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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Langley%20Fardon
Edward Langley Fardon
Edward Langley Fardon (11 December 1839 – 9 February 1926) was an English art metalworker, whitesmith and engineer. He built and demonstrated the world's first all-metal bicycle with India rubber tyres in Kenilworth in 1869, incorporating several new design features. Biography Fardon was born in Royal Leamington Spa t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Watervliet%20family
Van Watervliet family
Researchers cannot yet explain the selection of "Watervliet" as the estate name. The closest place named Watervliet is in Flanders in Belgium, approximately 20 miles (30km) from Goes, but there is a Zeeland tie to the Heer of that Watervliet: Count Hieronymus Lauweryn van Watervliet served as Treasurer-General of Zeela...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Watervliet%20family
Van Watervliet family
In North America Mentions of the Van Watervliets in the records of Zeeland gradually disappear in the 18th Century, while Myndert and Carsten start a new chapter of the family history in the New Netherland settlement of Beverwijck around 1655. As Lutherans, their move to North America may have been prompted by a 1619 ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon%20Emry
Sheldon Emry
The Lord's Covenant church, which was founded by Emry, distributed a concordance of Biblical laws, ranging from health to property law, in order that divine law would become the law of the land. Emry was a prolific writer of pamphlets. During the inflation crisis of the late 1970s and early 1980s, he blamed the Federa...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawardiella
Seawardiella
Seawardiella is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Teloschistaceae. It contains two species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) crustose lichens. Taxonomy The genus was circumscribed by the lichenologists Sergey Kondratyuk, Ingvar Kärnefelt, and Arne Thell in 2018. The genus name honours the British lichenologi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tribute%20Money%20%28Philippe%20de%20Champaigne%29
The Tribute Money (Philippe de Champaigne)
The Tribute Money is an oil on canvas painting by the Flemish-French painter Philippe de Champaigne, created c. 1663–1665. It is held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. History and description Known for his religious works, Philippe de Champaigne illustrates here the famous episode from the Gospels, when the Pharise...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaanam%20Art%20Festival
Vaanam Art Festival
2023 The 2023 edition of the Vaanam Art Festival, curated by director Pa Ranjith's Neelam Cultural Centre, took place in April, coinciding with the birth month of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and Dalit History Month. The month-long festival featured a diverse range of activities, including a book exhibition, the PK Rosy Film Fest...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaclovas%20Bielskis
Vaclovas Bielskis
Vaclovas Bielskis (1 May 1870 – 16 September 1936) was a Lithuanian leftist activist. Educated as an engineer at the Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute, Bielskis worked at a steal factory in Ukraine until he was able to return to Lithuania in 1905. He settled in Šiauliai where he became an administrator of the est...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20the%20Ripper%27s%20Bedroom
Jack the Ripper's Bedroom
Author Wendy Baron, writing for the Yale University Press, calls the painting "moody" and "sinister", and highlights Sickert's talent for composing melodrama. Legacy The painting is cited as an early example of Jack the Ripper in the arts. It was bequeathed by Mars Mary Ciely Tatlock to the Manchester Art Gallery in ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Karimi%20Jahromi
Ali Karimi Jahromi
Teaching career For 26 years, Karimi was very close and partook in many classes by Mohammad Reza Golpaygani. He documented a plethora of his Darse Kharej lectures in a detailed fashion, which later became published as a book. For around 20 years, he taught Usul Al-Fiqh, with a particular emphasis on Makasib and Kifaya...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh%20Sajjad%20Gul
Sheikh Sajjad Gul
Sheikh Sajjad Gul (born 1974), also known as Sheikh Sajjad, is a Kashmiri militant and the founder of The Resistance Front which has been active in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir since 2019. Early life Sheikh Sajjad Gul, born in 1974 in the Shah Mohalla area of Nawa Bazar in the old city of Srinagar, was educa...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaitiaki%20%28sculpture%29
Kaitiaki (sculpture)
Kaitiaki is a public sculpture located in the Auckland Domain in Auckland, New Zealand, created by New Zealand sculptor Fred Graham. The piece depicts a (harrier hawk), a bird that features as a guardian in Ngāti Whātua and Tainui oral histories. Developed as a part of the Auckland Domain Sculpture Walk, the sculptur...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naoco%20Wowsugi
Naoco Wowsugi
In 2019, Wowsugi became a Humanities Truck Fellow, awarded by American University. The fellowship allows artists to use a truck to create a piece or project. Wowsugi originally wanted to use her fellowship to undertake a group portrait project in D.C., but shifted gears after the COVID-19 pandemic placed restrictions o...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar%20Trelles%20Montes
Óscar Trelles Montes
