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78796134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20of%20Samantha%20Martin | Death of Samantha Martin | Samantha Martin was a Canadian girl who died of a heart attack in December 2006 at age 13. Following her death, her parents – particularly her mother Velvet Martin – fought legal restrictions on publicizing information about children in Alberta's child welfare system, alleged that Samantha's death was caused by neglect... | 1.929688 | 0 |
78796162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussang%20Pass | Bussang Pass | Defourny's Trésor des Chartes de Lorraine does not speak in terms of cols but rather of “passages” or “pertuis” in the village of Vôge. Situated at the crossroads of the Romanesque cultural sphere on the one hand and the Germanic world on the other, the Col de Bussang remains an ancestral frontier between various entit... | 2.09375 | 0 |
78796162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussang%20Pass | Bussang Pass | Lieutenant General Henri de Rohan joined his troops in Rambervillers, annexed by France in 1552 and surrounded by ducal Lorraine lands, on January 6, 1635. He departed with ten regiments under the command of François Thibault. Seven regiments (about 4,000 men) and six cavalry squadrons (about 400 horses) reached the Va... | 2.46875 | 0 |
78796442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2MASS%20J08090250-4858172 | 2MASS J08090250-4858172 | 2MASS J08090250-4858172 (also called NGC 2547–ID8) is a star in the cluster NGC 2547. In 2014 it was reported that the star had brightened in the infrared. This was interpreted as a collision between planetesimals. It is not the first time such a collision was inferred from infrared excess, with likely the first being ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
78796450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuanzhao | Yuanzhao | Yuanzhao's interpretations diverged from those of fellow Vinaya scholar Yun Kan. Their disagreements over ritual practices—including circumambulation directions and monk robe lengths—led to a schism within the Vinaya school. Yuanzhao's lineage became known as the Zichi faction, distinguishing itself from Yun Kan's Huiz... | 2.1875 | 0 |
78796450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuanzhao | Yuanzhao | Yuanzhao argued that to be able to practice contemplation or guan (觀), one needed to practice the three pure acts taught in the Contemplation Sutra. The three pure acts (which include keeping precepts and reciting sutras) evoked the Buddha's blessings (fuye 福業) which supported the practice of contemplation. Thus, to pr... | 1.90625 | 0 |
78796692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Coconut%20Lady%20%28Indian%20folktale%29 | The Coconut Lady (Indian folktale) | In a Tai Khamti tale from Arunachal Pradesh with the title The Coconut Fairy, a hardworking farmer couple are blessed by the gods, who send them an angel to be their human son, whom they name Chow Malakungini. As a boy, he listens to his grandmother's stories about fairies and becomes obsessed with finding one. When he... | 2.03125 | 0 |
78796692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Coconut%20Lady%20%28Indian%20folktale%29 | The Coconut Lady (Indian folktale) | In a Kannada tale from Karnatak translated as Areca-Nut Princess or The Arecanut Princess, a king has five sons, four of them married save the youngest, who rejects his prospective brides and travels to find the Areca-nut king's daughter. On his journeys, he meets three saints who each gifts him a lemon, a stick, coal ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
78796747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rappaccini%27s%20Daughter%20%28Garwood%20opera%29 | Rappaccini's Daughter (Garwood opera) | Composition and premiere
Margaret Garwood (1927–2015) published an article on difficulties she encountered in composing the opera. "One such problem was how to retain the color of Hawthorne's language without making it sound stilted. Consequently, words such as 'whence', 'thou', 'would'st', and so forth, though beautif... | 2.125 | 0 |
78796793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Katzer | Hans Katzer | His service in the Nazi German Army started in 1939. During the Battle of Moscow, on December 7, 1941, he received a serious injury in the form of a gunshot wound to the lung. He afterwards became a Leutnant, becoming an instructor in Metz during the German occupation of France. He was briefly a prisoner of war by the ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
78796876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commane | Commane | The Irish surname Commane (Irish Gaelic: Ó Comáin or Ó Cuimín, or reduced from Mac Comáin, Mac Cuimín; the prefix signifies "descendant") is of Gaelic Ireland origin, rooted in an early medieval chiefdom and associated with two patron saints of Ireland.
