux | Rust for Linux | Rust for Linux is an ongoing project started in 2020 to add Rust as a programming language that can be used within the Linux kernel software, which has been written using C and assembly only. This project aims to leverage Rust's memory safety to reduce bugs when writing kernel drivers.
Progress has been slower than ho... | 2.375 | 0 |
71382066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny%20Choi | Sunny Choi | Grace Sun "Sunny" Choi (born November 10, 1988) is an American breakdancer who competed in the inaugural breaking competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She previously performed as a youth gymnast and a director at Estée Lauder before leaving to pursue breaking full-time. Choi participated at the 2022 World Games in ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
71382095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Agar%2C%205th%20Earl%20of%20Normanton | Edward Agar, 5th Earl of Normanton | Edward John Sidney Christian Welbore Ellis Agar, 5th Earl of Normanton (29 March 1910 – 28 January 1967) was a British and Irish peer, soldier, and landowner, a member of the House of Lords from 1933 until his death.
From birth until 1933 he was known by the courtesy title of Viscount Somerton.
Early life
The only s... | 2.171875 | 0 |
71382401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment%20in%20Uganda | Capital punishment in Uganda | Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Uganda. The death penalty was likely last carried out in 1999, although some sources say the last execution in Uganda took place in 2005. Regardless, Uganda is interchangeably considered a retentionist state with regard to capital punishment, due to absence of "an established pr... | 2.34375 | 0 |
71382655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rana%20X.%20Adhikari | Rana X. Adhikari | Rana X. Adhikari (born 1974) is an American experimental physicist. He is a professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and an associate faculty member of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (ICTS-TIFR).
Adhikari works on the experime... | 1.929688 | 0 |
71382655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rana%20X.%20Adhikari | Rana X. Adhikari | Personal life
Adhikari was born in the U.S. state of Ohio to Indian Bengali immigrants from Raiganj, West Bengal, India. They moved to Cape Canaveral, Florida when he was seven. He studied physics at the University of Florida, where he worked with David Reitze, and graduated in 1998 with a bachelor's degree. In 2004, ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
71382706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabroniaceae | Fabroniaceae | Fabroniaceae is a family of mosses belonging to the order Hypnales. It has a worldwide distribution, in temperate and tropical regions.
The Fabroniaceae were established by Schimper (in 1855) to accommodate three genera: Fabronia , Anacamptodon and Anisodon .(= Clasmatodon ). Only Fabronia is still considered a membe... | 2.59375 | 0 |
71382711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muchongoyo%20dance | Muchongoyo dance | Muchongoyo is a presentational dance and drumming style that emphasizes acrobatic and stomping sequences to dazzle spectators during gatherings or competitions with a complementary rythme of sharp claps. In Zimbabwe, it is the most well-liked Ndau dance. In Zimbabwe's Chipinge, Chimanimani, Chiredzi, and Buhera distric... | 2.5 | 0 |
71382823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucocoprinus%20muticolor | Leucocoprinus muticolor | Leucocoprinus muticolor is a species of mushroom producing fungus in the family Agaricaceae.
Taxonomy
It was first described in 1914 by the American mycologist William Murrill who classified it as Lepiota muticolor.
In 1992 it was reclassified as Leucocoprinus muticolor by the mycologist John Errol Chandos Aberdeen ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
72887128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iga%E2%80%93K%C5%8Dka%20alliance | Iga–Kōka alliance | Background
In Japan in the 15th through 16th century, Iga Province contained some 300-500 small estates and 700 castles and nearby Kōka, in southern Ōmi Province, had some 53 clans. In the opening of the 15th century, both regions were in anarchy, the numerous estates and families constantly engaged in low-level, sma... | 2.71875 | 0 |
72887214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Chester%20B-25%20crash | West Chester B-25 crash | On May 7, 1944, a United States Army Air Force B-25 bomber crashed and exploded around one mile north of West Chester, Pennsylvania, killing all seven military passengers and crew members on board. Caught in stormy weather, the plane nose-dived into the woods at Oaklands Cemetery and burst into flames.