Julio Óscar Trelles Montes (Andahuaylas; — Lima; ) was a Peruvian physician and politician. He served as Prime Minister of Peru and Minister of Government and Police from July to December 1963, in the first government of President Fernando Belaúnde Terry. He was also Minister of Public Health and Social Assistance (19...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1770s%20Pacific%20Northwest%20smallpox%20epidemic
1770s Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic
Possible antecedents The 1520s smallpox epidemic spread from Mesoamerica into adjacent maize-growing regions in North America. A population decline in the Columbia Basin, evidenced archaeologically by a sharp regional decline in artifacts and structures in the early 1500s, has been tentatively linked to a spread of thi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1770s%20Pacific%20Northwest%20smallpox%20epidemic
1770s Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic
A Spanish origin for the pandemic is supported by the majority of scholarly literature. Spanish explorers are known to have visited the Northwest Coast in 1774, 1775, and 1779. Folklore among Northern coast natives describing the arrival of "disease boats" has been used to support a Spanish origin for the epidemic. Cri...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1770s%20Pacific%20Northwest%20smallpox%20epidemic
1770s Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic
Theories alleging an origin from the Plains Indians rely on reports by missionaries and fur traders during the early 19th century describing the epidemic as coming from the plains during mountain-crossing bison hunts. A large scale smallpox epidemic is attested among the Sioux and Blackfoot, but only beginning around 1...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1770s%20Pacific%20Northwest%20smallpox%20epidemic
1770s Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic
Effects and legacy The debilitating effects of smallpox on infected individuals led to an inability to participate in hunting and foraging. This may have led to intense malnutrition among tribal communities, most prominently on those who depended on others for food, such as young children and the elderly. The effects ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keij%C5%8D%20nipp%C5%8D
Keijō nippō
Background Japan began moving to incorporate Korea as its protectorate in the 1900's, and began publishing newspapers that promoted these themes and advocated for further Japanese control. Japan's agenda was soon confronted by the English- and Korean-language newspaper The Korea Daily News, run by British journalist i...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camas%20Hot%20Springs
Camas Hot Springs
Camas Hot Springs, also known as Big Medicine Hot Springs, is a group of historic hot springs in Hot Springs, Sanders County, Montana, United States. History Indigenous peoples and early settlement Long before Euro-American fur trappers and settlers arrived in the Little Bitterroot River Valley where Hot Springs, M...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waves%20at%20Matsushima
Waves at Matsushima
Legacy The pair is seen as Sōtatsu's masterwork. His work had gone mostly unnoticed after his death in the 1640s, but his work still impacted "generations of famous artists". The pair inspired works by Ogata Kōrin and Suzuki Kiitsu, which were also named Waves at Matsushima. Kōrin's work was heavily inspired by Sōtat...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora%20Maclean
Dora Maclean
Dora Maclean (12 April 1892 – 14 September 1978) was an Australian pedigree horse-breeder known for her Arabian horses. During the war she was obliged to employ women from the Australian Women's Land Army. She only employed women after that. Life Maclean was born in 1892 in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy North. Her p...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%20Burgos%20House
Father Burgos House
The Father Burgos House, built in 1788, is a historic house in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, Philippines. It was the residence of the Filipino Catholic priest Jose Burgos (1837–1872), a leader of the secularization movement, referring to the full incorporation of Filipino priests into the Catholic hierarchy in the Philippines, wh...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait%20of%20Fr%C3%A4ulein%20Lieser
Portrait of Fräulein Lieser
The painting measures . The background of the painting has faintly pencilled shapes, suggesting that Klimt intended to continue making elaborations. According to Dobai, the painting "recalls in its compositional approach and in particular in the position of the hands, the portraits of Adele Bloch-Bauer II and Elisabet...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philorthodox%20Society
Philorthodox Society
The discovery of a letter written by Georgios Kapodistrias to Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Gregory VI greatly troubled the British authorities. Who believed that members of the conspiracy had infiltrated the British controlled United States of the Ionian Islands and were planning to overthrow its government. ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porta%20Montanara%2C%20Rimini
Porta Montanara, Rimini
In the 15th century, the gate was incorporated into a series of houses, nicknamed the Red Houses (), that belonged to the House of Malatesta. A passage was built over the gate, and the closed arch was incorporated into the cellars of the Palazzo Turchi. It was through the gates of Porta Sant'Andrea that, on 17 June 152...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver%20Hill%20Mine
Silver Hill Mine
