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69919250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophronia%20Farrington%20Cone | Sophronia Farrington Cone | Sophronia Farrington Cone (1801-1880) was a teacher, artist, and one of the first single female missionaries from America to Africa when she helped found a mission in Liberia in 1834.
Farrington was born in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1801 and grew up in Herkimer, New York. She enrolled at the Cazenovia Seminary in 182... | 2.453125 | 0 |
69919359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone%20Batsirai | Cyclone Batsirai | Three hours later, the MFR reported that the system had become a moderate tropical storm, and the Mauritius Meteorological Services named it Batsirai. Between 06:00 UTC and 12:00 UTC, Batsirai underwent rapid deepening and intensified from a moderate tropical storm to an intense tropical cyclone within a span of three ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
69919428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigofera%20hilaris | Indigofera hilaris | Indigofera hilaris, the red bush indigo or gay indigofera, is a species of leguminous shrublet in the genus Indigofera (family Fabaceae).
Etymology
The genus name Indigofera is Neo-Latin for "bearing indigo" (indigo is a purple dye originally obtained from some Indigofera species). Hilaris, from the Ancient Greek, me... | 2.1875 | 0 |
69920592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm%20Malik | Storm Malik | Storm Malik was an extratropical cyclone that caused damage throughout northern Europe. It was named by the Danish Meteorological Institute in Denmark on 28 January 2022, and lasted until 30 January 2022. It caused 2958 severe wind reports and over 800,000 power outages in multiple countries. Seven people were killed i... | 1.90625 | 0 |
69920733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zita%20Holbourne | Zita Holbourne | Zita Holbourne FRSA (born 1960s) is a British community and human rights campaigner and activist, and a multi-disciplinary artist, creating work as a writer, performance poet and visual artist. As a trade unionist, she is National Vice President of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) in the UK, and chairs it... | 2.046875 | 0 |
69921051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3%B1as%20del%20Chache | Peñas del Chache | Peñas del Chache is the highest altitude of the island of Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, with a height of 672 meters above sea level. It is located in the north of the island, in the municipality of Haría.
Toponymy
The term Chache is of probably of Guanche origin. As for its possible meaning, the philologist Maximi... | 2.5 | 0 |
69921611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20King%20%28composer%29 | Oliver King (composer) | Oliver Arthur King was born in 1855 in Islington, he was introduced to the piano at 6-years-old, and was noticed to have an early talent for the instrument, and by the time King was 8, he was noticed and taught by Joseph Barnby who was the choirmaster of St. Andrew's Church by Wells Street in London. In St. Andrew's Ch... | 2.75 | 0 |
69924979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20of%20Milan%20against%20Como | War of Milan against Como | In 1098 Landolfo was excommunicated by Anselmo da Bovisio, archbishop of Milan. Nonetheless, he refused to resign from his position, not wanting to lose the privileges and the religious and political power that the office of bishop entailed. Aware of lacking the strength to oppose Grimoldi and being unable to set foot ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
69924979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20of%20Milan%20against%20Como | War of Milan against Como | When the news of the defeat of their allies arrived, the Milanese decided to strengthen their party by forging new alliances. Milan, which through the peace of 1112 had secured an alliance with Pavia and Cremona, made further agreements with Crema, Monza, Bergamo, Brescia, Novara, Asti, Vercelli, Verona, Parma, Bologna... | 2.546875 | 0 |
69924979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20of%20Milan%20against%20Como | War of Milan against Como | Naval battles of Tremezzo and Cavagnola
In 1120 the Comaschi armed the flotilla and attacked Tremezzo, managing to take the village by surprise, sacking it and taking many prisoners. On the way back, however, the twelve ships of the islanders blocked their way, positioning themselves between the tip of Balbiano and ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
69927241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Cousins | John Cousins | John Cousins (1596–1682) was a 17th-century English emigrant to the New England Colonies. Cousins River, Cousins Island and Littlejohn Island in what was then North Yarmouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony (now Yarmouth, Maine), are named for him.
