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75938657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahram%20Mirza%20Album | Bahram Mirza Album | The Bahram Mirza Album is the art collection of the Safavid prince Bahram Mirza Safavi, compiled by Dust Mohammad Haravi between 1543 and 1545. Kept in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul since the second half of the 16th-century, it appears to have had a significant influence on Safavid Iran's perception of a unique Persia... | 2.28125 | 0 |
75938727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prahlad%20Karmakar | Prahlad Karmakar | Prahlad Karmakar (Bengali: প্রহ্লাদ কর্মকার) (1900-1946) was an Indian painter of the 20th century. He was born in the year 1900 in the village of Bikrampur in the then undivided Bengal. In 1925 he was the first artist to set up a studio in Calcutta with facilities for the study of 'nude' art. His paintings are in the ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
75938796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutilus%20stoumboudae | Rutilus stoumboudae | Rutilus stoumboudae is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found only in Greece, in Lake Volvi and is a lacustrine species adapted to still water. It is named for Maria Stoumboudi, in honour of her research on the ecology and conservation of the freshwater fishes of Greece.
Description
Rutilus... | 2.5625 | 0 |
75939156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20the%20TA%20Ranch | Siege of the TA Ranch | The New York Times reported that twenty Invaders tried to escape behind a fusillade, but the posse beat them back and killed three to five. With the situation becoming desperate, one of the Invaders, Mike Shonsey, managed to slip out and run to get help. At that time, the posse tried to break the stalemate. They first ... | 1.921875 | 0 |
75939340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20French%20%28footballer%29 | Thomas French (footballer) | Thomas French was an amateur English footballer, who won the FA Cup with Old Etonians in 1882, playing as a full-back.
Family background
French was the son of Frederic French, rector of St Mary's Church in Worlingworth, Suffolk. He was educated at Eton College, where he was a King's Scholar, earning the Prince Conso... | 2.0625 | 0 |
75939502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why%20Do%20the%20Heathen%20Rage%3F%20%28novel%29 | Why Do the Heathen Rage? (novel) | Why Do the Heathen Rage? is an incomplete novel by the American author Flannery O'Connor. The manuscript was edited and assembled by Jessica Hooten Wilson and published in 2024 by Brazos Press under the title, Flannery O'Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage? A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress.
History
A yea... | 2.078125 | 0 |
75939655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius%20Region%20under%20Lithuanian%20administration%20%281939%E2%80%931940%29 | Vilnius Region under Lithuanian administration (1939–1940) | On September 19, Lithuanian envoy in Moscow Ladas Natkevičius claimed Lithuanian rights to Vilnius. After the new German-Soviet border was established on September 28, the Soviets invited the Lithuanians to talks. Negotiations lasted from October 3 to 10. The result of the talks was the "Treaty on Mutual Assistance and... | 2.53125 | 0 |
75939655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius%20Region%20under%20Lithuanian%20administration%20%281939%E2%80%931940%29 | Vilnius Region under Lithuanian administration (1939–1940) | Throughout the interwar period, official propaganda for the recapture of Vilnius built up an image of Vilnius as a country suffering poverty and backwardness under Polish rule; this impression was compounded by the ongoing hostilities. As a result, there were initiatives in Lithuania to send humanitarian aid to Vilnius... | 2.53125 | 0 |
75939655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius%20Region%20under%20Lithuanian%20administration%20%281939%E2%80%931940%29 | Vilnius Region under Lithuanian administration (1939–1940) | Conspiracy
From the very beginning of the Lithuanian administration, secret political and military organisations began emerging. One of the first was the Government Commissariat, founded in Vilnius at the turn of September and October 1939, by Rajmund Gostkowski and Bronisław Świątnicki. It was an anti-Sanation organi... | 2.03125 | 0 |
75939782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed%20Humayun%20Akhter | Syed Humayun Akhter | Syed Humayun Akhter is a Bangladeshi academic, earthquake researcher, and former vice-chancellor of Bangladesh Open University. He is the former Chairman of the Department of Geology and former Provost of Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah Hall at the University of Dhaka. He is a seismologist and established Dhaka University Ear... | 2.03125 | 0 |
75940032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Durkee | Norman Durkee | Norman Edward Durkee was an American composer and pianist known for his eclectic mix of classical, jazz, rock and blues but best known for his boogie-woogie piano contribution to the 1974 Bachman–Turner Overdrive hit "Takin' Care of Business".
Described as a piano prodigy, he graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
75940181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS%20Hecla | RMS Hecla | RMS Hecla was an ocean liner for the Cunard Line, built in 1860 and scrapped in 1954. As of 2024, she is the longest surviving vessel built for the company, lasting 94 years.
