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77395731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Lake | Philip Lake | Philip Lake (April 9, 1865, Morpeth, Northumberland – June 12, 1949, Cambridge, England) was a British geologist and palaeontologist.
Education
After graduating from Morpeth Grammar School (where his father was the headmaster), Philip Lake studied from 1881 to 1884 at the Durham College of Science, where he learned g... | 2.015625 | 0 |
77395733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Chania%20%281646%29 | Battle of Chania (1646) | Aftermath
Despite having agreed to cooperate with Cappello in intercepting Ottoman supply fleets, the disheartened allied squadrons left Kythira for their homes on 8 September. Cappello was joined by a squadron of French ships under François de Nuchèze, but they too returned home in late October. Cappello failed to pre... | 2.078125 | 0 |
77395782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian%20Al%C3%A1%27%C3%AD | Lilian Alá'í | Lilian Elizabeth Alá'í (née Wyss) (2 July 1929 – 20 April 2023) was an Australian Bahá'í woman with the title of Knight of Baháʼu'lláh. She served the Bahá'í Faith for nearly eighty years, with approximately fifty-seven of those years dedicated to serving in Western Samoa and American Samoa. The title Knight of Baháʼu'... | 2.140625 | 0 |
77395913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbe | Kabbe | Kabbe is a settlement in Namibia's Zambezi Region, located 53 kilometres southeast of the region's capital, Katima Mulilo. It serves as the administrative centre of the Kabbe North Constituency.
Kabbe North Constituency was established in August 2013, following the Fourth Delimitation Commission of Namibia's recommend... | 2.140625 | 0 |
77396133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructing%20The%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings | Constructing The Lord of the Rings | Tolkien's writing methods included the use of non-narrative materials including maps, names, languages, and drawings to develop ideas and guide the text.
Maps
In a letter to the novelist Naomi Mitchison, Tolkien explained that he drew maps to guide his storytelling:
Tolkien's working maps evolved continuously as ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
77396133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructing%20The%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings | Constructing The Lord of the Rings | Chapter 1:10 "Strider", at first untitled, had the hobbit protagonists in Barnabas Butterbur's inn at Bree meeting a person described in Gandalf's letter as "a ranger (wild hobbit) known as Trotter", since he wears wooden shoes that clatter. Trotter the wild hobbit is later "dramatically" replaced by a man, Ingold, El... | 2.09375 | 0 |
77396133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructing%20The%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings | Constructing The Lord of the Rings | Tolkien's narrative was also at least partly founded on languages, both real (he was a philologist) and invented. He stated in a letter that his Middle-earth writings were "largely an essay in linguistic aesthetic". Shippey argues that although this may seem wild, there is evidence for it. In the Appendices to The Lord... | 2.171875 | 0 |
77396294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proutista | Proutista | Proutista is a small genus of planthoppers from the family Derbidae, tribe Zoraidini, with 10 species, as of 2024. The type species, Proutista moesta is widely distributed and often very common, its distribution ranging from Tanzania in Africa, over some Indian Ocean islands (Seychelles, Maldives) and southern parts of... | 2.1875 | 0 |
77396294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proutista | Proutista | Taxonomy and species
The genus Proutista was original described by Buckton in 1896 as Assamia with the type species Assamia dentata from Assam, India. In 1903, Melichar stated that Assamia dentata is a synonym of Derbe (Phenice) moesta Westwood, 1851 which had been described from "India orientali". In 1904, Kirkaldy re... | 2.34375 | 0 |
77396324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Thomas%20Sabler | Georg Thomas Sabler | Early life and studies
Georg Thomas Sabler was born on in Haljala, now part of Lääne-Viru County, Estonia. His father, Georg Christian Sabler (1776–1819), was a Lutheran pastor. At first, Sabler studied privately. Later, Sabler graduated from the Tartu Evangelical Cathedral's gymnasium. Sabler studied theology (1828–1... | 2.421875 | 0 |
77396368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20state%20visit%20by%20Xi%20Jinping%20to%20Vietnam | 2023 state visit by Xi Jinping to Vietnam | On the morning of December 13, General Secretary Xi Jinping held talks with Vietnamese President Võ Văn Thưởng at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi. General Secretary Xi also met with Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính and Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam Vương Đình Huệ at the Government Residence. I... | 1.921875 | 0 |
77396603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-puberty | Mini-puberty | Mini-puberty is a transient hormonal activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis that occurs in infants shortly after birth. This period is characterized by a surge in the secretion of gonadotropins (LH and FSH) and sex steroids (testosterone in males and estradiol in females), similar to but less inten... | 2.640625 | 0 |
77397063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20incident%20at%20Khabarovsk%2C%20Russia | Nuclear incident at Khabarovsk, Russia | On April 5, 2024, a state of emergency was declared in Khabarovsk, a city in Russia's Far East bordering China with a population of 630,000. Elevated Radiation levels were detected near a power pylon approximately 2.5 kilometers from residential buildings. The source of radiation was discovered to be a radioactive caes... | 2.375 | 0 |
77397144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20MacDougall%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29 | Duncan MacDougall (British Army officer) | Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Duncan MacDougall (1787 – 10 December 1862) was a British Army officer who fought in the Peninsular War and War of 1812. He rose to command the 79th Regiment of Foot before serving as second-in-command of the British Auxiliary Legion during the First Carlist War.