Variants of the name include Comain, Comaine, Coman, Comeens, Com... | 2.484375 | 0 |
78797107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Jews%20in%20Kislovodsk | History of the Jews in Kislovodsk | The Jewish Community in Kislovodsk are the Jews who have ever lived in the territory of modern-day Kislovodsk, the city in Stavropol Krai, in the North Caucasus region of Russia. Kislovodsk was one of the cities in the North Caucasus with a large Jewish community. In 1890, a synagogue and a rabbi's house were opened in... | 2.5 | 0 |
78797562 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20Sia | Lawrence Sia | Lawrence Sia Khoon Seong (born 10 November 1932) is a former Singaporean teacher, trade unionist and politician. Sia was the president of the Singapore Teachers' Union from 1971, before being expelled in 2003. He also served as Member of Parliament for Moulmein from 1968 to 1991, and spoke passionately about issues, su... | 1.953125 | 0 |
78797893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille%20Pictet | Camille Pictet | Jules-Camille Pictet (June 28, 1864 – January 29, 1893) was a Swiss naturalist and specialist on hydrozoa. Along with Maurice Bedot he travelled to the Malay Archipelago on a collecting expedition and died shortly afterwards. His father Édouard Pictet (1835–1879) was also a naturalist who specialized in entomology, par... | 2.40625 | 0 |
78797969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore%20Garnier | Théodore Garnier | Théodore Garnier, known as the "Abbé Garnier," (24 December 1850 – 21 or 22 August 1920) was a French Catholic clergyman, activist, and essayist. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of Catholic social teaching at the end of the 19th century.
Théodore Garnier was born to Marie-Rose Desert and Jean Garnier, a humble l... | 2.875 | 0 |
78798565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua%20and%20Barbuda%20Parliament%20Building | Antigua and Barbuda Parliament Building | The Antigua and Barbuda Parliament Building is a two-storey structure that is the seat of the Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda. The building is located in the Government Complex, adjacent to the Office of the Prime Minister.
History and function
The building was inaugurated on 30 October 2006. The previous building... | 2.0625 | 0 |
78798828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugia%20%28candlestick%29 | Bugia (candlestick) | A bugia (Latin: scotula, palmatorium, French: bougeoir) or hand-candlestick is liturgical candlestick held beside a Latin Catholic bishop or other prelate.
Description
The bugia is a low, portable candlestick with a long handle, held next to clergy to illuminate books being sung or read from. According to the 1886 C... | 2.4375 | 0 |
78799086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20L.%20Rathbun | Guy L. Rathbun | Guy L. Rathbun (? – January 22, 1954) was an American football, basketball, baseball, track and field, swimming, and wrestling coach, and athletics administrator. Rathbun began his career a YMCA physical director in Wisconsin and Nebraska. He held coaching positions at Indiana University (now known as Indiana Universit... | 2.0625 | 0 |
78799323 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juraid%20Island | Juraid Island | Juraid Island () is a Saudi Arabian island located in the Persian Gulf, approximately northeast of the city of Jubail. The low-lying, sandy island spans approximately and is characterized by its rich biodiversity, featuring coral reefs, diverse marine life, and significant bird populations. The island is surrounded b... | 2.953125 | 0 |
78799473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zofia%20Szymanowska-Lenartowicz | Zofia Szymanowska-Lenartowicz | Zofia Szymanowska–Lenartowicz (21 December 1825 – 8 July 1870) was a Polish painter, musician, and poet. She painted many portraits of the Mickiewicz family, particularly Adam Mickiewicz.
Biography
Zofia Szymanowska was born on 21 December 1825, in Otwock, Congress Kingdom of Poland (now Poland). She was the daughter... | 2.140625 | 0 |
78799554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/1907%20L2%20%28Daniel%29 | C/1907 L2 (Daniel) | Daniel's Comet, formally known as C/1907 L2, is a non-periodic comet that became visible in the naked eye in 1907. It was the first of three comets discovered by American astronomer, Zaccheus Daniel.
Discovery and observations
The comet was discovered by Zaccheus Daniel using a comet-seeker on the dawn of 10 June 19... | 3.234375 | 0 |
78799618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel-Joseph%20Bailly%20de%20Surcy | Emmanuel-Joseph Bailly de Surcy | Emmanuel-Joseph Bailly de Surcy (1794–1861) was a French printer and journalist. He played an active role in the Catholic revival in 19th-century France and dedicated his life to Catholic activism and pedagogy.
Biography
Emmanuel-Joseph Bailly, known as Bailly de Surcy, was born in Brias, Pas-de-Calais, on March 8, 1... | 2.671875 | 0 |
78799700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontianak%20Teochew | Pontianak Teochew | Each of these three markers conveys a specific meaning from the speaker’s perspective and is used with different types of verbs, such as transitive or intransitive. The marker lou indicates that the speaker expected the event to occur and views it positively. It can co-occur with both transitive and intransitive predic... | 2.96875 | 0 |
71425313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Henei | Wang Henei | In 1947, the couple moved to Yiyi Hutong in Beijing, where they had a small studio in their home. Wang taught sketching and sculpture in the Arts and Crafts department of Beijing Normal University. In 1951, she was appointed professor-sculptor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), where she taught sculpture, sket... | 2.25 | 0 |
71425951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim%20Navon | Chaim Navon | Chaim Navon (Hebrew: חיים נבון; born June 25, 1973) is an Israeli rabbi, philosopher, writer, and publicist.
