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72916649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Reilly%20%28advocate%29 | Mary Reilly (advocate) | In 2001, Reilly founded Sophia Academy, a private middle school for girls from lower socioeconomic neighborhoods. Sophia Academy received full accreditation through the Association of Independent Schools of New England, who praised "their unique and comprehensive social justice program". In July 2016, Malala Yousafzai ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
72916943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Birds%20%28Alexander%20McQueen%20collection%29 | The Birds (Alexander McQueen collection) | Fleet Bigwood, a CSM lecturer, contributed to fabric design. Fashion designer Andrew Groves, whom McQueen dated from 1994 to 1996, worked on the collection after McQueen found out Groves could sew. McQueen enlisted Ungless to create printed fabric based on Escher's designs, and Ungless, then a print technician at CSM, ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
72917201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20Major%20League%20Baseball%20postseason | 2023 Major League Baseball postseason | The 2023 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball (MLB) for the 2023 season. The winners of the Wild Card Series faced the two best division winners (seeds) in each league in the Division Series, and the victors advanced to the League Championship Series to determine the penn... | 2 | 0 |
72917315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad%20Morelos%2C%20Baja%20California | Ciudad Morelos, Baja California | History
Around 1901, in the Valley of Mexicali, the first railway in the north of Mexico began to be designed, the Intercalifornia known as El Pachuco. This railway project was financed with capital from the United States. The Government of Porfirio Díaz had not contemplated the use of the Baja California region, so th... | 2.828125 | 0 |
72918672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Boston%20Bruins | History of the Boston Bruins | On December 1, 1924, the Bruins played their first NHL game, and the first NHL game played in the United States, against their expansion cousins the Maroons, at Boston Arena, with forward Smokey Harris scoring the first-ever Bruins goal, spurring the Bruins to a 2–1 win. This would be one of the few high points of the ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
72918771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity%20or%20Europe%20%28Novalis%29 | Christianity or Europe (Novalis) | Novalis describes the beauty of the "primeval age" () which was followed by an intermediate phase of decay, which he and his contemporaries inhabited. This intermediate phase will, in Novalis' eyes, be followed by a restoration of the primeval age, but on a higher level. Novalis saw Europe at a possible transition from... | 1.960938 | 0 |
72919145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin%20and%20Child%20Enthroned%20%28Romas%29 | Virgin and Child Enthroned (Romas) | The Virgin and Child Enthroned is a tempera painting created by Spyridon Romas. He was a Greek painter from the island of Corfu and a prominent member of the Heptanese School active from 1745 to 1786 in Corfu, Lecce, Livorno, and London. Twenty-five of his works survived according to research completed by the Helle... | 2.5625 | 0 |
72919145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin%20and%20Child%20Enthroned%20%28Romas%29 | Virgin and Child Enthroned (Romas) | Description
The work of art was completed in 1764 for the Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Livorno, Italy. It is part of a well-preserved iconostasis. The painting was completed using gold leaf, wood panel, and tempera paint. The height is 117.5 cm (46.3 in.) and the width is 78.5 cm (30.9 in.) nearly the same siz... | 2.421875 | 0 |
72919312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Lewinsville | Battle of Lewinsville | The action featured Stuart's tactic of using close up artillery along with cavalry, a tactic not initially favored by General Joseph E. Johnston, commanding Confederate forces in northern Virginia and one of his two immediate subordinates, General P. G. T. Beauregard. His other immediate subordinate and Stuart's comman... | 2.390625 | 0 |
72919312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Lewinsville | Battle of Lewinsville | On September 11, 1861, a Union reconnaissance in force of about 1,800 soldiers moved at about 7:30 a.m. from their base camp in Virginia just across the Chain Bridge over the Potomac River to Lewinsville, Virginia, about four to five miles distance, arriving about 10:00 a.m. The U.S. force was under the command of Colo... | 2.75 | 0 |
72919312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Lewinsville | Battle of Lewinsville | By March 6, 1862, Confederate President Jefferson Davis had written to General Johnston that he was aware that Johnston would need to retreat in the face of an expected advance by McClellan's Army of the Potomac. Union troops began to move slowly toward Manassas on March 7 while Johnston started to pull back from more ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
72919666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel%20Ebel | Isabel Ebel | Isabel Caroline Ebel aka Isabel Caroline Hines (October 4, 1908 – November 3, 1992) was an American who was the first woman student at MIT and NYU studying aeronautical engineering.
Early life and education
Ebel was born in Kings County, New York on October 4, 1908, daughter of Arthur R Ebel, Assistant Commissioner of... | 2.453125 | 0 |
72919973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerschnialpbahn | Gerschnialpbahn | Gerschnialpbahn is a funicular railway in Obwalden, Switzerland. The line leads from Engelberg at 1000 m to Gerschnialp at 1262 m on the slopes of Titlis (3239 m). The funicular with two cars has a single track with a passing loop and a tunnel (88 m) at upper end. Journey time is 5 minutes. It operates all year.