Arrival in the Thirteen Colonies
After living firstly in Falmouth, Massachuse... | 2.03125 | 0 |
69927638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian%20church%20sale | Norwegian church sale | The Bishop of Christiania Bartholomæus Deichman was initially given the main responsibility for the sale. In 1722, he was replaced by the official Hans Nobel. In the first round, the bids were so low that they were not accepted. Nobel eventually managed to sell about half of the churches, mostly those that had profitab... | 2.78125 | 0 |
69928253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Royall%20%28settler%29 | William Royall (settler) | Royall emigrated from England (where he was a cooper) to Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in July 1629, aboard the Lyon's Whelp. He became a servant in the Massachusetts Bay Colony Company, and after serving his seven years, he was provided with a land grant in the Casco Bay area of today's Maine. His first homestead w... | 2.640625 | 0 |
69928738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Lisicki | Barbara Lisicki | In 1995, the Disability Discrimination Act became law, providing the first protections against disability discrimination in the UK, and protests continued, including a sit-in at Labour party headquarters in 1996, and in 1997, protesters chaining themselves to the gates of Downing Street. In 2015, Lisicki stated, "Some ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
69932623 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20Husky%20Energy%20Refinery%20explosion | 2018 Husky Energy Refinery explosion | On April 26, 2018, an explosion and subsequent fire occurred at the Husky Energy Oil Refinery in Superior, Wisconsin. An initial explosion was reported at 10:00 AM and was extinguished close to noon, however a piece of debris had hit a storage tank containing asphalt, which ignited after spilling across the refinery, s... | 2.046875 | 0 |
69932748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Hull%20%28knight%29 | Edward Hull (knight) | In May 1451 a 7,000-man French army defeated an English force in Normandy. The French afterwards moved south and by 12 June had captured Blaye, Bourg and Bordeaux, ending Hull's tenure as constable of the latter. Hull went to defend Jersey, where he was retained by the king as part of a force to recapture the lost te... | 2.875 | 0 |
69933086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Crichton%20of%20Frendraught | James Crichton of Frendraught | James Crichton of Frendraught or Frendraucht (1599-1667) was a Scottish landowner and survivor of the Fire of Frendraught in October 1630. Several of his guests were killed at Frendraught Castle and arson was suspected, though the facts of the case were widely disputed and remain unresolved.
Family background
James C... | 1.914063 | 0 |
69934454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATCOMBw | SATCOMBw | SATCOMBw is the German Bundeswehr's satellite communications system. The system was introduced in 2008; the current "Stage 2" has been in operation since the end of 2011, the system is based on the two communications satellites. The system is operated by Airbus Defense and Space. In 2022 the Budget Committee of the Ger... | 2.25 | 0 |
69934990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zayd%20ibn%20Musa%20al-Kazim | Zayd ibn Musa al-Kazim | Zayd ibn Mūsā ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (Arabic: زيد بن موسى بن جعفر بن محمد بن علي بن الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب) was a younger son of the seventh Imam in Twelver Shia Islam, Musa al-Kazim.
He took part in the unsuccessful Alid uprising in 815 against the Abbasid Caliphate... | 2.125 | 0 |
69935201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Cecil%20%28priest%29 | John Cecil (priest) | France and Rome
At the end of 1601 Cecil was in France, and apparently in company with Robert Bruce; for Cardinal d'Ossat, writing from Rome, 26 November, warns Villeroi against both men as spies acting on behalf of Spain. D'Ossat may have been misinformed on this point with regard to Cecil. In any case, two months la... | 2.21875 | 0 |
69935608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanket%20Goel | Sanket Goel | Sanket Goel (born 31 December 1977) is an Indian Professor working with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana. He is the Principal Investigator of MEMS, Microfluidics and Nanoelectronics (MMNE) Lab and ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
69935870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor%20Afroz%20Khuwaja | Noor Afroz Khuwaja | Noor Afroz Khuwaja (Sindhi: نور افروز خواجہ, July 5, 1953) is an educationist, writer and critic from Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan. She has served as Dean, Faculty of Arts at University of Sindh Jamshoro. She was editor of the International Journal of Arts and Humanity and the Literary Magazine Keenjhar and authored more... | 2.203125 | 0 |
69935901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19%20naming | COVID-19 naming | Numerous mutations and variants of SARS-CoV-2 have acquired colloquial vis-à-vis scientific labels for ease of pronunciation and usage, both in the lab and to some extent in mass media. The nomenclature draws from the corpus of mythology (both Greek and Scandinavian) and astronomy.
Public messaging has been a concern ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
69937760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20commercial%20assets | Public commercial assets | Public Commercial Assets are the assets owned by the public sector able to generate income if managed professionally.
Public Commercial Assets are a sub-sector of the asset side of the Public Sector Balance Sheet, that reports the totals of assets and liabilities that the government controls.
According to IMF researc... | 2.328125 | 0 |
69938370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiba%20Jaigirdar | Adiba Jaigirdar | Adiba Jaigirdar is a Bangladeshi-Irish writer. Her debut novel, The Henna Wars, is listed as one of Time magazine's 100 Best YA Books of All Time, alongside novels such as Little Women, Lord of the Flies, and The Catcher in the Rye.
Personal life
Jaigirdar was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, then alternated between living... | 2.296875 | 0 |
69938413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route%20de%20Fr%C3%A8res | Route de Frères | Route de Frères is an album by drummer Andrew Cyrille. It was recorded in December 2005 at Clinton Studios in New York City, and was released by Tum Records in 2011. On the album, Cyrille is joined by members of the group known as Haitian Fascination: Hamiet Bluiett on baritone saxophone, Alix Pascal on acoustic guitar... | 2.21875 | 0 |
69938550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominicans%20in%20New%20York%20City | Dominicans in New York City | The NYC Dominican population was 702,330 (7.9% of the city) in the 2020 census, representing an increase from the 2010 census number 576,701 (7.0% of the city).
