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77379193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleria%20standoff | Aleria standoff | Consequences
After the standoff was over, violent demonstrations erupted in Ajaccio and Bastia. The Gendarmerie intervened with their armored vehicles. On the night of 27 August, another gendarme was killed with a hunting rifle by a sniper in the course of the clashes. The perpetrator was arrested.
The ARC was banned b... | 1.9375 | 0 |
77379943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20Lucy%20Latimer | Christine Lucy Latimer | Christine Lucy Latimer is a Canadian experimental filmmaker known for her hybrid works using obsolete media and technologies (16mm, home video, etc.).
Background
Latimer grew up in the 1990s in a middle-class suburb outside of Toronto with her artist mother and avid film and TV watching father. She claims the exposure... | 1.953125 | 0 |
77380082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acletoxenus | Acletoxenus | Acletoxenus is a genus of fly within the family Drosophilidae. The larvae within this genus are predatory and are associated with colonies of whitefly.
Species
There are currently four known species within the genus:
Acletoxenus formosus (Loew, 1864)
Acletoxenus indicus Malloch, 1929
Acletoxenus meijerei Duda, 19... | 2.625 | 0 |
77380200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countess%20Report | Countess Report | The 2022 report showed that men continued to dominate in gallery representation with the exception of the opposite trend for First Nations artists where women significantly outnumber men; there is, however, increased representation of non-binary identified artists. The 2022 report also showed that, in most gallery type... | 2.765625 | 0 |
77380436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research%20history%20of%20Palaeotherium | Research history of Palaeotherium | During the 20th century, a second complete skeleton of P. magnum was excavated from the plasters within the French commune of Mormoiron. It was sent to the geological department of the University of Lyon and described after preparation by the Austrian geologist Frédéric Roman in 1922. Roman depicted a drawing of a reco... | 2.65625 | 0 |
77380436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research%20history%20of%20Palaeotherium | Research history of Palaeotherium | In his monography for palaeotheres, published also in 1904, Stehlin considered most species within Palaeotherium to be potentially valid, although he did not consider P. aniciense to be such. In his review, he noted that almost all taxonomists were conservative about either invalidating species erected by Cuvier or nam... | 2.03125 | 0 |
77380436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research%20history%20of%20Palaeotherium | Research history of Palaeotherium | In 1910, the French palaeontologist Charles Depéret erected the lophiodont genus Lophiaspis, reclassifying "Lophiodon" occitanicus into the newer taxon. Later in 1917, he recognized two additional species of Palaeotherium called P. Euzetense and P. Stehlini. German palaeontologist Wilhelm Otto Dietrich named the German... | 2.25 | 0 |
77381877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsgate%20Lifeboat%20Station | Kingsgate Lifeboat Station | After a number of launches when the lifeboat was ultimately not required, the first effective service was made on the 11 January 1866, to the brig Fre Mad of Norway, driven ashore at Kingsgate, whilst on passage from London to Messina, Sicily. The Kingsgate lifeboat rescued all seven crew. The brig was later refloated ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
77382200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Bicske | Battle of Bicske | The Battle of Bicske happened on June 26, 1578, between the Ottoman army and the Habsburgs near Bicske. The Ottomans were victorious.
On June 26, the Hungarian noblemen, Ferenc Nádasdy and Pálffy Miklós, launched a raid against the Ottomans. The troops joined the Hungarians from Érsekújvár and Tata. These troops met a... | 2.734375 | 0 |
77382507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20U%C5%BEice | Siege of Užice | The siege of Užice was a military engagement in 1738 between the Austrian garrison and the besieging Ottoman army. The Ottomans captured Užice after a 3-week siege.
Background
On October 2, 1737, the Austrian army, with the help of Serbian troops, captured the city of Užice from a 200-strong Ottoman garrison. After th... | 2.578125 | 0 |
77382570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Vyshgorod | Siege of Vyshgorod | The battle and siege of Vyshgorod (modern Vyshhorod) took place in late 1173, during the 1171–1173 Kievan succession crisis.
