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561208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20Belarus | Music of Belarus | The period of intensive accumulation of information about the folk musical culture of Belarusians, recording of tunes and instrumental pieces, and their publication falls on the second half of the 19th — early 20th century. Musical material was included in ethnographic descriptions and folklore collections: "Materials ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
561208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20Belarus | Music of Belarus | . 1—69, 1961—1995) by Oskar Kolberg, 41 melodies with texts of ritual and non-ritual songs were included. The first theorist-ethnomusicologist Ludvík Kuba in the collection "Belarusian Folk Song" (1887) defined the place of Belarusian folk songs in the Slavic world, characterizing their main musical-stylistic features,... | 2.015625 | 0 |
561208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20Belarus | Music of Belarus | Alongside secular music, spiritual music was also created. It was written by: J. Daščynski (masses, requiems, vespers, Astrabrama litanies and others), S. Manioŭszka (masses, requiems, Astrabrama litanies, organ compositions, religious songs and others), F. Miładowski (masses, hymns and others), J. Hliński (masses, mot... | 2.15625 | 0 |
561223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge%20Klarsfeld | Serge Klarsfeld | Serge Klarsfeld (born 17 September 1935) is a Romanian-born French activist and Nazi hunter known for documenting the Holocaust in order to establish the record and to enable the prosecution of war criminals. Since the 1960s, he has made notable efforts to commemorate the Jewish victims of German-occupied France and ha... | 2.171875 | 0 |
561223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge%20Klarsfeld | Serge Klarsfeld | Early activism
In 2012, the archivist of the Stasi revealed that Beate Klarsfeld's attack on Kurt Georg Kiesinger, the then German chancellor, by publicly slapping him on 7 November 1968, was carried out in agreement with and the support of the government of East Germany, which was conducting a campaign against West Ge... | 2.515625 | 0 |
561223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge%20Klarsfeld | Serge Klarsfeld | Later activism
The Klarsfelds are notable in the postwar decades for having been involved in hunting and finding German Nazis and French Vichy officials responsible for the worst abuses of the Holocaust, in order to prosecute them for alleged war crimes. Several officials were indicted due in part to the work of the Kl... | 2.625 | 0 |
561223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge%20Klarsfeld | Serge Klarsfeld | Activism in France
In 1979, the Klarsfelds created the Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees from France (FFDJF). It defends the cause of the descendants of deportees, to have the events recognised and to prosecute people responsible. In 1981, the association commissioned a memorial in Israel to the deported French Je... | 2.4375 | 0 |
561223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge%20Klarsfeld | Serge Klarsfeld | Cooperation with the Stasi
Since the reunification of Germany and the opening of Stasi files, Lutz Rathenow, the State Commissioner for the Stasi Archives of Saxony, stated in 2012 that Klarsfeld's wife had cooperated with the Stasi of East Germany in the 1960s. They gave her material containing incriminating informati... | 1.929688 | 0 |
561238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Dunsmuir | James Dunsmuir | James Dunsmuir (July 8, 1851 – June 6, 1920) was a Canadian industrialist and politician in British Columbia. He served as the 14th premier of British Columbia from 1900 to 1902 and the eighth lieutenant governor of British Columbia from 1906 to 1909.