Enclaves
Nearly 70% of Dominican New Yorkers live in the Bronx and Manhattan. In Manhattan, Washington Heights and Inwood are majority Dominican neighborhoods... | 2.4375 | 0 |
69938961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20Africa%20floods | 2022 Africa floods | Throughout 2022, floods affected most of Africa, killing over 2,100 people. The worst affected country was Nigeria, with over 610 deaths.
Impact
Angola
In December, floods in Angola have killed two people, destroyed five homes, and damaged 238 others.
Benin
Twenty-seven municipalities in Benin were affected by flood... | 2.234375 | 0 |
69939049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Bullen%20%28librarian%29 | George Bullen (librarian) | George Bullen (1816,17 or 18 - 1894) was a librarian and Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum.
Early life
George Bullen was born in Ireland, probably at Clonakilty, one of three known sons (and three daughters) of Walter Bullen, a customs officer, and his wife, Anne. He is recorded as being born on the 27th N... | 1.921875 | 0 |
69939072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20ethnobotany%20of%20India | Medical ethnobotany of India | The medical ethnobotany of India is the study of Indian medicinal plants and their traditional uses. Plants have been used in the Indian subcontinent for treatment of disease and health maintenance for thousands of years, and remain important staples of health and folk medicine for millions. Indians today utilize plant... | 2.984375 | 0 |
69939072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20ethnobotany%20of%20India | Medical ethnobotany of India | Medicinal plant taxonomy
The 782 medicinal plants used in this region belong to 132 families. Overwhelmingly, identified plants belonged to the legume, dogbane, orchid, nightshade, and coffee families. Legumes (Fabaceae), the largest single family, accounted for 67 species. The most prolific genera were Cassia (Fabace... | 2.9375 | 0 |
69939072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20ethnobotany%20of%20India | Medical ethnobotany of India | At least 4,000 plant species have been documented in Northeast India with others likely undiscovered. The region is among the most biodiverse in India, containing half of all Indian species diversity and more than 25% of Indian endemic plants. 1,953 plants are used by tribal peoples of this region, accounting for 80% o... | 3.09375 | 0 |
69939072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20ethnobotany%20of%20India | Medical ethnobotany of India | The Meithei Manipuri people produce herbal vapors for the treatment of 41 diseases, using both single plant species and multi-species concoctions. Rhododendron arboretum is used to treat diarrhea, dysentery, throat pain, headaches, and fish bones stuck in throat.
Western Himalayas
The Western Himalayas region consis... | 2.71875 | 0 |
69939072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20ethnobotany%20of%20India | Medical ethnobotany of India | The vast majority of the people are speakers of Hindi languages. Some 90 scheduled tribes are found in these 13 states, including the Bhil and Gond peoples, the two largest Adivasi groups in India, together making up 70% of all members of scheduled tribes. Other tribes surveyed for medicinal plants include the Baiga, B... | 2.859375 | 0 |
69939397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20of%20Tripoli | William of Tripoli | William of Tripoli ( 1254–1273) was a Dominican friar active as a missionary and papal nuncio in the Holy Land. He wrote two works about Islam, towards which he displayed an unusually irenic attitude for his time.
Life
There is little surviving information from which to reconstruct William's biography, and much of the... | 2.578125 | 0 |
69939424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee%20coinage | Jubilee coinage | The Jubilee coinage or Jubilee head coinage are British coins with an obverse featuring a depiction of Queen Victoria by Joseph Edgar Boehm. The design was placed on the silver and gold circulating coinage beginning in 1887, and on the Maundy coinage beginning in 1888. The depiction of Victoria wearing a crown that was... | 2.65625 | 0 |
69940476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber%20of%20Deputies%20of%20San%20Juan | Chamber of Deputies of San Juan | The Chamber of Deputies of San Juan Province () is the unicameral legislative body of San Juan Province, in Argentina. It comprises 36 legislators, 19 of whom are directly elected in single-member districts corresponding to the 19 departments of San Juan, and 17 of whom are elected in a single province-wide multi-membe... | 2.234375 | 0 |
69940493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizotrema | Schizotrema | Schizotrema is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Graphidaceae. The genus was circumscribed in 2009 by Armin Mangold and H. Thorsten Lumbsch.
Description
The genus Schizotrema consists of lichens with a thallus that can range from being in the to appearing more superficial. The thallus is usually pale in... | 2.5625 | 0 |
69941316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%20Jinggu | Chen Jinggu | Chen Jinggu () is a Chinese protective goddess of women, children, and pregnancy, and is believed by her worshippers to be a former Taoist priestess. She is also known as Lady Linshui (臨水夫人 Linshui furen).