Design and construction
The Hecla was the third of five sister ships built between 1860 and 1861 for the Cunard Line, the others being Olympus, ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
75940510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Man%20%28song%29 | History of Man (song) | "History of Man" is a song by English singer-songwriter Maisie Peters released as the fifteenth (and final) song on her sophomore album The Good Witch. Peters released her second album The Good Witch on 23 June 2023, which debuted at #1 on the UK charts. "History of Man" was written during a week long session at Decoy ... | 1.96875 | 0 |
75941274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting%20Laughters | Waiting Laughters | The second section portrays the current state of Nigerian society, where laughter is scarce and sorrow is common. The poet uses binary opposites, such as truth and falsehood, life and death, hunger and abundance, to contrast the situation of the oppressed and the oppressor. Graphic presentations are used to emphasise t... | 2.234375 | 0 |
75941522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montmaurin-La%20Niche%20mandible | Montmaurin-La Niche mandible | The Montmaurin-La Niche (M-LN) mandible is a fossil jawbone with teeth discovered by Louis Mèroc on 18 June, 1949. As well as the mandible, a collection of hominin remains including another mandible, teeth, and maxilla were discovered in the neighboring Coupe-Gorge cavity. They probably represent the same lineage of ho... | 2.75 | 0 |
75941522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montmaurin-La%20Niche%20mandible | Montmaurin-La Niche mandible | According to Martín-Francés (2020), the mandible falls within the range of Neanderthals based on the bloated pulp cavities and robusticity, but the primitive mandible suggests affinities with an earlier population. They conclude that the mosaic traits of the mandible, including Neanderthal-like dentine surfaces and apo... | 2.703125 | 0 |
75941637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Plumer%20Jacobs | William Plumer Jacobs | Jacobs first mentioned the idea of "Clinton College" in his diary on May 29, 1874, and he expanded on this with an idea of turning Clinton High School into a college on July 3, 1875. In 1876, he set out a goal of laying the Clinton College cornerstone before May 28, 1885. On September 11, 1880, Jacobs directed William ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
75941637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Plumer%20Jacobs | William Plumer Jacobs | By October 1894, the orphanage's assets had grown to over $17,000 (). Earlier that year, Jacobs had remarked that the orphanage had grown to a size equivalent to that of the town of Clinton thirty years prior. In 1909, Jacobs opened Thornwell Memorial Church on the orphanage's campus to alleviate the issue of limited s... | 2.0625 | 0 |
75941698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abishemu%20of%20Byblos | Abishemu of Byblos | Abishemu of Byblos (Ib-shemu; ʼb-šmw) was the ruler of the city-state of Byblos during the late Middle Bronze IIA (c. 1820-1628 BC). In relation to Syria, the ruler of byblos held the title "king" in the Mari Archive. However, Abishemu belongs to a sequence of rulers who held the Egyptian title Haty-aa of Kepny (ḥꜣty-ʻ... | 2.25 | 0 |
75941899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona%20Gould | Mona Gould | Mona McTavish Gould (January 25, 1905 - March 8, 1999) was a Canadian poet, journalist, and broadcaster. Her most famous poem, "This Was My Brother," was inspired by her brother's death during World War II, and was reprinted in various anthologies.
Early life
Gould was born Mona McTavish in Prince Albert, Saskatchewa... | 2 | 0 |
75942966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacunicambarus%20chimera | Lacunicambarus chimera | Lacunicambarus chimera, or the Crawzilla crawdad, is a species of cambarid crayfish endemic to the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee.