Early life and business career
Son of Robert Dunsmuir, he was heir... | 2.09375 | 0 |
561253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mende%20people | Mende people | The Mende are one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone; their neighbours, the Temne people, constitute the largest ethnic group at 35.5% of the total population, which is slightly larger than the Mende at 31.2%. The Mende are predominantly found in the Southern Province and the Eastern Province. The Mende ... | 3.140625 | 0 |
561253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mende%20people | Mende people | Regional warfare throughout the 19th century led to the capture and sale of many Mende-speakers into slavery. Most notable were those found aboard the Amistad in 1839. They eventually won their freedom and were repatriated. This event involved fifty-two free Mende people, stolen by Portuguese slavers in 1839, who we... | 3.296875 | 0 |
561253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mende%20people | Mende people | Language
The Mende people speak the Mende language (also called Boumpe, Hulo, Kossa, or Kosso), which belongs to the Mande language branch of the proposed Niger-Congo language family. In the 1930s African-American linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner found a Gullah family in coastal Georgia that had preserved an ancient song i... | 2.984375 | 0 |
561253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mende%20people | Mende people | The bells on the necklaces are of the type believed capable of being heard by spirits, ringing in both worlds, that of the ancestors and the living. Mende hunters often wear a single bell that can be easily silenced when stealth is necessary. Women, on the other hand, often wear multiple bells, referring to concepts ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
561253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mende%20people | Mende people | In the Mende culture, full-figured women are beautiful. The intricate hairstyles reveal the close ties within a community of women. The holes at the base of the mask are where the rest of the costume is attached. A woman who wears these masks must not expose any part of her body or a vengeful spirit may take possess... | 2.84375 | 0 |
561253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mende%20people | Mende people | The Mende Kikakui script was invented in 1917 by Muhamad Turay and popularized by his son-in-law Kisimi Kamara (c. 1890–1962), a Kuranko man in Sierra Leone. During the 1920s and 1930s, he ran a school in southern Sierra Leone to teach 'Ki-ka-ku'. The syllabary became a popular method of keeping records and writing let... | 2.84375 | 0 |
561259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaks%20Island | Peaks Island | Secession efforts
There have been at least six significant movements for Peaks to secede from the city of Portland: in 1883, 1922, 1948, 1955, 1992, and between 2004 and 2011. The most recent effort grew out of a revaluation of the municipality's properties, when average property taxes on Peaks Island increased by over... | 2.484375 | 0 |
561260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Island%20%28Tasmania%29 | King Island (Tasmania) | King Island is an island in Bass Strait, belonging to the Australian state of Tasmania. It is the largest of four islands known as the New Year Group and the second-largest island in Bass Strait (after Flinders Island). The island's population at the was 1,617 people, up from 1,585 in 2016. The local government area o... | 2.703125 | 0 |
561260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Island%20%28Tasmania%29 | King Island (Tasmania) | Captain Reed is the first known European to discover King Island in 1799 while hunting seals in the schooner Martha. Matthew Flinders’ first map of "Van Diemen's Land" and "Basses Strait", which was sent to England (before Flinders had left) and was published in June 1800, did not show King Island. However, before Flin... | 2.78125 | 0 |
561260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Island%20%28Tasmania%29 | King Island (Tasmania) | Sealers continued to harvest the island intermittently until the mid-1820s, after which the only inhabitants were some old sealers and their Australian Aboriginal wives who mostly hunted wallaby for skins. The last of these left the island in 1854, and for many years it was only occasionally visited by hunters and more... | 2.640625 | 0 |
561260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Island%20%28Tasmania%29 | King Island (Tasmania) | A new $12.3 million wave power demonstration project is planned. Sitting partially submerged on the seabed, the Uniwave 200 will use oscillating water column technology to push air into a chamber fitted with an electricity-generating turbine.
Naracoopa
The village of Naracoopa is situated on the east coast about fro... | 2.46875 | 0 |
561260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Island%20%28Tasmania%29 | King Island (Tasmania) | Some 193 km2 of the island, consisting of the coastline in a strip extending from the low water mark to one kilometre inland of the high-water mark around the entire island, with a broader area encompassing Lavinia State Reserve in the north-east, has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
561267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorbing%20Man | Absorbing Man | The Absorbing Man (Carl "Crusher" Creel) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and writer-artist Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in Journey into Mystery #114 (cover dated March 1965), in the Silver Age of Comic Books. Carl Creel has the power to... | 2.15625 | 0 |
561267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorbing%20Man | Absorbing Man | Powers, abilities, and equipment
Carl Creel has the ability to mimic the matter or strength of anything nearby or anyone he is near. Most commonly, the Absorbing Man uses his powers to duplicate the qualities of anything that he touches—solids, liquids, gases, or even energy sources. This transformation also extends to... | 2.046875 | 0 |
561268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Anthony%20Walkem | George Anthony Walkem | George Anthony Walkem (November 15, 1834 – January 13, 1908) was a British Columbian politician and jurist.