Diffe... | 2.21875 | 0 |
72920151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20Department%20for%20Aging%20and%20Rehabilitative%20Services | Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services | The Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services is the executive branch agency of the state government responsible for vocational rehabilitation, supportive services, and aging/disability services in the state of Virginia in the United States.
Background
Established by the Virginia General Assembly in 2... | 2.25 | 0 |
72920179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch%20hunts%20in%20Papua%20New%20Guinea | Witch hunts in Papua New Guinea | Overview
A witch hunt is started after a victim is singled out by neighbours, relatives or other community members as a scapegoat for illness, death and other misfortune. Sometimes communities seek the help of a 'witch doctor', a person who practices sorcery but openly declares not to use it for malevolent purposes, t... | 2.5625 | 0 |
72920922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millie%20Bown%20Russell | Millie Bown Russell | Millie Louise Bown Russell (October 29, 1926 – November 1, 2021) was an American health educator and college administrator based in Seattle. Much of her work as an administrator at the University of Washington involved expanding opportunities for minority students in the STEM pipeline.
Early life and education
Millie... | 2.375 | 0 |
72920955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20von%20Jenison-Walworth | Franz von Jenison-Walworth | Count Franz von Jenison-Walworth ( Francis Jenison) (8 February 1764 – 28 April 1824) was a British-born Bavarian soldier, diplomat, and court official.
Early life
He was born as Francis Jenison in Heighington, County Durham, on 8 February 1764. He was the son of Charlotte ( Smith) (1744–1803) and Francis Jenison of W... | 2.25 | 0 |
72921061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Quy | Tim Quy | By 1983, Quy played percussion and keyboards in a semi-stable lineup with Tim Smith on guitar and lead vocals, Jim on bass and vocals, Drake on keyboards, Sarah Smith on saxophone and Luckman on drums, which would later be remembered as the band's classic lineup. Cardiacs' debut studio album A Little Man and a House an... | 2 | 0 |
72921334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociedade%20Partenon%20Liter%C3%A1rio | Sociedade Partenon Literário | The Parthenon had over 150 members, mostly civil servants, with a significant number of professors, and included politicians, professionals, actors, and three religious people. Many of the members were associated with political parties and newspapers. More than 300 people were in some way connected to the society. Its ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
72921334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociedade%20Partenon%20Liter%C3%A1rio | Sociedade Partenon Literário | Contributing to this was a late flourishing in the south of literary Romanticism, a movement that had among its objectives to value the picturesque, the local, and the originality of regional and national traditions and identities, generally idealizing its characters. In the Parthenonist environment, regionalism was un... | 2.171875 | 0 |
72921529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffneylania | Gaffneylania | Gaffneylania is an extinct genus of meiolaniid turtle from the Eocene of Patagonia. Gaffneylania is among the earliest known meiolaniids and, much like its later relatives, possessed characteristic horns atop its head. The shell appears to have had a serrated margin. Gaffneylania is a monotypic genus, only containing a... | 2.703125 | 0 |
72921600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20al-Asnam | Battle of al-Asnam | The Battle of al-Asnam (Arabic: معركة الأصنام) was a military engagement between the Umayyad governor of Ifriqya, Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi, and the Sufrite Berber insurgents led by Abd al-Wahid ibn Yazid al-Hawwari. The Umayyads decisively defeated the Berber army, saving Kairouan and Ifriqiya from the Berbers rebe... | 2.21875 | 0 |
72921796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20McInnis | Barbara McInnis | Barbara McInnis (1935 – July 19, 2003) was an American public health nurse, tuberculosis specialist, teacher, and innovator who dedicated her life to providing - as well as increasing the accessibility of - health care services for homeless people. The Barbara McInnis House in Boston is named after her.
Early life
Mc... | 2.640625 | 0 |
72922348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily%20Bervi-Flerovsky | Vasily Bervi-Flerovsky | An employee of the magazines Delo, Russkoye Slovo and Otechestvennye Zapiski. In the early 1890s, he spent some time in exile in London, where he collaborated with the Free Russian Press Foundation, founded by Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, which published several parts of the ABC of the Social Sciences and the memoirs T... | 2.046875 | 0 |
74381994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral%20Knowledge | Moral Knowledge | Moral Knowledge is a 2019 book by Sarah McGrath in which the author discusses possibilities, sources, and vulnerabilities of moral knowledge.
Synopsis
Sarah McGrath deals with different topics on the basis of the «working hypothesis» that she states in the opening chapter, according to which moral knowledge can be acq... | 1.953125 | 0 |
74382019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnadenia%20miniata | Gymnadenia miniata | Gymandenia miniata is a species of orchid native to the Eastern Alps and Carpathian Mountains. It is similar in appearance to Gymnadenia bicolor; both species were split from a former less defined taxon Nigritella rubra which referred to all red flowering Gymnadenia.