Description
Compared to other species of crayfish in its range, L. chimera is a sizable crayfish. On average, adults of this species range from about ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
75943087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Seoul%20Press | The Seoul Press | The paper was intended to justify and paint a particularly positive image of Japan's colonization of Korea. According to the historian Mark E. Caprio, articles relating to events in colonial Korea were sometimes reported differently in The Seoul Press and The Japan Times, but that the reportage in both coincided in dep... | 2.234375 | 0 |
75943173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sathyanarayana%20Beleri | Sathyanarayana Beleri | Sathyanarayana Beleri is a farmer and also a paddy conservator of Nettinge village in Bellur Gramapanchayath in Kasaragod district in Kerala. A man who turned to agriculture after completing his studies in the 10th standard, is now maintaining a gene pool of more than 650 varieties of rice using innovative methods dev... | 2.109375 | 0 |
75943402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civ-Alert | Civ-Alert | Civ-Alert was approved for use in November 1960 and began full-time service on December 1, 1960. It was tested for the first time on January 3, 1961, and all Honolulu radio stations received the signal from Civil Defense in Diamond Head; they were equipped with warning lights to make them aware of impending Civ-Alert b... | 2.6875 | 0 |
75943719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Assurance%20%281780%29 | HMS Assurance (1780) | Assurance was commissioned by Captain James Cumming in April 1780, while the ship was still being completed. She sailed on 27 October to join the North America Station. There, the ship captured the American privateer brig Duke of Leinster on 23 May 1781, and two days later took the schooner Fanny. Subsequently serving ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
75943719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Assurance%20%281780%29 | HMS Assurance (1780) | Recommissioned in July under the command of Lieutenant John Norris, Assurance sailed to the Mediterranean Sea one month later. Norris was replaced by Commander Ranceford Tookey on 6 December, and sometime subsequent to this the ship returned to the West Indies. In August 1798 she formed part of a large convoy travellin... | 2.078125 | 0 |
75943730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915%E2%80%931917%20Wheelbarrow%20Mine%20strike | 1915–1917 Wheelbarrow Mine strike | In 1915, coal miners affiliated with the United Mine Workers (UMW) labor union at the Wheelbarrow Mine in Johnson County, Arkansas, went on strike against the mine's operators, the Pennsylvania Mining Company (PMC). The strike ended in 1917 after the PMC declared bankruptcy and a new company, the Fernwood Mining Compan... | 2.359375 | 0 |
75943730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915%E2%80%931917%20Wheelbarrow%20Mine%20strike | 1915–1917 Wheelbarrow Mine strike | Immigrant workers brought in from Pennsylvania
Given the resignation of many UMW miners, starting in late 1910, PMC began to replace local miners with a primarily immigrant and non-union labor force. Many of these workers were immigrants from Eastern Europe, such as Austria, Hungary, Poland, and Russia, who had been l... | 2.203125 | 0 |
75943768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volhynian%20folk%20costume | Volhynian folk costume | Men's clothing
Male shirts were made of either homespun fabrics or of industry-made cotton . The collar was either stand-up or turnover, adorned with satin-stitch or cross-stitch embroidery. The opening was usually put at the centre of the garment or, in Western regions, on the left-hand side; it had a single tin or k... | 2.65625 | 0 |
75943944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeggeria | Honeggeria | Honeggeria is a single-species fungal genus in the family Teloschistaceae. It contains the species Honeggeria rosmarieae, a corticolous (bark-dwelling), foliose lichen found in the United States. Characteristic features of the lichen include its isidia-like soredia, rhizines that are relatively broad and short, slender... | 1.976563 | 0 |
75944669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kegham%20Djeghalian | Kegham Djeghalian | While his family left for Egypt in light of the 1967 Six-Day War, Djeghalian decided to stay in Gaza as "He loved Palestine. He loved Gaza. It was his home." Around that time, Djeghalian worked with other Armenian photographers in the West Bank to send negatives to Egyptian intelligence. He earned the nickname Al Musaw... | 2.21875 | 0 |
75944812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orconuma%20meteorite | Orconuma meteorite | The Orconuma meteorite is a meteorite that was discovered in the Philippines, and it is one of six meteorites from the Philippines listed in the Meteoritical Society's Bulletin database. The meteorite is thought to have formed about 4.6 billion years ago.
History
The Orconuma meteorite fell to Earth on March 7, 20... | 2.875 | 0 |
75945563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Fischer%20%28scientist%29 | Andrea Fischer (scientist) | Andrea Fischer (born 1973) is an Austrian glaciologist, Professor and Vice Director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Mountain Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She was named as the Austrian Scientist of the Year in 2023.
Early life and education
Fischer is from St. Johann in Tirol and grew up in Salz... | 2.078125 | 0 |
75945563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Fischer%20%28scientist%29 | Andrea Fischer (scientist) | Research and career
In 2010 Fischer was made a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Mountain Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Fischer studies the melting of Alpine glaciers. She leads the Human-Environment Relationships, High Mountains at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). She has studied the dynami... | 2.609375 | 0 |
75946086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rani%20Murmu | Rani Murmu | Rani Murmu (born 1988) is an Indian Santali eminent writer. She was awarded with Yuva Puraskar by Sahitya Akademi for her book Hopon mayak kukmu in 2018.
Early life education
Murmu was born in 1988 at Deoghar (Birdih), Jamshedpur to Sita Murmu and Budhrai Murmu. She did her graduation from Ranchi University in Politi... | 2.4375 | 0 |
75946217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus%20laurifolia | Ficus laurifolia | Ficus laurifolia is an hemi-epiphytic species that sometimes grows as a shrub or liana or as a tree, the species is within the family Moraceae.
Description
The species grows as a shrub, a liana or as a medium to large sized tree that can reach an height of about , the bark is grey while the slash is reddish to pale b... | 2.328125 | 0 |
75947219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz%20S%C5%82obodzianek | Tadeusz Słobodzianek | Tadeusz Słobodzianek (born 26 April 1955) is a Polish playwright, theatre director and critic.