MacDougall joined the British Ar... | 1.976563 | 0 |
77397252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20%20July%202024%20Israeli%20attack%20on%20Yemen | 20 July 2024 Israeli attack on Yemen | Firefighting and repairs
Firefighting teams arrived immediately to the port, but struggled to contain the blaze. The fire had expanded and threatened both humanitarian ships and food storage facilities. Meanwhile, Yemeni port authorities kept other parts of the port facilities functional to receive ships carrying food... | 2.4375 | 0 |
77397291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Friedrich%20Stahl | Johann Friedrich Stahl | Johann Friedrich Stahl (26 September 1718 in Heimsheim – 28 January 1790 in Stuttgart) was a German mines inspector, cameralist, forester and the author of a dictionary of forestry terms. He founded the first German forestry journal Allgemeinen oeconomischen Forstmagazin which went into 12 volumes from 1763 to 1769.
B... | 2.5 | 0 |
77397610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite%20de%20Laveleye | Marguerite de Laveleye | Marguerite de Laveleye (1859–1942) was a Belgian temperance lecturer who served as President of the Belgium Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
Biography
Marguerite Louise Adelaide de Laveleye was born in Gheluvelt, near Ypres, Belgium, June 21, 1859. Her father was the political economist, Émile de Laveleye. T... | 2.234375 | 0 |
77397619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Chapelle%20%28Seine%29 | La Chapelle (Seine) | 500 meters wide at an altitude of around 53 meters, the Col de La Chapelle was the easiest route between the Beauceron and Picardy plains. It has been an important crossing point since ancient times. The route, later known as the Estrée, is mentioned in the Peutinger Table and Antonin's Itinerary. This road followed th... | 2.71875 | 0 |
77397619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Chapelle%20%28Seine%29 | La Chapelle (Seine) | But the village's prosperity was ensured by the Lendit fair, which endured, with the church remaining a rallying point for merchants, despite the absence of devotion to the relics. Another fair, known as "de Saint-Denis", was held near the Pas-de-La-Chapelle church in October, on the anniversary of the saint's death. H... | 2.84375 | 0 |
77397619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Chapelle%20%28Seine%29 | La Chapelle (Seine) | The houses were located near the church and the house of the bailli, the village administrator appointed by the abbey. At the beginning of the 18th century, the seigneury of La Chapelle comprised forty-three locations. In the course of the 17th and 18th centuries, country houses sprang up around the church, notably tha... | 2.4375 | 0 |
77397619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Chapelle%20%28Seine%29 | La Chapelle (Seine) | In the first two-thirds of the 19th century, the town's population grew considerably, from 800 in the early years of the century to 40,000 by the time it was annexed to Paris, and was enlivened by a huge livestock market held on the site of today's Rue de la Louisiane, Rue de la Guadeloupe, Rue de la Martinique, Rue de... | 2.78125 | 0 |
77397739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub%20Nakcjanowicz | Jakub Nakcjanowicz | Jakub Nakcjanowicz or Nakcyanowicz (Lithuanian: Jokūbas Nakcijonavičius; 1 May 1725 – 1777) was a Jesuit priest, mathematician, and astronomer of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was the second director of the Vilnius University Astronomical Observatory (1758–1764).
Biography
Jakob Nakcyanowicz was born on 1 May... | 2.15625 | 0 |
77398419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Salvatore | Anna Salvatore | Anna Salvatore (1923 – 18 May 1978) was an Italian painter, sculptor, writer and socialite.
