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560587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Merry%20Widow | The Merry Widow | In 1861, Henri Meilhac premiered a comic play in Paris, (The Embassy Attaché), in which the Parisian ambassador of a poor German grand duchy, Baron Scharpf, schemes to arrange a marriage between his country's richest widow (a French woman) and a Count to keep her money at home, thus preventing economic disaster in the... | 2.171875 | 0 |
560588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal%20Borough%20of%20Barnes | Municipal Borough of Barnes | Barnes was a local government district in north west Surrey from 1894 to 1965, when its former area was absorbed into the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
History
The parish of Barnes adopted the Local Government Act 1858 in 1893. It became an urban district in 1894.
On 1 April 1901 the Putney detached exclav... | 2.328125 | 0 |
560591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdrive%20%28mechanics%29 | Overdrive (mechanics) | Overdrive is the operation of an automobile cruising at sustained speed with reduced engine speed (rpm), leading to better fuel consumption, lower noise, and lower wear. The term is ambiguous. The most fundamental meaning is that of an overall gear ratio between engine and wheels, such that the car is over-geared, and ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
560591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdrive%20%28mechanics%29 | Overdrive (mechanics) | Background
The power needed to propel a car at any given set of conditions and speed is straightforward to calculate, based primarily on the total weight and the vehicle's speed. These produce two primary forces slowing the car: rolling resistance and air drag. The former varies roughly with the speed of the vehicle, w... | 2.78125 | 0 |
560591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdrive%20%28mechanics%29 | Overdrive (mechanics) | Although the designer was theoretically free to choose any ratio for the gearbox and final drive, there is one additional consideration which meant that the top gear of most gearboxes was 1:1 or "direct drive". This is chosen for efficiency, as it does not require any gears to transmit power and so reduces the power lo... | 2.453125 | 0 |
560591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdrive%20%28mechanics%29 | Overdrive (mechanics) | Usage
Generally speaking, overdrive is the highest gear in the transmission. Overdrive allows the engine to operate at a lower RPM for a given road speed. This allows the vehicle to achieve better fuel efficiency, and often quieter operation on the highway. When it is switched on, an automatic transmission can shift i... | 2.5625 | 0 |
560591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdrive%20%28mechanics%29 | Overdrive (mechanics) | Virtually all vehicles (cars and trucks) have overdrive today whether manual transmission or automatic. In the automotive aftermarket you can also retrofit overdrive to existing early transmissions. Overdrive was widely used in European automobiles with manual transmission in the 60s and 70s to improve mileage and spor... | 2.25 | 0 |
560591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdrive%20%28mechanics%29 | Overdrive (mechanics) | In North America
In the days before automatic transmissions were common, especially in the 1950s, many rear-wheel drive American cars were available with an overdrive option. With substantial improvements developed in Muncie, Indiana, by William B. Barnes for production by its Warner Gear Division, BorgWarner provided... | 2.3125 | 0 |
560591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdrive%20%28mechanics%29 | Overdrive (mechanics) | Fuel economy and drivetrain wear
When using overdrive gearing, the car's engine speed drops, reducing wear and normally saving fuel. Since 1981 U.S. corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) legislation, virtually all domestic vehicles have included overdrive to save fuel. One should refer to the car's owner's manual for ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
560634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County-class%20cruiser | County-class cruiser | The 10,000-ton treaty cruisers were the first type of warships built to internationally agreed restrictions. These restrictions posed new engineering challenges and forced compromises upon designers in how to extract the best balance of speed, armament and protection. The United States Navy adopted a design with triple... | 2.578125 | 0 |
560634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County-class%20cruiser | County-class cruiser | In all ships but Sussex, four 4-inch guns were added in single mountings abreast the funnels. The single 2-pounder guns were removed, and two quadruple mounts for 0.5-inch Vickers machine guns were added. Shropshire acquired an additional anti-aircraft fire control director. Early in the war, the additional 4-inch guns... | 2 | 0 |
560659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeritalia | Aeritalia | During early 1977, the Italian Air Force issued a requirement for 187 new-build strike fighters, which were to replace its existing Aeritalia G.91 in the close air support and reconnaissance missions, as well as the Lockheed RF-104G Starfighter also being used in the reconnaissance role. Rather than competing for the c... | 2.171875 | 0 |
560686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Chapman | Ray Chapman | On August 16, 1920, while at bat, Chapman was struck in the head and killed by a pitch thrown by Carl Mays during a game against the New York Yankees at the Polo Grounds. At the time, pitchers commonly dirtied balls with soil, licorice, and tobacco juice, and otherwise scuffed, sandpapered, scarred, cut, or spiked them... | 1.914063 | 0 |
560690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar%20A.%20Guest | Edgar A. Guest | Edgar Albert Guest (20 August 1881 – 5 August 1959) was a British-born American poet who became known as the People's Poet. His poems often had an inspirational and optimistic view of everyday life.