Life and career
Born in Newry, Ireland, Walkem moved to then Colony of British Columbia in 1862 and served as a member of the Colonial Assembly (Cariboo East and Quesnel Forks District) from 1864 to 1866 and the... | 2.203125 | 0 |
561268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Anthony%20Walkem | George Anthony Walkem | The new Walkem government opposed "cheap Chinese labour" and inserted a clause banning the hiring of Chinese workers in all its contracts. The government also attempted to levy a special tax restricted to Chinese which was struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada. In the election campaign Walkem had threatened to lea... | 2.109375 | 0 |
561270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caseless%20ammunition | Caseless ammunition | Caseless ammunition (CL), or caseless cartridge, is a configuration of weapon-cartridge that eliminates the cartridge case that typically holds the primer, propellant and projectile together as a unit. Instead, the propellant and primer are fitted to the projectile in another way so that a cartridge case is not needed,... | 2.03125 | 0 |
561270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caseless%20ammunition | Caseless ammunition | Another difference is means of fire and stabilization. As a cartridge, internal-propellant caseless ammunition is only fired from gun barrels, either closed or recoilless, and achieves ballistic stabilization through longitudinal spinning (conservation of angular momentum), either by the use of driving bands and riflin... | 2.296875 | 0 |
561270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caseless%20ammunition | Caseless ammunition | Heat sensitivity
The first major problem, of special concern in military applications, which often involve sustained firing, is the heat sensitivity of the ammunition. Nitrocellulose, the primary component of modern firearm propellant, ignites at a relatively low temperature of around 170 °C (338 °F). One of the funct... | 1.984375 | 0 |
561272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Irons | Jack Irons | As teenagers, Irons, Johannes, Slovak, and schoolmate Todd Strassman formed the band Chain Reaction in 1976. After its first gig, the band renamed itself Anthym. Slovak, dissatisfied with Strassman's bass playing, taught friend Michael "Flea" Balzary to play then replaced Strassman with Flea. After graduating high scho... | 1.953125 | 0 |
561277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assist%20%28ice%20hockey%29 | Assist (ice hockey) | In ice hockey, an assist is attributed to up to two players of the scoring team who shot, passed or deflected the puck towards the scoring teammate, or touched it in any other way which enabled the goal, meaning that they were "assisting" in the goal. There can be a maximum of two assists per goal. The assists will be ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
561277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assist%20%28ice%20hockey%29 | Assist (ice hockey) | Special cases
If a player scores off a rebound given up by a goaltender, assists are still awarded, as long as there is no re-possession by that goaltender i.e. they did not gain complete control of the puck.
However, a rule says that only one point can be credited to any one player on a goal scored. This means one pl... | 2.21875 | 0 |
561280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCNC-TV | WCNC-TV | Group W era
Turner's ambitious and mostly successful ownership of the station would not last much longer after obtaining the NBC affiliation. By 1979, Turner was in the process of starting CNN, and he announced he would sell channel 36 to help raise the capital needed for the new venture. On May 16, 1979, the sale of W... | 2.234375 | 0 |
561295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Rhoads | Samuel Rhoads | Samuel Rhoads (1711 – April 7, 1784) was an American architect who served as the 59th mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Early life and family
Rhoads was born in Philadelphia into a Quaker family. His grandfather John Rhoads (also spelled Roads or Roades), had faced persecution after joining the Quaker faith. "The R... | 2.3125 | 0 |
561298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Charles%20Elliott | Andrew Charles Elliott | Andrew Charles Elliott (June 22, 1829 – April 9, 1889) was a British Columbian politician and jurist who was the fourth premier of British Columbia from 1876 to 1878.
Career
Elliott's varied career in British Columbia included gold commissioner, stipendiary magistrate, and, following the union of the Island and Mainla... | 2.03125 | 0 |
561306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Marsden | David Marsden | Pink Floyd/Dark Side of the Moon
In 1973 Marsden played a major role in introducing the (at that time) largely unknown Pink Floyd to Toronto. He started a petition to persuade Toronto's Concert Productions International and promoter Michael Cohl to bring the band, who were touring to promote the as yet unreleased Dark... | 2.21875 | 0 |
561309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-1-1 | 6-1-1 | 611 is an abbreviated dialing telephone number in the North American Numbering Plan, implemented by many telephone companies for reporting troubles with telephone service, or with a payphone. It is an N11 code, which are reserved from assignment as area codes or central office codes, for use in special services.