Life and career
Born in Rome in 1923, Salvatore studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze under Ottone Rosai, Galileo Chini and Felice Carena, and later at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. She held her first exhib... | 1.945313 | 0 |
77398509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules%20Loh | Jules Loh | Parallel to his coverage of the Civil Rights Movement, Loh reported on George Wallace's campaign during the 1964 Democratic Party presidential primaries. Loh was invited to travel with Wallace on a road trip through Indiana, capturing Wallace's apprehension about his rhetoric and ability to confront hostile audiences, ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
77398820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20B.%20Richenda%20Parham | H. B. Richenda Parham | Charles' health continued to decline and from 1923, he fell seriously ill with a heart condition and was unable to work on the plantation. He died in 1926, and Parham continued with the plantation venture with the help of the children. She opened a little store which she operated. She also began publishing her botanica... | 2.625 | 0 |
77399541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Martin%20%28political%20activist%20and%20physician%29 | Henri Martin (political activist and physician) | Martin took part in the 6 February 1934 crisis and led an action and documentation centre against agrarian Marxism within Henry Dorgères' Parti agraire et paysan [French Agrarian and Peasant Party], which aligned with the Front national. He advised Dorgères, who was also leader of the fascist-leaning Chemises vertes [G... | 1.9375 | 0 |
77399763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaing%20Zar%20Aung | Khaing Zar Aung | Khaing Zar Aung (in Burmese: (Khaing Zā Aung)), born in May 1984, is a Burmese union leader and human rights activist. A unionist since her teenage years, she emigrated to Thailand before being allowed to return to Myanmar at the end of the military junta. She joined the Industrial Workers Federation of Myanmar (IWFM)... | 2.46875 | 0 |
77399854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20impact%20of%20Mariah%20Carey | Cultural impact of Mariah Carey | Musicianship
Vocal styles
Melisma
Carey's vocal style, as well as her singing ability, have significantly impacted music. Multiple media sources have referred to Carey as the "Queen of Melisma". According to Rolling Stone, "Her mastery of melisma, the fluttering strings of notes that decorate songs like "Vision of Love... | 2.265625 | 0 |
77399854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20impact%20of%20Mariah%20Carey | Cultural impact of Mariah Carey | In 2008, Jody Rosen of Slate wrote of Carey's influence in music industry, calling her the most influential vocalist of the last two decades and the person who made rococo melismatic singing. Rosen further exemplified Carey's influence by drawing a parallel to American Idol which to Rosen, "often played out as a clash ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
77400042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crassula%20undulata | Crassula undulata | Crassula undulata, commonly known as doily crassula, is a species of succulent plant that is native to South Africa.
Description
It is a perennial plant that is densely branched and bushy, about 400 mm high. The leaves are somewhat fleshy, frequently speckled with red hues. A line of rounded pearl-like hairs on the m... | 2.34375 | 0 |
77400431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satsuma%20Kokubun-ji | Satsuma Kokubun-ji | The temple grounds are small, measuring about 130 meters north-to-south and 118 meters east-to-west, which is smaller than most kokubunji temples The layout of the temple complex is with the South Gate, Middle Gate, Main Hall, Lecture Hall, and North Gate located on a central axis, with a pagoda to the east in front of... | 2.65625 | 0 |
77400517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%203447 | NGC 3447 | NGC 3447 is a barred Magellanic spiral galaxy located in the constellation Leo. Its speed relative to the cosmic microwave background is 1,405 ± 34 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 20.7 ± 1.5 Mpc (∼67.5 million ly). It was discovered by the British astronomer John Herschel in 1836.
NGC 3447 shows a broa... | 2.640625 | 0 |
77400649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s%20Movement%20for%20the%20Environment | People's Movement for the Environment | The People's Movement for the Environment (fr: ) was the first Swiss environmentalist party. It was founded in Switzerland in December 1971 in order to oppose a freeway planned to pass through the town of Neuchâtel.
History
In 1972, the party stood for elections for the town legislature. The election was a major succ... | 1.929688 | 0 |
77400817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph%20Rose%20Building | Adolph Rose Building | Adolph Rose Building is a historic commercial building in Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 12, 1992; and is part of a Uptown Vicksburg Historic District since 1993.
History
The Adolph Rose Building is a Romanesque Revival style brick commercia... | 1.984375 | 0 |
77401047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Balinese | Old Balinese | Proof
The use of the Ancient Balinese language was discovered from the discovery of a number of inscriptions from the ancient Balinese period. Ancient Balinese in its oldest form is found in the Sukawana inscription. in 804 Çaka, issued in Panglapuan (a type of Court) in Singhamandawa is the center of the king's gove... | 2.8125 | 0 |
77401047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Balinese | Old Balinese | The Sanu Pillar inscription which is one of the earliest attestations of Balinese is written in Sanskrit with elements of prose in Old Balinese. Interestingly, it has been indicated that the Sanskrit part of the inscription was written in Balinese script, while the text in Old Balinese part was written in more ancient ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
77401047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Balinese | Old Balinese | Another change that appears in low register but not in high register is the raising of the vowel into at the end of words. This leads to morphophonological alternations with the verbal prefix N- (such as Ndaki) pronounced with phoneme if a vowel, semivowel, or a liquid consonant succeeding it, while pronounced as i... | 2.484375 | 0 |
77401163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juana%20Cruz | Juana Cruz | Legal struggles
Cruz's legal battle in these first few years was arduous; in 1934, she appealed to Articles 2 and 33 of the Constitution of the Republic, which safeguarded the equality of the sexes before the law and the freedom to choose one's profession, respectively. She relied on support from other bullfighters suc... | 2.609375 | 0 |
74469373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o%20Jo%C3%A3o%20de%20Deus%20Hospital | São João de Deus Hospital | São João de Deus Hospital is a building located in Cachoeira, a town in the Brazilian state of Bahia. It gives its name to the architectural ensemble that includes the hospital building, a large early 18th-century Baroque style church in front of Dr. Aristides Milton square, a garden located at the back of the chapel, ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
74469544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Kerr | Mary Kerr | Bondagers in Scotland
In the 19th century, Borders area of Scotland and Northumberland in England, large numbers of rural women and girls were made to work as 'bondagers'. What this system of work meant was that, in order to secure a contract (or bond) of employment with a farmer, a married ploughman would need anothe... | 2.96875 | 0 |
74469566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix%20Watsone | Beatrix Watsone | Beatrix Watsone (or Watson; 1606–1649) was accused of witchcraft in 1649 at Corstorphine Parish Church, Edinburgh, and died of suicide before trial.