Biography
Chaim Navon was born in Ramat Gan and grew up in Elkana. From 1992 to 2004, Navon studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion. He received his Semicha (rabbinic ordination) from Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein and the ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
71426077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Bernard%20Clinch | James Bernard Clinch | James Bernard Clinch (1771-1834) was a professor, lawyer and pamphleteer. On the recommendation of politician and writer Edmund Burke he was appointed as one of the first professors at the newly established St. Patrick's College, Maynooth in 1795 first as chair of Humanity (Belle Lettres), then in 1798 as Professor of ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
71426550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanthanum%28III%29%20iodide | Lanthanum(III) iodide | Lanthanum(III) iodide is an inorganic compound containing lanthanum and iodine with the chemical formula .
Synthesis
Lanthanum(III) iodide can be synthesised by the reaction of lanthanum metal with mercury(II) iodide:
2 La + 3 HgI2 → 2 LaI3 + 3 Hg
It can also be prepared from the elements, that is by the reaction of... | 2.40625 | 0 |
71426610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Birgitta%20zu%20M%C3%BCnster | Maria Birgitta zu Münster | Maria Birgitta zu Münster, OSB (13 October 1908 – 27 January 1988): née Ursula zu Münster, was a Catholic convert, Benedictine nun, and translator.
Life
Ursula zu Münster was born in Hanover. Her father, Egon Graf zu Münster, was a lieutenant colonel. She had two brothers. Ursula was educated at the protestant Stift ... | 1.9375 | 0 |
71426814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral%20Cancer%20Foundation | Oral Cancer Foundation | Public awareness events
OCF puts on numerous public walk/run events around the country each year as a mechanism to raise awareness of oral cancer in major cities. Starting in 2005, in cooperation with dental schools like NYU and others, the community of registered dental hygienists (RDHs), patient survivor families, an... | 2.1875 | 0 |
71427002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldorado%20Ballroom | Eldorado Ballroom | Eldorado Ballroom is a former nightclub in the Third Ward, Houston, on the other side of the road from Emancipation Park. The white brick and stucco Art Moderne building has of space.
Caroline Love of Houston Public Media described it as "A pillar of Houston’s historic music scene". Leigh Cutler, in Houston History M... | 1.914063 | 0 |
71427147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza%20de%20Armas%20%28Cusco%29 | Plaza de Armas (Cusco) | Swamp
When Manco Cápac arrived in the valley of Cusco, he settled in the surroundings of a swamp located between two streams (Saphy and Tullumayo) because that place was free from the threats of neighboring ethnic groups. The swamp was formed due to the continuous irrigation of the Saphy and Tullumayu rivers. Manco Ca... | 2.90625 | 0 |
71427203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%20Eskenazi | Solomon Eskenazi | When Murad III had heard that a Jewish woman was walking around with a diamond worth 40,000 ducats, he became enraged and ordered all Jews in the Ottoman Empire to be killed. Under the influence of Salomon Eskenazi, Grand Vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, and Jewish businesswoman Esther Handali, the Valide Sultan ("Queen Mo... | 2.46875 | 0 |
71427352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Headless%20Horseman%20%281934%20film%29 | The Headless Horseman (1934 film) | The Headless Horseman is a 1934 animated short film directed by Ub Iwerks and part of the ComiColor cartoon series. It is based on the 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving.
The film was the first time Iwerks used the technique multiplane animation, his most prestigious invention. This al... | 2.15625 | 0 |
71427690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakup%20Yahya | Yakup Yahya | Yakup ben David Tam ibn Yahya (Hebrew: יאקופ יחיא) was born David into a Marrano family in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1475. He later moved to Istanbul to practice his religion (Judaism) more freely, and was regarded as the spiritual leader of all Ottoman Jews, until his death.
Life and career
Yahya immigrated to Istanbul i... | 2.328125 | 0 |
71427862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit%20Smith%20Miller | Gerrit Smith Miller | Gerrit Smith Miller (January 30, 1845 – March 10, 1937), commonly called Gat, was an American businessman, farmer, sportsman and politician regarded as "the father of football in the United States" as the founder of Oneida Football Club, considered the first organized team to play any form of football in the country. T... | 2.25 | 0 |
71428001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown%20Confederate%20Soldier%20of%20Gray%2C%20Maine | Unknown Confederate Soldier of Gray, Maine | The Unknown Confederate Soldier of Gray, Maine is an unidentified uniformed man whose body was mistakenly sent to the family of fallen Union soldier Charles H. Colley in Gray, Maine in 1862 during the American Civil War.
Colley, who died of wounds received at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, has headstones at both Gray ... | 1.9375 | 0 |
71428177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta%20Sillaots | Marta Sillaots | Marta Sillaots, born Marta Reichenbach (12 May 1887 – 15 July 1969) was an Estonian writer, translator, and literary critic.