Early life
Guest was born in Birmingham, England in 1881. In 1891, his family moved from England to Detroit, Michigan, w... | 2.234375 | 0 |
560690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar%20A.%20Guest | Edgar A. Guest | His grandniece Judith Guest is a novelist best known for Ordinary People (1976).
Reputation
Guest's work still occasionally appears in periodicals such as Reader's Digest, and some favorites, such as "Myself" and "Thanksgiving," are still studied today. However, in one of the most quoted appraisals of his work, Doroth... | 2.09375 | 0 |
560696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish%20Junior%20Cup | Scottish Junior Cup | The Scottish Junior Cup is an annual football competition organised by the Scottish Junior Football Association. The competition has been held every year since the inception of the SJFA on the 2nd October 1886 and, as of the 2023–24 edition, 112 teams compete in the tournament. The cup has an unseeded knockout format w... | 2.203125 | 0 |
560701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda%20Landowska | Wanda Landowska | Wanda Aleksandra Landowska (5 July 1879 – 16 August 1959) was a Polish harpsichordist and pianist whose performances, teaching, writings and especially her many recordings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century. She was the first person to record Johann Sebastian Bac... | 2.34375 | 0 |
560701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda%20Landowska | Wanda Landowska | She later taught harpsichord at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik (1912–1919). When World War I started in 1914, she was interned on the grounds that she was a foreign national. In April 1919, a few months after WWI ended, her husband died in a car accident. She had her American debut in 1923, touring major cities with f... | 2.9375 | 0 |
560716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma%20City%20National%20Memorial | Oklahoma City National Memorial | The Oklahoma City National Memorial is a memorial site in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, that honors the victims, survivors, rescuers, and all who were affected by the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. It is situated on the former site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, which was destroyed in the... | 2.390625 | 0 |
560716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma%20City%20National%20Memorial | Oklahoma City National Memorial | Survivor Tree: an American elm on the north side of the Memorial that was heavily damaged by the bomb, but survived. Hundreds of seeds from the Survivor Tree are planted annually and the resulting saplings are distributed each year on the anniversary of the bombing. Thousands of Survivor Trees are growing in public and... | 2.4375 | 0 |
560728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knox-class%20frigate | Knox-class frigate | The 46 Knox-class frigates were the largest, last, and most numerous of the US Navy's second-generation anti-submarine warfare (ASW) escorts. Originally laid down as ocean escorts (formerly called destroyer escorts), they were all redesignated as frigates on 30 June 1975, in the 1975 ship reclassification plan and thei... | 1.921875 | 0 |
560730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Zinsser | Hans Zinsser | Hans Zinsser (November 17, 1878 – September 4, 1940) was an American physician, bacteriologist, and prolific author.
The author of over 200 books and medical articles, he was also a published poet. Some of his verses were published in The Atlantic Monthly.
His 1940 publication, As I Remember Him: the Biography of R.S... | 2.3125 | 0 |
560730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Zinsser | Hans Zinsser | Zinsser taught as an exchange professor and worked with the American Red Cross in France, Russia, Serbia and China, and was noted for his work in typhus and immunology. He became a lieutenant colonel in the US Army and served overseas during World War I. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, the citation for ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
560741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery%20Place%20station | Gallery Place station | Gallery Place station is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., United States, on the Green, Yellow and Red Lines. It is one of the 4 major transfer points, a transfer station between the Red Line on the upper level and the Green/Yellow Lines on the lower level.