Life
Watsone was a weaver, who was born in approximately 1606. She was married to Alexander Scott, a weaver and had a daughter named Bessie Scott. She was arrested at t... | 2.0625 | 0 |
74469856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch-Zamorin%20Conflicts | Dutch-Zamorin Conflicts | 1670–1672 War
As hostilities escalated, Van Goes, a Dutch commander, led an army of 900 troops into the territory of the Zamorin. In the ensuing battle, the Zamorin's forces suffered over 300 casualties, including the severe injury of the king's wife, and were ultimately defeated. The Dutch army, in contrast, experienc... | 2.5 | 0 |
74470116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreomysinae | Boreomysinae | Boreomysinae is a subfamily of large, mostly deep-water oceanic mysid crustaceans from the family Mysidae. The name, which can be translated as "northern mysids", comes from the genus Boreomysis G.O. Sars, 1869, established for Boreomysis arctica (Krøyer, 1861) from the boreal waters of Atlantic. As more species have b... | 2.84375 | 0 |
74470123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forking%20paths%20problem | Forking paths problem | The garden of forking paths is a problem in frequentist hypothesis testing through which researchers can unintentionally produce false positives for a tested hypothesis, through leaving themselves too many degrees of freedom. In contrast to fishing expeditions such as data dredging where only expected or apparently-si... | 2.265625 | 0 |
74470411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn%20Exchange%2C%20Ross-on-Wye | Corn Exchange, Ross-on-Wye | The Corn Exchange is a commercial building in the High Street in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England. The structure, which is now used as a bookshop and as the offices of Ross-on-Wye Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.
History
In the mid-19th century, a group of local businessmen decided to form a private co... | 2.125 | 0 |
74471375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Swedish%E2%80%93Norwegian%20union | First Swedish–Norwegian union | The Hanseatics reacted strongly to King Valdemar's rise in power, as they were keen for a balance of power to prevail in the Nordic region and that law, order and for fixed privileges to be maintained at the Skånemarket, the international trade fair held every autumn on the Falsterbo peninsula. The confederates waged w... | 2.46875 | 0 |
74471435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario%20Jewish%20Archives | Ontario Jewish Archives | The Ontario Jewish Archives (OJA) is a community archives and the central repository for records related to Ontario's Jewish community. Located in Toronto, Ontario, what is today known as the Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre, was founded in 1973. The OJA maintains records dating back to the ... | 2.25 | 0 |
74471929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20bear%20conservation | Polar bear conservation | Polar bears diverged from brown bears 400,000–600,000 years ago and have survived past periods of climate fluctuation. It has been claimed that polar bears will be able to adapt to terrestrial food sources as the sea ice they use to hunt seals disappears. However, most polar bear biologists think that polar bears will ... | 2.984375 | 0 |
74471929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20bear%20conservation | Polar bear conservation | Concerns over the future survival of the species led to the development of national regulations on polar bear hunting, beginning in the mid-1950s. The Soviet Union banned all hunting in 1956. Canada began imposing hunting quotas in 1968. Norway passed a series of increasingly strict regulations from 1965 to 1973, and h... | 2.828125 | 0 |
74471929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20bear%20conservation | Polar bear conservation | Warnings about the future of the polar bear are often contrasted with the fact that worldwide population estimates have increased over the past 50 years and are relatively stable today. Some estimates of the global population are around 5,000 to 10,000 in the early 1970s; other estimates were 20,000 to 40,000 during th... | 2.859375 | 0 |
74472163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukumari%20Dutta | Sukumari Dutta | Sukumari Dutta or Golap Sundari was an Indian theater actress, manager and playwright. She was also known as a kirtan singer.
