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560252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive%20Era | Progressive Era | The Progressive political crusades were overshadowed in 1919 by violent confrontations with Bolsheviks (Communists), anarchists and violent strikes. The crusading element of progressivism thus largely ended, apart from prohibition, although business-oriented efficiency efforts continued. In 1919, Theodore Roosevelt die... | 2.328125 | 0 |
560252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive%20Era | Progressive Era | The politics of the 1920s was unfriendly toward the labor unions and liberal crusaders against business, so many if not most historians who emphasize those themes write off the decade. Urban cosmopolitan scholars recoiled at the moralism of prohibition, the intolerance of the nativists and the KKK, and on those grounds... | 2.109375 | 0 |
560254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yala%20National%20Park | Yala National Park | Yala (යාල) National Park is the most visited and second largest national park in Sri Lanka, bordering the Indian Ocean. The park consists of five blocks, three of which are now open to the public. There are also two adjoining parks, Kumana National Park or 'Yala East' and Lunugamvehera National Park. The blocks have i... | 3.078125 | 0 |
560254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yala%20National%20Park | Yala National Park | History
In 1560 Spanish cartographer Cipriano Sánchez noted Yala in his map "is abandoned for 300 years due to insalubrious conditions." Chief Justice Sir Alexander Johnston wrote a detailed account on Yala in 1806 after travelling from Trincomalee to Hambantota. On March 23, 1900, the government proclaimed Yala and W... | 2.765625 | 0 |
560254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yala%20National%20Park | Yala National Park | Water is abundant after the northeast monsoon, but during the dry season surface water becomes an important factor. The bodies of surface water appear in the forms of streams, tanks, waterholes, rock pools, and lagoons. Waterholes occur in low lying places while rock pools of varying size are capable of containing wate... | 3.046875 | 0 |
560254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yala%20National%20Park | Yala National Park | Yala National Park has a variety of ecosystems including moist monsoon forests, dry monsoon forests, semi deciduous forests, thorn forests, grasslands, marshes, marine wetlands, and sandy beaches. The area under forest cover mainly consists of Block I and rangelands of open parkland (pelessa grasslands) including some ... | 2.84375 | 0 |
560254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yala%20National%20Park | Yala National Park | Yala is one of the 70 Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in Sri Lanka. Of 215 bird species of the park, seven are endemic to Sri Lanka. They are Sri Lanka grey hornbill, Sri Lanka junglefowl, Sri Lanka wood pigeon, crimson-fronted barbet, black-capped bulbul, blue-tailed bee-eater and brown-capped babbler. The number of water... | 2.953125 | 0 |
560254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yala%20National%20Park | Yala National Park | Including Sri Lankan elephant, 44 species of mammals are resident in Yala National Park, and it has one of the highest leopard densities in the world. 25 individual leopards are estimated to roam in Block I. The elephant herd of Yala contains 300–350 individuals. The Sri Lankan sloth bear, leopard, elephant, and wild w... | 3.1875 | 0 |
560257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality%20of%20Ruhuna | Principality of Ruhuna | The Principality of Ruhuna (Sinhala: , ), also referred to as the Kingdom of Ruhuna, is a region of present-day Southern and Eastern Sri Lanka. It was the center of a flourishing civilisation and the cultural and economic centres of ancient Sri Lanka. Magama, Tissamaharama and Mahanagakula (now called as Ambalantota) w... | 2.84375 | 0 |
560259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBI%CA%BBiwi | ʻIʻiwi | The iiwi (pronounced , ee-EE-vee) (Drepanis coccinea) or scarlet honeycreeper is a species of Hawaiian honeycreeper. The iiwi is a highly recognizable symbol of Hawaii.
Etymology
Linguists derive the Hawaiian language word iiwi from Proto-Nuclear-Polynesian *kiwi, which in central Polynesia refers to the bristle-thig... | 2.8125 | 0 |
560259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBI%CA%BBiwi | ʻIʻiwi | Diet
The long bill of the iiwi assists it to extract nectar from the flowers of the Hawaiian lobelioids, which have decurved corollas. Starting in 1902 the lobelioid population declined dramatically, and the iiwi shifted to nectar from the blossoms of ōhia lehua (Metrosideros polymorpha) trees. Iiwi also eat small arth... | 3.25 | 0 |
560259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBI%CA%BBiwi | ʻIʻiwi | Mitigating Threats and Conservation Issues
One way that has been studied to help mitigate the issue of 'I'iwi and avian malaria is through gene editing to make 'I'iwi that are resistant to malaria. However, a very large number of gene edited 'I'iwi would have to be released before the year 2050 in order for this strat... | 2.734375 | 0 |
560306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague%20doctor | Plague doctor | A plague doctor was a physician who treated victims of bubonic plague during epidemics in 17th-century Europe. These physicians were hired by cities to treat infected patients regardless of income, especially the poor, who could not afford to pay.