Gallery Place is located in Northwest Washingto... | 2.078125 | 0 |
560741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery%20Place%20station | Gallery Place station | Originally named Gallery Place after the nearby National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum, the station was renamed Gallery Place–Chinatown in 1986 (although the station's signage was not replaced until 1990). In 2000, a sculpture entitled The Glory of the Chinese Descendants by Foon Sham, was instal... | 2.015625 | 0 |
560746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennesaw%20Mountain%20National%20Battlefield%20Park | Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park | Kennesaw Battlefield Park preserves a Civil War battleground of the Atlanta Campaign, and also contains Kennesaw Mountain. It is located at 900 Kennesaw Mountain Drive, between Marietta and Kennesaw, Georgia. The name "Kennesaw" derives from the Cherokee Indian "Gah-nee-sah" meaning "cemetery" or burial ground. The ar... | 2.609375 | 0 |
560746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennesaw%20Mountain%20National%20Battlefield%20Park | Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park | Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield Park is a National Battlefield that preserves a Civil War battleground of the Atlanta Campaign. There are three battlefield areas: In front of the Visitor Center, off Burnt Hickory Road and a major site at Cheatham Hill (commonly known as the Dead Angle). At the southern tip of the park, ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
560749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Karl%20Friedrich%20Z%C3%B6llner | Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner | Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (8 November 1834, Berlin25 April 1882, Leipzig) was a German astrophysicist who studied optical illusions. He was also an early psychical investigator.
Biography
From 1872 he held the chair of astrophysics at Leipzig University. He wrote numerous papers on photometry and spectrum analysis... | 2.640625 | 0 |
560749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Karl%20Friedrich%20Z%C3%B6llner | Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner | The lunar crater Zöllner is named in his honor.
In 1934, botanist Josef Velenovský published a genus of fungi named Zoellneria (in the family Sclerotiniaceae) and named in Zöllner's honour.
Also several other plant species, have been named in his honour including; Alstroemeria zoellneri, Baccharis zoellneri, Chenopod... | 2.546875 | 0 |
560768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary%20Square%20station | Judiciary Square station | Judiciary Square station is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Red Line. It is located in the Judiciary Square neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of the city, with entrances at 4th and D Street and 5th and F Street. It serves the many courthouses and municipal buildings in the area. The 5th and ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
560774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano%20Islands%20Act | Guano Islands Act | The Guano Islands Act (, enacted August 18, 1856, codified at §§ 1411-1419) is a United States federal law passed by the Congress that enables citizens of the United States to take possession of unclaimed islands containing guano deposits in the name of the United States. The islands can be located anywhere, so long a... | 2.484375 | 0 |
560774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano%20Islands%20Act | Guano Islands Act | Navassa Island — de facto US control. To cement the U.S. claim to Navassa Island against Haiti, President James Buchanan issued Executive Orders establishing United States territorial jurisdiction beyond just the Guano Act of 1856. The United States Supreme Court in 1890 ruled the Guano Act constitutional and, citing t... | 2.578125 | 0 |
560777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial | Memorial | A memorial is an object or place which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects such as homes or other sites, or works of art such as sculptures, statues, fountains or pa... | 2.953125 | 0 |
560782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkes%E2%80%93Dodson%20law | Yerkes–Dodson law | The Yerkes–Dodson law is an empirical relationship between arousal and performance, originally developed by psychologists Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson in 1908. The law dictates that performance increases with physiological or mental arousal, but only up to a point. When levels of arousal become too high,... | 2.6875 | 0 |
560783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rienzi | Rienzi | (Rienzi, the last of the tribunes; WWV 49) is an 1842 opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name (1835). The title is commonly shortened to Rienzi. Written between July 1838 and November 1840, it was first performed at the Königlic... | 2.40625 | 0 |
560783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rienzi | Rienzi | Wagner began to draft the opera in Riga in 1837, after reading Lytton's novel (although John Deathridge has argued that Wagner's work also bears the influence of Mary Russell Mitford's 1828 "highly successful English play" Rienzi). During a 1839 visit to the bathing resort town of Boulogne, Wagner approached Meyerbeer ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
560783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rienzi | Rienzi | The opera opens with a substantial overture which begins with a trumpet call (which in act 3 we learn is the war call of the Colonna family) and features the melody of Rienzi's prayer at the start of act 5, which became the opera's best-known aria. The overture ends with a military march.