Backg... | 2.953125 | 0 |
561315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wizard%20of%20Oz | The Wizard of Oz | The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind. It stars Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bol... | 2.15625 | 0 |
561315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wizard%20of%20Oz | The Wizard of Oz | The house comes down in an unknown land, and Dorothy is greeted by a good witch named Glinda, who floats down in a bubble and explains that Dorothy has landed in Munchkinland in the Land of Oz, and that the Munchkins are celebrating because the house landed on the Wicked Witch of the East, killing her. Her sister, the ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
561315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wizard%20of%20Oz | The Wizard of Oz | Production on the bulk of the Technicolor sequences was a long and exhausting process that ran for over six months, from October 1938 to March 1939. Most of the cast worked six days a week and had to arrive as early as 4 a.m. to be fitted with makeup and costumes, and often did not leave until 7 pm or later. Cumbersome... | 1.992188 | 0 |
561315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wizard%20of%20Oz | The Wizard of Oz | Special effects, makeup and costumes
Arnold Gillespie, the film's special effects director, employed several techniques. Developing the tornado scene was especially costly. Gillespie used muslin cloth to make the tornado flexible, after a previous attempt with rubber failed. He hung the of muslin from a steel gantry a... | 2.40625 | 0 |
561315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wizard%20of%20Oz | The Wizard of Oz | Post-production
Principal photography concluded with the monochromatic Kansas sequences on March 16, 1939. When Victor Fleming was called away to replace George Cukor as director of Gone with the Wind, veteran director King Vidor agreed to direct Oz during its final ten days of principal production. This included the b... | 1.914063 | 0 |
561315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wizard%20of%20Oz | The Wizard of Oz | The first DVD release was on March 26, 1997, by MGM/Turner. It contained no special features or supplements. On October 19, 1999, The Wizard of Oz was re-released by Warner Bros. to celebrate the film's 60th anniversary, with its soundtrack presented in a new 5.1 surround sound mix. The DVD also contained a behind-the-... | 2.015625 | 0 |
561315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wizard%20of%20Oz | The Wizard of Oz | Legacy
The film was not the first to utilize color, but the way in which the film was saturated with Technicolor proved that color could provide a magical element to fantasy films. The film is iconic for its symbols such as the Yellow Brick Road, ruby slippers, Emerald City, Munchkins, and the phrase "There's no place ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
561315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wizard%20of%20Oz | The Wizard of Oz | In 1975, a comic book adaptation of the film titled MGM's Marvelous Wizard of Oz was released. It was the first co-production between DC Comics and Marvel Comics. Marvel planned a series of sequels based on the subsequent novels. The first, The Marvelous Land of Oz, was published later that year. The next, The Marvelou... | 2.109375 | 0 |
561316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Krestinsky | Nikolay Krestinsky | Nikolay Nikolayevich Krestinsky (; 13 October 1883 – 15 March 1938) was a Soviet Bolshevik revolutionary and politician who served as the Responsible Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Born in Mogilev to a Ukrainian family, Krestinsky studied law at Saint Petersburg Imperial University, where he emb... | 2.109375 | 0 |
561316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Krestinsky | Nikolay Krestinsky | Fall from power
As the official responsible for party appointments, Krestinsky took a conciliatory line towards dissenters, for which he was openly attacked by Grigory Zinoviev, who was backed up by Joseph Stalin and others who later formed the Stalinist faction within the party. At the same time, Leon Trotsky was unde... | 1.9375 | 0 |
561317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-1-1 | 5-1-1 | In March 1998, a 3-digit dialing code was launched in the Cincinnati–Northern Kentucky metropolitan area for the ARTIMIS project. The SmarTraveler service, operated by SmartRoute Systems for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet since 1995, had been using a 7-digit code (333-3333) which was available to landline phones i... | 2.1875 | 0 |
561317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-1-1 | 5-1-1 | In Canada
Implementation
The Intelligent Transportation Systems Society of Canada (ITS Canada) has brought together a consortium, the Canada 511 Consortium, to help get 5-1-1 service established in Canada.