Commanding another broad coalition army, prince Andrey Bogolyubsky of Vladimir-Suzdal launched a second campaign against Kiev (modern Kyiv), capital city of Kievan Rus'. After the conquest and sa... | 2.1875 | 0 |
77382570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Vyshgorod | Siege of Vyshgorod | The situation for Kiev was critical. Both Kievan and Suzdalian chronicles state that, when it became known that the enemy army was approaching Kiev, Mstislav decided not to defend the capital, but instead the princely troops locked themselves in neighbouring towns and cities. Rurik sat down in Belgorod (modern Bilhorod... | 2.046875 | 0 |
77382639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himanshu%20Nandal | Himanshu Nandal | Himanshu Nandal (born 2014) is an Indian para swimmer known for his national and international competitions accomplishments. Born in Rohtak, Haryana, Nandal is 100 percent visually impaired due to optic nerve failure from birth. Nandal won two gold medals and set a national record at the National Para Swimming Champion... | 2.265625 | 0 |
77382645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland%20in%20the%20Iron%20Age | Scotland in the Iron Age | Findings from the site of the broch at Dun Vulan in South Uist, whch was occupied for c. 150 to 50 BCE, have generated some debate about the nature of life in the Atlantic coast during the Iron Age. A study of the site in the 1990s posited that the evidence of animal bones suggested a significant difference between tho... | 2.734375 | 0 |
77382645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland%20in%20the%20Iron%20Age | Scotland in the Iron Age | Ptolemy's Geographia lists tribes located north of the Forth-Clyde isthmus including the Cornovii in Caithness, the Caereni, Smertae, Carnonacae, Decantae, Lugi, and Creones also north of the Great Glen, the Taexali in the north-east, the Epidii in Argyll, the Venicones in Fife, the Caledonians in the central Highlands... | 2.515625 | 0 |
77383052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarquitius%20Priscus | Tarquitius Priscus | Tarquitius Priscus (1st century BC or early 1st century AD) was a Roman writer of Etruscan heritage, known for works on the etrusca disciplina, the body of knowledge pertaining to Etruscan religion and cosmology.
Identity
References from the time suggest that Tarquitius Priscus lived in the late Roman Republic or duri... | 2.65625 | 0 |
77383063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcophagus%20of%20Berardo%20Maggi | Sarcophagus of Berardo Maggi | As a result of this plausible masonry of the sarcophagus, it can be inferred that one of its two sides was sacrificed out of view and is no longer visible: it is perhaps on this occasion, among other things, that an inscription was made on the marble case by means of a graphic style in an ideal humanistic capital, quit... | 2.046875 | 0 |
77383265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack%20T.%20Hines | Mack T. Hines | Mack Torise Hines Jr. (December 2, 1946 – July 4, 2024) was an American Baptist minister and politician. Hines served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1995 until 2005, becoming the first African American to represent House Seat 59, which is based in Florence, South Carolina.
Biography
Hines was born... | 2.078125 | 0 |
77383348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiteke | Baiteke | Baiteke () was the second uea of Abemama and its tributaries, Kuria and Aranuka, in the Gilbert Islands. The other islands were quickly falling under European influence, so Baiteke ordered every foreigner on his lands killed. He then monopolised trade with the Europeans and restricting them to one port, exporting copra... | 2.40625 | 0 |
77383587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily%20Bachilo | Vasily Bachilo | Vasily Yakovlevich Bachilo (; 18 January 1918 – 1 May 1989) was a Soviet Army major general who held divisional command during the Cold War.
Conscripted into the Red Army before World War II, Bachilo began the war as a platoon commander. Twice wounded during fighting on the Eastern Front, Bachilo was repeatedly decora... | 2.125 | 0 |
77383956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Or%C8%99ova%20%281738%29 | Battle of Orșova (1738) | The Battle of Orșova happened during the Austro-Turkish War of 1737–1739. The Ottomans defeated a relief Austrian force and captured Orșova in the end.
Battle
After the recapture of Užice, the Ottomans began mobilizing large enough forces to capture the Danube region. On 2 May 1738, the governor of Vidin, Ivaz Mehmed ... | 2.375 | 0 |
77384016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaginella%20fraudulenta | Alaginella fraudulenta | Alaginella fraudulenta is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.
Description
The length of the shell attains 4.5 mm, its diameter 2.5 mm.
(Original description): The shell is very small, ovate, and smooth with a moderately raised spire. The outer li... | 2.171875 | 0 |
77384126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%20Zukerman | Gal Zukerman | Gal Zukerman (גל צוקרמן; born 17 August 2003) is an Israeli kite foiler. She won the Youth Sailing World Championships in 2022. Zukerman competed for Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the Women's Formula Kite in Marseille, France, and came in eighth.
Career
Zukerman was born in Kibbutz Sdot Yam, Israel, and grew up... | 2 | 0 |
77384178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddig%20Anwylini%20Pughe | Buddig Anwylini Pughe | Buddig Anwylini Pughe, (1857–1939) was a professional Welsh artist who travelled extensively in Europe, including Paris, Rome and Venice. She was born in Aberdyfi in Gwynedd.