Crash
Assigned... | 2.078125 | 0 |
72887250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20T.%20Huddleston | Eric T. Huddleston | Prior to his arrival, the buildings of the university had been designed by private architects, especially the politically well-connected architect James E. Randlett. As supervising architect Huddleston was responsible for all architectural work on the campus. His first new building on the campus was a dining hall calle... | 2.203125 | 0 |
72887266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain%20Miracle | Captain Miracle | Captain Miracle is a fictional British Silver Age comic book superhero. The character was originally created by Mick Anglo for his own Anglo Features imprint, using material planned for Marvelman - itself a reworking of Fawcett Publications' Captain Marvel. The character first appeared in Captain Miracle #1, published ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
72887299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishcycling | Wishcycling | Wishcycling is the disposal of consumer waste in a recycling bin in hopes of it being recycled, when it cannot or is unlikely to be recycled. Wishcycling occurs because people are unfamiliar with what can be recycled or they believe the item they dispose of for recycling can be made into a useful item. Recycling progra... | 2.8125 | 0 |
72887368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab%20leech | Crab leech | Myzobdella lugubris, the crab leech, is a species of jawless leech widespread in North America, especially in central and Eastern Canada. It is an ectoparasite of fish and crustaceans, and is responsible for several dangerous conditions in fish, including lesions infected by bacteria and fungi and possibly viral hemorr... | 2.796875 | 0 |
72887735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano%20Maria%20Travasa | Gaetano Maria Travasa | Gaetano Maria Travasa (31 may 169816 january 1774) was an Italian Theatine priest, ecclesiastical historian and scholar, best known for his five-volume history of early Christian heresiarchs, Storia critica delle vite degli eresiarchi del primo secolo della Chiesa.
Biography
Gaetano Maria Travasa was born in Bassano ... | 1.921875 | 0 |
72887818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20Zoo | The Secret Zoo | The Secret Zoo is a series of children's novels by American author Bryan Chick.
Background
When he was nine years old, Bryan Chick went to the zoo in Detroit and wondered what would happen if the exhibits had secret doors that allowed children to go inside and the animals to come outside, and thus, The Secret Zoo was... | 2.328125 | 0 |
72888594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mateusz%20Cyganski | Mateusz Cyganski | Mateusz Cygański (c. 1535 – c. 1611) was a naturalist who wrote a book on bird hunting, Myślistwo ptasze, in Polish in 1584 at Krakow, revealing the nature of the land, the status of birds and the methods used in bird hunting in the period. It is among the earliest printed book in Poland and the earliest known Polish w... | 2.46875 | 0 |
72888765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbodes%20zakariaismaili | Barbodes zakariaismaili | Barbodes zakariaismaili, or Zakaria's barb, is a newly described species of cyprinid fish as of 2021. The species is native to Malaysia, where it is found in foothills and lowland streams with clear water in the southern Malay Peninsula. The species has very little to no significant commercial value.
Previously though... | 2.109375 | 0 |
72889003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia%20sororum | Magnolia sororum | Magnolia sororum is a species of flowering plant in the family Magnoliaceae. It is commonly known as vaco. It is native to the mountain forests of Costa Rica and western Panama, and may range into Nicaragua.
Description
Magnolia sororum is a large tree, growing up to 40 meters tall.
Range and habitat
Magnolia sororum... | 2.234375 | 0 |
72889291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarete%20Tietz | Margarete Tietz | Tietz and her husband supported numerous social projects in Cologne. She served as chair of the Sisters' Association of the Jewish Asylum, to which she had belonged since 1911, and also as chair of the Association for Mothers' and Children's Rights and Cologne Association for Women's Studies. She and her mother-in-law,... | 2.609375 | 0 |
72890288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahelia | Tetrahelia | Tetrahelia () is a genus of four-ciliated protists belonging to the Endohelea, a group of heterotrophic eukaryotes previously considered heliozoa. It is the only genus in the family Tetraheliidae and order Axomonadida. It is a monotypic genus, containing the sole species Tetrahelia pterbica, previously classified as Te... | 2.8125 | 0 |
72890372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhuragaon-Kaupati%20Bridge | Bhuragaon-Kaupati Bridge | In addition to its practical benefits, the new bridge will significantly impact the social and cultural fabric of the region. It will bring the people of Morigaon district and Darrang district closer together, fostering cultural exchanges and enabling more frequent visits between the two districts. The bridge will also... | 2.234375 | 0 |
72891431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir%20Mehdi%20Khazani | Mir Mehdi Khazani | Mir Mehdi Khazani (c. 1819—1894) was an Azerbaijani historian, poet and teacher.