Act 1Outside Rienzi's houseTh... | 2.046875 | 0 |
560783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rienzi | Rienzi | Reception and performancesRienzi was an immediate success. This, his first real success of any kind, was crucial in Wagner's career, launching him as a composer to be reckoned with. It was followed, within months, by his appointment as Kapellmeister at the Dresden Opera (February 1843), which also gave him considerabl... | 2.28125 | 0 |
560783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rienzi | Rienzi | Thus the work has remained outside today's Wagner canon, and was only performed at the Bayreuth Festival in 2013, staged by Matthias von Stegmann. Although the composer disclaimed it, it can be noted that Rienzi prefigures themes (brother/sister relationships, social order and revolution) to which Wagner was often to r... | 2.4375 | 0 |
560792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dells%20of%20the%20Wisconsin%20River | Dells of the Wisconsin River | The Dells of the Wisconsin River, also called the Wisconsin Dells (from Old English “dæl”, modern English “dale”), meaning “valley”, is a 5-mile (8-km) gorge on the Wisconsin River in south-central Wisconsin, USA. It is noted for its scenery, in particular for its Cambrian sandstone rock formations and tributary canyon... | 2.53125 | 0 |
560798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union%20Station%20%28Washington%20Metro%29 | Union Station (Washington Metro) | Union Station is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Red Line. The station is located in the Northeast quadrant of the city under the western end of Washington Union Station, the main train station for Washington. It has a single underground island platform. With a daily average of 9,848 tapped entri... | 2.421875 | 0 |
560805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoMa%E2%80%93Gallaudet%20U%20station | NoMa–Gallaudet U station | On November 20, 2004, the station opened as the 84th station, and first infill station, on the Metro system. The final cost was $103.7 million with the federal government and private land owners each contributing $25 million and the D.C. government contributing $53.7 million. Its construction has catalyzed new developm... | 2.046875 | 0 |
560806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA%20Euro%201988 | UEFA Euro 1988 | The Italians had not played at Euro 1984, though they had finished fourth in the 1980 tournament, for which they were the hosts; they had also won the 1982 World Cup, albeit followed by a middling performance in 1986. Spain and Denmark contested the second semi-final of the 1984 edition, in which Spain prevailed on pen... | 1.953125 | 0 |
560807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedlot | Feedlot | Most feedlots require some type of governmental approval to operate, which generally consists of an agricultural site permit. Feedlots also would have an environmental plan in place to deal with the large amount of waste that is generated from the numerous livestock housed. The environmental farm plan is set in place t... | 2.84375 | 0 |
560807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedlot | Feedlot | In a typical feedlot, a cow's diet is roughly 62% roughage, 31% grain, 5% supplements (minerals and vitamins), and 2% premix. High-grain diets lower the pH in the animals' rumen. Due to the stressors of these conditions, and due to some illnesses, it may be necessary to give the animals antibiotics on occasion.
Anim... | 2.875 | 0 |
560807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedlot | Feedlot | The diet of the animals and the different ingredients within the ration are controversial. Cattle in feedlots are fed grain rather than more natural forage. This is designed to make them gain weight faster, but it leads to internal abscesses and discomfort. Grain-based diets can also lead to the growth of harmful bacte... | 2.71875 | 0 |
560807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedlot | Feedlot | Waste recycling
There are a few common methods of waste recycling within feedlots, with the most common being spreading it back on the cropping fields used to feed the livestock. Generally, feedlots provide bedding for their animals such as straw, sawdust, wood shavings, or other byproducts from crops (soybean chaff, c... | 3 | 0 |
560807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedlot | Feedlot | History
Cattle feeding on a large scale was first introduced in the early 60's, when a demand for higher quality beef in large quantities emerged. Farmers started becoming familiar with the finishing of beef, but also showed interest in various other aspects associated with the feedlot such as soil health, crop managem... | 2.625 | 0 |
560810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial%20Lake%20Wisconsin | Glacial Lake Wisconsin | Glacial Lake Wisconsin was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed from approximately 18,000 to 14,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, in the central part of present-day Wisconsin in the United States.