Personal life
Buddug Anwylini Pughe was the daughter of the antiquarian scholar and physician John Pughe, also known as Ioan ab Hu Feddyg (1814... | 2.03125 | 0 |
77384183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koshkonong%20Settlement | Koshkonong Settlement | The second settlement included the townships of Burke, eastern Westport, Vienna, Windsor, and northwestern and central Bristol. The western portion of this settlement is generally known by the name of the Norway (or Norwegian) Grove Settlement, from the post office of that name in Vienna Township around which it lay. I... | 2.1875 | 0 |
77384262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von%20der%20Leyen%20Commission%20II | Von der Leyen Commission II | Commissioner candidates
On 25 July 2024, President-elect Ursula von der Leyen sent the letters to member states asking them to officially nominate candidates for the post of European Commissioner before 30 August 2024. As she did with her first commission, von der Leyen called for member states to each nominate two ca... | 2.203125 | 0 |
77384466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano%20%281985%20video%20game%29 | Volcano (1985 video game) | Players start with five lives. The food meter decreases rapidly, and players must collect scarce food resources to stay alive. Losing all food or wandering into swamps results in the loss of a life. Players must collect other useful objects such as dynamite and ropes, which appear randomly throughout the game. The volc... | 2.234375 | 0 |
77384765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Pacsai | Stephen Pacsai | Pacsai was an influential landowner in Zala County. He was a member of the local judicial court on several occasions, for instance in 1357, together with his relative Pető, son of Mark Pacsai. He acted as an officialis (bailiff) in Ászár on behalf of the king during a land agreement in 1358. In the same year, Palatine ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
77384826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzmeisterhaus%20Salzburg | Tanzmeisterhaus Salzburg | The Tanzmeisterhaus (Dancing Master's House or Dance Master's House), also known as the Mozart-Wohnhaus (Mozart House or Mozart Residence), was the Salzburg home of Leopold Mozart and his family from 1773 to 1787. It was the home of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart between the ages of 17 and 25.
The building is now a museum, l... | 2.34375 | 0 |
77385676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brno-L%C3%AD%C5%A1e%C5%88 | Brno-Líšeň | Education
There are 7 elementary schools in Líšeň on Horníkova, Holzova, Pohankova streets (detached workplace of the school on Holzová street), Masarova, Novolíšeňská and private Křesťanská Elementary School and Jan Hus Kindergarten also on Masarová street and Akademia elementary school on Rašelinová street. There ar... | 2.09375 | 0 |
77385869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1553%20succession%20crisis | 1553 succession crisis | Background
Henry VIII, who ruled England from 1509 to 1547, had three children: Mary, who was raised Catholic, and Elizabeth and Edward, who were raised Protestant. Henry VIII rewrote the Act of Succession three times — in 1533, 1534, and 1543. The final Act of Succession stipulated that Henry's heir was Edward, follo... | 2.890625 | 0 |
77385869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1553%20succession%20crisis | 1553 succession crisis | The King's Illness (February-June 1553)
On February 6, 1553, Edward fell ill. After two weeks of bed rest, he appeared in public on February 21, though he was still not fully recovered. His condition was not initially alarming, as he was considered a robust and healthy teenager. Government operations continued as usua... | 2.609375 | 0 |
77385869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1553%20succession%20crisis | 1553 succession crisis | Mary's party consisted of a core of committed Catholics and many fellow travelers who joined the rebellion for a variety of motives. Mary made full use of the underground network of like-minded Catholics, but she also needed the support of Protestants and therefore refrained from religious rhetoric for the time being. ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
77385869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1553%20succession%20crisis | 1553 succession crisis | Robert Dudley's actions (July 7-18, 1553)
On July 7, John Dudley sent his son Robert with a force of three hundred men to arrest Mary. Robert Dudley, like his father, was unaware of Mary's plans and actions, and went first to Hunsdon. Then, following her route, on July 9 or 10, Robert Dudley reached the vicinity of Ke... | 2.390625 | 0 |
77386120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darley%20Mill | Darley Mill | Darley Mill is a historic building in Darley, North Yorkshire, a village in England.
There has been a watermill on the site since the 17th century, but the current building dates from around 1800. The breastshot waterwheel dates from 1874. The building operated as a corn mill until the 1960s. In the 1980s, it was c... | 1.929688 | 0 |
77386412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORP%20Smok | ORP Smok | During its civilian service, the tugboat had a crew of 30 people, whereas in the navy, at various times, the crew consisted of 2 officers and from 26 to 28 non-commissioned officers and sailors. The ship's equipment included a rescue pump with a capacity of 350 t/h, a radio station, and a derrick with rollers for lifti... | 2.234375 | 0 |
77386627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal%20mines%20and%20saltworks%20of%20Gouhenans | Coal mines and saltworks of Gouhenans | In December 1989, the BRGM observed an increase in pollution in the vicinity of the site, leading to the conclusion that the deposit was not watertight. Subsequently, the deposit was covered with an anti-punching geotextile, an HDPE geomembrane, a 10 cm layer of sand, an anti-contaminant geotextile, a 0.8 to 1-meter la... | 2.828125 | 0 |
77386678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20Run%20Settlement | Rock Run Settlement | Rock Run Settlement was a pioneer settlement in Illinois established in 1839 by Norwegian-Americans. It was named after the town of Rock Run.