Early life and education
Marta Adolfine Reichenbach was born in Rakke into a family of eleven, the daughter of postal clerk Hindrik Reichenbach. After a short time in primary school, which was ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
71428719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madera%20Sugar%20Pine%20Company | Madera Sugar Pine Company | By the late 1890s, the Madera Flume and Trading Company was in decline. The reasons were twofold: the available timber tracts were depleting, and there was a decrease in the demand for lumber exports due to a prolonged economic depression. Earlier, the California Lumber Company mills had been permanently closed, and th... | 2.3125 | 0 |
71428740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma%20Speed%20Fox | Alma Speed Fox | Later activism
She was appointed by Governor Milton Shapp as a co-chair, along with Lynn Scheffey, on the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women which was founded in February 1972 to implement the provisions of the Pennsylvania Equal Rights Amendment. Along with Jo Ann Evansgardner, she was a chair of Shirley Ch... | 2.09375 | 0 |
71428962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Kosovo%20crisis%20%282022%E2%80%932025%29 | North Kosovo crisis (2022–2025) | Kosovo formally signed an application to seek candidate status for European Union membership on 14 December 2022, its impending signature resulted in a number of barricades being set up in North Kosovo on 10 December; they were dismantled on 30 December. In Serbia, far-right groups staged protests in support of Kosovo ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
71428975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider%20vision | Spider vision | The eyes of spiders vary significantly in their structure, arrangement, and function. They usually have eight, each being a simple eye with a single lens rather than multiple units as in the compound eyes of insects. The specific arrangement and structure of the eyes is one of the features used in the identification an... | 3.359375 | 0 |
71429018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newmania%20%28plant%29 | Newmania (plant) | Newmania is a genus of rhizomatous based flowering plants belonging to the family Zingiberaceae. They are only native to Vietnam, and found in forests.
Description
The common feature to genus Newmania is that they all grow from a rhizome across the ground, then produce a fairly weak false stem and purple-white flowers... | 2.765625 | 0 |
71429121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar%20Milne-Redhead | Edgar Milne-Redhead | Edgar Wolston Bertram Handsley Milne-Redhead (1906-1996) was a British botanist. He was born in Frome, Somerset, UK. Educated at Cheltenham College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he began work at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1928. In 1930, he accepted an offer to work in the Colonial Office in Northern... | 2.34375 | 0 |
71429312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Townsend%20%28entomologist%29 | Mary Townsend (entomologist) | During one of the periods when Townsend was confined, she wrote Life in the Insect World in 1844. Although it was published anonymously, Lewis wrote to Phebe Hanaford that Townsend was the author and had inspired her to undertake similar studies about nature. Lewis said that she wanted to write "a little work [on birds... | 2.734375 | 0 |
71429312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Townsend%20%28entomologist%29 | Mary Townsend (entomologist) | Along with her older sister, Hannah, Townsend published The Anti-Slavery Alphabet in 1846 for the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society's fair that year. It was first published anonymously, but the author's were disclosed in the January 29, 1847, edition of The Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper published by Willi... | 3.359375 | 0 |
71429370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shams%C4%AByah | Shamsīyah | Mesopotamia was largely Christian by the third century AD. The sun god Shamash (also called Utu in Sumerian) is recorded in ancient Mesopotamian sources from the earliest periods and his cult was particularly strong in Syria and northern Mesopotamia; many early churches in the region were repurposed pagan sun-temples (... | 2.640625 | 0 |
71429394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ami%20Nakai | Ami Nakai | is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2023 World Junior bronze medalist, the 2024–25 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, a six-time medalist on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (four gold, one silver, one bronze), and the 2022–23 Japanese junior bronze medalist.
Personal life
Nakai was born on April 27, 2008 in Niiga... | 2.03125 | 0 |
71429714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian%20refugees%20in%20Britain%20during%20the%20First%20World%20War | Belgian refugees in Britain during the First World War | Crosby Hall, in Chelsea, London is the only surviving secular domestic medieval building in London and former Tudor home of Sir Thomas More. It housed and aided Belgian refugees and wounded soldiers during the First World War through the Chelsea War Refugees Committee. The experience of the exiles and charitable aid p... | 2.53125 | 0 |
71429714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian%20refugees%20in%20Britain%20during%20the%20First%20World%20War | Belgian refugees in Britain during the First World War | Violet Florence Mabel Mond, Baroness Melchett, DBE (1867–1945), née Goetze, was a British humanitarian and activist. She was the sister of the painter and sculptor Sigismund Goetze. In 1894 she married the businessman and politician Alfred Mond, who had been introduced to her by her brother. She was an active political... | 2.140625 | 0 |
71429714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian%20refugees%20in%20Britain%20during%20the%20First%20World%20War | Belgian refugees in Britain during the First World War | Jef Denyn (1862–1941) was a carillonneur from Mechelen. In 1922, he founded the world's first and most renowned international higher institute of campanology, later named after him, the Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn" in Mechelen. During the First World War, he, his wife Helene, his son and his four daughters were am... | 2.578125 | 0 |
71429871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kateryna%20Buzhynska | Kateryna Buzhynska | Kateryna Volodymyrivna Buzhynska (; born 13 August 1979) is a Ukrainian singer. Possessing a mezzo-soprano range, she is a laureate of numerous song contests and a People's Artist of Ukraine. She sings in Ukrainian, Russian, English, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew and Bulgarian.