Biography
Mir Mehdi was born in about 1819 in the village of Məmər of the Bargyushad mahal (district) of the Karabakh Khanate in the family of Mir Hashim Bey. He received his primary education in a madrasa. In his research, N. Guliyev, w... | 2.109375 | 0 |
72891592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20van%20Doesborch | Jan van Doesborch | Jan van Doesborch (c. 1470/80 – Utrecht, 1536), also known as Jan van Doesborgh, John of Doesborch or John of Doesborowe, was a Dutch author, bookseller, printer, engraver, publisher and translator. During the course of his career as a printer and bookseller during the period roughly between 1502 and 1532, he published... | 2.203125 | 0 |
72892034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Draga | La Draga | Ceramic assemblages have a predominance of large and medium thicknesses, which should correspond to vessels used for the storage, cooking and consumption of different foodstuffs. The pottery have a limited variety of shapes, with rounded profiles and hemispherical, subspherical with or without a neck, and cylindrical b... | 2.75 | 0 |
72892278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fausto%20Martelli | Fausto Martelli | Fausto Martelli (born March 27, 1982) is an Italian physicist based in the United Kingdom. He is a senior research scientist at IBM Research Europe since 2018 and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Manchester since 2022. He previously held a position of faculty associate researcher at the Department of Chemistry, P... | 2.046875 | 0 |
72892612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud%20Brigham | Bud Brigham | Ben M. "Bud" Brigham (born 1959) is an American oil and gas explorer, entrepreneur, and investor.
Early life
Brigham was raised in Midland, Texas, a center for the petroleum and natural gas industries. His father passed away at a young age, leaving his mother to raise their six children. She worked for oil companies a... | 2.046875 | 0 |
72892655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunhild%20Tegen | Gunhild Tegen | Gunhild Maria Elisabet Tegen née Nordling, pen name Tilja, (1889–1970) was a Swedish writer, translator and peace activist. In addition to short stories and autobiographical works, in 1935 she wrote a film script titled En judisk tragedi (A Jewish Tragedy) based on the problems facing the Jews in Europe. From the begin... | 2.515625 | 0 |
72892816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl%20xanthic%20acid | Ethyl xanthic acid | Ethyl xanthic acid is an organic compound with the chemical formula . It can be viewed as an O-ethyl ester of dithiocarbonic O,S-acid (the formula of that acid is ). Ethyl xanthic acid belongs to the category of thioacids, where the prefix thio- means that an oxygen atom in the compound is replaced by a sulfur atom.
P... | 2.375 | 0 |
72893422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendricks%20Chapel | Hendricks Chapel | Hendricks Chapel is a multi-faith religious, spiritual and cultural chapel located on the campus of Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. It is located on the Shaw Quadrangle, and serves as the spiritual center of Syracuse University by hosting over ten chaplaincies. The Chapel was funded by a bequest from Francis... | 2.015625 | 0 |
72894594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JJ%20Kaplan | JJ Kaplan | JJ Kaplan (born May 28, 1997; ג'יי ג'יי קפלן) is an American-Israeli basketball player who plays guard for Ironi Kiryat Ata in the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He played college basketball for the Chargers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville
Early life and high school
Kaplan was born and grew up in Huntsv... | 1.9375 | 0 |
72894596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophic%20and%20mantic | Sophic and mantic | Other uses
Matthew Hilton and Neil Flingers make sophic and mantic the center of their 1990 essay entitled "The Impact of Shifting Cultural Assumptions on the Military Policies Directing Armed Conflict Reported in the Book of Alma". They define it as a synonym for the vertical/horizontal distinction in Judaism and the ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
72894757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle%20Maine | Castle Maine | During the Desmond Rebellions, Castle Maine became one of the last remaining possessions of the Desmonds and was attacked by the English army of John Perrot in 1571. Perrot summoned the chieftains of Munster to meet him at the castle with their forces on 24 June 1571, in order to lay siege to the fortress. In a letter ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
72895546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour%20left | Labour left | The Labour leadership was hostile to the ILP's proposals as it was worried that the ILP wanted to implement them in a similar way advocated by Marxists. MacDonald publicly condemned the political beliefs surrounding the proposals, comparing them to "milestones around the parliamentary party's neck". Meanwhile, the ILP ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
72896482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena%201%20%28computer%29 | Athena 1 (computer) | The Athena 1 was an early laptop computer released in 1983 by Athena Computer & Electronic Systems, an American computer company active from 1982 to 1987 and based in San Juan Capistrano, California. The Athena 1 was one of the first laptops to make use of solid-state technology as its primary storage medium.