Geography
The settlement straddled Stephenson County and Winnebago County. The locality was prairie, relieved in parts by timberland.
History
The foundation of this settlement ... | 1.976563 | 0 |
77386754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillic%20acid | Lactobacillic acid | Lactobacillic acid is found in both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and is found in strictly aerobic, microaerophilic, facultative and strictly anaerobic genera. genera. Although the fatty acid is widely distributed in bacteria, it is not found in all genera. Bacteria that do not have unsaturated fatty acids i... | 2.375 | 0 |
77386805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakaerat%20Biosphere%20Reserve | Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve | Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve () is a biosphere reserve in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand. Located west of Khao Yai National Park and south of Nakhon Ratchasima city center, the reserve is composed primarily of dry evergreen forests, mixed deciduous forests, dry dipterocarp forests, and reforested areas. This reserv... | 2.6875 | 0 |
77386827 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mystical%20Geography%20of%20Quebec | The Mystical Geography of Quebec | The Mystical Geography of Quebec: Catholic Schisms and New Religious Movements is an edited volume edited by Susan J. Palmer, Martin Geoffroy, and Paul L. Gareau, discussing religious history and new religious movements in Quebec. The book covers nine groups, including the Temple of Priapus, the Army of Mary, the Order... | 2.203125 | 0 |
77386863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Stefani | Jan Stefani | Jan Stefani (c. 1746-1829) was a Polish composer and violinist.
Life
Stefani was born in Prague, and probably studied music there before moving to Italy. Around 1765, he was employed by Franz Joseph, Count Kinsky as a military bandmaster. Also, he would become a violinist at the court of Joseph II.
In Vienna, Prince... | 2.34375 | 0 |
77386897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger%20Aero | Frutiger Aero | Frutiger Aero (), sometimes known as Web 2.0 Gloss, is a retrospective name applied to a design trend observed mainly in user interfaces and Internet aesthetics from the mid-2000s to the early 2010s. It succeeded the Y2K aesthetic, which was popular from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. The term Frutiger Aero is deri... | 2.125 | 0 |
77386964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Khannour | Battle of Khannour | Sheikh Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan ascended to power in Abu Dhabi in 1855, while Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani became the ruler of Qatar in 1878. Both leaders sought to consolidate their power and expand their influence in the region. Qatar, under Jassim, had aligned itself with the Ottoman Empire, while Abu Dhab... | 2.78125 | 0 |
77387291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annong%20River | Annong River | Annong River (Traditional Chinese: 安農溪), originally named Dianhuo River, is a river in Taiwan located in Sanxing Township, Yilan County, approximately 3 kilometers from the downtown area of Luodong Township. It is one of the tributaries of the Luodong River in the Lanyang River system and serves as the drainage channel... | 2.21875 | 0 |
77388049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin%20Elkind | Marvin Elkind | Elkind was first arrested by Detective Eddie "the Chinaman" Tong (who despite his nickname was a British immigrant to Canada) of the Toronto Police Service on charges of theft as Tong knew that Elkind was working for the Pasquale brothers. Tong released him after his arrest out of the hope that he would lead him back t... | 1.929688 | 0 |
77388128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval%20Government%20of%20Guam | Naval Government of Guam | The Naval Government of Guam was a provisional military government and later unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States that was established during the Spanish–American War in 1898. It was under the administration of the United States Department of the Navy until the territory of Guam was organized in 1... | 2.8125 | 0 |
71453320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vistula%E2%80%93Bug%20offensive | Vistula–Bug offensive | During July 26, the 13th Army tried to turn the tide of the struggle on the outskirts of the Bug west of Volodymyr-Volynskyi. The onslaught of the Central Powers's troops continued on July 27–28, but was almost everywhere repulsed, only the 2nd and 5th Caucasian corps were pushed back.
On the front of the 3rd Army con... | 2.234375 | 0 |
71453703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocarya%20anamalayana | Cryptocarya anamalayana | Cryptocarya anamalayana is a rare rainforest tree endemic to the southern Western Ghats, India. The specific epithet of the name refers to the Anamalai Hills, a major area of its distribution. The species considered endangered under the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Description
Small, rare evergreen trees up ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
71453974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Walter%20Hay | William Walter Hay | William Walter Hay (1908–1998) was an American civil engineer and professor remembered with the annual American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA) Hay Award recognizing outstanding achievements in railway engineering.