Chen Jinggu is a deity worshipped in Fujian, Taiwan, South China, and across East and Southeast Asia. The legend... | 2.34375 | 0 |
69941378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia%20in%20the%20Council%20of%20Europe | Armenia in the Council of Europe | Armenia has been a member of the Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on strengthening democracy, human rights, and the rule of law across Europe, since 2001.
Accession
Article 4 of the Council of Europe Statute specifies that membership in the Council of Europe is open to any European countr... | 2.5 | 0 |
69941378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia%20in%20the%20Council%20of%20Europe | Armenia in the Council of Europe | On 16 February 2023, the Council of Europe Action Plan for Armenia 2023-2026 was officially launched during a ceremony held in Yerevan. The action plan will focus on the advancement of human rights, protection of women's rights and minority rights, fighting corruption, judicial reform, aligning Armenian legislation to ... | 1.984375 | 0 |
69941626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAI%20RQ-101%20Songgolmae | KAI RQ-101 Songgolmae | The KAI RQ-101 Songgolmae () is a South Korean military unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by the Agency for Defense Development (ADD) and the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) in 2000. RQ-101 is an unarmed UAV designed for corps commanders and has been deployed and serviced by the South Korean Army since 2002 to c... | 2.390625 | 0 |
69942352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene%20Mawer | Irene Mawer | Irene Mawer (13 March 1893 – 1 December 1962), was an English exponent of mime; drama; voice; and mime in education. She was later known as Irene Dale and Irene Perugini.
Mawer was a co-founder of the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama (1916-1954) together with Ruby Ginner, and sole founder of the Institute of Mim... | 2.515625 | 0 |
69942352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene%20Mawer | Irene Mawer | During the course of her studies at the Central School of Speech and Drama Mawer met Ruby Ginner and they formed a friendship which was to last for the next 47 years, until Mawer's death.
In 1916, while a student at Central School of Speech and Drama, Ruby Ginner's theatre company presented a mime play called 'Et Puis... | 2.671875 | 0 |
69942352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene%20Mawer | Irene Mawer | In England, alumni of the Institute of Mime included Rose Bruford who taught at both the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and then opened her own school in 1950 - the Rose Bruford Training College of Speech and Drama, now the Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance. Oth... | 2.078125 | 0 |
69942692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newry%2C%20Warrenpoint%20and%20Rostrevor%20Railway | Newry, Warrenpoint and Rostrevor Railway | The Newry, Warrenpoint and Rostrevor Railway (NW&RR) was a former railway line linking Newry and the port of Warrenpoint on the Carlingford Lough inlet in Ireland, and the company operating it. The railway was absorbed into the Great Northern Railway of Ireland in 1886 and the line closed in 1965.
History
The NW&RR ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
69943198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS%20Carondelet | CSS Carondelet | After her commissioning, Carondelet was placed under the command of First Lieutenant Washington Gwathmey. As sailors were in short supply, the ship's crew was supplemented by 30 Confederate States Army soldiers from the garrison of Fort Pike. The 42-pounder guns had also come from Army stockpiles. On April 3, two Un... | 2.1875 | 0 |
69943201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Hutchinson%20%28jockey%29 | Ron Hutchinson (jockey) | Ron Hutchinson (born 14 December 1927) is a retired Australian jockey, who won over 1000 races in Europe. In a 37-year racing career, he was successful across three continents.
Early life
Ronald Robert Hutchinson was born in Yarraville, eight kilometres outside Melbourne, to a plumber and a housewife. At the time, Yar... | 2.109375 | 0 |
69943822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20Block%20Lewis | Helen Block Lewis | Helen Block Lewis (August 22, 1913 – January 18, 1987) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Her work pioneered the study of the differences between guilt and shame. She founded the journal Psychoanalytic Psychology, taught at universities, was the psychoanalysis division president of the American Psychologic... | 2.078125 | 0 |
69943963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladonia%20inflata | Cladonia inflata | Cladonia inflata is a rare species of terricolous (ground-dwelling) lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. Found in Bahia, Brazil, it was formally described as a new species in 2018 by lichenologists André Aptroot and Marcela Eugenia da Silva Cáceres. The type specimen was collected by the authors from Palmeiras, on the Mo... | 1.945313 | 0 |
69944022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%20N.%20O.%20Walker | Bertrand N. O. Walker | As Hen-Toh, Walker published two books, both issued by the Harlow Publishing Company in Oklahoma City. Tales of the Bark Lodges (1919), a collection of twelve stories, and Yon-Doo-Shah-We-Ah (Nubbins) (1924), a volume of poetry, chiefly character sketches and narratives. He also published in the Indian School Journal, ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
69944124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Morris%20Gale | James Morris Gale | Work commenced in 1855. The aqueduct is divided into two parts. The first is 41.5 kilometres (25.7 miles) long, between Loch Katrine and Mugdock Reservoir, on the outskirts of Milngavie. The second part is a 13 km (8 miles) aqueduct of twin cast iron pipes from the reservoir into Glasgow. The 2.4m diameter subterranean... | 2.71875 | 0 |
69944518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladonia%20lichexanthonica | Cladonia lichexanthonica | Cladonia lichexanthonica is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling) squamulose lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. It is widely distributed in Brazil.