Formation and demise
Before the last glacier, a somewhat different Wisconsin River drained the north-ce... | 2.734375 | 0 |
560810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial%20Lake%20Wisconsin | Glacial Lake Wisconsin | About 14,000 years ago, as the climate warmed, the glacier began to retreat. The lake water reopened the path around the Baraboo Hills. Once the trickle began, it quickly melted a larger channel through the ice and became a torrent. In a catastrophic flood, most of the huge lake probably drained out the south end in... | 2.890625 | 0 |
560813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20libertarianism | Civil libertarianism | Civil libertarianism is a strain of political thought that supports civil liberties and rights, or which emphasizes the supremacy of individual rights and personal freedoms over and against any kind of authority (such as a state, a corporation, social norms imposed through peer pressure and so on).
In the libertarian ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
560816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Dan%20%28dissident%29 | Wang Dan (dissident) | Wang Dan (; born 26 February 1969) is a leader of the Chinese democracy movement and was one of the most visible student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. He holds a PhD in history from Harvard University, and from August 2009 to February 2010, Wang taught cross-strait history at Taiwan's National Cheng... | 2.578125 | 0 |
560816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Dan%20%28dissident%29 | Wang Dan (dissident) | Wang was interviewed and appeared in the documentary The Beijing Crackdown and the movie Moving the Mountain, about the Tiananmen Square protests. He also featured prominently in Shen Tong's book Almost a Revolution.
He was banned from setting foot on mainland China with his passport expiring in 2003. He attempted to ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
560816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Dan%20%28dissident%29 | Wang Dan (dissident) | Wang was released in 1993, just months before the end of his sentence. Wang Dan himself has noted this was most likely related to China’s first bid for the Olympic Games since he and 19 other political prisoners were released only a month before the International Olympic Committee was to visit. Almost immediately after... | 1.984375 | 0 |
560816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Dan%20%28dissident%29 | Wang Dan (dissident) | Exile in the United States
Not long after Wang arrived in the United States, he began to criticize the Chinese government once again. Wang believes the CCP must change its ways, and in an interview with the US magazine The Weekly Standard he states: "The key to democracy in China is independence. My country needs indep... | 2.046875 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | Casco Bay is an inlet of the Gulf of Maine on the coast of Maine in the United States. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's chart for Casco Bay marks the dividing line between the bay and the Gulf of Maine as running from Bald Head on Cape Small in Phippsburg west-southwest to Dyer Point in Cape Elizab... | 2.75 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | Casco Bay's shoreline creates a number of smaller bays and tidal embayments, including Harpswell Sound, Maquoit Bay, Middle Bay, Quahog Bay and New Meadows River, where depths exceed 150 feet in a narrow channel just south of Cundy's Harbor.
Casco Bay's topography produces a tidal range of about nine feet on average. ... | 3.03125 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | Casco Bay has an estimated 16,655 acres of intertidal habitats to include mudflats, marshes, beaches and rock formations according to the National Wetlands Inventory, supporting a range of biota and wildlife.
Among more than three dozen species of fish found commonly in Casco Bay are bluefin tuna, bluefish, cod, herri... | 2.984375 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | Raptor populations on Casco Bay islands and shorelines include osprey, with 86 nesting pairs observed in a 2011 survey, and 14 more nests that were deemed potentially active. After 30 years of monitoring produced no evidence of bald eagles in Casco Bay, a nesting pair was spotted in Freeport in 1992, followed by bald e... | 2.921875 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | On August 10, 1622, King James I of England awarded a land patent to Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason for coastal lands and interiors extending from the Merrimack River to the Kennebec. Gorges and Mason eventually split the patent, with Gorges getting land patent rights north of the Piscataqua River.