Early years
William W. Hay was born in Bay City, Michigan, and completed... | 2.03125 | 0 |
71453991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruvian%20Guard%20Legion | Peruvian Guard Legion | The Peruvian Guard Legion () is a traditional military unit of Peru. It has participated in several conflicts since the country's independence and the unit's formation by José de San Martín in 1821. Its headquarters are located in the Real Felipe Fortress located in Callao.
History
The unit was established by José de ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
71455200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Het%20Wapen%20van%20Amsterdam | Het Wapen van Amsterdam | Het Wapen van Amsterdam was a Dutch merchant vessel that stranded in Skeiðarársandur, Iceland, on 19 September 1667. It is commonly known as Gullskipið (English: The Goldship) in Iceland due to beliefs that it was carrying a large amount of gold and diamonds. For the next few decades, several items from the ship and it... | 2.0625 | 0 |
71455512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Glasgow%20Club | Old Glasgow Club | The Old Glasgow Club is a club that began in Glasgow in 1900. It was formed to preserve the history of the city.
Activities
The first meeting of the club took place on 17th December, 1900 in the Atheneum, Glasgow. It followed an advertisement having been placed in The Evening Citizen and Glasgow Herald asking for pe... | 2.625 | 0 |
71455569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushman-Relics%20Protection%20Act%2C%201911 | Bushman-Relics Protection Act, 1911 | The Bushman-Relics Protection Act, 1911 was a South African Act to protect drawings, paintings, petrographs created by San people or other aboriginals obtained from graves, caves, rock-shelters and shell-mounds from being removed from the Republic without a permit being issued.
Content of the Act
The following is a br... | 2.671875 | 0 |
71455748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinoiserie%20in%20fashion | Chinoiserie in fashion | In fashion of the early 20th century, the dragon robes (and python robes) were at times cut and converted into Western-style attire, such as banyan and waistcoat; however, the direct alterations of Chinese garments for the use of Westerners are sometimes regarded as "imperialistic appropriation". Some of these adapted... | 2.5625 | 0 |
71455876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Lovell-Hewitt | Harry Lovell-Hewitt | Harry Lovell-Hewitt (born 25 January 1998 in Gloucester) is an English international judoka. He has represented England at the Commonwealth Games and won a bronze medal and is a three time British champion.
Biography
Raised in Stroud, Lovell-Hewitt attended Rodborough primary school and then later Archway secondary sc... | 2.421875 | 0 |
71455995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav%20Adolfs%20torg%2C%20Malm%C3%B6 | Gustav Adolfs torg, Malmö | Today, many of Malmö's oldest and largest buildings can be found around the square. At the northern part is a row of white houses called "Rivieran" (the Riviera) and was designed with the French Neo-Renaissance look. In the southern part of the square is another well-known building called the "Valhalla Palace" and was ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
71456005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20N.%20C.%20Lieu | Samuel N. C. Lieu | Samuel N. C. Lieu (; full name: Samuel Nan-Chiang Lieu; born 4 March 1950) is a British historian of Manichaeism and Christianity in Central Asia and China.
Education
Born in Hong Kong and educated at St. Paul's College, Lieu received a BA in Ancient and Medieval History from Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1969. He ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
71456403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protactinium%28V%29%20bromide | Protactinium(V) bromide | Protactinium(V) bromide is an inorganic compound. It is a halide of protactinium, consisting of protactinium and bromine. It is radioactive and has a chemical formula of PaBr5, which is a red crystal of the monoclinic crystal system.
Preparation
Protactinium(V) bromide can be obtained by reacting protactinium(V) chlo... | 2.09375 | 0 |
71456406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Soledar | Battle of Soledar | The battle of Soledar was a series of military engagements in and around the urban-type settlement of Soledar during the battle of Donbas in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Russian forces began an offensive on 3 August 2022, shelling Soledar, Bakhmut, and surrounding villages to the south and east. Repeated local Rus... | 2.15625 | 0 |
71456782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Morris%20Philips | George Morris Philips | Civic service
Philips held no elected offices but assumed numerous civic and professional leadership positions. He served as president of the Teachers Association of Pennsylvania in 1891, vice president of the National Educational Association in 1894 and 1910, member of the college and University Council of Pennsylvan... | 2.140625 | 0 |
71456862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawe%C5%82%20Marek | Paweł Marek | Paweł Lew Marek (16 August 1902, Radymno - 7 November 1971, Warsaw) was a Polish anarcho-syndicalist activist and journalist. He was co-founder of the Anarchist Federation of Poland during the Second Polish Republic, participant in the defence of Warsaw in 1939, then fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and in the subs... | 1.90625 | 0 |
71456868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20H.%20Parkins | William H. Parkins | American Civil War
Parkins was born in New York in 1836. By the 1850s, he had relocated to Columbia, South Carolina, where he lived with his wife Emma Palmer, a native of the city, and his infant son Frank. The family was living here when South Carolina seceded from the United States, precipitating the American Civil ... | 2.765625 | 0 |
71457236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Pacheco | Louis Pacheco | Dade battle
According to the Seminole leader Alligator, the Dade battle began at 10:00 a.m., but according to survivor Private Ransom Clark, it started at 8 a.m. and ended around 4 p.m., with the Indians leaving around sunset. The battle (often called the Dade massacre) was an 1835 military defeat for the United State... | 2.796875 | 0 |
71457358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian%20Concept | Polynesian Concept | The Polynesian Concept is an American production catamaran sailboat that was designed by Rudy Choy of C/S/K Catamarans, in conjunction with actor Buddy Ebsen. Intended for cruising, it was first built in 1970. Ebsen had built the wooden prototype, named Polynesian Concept and raced it in the 1968 Transpacific Yacht Rac... | 1.960938 | 0 |
71457723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maribeth%20Price | Maribeth Price | Maribeth Hughett Price (born 1963) is an American geologist and planetary scientist whose research concerns the geology of Venus, and particularly volcanism on Venus. She is also known as the author of the book Mastering ArcGIS. Price is dean of graduate education at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
Ed... | 2.25 | 0 |
71457815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protactinium%28V%29%20fluoride | Protactinium(V) fluoride | Protactinium(V) fluoride is a fluoride of protactinium with the chemical formula PaF5.