Taxonomy
The species was formally described as new to science in 2018 by the lichenologists André Aptroot and Marcela Eugenia da Silva Cáceres. The type specimen was col... | 2.140625 | 0 |
69944636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirant%20state | Aspirant state | An aspirant state is a polity which seeks to achieve international recognition as a sovereign state. This can involve separatist polities seceding from their parent state with or without legal permission or individuals seeking to establish a novel state in what is considered international territory. Regardless of its f... | 2.3125 | 0 |
69944747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20Route%2067%20in%20Illinois | U.S. Route 67 in Illinois | Flooding and ice floes on the Rock River in March 1937 wrought havoc on the two crossings at Vandruff Island between Milan and Rock Island. Men were standing at the feet of the closed bridges with poles trying to force chunks of ice underneath. Traffic was rerouted over the US 150 high bridge in Moline while the bridge... | 2.375 | 0 |
69946303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herangi%20Range | Herangi Range | Piritoki Reef
Piritoki Reef lies about north of Tirua Point. Its sharp rocks create an area of turbulent sea. They rise to about a metre above sea level. The Northern Steamship Company's 307 ton Kia Ora foundered on the reef in fog on 13 June 1907, with the loss of 3 lives. The Chief Officer was blamed, with a suspic... | 2.8125 | 0 |
69946551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefanus%20Gie | Stefanus Gie | Stefanus François Naudé Gie (13 July 1884 – 10 April 1945) was a South African historian, politician, and diplomat.
Educator
Gie was born in Worcester, Cape Colony (now the Western Cape province) to an Afrikaner family. He was of Dutch, French and German descent. His parents were Coenraad Johannes Carolus Gie and Mar... | 2.53125 | 0 |
69946551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefanus%20Gie | Stefanus Gie | Diplomat
From 1934 to 1939, he served as the South African minister-plenipotentiary to Germany. Gie was a Germanophile who very much enjoyed his positing in Berlin, the city where he was awarded his PhD. Gie embraced Nazism. In his dispatches to Pretoria he portrayed the Nazi regime in the most favorable light possibl... | 2.125 | 0 |
69946551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefanus%20Gie | Stefanus Gie | On 22 October 1935, Gie wrote to the Secretary of External Affairs, Helgard Bodenstein, that the South African Legation in Berlin was being overwhelmed with German Jews seeking to immigrate to South Africa. Gie had an extremely negative view of the German Jews who were lining up in front of the legation on every weekda... | 2.25 | 0 |
69948024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweimeh | Sweimeh | Sweimeh () is a village located in the southern Jordan Valley, in the Balqa Governorate of Jordan. Its population is around 5000, within 726 households.
Sweimeh's economy is based on agriculture, alongside small projects of trading and tourism. The level of employment is low. In recent years, a seaside resort with hot... | 2.46875 | 0 |
77401637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betawi%20Museum | Betawi Museum | Betawi Museum (Indonesian: Museum Betawi, also known as Museum Betawi Setu Babakan), is a cultural museum located on RM. Kahfi II Street in the Jagakarsa district of Jakarta, Indonesia. The museum showcases collections related to the activities of the Betawi ethnic group.
History
The museum was constructed over three ... | 2.375 | 0 |
77401725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khuzayma%20ibn%20Mudrika | Khuzayma ibn Mudrika | Khuzaymah ibn Mudrikah () was one of the ancestors of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, as well as the Kinana and Banu Asad tribes. He was also the brother of Hudhayl, the progenitor of the Banu Hudhayl tribe.
Khuzaymah was the first man in the Arabian Peninsula to have worshipped the statue of Hubal. Worship of Hubal co... | 2.25 | 0 |
77402146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Habington | Mary Habington | The fugitives hid in carefully concealed priest holes in the long gallery behind panelling (the gallery at Hindlip went around the house "four square" probably at attic level), and built into the chimneys of the house. Bromley and his men stayed at Hindlip, hoping to starve them out of their hiding places. Some of the ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
77402146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Habington | Mary Habington | Thomas Habington was questioned about who brought the letter to Hindlip warning of the Bromley's raid. Mary Habington was also questioned about the warning letter. According to Thomas, neither of them named William Colles. The note giving warning of the search had been found by Bromley in Edward Oldcorne's room at Hind... | 2.09375 | 0 |
77402408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr%20S%C5%82awinski | Piotr Sławinski | Piotr Sławinski (Lithuanian: Petras Slavinskis; 29 June 1795 – 30 May 1881) was a Polish astronomer of the Russian Empire. He was the fifth director of the Vilnius University Astronomical Observatory (1825–1843) and one of the founders of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1820, being its youngest.