Biography
Dutta’s mother brought her to Calcutta in order to be trained as a vaishnav singer. She would later be described as remarkable singer and dancer. She became one of the first four wo... | 2.203125 | 0 |
74472374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice%20MacCue | Beatrice MacCue | Beatrice A. MacCue Cosgrove (December 18, 1886 – died after 1955), sometimes seen as Beatrice McCue, was an American singer, clubwoman, and voice teacher, most active in the 1920s and 1930s.
Early life and education
Beatrice MacCue was from Akron, Ohio, the daughter of Thomas W. McCue. Her father and older brother wer... | 2.046875 | 0 |
74473339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87akmak%20Line | Çakmak Line | The Çakmak Line () is a defense line established by Turkey, first on the Kırklareli-Edirne line and then in Çatalca in order to deter and counter any attack by the Germans on the Eastern Thrace border. It was built in anticipation of the outbreak of World War II. It stretched from the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea.
... | 2.515625 | 0 |
74474867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilnag%20Lake | Nilnag Lake | Nilnag (; ; ) is a freshwater lake away from Yousmarg in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is around away from Srinagar, the summer capital of the union territory. The lake is famous for its turquoise water. The route from Yousmarg is rather difficult and unmotorable and goes through a dense forest. Th... | 2.0625 | 0 |
74475021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance%20Smith%20%28tennis%29 | Constance Smith (tennis) | Constance Laura Mary Smith (1860 – 27 October 1934), also known as Constance Langley Smith, was an English tennis player active in the very early years of women's tennis in the 19th century. She was a finalist at the prestigious Northern Championships where she lost to Ireland's May Langrishe. She was active from 1881 ... | 1.90625 | 0 |
74475410 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedungjati%20railway%20station | Kedungjati railway station | Kedungjati Station (KEJ) is a class III railway station located in Kedungjati District, Grobogan Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. The station is located at an altitude of +36 meters and is operated by Operation Area IV Semarang. The station once had a junction to Ambarawa Station until it was closed in 1976.
History ... | 2.25 | 0 |
74475725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9mm%20Major | 9mm Major | To ensure safety and compatibility, shooters must pay attention to the case support in their barrels, especially when using compensators or suppressors. Handloading allows shooters to adjust bullet weights and powder charges to suit their preferences and gun characteristics. Loading 9mm Major rounds as long as possible... | 2.078125 | 0 |
75765758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%20Arthur%20B.%20Homer | SS Arthur B. Homer | SS Arthur B. Homer was a Great Lakes freighter that was built in 1960 by Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan for the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The ship was launched in November 7, 1959 and being lowered sideways, which made it the largest side-launching in maritime history at that time. The ship'... | 2.09375 | 0 |
75766212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse%20Tielsch | Ilse Tielsch | Ilse Tielsch (born Ilse Felzmann 20 March 1929 – 21 February 2023) was an Austrian writer.
Life
Ilse Tielsch was born on 20 March 1929 in Hustopeče, Czechoslovakia. She was the daughter of Fritz Felzmann (1895–1980), a doctor, writer and musicologist. She grew up in Hustopeče and attended high school in Mikulov. In A... | 1.953125 | 0 |
75766521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varanosuchus | Varanosuchus | The lower jaw contained thirteen teeth, all of which were situated in the dentary bone. The two dentaries that form the lower jaw connect at the position of the fifth tooth in the lower jaw, forming the mandibular symphysis that formed the tip of the mandible. The symphysis was comparably wide which, combined with the ... | 2.796875 | 0 |
75766611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian%20Manifesto | Ethiopian Manifesto | The Ethiopian Manifesto, Issued in Defence of the Black Man’s Rights in the Scale of Universal Freedom was a pamphlet issued in New York by Robert Alexander Young early in 1829, only months before David Walker's much more influential Appeal. Little is known about the author, who was an obscure Black New Yorker who like... | 2.296875 | 0 |
75766706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel%20Rosenman | Shmuel Rosenman | Shmuel Rosenman () is an Israeli educator, a co-founder and chairman of the International March of the Living, a past lecturer at Bar Ilan University's Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, and a former CEO of Kupat Holim Leumit. He lectures at Shaarei Mishpat Umada College in Hod Hasharon.
Early life and e... | 2.40625 | 0 |
75766730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch%20Dubh%20Hydro-Electric%20Scheme | Loch Dubh Hydro-Electric Scheme | Structures for the scheme were designed by the architect James Shearer, who was one of the architectural advisors for the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board. The Board appointed three Scottish architects to act as architectural advisors in 1943, and their role was to judge competitive entries submitted by others, b... | 2.4375 | 0 |
75767512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryllocene | Beryllocene | Beryllocene is an organoberyllium compound with the chemical formula Be(C5H5)2, first prepared in 1959. The colorless substance can be crystallized from petroleum ether in the form of white needles at −60 °C and decomposes quickly upon contact with atmospheric oxygen and water.