Plague doctors had a mixed reputation, with some citizens seeing their ... | 3.078125 | 0 |
560306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague%20doctor | Plague doctor | The city of Orvieto hired Matteo fu Angelo as a plague doctor in 1348 for four times at a normal doctor's rate of 50 florins per year. Pope Clement VI hired several extra plague doctors during the Black Death plague to tend to the sick people of Avignon. Of eighteen doctors in Venice, only one was left by 1348: five ha... | 3.0625 | 0 |
560306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague%20doctor | Plague doctor | The exact origins of the plague costumes are unclear but have been dated back to Italy and France. Plague doctors wore a mask of some form since at least 1373. Most depictions come from satirical writings and political cartoons. The beaked plague doctor inspired costumes in Italian theater as a symbol of general horror... | 3.09375 | 0 |
560306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague%20doctor | Plague doctor | The typical mask had glass openings for the eyes and a curved leather beak, shaped like a bird's beak, with straps that held the beak in front of the doctor's nose. The mask had two small nose holes and was a type of respirator which contained aromatic items. The first known observation of the herbal-stuffed beak was d... | 2.90625 | 0 |
560306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague%20doctor | Plague doctor | The wide-brimmed leather hat indicated their profession, they used wooden canes in order to point out areas needing attention and to examine patients without touching them. The canes were also used to keep people away and to remove clothing from plague victims without having to touch them. The doctor's long robe was ma... | 2.828125 | 0 |
560306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague%20doctor | Plague doctor | Negotiations
The bargaining which always preceded the final contract often consisted of serious negotiations. For example, the town administrators of Turin in 1630 were considering the terms of an agreement requested by one Dr. Maletto to become their plague doctor. After much negotiating, they instructed their broker ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
560309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20Berry%20Brazelton | T. Berry Brazelton | Thomas Berry Brazelton (May 10, 1918 – March 13, 2018) was an American pediatrician, author, and the developer of the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS). Brazelton hosted the cable television program What Every Baby Knows, and wrote a syndicated newspaper column. He wrote more than two hundred scholarly papers... | 2.4375 | 0 |
560309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20Berry%20Brazelton | T. Berry Brazelton | Brazelton is widely known for developing a "child-oriented" approach suggesting to start toilet training not earlier than 24 months of child's age while looking for "readiness signs" for mature toilet behavior. In his work, he shared his opinion that "...there is little innate in the child that leads [them] to want to ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
560309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20Berry%20Brazelton | T. Berry Brazelton | The Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS) looks at a wide range of behaviors and is suitable for examining newborns and infants up to two months old. By the end of the assessment, the examiner has a behavioral "portrait" of the infant, describing the baby's strengths, adaptive responses and possible vulnerabiliti... | 2.734375 | 0 |
560323 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish%20Football%20League%20Second%20Division | Scottish Football League Second Division | The Scottish Football League Second Division was the third tier of the Scottish football league system between 1975 and 2013.
History
The Second Division was created in 1975, as part of a wider reconstruction of the Scottish Football League (SFL). Prior to 1975, the SFL had been split into two divisions (Division One ... | 2.671875 | 0 |
560326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biltmore%20Conference | Biltmore Conference | The Biltmore Conference, also known by its resolution as the Biltmore Program, was a fundamental departure from traditional Zionist policy by its demand "that Palestine be established as a Jewish Commonwealth." The meeting was held in New York City, at the prestigious Biltmore Hotel, from May 6 to May 11, 1942, with 60... | 2.390625 | 0 |
560326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biltmore%20Conference | Biltmore Conference | Official Zionism’s firm unequivocal stand did not please everyone, however. The pro-British Chaim Weizmann had bristled at it. Also, binationalists such as Henrietta Szold and Judah L. Magnes rejected the stand and broke off to establish their own party, Ichud ("Unification"), which advocated an Arab–Jewish federation... | 2.0625 | 0 |
560326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biltmore%20Conference | Biltmore Conference | Then and only then will the age old wrong to the Jewish people be righted.