Life
Słobodzianek was born on 26 April 1955 in Yeniseysk, Soviet Union. He graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków with a degree in theatre studies. Between 1978 and 1981, he wrote theatre reviews under the alia... | 2.203125 | 0 |
75947525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Macedo | Victor Macedo | Julio César Arana and his rubber firm employed Victor Macedo as an administrator at La Chorrera, Colombia, during the Putumayo genocide. The rubber firms that controlled La Chorrera were dependent on an enslaved workforce to extract raw rubber, which would then be sent to the port at La Chorrera. Years before the Peruv... | 2.59375 | 0 |
75947525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Macedo | Victor Macedo | Rómulo Paredes, a judge who investigated the Putumayo genocide in 1911, believed the first massacres in the region began under Larrañaga's leadership and continued under Macedo's administration. In the ninth chapter of his 1915 book El Proceso del Putumayo y sus secretos, Valcarcel examines the culpability of Macedo, A... | 2.53125 | 0 |
75948706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu%20in%20Hollywood | Lulu in Hollywood | Lulu in Hollywood is a collection of essays by the silent film actress Louise Brooks. First published in 1982, the book brings together seven previously published autobiographical essays, namely “Kansas to New York”, “On Location with Billy Wellman”, “Marion Davies’ Niece”, “Humphrey and Bogey”, “The Other Face of W. C... | 1.9375 | 0 |
75949454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla%20Falc%C3%B3n | Priscilla Falcón | Priscilla Falcón (born 1940) is a Professor Emeritus of Chicano/a and Latinx Studies at University of Northern Colorado and a Chicana activist. She also publishes under the name Priscilla Falcon-Lujan. After her husband Ricardo Falcón was murdered, she became an outspoken activist for the Chicano/a Movement.
Biography... | 2.421875 | 0 |
75949560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline%20Rosenthal | Pauline Rosenthal | Pauline Emmanuel Rosenthal (1845-1912) was a German choral conductor and composer who lived in South Africa for many years.
Rosenthal was born in Aachen, Germany. She studied music at the Cologne Conservatory, where one of her classmates was Engelbert Humperdinck.
Rosenthal married Albert Rosenthal and they had three... | 2.3125 | 0 |
75949782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPU%20mining | GPU mining | GPU mining is the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to "mine" proof-of-work cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin. Miners receive rewards for performing computationally intensive work, such as calculating hashes, that amend and verify transactions on an open and decentralized ledger. GPUs can be especially performant... | 2.609375 | 0 |
75949939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wild%20Robot%20%28novel%29 | The Wild Robot (novel) | Booklist also proffered a starred review for the audiobook narrated by Kate Atwater. Reviewer Amanda Blau highlighted how "music and sound effects underscore the early action", though it disappears once Roz is booted up, as well as how "Atwater gives each animal a voice representing its nature".
In 2016, Booklist, Kir... | 2.171875 | 0 |
75949942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20Battle%20of%20Kitshanga | Second Battle of Kitshanga | The Second battle of Kitshanga broke out between Rwandan-backed M23 fighters and self-defense groups known as Wazalendo allied with the Congolese government. In January 2023, M23 rebels captured Kitshanga from the Congolese Army and allied forces in their renewed offensive in North Kivu. Wazalendo forces captured Kitsh... | 1.9375 | 0 |
75950164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Bartolom%C3%A9%20National%20Hospital | San Bartolomé National Hospital | San Bartolomé Mother–Child National Teaching Hospital (, HNDMNSB) is a public teaching hospital that specialises in pediatric and maternal care located in Alfonso Ugarte Avenue, in front of Archbishop Loayza National Hospital, in Lima, Peru. It is administered by the Ministry of Health (MINSA).
It was founded during t... | 2.515625 | 0 |
75950689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam%20Uwais | Maryam Uwais | Maryam Hajiya Uwais, is a Nigerian business woman, lawyer, human right activist and politician who served as the Special Advisor on Social Investments to Muhammadu Buhari from 2015 till 2023. She has over 36 years experience in law practice, including roles at the Kano state ministry of industry, the central bank of N... | 2.25 | 0 |
75950809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%20%28franchise%29 | Barney (franchise) | Barney is an American media franchise targeted at children aged 2–6. Centering around the titular character Barney, a purple anthropomorphic Tyrannosaurus rex who conveys educational messages through songs and small dance routines with a friendly, huggable and optimistic attitude, the franchise consists of three series... | 1.929688 | 0 |
75950835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogger%20%28series%29 | Frogger (series) | Frogger is a Japanese video game series published and owned by Konami, and developed by multiple studios. The series generally involves a frog trying to travel across roads and rivers of high traffic and danger. The first game in the series was the 1981 arcade game Frogger, and new games in the series have been release... | 2.296875 | 0 |
75950909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Weberhofer | Walter Weberhofer | Walter Weberhofer Quintana (San Jerónimo de Tunán; — Lima; ) was a Peruvian architect of the 20th century.