Biography
Early lif... | 2.421875 | 0 |
77402408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr%20S%C5%82awinski | Piotr Sławinski | Later years
In 1839 Sławinski and others participated in the opening of the Pulkovo Observatory. In 1843 the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences ordered that a large part of the Vilnius University observatory's library (487 volumes in total, one-third of all the books) be transferred to Pulkovo Observatory. Sławinski co... | 2.15625 | 0 |
77402508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edhem%20Eldem | Edhem Eldem | Edhem Eldem (born 1960, Geneva), Turkish historian, author and academic.
Early life and education
Edhem Eldem was born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1960. He completed his high school education at Lycée Saint-Joseph, Istanbul in 1977. In the same year, he was admitted to the Industrial Engineering Department of Boğaziçi ... | 1.945313 | 0 |
77402588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess%20Yaropolkovna%20of%20Minsk | Princess Yaropolkovna of Minsk | Historical context
The marriage was probably the result of the desire of prince Vseslav Bryachislavich of Polotsk to enlist the support of the family of prince Iziaslav I Yaroslavich of Kiev (died 1078) in the struggle against his brother Vsevolod Yaroslavich (prince of Kiev 1078–1093). According to Litvina & Uspenski... | 2.1875 | 0 |
77402767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%20Ki%20Shakti%20Puja | Ram Ki Shakti Puja | Ram Ki Shakti Puja (ISO: ) is a poem in Hindi by Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'. It was published in 1937 in the second edition of Nirala's poetry collection Anamika. This long poem consists of 312 lines composed in Nirala's tailored poetic meter, Shakti Puja - a rhyming meter of twenty-four syllables. This poem is regar... | 2.46875 | 0 |
77402767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%20Ki%20Shakti%20Puja | Ram Ki Shakti Puja | From a broader perspective, the poem explores the quest for liberation from various forms of dependence and subjugation, spanning both personal and societal dimensions. Rama is portrayed as engaged in a parallel struggle on both external and internal fronts. The conflict between Rama and Ravana represents a duality of ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
77403059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemisuri | Nemisuri | Death and legacy
In 1948 CE, he was at Mahuva for his chaturmasya. His disciples Nandansuri and Udayasuri were looking after a weak and bed-ridden Nemisuri. At 7:00pm on the day of Diwali in 1948 CE, he passed away near the spot of his birth. Two temples were erected, one at the spot of his birth and another at the si... | 1.914063 | 0 |
77403368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Thorne%20Stevenson | Barbara Thorne Stevenson | In December 1944 Thorne Stevenson was the soprano soloist in Ernest Bloch's symphony Israel with the New York Philharmonic under conductor Artur Rodziński; a performance which was broadcast on American radio. She was a soloist with the Norwalk Oratorio Society in Connecticut on December 12, 1944, and with the Oratorio ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
77403406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annemarie%20R%C3%BCbens | Annemarie Rübens | After having fled to Holland, she worked with refugee families and then moved to Uruguay in 1936, where her brother had lived and left her a piece of real estate in Colonia Valdense. There, she founded a rural homestead for refugee children who were victims of the Nazi regime, called Casa Rubens, and which later became... | 2.4375 | 0 |
77403422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evalds%20Silins | Evalds Silins | Evalds Silins (Latvian: Ēvalds Siliņš; March 10, 1919 – 2015) was a Latvian composer, teacher and conductor.
Evalds Silins was born on March 10, 1919, in Ēvele Parish, Valka, Latvia.
From 1932 to 1938, he studied at the Priekule Agricultural Gymnasium; at the same time, he also studied piano at the People's Conservat... | 1.945313 | 0 |
77403685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda%20Teboh-Ewungkem | Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem | Miranda Ijang Teboh-Ewungkem (born 1974) is a Cameroonian-American applied mathematician, mathematical biologist and university professor. Her research focuses on ordinary and partial differential equations and statistical methods for modeling the dynamics and transmission of infectious diseases.