After approval by the Zionist General Council in Palestine, the Biltmore Program was adopted as the platform of the World Zionist Organization.
Jewish commonwealth
The significance of the program to a Jewish commonwealth was in stepping beyond ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
560336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Carroll | Daniel Carroll | Daniel Carroll Jr. (July 22, 1730May 7, 1796) was an American politician and plantation owner from Maryland and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He supported the American Revolution, served in the Confederation Congress, was a delegate to the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 which penned the Constitutio... | 2.328125 | 0 |
560336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Carroll | Daniel Carroll | When it was suggested that the president (executive branch) should be elected by the Congress (legislative branch), Carroll, seconded by James Wilson, moved that the words "by the legislature" be replaced with "by the people". He and Thomas Fitzsimons were the only Roman Catholics to sign the Constitution, but their pr... | 2.359375 | 0 |
560336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Carroll | Daniel Carroll | Political career
Following the convention, Carroll continued to be involved in state and national affairs. He was a key participant in the Maryland ratification struggle of 1787–1788. He defended the Constitution in the "Maryland Journal", most notably in his response to the arguments advanced by the well-known Anti-Fe... | 2.53125 | 0 |
560347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20of%20St.%20Thomas%20Jenifer | Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer | American Revolution
Despite his close ties with the colonial government, Jenifer strongly resented what he and most of the colonial gentry saw as Parliament's arbitrary interference with the colonies' affairs, especially its laws concerning taxation and trade regulation. Years before the struggle for independence began... | 2.78125 | 0 |
560347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20of%20St.%20Thomas%20Jenifer | Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer | Constitutional Convention
Like his old friend Benjamin Franklin, Jenifer enjoyed the status of elder statesman at the Convention, which took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jenifer used his prestige (as well as humor and reputation as pleasant company) to work for a strong and pe... | 2.546875 | 0 |
560347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20of%20St.%20Thomas%20Jenifer | Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer | Death and legacy
After the convention, Jenifer retired to his plantation at Stepney near Annapolis, where he died in 1790. He was buried at Ellerslie, the place of his birth, which is now on the National Register of Historic Places. In his will, Jenifer passed his roughly land holdings to his nephew, Daniel Jenifer, a... | 2.390625 | 0 |
560353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ%20Manning | Russ Manning | Russell George Manning (January 5, 1929 – December 1, 1981) was an American comic book artist who created the series Magnus, Robot Fighter and illustrated such newspaper comic strips as Tarzan and Star Wars. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2006.
Biography
Manning studied at the Los Angeles C... | 2.453125 | 0 |
560353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ%20Manning | Russ Manning | Manning also drew the Korak stories in the first 11 issues of Gold Key's Korak comic (also written by Du Bois). These were reprinted by Dark Horse Comics in 2 hardcover archive collections.
From 1967 to 1972 he drew the Tarzan daily newspaper comic strip and stayed on the Sunday page until 1979. He also created four ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
560358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonatal%20Behavioral%20Assessment%20Scale | Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale | Despite the influence of the Brazelton scale, it has some drawbacks. The biggest is that no norms are available. Therefore, as examiners and researchers say that one infant scored higher than another one, there is no standard sample with which to compare. NBAS examiners are trained to encourage neonates to demonstrate ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
560361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20Center%20station%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Medical Center station (Washington Metro) | Medical Center station is a Washington Metro station in Bethesda, Maryland, United States. The island-platformed station was opened on August 25, 1984, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Providing service for the Red Line, the station serves the National Institutes of Health ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
560363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce%20Butler%20%28American%20politician%29 | Pierce Butler (American politician) | Pierce Butler (July 11, 1744February 15, 1822) was an Irish-born American politician who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Born in the Kingdom of Ireland, Butler emigrated to the British North American colonies, where he fought in the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he served as a state l... | 2.65625 | 0 |
560363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce%20Butler%20%28American%20politician%29 | Pierce Butler (American politician) | Revolutionary war soldier
In early 1779, Governor John Rutledge asked Butler to help reorganize South Carolina's defenses. Butler assumed the post of the state's adjutant general, a position that carried the rank of brigadier general. He preferred to be addressed as major, his highest combat rank.