Zinc and Silver Mining Company Following two years of closure, the mine was purchased by the Zinc and Silver Mining Company of New York in 1854 and renamed the Silver Hill Mine. By the late 1850s, it had fallen under the ownership of Franklin Osgood, a New York businessman who additionally owned the New Jersey–based B...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver%20Hill%20Mine
Silver Hill Mine
Later operations Without active pumping operations, the Silver Hill Mine flooded. Operated by the West Prussian Mining Company from 1898 to 1900, the mine was briefly drained and surveyed. The main incline shaft was enlarged and repaired, and some galena and sphalerite was produced. Following another closure in 1900, ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuphar%20%C3%97%20spenneriana
Nuphar × spenneriana
Nuphar × spenneriana is a species of rhizomatous aquatic plant native to Europe. It is a natural hybrid of Nuphar lutea and Nuphar pumila. Description Vegetative characteristics Nuphar × spenneriana is a perennial, rhizomatous, aquatic plant. The abaxial leaf surface has trichomes towards the leaf margin. The leaf ha...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus%20Yale
Theophilus Yale
Capt. Theophilus Yale married Sarah Street, daughter of Rev. Samuel Street, Harvard graduate and cofounder of Wallingford. Her grandfather Rev. Nicholas Street was a minister, colleague of John Davenport, and graduate of Pembroke College at Oxford. Through his wife Sarah Street, Yale became the granduncle of Dr. Lyman ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah%20DeGrasse
Isaiah DeGrasse
Isaiah George DeGrasse (July 19, 1813 – January 11, 1841) was an American minister in the Protestant Episcopal Church. In 1836, he was the first African American to graduate from the University of Delaware. Family Born on July 19, 1813, in New York City, DeGrasse was a member of the affluent DeGrasse family. His bira...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad%20Rafiqul%20Alam
Mohammad Rafiqul Alam
Mohammad Rafiqul Alam is a Bangladeshi academic and former vice-chancellor of the Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology. He is the president of the Association of Universities of Bangladesh (Bangladesh Bishwabidyalaya Parishad). Early life Alam was born in 1958 in Mariam Nagar, Rangunia, Chittagong Distric...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Mu%E1%B9%A3awwir
Al-Muṣawwir
Al-Muṣawwir or Muṣawwir (Arabic: المصور) is one of the names of God (Allah) in Islam, meaning "The Shaper," "The Bestower of Forms," or "The Fashioner." This appellation signifies that God is the Creator of all things, meticulously shaping and arranging everything in accordance with His wisdom. It emphasizes the islami...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senkpa-Mba%C3%A9r%C3%A9
Senkpa-Mbaéré
Senkpa-Mbaéré is a sub-prefecture in the Central African Republic. It extends south of the town of Carnot, and takes its name from the Mbaéré river, a tributary of the Lobaye. Geography The commune of Senkpa-Mbaéré is located in the east of the prefecture of Mambéré. History Before 2020, the commune was in the prefec...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert%20Benecke
Norbert Benecke
Norbert Benecke (born 22 March 1954 in Osterburg, Germany) is a German archaeozoologist. Academic history Norbert Benecke studied biology at the Universität Halle from 1974 through 1978. In that latter year, he was awarded the title Diplom-Biologe. In 1979, he became a "scientific worker" (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbe...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentilla%20versicolor
Potentilla versicolor
Potentilla versicolor is a species of Potentilla known by the common name Steens Mountain cinquefoil or varying cinquefoil. It is native to western North America, with populations scattered from the Ruby Mountains of northern Nevada north to the Wallowa and Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon and west to the Oregon Cas...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese%20conquest%20of%20Tangier
Portuguese conquest of Tangier
The Portuguese conquest of Tangier (Portuguese: Conquista de Tânger) from the Wattasid dynasty, was a campaign that took place on 28 August 1471 by Portuguese forces under the order of King Afonso V, surnamed the African. Background The Portuguese began their overseas expansion with the conquest of Ceuta in 1415. Sin...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20New%20England%20Revolution%20managers
List of New England Revolution managers
The New England Revolution is a soccer team based in Foxborough, Massachusetts, that competes in Major League Soccer (MLS), the first-division league in the United States. The club began play in 1996 as one of ten original MLS teams. The Revolution have had nine permanent managers, with four interim managers (not inclu...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism%20against%20Native%20Americans%20in%20the%20United%20States
Racism against Native Americans in the United States
Both during and after the colonial era in American history, white settlers engaged in prolonged conflicts with Native Americans in the United States, seeking to displace them and seize their lands, resulting in American enslavement and forced assimilation into settler culture. The 19th century witnessed a surge in eff...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auwalu%20Abdullahi%20Rano
Auwalu Abdullahi Rano
Auwalu Abdullahi Rano (born 7 February 1974), also known as AA Rano, is a businessman from Nigeria. He founded AA Rano Nigeria Limited, a company involved in various industries including oil and gas, airlines, and agriculture. Rano is from the Rano Local Government Area of Kano South, in the northern part of Nigeria....