Life and career
Early life
Buzhynska was bo... | 2.03125 | 0 |
71430055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossirarus | Ossirarus | Description
A unique characteristic of Ossirarus is the presence of a large, pointed tabular horn. Ossirarus also exhibits features similar to stem-amniotes, such as a contact between the tabular and parietal bones, and separation between the exoccipital and basioccipital bones. At the same time, more primitive featur... | 2.65625 | 0 |
71430591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangsheng%20%28Daoism%29 | Yangsheng (Daoism) | Yangsheng practices underwent significant changes from the Song dynasty (960–1279) onward. They integrated many elements drawn from neidan ("inner alchemy") practices, and aroused the interest of scholars. For the Song dynasty alone, there are about twenty books on the subject. An important author of the time was Zhou ... | 1.929688 | 0 |
71431251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto%20Masotto | Umberto Masotto | On 1 March 1896, the Battle of Adwa took place where the brave service of the indigenous Mountain Artillerymen and Mountain Batteries appeared, who, being part of Major De Rosa's Artillery Brigade, fought with the column of General Matteo Albertone, formed entirely by Eritrean battalions, it was composed of four artill... | 2.53125 | 0 |
71431576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plinths%20of%20Yeongeunmun%20Gate%2C%20Seoul | Plinths of Yeongeunmun Gate, Seoul | On April 17, 1895, Joseon had materialized its full diplomatic independence from the Qing dynasty by the conclusion of Treaty of Shimonoseki between the Empire of Japan and the Qing dynasty which was result of the First Sino-Japanese War. The Joseon government led by the Gaehwa Party desired to commemorate the abandon... | 2.375 | 0 |
71432456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmbergets%20AIF | Malmbergets AIF | Malmbergets Almänna Idrottsförening, MAIF, is a multi-sport club from Malmberget, Norrbotten, Sweden. The club has been most successful in team handball and Nordic skiing.
History
The club was founded on 22 February 1904. Initially, the club arranged Nordic skiing and cross-country running contests, whereas the constr... | 1.984375 | 0 |
71432485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik%20Torm | Frederik Torm | Frederik Emanuel Torm (24 August 1870 – 3 November 1953) was a Danish theologian.
He was born in Tschifu, China as a son of ship-owner Ditlev Torm (1836–1907) and Elise H. M. Zoëga (1846–1918). His father was a shipmaster in East Aia until the early 1870s. In July 1904 in Copenhagen he married teacher Elisif Thaulow (... | 2.078125 | 0 |
71433032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20in%20Addis%20Ababa | Crime in Addis Ababa | Crime in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, is safer in comparison of other African cities. However, there are a number of crimes within the city including theft, scams, mugging, robbery and others. Rural-urban migration and unemployment has been preliminary factors affecting the city by elevating crime rate.
Snat... | 2.171875 | 0 |
71433035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trandafiru | Trandafiru | In a tale from Siebenbürgen, published by author in German language magazine Das Ausland with the title Von der Schlange, die ein Weib gebar ("About the Snake that a Woman gave birth to"), a couple that have been together for 20 years long for a child. One day, the woman passes by a garden and smells a flower. She bec... | 2.5 | 0 |
71433035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trandafiru | Trandafiru | Romanian folklorist Lazăr Șăineanu summarized another Transylvanian tale titled Ficiorul moşului or Feciorulǔ Moşului ("Old Man's Son"). In this tale, an old woman raises a snake child. When he is of age, he asks for the princess's hand in marriage. They marry. On the wedding night, the snake man takes off the snakeski... | 2.5 | 0 |
71433035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trandafiru | Trandafiru | Transylvanian linguist Heinrich von Wlislocki collected and published a tale from the Romani with the title Das Schlangenkind ("The Snake-Child"). In this tale, a poor couple laments not having a son. One day, the woman is fetching firewood in the forest and sees a beautiful flower. She leans down to get it, but the fl... | 2.640625 | 0 |
71433713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%20ibn%20Ahmad%20al-Aqili | Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Aqili | Birth and upbringing
Al-Aqili was born in Sabya, belonging to the Jazan region in the south of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1336 AH corresponding to 1916, and studied at the hands of the teacher Muhammad Khamis Bagbeer in Sabya. Then he read from his father the principles of jurisprudence and Arabic language grammar... | 2.21875 | 0 |
71434225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy%20Edwards | Wendy Edwards | The "Nets" paintings are layered works that Edwards began with large, looping swirls of wet underpainting applied with a rag or wide brush, over which she squeezed out stringy extrusions of rounded paint lines using pastry tools; the fragile, sometimes breaking tendrils seem to knot briefly at intersections and expand ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
71434323 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard%20de%20Fitz-James%2C%206th%20Duke%20of%20Fitz-James | Édouard de Fitz-James, 6th Duke of Fitz-James | During the Hundred Days in 1815, he went to Ghent with Louis XVIII before returning to Paris and taking his place in the Chamber of Peers where he was known for his ultraroyalist views. On 21 October 1815, he put forth a vote of thanks to the Duke of Angoulême.