Description
Gymnadenia miniata are 10–20cm high w... | 2.578125 | 0 |
74382511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Winnold%20Prentice | Frank Winnold Prentice | Frank Winnold Prentice MC (17 February 1889 – 19 May 1982) was a British merchant seaman and the assistant storekeeper on the ocean liner RMS Titanic during her maiden voyage. He survived the sinking and at the time of his death was the second-to-last surviving crewmember of the disaster.
RMS Titanic
Prentice signed... | 2.0625 | 0 |
74382511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Winnold%20Prentice | Frank Winnold Prentice | By 2.05 am, all the lifeboats had left the Titanic, save for collapsibles A and B which were stored on the roof of the officers' quarters. Prentice however moved aft and ended up on the port side of Titanics crowded poop deck alongside his colleagues Cyril Ricks and Michael Kieran. The three men discussed what they wou... | 2.59375 | 0 |
74382700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel%20Hill | Isabel Hill | Isabel Hill (1800 – 1842) was a British translator, playwright, and poet. Her most notable work is her English translation of the French novel Corinne, or Italy which is still used to this day.
Life
Isabel Hill was born on 21 August, 1800 in Bristol, England, to parents William Hill and Isabel Hill (née Savage). She h... | 2.34375 | 0 |
74382952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unzu%C3%A9%20Palace | Unzué Palace | The Perón era
The first president to use the building regularly was Juan Domingo Perón, elected in 1946, who made it his permanent residence. In doing so he moved further away from the capital's centre to the more residential neighbourhood of Recoleta, which also gave him easy and quick access to the Casa Rosada. The ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
74382952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unzu%C3%A9%20Palace | Unzué Palace | Gardens
The garden design has been variously attributed to both Carlos Thays and Rubén Darío, although neither name has ever been proved. It occupied 21.154 m², and was surrounded by Avenida Libertador and calles Austria y Agüero. It contained a wide variety of plant species, including magnolia, cedar, araucaria, pal... | 2.28125 | 0 |
74383401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%20Labour%20Bund%20%28Australia%29 | Jewish Labour Bund (Australia) | In cooperation with SKIF, the Bund also organises an annual commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on the 19th of April. The organisation has held commemorations in Melbourne on this date every year since the uprising in 1943.
Each year the Bund holds its Bono Weiner Memorial Lecture, often involving academics, a... | 2.1875 | 0 |
74383537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard%20%28Vichy%20France%29 | Guard (Vichy France) | The Guard () was a military force in Vichy France, created from the after it was dissolved in November 1940. It is now the modern Mobile Gendarmerie.
The Guard should not be confused with the new units created by the government of Vichy France, notably the Groupes mobiles de réserve (GMR) that belonged to the Nationa... | 2.296875 | 0 |
74383951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20S.%20Loayza | Miguel S. Loayza | Involvement with the 1907 incident
When Walter Ernest Hardenburg came to the Putumayo in 1907, there were only three significant Colombian settlements left in the region. The Peruvian Amazon Company had previously absorbed or destroyed up to around forty settlements through manipulation of force. In one incident, Migue... | 2.140625 | 0 |
74383951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20S.%20Loayza | Miguel S. Loayza | Role in the Putumayo genocide
Hardenburg wrote about his experiences in the Putumayo a few years after he left the region, primarily referring to his time on the Liberal and at El Encanto. Along with other revelations, he noted that Miguel kept an involuntary harem of around thirteen girls, ranging from ages nine to si... | 2.15625 | 0 |
74383951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20S.%20Loayza | Miguel S. Loayza | After the scandal of the Putumayo genocide and the liquidation of the company, the Loayza brothers remained administrators at El Encanto, presiding over a native work force. Before the border change and transition of the Putumayo from Peru to Colombia occurred: Miguel and his brother Carlos organized a series of forced... | 2.609375 | 0 |
74384436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity%20Presbyterian%20Church%2C%20Wrexham | Trinity Presbyterian Church, Wrexham | The Trinity Presbyterian Church is a presbyterian church in Wrexham, North Wales, part of the Presbyterian Church of Wales' Wrexham Mission Area. The church building was built and opened in 1908 to the Perpendicular Gothic designs of William Beddoe Rees. It is a Grade II listed building, covered in largely red brick an... | 1.929688 | 0 |
74384437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20of%20Creative%20Arts%2C%20Wrexham | School of Creative Arts, Wrexham | In its first year, the infirmary received support from the public, and financial help from benefactors of local businesses.