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansi%20Neumann%20flight
Hansi Neumann flight
The Hansi Neumann flight was the first flight to evacuate refugee children from Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Croydon, England, in January 1939, in the lead up to the Second World War. Part of the Czech kindertransport, it was completed in a Dutch Douglas aircraft of KLM, and organised by the Barbican Mission to Jewish Pe...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina%20Fernandes
Regina Fernandes
Regina Fernandes (16 November 1880 – 20 December 1908) was a Portuguese theatre actress known as the first lady of the Konkani stage. The wife of Goan playwright João Agostinho Fernandes, she first took to the stage at the age of 24 in her husband's theatro Batcara (The Landlord), which was staged at Gaiety Theatre in ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrey%20Square
Surrey Square
Surrey Square is a garden square in Walworth in the London Borough of Southwark. Located just off the Old Kent Road it was laid out in the 1790s to designs by the architect Michael Searles, who also oversaw the nearby Paragon at what is now Bricklayers Arms. The square takes its name from the county of Surrey in which ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra%20Paalman
Fra Paalman
Education Paalman studied 'Publicity and Graphic Design' at the AKI Academy for Art and Design in Enschede (1962–66). Here he was taught by, among others, Hans Ebeling Koning, Philip Kouwen, Wim van Stek and Geert Voskamp, who were important sources of inspiration for him. They encouraged him to explore different path...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival%20Challenge
Survival Challenge
Survival Challenge is a computer-moderated, science fiction play-by-mail (PBM) game. It was published by Mindgate in 1987. Players role-played customizable characters attempting to escape an alien planet with 19 other players. Game turns encompassed a 24-hour period and players had to survive 15 days to escape the plan...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flores%20Sea%20sunbird
Flores Sea sunbird
The Flores Sea sunbird (Cinnyris teysmanni) is a species of bird in the sunbird family Nectariniidae that is found on several small islands in the Flores Sea. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the olive-backed sunbird, now renamed the garden sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis). Taxonomy The Flores Sea sunbird ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDOK
GEDOK
Postwar Shortly after the Second World War, the first GEDOK groups came together again: in Stuttgart in 1945, in Hanover, Mannheim and Hamburg in 1946, in Cologne in 1947 and in Heidelberg in 1948. In 1948, the federal association GEDOK was newly formed. The first constituent meeting took place in Anna Maria Darboven'...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20of%20Carlos%20Manuel%20de%20C%C3%A9spedes
Order of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
The Order of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes is a decoration of the Republic of Cuba. It is named in honor of Cuban military commander and independence leader Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (1819–1874). 1926–1978 With the name of the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes National Order of Merit, it was created by Presidential Decree No. 48...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20of%20Carlos%20Manuel%20de%20C%C3%A9spedes
Order of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
There was also a necklace of the order, for ceremonial use by the president in office from 1955 onwards, which was made by the Vilardebó y Riera goldsmithing house – which made many other national decorations – and which was later lost. The medal of the order consisted of the effigy of Céspedes in a circular gold medal...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monuments%20of%20Verona
Monuments of Verona
Among the towers of special significance in Verona are: San Zeno Abbey Tower, a solid, tall crenellated brick tower built in two phases in the 12th century that was part of the San Zeno Abbey. Inside are fine frescoes from the late 13th century, including a particularly famous one in which a procession pays homage to ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monuments%20of%20Verona
Monuments of Verona
Verona Arena The Arena is a Roman amphitheater, now located in the center of the city, in the elegant Piazza Bra, although when it was built, in the 1st century, it was located just outside the city walls. It is the monument that more than any other recalls Verona's Roman origins, so much so that it has become a symbol...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monuments%20of%20Verona
Monuments of Verona
Roman theater The Roman theater is an open-air theater built in the first century B.C. at the foot of San Pietro Hill, on the left bank of the Adige River. It was part of a plan to monumentalize the entire hill, which became a large urban scene on several levels: along the river bank was the theater building, enclosed ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius%20Genss