He distinguished himself during the trial of Marshal Mich... | 2.296875 | 0 |
71434637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyriakos%20Nicolaou | Kyriakos Nicolaou | Kyriakos Nicolaou (Greek: Κυριάκος Νικολάου) (10 October 1918 – 1981) was a Cypriot archaeologist who worked for the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.
Life and works
Kyriakos Nicolaou was born in Rizokarpaso in 1918. He attained his primary education in Cyprus, and further education in London. He got a B.A. Hons in ... | 2 | 0 |
71435396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannenburgh | Wannenburgh | Wannenburgh is an old and relatively rare South German toponymic surname meaning "tub[-shaped] castle", or "tub[-shaped] mountain" in the case of Wannenberg(h). The "Wan[n]enburg" spelling appears later (circa 1471) than the earlier "Wahne[n]bergen" and "Wanenberg[h]" spellings in Germanic records. Among variant forms ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
71435396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannenburgh | Wannenburgh | Spangenberg and Hammerstein-Loxten explore that the family were also possibly recorded as 'von Bergen' (with less certainty) and 'de Monte' (an unastute Latinised form meaning 'from the mountain') which infinitesimally may or may not correctly speak to the etymological origin of the surname. The Latinised form of the n... | 2 | 0 |
71435396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannenburgh | Wannenburgh | Pfannkuche entertains the theory that the de Monte and von Wahnebergen families were two branches of the same dynasty holding secular church offices (Vogtei Verden and Vogtei Minden) in Verden and Minden but came from the same source. Spangenberg affirms that the von Wahnebergen family must have held significant power ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
71435448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kass%C3%A9%20Mady%20Diabat%C3%A9 | Kassé Mady Diabaté | Kassé Mady Diabaté (1949, in Kela, Kangaba, Mali – May 24, 2018, in Bamako) was a Malian singer, musician and griot. His soft and particular voice with deep undertones – an atypical characteristic for a griot – earned him the nickname "The golden voice of Mali". He is considered, together with Salif Keita, as one of th... | 1.9375 | 0 |
71435543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banauli%20Vidyapati%20Dih | Banauli Vidyapati Dih | Banauli Vidyapati Dih () is a historical place related to the great Maithili poet Vidyapati. It is located at Banauli village of Mahottari district in Madhesh Pradesh of Mithila region in Nepal.
It is 3.8 miles or 6.116 kilometres South-West from the historical, cultural and religious city of Janakpur Dham in Nepal... | 2.34375 | 0 |
71435635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad%20Abd%20al-Ghafur%20Attar | Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar | Attar then turned to the story and theatre. He released his short story collection I want to see God (Urīdu an ará Allāh) in 1947, and the play Migration (Hijra) in the same year. In the 1950s, he translated from Bengali the play Red Oleanders by Tagore, 1951. Then he wrote his autobiography in 1981, Between prison and... | 2.359375 | 0 |
71436467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination%20of%20Admiral%20Coligny | Assassination of Admiral Coligny | Dutch revolt
The Dutch revolt was continuing to intersect closely with French politics. William of Orange had fought with Coligny during the Siege of Poitiers (1569) and while he had left afterwards to organise further in the Spanish Netherlands his brother Louis of Nassau was among those who stayed behind, operating o... | 2.78125 | 0 |
71436467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination%20of%20Admiral%20Coligny | Assassination of Admiral Coligny | Having been at a meeting with the council in the Louvre, presided over by Anjou in the king's absence, Coligny was on his way home around 11am to the rue de Béthisy, a little later than his usual time as the king had wanted him to observe a game of tennis. Hostile onlookers were kept back by a dozen body guards. As he ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
71436752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella%20Jansen | Ella Jansen | Ella Christina Jansen (born September 1, 2005) is a Canadian competitive swimmer specializing in freestyle, butterfly and individual medley events.