In 1840, a new in-patients ward was opened in the building, followed by various other additions such as another ward in 1844, an operating theatre in 1862–63, fever wards in 1866–67 and a childre... | 2.421875 | 0 |
74384560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bode%20Osi | Bode Osi | Bode Osi is a town in Osun State, Nigeria. It is located around away from Osogbo, the capital of Osun State, and from Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. Bode Osi is also the headquarters of Ola Oluwa Local Government Area.
Climate
Bode Osi has a tropical savanna climate (Aw according to the Köppen climate classificatio... | 2.21875 | 0 |
74385032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simanya%20cave | Simanya cave | Simanya cave or Great Simanya cave is a cave in the Sant Llorenç del Munt massif located in the municipality of Sant Llorenç Savall, in Vallès Occidental. It has a route of 372 m and a gradient of 8 m. The entrance is 885 m in height. It is in the Llor canal on the eastern side of Montcau (1,056 m) and at a distance of... | 2.1875 | 0 |
74385032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simanya%20cave | Simanya cave | Archeology
The Simanya cave is one of the most interesting archaeological sites in the Sant Llorenç del Munt massif, as signs of continuous, yet irregular human occupation intervals from the Paleolithic period to the Middle Ages have been discovered.
Paleolithic–Chalcolithic
In 2023 the remains of at least three Nea... | 3.03125 | 0 |
74385244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro%20Descoqs | Pedro Descoqs | Pedro Descoqs (; 2 January 1877 – 8 November 1946) was a French Jesuit and Neo-Scholastic philosopher of the Suarezian school who taught at the Jesuit scholasticate Maison Saint-Louis in Jersey. Descoqs was a supporter of Action Française and opponent of the emergent nouvelle théologie, which brought him into conflict... | 2.125 | 0 |
74385749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accumulated%20winter%20season%20severity%20index | Accumulated winter season severity index | The accumulated winter season severity index or AWSSI provides a scientific way to compare the severity of a winter relative to its weather history. Points are assigned daily based on the maximum and minimum temperature, snowfall and snow depth for a specific site and accumulated through the winter. The index can be ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
74386049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minjar%20Mela | Minjar Mela | Minjar Mela, also known as the Minjar Fair, is a popular annual festival celebrated in the state of Himachal Pradesh in India. It has been granted the status of international fair by govt of Himachal Pradesh . The fair is held in the town of Chamba, which is located in the scenic Chamba Valley. Minjar Mela is a week-lo... | 2.609375 | 0 |
74386225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecelia%20Miksekwe%20Jackson | Cecelia Miksekwe Jackson | Cecelia "Meeks" Miksekwe Jackson (October 2, 1922 - May 29, 2011) was a Bodéwademi (Neshnabé/Potawatomi) woman from Kansas in the United States who worked to preserve Bodwéwadmimwen, a critically endangered Algonquian language. She was a native speaker.
Biography
Cecelia Miksekwe Jackson was born to Rosann Lasley Pott... | 2.375 | 0 |
74386654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klastline%20River | Klastline River | Geology
The Klastline River has been repeatedly blocked by lava flows from the adjacent Mount Edziza volcanic complex. In the Pleistocene, massive basalt flows from at least three eruptive centres on the northern side of the volcanic complex entered the narrow valley of the Klastline River from Kakiddi Valley, temporar... | 2.875 | 0 |
74386896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corroirie | Corroirie | The Wars of Religion had serious consequences for the Chartreuse du Liget. In 1562, the Prior was murdered and the abbey was completely devastated. Due to a lack of reliable sources, it is difficult to determine whether this attack was carried out by "organized" Protestants who came from Tours, where they operated from... | 2.796875 | 0 |
74387161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte%20Camiolo | Monte Camiolo | The name of Mount Camiolo first appears in a parchment dated October 31, 1511 when representatives of the communities of the Vestino Valley proceeded to its land partition under the auspices of Count Bartolomeo Lodron. The mountain is also mentioned in the municipal statutes of Magasa of 1589 in an article that provide... | 2.34375 | 0 |
74387788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebyu%20collar | Shebyu collar | The shebyu collar is an ancient Egyptian necklace composed of one or more strands of disc beads. Collars specifically called shebyu by the ancient Egyptians are the two-stranded kind given to officials as part of a royal reward. However, the term is used in Egyptology to refer to any necklace composed of lenticular or ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
74387868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov%20Kozhevnikov | Yakov Kozhevnikov | After arriving, the 8th Separate Rifle Brigade was placed in the reserve of the Leningrad Front. The brigade was reorganized as the 136th Rifle Division in March 1942, and then-Lieutenant Colonel Kozhevnikov appointed commander of its 342nd Rifle Regiment. He led the regiment in the Sinyavino offensive of August and Se... | 2.3125 | 0 |
74388017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekaterina%20Stravinsky | Yekaterina Stravinsky | Chronic disease and Igor's adulterous affair with Vera Sudeikina marked her later years. His confession resulted in what he later described as a "tearful, Dostoyevskian scene", but he and Yekaterina agreed to maintain the marriage and their family's unity. In what musicologist Stephen Walsh called "an atrocious act of ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