Preparation
Beryllocene can be prepare... | 2.421875 | 0 |
75767666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadlincote%20Town%20Hall | Swadlincote Town Hall | Following significant population growth in the late 19th century, largely associated with the mining industry, the town appointed a local board of health in 1871. After the local board of health was replaced by an urban district council in 1894, the new council established its offices in the building. The town hall con... | 2.0625 | 0 |
75767676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nako%20Nakatsuka | Nako Nakatsuka | Nako Nakatsuka is a Japanese researcher and Assistant Professor of Neurotechnology at EPFL. Her research is focused on pioneering translational technologies that directly impact human health. Her research group, the Laboratory of Chemical Nanotechnology (CHEMINA) works at the intersection of chemistry, engineering, and... | 2.6875 | 0 |
75767744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Leonard%20Chaney | George Leonard Chaney | In 1916, Chaney reflected on the formidable odds he faced in the formation of the Southern Conference. Success, he confessed, required “more make-believe than reality at the start.” Charleston and New Orleans exited but were “a continent apart.” Louisville, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. were already associated with o... | 2.484375 | 0 |
75767744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Leonard%20Chaney | George Leonard Chaney | That is, God so loved humankind that our shortcomings (i.e., sin) imposed a penalty upon God. Thus, God suffered “the consequences of caring so much for the sinner that [God] could not leave him (humankind) in his sin without protest, entreaty, and prostration even unto the death of the cross.”
Chaney reasoned that
... | 2.40625 | 0 |
75767744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Leonard%20Chaney | George Leonard Chaney | There was no mention in the church's meeting minutes or articles in local Atlanta press alluding to the opening of a segregated library
Georgia Institute of Technology
Myth Three: Chaney's Artisans’ Institute was the forerunner in the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) organization.
This myth is found in ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
75767772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazaleh%20Golbakhsh | Ghazaleh Golbakhsh | A review by New Zealand news website Stuff described The Girl from Revolution Road as a "powerful book", and a "collection of perceptive and engaging essays which focus on the immigrant experience and the curious doubling effect which occurs when two cultures overlap". Angelique Kasmara for the Aotearoa New Zealand Rev... | 2 | 0 |
75767802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keren%20Dittmer | Keren Dittmer | Keren Elizabeth Dittmer is a New Zealand academic, and is professor of veterinary pathology at Massey University, specialising in animal skeletal pathology, vitamin D, and genetic diseases.
Academic career
Dittmer holds a Bachelor of Veterinary Science from Massey University, and also completed a PhD at the same univ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
75768121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban%20Rivers | Urban Rivers | Urban Rivers has published works, alongside researchers from Northeastern University in Boston and the National Aquarium in Baltimore Urban Rivers has helped determine the ecological impacts of floating wetlands across three contrasting sites in Chicago, Baltimore, and Boston. Based on their observations in the Wild Mi... | 2.53125 | 0 |
75768299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo%20Celery%20Pickers | Kalamazoo Celery Pickers | The Kalamazoo Celery Pickers were a minor league baseball team based in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Between 1887 and 1926, Kalamazoo teams played in six separate leagues, joining two leagues twice. Kalamazoo teams played as members of the Ohio State League (1887), Tri State League (1888), Michigan State League (1889, 1895, 1... | 2.03125 | 0 |
75768299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo%20Celery%20Pickers | Kalamazoo Celery Pickers | In 1923, the Kalamazoo Celery Pickers placed fifth in their first season of Michigan-Ontario League play. The Celery Pickers finished with a record of 69–84, playing under manager Marty Becker. No playoffs were held, and Kalamazoo ended the season 12.0 games behind the first place Bay City Wolves in the final league st... | 1.960938 | 0 |
75768367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Truth%20about%20the%20Savolta%20Case | The Truth about the Savolta Case | The Truth about the Savolta Case () is a 1975 novel by the Spanish writer Eduardo Mendoza Garriga.
Plot
The novel is set in Barcelona during World War I. The Frenchman Lepprince teams up with the Barcelona arms manufacturer Savolta and the lawyer Cortabanyes to secretly sell munition to Germany. The idealistic Javier ... | 1.984375 | 0 |
75768422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rock%20%28University%20of%20Michigan%29 | The Rock (University of Michigan) | The Rock is a boulder in Ann Arbor, Michigan, near the campus of the University of Michigan. The Rock was installed in 1932 at the personal direction of Eli Gallup, longtime Ann Arbor parks superintendent and namesake of Gallup Park. The Rock was initially placed in honor of George Washington's 200th birthday, and the ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
75769017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Bishop%20%28hermit%29 | Sarah Bishop (hermit) | Lifestyle
Described as mentally sound and deeply devoted to her faith, her few possessions included an old pewter basin and a gourd shell for cooking. She slept on a solid rock with scattered old rags, and when a reporter visited her in 1804, her cave had no signs of food or an active fire though she had a fireplace i... | 2.171875 | 0 |
75769069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylopaguridae | Xylopaguridae | Xylopaguridae are a family of hermit crabs of the order Decapoda. It was erected in 2016 to accommodate one new genus, Prexylopagurus, and three existing genera that had previously been placed in Paguridae. They occur in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.