Biography
Weberhofer was born on March 24, 1923, to parents Oswaldo Weberhofer Pilts and Dolores Quintana Gurt. His father, born in 1886 in the Austro-Hungarian town of Liezen, was a park ranger in nearby Graz. ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
75951495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyrinchium%20albilapidense | Sisyrinchium albilapidense | Sisyrinchium albilapidense is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae. It is recorded only from a single location in the state of Santa Caterina, Brazil, where it grows in subtropical mixed forest.
Description
Sisyrinchium albilapidense is a erect, perennial herbaceous plant that grows 9–24 cm tall. The p... | 2.125 | 0 |
75951495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyrinchium%20albilapidense | Sisyrinchium albilapidense | The perigon (the structure formed by the flower's tepals) is disk shaped, and mostly yellow or whitish. The tepals are yellow at the base, followed by a brown or burgundy (vinaceous) ring. Five burgundy-colored veins (three large, two small) extend out from the ring along the yellowish tepals; these are visible from ab... | 2.375 | 0 |
75951657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20environmental%20issues%20in%20Victoria | List of environmental issues in Victoria | Tyre stockpiles
2017: Approximately one million tyres that weighed about 9500 tonnes were removed in over 380 truck loads from a site in Stawell that posed a fire risk. The removal was completed in nine weeks. The removal cost EPA Victoria A$4.5 million.
2019: Approximately half a million tyres that weighed 5000 to... | 1.976563 | 0 |
75951673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapchat%20dysmorphia | Snapchat dysmorphia | Snapchat dysmorphia, also known as "selfie dysmorphia", is a trending phenomenon used to describe patients who seek out plastic surgery in order to replicate and appear like their filtered selfies or altered images of themselves. The increasing availability and variety of filters used on social media apps, such as Snap... | 2.0625 | 0 |
75952544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyte%20Jouvin | Hippolyte Jouvin | Hippolyte Jouvin (1825–1889) was a French photographer and publisher of stereoscopic photographs. He is considered a pioneer in the field of photogravure, and was one of the first photographers to use wet collodion process.
In 1863, he published a series of over two hundred stereoscopic photographs titled Vues instant... | 2.796875 | 0 |
75952573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s%20Road%2C%20Richmond | Queen's Road, Richmond | Queen's Road is a street in Richmond in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, running southwestwards from Sheen Road up Richmond Hill until it meets the street of that name by the former Star and Garter Home. It forms a section of the B353 road and runs roughly parallel to the edge of Richmond Park. Pesthouse Com... | 2.078125 | 0 |
75952718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20Callis%20Hunter | Alice Callis Hunter | Alice Callis Hunter (1898–1989) was a community leader in Washington, DC. Hunter was the first black appointee on the D.C. Recreation Board, where she fought segregation in the city's recreation facilities. Later, Hunter was the first black president of the District of Columbia League of Women Voters.
Early life and e... | 2.484375 | 0 |
75952781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Brandon%20Moses | Sarah Brandon Moses | In either 1811 or 1812, Sarah and her brother Isaac relocated to Paramaribo in the Dutch colony of Suriname and underwent formal conversions to Judaism. Sarah was 13 and her brother Isaac was 19. Synagogue records from Suriname list both siblings as converts and as Portuguese Jews. Following her conversion, her father ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
75952930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voldemort%20effect | Voldemort effect | The Voldemort effect is a social phenomenon where people are fearful of naming someone, to speak of something or acknowledge it exists, and therefore derail any attempt to confront it. The phrase takes cue from the line associated with Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series: 'he who must not be named', because they ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
75953383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condate%20Riedonum | Condate Riedonum | Condate Riedonum is the Gallo-Roman name for the city of Rennes in France. It was the main city and capital of the civitas Riedonum in Roman Gaul.
Etymology
Condate is a toponym of Gaulish origin which refers to a river confluence. Riedonum comes from the tribe of the Riedones, of which Condate was the capital. This ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
75954090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Babbage%27s%20Saturday%20night%20soir%C3%A9es | Charles Babbage's Saturday night soirées | Charles Babbage's Saturday night soirées were gatherings held by the mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage at his home in Dorset Street, Marylebone, London from 1828 and into the 1840s. The soirées were attended by the cultural elite of the time.