74388017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekaterina%20Stravinsky | Yekaterina Stravinsky | They began referring to each other by affectionate nicknames; "Katyenka" and "Kotyulya" for Katerina, "Gimura" and "Gimochka" for Igor, which she used throughout her life. The two encouraged each other's interest in painting and drawing, swam together often, went on wild raspberry picks, helped build a tennis court, pl... | 2.25 | 0 |
74388733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS%20Hesperian | RMS Hesperian | Having barely left port and sailing in a zigzagging motion, Hesperian was struck by a single torpedo at her starboard bow at 8.30 pm, damaging the forward engine room and causing a list to starboard. Captain Main ordered to halt the ship and rang the alarm bells. An SOS was sent out, while the ship's officers prepared ... | 1.9375 | 0 |
74389333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poniatowski%20gems | Poniatowski gems | The Poniatowski gems are a collection of over 2,600 engraved gems commissioned by Prince Stanisław Poniatowski (1754–1833), a wealthy Polish nobleman, and passed off by him as genuine classical pieces. By the time of his death in 1833 it was becoming clear to scholars that the gems were instead early 19th-century neoc... | 2.578125 | 0 |
74389333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poniatowski%20gems | Poniatowski gems | The Royal Society bought 5 gems at the 1839 auction, representing Euclid, Thales, Archimedes, Aristides and Priam, for prices ranging from £1 10s to £4 4s each, and still holds them today.
An engraved amethyst ring signed (), showing Mark Antony in profile, was in 1968 published and praised by gem expert John Boardma... | 2.5 | 0 |
74389865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien%27s%20impact%20on%20fantasy | Tolkien's impact on fantasy | The Lord of the Rings had an enormous impact on the fantasy genre; in some respects, it swamped all the works of fantasy that had been written before it, and it unquestionably created "fantasy" as a marketing category. Tolkien has been called the "father" of modern fantasy, or more specifically of high fantasy. Tolkien... | 2.625 | 0 |
74389865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien%27s%20impact%20on%20fantasy | Tolkien's impact on fantasy | In 1992, Martin H. Greenberg edited a festschrift collection of short stories by 19 fantasy authors including Yolen, Stephen R. Donaldson, Terry Pratchett, Poul and Karen Anderson, and Peter S. Beagle on the centenary of Tolkien's birth. Yolen, commenting that "sometimes it is difficult to remember that there were fant... | 2.234375 | 0 |
74389865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien%27s%20impact%20on%20fantasy | Tolkien's impact on fantasy | The modern subgenre of grimdark fantasy has been described as an "anti-Tolkien" approach to fantasy writing, which British science fiction and fantasy novelist Adam Roberts characterizes by its reaction to Tolkien's idealism even though it owes a lot to Tolkien's work. George R. R. Martin, the author of A Song of Ice ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
74389967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjana%20River | Anjana River | Anjana is a local river of Nadia district of West Bengal. The long river drains Krishnanagar, Jalalkhali and Badkulla areas, which belong to Krishnanagar, and Krishnanagar 1 and Hanshkhali community development block. The Anjana River originates on the southern bank of the Jalangi River at the northern end of Krishnan... | 2.25 | 0 |
74389967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjana%20River | Anjana River | Anjana is a long moribund river in the Bhagirathi-Hooghly basin. The river is simultaneously a distributary of the Jalangi river and a tributary of the Churni river. The Anjana River originates from the Jalangi river at Ruipukur Mauza near Krishnanagar. The river reaches Dogachi after crossing 7 km in Krishnanagar tow... | 2.21875 | 0 |
74390246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Man%20Range | Old Man Range | The Old Man Range, also called Kopuwai, is a mountain range in Central Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand. It lies to the west of the valley of the Clutha River, close to the town of Alexandra and the artificial Lake Roxburgh. The range stretches north-south for a distance of some . Part of the range forms the b... | 2.265625 | 0 |
74390859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%202023%20Western%20Kentucky%20floods | July 2023 Western Kentucky floods | Impact
Numerous homes were flooded in Mayfield and Wingo. Cars were submerged on flooded roads in Graves County. Portions of I-69, the Purchase Parkway, and KY 80 were flooded. Flash flood warnings were issued for western Kentucky, southern Illinois, southeastern Missouri, and northwestern Tennessee, including Carbonda... | 1.945313 | 0 |
74390868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLLAPS%20experiment | COLLAPS experiment | The COLinear LAser SPectroscopy (COLLAPS) experiment is located in the ISOLDE facility at CERN. The purpose of the experiment is to investigate ground and isomeric state properties of exotic, short lived nuclei, including spins, electro-magnetic moments and charge radii. The experiment has been operating since the late... | 2.375 | 0 |
74391173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election%20to%20the%20Romanian%20throne%2C%201866 | Election to the Romanian throne, 1866 | The election to the Romanian throne in 1866 followed the deposition of Prince Alexandre Ioan Cuza, with the aim of giving the united principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia a new ruler.