Meanwhile, the Briti... | 3.015625 | 0 |
560363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce%20Butler%20%28American%20politician%29 | Pierce Butler (American politician) | Butler displayed inconsistencies that troubled his associates. He favored ratification of the Constitution yet did not attend the South Carolina convention that ratified it. Later, he was elected by the South Carolina state legislature to three terms in the United States Senate — from 1789 to October 1796, and from Nov... | 2.28125 | 0 |
560363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce%20Butler%20%28American%20politician%29 | Pierce Butler (American politician) | Butler retired from politics in 1805 and spent much of his time in Philadelphia, where he had previously established a summer home. Through his business ventures, he became one of the wealthiest men in the nation, with substantial land holdings in several states. Like other Founding Fathers from his region, Butler also... | 2.71875 | 0 |
560363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce%20Butler%20%28American%20politician%29 | Pierce Butler (American politician) | Butler disinherited his only surviving son, Thomas Butler, along with his French-born wife and children. Four of Butler's daughters reached adulthood, but only one of them, Sarah Mease, married or had children. Butler initially planned to leave his entire fortune to Sarah's eldest son, Pierce Butler Mease, but the boy ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
560363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce%20Butler%20%28American%20politician%29 | Pierce Butler (American politician) | Pierce Mease Butler (1810–1867) inherited the other half of his grandfather's Butler Island and St. Simons Island plantations after adopting "Butler" as his surname. The English actress Fanny Kemble and her noted actor/manager father, Charles Kemble, made a two-year theatrical tour of the United States in 1832–34. Pier... | 2.640625 | 0 |
560365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall%20University | Marshall University | On the evening of November 14, 1970, the Thundering Herd football team, along with coaches and fans, were returning home to Huntington from Kinston, North Carolina. The team had just lost a game 17–14 against the East Carolina University Pirates at Ficklen Stadium in Greenville, North Carolina. The chartered Southern A... | 2.03125 | 0 |
560365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall%20University | Marshall University | Old Main is a collection of five buildings joined at the center of the university's campus and has been seen as a symbol of the university. The original structure was completed in 1868, with four other additions that were completed at various intervals until 1907.
The Arthur Weisberg Family Applied Engineering Complex... | 2.203125 | 0 |
560365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall%20University | Marshall University | Scholarship programs
The Society of Yeager Scholars is the highest academic scholarship offered at Marshall University, named in honor of Chuck Yeager, the first recorded pilot to break the sound barrier. Members of the society are selected through a competitive application and interview process from high school senior... | 2.140625 | 0 |
560365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall%20University | Marshall University | Marshall is home to 15 NCAA Division I teams that compete within the Sun Belt. Sports at the school include women's softball, swimming and diving, tennis, volleyball, and track and field; men's football, baseball; and teams for both genders in basketball, cross country, golf, and soccer.
Marshall began playing footbal... | 1.96875 | 0 |
560377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Blair%20Jr. | John Blair Jr. | Early life and education
John Blair was born in Williamsburg, Colony of Virginia, in 1732, to Mary (Monro) (1726–1768) and her merchant and politician husband, John Blair. They had a large family, with ten or twelve children by various accounts, and John was the fourth child, and the eldest surviving son. His father se... | 2.6875 | 0 |
560377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Blair%20Jr. | John Blair Jr. | Blair originally joined the moderate wing of the Patriot cause. He opposed Patrick Henry's extremist resolutions in protest of the Stamp Act, but the dissolution of the House of Burgesses by Parliament profoundly altered his views. In response to a series of taxes on the colonies passed by Parliament, Blair joined Geor... | 2.328125 | 0 |
560377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Blair%20Jr. | John Blair Jr. | On September 24, 1789, President George Washington nominated Blair for one of the five associate justice positions on the newly established U.S. Supreme Court. He was confirmed by the United States Senate two days later. Blair served on the Supreme Court from February 2, 1790, until October 25, 1795. The court's caselo... | 2.28125 | 0 |
560382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascia | Fascia | A fascia (; : fasciae or fascias; adjective fascial; ) is a generic term for macroscopic membranous bodily structures. Fasciae are classified as superficial, visceral or deep, and further designated according to their anatomical location.
The knowledge of fascial structures is essential in surgery, as they create bor... | 3.046875 | 0 |
560382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascia | Fascia | Fascial tissues – particularly those with tendinous or aponeurotic properties – are also able to store and release elastic potential energy.