Specific... | 2.40625 | 0 |
72896482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena%201%20%28computer%29 | Athena 1 (computer) | Mitchell designed the Athena 1 with no internal floppy drive, as was common for portables at the time, to keep the laptop relatively lightweight at . His company offered an external 5.25-inch floppy drive as an optional peripheral. Some of the laptop's weight comes from the internal lead–acid battery, which has a maxim... | 2.046875 | 0 |
72897462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatum%20Betula | Fatum Betula | Fatum Betula is a 2020 video game by Texas-based independent developer Bryce Bucher. Described as an "atmospheric exploration game with light puzzle elements", the game is an open-ended adventure game inspired by the aesthetics of fifth generation video game consoles. The game was included in the 2020 horror game compi... | 2.203125 | 0 |
72897788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amidaji%20Kofun%20Cluster | Amidaji Kofun Cluster | The is a group of three late Yayoi period burial mounds located in the Shimofukuda neighborhood of the city of Kurayoshi, Tottori Prefecture in the San'in region of Japan. The tumulus group was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1981.
Overview
The Amidaji Kofun cluster is located on the side of a hill ... | 2.375 | 0 |
72898026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciodaphyllum%20pittieri | Sciodaphyllum pittieri | Sciodaphyllum pittieri is a species of flowering plant in genus Sciodaphyllum. It is native to the mountain forests of Costa Rica and western Panama.
Description
Sciodaphyllum pittieri is an evergreen tree, which grows up to 25 meters high, thickly branched, with a trunk up to 40 cm in diameter. The bark is thin, flat... | 2.65625 | 0 |
72898288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation%20in%20Canada | Repatriation in Canada | Haida ancestors
In 2005 the last known Haida ancestor located in a North American museum was repatriated. Over 450 human remains of known Haida origin were housed in North American museums. Many of these Haida ancestors were taken from the Haida Gwaii after a severe smallpox epidemic that left many bodies unburied. Th... | 3.125 | 0 |
72898574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marr%20Grounds | Marr Grounds | Career
He met and married artist Joan Grounds there, and in 1966 they moved to Ghana to lecture in architecture at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, after marrying at a quick ceremony at Reno, Nevada, as it was a requirement to be married to travel there. As part of a politically active ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
72900157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boykinia%20richardsonii | Boykinia richardsonii | Boykinia richardsonii is a species of flowering plant in the family Saxifragaceae, endemic to Alaska and the adjacent Canadian territory of Yukon. It is commonly known as Richardson's brookfoam, but has also been called Alaska boykin, bearflower, Richardson's boykin and Richardson's saxifrage. "Bearflower" reflects its... | 2.515625 | 0 |
72900157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boykinia%20richardsonii | Boykinia richardsonii | The two botanists in Richardson's group, Alexander Collie and George Tradescant Lay, discovered the flower and collected a specimen, stored in the Kew Gardens herbarium with the name of Frederick William Beechey, Collie's commanding officer on another expedition, on it. This is likely a mistake as Collie and Lay were ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
72900157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boykinia%20richardsonii | Boykinia richardsonii | Delineations of the species' range vary but most agree on an area running across the Alaska North Slope into the foothills of the Brooks Range up to elevations of , thence across the Canada–United States border through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) into northern Yukon and Ivvavik National Park, where it tu... | 2.546875 | 0 |
72900184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Edmundson | Mark Edmundson | Mark Edmundson is an American author and professor at the University of Virginia. He received a B.A from Bennington College in 1974 and a Ph.D from Yale University in 1985. Edmundson specializes in Romanticism, Poetry, and 19th-Century English and American Literature. He is the author of sixteen books, and his essays a... | 2.171875 | 0 |
72900184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Edmundson | Mark Edmundson | Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference and The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll
Edmundson's memoirs, Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference (2002), and The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll (2010), chronicle his early education at Medford High School (Ma... | 2.578125 | 0 |
72900186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia%20nuevoleonensis | Magnolia nuevoleonensis | Magnolia nuevoleonensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Magnoliaceae. It is native to the Sierra Madre Oriental of Nuevo León state in northeastern Mexico.