Cuza's deposition, despite his major reforms which had initiated the modernization of the Romanian principalities, had been engineer... | 2.421875 | 0 |
74391173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election%20to%20the%20Romanian%20throne%2C%201866 | Election to the Romanian throne, 1866 | Journey to Romania
The adventure began with a clandestine journey. Because of the conflict between his country and Austria, Charles de Hohenzollern traveled to Romania disguised as a merchant. On May 11, 1866, he left his home in Düsseldorf and took a long detour by rail through Switzerland, stopping in St. Gallen to ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
74391374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese%20Socotra | Portuguese Socotra | Portuguese Socotra () refers to the period during which the island of Socotra was ruled by the Portuguese Empire. Captured from the Mahra dynasty of Qishn in 1507 by Tristão da Cunha and Afonso de Albuquerque, it was later abandoned in 1511 and it reverted to the rule of Mahra.
History
In the early 16th century Portu... | 2.953125 | 0 |
74391456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idyll%20XXVI | Idyll XXVI | Idyll XXVI, also titled Λῆναι ('The Bacchanals') or Βάκχαι ('The Bacchantes'), is a bucolic poem doubtfully attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. This Idyll narrates the murder of Pentheus, who was torn to pieces (after the Dionysiac Ritual) by his mother, Agave, and other Theban women, for having wat... | 2.25 | 0 |
74391700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%20Maurice | Philippe Maurice | Philippe Maurice (born June 15, 1956, in Paris) was a French criminal and academic, mostly famous for being sentenced to the guillotine for murder in 1980, and subsequently pardoned by president Francois Mitterrand in 1981. His sentence of death was the last confirmed throughout the French legal system, as well as the ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
74391703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganino%20Gaudenzio | Paganino Gaudenzio | Paganino Gaudenzio or Gaudenzi (3 June 15953 January 1649) was a Swiss philosopher and Catholic theologian of the Renaissance.
Biography
Born on 3 June 1595 in Poschiavo (Grisons), which was the main urban center in northeastern Valtellina. He enrolled at the University of Basel on 29 May 1612. He attended the Univer... | 1.96875 | 0 |
74391965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Su%C3%A1rez%20de%20Peralta | Juan Suárez de Peralta | Juan Suárez de Peralta (Mexico City-Tenochtitlan, New Spain, 1541-Madrid, 1613) was a Spanish-Mexican Criollo who distinguished himself for his writings on equestrian exercises and equine science, as well as life in New Spain in the 16th century. He is considered a historian for dealing with the subject of the Conquest... | 2.53125 | 0 |
74392414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20T%C3%BCbingen%20school | Catholic Tübingen school | The term Catholic Tübingen school refers to the school of Catholic theology associated with the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Tübingen, in the nineteenth century. Its main representatives were Johann Adam Möhler, Johann Sebastian Drey, Johann Baptist von Hirscher, and Johannes von Kuhn. Thomas O'Mea... | 2.203125 | 0 |
74392537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar%20Ebrahim | Akbar Ebrahim | Akbar Ebrahim (born on 14 December 1963) is a well-known Indian motorsports driver. He is the first Indian to take part in an international race when he participated in the British Formula 2 in England. He is currently the President of the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India from September 2020. He is also the he... | 2.28125 | 0 |
74392572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapestry%20%28board%20game%29 | Tapestry (board game) | On a player's turn, they can either take an income turn or an advancement turn. An income turn denotes the start of a new era. Players will first use their civilization's ability if applicable. Second, they will play a tapestry card onto their income mat. Tapestry cards provide either an immediate benefit or a benefit ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
74392661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckollia%20volubilis | Buckollia volubilis | It is a woody climbing plant reaching 3–4 meters in height. It has tuberous roots. Its greyish-brown, densely warty stems and branches are covered in fine, soft hairs when young but become hairless with age. The stems are up to 10 millimeters in diameter. The leaves occur in clusters or opposite one another on the stem... | 2.65625 | 0 |
74392734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu%20Kim%20Duc | Chu Kim Duc | Chu Kim Đức is a Vietnamese architect, co-founder and director of Think Playgrounds. Her work at Think Playgrounds focuses on ensuring children's right to play within the public realm.