Anatomical compartments
A fascial compartment is a section within the body that contains muscles and nerves and is surrounded by fascia. In the human body, the limbs can each b... | 3.125 | 0 |
560382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascia | Fascia | FR:EIA was unveiled at the 2021 Fascia Research Congress and is currently exhibited at the Body Worlds exhibition in Berlin. This project represents a significant contribution to the visualization of fascia and has the potential to influence future research in fields such as medicine, physical therapy, and movement sci... | 2.5 | 0 |
560382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascia | Fascia | Due to its viscoelastic properties, superficial fascia can stretch to accommodate the deposition of adipose that accompanies both ordinary and prenatal weight gain. After pregnancy and weight loss, the superficial fascia slowly reverts to its original level of tension.
Visceral
Visceral fascia (also called subserous ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
560394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20%28psychology%29 | Shadow (psychology) | In analytical psychology, the shadow (also known as ego-dystonic complex, repressed id, shadow aspect, or shadow archetype) is an unconscious aspect of the personality that does not correspond with the ego ideal, leading the ego to resist and project the shadow, creating conflict with it. The shadow may be personified... | 1.984375 | 0 |
560394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20%28psychology%29 | Shadow (psychology) | Contrary to a Freudian definition of shadow, the idea can include everything outside the light of consciousness and may be positive or negative. Because a subject can repress awareness or conceal self-threatening aspects of the self, consensus of the idea of the shadow that it is a negative function in the self, despit... | 2.171875 | 0 |
560394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20%28psychology%29 | Shadow (psychology) | Appearance
Jungians believe that the shadow aspect of the Self may appear in dreams and visions (i.e., mise-en-scène), in various forms and typically "appears as a person of the same sex as that of the dreamer." The shadow's appearance and role depend greatly on the living experience of the individual because much of t... | 2.5 | 0 |
560402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang%20Lizhi | Fang Lizhi | In 1957, during the Hundred Flowers Campaign, people were strongly encouraged by the CCP to openly express their opinions and criticisms. As party members, Li, Fang and another person in the physics department planned to write a letter to the party to offer their suggestions on education. This letter was still unfinish... | 1.96875 | 0 |
560402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang%20Lizhi | Fang Lizhi | Academic activities were interrupted when the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966. In 1969, along with other universities and research institutes, USTC was ordered to be evacuated out of Beijing, ostensibly in anticipation of an impending invasion by the Soviet Union. USTC was moved to Hefei, the capital of Anhui Pro... | 2.078125 | 0 |
560402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang%20Lizhi | Fang Lizhi | He was rehabilitated after the reform of China in late 1970s, and resumed his party membership. During this time, he held many academic positions, including the director of the astrophysics research group of USTC, and director of the science history research group, chief editor of the USTC academic journal, chair of th... | 1.960938 | 0 |
560402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang%20Lizhi | Fang Lizhi | Fang was again expelled from Chinese Communist Party in January 1987, and removed from his position as the vice president of the university. He was moved to Beijing as a research scientist at the Beijing Astronomical Observatory, now a part of the National Astronomical Observatory of China, and reunited with his wife, ... | 2.375 | 0 |
560404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther%20Martin | Luther Martin | Luther Martin (February 20, 1748, New Brunswick, New Jersey – July 10, 1826, New York, New York) was a Founding Father of the United States, framer of the U.S. Constitution, politician, lawyer, and slave owner. Martin was a delegate from Maryland to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, but did not sign the Constitu... | 2.84375 | 0 |
560404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther%20Martin | Luther Martin | Martin served as a delegate to the Maryland State Convention of 1788, to vote whether Maryland should ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. Most of the delegates at the convention ignored Martin's warnings. In April 1788, the majority of the delegates voted to ratify the Constitution, making Maryland t... | 2.3125 | 0 |
560406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijaniyyah | Tijaniyyah | The Tijjani order () is a Sufi order of Sunni Islam named after Ahmad al-Tijani. It originated in the Algeria but now more widespread in Maghreb, West Africa, particularly in Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania, Mali, Guinea, Niger, Chad, Ghana, Northern and Southwestern Nigeria and some parts of Sudan. The Tijāniyyah order i... | 2.453125 | 0 |
560406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijaniyyah | Tijaniyyah | Muḥammad al-Ḥāfiẓ's disciple Sidi Mawlūd Vāl initiated the 19th-century Fulɓe leader Omar Saidou Tall and the Fulɓe cleric ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Nāqil from Futa Jalon (now Guinea) into the order. After receiving instruction from Muḥammad al-Ghālī from 1828 to 1830 in Mecca, Umar Tall was appointed Caliph (successor or head ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