Preparation
Protactinium(V) fluoride can be obtained by reacting protactinium(V) oxide with bromine trifluoride or bromine pentafluoride at 600 °C:
3 Pa2O5 + 10 BrF3 (6 BrF5) -> 6 PaF5 + 5 Br2 (3 Br2 ) + 7.5 O2
It can also be obta... | 2.15625 | 0 |
71458237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babakina%20anadoni | Babakina anadoni | Babakina anadoni is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch in the family Babakinidae.
Taxonomy
The species was first described in 1979 and placed in the genus Rioselleolis (named after Ribadesella, Asturias, where the holotype was found), but has subsequently been assigned to the genus Babakina. The species was ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
71458328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastery%20of%20San%20Felice | Monastery of San Felice | Below the church is one of the main examples of early medieval architecture in Pavia: the crypt. The environment is equipped with a corridor and provided with three apses and niches carved into the side walls. The crypt has two has two entrances, placed on both sides of it, in order to allow the descent and ascent duri... | 2.640625 | 0 |
71458603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Pennington%20%28Updike%29%20Weatherall | Mary Pennington (Updike) Weatherall | Mary Pennington (Updike) Weatherall (January 26, 1930 - February 25, 2018) was a visual artist and the first wife of John Updike. Many of Updike's early characters were modeled after her, particularly in his short stories about the Maple family and his novel Couples. Weatherall was the mother of artist Elizabeth Updike... | 2.015625 | 0 |
71458680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashme%20Incarceration%20Camp | Tashme Incarceration Camp | The internment of Japanese Canadians was initiated from fears of Japanese forces after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. In the first few months of 1942, the hate against Nisei, who only knew Canada as their home, had peaked, and racist stances against Japanese Canadians became hard to endure. Nevertheless, under Pri... | 2.703125 | 0 |
71459008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventum | Conventum | The Conventum is a Latin text from around 1030 that narrates the relations between Duke William V of Aquitaine and Lord Hugh IV of Lusignan in the preceding twenty years. The exact nature of the text is a matter of scholarly disagreement. It has been seen as a record of a legal settlement and as a sui generis literary ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
71459265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Powell%20%28collector%29 | George Powell (collector) | Powell was also "a fanatical devotee" of German composer Richard Wagner and attended the first performance of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen as a complete cycle at Bayreuth, Germany, in August 1876. In September 1876 Powell wrote to Swinburne that he had subsequently dined with Wagner and his wife Cosima.
The Nanteo... | 2.34375 | 0 |
71459267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%20Polelonema | Otis Polelonema | Otis Polelonema (1902–1981), was a Hopi painter, illustrator, weaver, song composer, and educator. He lived in Shongopovi most of his life. He also worked as a WPA artist in the mural division. His native name in the Hopi language is Lomadamocvia which translates to "springtime".
Biography
Otis Polelonema was born on... | 2.5 | 0 |
71459821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2AManu%20and%20%2AYemo | *Manu and *Yemo | Legacy
The motif of Manu and Yemo has been influential throughout Eurasia following the Indo-European migrations. The Greek, Old Russian (Poem on the Dove King) and Jewish versions depend on the Iranian, and a Chinese version of the myth has been introduced from Ancient India. The Armenian version of the myth of the F... | 2.46875 | 0 |
71460075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svana%20Fri%C3%B0riksd%C3%B3ttir | Svana Friðriksdóttir | Svana Friðriksdóttir is an Icelandic educator who won the Nansen Refugee Award in 1971.