Early life and education
Đức was born in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 1980. After graduating as an architect from Hanoi University of Architect... | 2.25 | 0 |
74392908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astyanax%20brevirhinus | Astyanax brevirhinus | Astyanax brevirhinus is a small species of freshwater fish known only from a river basin in northeastern Brazil. It is somewhat understudied and lacks a conservation status, but it is present in a region that is the subject of an ecological restoration project - the Jequitinhonha River. Specifics of diet and behavior a... | 2.40625 | 0 |
74392908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astyanax%20brevirhinus | Astyanax brevirhinus | The body is a base silvery color. There is one humeral blotch, which is either rounded or horizontally elongated, and a dark lateral stripe that meets a blotch of dark pigment on the caudal peduncle. This blotch extends through the median caudal-fin rays. (When preserved in alcohol, the dark lateral band turns silver, ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
74393478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppe%20Gebruers | Seppe Gebruers | Seppe Gebruers (born May 9, 1990) is a Belgian musician, composer and improvisor. He is also a teacher and researcher at KASK conservatory Ghent. Gebruers plays both solo and in bands. His work ranges from jazz to contemporary classical music.
Gebruers has, since his first concerts at the age of twelve, gained a reput... | 1.960938 | 0 |
74393586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seongnyugul%20Cave | Seongnyugul Cave | Seongnyugul Cave () is a limestone cave in Uljin, North Gyeongsang, South Korea, which was designated natural monument No 155 of South Korea on May 10, 1963.
It is also called Seonyugul (선유굴, 仙遊窟) and Jangcheongul (장천굴, 掌天窟). The name, Seongnyu (聖留), which means a place where sacred Buddhas stayed, and derives from th... | 2.53125 | 0 |
74394005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20Battle%20of%20the%20James%20River%20%281673%29 | Second Battle of the James River (1673) | The raid by Crijnssen had motivated governor William Berkeley of the Virginia colony to ask for naval reinforcements from England. In the spring of 1673, he received the support of two English armed merchantmen: Barnaby (50) under captain Thomas Gardiner and Augustine (50), commanded by captain Edward Cotterell. These ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
74394138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenico%20Barduzzi | Domenico Barduzzi | Barduzzi's early studies focused mainly on syphilis and especially on the problems of its treatment. These studies were also influenced by the scientific activity of Pietro Pellizzari, who had conducted experiments on three voluntary subjects (at that time it was not forbidden in Tuscany to subject, especially condemne... | 2.421875 | 0 |
74394434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja%20Azam | Raja Azam | Raja Azam bin Raja Kamaralzaman (13 July 1918 – 1999), simply known as Raja Azam, was a Malaysian nobleman and politician whom formerly held the position of state secretary of Negeri Sembilan from 1960 to 1962, and State Secretary of Brunei from 1962 to 1964.
Early life and career
On 13 July 1918 Raja Azam was born i... | 2 | 0 |
74394444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor%20Ison%20Franklin | Eleanor Ison Franklin | Eleanor Lutia Ison Franklin (1929 – 1998) was an American endocrinologist and medical physiologist.
Early life and education
Eleanor Lutia Ison was born on December 24, 1929, in Dublin, Georgia to musician and teacher Rose Mae Oliver and Luther Lincoln Ison, a mathematician and teacher. She attended segregated schools... | 2.40625 | 0 |
74394518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophrice | Misophrice | Misophrice is an Australian genus of true weevils associated with plants in the family Casuarinaceae.
Description
Misophrice adults are quite small weevils. For example, M. squamiventris is 2-3 mm long and M. gloriosa is 1⅔-2 mm long. They lack the final, claw-bearing segment of each tarsus. Some related genera also ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
74394786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%20NIRSA%20National%20Soccer%20Championship | 2016 NIRSA National Soccer Championship | Women's open
In the finals, Virginia Tech would face Oregon. Despite needing a seven-round PK shootout in the semifinals against defending champion UCLA, Virginia Tech dominated their first 3 games of the tournament by scoring 15 goals while only giving up 1. Oregon were also dominate by scoring 13 goals in their prev... | 1.953125 | 0 |
74394841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridge%20Computers | Ridge Computers | Ridge Computers, Inc., was an American computer manufacturer active from 1980 to 1990. The company began as a builder of deskside workstations and workgroup servers and progressed to superminicomputers. They claimed to have produced the first commercially available Reduced instruction set computer (RISC) systems.