Julius Genss
In 1941, the collection was confiscated by the "Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg", which systematically plundered Jewish cultural treasures in Eastern Europe. It was only thanks to the commitment of one individual that three dozen sheets from this collection were preserved and came to Munich with granddaughter Julia ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius%20Mannaberg
Julius Mannaberg
Gyula Mannaberg, in German: Julius Mannaberg (Pest, 9 May 1860 – Vienna, 17 August 1941) was a Hungarian physician and researcher of Jewish heritage, and cousin of Rózsi Mannaberg (1895–1986), a pianist. Life Mannaberg was born the son of Mihály Mannaberg (1829–1903), a merchant, and Róza Gutman (1830–1904). Between ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20E.%20Ashe%20Lee
Mary E. Ashe Lee
Mary Elizabeth Ashe Lee (12 January 1851 – 22 January 1932) was an African-American writer, educator, and churchwoman. Personal life Mary Elizabeth Ashe was born in Mobile, Alabama on 12 January 1851, the daughter of Simon S. and Adelia M. Ashe. Her parents were comfortably off, and her father was prominent in busine...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evynnis%20tumifrons
Evynnis tumifrons
Evynnis tumifrons, the yellowback seabream, crimson seabream, goldentail or red seabream, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, which includes the seabreams and porgies. This fish is found in the Western Pacific Ocean off the coasts of East Asia. This species is an important food fish...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evynnis%20tumifrons
Evynnis tumifrons
Biology Evynnis tumifrons is a predatory species, a study in the East China Sea found that it fed mainly on fishes, crustaceans and cephalopods. The most common species preyed on were the krill species Euphausia pacifica, the toothfish Champsodon snyderi, the Japanese jack mackerel (Trachurus japonicus) and prawns in t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%E1%B8%A5ammad%20Rabad%C3%A1n
Muḥammad Rabadán
Muḥammad Rabadán (fl. c. 1600) was an Aragonese Morisco, noted for writing Discurso de la luz de Muhamad ('discourse of the light of Muḥammad'), the principal Spanish-language Muslim account of the lives of the Islamic prophets. Discurso de la luz de Muhamad Rabadán's Discurso de la luz de Muhamad begins with a canto...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basile%20High%20School
Basile High School
In 2011, Basile was one of only 36 high schools in Louisiana that met the full requirements of the Louisiana Promise initiative, including having an 80% graduation rate and improving by 10%. In 2018, Black students were 1.6 times more likely to be disciplined than White students. While 24% of the student body was non-...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20Krappe
Ernst Krappe
Ernst Krappe (31 October 1891 – 12 May 1977) was a German lawyer, economics expert and Nazi Party politician who served as the chairman of the State Presidency of the Free State of Lippe in 1933. Early life Krappe was born in Soest and graduated from the Gymnasium in Minden. He then studied law, political science and...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo-Mamo%20Karerwa
Mo-Mamo Karerwa
Early life and education career Modeste Mo-Mamo Karerwa was a Hutu teacher living in Gitega, when the Burundian genocide broke out in 1993. As students in the past had been taught that the Tutsi people were a superior race than the Hutu people, she realized that the conflicts could not be resolved without bringing the ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Shout%20%28short%20story%29
The Shout (short story)
At a lunatic asylum, the narrator acts as scoresman at a cricket match along with one of its inmates, Charles Crossley, a man who believes that his soul is split in pieces. Charles tells him a story which he says is true. It concerns Richard and Rachel, a young couple who awake one Sunday morning and tell each other ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Marie%20de%20Pernety
Joseph Marie de Pernety
In 1810, after the peace, he carried out the mission of drawing the border between Austria and Bavaria, and on this occasion received the Grand Cross from Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria. Commander of the artillery in Hamburg, he was replaced there on March 14, 1811 by Basile Baltus de Pouilly. He then moved to the Grande...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Mackaman
Thomas Mackaman
Thomas Mackaman (born 1975) is a historian and member of the Socialist Equality Party. He is a professor of history at Kings College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Mackaman has written and conducted interviews with historians challenging the New York Times' 1619 Project, first published on the World Socialist Web Site....