Early life and education
Svana was born in Hólmavík on the 1st January 1951 and moved to Kópavog at the age of thirteen years.
While she studied at teacher's college she spent her evenings and weekend either working at Hotel Saga... | 2.21875 | 0 |
71460242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac%20Suite | Zodiac Suite | Composition and Asch recording
Williams began writing Zodiac Suite in 1942 after borrowing a book on astrology. She was interested in the idea of writing music inspired by the star signs of her musician friends. The first three compositions were for "Scorpio", "Gemini" and "Taurus". Ellington's extended jazz piece Bla... | 2.578125 | 0 |
71460545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dniester%20Front | Dniester Front | The battle began with the German troops advancing on the Russian bridgehead at Zhuravno, it was well fortified and flanked by impassable marshes. The Russian troops were well equipped and eager to fight.
The Germans attacked unsuccessfully along the entire front, and apparently in poor morale, as cases were recorded wh... | 2.109375 | 0 |
71460552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-chromosome%20reactivation | X-chromosome reactivation | Breast cancer and ovarian cancer, particularly more aggressive strains, commonly lack an Xi and have two Xa's. Breast cancer cells commonly have two identical Xa's, possibly from duplication of the original Xa and loss of the original Xi. Gains of X chromosomes have been observed in many other cancers, including leukem... | 2.21875 | 0 |
71460552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-chromosome%20reactivation | X-chromosome reactivation | As a Potential Therapy
The human X chromosome contains a disproportionate number of genes associated with intellectual disability. X-linked disorders in heterozygous female patients are particularly relevant here because these patients carry an X chromosome with the mutated disorder allele and an X chromosome with a h... | 2.453125 | 0 |
71460572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Pue%20Gorman%20Jr. | Arthur Pue Gorman Jr. | Arthur Pue Gorman Jr. (March 27, 1873 – September 3, 1919) was an American politician. He served in the Maryland Senate from 1904 to 1912. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1911 Maryland gubernatorial election.
Early life
Arthur Pue Gorman Jr. was born on March 27, 1873, in Howard County, Maryland to Hannah Dona... | 2.21875 | 0 |
71460614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ajax%2C%20Ontario | History of Ajax, Ontario | The early years of the 20th century saw growth in diversified agriculture driven by demand from Toronto, while other industries such as lumber continued to decline. The major crops in present-day Ajax were grains, silage corn, potatoes, peas, turnips, and hay. The major farm animals were poultry, swine, sheep, and catt... | 2.84375 | 0 |
71460614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ajax%2C%20Ontario | History of Ajax, Ontario | Most of the workers left the town when their jobs ended, but several decided to remain in Ajax. Around 600 renting families lived in houses that were built to last for five years. When a federal official came to Ajax and talked about tearing the houses down, the residents protested. Some residents went to Queen's Park ... | 2.828125 | 0 |
71460614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Ajax%2C%20Ontario | History of Ajax, Ontario | For a community to get municipal status, the contemporary Ontario Municipal Act required an application by a group of at least 30 adult male British subjects from a population of at least 50 persons. Herb Hunter, a former DIL manager, organized such a group, and presented a petition to the Department of Municipal Affai... | 2.140625 | 0 |
71460935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riga%E2%80%93Schaulen%20offensive | Riga–Schaulen offensive | In the conditions of the German advance to Vilno, the headquarters of the armies of the North-Western Front sent the 5th Army Corps to the 10th Army (the Guards Corps, landing in Vilno, was the reserve of the Russian Supreme Commander). On August 21, Radkevich ordered to prevent the Germans from entering the interfluve... | 2.09375 | 0 |
71461135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo%20Marcello%20Toderini | Palazzo Marcello Toderini | Palazzo Marcello Toderini is a small palace in Venice, in the Santa Croce sestiere, overlooking the Grand Canal on the Riva de Biasio. The structure is across the confluence of the Cannaregio Canal, between the Palazzo Zen and the Tassitura Luigi Bevilacqua.
History
The small palace dates back to the 17th century. It ... | 1.96875 | 0 |
71461738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45th%20Chess%20Olympiad | 45th Chess Olympiad | Preparations
The provisional total budget for the Chess Olympiad was €16.6 million, including €9 million for event services and operations as well as the hosting fee. In June 2021, FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich, together with the president of the Hungarian Chess Federation László Szabó and the executive director of... | 1.960938 | 0 |
71461766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Blackwell%20%28principal%29 | Thomas Blackwell (principal) | Thomas Blackwell (1660–1728) was a Church of Scotland minister who was principal of Marischal College in Aberdeen from 1717 to 1728.