560406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijaniyyah | Tijaniyyah | The "house" or branch of Tivaouane is not the only branch of the Tijānī order in Senegal. The Tijānī order was spread to the south by another jihadist, Màbba Jaxu Ba, a contemporary of Umar Tall who founded a similar Islamic state in Senegal's Saalum area. After Màbba was defeated and killed at The Battle of Fandane-... | 2.296875 | 0 |
560406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijaniyyah | Tijaniyyah | Members of the Tijānī order distinguish themselves by a number of practices. Upon entering the order, one receives the Tijānī wird from a muqaddam or representative of the order. The muqaddam explains to the initiate the duties of the order, which include keeping the basic tenets of Islam including the five Five Pill... | 2.640625 | 0 |
560414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Petrified%20Forest | The Petrified Forest | The Petrified Forest is a 1936 American crime drama film directed by Archie Mayo and based on Robert E. Sherwood's 1934 drama of the same name. The motion picture stars Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart. The screenplay was written by Delmer Daves and Charles Kenyon, and adaptations were later performed on ... | 1.945313 | 0 |
560414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Petrified%20Forest | The Petrified Forest | Writing for Sur in September 1936, Jorge Luis Borges said the film was “one of the most intense that I have seen.” He praised the “extraordinarily distinct characters”, observing that “once the allegorical motive is dismissed or relegated to a secondary level. the plot of The Petrified Forest—-the magical influence of ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
560450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood%20Richard%20Quesada | Elwood Richard Quesada | Elwood Richard Quesada, CB, CBE (April 13, 1904 – February 9, 1993), nicknamed "Pete", was a United States Air Force Lt. General, FAA administrator, and, later, a club owner in Major League Baseball.
Early years
Elwood Richard Quesada was born in Washington, D.C., in 1904 to an Irish-American mother and a Spanish fath... | 2.171875 | 0 |
560477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic%20hip-hop | Icelandic hip-hop | History
The first mainstream hip hop crew from Iceland was Quarashi, who were inspired by the rock hybrid music of Beastie Boys and Rage Against the Machine. Around the same time Quarashi released their first album, several rap groups were formed such as Subterranean which are considered to have released one of Iceland... | 2.046875 | 0 |
560479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Russian%20Convention | Anglo-Russian Convention | The Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 (), or Convention between the United Kingdom and Russia relating to Persia, Afghanistan, and Tibet (; ), was signed on August 31, 1907, in Saint Petersburg. It ended the two powers' longstanding rivalry in Central Asia and enabled them to outflank the Germans, who were threatening t... | 2.578125 | 0 |
560481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Russian%20Alliance | Franco-Russian Alliance | History
The history of the alliance dates to the beginning of the 1870s, to the contradictions engendered by the Franco-Prussian War and the Treaty of Frankfurt of 1871. The Russian government had supported France during the war scare of 1875 when Russian and British protests forced Germany to stop threatening an atta... | 2.8125 | 0 |
560481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Russian%20Alliance | Franco-Russian Alliance | Relying on Russian support, France intensified its colonial policy. After the Fashoda Incident of 1898 with Great Britain, it endeavored even more to strengthen the alliance with Russia. The alliance with France also facilitated the tsarist government's expansion into Manchuria in the 1890s. During the preparatory peri... | 2.59375 | 0 |
560502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomal%20translocation | Chromosomal translocation | In genetics, chromosome translocation is a phenomenon that results in unusual rearrangement of chromosomes. This includes balanced and unbalanced translocation, with two main types: reciprocal, and Robertsonian translocation. Reciprocal translocation is a chromosome abnormality caused by exchange of parts between non-h... | 3.59375 | 0 |
560502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomal%20translocation | Chromosomal translocation | It is important to distinguish between chromosomal translocations that occur in germ cells, due to errors in meiosis (i.e. during gametogenesis), and those that occur in somatic cells, due to errors in mitosis. The former results in a chromosomal abnormality featured in all cells of the offspring, as in translocation c... | 3.046875 | 0 |
560502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomal%20translocation | Chromosomal translocation | Robertsonian translocations have been seen involving all combinations of acrocentric chromosomes. The most common translocation in humans involves chromosomes 13 and 14 and is seen in about 0.97 / 1000 newborns. Carriers of Robertsonian translocations are not associated with any phenotypic abnormalities, but there is a... | 3.015625 | 0 |
560502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomal%20translocation | Chromosomal translocation | Denotation