Description
Magnolia nuevoleonensis is a large deciduous tree, growing up to 20 meters tall. It has large open creamy to white flowers, which measure... | 2.59375 | 0 |
72900739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musheer%20Khan | Musheer Khan | Musheer Khan (born 27 February 2005) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Mumbai. He made his first-class cricket debut on 27 December 2022 for Mumbai in the 2022–23 Ranji Trophy. As a right-handed batsman all-rounder, Khan represented the 2024 Under-19 Cricket World Cup as a member of the Indian U-19 cricket team.
In... | 2.015625 | 0 |
72900943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%201986%20Reform%20the%20Armed%20Forces%20Movement%20coup | February 1986 Reform the Armed Forces Movement coup | Corazon Aquino, who rejected Enrile's proposal of a Military Junta, was eventually inaugurated as the civilian president of a revolutionary government which was not military in nature. Enrile was briefly granted the role of Defense Secretary in Aquino's administration, but was then compelled to resign due to "disagreem... | 2.078125 | 0 |
72901079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lychas%20buchari | Lychas buchari | Captivity
Lychas burchari can survive in captivity but are only recommended to experts that have cared for buthid scorpions before. They have a generally timid manner but still can produce a painful sting. All enclosures should have sufficient space for the animals' well-being and simulate its natural habitat, red san... | 2.578125 | 0 |
72901522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bindu%20Menon | Bindu Menon | Bindu Menon (born 1970) is an Indian neurologist, health activist, researcher and academician from Andhra Pradesh. She is known for providing free treatment to patients with Neurological disorder in rural areas of India through her organization, the Dr. Bindu Menon Foundation. She runs an initiative called Neurology-on... | 2.53125 | 0 |
72901607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negeri%20Sembilan%20Football%20Association | Negeri Sembilan Football Association | History
The association was established in 1923 according to a passage in the football history books of Malaysia through an interview with Austin Senevirathe, 93 years old when interviewed. He stated about a match that happened between PBNS and Singapore for Malaya Cup in that particular year.
In 1927, PBNS started ... | 2.125 | 0 |
72901795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portentomorphini | Portentomorphini | Food plants
The caterpillars of Portentomorphini primarily feed on plants of the Phyllanthaceae family: Portentomorpha xanthialis feeds on Margaritaria nobilis, species of Hyalobathra are reported from Glochidion
and Phyllanthus, Pioneabathra olesialis and Isocentris filalis from Flueggea, and Mabra eryxalis from Phyll... | 2.3125 | 0 |
72901935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upendra%20Maharathi | Upendra Maharathi | Upendra Maharathi was an Indian artist who worked in various mediums including painting, sculpture, illustration, architecture, graphic design, and textile design. He was born in the village of Narendrapur in Odisha and received his art education at the Government College of Art & Craft in Kolkata under Mukul Dey and P... | 2.65625 | 0 |
72902370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspare%20Trimbocchi | Gaspare Trimbocchi | Gaspare Trimbocchi, called il Tribacco (c. 23 February 1439 – circa 1492) was an Italian humanist.