The first colonia... | 2.78125 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | In 1632, Gorges awarded Arthur Mackworth the island that became known as Mackworth Island, just off the mouth of the Presumpscot River, in what came to be called Casco, renamed Falmouth in 1658 under the governance of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Historic Falmouth was split into two municipalities in 1786, creating Po... | 2.78125 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | Islands continued to come under individual settler ownership during the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1658, Hugh Moshier purchased what became Moshier and Little Moshier Islands near the mouths of the Harraseeket and Royal Rivers, while James Lane acquired nearby Lanes Island. By 1660, John Bustion had obtained a deed on... | 2.78125 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | After colonial militia leader Richard Waldron laid a trap under the guise of peace talks to capture several Wabanaki warriors who were then executed or enslaved, tribes intensified attacks on settlements throughout Maine, causing most settlers to flee south. After talks failed at Maquoit Bay in February 1677, Waldron a... | 3.125 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | Queen Anne's War and Dummer's War
An uneasy armistice did not hold in North America or Europe, with Queen Anne's War, which many historians classify as the second phase of the French and Indian Wars, breaking out in 1701. In 1722 came the regional conflict in Maine and Acadia called Dummer's War, named for William Dumm... | 3.09375 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | Under the leadership of Kittery shipping owner William Pepperrell, Massachusetts and other English colonies mustered a military expedition against the Fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton. Pepperrell's fleet commodore was Falmouth native Edward Tyng, who directed the siege and supporting operations from his flagship f... | 2.96875 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | Tate also pursued other mercantile interests, selling timber, clapboards, rum, and other products, helping build the port as a growing center of commerce alongside merchants like Samuel Waldo, Jedidiah Preble, William Tyng, Enoch Freeman, Enoch Moody, and Thomas Westbrook, who began harvesting mast timber in 1727 and i... | 2.609375 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | American Revolution
According to Adams, he was strolling in 1774 on what he called "the great hill" of Munjoy Hill in Falmouth overlooking Casco Bay when he relayed to Jonathan Sewall his determination to lead the colonies into revolt against the British crown. "The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon", Adams re... | 2.953125 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | On the domestic front, Jefferson supported the idea of coastal forts and small gunboats less than 80 feet long to defend ports and coastal shipping lanes, as an alternative to appropriating funds for a larger, blue-water navy. Three forts along Portland Harbor were built or upgraded during Jefferson's second term: Fort... | 2.828125 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | Maine statehood
An existing movement for Maine statehood gained adherents after the Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812, amid disenchantment with a lack of support from Massachusetts leaders during the British occupation of eastern Maine.
In June 1819, the Massachusetts General Court passed legislation making Maine ... | 2.8125 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | A pair of stone rubble lighthouses were built that year at the site of today's Two Lights station, at the southwestern entrance to Casco Bay in Cape Elizabeth. The same year, a bridge was built across the mouth of the Presumpscot River connecting Martin's Point in Portland with Falmouth.
In 1828, excavation began on t... | 2.4375 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | In 1848, four years after John A. Poor proposed it, the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad began service between Portland and Yarmouth (originally known as the Atlantic and St. Lawrence), with the line eventually extended to Montreal. The Grand Trunk Railway acquired the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad in 1853 as pa... | 2.640625 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | In February 1864, the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company's bark-rigged steamship Bohemian struck Alden's Rock off Cape Elizabeth en route to Portland, with 219 passengers aboard, mostly Irish immigrants, and 99 crew members. As water flooded the ship, the captain was able to maintain steam for the time required to clear ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | Industrialization and infrastructure
Samuel D. Warren purchased a Westbrook paper mill in 1854 and later began adding wood fiber to paper produced at S.D. Warren Paper Mill, as a supplement to rag pulp used for paper production at the time. By the 1880s, S.D. Warren had become the world's largest paper mill. The plant... | 2.8125 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | After decades of individual ferry service in Portland Harbor and to outlying islands, including by the Peaks Island Steamboat Company, successor firm Casco Bay Steamboat Company was incorporated in 1878 to provide regular scheduled service, followed in 1881 by the Harpswell Steamboat Company. The companies merged in 19... | 2.421875 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | In March 1917, John Poor died of a gunshot wound sustained during an exchange of fire while he was on nighttime sentry duty at Fort Williams. He had challenged two men who had infiltrated the base where Poor was assigned as a private to the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps. Poor is thought to have been the first U.S. so... | 2.21875 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | Construction began that year on the Bailey Island Bridge. It opened in 1928, spanning Will's Gut to Orr's Island, after studies on designs to minimize the granite span's impact on tidal currents and to withstand the effects of ice. Thought to be the only such design in the United States, the Bailey Island Bridge was na... | 2.484375 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | To detect enemy submarines and prevent them from entering Casco Bay's anchorages, the U.S. Navy installed indicator loop cables along the seabed that were designed to produce a recordable amount of voltage when a submarine passed above, though the system was prone to glitches and occasional erroneous recordings. An out... | 2.40625 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | Towers for fire control, observation, or radar were built on the shores of outlying islands, including Long, Peaks, Cushing, Jewell, and Bailey Islands, to scan the horizon for aircraft or ships and help coastal artillery crews at Battery Steele and other artillery posts triangulate on targets approaching Casco Bay. Fi... | 2.46875 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | A Naval Auxiliary Air Facility was also established on Long Island to support seaplanes launched by catapult from larger warships, for use in reconnaissance and to direct naval gun fire at long ranges.