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Kaplon
Andrew Kaplon
The brothers used their wealth to advance their social progress in the Hungarian royal court under the minor Ladislaus IV in the 1270s. Andrew is referred to as ispán of Ung County in 1273, when, together with Jakó, was granted the estates Sztára (today Staré) and Perecse (today a borough of Michalovce, Slovakia) in th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Kaplon
Andrew Kaplon
Both Andrew and Jakó took part in the Battle on the Marchfeld in August 1278. In 1279, Ladislaus IV confirmed Andrew and Jakó as the rightful owners of Sztára and Perecse. These data prove the falsity of the aforementioned document. In the same year, they were also granted the fort of Jeszenő (today Jasenov, Slovakia) ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native%20American%20genocide%20in%20the%20United%20States
Native American genocide in the United States
Near the beginning of the Revolutionary War, the British Army and Native American allies staged attacks on frontier towns in the Mohawk Valley region of New York. To resolve this issue, George Washington ordered the Continental Army, under the command of John Sullivan and James Clinton, to conduct a series of scorched ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native%20American%20genocide%20in%20the%20United%20States
Native American genocide in the United States
Appropriation of knowledge Indigenous systems of knowledge and science have historically been undervalued by Western science. In recent decades as awareness of the climate crisis rises, this knowledge has been appropriated by settlers. Scholar Jaskiran Dhillon argues that while the state has traditionally disregarded ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20H.%20Blessing
James H. Blessing
James H. Blessing (April 17, 1837 – February 21, 1910) was an American inventor, engineer, and business executive from Albany, New York. A Republican, he served as a member of the Albany County Board of Supervisors from 1894 to 1896, and president of the board from 1895 to 1896. From 1900 to 1901, he served as Albany's...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tama-te-rangi
Tama-te-rangi
Tama-te-rangi was a Māori rangatira (chieftain) of the Ngāti Kahungunu iwi and ancestor of the Ngāi Tamaterangi. He was based at Marumaru on the Wairoa River in northern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. He fought and defeated the neighbouring tribe of Ngāi Tauira with the support of his uncle Rakaipaaka and killed Tu-te-tohi ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish%20Sea%20orcas
Salish Sea orcas
The earliest recorded post-colonization interactions between Salish Sea orcas and humans occurred in the early 1960s, when fishermen in Seymour Narrows, near Campbell River, BC, began to complain of orcas taking salmon from nets and interfering with fishing operations. At the time, orcas were not only viewed as costly ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish%20Sea%20orcas
Salish Sea orcas
Following this, orca captures became widespread worldwide; an estimated 263 orcas were captured in the Salish Sea region alone between 1962 and 1977. Of these, 50 were taken to oceanariums, 12 died during capture, and 201 were released. The impact of this take on local populations was significant given that 47 of the 6...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish%20Sea%20orcas
Salish Sea orcas
Ongoing threats to orcas include ship traffic, pollution, dams, and arguably most important, conflict with humans for food. Since the 1980s, salmon populations in Puget Sound have declined by 60%, and hatcheries have made only marginal success in helping them recover. The primary food source of southern residents is Fr...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish%20Sea%20orcas
Salish Sea orcas
Granny (southern resident J2) was the oldest fully authenticated wild orca on record, at least 65 years old at the time of her presumed death in October 2016. Her exact age will never be known; she was first sighted in 1967, during an orca capture, and was considered too old for capture due to her age (estimated at mor...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-Soviet%20air%20war%2022%20June%201941
German-Soviet air war 22 June 1941
At the end of the 1930s, everything was still noticeably behind the Soviet engine building from Western standards. Many Soviet aircraft manufacturing enterprises used outdated technology, the work was slowed down by a low-power experimental production base, poor technical equipment of Soviet scientific institutes. The ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20Planning%20and%20Development%20Regulation%20in%20North%20Carolina
Local Planning and Development Regulation in North Carolina
This section clarifies procedures individuals can use to challenge legislative zoning decisions, quasi-judicial decisions like certificates of appropriateness for historic preservation, and administrative decisions such as those related to subdivision plats. Implementation When Chapter 160D was signed into law in Ju...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman%20Salomonson