Life
He was born in 1660 the son of Thomas Blackwell calenderer in Glasgow and his wife, Janet Knox. He was educated at Glasgow University training as a minister. He was licensed to prea... | 1.984375 | 0 |
71462533 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation%20of%20James%20I%20and%20Anne | Coronation of James I and Anne | The coronation
On Sunday 24 July, James created a number of new Knights of the Bath in the gallery of Whitehall Palace. The next day, James and Anne embarked on a gilded royal barge at Whitehall Steps, located near the present-day Horse Guards Avenue, and travelled the short distance upriver to a jetty at Westminster,... | 2.140625 | 0 |
71462544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoeniconaias%20siamensis | Phoeniconaias siamensis | Phoeniconaias siamensis is an extinct species of flamingo that lived in northern Thailand during the Miocene period. Its closest living relative is the lesser flamingo.
History and naming
Phoeniconaias siamensis was named in 1991 on the basis of various postcranial material found at the Mae Long Reservoir in Li, north... | 2.53125 | 0 |
71462637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyothi%20Yarraji | Jyothi Yarraji | Jyothi Yarraji (; born 28 August 1999) is an Indian track and field athlete from Andhra Pradesh. She specializes in 100 metre hurdles and holds the Indian national record. She broke the long-standing record by Anuradha Biswal on 10 May 2022 clocking 13.23s . She has broken the record multiple times ever since.
Early ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
71462849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert%20Mack%20Thaxton | Hubert Mack Thaxton | Hubert Mack Thaxton (20 March 1909 – 3 January 1974) was an American nuclear physicist, mathematician, engineer, and the fourth African American person to earn a PhD in physics in the United States. Thaxton's research focused on proton scattering, which at the time was a largely unexplored area of study.
Early life an... | 2.453125 | 0 |
71462956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atalie%20Unkalunt | Atalie Unkalunt | Early life and education
Atalie Unkalunt, which translates from Cherokee to Sunshine Rider in English, was known as Josie Rider to her white friends. She was born on June 12, 1895, on a farm near Stilwell, in the Going Snake District of the Cherokee Nation Indian Territory to Josephine (née Pace) and Thomas LaFayette R... | 2.859375 | 0 |
71462956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atalie%20Unkalunt | Atalie Unkalunt | Death and legacy
Unkalunt died on November 6, 1954, at her home at 1410 M Street NW, Washington, D.C., after a heart attack. She was buried three days later at Cedar Hill Cemetery, in nearby Suitland, Maryland. At the time of her death, she was remembered as an authority on Native American folklore. In 1957, Umkalunt's... | 2.390625 | 0 |
71463162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melika%20Balali | Melika Balali | Melika Balali (Persian:ملیکا بلالی; born 27 December 1999) is an Iranian-born Scottish wrestler, who won the British championship gold medals. Besides her wrestling career, she is a poet and painter who talks about women's rights in her work.
In July 2022, she became a British champion in freestyle wrestling and prote... | 2.203125 | 0 |
71463307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst-Albrecht%20Hildebrandt | Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt | Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt (31 May 1895 – 28 March 1970) was a Nazi German Police President and SS-Oberführer. During the Second World War, he was also an officer with the Waffen-SS and served as the SS and Police Leader (SSPF) in "Oberitalien-Mitte" (Central Upper Italy).
Early life
Hildebrandt was born in Offstein,... | 1.960938 | 0 |
71463433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipangu%20%28Vivier%29 | Zipangu (Vivier) | Zipangu is a 1980 work for string orchestra by Canadian composer Claude Vivier. Inspired by traditional kabuki theatre, it is considered by many to be the composer's most aggressive and "unforgiving" piece, as it features a plethora of extended techniques for strings (i.e. snap pizzicato and bow overpressure) and dense... | 2.25 | 0 |
71463893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Crowd%20%28Lewis%29 | The Crowd (Lewis) | The Crowd is a 1914–1915 abstract painting by the English artist Wyndham Lewis. It is an example of Vorticism, a modern art movement Lewis created. It was first exhibited in March 1915 with The London Group. At one point, it was known as Revolution, due to a misunderstanding that it was inspired by the 1917 October Rev... | 2.34375 | 0 |
71464158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Tsao | Robert Tsao | Robert Tsao Hsing-cheng (; born 24 February 1947) is a Taiwanese businessman best known as the founder of United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC). He is a fine arts critic and collector.
Early life and education
Tsao was born in 1947 in Beijing. A year and a half later, he moved with his family to Taiwan because hi... | 2.078125 | 0 |
71464158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Tsao | Robert Tsao | Art collection
Tsao is a noted art collector. He began collecting art in the 1990s with jadeite before expanding to archaic bronzes. After buying his first jade pieces Tsao did extensive research, discovering that all of the pieces he had bought were fakes.
In 2000, Tsao acquired a Qianlong period glass vase for a th... | 2.171875 | 0 |
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