In addition to convoy preparation, Casco Bay was used for naval training and shakedown cruises to assess newly built ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | Ten days after Hurricane Carol caused damage in coastal areas in Maine in 1954, Hurricane Edna hit on September 11, causing massive damage as torrential rains unleashed floods that destroyed some bridges and washed away railroad tracks.
In 1955, construction was completed on the Ellis C. Snodgrass Memorial Bridge conn... | 2.46875 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | Lion Ferry established seasonal service in 1970 at International Marine Terminal in Portland for ferry service to and from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, initially on the ferry ships M/S Prince of Fundy and MS Bolero followed by MS Caribe. Lion Ferry sold the route in 1982 to Prince of Fundy Cruises under Panamanian-based Tran... | 1.96875 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | After dead seabirds were found in September 1972 in Massachusetts, a researcher at the University of Massachusetts Marine Lab in Gloucester discovered algae in seawater that accumulate in shellfish, which are toxic to humans and animals if consumed. It was the first recorded outbreak of red tide on the Maine coast. Tox... | 2.6875 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | Operation was curtailed in 2016 of the Portland-Montreal petroleum pipeline, after 75 years of service.
A swimmer died in June 2020 after being bitten by a great white shark off Bailey Island, the first recorded fatality as the result of a shark attack in Casco Bay. A state official said the following day, "It's not s... | 2.171875 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | Casco Bay municipalities hold annual tourist events linked to the bay, to include MS HarborFest in Portland and South Portland which includes the MS Harborfest Regatta, a tugboat muster and races, and the Portland Harbor installment of the Maine Lobster Boat Races, with the circuit having staged races off Harpswell and... | 2.171875 | 0 |
560818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casco%20Bay | Casco Bay | In popular culture
The Whales of August, one of Bette Davis's last films, was shot here in 1987.
In 2008, composers Peter J. McLaughlin and Akiva G. Zamcheck wrote a piece in four movements paying homage to the wreck of the Don, lost near Ragged Island on June 29, 1941. The piece received critical acclaim from the P... | 2.03125 | 0 |
560821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20Battle%20of%20Ypres | Second Battle of Ypres | During the First World War, the Second Battle of Ypres was fought from 22 April – 25 May 1915 for control of the tactically important high ground to the east and south of the Flemish town of Ypres in western Belgium. The First Battle of Ypres had been fought the previous autumn. The Second Battle of Ypres was the first... | 2.65625 | 0 |
560821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20Battle%20of%20Ypres | Second Battle of Ypres | Battle of St. Julien (24 April – 5 May)
The village of St. Julien (now Sint-Juliaan; ) was in the rear of the 1st Canadian Division until the poison-gas attack of 22 April, when it became the front line. Some of the first fighting in the village involved the stand of Lance Corporal Frederick Fisher of the 13th Battalio... | 2.359375 | 0 |
560828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollo%20Duke%20of%20Normandy | Rollo Duke of Normandy | Rollo Duke of Normandy, also known as The Bloody Brother, is a play written in collaboration by John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Ben Jonson and George Chapman. The title character is the historical Viking duke of Normandy, Rollo (lived 846 – ). Scholars have disputed almost everything about the play; but it was probabl... | 2.15625 | 0 |
560828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollo%20Duke%20of%20Normandy | Rollo Duke of Normandy | Performance and publication
Details of the play's earliest productions are not preserved in the historical record. The play was seen at the Globe Theatre on 13 May 1633, and was acted at Hampton Court Palace on 24 January 1637 (new style). It was entered into the Stationers' Register on 4 October 1639 by the bookseller... | 2.140625 | 0 |
560835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso%20Traetta | Tommaso Traetta | Tommaso Michele Francesco Saverio Traetta (30 March 1727 – 6 April 1779), was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School. Along with other composers mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and France, he was responsible for certain operatic reforms including reducing the ornateness of style and the primacy of star singers.