The International System for Human Cytogenetic Nomenclature (ISCN) is used to denote a translocation between chromosomes. The designation t(A;B)(p1;q2) is used to denote a translocation between chromosome A and chromosome B. The information in the second set of parentheses, when given, gives the precise loc... | 3.0625 | 0 |
560504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle%20of%20Humankind | Cradle of Humankind | The Cradle of Humankind is a paleoanthropological site that is located about northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, in the Gauteng province. Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999, the site is home to the largest known concentration of human ancestral remains anywhere in the world. The site currently occup... | 2.859375 | 0 |
560504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle%20of%20Humankind | Cradle of Humankind | In October 2013, Berger commissioned geologist Pedro Boshoff to investigate cave systems in the Cradle of Humankind for the express purpose of discovering more fossil hominin sites. Cavers Rick Hunter and Steven Tucker discovered hominid fossils in a previously unexplored area of the Rising Star-Westminster Cave System... | 2.859375 | 0 |
560507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Toronto | North Toronto | North Toronto is a former town and informal district located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Town of North Toronto was incorporated in 1890 by consolidating the villages of Bedford Park, Eglinton and Davisville. The town was annexed by Toronto in 1912. The name is still used to refer to the area in general, although... | 2.328125 | 0 |
560507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Toronto | North Toronto | Character
The neighbourhood has had a mixed-density design for some time, but this is rapidly changing to a greater density with the construction of residential condominium buildings in the area. The southern part of the neighbourhood is densely populated, with the entire section between Yonge Street and Mount Pleasant... | 1.90625 | 0 |
560518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenmare | Kenmare | Kenmare () is a small town in the south of County Kerry, Ireland. The name Kenmare is the anglicised form of Ceann Mara, meaning "head of the sea", referring to the head of Kenmare Bay. It is also a townland and civil parish.
Location
Kenmare is located at the head of Kenmare Bay (where it reaches the farthest inland... | 2.671875 | 0 |
560518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenmare | Kenmare | Holy Cross Catholic Church in Kenmare was consecrated in 1864. It was built under the guidance of Archdeacon Fr. John O'Sullivan - who is interred within the church. The church has stained glass windows by O'Connor London (1863), by Caseys Dublin (1864) and by Earley Dublin (1864). The organ is by Telford & Telford(186... | 2.25 | 0 |
560530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Cleveland%20%28CL-55%29 | USS Cleveland (CL-55) | Joining TF 68, Cleveland steamed up "the Slot" on 6 March 1943 to bombard Japanese airfields at Vila on Kolombangara, then joined in the night action which sank the destroyers and in the battle of Blackett Strait.
Command of Cleveland passed to Captain Andrew G. Shepard in June. Still with TF 68, "Merrill's Marauder... | 2.109375 | 0 |
560530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Cleveland%20%28CL-55%29 | USS Cleveland (CL-55) | From 8 June to 12 August, Cleveland participated in the Marianas operation. On 24 July, during the invasion of Tinian, Cleveland came to the aid of the destroyer . Norman Scott was hit six times within a few seconds by shore batteries. Cleveland maneuvered between Norman Scott and the shore batteries, preventing her fr... | 2.1875 | 0 |
560541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Bethesda%20station | North Bethesda station | North Bethesda station is a rapid transit station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro in North Bethesda, Maryland. The North Bethesda station was opened on December 15, 1984, as White Flint and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Providing service for the Red Line, the station... | 2.109375 | 0 |
560550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinbrook%20station | Twinbrook station | Twinbrook station is a rapid transit station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro attached to the Twinbrook neighborhood of Rockville, Maryland. One of a number of stations on the Rockville Pike corridor, it primarily acts as a commuter station.
Location
Twinbrook station is located in the southern section of Rockv... | 2.046875 | 0 |
560552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20League%20%28ice%20hockey%29 | National League (ice hockey) | The National League (NL) is a professional ice hockey league in Switzerland and is the top tier of the Swiss league system. Prior to the 2017–18 season, the league was known as National League A. During the 2018–19 season, the league had an average of 6,949 spectators per game which is the highest among European league... | 2.140625 | 0 |
560553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20George%27s%20Cathedral%2C%20Jerusalem | St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem | St. George's Cathedral is an Anglican (Episcopal) cathedral in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, established in 1899. It became the seat of the Bishop of Jerusalem of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, having taken the title from Christ Church, Jerusalem, built 50 years before.