Scientific soirées
Babbage left England when his wife and father ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
75954518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafirst%20Bank%20robbery | Seafirst Bank robbery | On February 10, 1997, the Seafirst Bank branch of Lakewood, Washington, was robbed of $4,461,681 in cash by Billy Kirkpatrick and Ray Bowman, also known as the Trenchcoat Robbers. An investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service caught the two, and they were both sent to 15 years... | 2.140625 | 0 |
75955045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glissando%20babbler | Glissando babbler | The glissando babbler (Pellorneum saturatum) is a species of bird in the ground babbler family Pellorneidae. It is found on the Indonesian islands of Bangka and Belitung as well as west and southwest Borneo. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the short-tailed babbler, now renamed the mourning babbler (Pel... | 2.65625 | 0 |
75955961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos%20Kaz%C3%A1r | Lajos Kazár | Lajos Kazár (1924–1998) was a Hungarian linguist.
Early life
Lajos Kazár was born in 1924 in Balozsameggyes, Vas County, Hungary, into a poor family as the son of a blacksmith. After graduating with honors from the Királyi State Ferenc Faludi High School in Szombathely, he continued his studies in Kassán. At the begin... | 2.140625 | 0 |
75955961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos%20Kaz%C3%A1r | Lajos Kazár | He is credited with translating the Kojiki, the earliest Japanese chronicle, into Hungarian. This was the sixth translation of the Kojiki into a foreign language, following translations into Chinese, English, Italian, French, and German. Another major focus of his research was the history of Transylvania, where he made... | 1.960938 | 0 |
75955961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos%20Kaz%C3%A1r | Lajos Kazár | Another counterargument against his interpretations is that "he does not specify which of the meanings of Japanese words (which he sometimes provides with 3 to 9 different meanings) he considers to be the original (initial) meaning. For example: Japanese am.e, am.a- or Old Japanese am.a (meaning 'sky, rain, deity') com... | 1.929688 | 0 |
75956191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20Frassinetti | Giuseppe Frassinetti | One day, she had the courage to open up the idea to her father Giambattista, who was not particularly happy about it. His only daughter Paolina, as he fondly called her, seemed to him irreplaceable for the smooth running of the family. Some friends, however, advised him to let her try; arguing that the girl's precariou... | 2.125 | 0 |
75956191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20Frassinetti | Giuseppe Frassinetti | Fr. Joseph, who was following the events closely, developed with Paola the idea of founding a new religious institute, in which dowries would not be required. This project was approved by the members of the Congregation of Blessed Leonardo, and was also positively evaluated by the famous Jesuit Father Antonio Bresciani... | 2.28125 | 0 |
75956191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20Frassinetti | Giuseppe Frassinetti | According to Fr. Frassinetti, the starting point of the path to holiness is the desire for it, without which it is impossible to proceed. This desire must be nurtured with great care, to the point of "offering ourself to God", that is, to entrust to him all of our being and possessions. By doing so, we shall receive Go... | 2.015625 | 0 |
75956936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20in%20Gotland%20%281448%E2%80%931449%29 | War in Gotland (1448–1449) | Aftermath
After the agreement was signed with Eric, Birger sailed back to Sweden in order to inform the king of it, but he was promptly sent back in order to make the Gutes swear allegiance to the king. Eric was invited to the Swedish lords to celebrate New Year's Eve, something that led him to stop the Danish ransom ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
75957601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20%22Eddie%22%20Rosenstein | Edward "Eddie" Rosenstein | In 2008, Rosenstein began working on Sandhogs, a feature length documentary and subsequent non-fiction television series about the urban miners building new water tunnels and subway tunnels under New York City. He aimed to gain insight into the lives and challenges of the sandhogs by working alongside them. After ini... | 2.390625 | 0 |
75959652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minrose%20Gwin | Minrose Gwin | Minrose Gwin (born November 9, 1945) is an American novelist, memoirist, literary and cultural scholar, teacher, and editor, whose works focus primarily on the American South. Like the characters in her novel Promise, she was born in Tupelo, Mississippi.
Education
Gwin received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in English fr... | 2.5 | 0 |
75959652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minrose%20Gwin | Minrose Gwin | In 2004, Gwin published the memoir Wishing for Snow about the collision of poetry and psychosis in her mother's life. The memoir marked her turn to creative writing. Her debut novel, The Queen of Palmyra (2010), was a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers sel... | 2.28125 | 0 |
75959885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9var%C3%A9%20hotel%20attack | Sévaré hotel attack | On August 7, 2015, jihadists from Al-Mourabitoun and Katiba Macina attacked the Byblos Hotel in Sévaré, Mali. The attack was one of the largest attacks against civilians in Mopti Region during the Mali War, and led to the deaths of thirteen people, including five civilians.
Background
Jihadist groups like Ansar Dine ... | 1.929688 | 0 |
75960540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callater%20Burn | Callater Burn | The Callater Burn is a river in the Scottish council area of Aberdeenshire. Queen Victoria's last excursion with her husband Prince Albert, who died in 1861, is said to have taken place on 16 October of the same year through Glen Clunie to Glen Callater, which Albert is said to have admired for its beauty.