... | 2.453125 | 0 |
560835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso%20Traetta | Tommaso Traetta | It was at the court of the Duke of Bourbon-Parma, that Traetta ran into some fresh air from France. In Parma in 1759, he found several noteworthy collaborators, and he was fortunate in finding that the man in charge of opera there was a highly cultivated Paris-trained Frenchman, Guillaume du Tillot, who had the complet... | 2.359375 | 0 |
560839 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-unit%20train%20control | Multiple-unit train control | Modern locomotive MU systems can be easily spotted due to the large MU cables to the right and left of the coupler. The connections typically consist of several air hoses for controlling the air brake system, and an electrical cable for the control of the traction equipment. The largest hose, located next to the coupl... | 2.25 | 0 |
560847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20Totten%20station | Fort Totten station | The initial, southern section of the Green Line, between the and stations, opened roughly two years earlier, in December 1991. The northern portion, between the and Fort Totten stations, was completed on December 11, 1993. Between December 1993 and September 1999, the Green Line operated as two separate, unconnected... | 2.1875 | 0 |
560862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zayed%20Center%20for%20Coordination%20and%20Follow-Up | Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-Up | The Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-Up was set up in 1999 as the think-tank of the Arab League. It was named after and principally funded by the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). His son, Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the deputy prime-minister of the UAE, se... | 2.140625 | 0 |
560869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%20Mirabella | Sophie Mirabella | Political career
Mirabella has been a member of the Liberal Party since 1987. She became well known during the constitutional monarchy/republican debate in Australia, acting as a prominent advocate for retaining the constitutional monarchy, and was an elected member of the 1998 Constitutional Convention. The referendum... | 1.984375 | 0 |
560870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred%20Grenfell | Wilfred Grenfell | Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (28 February 1865 – 9 October 1940) was a British medical missionary to Newfoundland, who wrote books on his work and other topics.
Early life and education
He was born at Parkgate, Cheshire, England, on 28 February 1865, the Son of Rev. Algernon Sidney Grenfell, headmaster of Mostyn Hou... | 2.546875 | 0 |
560870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred%20Grenfell | Wilfred Grenfell | In 1908, Grenfell was on his way with his dogs to a Newfoundland village for a medical emergency when he got caught in "slob", from which he managed to get onto an ice-pan with the dogs. He was forced to sacrifice some of his dogs to make a warm, fur coat for himself. After drifting for several days without food or fre... | 2.40625 | 0 |
560870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred%20Grenfell | Wilfred Grenfell | Literary inspiration
A unique figure, Grenfell served to inspire at least two characters in Canadian literature: Dr. Luke in Norman Duncan's Doctor Luke of the Labrador (1904) and Dr. Tocsin in White Eskimo by Harold Horwood (1972).
A biography for children (middle-high school) was written in 1942, by Genevieve Fox. P... | 2.578125 | 0 |
560872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colfax%20massacre | Colfax massacre | The Colfax massacre, sometimes referred to as the Colfax riot, occurred on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, the parish seat of Grant Parish. An estimated 62–153 Black men were murdered while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan. Three White men also di... | 2.296875 | 0 |
560872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colfax%20massacre | Colfax massacre | After failing to win their case in state court, the Kellogg forces appealed to federal judge Edward Durell in New Orleans to intervene and order that Kellogg and the Stalwart Republican-majority legislature were to be seated, and for Grant to authorize US Army troops to protect Kellogg's government. This action was wid... | 2.203125 | 0 |
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