Career
A native of Burlington, Ontario, Jansen started swimming for the Burlington Aquatic Devilrays (BAD) at the age of 6 years old. She quickly moved through the levels ... | 1.90625 | 0 |
71437150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne%20S.%20Campbell | Jeanne S. Campbell | Campbell was known for her classic, understated designs that were designed to be stylish rather than trendy, and described her work as "a no-age, no-price look, and it's up to the person who wears it to make the look.” One of her signature designs was the sheath dress, which she is credited with popularizing. She was c... | 2.015625 | 0 |
71438208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Andes%20Carnegie%20Library | Lake Andes Carnegie Library | The Lake Andes Carnegie Library, in Lake Andes, South Dakota in Charles Mix County, South Dakota, is a Carnegie library which was built in 1911. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The library is Prairie School in design, while the Charles Mix County Courthouse, also in Lake Andes, is t... | 2.5 | 0 |
71438334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Ridge%20Sanatorium | Blue Ridge Sanatorium | Blue Ridge Sanatorium was a sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis located outside of Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.
The site was originally known as Moore's Brook and was operated as a private mental institution. One of its central buildings, Lyman Mansion, dates to 1875. Dr. D. M. Trice served as th... | 2.40625 | 0 |
71438381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20Turtle%2C%20Inc. | Sea Turtle, Inc. | Sea Turtle, Inc. is a nonprofit sea turtle rescue and rehabilitation center in South Padre Island, Texas. It is a popular regional ecotourism center, seeing about a quarter million visitors per year. Its mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and release sick and injured sea turtles; to educate the public about sea turtle... | 2.53125 | 0 |
71438389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido%20Chigi%20Saracini | Guido Chigi Saracini | Count Guido Chigi Saracini (Siena, 8 March 1880 – Siena, 18 November 1965), full name Guido Chigi degli Useppi Saracini Lucherini, was an Italian patrician, a musical patron and composer, and a public administrator. Having inherited the Palazzo Chigi-Saracini in the centre of the city of Siena, Tuscany, he applied his ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
75718871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique%20C.%20R%C3%A9bsamen | Enrique C. Rébsamen | Arrival in Mexico
He came to Mexico to take charge of the education of the children of a merchant in the city of León. He then lived in Mexico City, where he befriended important thinkers of the time, including Ignacio Manuel Altamirano. He devoted himself to researching various questions of linguistics, history and so... | 2.828125 | 0 |
75719179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ani%20hu%20ha-sho%27el | Ani hu ha-sho'el | Ani hu ha-sho'el (, literally 'I am the one who asks') is a Selicha piyyut for Yom Kippur; in most rites, but not all, it is (or was) recited in the Musaf service. It is composed by Rabbi Baruch ben Samuel of Mainz. As is common in Selichot for Musaf, the Selicha describes the Yom Kippur service in the Temple and the l... | 2.203125 | 0 |
75719344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Nicolay | Mary Nicolay | Mary Ann Nicolay (2 August 1850 – 15 October 1939) was a British Australian Nightingale nurse and hospital matron primarily in the Australian city of Perth.
Life
Nicolay was probably born in the London area of Chelsea. Her parents were Mary Ann (born Raven) and the Reverend Charles Grenfell Nicolay. They had eight chi... | 2.03125 | 0 |
75719783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rezekne%20Airport | Rezekne Airport | Rezekne airport is an uncertified airfield in Rēzekne Municipality. Located in Audriņi Parish in Kuciņi, northwest of Rēzekne, 10 km from the city center. The airfield has one 1300 m long and 40 m wide concrete runway. The owner of the airfield is the Ministry of Defence. NATO air defense radar TPS-117 is located near ... | 1.984375 | 0 |
75720091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtenmoor%20Strangler | Lichtenmoor Strangler | The Lichtenmoor Strangler (in German: Würger vom Lichtenmoor) (1947/1948) was initially thought to be an unknown predator killing livestock. It is said to have killed numerous domestic and wild animals around the Lichtenmoor area, north-east of Nienburg/Weser in Lower Saxony, then in the British occupation zone in Germ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
75720176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilry%20Huckaby | Hilry Huckaby | Hilry "Huck" Huckaby III was a former district judge in Caddo Parish, Louisiana and a four-term councilman in the city of Shreveport, Louisiana noted for his work reforming the government of Shreveport. He is known for changing the city of Shreveport government from a commission form of government to a City Council for... | 2.0625 | 0 |
75720510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penarth%20Road%20Stadium | Penarth Road Stadium | The Penarth Road Stadium, was a former motorcycle speedway stadium, on Penarth Road in the Grangetown area Cardiff. The stadium was located adjacent to the River Ely, where it meanders between Penarth Road and the Barry railway line. Today it is the site of an industrial park on a road called Stadium Close.
Speedway
... | 2.0625 | 0 |
75721038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farid%20Allawerdi | Farid Allawerdi | It was only in 1944, and after years of residence in different parts of the country, that the family finally settled in Baghdad where Allawerdi had the opportunity to study music academically with European teachers at the then newly established Fine Arts Institute. He studied Violin with Sandu Albu (a former student of... | 2.09375 | 0 |
75721054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinky%20Winters | Pinky Winters | Pinky Winters (born Phyllis Wozniak in 1930) is an American jazz singer with an on-and-off career span of over 80 years. She continues to play and record with talented jazz musicians into the second decade of the 21st century.