Comp... | 2.03125 | 0 |
74394935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idyll%20XVIII | Idyll XVIII | Idyll XVIII, also titled Ἑλένης Ἐπιθάλαμιος ('The Epithalamy of Helen'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poem includes a re-creation of the epithalamium sung by a choir of maidens at the marriage of Helen and Menelaus of Sparta. The idea is said to have been borrowed from an old poem by Stesi... | 2.203125 | 0 |
74395117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practices%20and%20beliefs%20of%20Mahatma%20Gandhi | Practices and beliefs of Mahatma Gandhi | Mahatma Gandhi's statements, letters and life have attracted much political and scholarly analysis of his principles, practices and beliefs, including what influenced him. Some writers present him as a paragon of ethical living and pacifism, while others present him as a more complex, contradictory and evolving charact... | 2.875 | 0 |
74395117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practices%20and%20beliefs%20of%20Mahatma%20Gandhi | Practices and beliefs of Mahatma Gandhi | According to Bhikhu Parekh, three books that influenced Gandhi most in South Africa were William Salter's Ethical Religion (1889); Henry David Thoreau's On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849); and Leo Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894). The art critic and critic of political economy John Ruskin inspire... | 2.578125 | 0 |
74395117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practices%20and%20beliefs%20of%20Mahatma%20Gandhi | Practices and beliefs of Mahatma Gandhi | Along with The Kingdom of God Is Within You in 1908, Leo Tolstoy wrote A Letter to a Hindu, which said that only by using love as a weapon through passive resistance could the Indian people overthrow colonial rule. In 1909, Gandhi wrote to Tolstoy seeking advice and permission to republish A Letter to a Hindu in Gujara... | 2.390625 | 0 |
74395117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practices%20and%20beliefs%20of%20Mahatma%20Gandhi | Practices and beliefs of Mahatma Gandhi | Gandhi on war
Gandhi participated in forming the Indian Ambulance Corps in the South African war against the Boers, on the British side in 1899. Both the Dutch settlers called Boers and the imperial British at that time discriminated against the coloured races they considered as inferior, and Gandhi later wrote about h... | 2.9375 | 0 |
74395117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practices%20and%20beliefs%20of%20Mahatma%20Gandhi | Practices and beliefs of Mahatma Gandhi | Gandhi as a politician, in practice, settled for less than complete non-violence. His method of non-violent Satyagraha could easily attract masses and it fitted in with the interests and sentiments of business groups, better-off people and dominant sections of peasantry, who did not want an uncontrolled and violent soc... | 2.6875 | 0 |
74395117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practices%20and%20beliefs%20of%20Mahatma%20Gandhi | Practices and beliefs of Mahatma Gandhi | One of the strategies Gandhi adopted was to work with Muslim leaders of pre-partition India, to oppose the British imperialism in and outside the Indian subcontinent. After the First World War, in 1919–22, he won the Muslim leadership support of the Ali Brothers by backing the Khilafat Movement in favour of the Islamic... | 2.40625 | 0 |
74395117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practices%20and%20beliefs%20of%20Mahatma%20Gandhi | Practices and beliefs of Mahatma Gandhi | According to Christophe Jaffrelot, while Gandhi considered untouchability to be wrong and evil, he believed that caste or class is based on neither inequality nor inferiority. Gandhi believed that individuals should freely intermarry whomever they wish, but that no one should expect everyone to be his friend: every ind... | 2.078125 | 0 |
74395130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%20Kingston%20Penitentiary%20riot | 1971 Kingston Penitentiary riot | Around the circular dome were 640 cells stacked up on four floors. The cells in Kingston penitentiary were small, cold, drafty, minimally furnished and overrun by rats. Starting in 1966, most of the privileges' enjoyed by the prisoners such as a baseball team, writing for a prison magazine, and almost all recreational ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
74395137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Houbara%20Protected%20Area | Al Houbara Protected Area | Al Houbara Protected Area is a natural reserve in the United Arab Emirates, and it is located in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. It is named after the large ground bird, Houbara, which belongs in the Persian Gulf region. This reserve consists of abundant plantation and coastal plains on well-drained sandy and gravelly terrai... | 2.828125 | 0 |
74395500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleinziegenfelder%20Tal | Kleinziegenfelder Tal | Statue of cyclist Claudius
The original statue of a cyclist was installed in 1905 by two brothers from Kleinziegenfeld, who aimed to create a distinctive landmark in the area. Using sawdust and wood, they crafted a life-sized figure dressed in a tailcoat and top hat, mounted on a penny-farthing bicycle, and securely p... | 2.65625 | 0 |
74395515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street%20furniture%20in%20Barcelona | Street furniture in Barcelona | Despite these early precedents, street furniture did not begin to be systematically planned until the appointment in 1871 of Antoni Rovira i Trias as head of Buildings and Ornamentation of the City Council. This architect was the first to make a special effort to combine aesthetics and functionality for this type of ur... | 2.28125 | 0 |
74395572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Oulu%20fire%20of%201705 | Great Oulu fire of 1705 | The great Oulu fire of 1705 was a conflagration that destroyed the parts of the city of Oulu, Finland. It consists of two fires in total, the first of which occurred on 20 July 1705, and the second on 28 August of the same year. A total of 144 houses and 121 granaries from the third and fourth districts of the city bur... | 1.984375 | 0 |
74395718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce%20Daniel | Joyce Daniel | The National Birth Control Association recognised Daniel as their South Wales organiser and under her leadership Medical Officers and councils were lobbied. Memo 153/MCW gave authority for medical professionals to take action but they were not obliged. Moreover, Daniel and her supporters could not advertise this servic... | 2.046875 | 0 |
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