He was born in Reggio Emilia, the illegitimate child of Jacopo Trimbocchi, although by 1456 he was recognized as offspring by his father and moved into the paternal home in Modena. There he studied under Guarino da Vero... | 2.40625 | 0 |
72902761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuzzie%20George | Wuzzie George | Wuzzie Dick George ( – December 20, 1984) was a Northern Paiute craftsperson who worked to preserve the traditional lifeways and tribal customs of her people. She served as a key collaborator in anthropologist's Margaret Wheat's efforts to record Northern Paiute lifeways.
Early life
Wuzzie Dick George was born circa ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
72903661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre%20of%20the%20Slavn%C3%ADks | Massacre of the Slavníks | Another motive may have been an incident that occurred during Adalbert's tenure as bishop of Prague, which saw him provide an adulteress with ecclesiastical asylum in Prague Castle, thereby defending her and the adulterer, his deacon. However, he had a strained relationship with some local warriors, evidently of the Vr... | 2.140625 | 0 |
72904278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.M.%20Ladd | D.M. Ladd | D.M. Ladd, also known as D. Milton Ladd and "Mickey" Ladd (1903–1960), was a special agent and assistant (number 3 position) at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to its director J. Edgar Hoover, who was "one of the earliest members" of the FBI.
Background
Daniel Milton Ladd was born on October 30, 1903, in Far... | 2.21875 | 0 |
72904551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portraits%20of%20Johann%20Sebastian%20Bach | Portraits of Johann Sebastian Bach | Possible portraits
Joachim Ernst Rentsch portrait was found in 1877 in an Erfurt attic and would represent the young Bach between 1708 and 1717, when he was Kapellmeister at the Weimar court. It was restored and presented by Alfred Overmann, director of the Erfurt city museum, as a possible authentic portrait. Howeve... | 2.46875 | 0 |
72904613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Porteous | Mary Porteous | Mary Porteous born Mary Thompson (1783 – 18 April 1861) was a British Primitive Methodist itinerant preacher.
Life
Porteous was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1783. Her mother is unknown, but her father Thomas was a cabinet maker, a strict Presbyterian. He died leaving a wife and a large family and Porteous was leavin... | 2.390625 | 0 |
72904718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Middleton | Bernard Middleton | Bernard Chester Middleton (29 October 1924 – 28 January 2019) was a preeminent British restoration bookbinder. He was regarded as one of the foremost book craftsmen and trade historians of modern times, lecturing and teaching in Europe (Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands) and the Americas (Brazil, the United St... | 2.46875 | 0 |
72904832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20R.%20Yennie | Donald R. Yennie | Donald Robert Yennie (March 4, 1924 – April 14, 1993) was an American theoretical physicist and professor at Cornell University. He is known for his work on renormalization in quantum electrodynamics and for early work on the structure of nucleons.
Biography
Yennie was born in Paterson, New Jersey, on March 4, 1924, t... | 1.921875 | 0 |
72905049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pylaemenes%20mitratus | Pylaemenes mitratus | The nocturnal animals hide during the day. At night they feed on Aidia wallichiana, Uruphyllum glabrum (both species of the plant family Rubiaceae), Uncaria gambir, various species of Dracaena, Dioscorea, Calamus (from the formerly genus Daemonorops), Rubus and Curculigo, as well as Dieffenbachia and Epipremnum. The eg... | 2.28125 | 0 |
72905077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anion%20exchange%20membrane%20electrolysis | Anion exchange membrane electrolysis | Anion exchange membrane (AEM) electrolysis is the electrolysis of water that utilises a semipermeable membrane that conducts hydroxide ions (OH−) called an anion exchange membrane. Like a proton-exchange membrane (PEM), the membrane separates the products, provides electrical insulation between electrodes, and conducts... | 2.484375 | 0 |
72905241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s%20a%20Blind%20Man%20Playin%27%20Fiddle%20in%20the%20Street | There's a Blind Man Playin' Fiddle in the Street | Composition and recording
Lagerberg was inspired to compose the song by Styrbjörn Colliander, owner of the Cue Club, where Tages would perform regularly. Colliander would play him the Beatles' double A-Side single "Strawberry Fields Forever" / "Penny Lane" (1967) for the first time. Lagerberg considered the song "one ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