Geography
T... | 1.929688 | 0 |
75960987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yore%20Mill | Yore Mill | Yore Mill is a historic building in Aysgarth, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.
The mill lies on the River Ure, by Yore Bridge. In the late Mediaeval period, the site housed a fulling mill, which was replaced in the late 18th century by a cotton mill. This burned down in 1853, and the current mill was comple... | 2.28125 | 0 |
75961230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korowai%20gecko | Korowai gecko | The korowai gecko (Woodworthia korowai), also known as the Muriwai gecko, is a gecko found on the west coast of the Auckland Region of New Zealand. First discovered on Oaia Island in 1954, the species was recognised as distinct from Woodworthia maculata in 2016, and was formally described in 2023. Only 32 individuals a... | 2.328125 | 0 |
75962069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%20West%20Aleta | SS West Aleta | Salvage
The recovery of the cargo from the wreck was difficult and took almost a year. The salvage was carried out by “Nieuwe Bergingsmaatschappij” of Andries Dirkzwagwr from Maassluis, but eventually also vessels of local fishermen and of helped. The last barrels were salvaged by divers. The salvage lasted until Nove... | 2.28125 | 0 |
75962620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolichostachys | Dolichostachys | Description
Dolichostachys elongata is an erect subshrub growing up to tall. The branches are quadrangular and slightly hairy. The leaves are linear to lanceolate and pointed at both the tip and the base, each measuring approximately long and wide. The leaves are hairless, arranged opposite one another, and borne on... | 2.75 | 0 |
75963139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirip%C3%A1%20people | Chiripá people | The Chiripá are a Guaraní indigenous people who live mainly in Paraguay in the area bounded by the Paraná River and the Acaray and Jejuí Rivers, while in Brazil they coexist with other Guarani groups in villages in the states of Mato Grosso do Sul (where they are simply called Guarani), Paraná and São Paulo. The term ñ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
75963686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis%20of%20the%20Piast%20dynasty | Crisis of the Piast dynasty | There was practically no time for individual persuasion and explanation of the principles of the new faith. The old Christian catechesis - the time of learning the faith and individual maturation for baptism - was neglected, being limited to pre-baptismal sermons that showed the greatness of Christianity and the impote... | 2.5 | 0 |
75963686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis%20of%20the%20Piast%20dynasty | Crisis of the Piast dynasty | Pagan Uprising (1032)
In times of crisis, or when oppression by the state, the magnates and the Church increased, riots broke out in the Polish lands. We do not have detailed information on their course. According to the historian Gerard Labuda, it is possible that some group of pagan priests led by Bolesław the Forgo... | 2.765625 | 0 |
75963759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola%20Bijankovi%C4%87 | Nikola Bijanković | Bijanković also administered the Diocese of Duvno and is the most creditable for the conservation of the Catholic population there during the Great Turkish and the Morean War. He regularly visited the areas of the Diocese of Duvno and other parts of his dioceses under the Ottoman occupation, staying there for several w... | 2.515625 | 0 |
75964155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses%20in%20Brittany | Horses in Brittany | In the Middle Ages, the horse became the symbol of an aristocratic elite, due to its high cost of purchase and maintenance. Breeding efforts were undertaken to obtain the best possible animals, if necessary by importing foreign breeding stock at great expense. Well-documented breeding from the year 1,000 onwards was al... | 2.828125 | 0 |
75964155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses%20in%20Brittany | Horses in Brittany | In 1819, the director of the Haras National de Langonnet commented on his difficulties in finding good stallions in the region. Ephrem Houël ran the Langonnet stud from 1838 to 1847. In his Traité complet de l'élève du cheval en Bretagne (1842), he testifies to the central place this animal occupies in Breton life. Eve... | 2.65625 | 0 |
75964155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses%20in%20Brittany | Horses in Brittany | 20th and 21st centuries
The beginning of the 20th century was fatal for transport and luxury horses, which disappeared in favor of the automobile. In 1900, only nine people in the Côtes-du-Nord region owned a car, compared with 121 ten years later. Half-blood breeding collapsed in favor of Breton draft horses, which c... | 2.734375 | 0 |
75964155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses%20in%20Brittany | Horses in Brittany | Brittany breeds a large number of AQPS and French Saddlebreds (the fourth-largest breeding region in France). The French Trotter and Thoroughbred breeds are on a par with the national average, but represent a significant volume, with around 750 and 350 breeding mares respectively. Although rarer in terms of numbers, th... | 2.8125 | 0 |