Some sources do not recognize Xylopaguridae and list the... | 2.34375 | 0 |
75769122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatton-Brown%E2%80%93Rahman%20syndrome | Tatton-Brown–Rahman syndrome | Tatton-Brown–Rahman syndrome (TBRS) is a rare overgrowth and intellectual disability syndrome caused by autosomal dominant mutations in the DNMT3A gene. The syndrome was first recognized in 2014 by Katrina Tatton-Brown, Nazneen Rahman, and collaborators.
Signs and symptoms
TBRS is defined by overgrowth and mild-to-se... | 2.65625 | 0 |
75770834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qalaherriaq | Qalaherriaq | After Qalaherriaq and the explorers boarded Intrepid, they were joined by Beck, Ross, and Forsyth, alongside Horatio Austin of HMS Resolute and Sherard Osborn of HMS Pioneer. Upon cross-questioning, Beck repeated what he claimed the Inughuit had told him, but Qalaherriaq insisted that he was lying. Communication betwee... | 2.46875 | 0 |
75770834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qalaherriaq | Qalaherriaq | Qalaherriaq guided Assistance to Wolstenholme Fjord where the Europeans investigated the claims of a massacre of the Franklin expedition. The area was devastated due to a recent epidemic. When the crew encountered several abandoned igloos at the site of Uummannaq (now Pituffik), they found a heaped pile of seven bodies... | 2.75 | 0 |
75771391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seitai | Seitai | Tsunezo Ishii (1875- ?) was a great general of the Japanese army. Retired in 1923, he returned from America after serving in the Japanese Embassy. He formed the Seiki Kenkyujo (Living Ki Research Institute). This institute aimed to use the healing powers of ki for a "living ki self-reinforcement therapy" (生気自強療療 seiki ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
75771606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation%20of%20Charles%20X%20of%20France | Coronation of Charles X of France | The Coronation of Charles X took place in Reims on 29 May 1825 when Charles X was crowned as King of France, marking the last coronation of a French monarch. It took place at Reims Cathedral in Champagne, the traditional site of the coronation of French sovereigns. It was the only coronation to take place following the... | 2.546875 | 0 |
75771993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Slater%20%28composer%29 | Mark Slater (composer) | Mark Andrew Slater (born 1 April 1969) is a British film composer, conductor, cellist and pianist. He is the composer for the film Flatland, 400 Years of the Telescope., and numerous planetarium fulldome films. He lives in Tokyo, Japan and is a professor of film music at Andvision International Music School, Tokyo. Sla... | 2.046875 | 0 |
75772542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Metcalfe | William Metcalfe | William Metcalfe (March 11, 1788 – October 16, 1862) was an English-American minister in the Bible Christian Church, homeopathic physician, and activist for vegetarianism, pacifism, temperance and abolitionism. He was a prominent figure in the American vegetarian movement.
Born in 1788, he was converted by William Co... | 2.515625 | 0 |
75772881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Lance%20Conlay | William Lance Conlay | William Lance Conlay CBE (21 June 1869 – 3 January 1927) was a British colonial administrator and Commissioner of Police of the Federated Malay States from 1916 to 1925.
Early life
William Lance Conlay was born on 21 June 1869, and joined the 21st Hussars and was posted to India.
Career
In 1893, he arrived in the F... | 2.109375 | 0 |
75773236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20hooded%20pitta | Eastern hooded pitta | The eastern hooded pitta (Pitta novaeguineae) is a passerine bird in the pitta family Pittidae that is endemic to New Guinea and some of the small neighbouring islands.
It is a green bird with a black head and chestnut crown. It forages on the ground for insects and their larvae, and also eats berries. It breeds betwe... | 2.109375 | 0 |
75773419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav%20Melissaeus%20Lounsk%C3%BD | Václav Melissaeus Lounský | Václav Melissaeus Lounský (also known as Václav Meduna Lounský; – 4 March 1631) was an Utraquist Hussite teacher and priest in Bohemia.
Biography
Václav Melissaeus Lounský was born around 1573 in Louny. He was the son of Václav Melissaeus Krtský (1540–1578) and nephew of Jakub Melissaeus Krtský (1554–1599).
After h... | 2.265625 | 0 |
75773552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rizal%20Archaeological%20Site%20%28Kalinga%29 | Rizal Archaeological Site (Kalinga) | The Rizal Archaeological Site is an archaeological area situated in Rizal, Kalinga, Philippines.