Life and work
Teboh-E... | 2.375 | 0 |
77404247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/73rd%20Rifle%20Corps | 73rd Rifle Corps | The corps, having left behind the 294th to take part in the Siege of Breslau, was relocated to the vicinity of Bunzlau on 19 February, where until 13 April it took part in difficult fighting with counterattacking German troops, improving its positions in the course of the battles. On 17 April the 213th Rifle Division j... | 2.484375 | 0 |
77404405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanshaw%20Gold%20Mine | Sanshaw Gold Mine | Sanshaw Gold Mine was a gold mine that operated in the 1930s and 1940s in Red Lake, Ontario, in the Sanshaw-Red Lake deposit that subsequently became the Red Lake Mine one of the largest and most productive gold deposits in the world.
Sanshaw Mines Limited, incorporated in 1936, owned claims on White Horse Island, on... | 2.28125 | 0 |
77404478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz%20Brenner | Kazimierz Brenner | Kazimierz Brenner alias "Oświęcim" (born June 1, 1917 in Nowy Sącz, died June 26, 1944 in Szymbark) - prisoner of the KL Auschwitz concentration camp (camp no. 3551), soldier of the "Żbik" partisan unit of the Home Army.
Background
During the September Campaign in 1939, Kazimierz served as a non-commissioned officer o... | 1.976563 | 0 |
77404527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Georg%20Hofmann | Hans Georg Hofmann | Political activity
In addition to his SA positions, Hofmann also was active in politics and government administration. He formally joined the Nazi Party Ortsgruppe (local group) in Ingolstadt on 1 June (membership number 550,075). As an early member, he later would be awarded the Golden Party Badge. At the July 1932 p... | 1.914063 | 0 |
77405418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20J.%20Arnold | Richard J. Arnold | Richard J. Arnold (June 28, 1856 – May 19, 1929), also known as R. J. Arnold, was an English American 19th-century pioneer of early California photography. He is known for his large-format glass-plate photography and as the designated photographer for the Hotel Del Monte in Monterey, California. He created one of the e... | 2.03125 | 0 |
77405773 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parobisium%20yosemite | Parobisium yosemite | Parobisium yosemite, or the Yosemite cave pseudoscorpion, is a species of pseudoscorpion in the family Neobisiidae. A troglobite, the pseudoscorpion inhabits talus caves, formed by voids between boulders, in Yosemite National Park.
Distribution
The species is endemic to granite talus caves in Yosemite National Park i... | 2.328125 | 0 |
77405803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacanha | Lacanha | Lacanha or Lacanja (also known as Lacanjá-Kuná) is Maya archaeological site located on the bank of the Lacanjá river inside the Lacandon Jungle of Chiapas, Mexico. It was an important Mayan city from the classic period with its own emblem glyph.
The site has had very few archeological investigations, the most notable... | 2.71875 | 0 |
77405836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokhtar%20Mokhtefi | Mokhtar Mokhtefi | Mokhtar Mokhtefi (1935–2015) was a member of the National Liberation Front (FLN) during the Algerian War of Independence. He wrote about his experiences growing up in Algeria and fighting in the war as a radio operator in his memoir, I Was a French Muslim.
Early life and education
Mokhtefi was born in 1935 in Berroua... | 2.328125 | 0 |
77405965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belkisyole%20Alarc%C3%B3n%20de%20Noya | Belkisyole Alarcón de Noya | Belkisyole Alarcón de Noya (born 11 January 1952) is a Venezuelan physician with a PhD in medical parasitology. She is a pioneer in studies in this area of medicine and she received the 2017 Women in Science Award, granted by the Academy of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences of Venezuela.
Biography
Her paren... | 2.1875 | 0 |
77406040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Memphis%20Tigers%20football | History of Memphis Tigers football | Billy Murphy took over as head coach in 1958 and served as head football coach for the Tigers for fourteen seasons. In 1963, Murphy led the Tigers to a 9–0–1 record. After a season-opening win over Southern Miss, the Tigers tied No. 2 Ole Miss by a score of 0–0. That game would be the only non-win for Memphis that year... | 2.078125 | 0 |
77406040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Memphis%20Tigers%20football | History of Memphis Tigers football | Rex Dockery era (1981–1983)
Texas Tech head coach Rex Dockery was named the Tigers' 16th head coach after Williamson's firing. After serving as a head coach at two different Tennessee high schools, Dockery had served as an assistant coach at Tennessee from 1970 to 1971 under Bill Battle, at Georgia Tech in 1972 under ... | 1.90625 | 0 |
77406340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen%20Trevorrow | Ellen Trevorrow | Ellen Trevorrow is an internationally known Australian Ngarrindjeri weaver and authority on Ngarrindjeri culture. She is the head of the Camp Coorong Centre for Cultural Education and Race Relations and also serves on the board of the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority.