75964191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panglima%20Kinta%20Mosque | Panglima Kinta Mosque | Panglima Kinta Mosque (Malay: Masjid Panglima Kinta) is a mosque located in the city of Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. The mosque was built in 1898 by Datoh Panglima Kinta Muhamad Yusuff bin Lassam, who was then Panglima Kinta or Lord of Kinta, as a commemoration for his wife, Saaidah bt Chik, who died in the same year. Pangli... | 2.546875 | 0 |
75964229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20E.%20Griffin | Francis E. Griffin | Francis Eugene Griffin (1910–1973) was an American architect. He was a pioneering Black architect in Detroit and helped influence many other early career Black architects in the city. He was part of the architectural firms White & Griffin, and later Ward, Griffin, & Agee, and Francis E. Griffin Associates, Architects, ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
75964417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Beheathland | Robert Beheathland | Captain Robert Beheathland (or Behethland, born before 1587 - ) in St Endellion, Cornwall, England, was an English gentleman who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 aboard one of the three founding ships, likely the Susan Constant. He is noteworthy as the only original 1607 Jamestown colonist having documented desc... | 2.65625 | 0 |
75964635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Woodman | Alexander Woodman | Preventive medicine and clinical research
Woodman has made significant contributions to preventive medicine and clinical research through his collaborations with global institutions and researchers. His work focuses on the genetic, behavioral, and attitudinal determinants that influence the health and well-being of di... | 2.359375 | 0 |
75964690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darhe%20Jesarim | Darhe Jesarim | Darhe Jesarim was a former Jewish congregation and synagogue formed in Sivaplein, in the district of Paramaribo, Suriname. The members of the congregation comprised entirely Afro-Surinamese Jews. Founded in 1759, it was the earliest known synagogue in the African diaspora. The synagogue was disbanded in 1817 and Afro-S... | 2.21875 | 0 |
75965256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bornean%20swamp%20babbler | Bornean swamp babbler | The Bornean swamp babbler (Pellorneum macropterum) is a species of bird in the ground babbler family Pellorneidae that is found in northern and central Borneo and Banggi Island. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the white-chested babbler, now renamed the Malayan swamp babbler (Pellorneum rostratum).
Tax... | 2.5625 | 0 |
75965506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chon%20Young-ae | Chon Young-ae | Life
Chon was born in Yeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea in 1951, and went to Gyeonggi Girls' Middle School and Gyeonggi Girls' High School. Later, she enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts at Seoul National University despite the contemporary prejudice against women's education. There, she earned her ba... | 2.125 | 0 |
75965670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukhanlu%20carpets | Chukhanlu carpets | Chukhanlu carpets - are a type of carpet with a rich and ancient history belonging to the Shirvan group of Azerbaijan's Guba-Shirvan carpet weaving center.
Production
These carpets were primarily produced in carpet weaving centers, predominantly in the ancient district of Shamakhi, known as Gobustan. The name of the c... | 2.4375 | 0 |
75965751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikatapula | Kikatapula | While continuing his stay in jail, Kikatapula met with George Augustus Robinson, an English builder and evangelical Christian, who would regularly minister the prisoners, with Kikatapula assisting him in church services. Robinson helped Kikatapula to become conciliated with British rule and when Governor Arthur suggest... | 2.5 | 0 |
75965886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl%20soldiers | Girl soldiers | Roles in conflict
Although the perception of girl soldiers being exclusively or near-exclusively used in combat service support and sexual roles rather than combat roles is widespread, and has in some cases been furthered by the manner in which post-conflict war crime prosecution was conducted, girl soldiers frequently... | 2.75 | 0 |
75965945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Kalnyk | Battle of Kalnyk | The Battle of Kalnyk took place on 21 October 1671, during the Polish-Cossack-Tatar war of 1666-1671. The Polish crown hetman Jan Sobieski defeated the Cossack-Tatar army, which was coming to the aid of Kalnik, besieged by the Poles. Despite the victory, Sobieski failed to take Kalnik and retreated to Bratslav.
Backgr... | 2.265625 | 0 |
75966282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsia%20Yang | Hsia Yang | In the 1950s, with the assistance of his military comrade Shang Yongmao (尚永茂), Hsia Yang, along with Wu Hao and Ouyang Wenyuan (歐陽文苑), created artworks in an air-raid shelter on LongChiang Street (龍江街). This activity allowed them to interact with figures in the art scene, leading to the acquaintance of individuals such... | 2.328125 | 0 |
75966282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsia%20Yang | Hsia Yang | Overseas Period
In 1963, seeking to broaden his international perspective, Hsia Yang traveled to Europe. He first visited Milan to meet with Xiao Qin and later settled in Paris for five years. During his time in Paris, Hsia Yang took on various jobs, explored museums, went to exhibitions, and continued to create art d... | 2.359375 | 0 |
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