Life and career
Phyllis Wozniak was born on 1 February 1930 in Michigan City, Indiana, USA.... | 2.1875 | 0 |
75721343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphaea%20stuhlmannii | Nymphaea stuhlmannii | Nymphaea stuhlmannii is a species of waterlily endemic to Tanzania.
Description
Vegetative characteristics
Nymphaea stuhlmannii is an aquatic herb with 5–12 cm long, 3–4 cm wide, globose to ovoid, blackish brown rhizomes and white, long roots. The 25.5 cm long, 21 cm wide, petiolate, ovate-orbicular leaves have an en... | 2.3125 | 0 |
75721386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Aniakchak | Mount Aniakchak | Aniakchak is about southwest from Anchorage, Alaska, within the Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve (Bristol Bay Borough) on the Alaska Peninsula between Bristol Bay (Bering Sea) and the Pacific Ocean. Port Heiden is west from the volcano, other towns within from Aniakchak are Chignik Lake, Chignik, Chignik Lag... | 2.375 | 0 |
75721386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Aniakchak | Mount Aniakchak | The volcano grew on a westward-sloping basement formed by Mesozoic-Tertiary sedimentary rocks, which crops out south of the volcano and within the caldera. Chronologically, they are part of the Jurassic Naknek, Cretaceous Staniukovich, Cretaceous Chignik, Paleocene-Eocene Tolstoi, and Eocene-Oligocene Meshik Formations... | 2.65625 | 0 |
75721386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Aniakchak | Mount Aniakchak | At least forty eruptions took place during the Holocene, half before and half after the second caldera-forming eruption, equivalent to one eruption every 340 years after the second caldera-forming event. This rate is the highest of all volcanoes in the eastern Aleutian volcanic arc. Most Holocene eruptions have not pro... | 2.859375 | 0 |
75721386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Aniakchak | Mount Aniakchak | The Aniakchak II eruption is the largest known eruption at Aniakchak, and one of the largest Holocene eruptions in North America, comparable with the 1912 Katmai and early Holocene Mount Mazama events. A volcanic explosivity index of 6 or 7 has been assigned to the eruption. It yielded more than in rock (pyroclastic f... | 2.6875 | 0 |
75721386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Aniakchak | Mount Aniakchak | The largest post-caldera eruption at Aniakchak took place 400 years ago. It had a volcanic explosivity index of 3–4, destroying Half Cone in a series of Plinian eruptions and emplacing the Cobweb lava flow. Pyroclastic flows and ash fallout reached thicknesses of , with ash falling away in north-northeastern direction... | 2.671875 | 0 |
75721386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Aniakchak | Mount Aniakchak | Specific hazards include:
The main danger from future activity at Aniakchak is high ash clouds. Aircraft flying into volcanic ash clouds can suffer engine failures, and Aniakchak is located beneath one of the major air routes of the North Pacific. Precipitating volcanic ash can smother plants and make roads slippery, i... | 2.90625 | 0 |
75721390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birzeit%20camp | Birzeit camp | Birzeit camp is a Palestinian refugee camp established in 1948. It is located on both sides of a street in the center of the town of Birzeit in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate. Until now, the camp has not been recognized by the United Nations refugee agency UNRWA.
Historical overview
Birzeit camp was established... | 2.734375 | 0 |
75721496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0ctihad | İctihad | Ideology and content
The goal of İctihad was to inform people about cultural topics and to raise their awareness. It adopted a pro-Western ideology and frequently criticized veiling and traditional upbringing of women. The magazine was one of the fierce critics of the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamit between 1904 and 1908. It... | 2.59375 | 0 |
75721571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manohar%20Elavarthi | Manohar Elavarthi | Manohar Elavarthi (born 4 September 1971) is a human rights activist who has been working for LGBTQ+ rights for over two decades. He is the founder of Sangama, a sexual minorities and sex workers' rights organisation. He also founded or headed rights-based NGOs like Aneka, Suraksha, Solidarity Foundation and Sanchaya N... | 2.078125 | 0 |
75721620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphaea%20sulphurea | Nymphaea sulphurea | Nymphaea sulphurea is a species of waterlily native to Angola, Zambia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Description
Vegetative characteristics
Nymphaea sulphurea has stout, cone-shaped rhizomes. The suborbicular to broadly ovate, petiolate, 4.5-5.5 cm long leaves have an entire margin. The petioles are 38–46... | 2.546875 | 0 |
75722096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main%20Currents%20of%20American%20Thought%20%28story%29 | Main Currents of American Thought (story) | "Main Currents of American Thought" is a work of short fiction by Irwin Shaw, originally appearing in The New Yorker in 1939 and first collected in Welcome to the City and Other Stories (1942) by Random House.
The story is an autobiographical rendering of Shaw’s early literary career, during which he had penned numero... | 2.3125 | 0 |
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