It is located about two hun... | 2.40625 | 0 |
560554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%20of%20Mopsuestia | Theodore of Mopsuestia | Chrysostom's connection with Diodore was probably broken off in 374, when he plunged into a more complete monastic seclusion; Theodore's seems to have continued until the elevation of Diodore to the see of Tarsus in 378. During this period doubtless the foundations were laid of Theodore's understanding of the Bible and... | 2.15625 | 0 |
560554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%20of%20Mopsuestia | Theodore of Mopsuestia | Theodore's long episcopate was marked by no striking incidents. His letters, long known to the Assyrians as the Book of Pearls, are lost; his followers have left us few personal recollections. In 394 he attended a synod at Constantinople on a question which concerned the see of Bostra in the patriarchate of Antioch. Wh... | 2.203125 | 0 |
560554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%20of%20Mopsuestia | Theodore of Mopsuestia | The 6th century witnessed another and final outbreak of hatred against Theodore. The fifth general council (553), under the influence of the emperor Justinian I, pronounced the anathema which neither Theodosius II nor Cyril thought to issue. This condemnation of Theodore and his two supporters led to the Controversy of... | 2.046875 | 0 |
560554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%20of%20Mopsuestia | Theodore of Mopsuestia | Lastly, Leontius intimates that Theodore wrote a portion of a liturgy; "not content with drafting a new creed, he sought to impose upon the church a new Anaphora". The Hallowing of Theodore of Mopsuestia, an East Syriac liturgy ascribed to "Mar Teodorus the Interpreter" is still used by the East Syriac Rite Churches fo... | 2.078125 | 0 |
560555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockville%20station | Rockville station | Rockville station is an intermodal train station located in downtown Rockville, Maryland, United States. It is served by the Washington Metro Red Line, MARC Brunswick Line commuter trains, and Amtrak intercity trains.
Rockville station opened in 1873 when the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) built their Metropolitan... | 2.171875 | 0 |
560563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeting | Greeting | Greeting is an act of communication in which human beings intentionally make their presence known to each other, to show attention to, and to suggest a type of relationship (usually cordial) or social status (formal or informal) between individuals or groups of people coming in contact with each other. Greetings are so... | 3 | 0 |
560563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeting | Greeting | Adab, meaning respect and politeness, is a hand gesture used as a secular greeting in South Asia, especially of Urdu-speaking communities of Uttar Pradesh, Hyderabad, and Bengal in India, as well as among the Muhajir people of Pakistan. The gesture involves raising the right hand towards the face with palm inwards such... | 2.265625 | 0 |
560563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeting | Greeting | If the male is an Abdi Dalem royal servant, courtier or particularly "peko-peko" (taken directly from Japanese to mean obsequious) or even a highly formal individual, he will retreat backwards with head downcast, the left arm crossed against the chest and the right arm hanging down, never showing his side or back to hi... | 2.359375 | 0 |
560564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shady%20Grove%20station | Shady Grove station | Transit-oriented development
In order to cope with increasing population growth and subsequent traffic congestion while combating urban sprawl, the Montgomery County Planning Department released the Shady Grove Sector Plan, which aims to act as a guideline for mixed-use growth around the station. The plan emphasises hi... | 2.046875 | 0 |
560571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontefract%20cake | Pontefract cake | Pontefract cakes (also known as Pomfret cakes and Pomfrey cakes) are a type of small, roughly circular black sweet measuring approximately wide and thick, made of liquorice, originally manufactured in the Yorkshire town of Pontefract, England.
Name
The original name for these small tablets of liquorice is a "Pomfr... | 2.3125 | 0 |
560576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn%20TV%20Tower | Tallinn TV Tower | Tallinn TV Tower () is a free-standing structure with an observation deck, built to provide better telecommunication services for the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics regatta event (see Sailing at the 1980 Summer Olympics). It is located near the suburb Pirita, six km north-east of the Tallinn city center. With its 313 m (1... | 1.929688 | 0 |
560576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn%20TV%20Tower | Tallinn TV Tower | Construction work
Several new technical solutions were implemented during the construction of the TV tower. The reinforced concrete tower itself was assembled using the sliding mold method. The concrete mold was installed at a height of 2.5 metres; then the armature was inserted and the concrete poured. After that the ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
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