Early life and education
Born in 1955 in Point McL... | 2.328125 | 0 |
77406478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoinette%20Bonner | Antoinette Bonner | A grand jury heard the case on November 14, 1913, with Cocks explaining that Bonner and Brescher had taken the jewels on memorandum. At least nine other diamond merchants were called before the grand jury and it was discovered that upwards of $150,000 of jewels were unaccounted for. Meanwhile, neither Brescher nor Bonn... | 1.914063 | 0 |
77406642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%203177 | NGC 3177 | NGC 3177 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Leo. Its speed relative to the cosmic microwave background is 1,627 ± 22 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 24.0 ± 1.7 Mpc (∼78.3 million ly). NGC 3177 was discovered by the German-British astronomer William Herschel in 1784.
The luminosity class of... | 2.5625 | 0 |
77406646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%20Oberst | Emily Oberst | Emily Ann Oberst (born August 27, 1998) is an American wheelchair basketball player and a member of the United States women's national wheelchair basketball team. She represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.
Early life and education
Oberst was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma in her left leg at age 12... | 2.375 | 0 |
77407531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Thorgo | Battle of Thorgo | The Battle of Thorgo (also known as the Thorgo Incident or Nurbachung ambush, also spelled as Thurgo or Thergo,) was a military engagement during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1947–1948 in the Gilgit-Baltistan sector of northern Kashmir administered by Pakistan. The battle took place from March 16 to March 18, 1948. The G... | 2.15625 | 0 |
77407531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Thorgo | Battle of Thorgo | Ambush and casualties
The Gilgit Scouts chose Thorgo Pari near Gol as the site for their ambush. At that location the road narrowed along the Indus River's left bank, allowing only single-file passage. Captain Nek Alam and his platoon took positions on the northernmost part of Thorgo Hill. Subedar Muhammad Ali and Lie... | 2.21875 | 0 |
77407618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estadio%20Municipal%20%28Guadalajara%29 | Estadio Municipal (Guadalajara) | The Estadio Municipal (Municipal Stadium) was a baseball stadium in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Opened in 1931 and designed by Aurelio Aceves, it was the first municipal stadium in Guadalajara and hosted the Charros de Jalisco of the Mexican League. The stadium was demolished in 1950.
History
The Estadio Municipal w... | 2.34375 | 0 |
77407717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20W.%20Sherry | Thomas W. Sherry | Sherry has studied the impact of food availability on migratory bird populations in winter, as well as how predators indirectly affect breeding populations through food dynamics. His lab employed statistical, experimental, and modeling methods to test hypotheses about populations and landscapes. Through collaborative r... | 2.59375 | 0 |
77407768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafalda%20Pires%20de%20Lima | Mafalda Pires de Lima | Mafalda Pires de Lima (born 14 April 1998) is a Portuguese kitefoiler. She has been sailing since the age of ten and when it was agreed that Formula Kite was to be an Olympic sport then she began to enjoy the difficult sport. She was Portugal's first woman kitesurfing champion.
Life
de Lima was born in 1998 into a fam... | 2.03125 | 0 |
77407787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore%20Glass%20Factory%20strikes | Singapore Glass Factory strikes | The Singapore Glass Factory strikes refer to multiple strikes by employees of Singapore Glass Manufacturers Co Ltd. The most notable strike was on 28 August 1960 where 600 employees of Singapore Glass Manufacturers Co Ltd went on a strike that lasted 73 days due to disagreements between Singapore Glass Manufacturers an... | 1.984375 | 0 |
77407852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halgania%20andromedifolia | Halgania andromedifolia | Halgania andromedifolia commonly known as lavender halgania, is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae. It is a small, upright or spreading perennial shrub with blue flowers and grows in New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria.
Description
Halgania andromedifolia is an uprig... | 2.140625 | 0 |
77408098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synod%20of%20Lviv%20%281946%29 | Synod of Lviv (1946) | The synod began on 8 March 1946 at St. George's Cathedral in Lviv. The first speaker was father Vasyl Lesiuk, who unexpectedly expressed his support for subsequent meetings between attendants and parishioners with which to gauge the best choice for the future of the UGCC. Midway through his speech, he was forcibly prev... | 2.1875 | 0 |
77408246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Zulfi%20City | Al-Zulfi City | In the year 1113 AH, Al Rashid, the proprietor of Al-Zulfi and Al Asyah, assumed control of Al-Zulfi and expelled the Al Madlaj, who had previously occupied it.
In the year 1128 AH, Hamad bin Othman, a shepherd from Al Majmaa, perpetrated a robbery against Al-Rashid in Al-Zulfi.
In the year 1164 AH, Abdulaziz bin Muh... | 2.125 | 0 |
77408246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Zulfi%20City | Al-Zulfi City | The longest valley of Al-Zulfi, named Murkh after the Murkh plant, is formed by the descent of a torrent from the Tuwaiq Mountains, which follows Al-Ghat in the east. The torrent then proceeds in a northerly direction until it overflows in Rawdat Al-Sabla. Ibn Balihad posited that The valley is situated on the eastern ... | 1.976563 | 0 |
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