The first fossils were discovered on the archaeological site in 1935. On 1977, President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. declared the site as an archaeological reserve.
Archaeological findings
Archaeologists unearthed from the site ... | 3.15625 | 0 |
75773611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artturi%20Vuorimaa | Artturi Vuorimaa | Artturi Vilho Vuorimaa (until 1923 Vilhelm Arthur Blomberg, August 8, 1890, Helsinki – October 28, 1972, Helsinki) was a Finnish Lapua movement activist, who played a key role in the Mäntsälä Rebellion in 1932.
Childhood and family
Vuorimaa attended seven classes Oulu Finnish co-educational school. He was married in 1... | 2.390625 | 0 |
75773900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual%20property%20protection%20by%20Nintendo | Intellectual property protection by Nintendo | Copyright circumvention
Nintendo became more proactive as they entered the Famicom/NES period. Nintendo had witnessed the events of a flooded game market that occurred in the United States in the early 1980s that led to the 1983 video game crash, and with the Famicom had taken business steps, such as controlling the ca... | 2.171875 | 0 |
75773900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual%20property%20protection%20by%20Nintendo | Intellectual property protection by Nintendo | In 2020, two major leaks of documents occurred. The first leak began in May, and it included source code, designs, hardware drawings, documentation, and other internal information primarily related to the Nintendo 64, GameCube, and Wii. The leak may have been related to BroadOn, a company that Nintendo had contracted t... | 1.96875 | 0 |
75774070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging%20Stone | Hanging Stone | The Hanging Stone () is a 500-ton granite rock in Ergaki Nature Park, seemingly hanging above Lake Raduzhnoye.
Background
The Hanging Stone is on the edge of a cliff above Lake Raduzhnoye (Rainbow Lake) in the western Sayan Mountains in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. The stone is an attraction in the Ergaki Nature Park.
... | 2.140625 | 0 |
75774704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Cartagena%20%281820%E2%80%9321%29 | Siege of Cartagena (1820–21) | In the meantime, the divisions commanded by Córdova and Maza arrived to reinforce the pressure on the Royalists, after their victories and pacification of Antioquia and Magdalena, and with the mission of preventing the Royalists from supplying themselves with food and supplies from Corozal. Brigadier Torres y Velasco n... | 2.1875 | 0 |
75775254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwells%20of%20Munches | Maxwells of Munches | Origins and heritage
The current branch of the family descends in the paternal line from the Johnstons (Ironically, a clan famously rivalling the Clan Maxwell). However, James Johnston (brother to Thomas Johnstone of Clachrie) married Barbara Maxwell, and their son Wellwood Johnston took in terms of settlements of his... | 2.234375 | 0 |
75775789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haldane%20Colquhoun%20Turriff | Haldane Colquhoun Turriff | Haldane Colquhoun Turriff (12 January 1834 5 February 1922) was an Australian hospital nurse, administrator.
Early life and education
On January 12, 1834, Haldane was born at Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland. She was the eldest child of the Scottish iron founder and engineer Alexander Turriff and his wife Janet Har... | 1.96875 | 0 |
75775823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Geertruidenberg%20%281351%E2%80%931352%29 | Siege of Geertruidenberg (1351–1352) | Siege and surrender
Two dates are given for the start of the siege. Some say it started in October 1351. Others say it started in December 1351. Hunger forced Philips van Polanen to ask for a truce in mid 1352. William V then travelled to Geertruidenberg.
On 22 July 1352, a temporary truce was made. Philips sent his e... | 2.734375 | 0 |
75776191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariia%20Vetrova | Mariia Vetrova | Mariia Fedosiivna Vetrova (; 3 January 1870 – 24 February 1897) was a Ukrainian teacher and revolutionary. After working as a teacher in different parts of Ukraine and briefly joining a theatre troupe, she joined a socialist circle in Azov and became a devotee of the works of Leo Tolstoy. She continued her studies in S... | 2.078125 | 0 |
75777234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebony%20Carter | Ebony Carter | Career and research
Carter joined the Washington University School of Medicine faculty in 2016 and was promoted to tenured associate professor. While at WashU, Carter was Chief of the Division of Clinical Research and conducted health equity research about group prenatal care as a platform to address health disparitie... | 1.921875 | 0 |
75777273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Smith%20%28philosopher%29 | Alexander Smith (philosopher) | Alexander Smith (12 June 1796 – 12 February 1851) was a Scottish philosopher and educator from Banff, Aberdeenshire. He is known for his contributions to moral philosophy and his work The Philosophy of Morals. Smith spent most of his life in Banff, with a period at the University of Aberdeen. He was also known as a mus... | 2.3125 | 0 |
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