Herman Salomonson
Nazi era When the Netherlands mobilized on September 1, 1939, at the beginning of the Second World War, Salomonson was called up a “reserve captain for special services” in the Vrijwillig Landstormkorps Luchtafweerdienst (Voluntary Army Air Defense Corps). Before the German occupation in May 1940, he broadcast the new...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman%20Salomonson
Herman Salomonson
On October 26, 1940, the Gestapo seized Herman Salomonson from his apartment at Laan Copes van Cattenburch 129 in The Hague. His work for the Dutch air defense was viewed as “anti-German,” and he was considered a Jew by the Germans despite his conversion. During his imprisonment as a “protective prisoner” in the Oranj...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20Sherman%20Savage
W. Sherman Savage
William Sherman Savage (March 7, 1890 – May 23, 1981), generally known as W. Sherman Savage, was an American historian, professor of history at Lincoln University in Missouri, and author of Blacks in the West, a foundational survey of the subject. A specialist in African American history, he also taught at Jarvis Chris...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward%20Muir
Ward Muir
Wardrop Openshaw Muir (22 June 1878 – 9 June 1927) was a British photographer, journalist, editor, and author, known as Ward Muir. Early life Muir was born in Waterloo, Lancashire, the younger son of the Rev. J. J. Muir, a minister of the Waterloo Presbyterian Church of England, and his wife Sarah Openshaw Clapperton,...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Toothpaste%20Millionaire
The Toothpaste Millionaire
As their business, which they name "Toothpaste," gains national success, the young entrepreneurs face challenges from established toothpaste manufacturers who feel threatened by the competition. This leads to legal battles and moments of tension, including disaster when criminal elements detonate an explosive in the To...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie%20Lynn%20Miranda
Marie Lynn Miranda
Marie Lynn Miranda (born ) is an American economist, data scientist, and academic administrator. She became the tenth chancellor of the University of Illinois Chicago and a vice president of the University of Illinois System in July 2023. She previously served as provost and professor of applied computational mathemati...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaho%20%28archeological%20site%29
Yaho (archeological site)
Yaho or Yayo is an archeological site 160 kilometers northwest of Koro Toro, Chad. In 1961, Yves Coppens excavated a partial hominin face and erected the taxon Tchadanthropus uxoris. Loxodonta atlantica were also discovered from the site. Chronology It is proposed that the middle of the Angamma delta bore Holocene st...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaho%20%28archeological%20site%29
Yaho (archeological site)
On March 16, 1961, Yves Coppens' wife, Françoise Le Guennec, discovered a hominin fossil at one end of the Angamma cliff, 11 kilometers from the western well of Yayo. Initially, the specimen was assumed to be an australopithecine, but Coppens would later assign it the temporary name Tchadanthropus uxoris based on the c...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandramohan%20S
Chandramohan S
Chandramohan Sathyanathan (born 1988) is an Indian poet. He resides in Thiruvananthapuram and has primarily been part of the contemporary Indian English poetry scene. He trained as an engineer. Chandramohan's poetry covers a range of themes, with a particular emphasis on issues related to caste discrimination, gender s...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Frederik%20Kinch
Karl Frederik Kinch
In particular, he visited the lands of the Kingdom of Greece as well as Asia Minor. He arrived in Athens in October 1894. In Athens, he learned from other archaeologists that knowledge of Macedonia (then part of the Salonica vilayet of the Ottoman Empire) was lacking. Kinch made a special focus of the peninsula Chal...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Frederik%20Kinch
Karl Frederik Kinch
Excavations at Rhodes Kinch worked with the Carlsberg Foundation to select a potentially fruitful site for a new archaeological expedition, visiting both Smyrna and Cyrene in the Eastern Mediterranean in 1900 to 1901. He eventually selected Lindos on the island of Rhodes after some exploratory visits to the region. I...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20peace%20treaties%20with%20the%20Comanche
Spanish peace treaties with the Comanche
The Comanche were pure nomads, practicing no agriculture and with no permanent settlements. They acquired horses in the early 18th century, relied on bison (buffalo) for subsistence, and were adroit at war, diplomacy, and trade. By 1750, they were divided by geography into two groups: the western Comanche who lived mos...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20peace%20treaties%20with%20the%20Comanche