72905376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20electricity%20in%20Iran | History of electricity in Iran | Use of electricity for communication
Before the use of electricity for lighting, for the first time electricity was used for an experimental telegraph communication between the two rooms in Dār ul-Funun institution, in early 1850s. This was done by Iranian students of the institution, and for the next time, they extend... | 2.21875 | 0 |
72905378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadashi%20Kaminagai | Tadashi Kaminagai | Marinho de Azevedo from Veja magazine describes Kaminagai as an artist who "painted with a pleasure that explodes in each of his canvases". In the same issue, Azevedo also mentions that the artist "did not give in, in the 50s, to the temptations of abstractionism. He kept painting landscapes, flowers, and figures, whic... | 2.03125 | 0 |
69800441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%20Manifesto | February Manifesto | Differences between historians' views
Documenting the history of independent Finland was long dominated by a "Finnish nationalist view of history", where the February Manifesto was seen as an illegal coup d'etat, judging by interpretations at its time. A "new way of research" rose to counter this in the 1960s, which ha... | 2.390625 | 0 |
69800776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yergeni | Yergeni | Yergeni (; ) is a hilly area in Russia. It is located in the southern corner of the East European Plain, mostly in Kalmykia, with parts in Volgograd Oblast and Rostov Oblast. The highest point of Kalmykia, high Shared, is located in the Yergeni hills.
In Kalmykia the hills stretch from Sarpinsky District to the north... | 2.25 | 0 |
69800843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonization%20of%20Thomas%20Aquinas | Canonization of Thomas Aquinas | Following two inquiries which involved over a hundred eyewitnesses, the Italian Dominican theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) was formally canonized as a saint of the Catholic Church on 18 July 1323 by Pope John XXII. His corpse was boiled and his remains were distributed as relics, the ownership of w... | 2.59375 | 0 |
69800843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonization%20of%20Thomas%20Aquinas | Canonization of Thomas Aquinas | The canonization was fiercely contested by the Franciscans, who rejected the doctrines of Thomas; according to tradition, a Franciscan friar stated that he "would prefer to die before seeing the day when Thomas was canonized" and remarkably died a day after the canonization. Following the canonization of Thomas Aquinas... | 2.578125 | 0 |
69801196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Armand%20Jacquet | Pierre Armand Jacquet | Pierre Armand Jacquet (7 April 1906 – 6 September 1967) was a French chemical engineer and metallurgist. He contributed to electrolytic polishing techniques to produce very smooth metal coatings and also to non-destructive approaches for surface metallographic analysis.
Jacquet was born in St. Mande and became a chemi... | 2.28125 | 0 |
69801444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20compositions%20by%20Josquin%20des%20Prez | List of compositions by Josquin des Prez | The French composer Josquin des Prez was among the most prolific of his time, writing in genres that included masses, motets, chansons and frottole. Much of his output is sacred music, in which he cultivated and developed a highly sophisticated style of complex polyphony. Active during the high Renaissance, he was the ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
69801601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptoconops%20myersi | Leptoconops myersi | Leptoconops myersi is a species of coastal biting midge in the genus Leptoconops and family Ceratopogonidae that is found in New Zealand.
It is a small fly, with a body 1.5 millimetres long and wings 1.15 mm long. The head, thorax and legs are dark brown to black and the abdomen and wings are whitish. The female bite... | 2.28125 | 0 |
69801901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sra%20peang | Sra peang | Sra peang (, ) is a rice wine stored in earthen pots and indigenous to several ethnic groups in Cambodia, in areas such as Mondulkiri or Ratanakiri. It is made of fermented glutinous rice mixed with several kinds of local herbs (including leaves and roots). The types and amount of herbs added differ according to ethnic... | 2.328125 | 0 |
69802434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucjan%20Plater | Lucjan Plater | Lucjan Stanisław Count Broel-Plater (born 25 November 1808 in Pomusz, died 12 June 1857 in Parramatta) was a Polish-Lithuanian insurgent and emigration activist, son of Tadeusz, owner of and Pomusz villages, and Rachela Kościuszko.
Biography
Together with his younger brother Ferdinand he served in the Russian office... | 2.125 | 0 |
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