Spanish peace treaties with the Comanche
In May 1785, Governor Cabello, under pressure from the Viceroy in Mexico City to reach peace with the Comanche, persuaded Vial to undertake a peace mission to the Comanche. Vial selected Chaves to accompany him because of his familiarity with the Comanche and knowledge of the language. Vial and Chaves and two servants...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmer%20Kalas
Helmer Kalas
Kaarlo Helmer Kalas (former surname Kilkki ; 1 July 1921 – 1976) was a Finnish soldier, memoirist and spy. Early life and World War II Kalas' parents were police constable August Evald Kilkki and Martta Huopalainen. Kalas graduated from high school in 1940 (transferred to the VII grade from Mikkeli Lyceum ). He partic...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermission%20%28Hopper%29
Intermission (Hopper)
Development In 1963, Hopper expressed interest in continuing his series of paintings set in a theater. His original plan was to paint inside of a movie theater after hours when it was closed and there were no people around. Josephine shared this information with American historian James Flexner, who personally approach...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermission%20%28Hopper%29
Intermission (Hopper)
Biochemist and art essayist Joseph L. Goldstein argues that Hopper was the artist who best foreshadowed and represented the isolation and separation experienced by the general public dealing with COVID-19. Hopper's art, writes Goldstein, "speaks to the spirit of the pandemic's quarantine culture." Goldstein cites Hopp...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%27s%20owl-clover
Victoria's owl-clover
Castilleja victoriae is a species of flowering plant in the broomrape family known by the common names Victoria's owl-clover and Victoria's paintbrush. Distribution and range Castilleja victoriae is endemic to a small region of southeastern Vancouver Island in British Columbia (near its namesake city of Victoria) and ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Alexius%20Hospital%20%28Missouri%29
St. Alexius Hospital (Missouri)
St. Alexius Hospital was an American hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 1869 by the Catholic order of the Alexian Brothers, a healing order of Catholic men. In 1870, it began operation as a two-bed facility. In 1874, a larger building was erected. In 1890, a four-story main building was completed, with a fif...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitta%20Maharaj
Chitta Maharaj
Chitta Maharaj (born Chitta Ranjan Debbarma, 22 January 1962) is an Indian spiritual guru and head of the Shanti Kali Ashram. He was honored with the Karmayogi Award in 2021 for his contribution towards tribal welfare, health and organic agriculture, social upliftment, education in remote and tribal areas of Tripura th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ross%2C%20King%20of%20Cocos%20Islands
John Ross, King of Cocos Islands
John Ross, King of Cocos Islands is a 1940 Australian radio play by John Morgan about John Ross of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. It was the first play from Morgan, a New Zealander who lived in Sydney and worked as the manager of a firm. It was produced as part of the 1940 Australian Radio Competition. Premise Accordin...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongly-polynomial%20time
Strongly-polynomial time
However, if an algorithm runs in polynomial time in the arithmetic model, and in addition, the binary length of all inputs, outputs, and intermediate values is polynomial in the number of input values, then it is always polynomial-time in the Turing model. Such an algorithm is said to run in strongly polynomial time. ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Anxious%20City
The Anxious City
Delvaux painted the man in the suit and bowler hat for the first time in The Anxious City and included him in several paintings over the next few years. This man typically appears unaware of his surroundings, whether he is among nude women or faces some catastrophe everybody else reacts to. Delvaux said he was based on...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SE%20Palmeiras%20in%20international%20football
SE Palmeiras in international football
Libertadores finals (1961 and 1968) In 1961, Palmeiras qualified for its first Libertadores on the second edition of the competition. In its group it only had Independiente from Argentina winning both the matches, eliminating Independiente and qualifying for the semi-finals in which they faced the Colombian team, Sant...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SE%20Palmeiras%20in%20international%20football
SE Palmeiras in international football
Palmeiras faced a challenging road to the finals, defeating the defending champions Vasco da Gama in the round of 16 by 5–3 on aggregate, rival Corinthians in the quarterfinals on penalties, and 1996 Copa Libertadores winners River Plate in the semi-finals by 3–1 on aggregate. Palmeiras' base team, in addition to goal...
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