In January 2005, the consortium filed an application to assign the 5-1-1 access code in Canada. It proposed that... | 2.046875 | 0 |
561380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Frontier | New Frontier | Civil rights
Various measures were carried out by the Kennedy Justice Department to enforce court orders and existing legislation. The Kennedy Administration promoted a Voter Education Project which led to 688,800 between 1 April 1962 and 1 November 1964, while the Civil Rights Division brought over forty-two suits in... | 2.921875 | 0 |
561380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Frontier | New Frontier | Housing
The most comprehensive housing and urban renewal program in American history up until that point was carried out, including the first major provisions for middle-income housing, protection of urban open spaces, public mass transit, and private low-income housing.
Omnibus Housing Bill 1961. In March 1961 Presid... | 2.796875 | 0 |
561380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Frontier | New Frontier | Unemployment
To help the unemployed, Kennedy broadened the distribution of surplus food, created a "pilot" Food Stamp program for poor Americans, directed that preference be given to distressed areas in defense contracts, and expanded the services of U.S. Employment Offices.
Social security benefits were extended to ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
561380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Frontier | New Frontier | Health
In 1963, Kennedy, who had a mentally ill sister named Rosemary, submitted the nation's first presidential special message to Congress on mental health issues. Congress quickly passed the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act (P.L. 88-164), beginning a new era in Fede... | 2.765625 | 0 |
561380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Frontier | New Frontier | Equal rights for women
The Presidential Commission on the Status of Women was an advisory commission established on December 14, 1961, by Kennedy to investigate questions regarding women's equality in education, in the workplace, and under the law. The commission, chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt until her death in 1962, w... | 3.125 | 0 |
561388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20W.%20Denslow | W. W. Denslow | William Wallace Denslow (; May 5, 1856 – March 29, 1915) was an American illustrator and caricaturist remembered for his work in collaboration with author L. Frank Baum, especially his illustrations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Denslow was an editorial cartoonist with a strong interest in politics, which has fueled p... | 2.671875 | 0 |
561399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20Institute%20of%20Arts | Detroit Institute of Arts | The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is a museum institution located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. It has one of the largest and most significant art collections in the United States. With over 100 galleries, it covers with a major renovation and expansion project completed in 2007 that added . The DIA collection is re... | 2.484375 | 0 |
561399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20Institute%20of%20Arts | Detroit Institute of Arts | The museum contains 100 galleries of art from around the world. Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry cycle of frescoes span the upper and lower levels to surround the central grand marble court of the museum. The armor collection of William Randolph Hearst lines the main hall entry way to the grand court. The collection of ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
561399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20Institute%20of%20Arts | Detroit Institute of Arts | The early 20th century was a period of prolific collecting for the museum, which acquired such works as a dragon tile relief from the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, an Egyptian relief of Mourning Women and a statuette of a Seated Scribe, Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Wedding Dance, Saint Jerome in His Study by Jan van Eyck a... | 2.3125 | 0 |
561399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20Institute%20of%20Arts | Detroit Institute of Arts | The Big Three in Printmaking: Dürer, Rembrandt and Picasso (September 13, 2006 – December 31, 2006) The exhibit features work of Dürer in the early 16th century, Rembrandt in the mid-17th century, and Picasso in the 20th century made of various media including wood and linoleum cuts, engraving, etching, aquatint, drypo... | 2.421875 | 0 |
561399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20Institute%20of%20Arts | Detroit Institute of Arts | Before 1920, a commission was established to choose an architect to design a new building to house the DIA's expanding collections. The commission included DIA President Ralph H. Booth, William J. Gray, architect Albert Kahn and industrialist Edsel Ford. W.R. Valentiner, the museum director, acted as art director and C... | 2.515625 | 0 |
561399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20Institute%20of%20Arts | Detroit Institute of Arts | Edsel Ford commissioned murals by Diego Rivera for DIA in 1932. Composed in fresco style, the five sets of massive murals are known collectively as Detroit Industry, or Man and Machine. The murals were added to a large central courtyard; it was roofed over when the work was executed. The Diego Rivera murals are widely ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
561399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20Institute%20of%20Arts | Detroit Institute of Arts | Renovation and expansion
In November 2007, the Detroit Institute of Arts building completed a renovation and expansion at a total cost of $158 million. Architects for the renovation included the Driehaus Prize winner Michael Graves and associates along with the SmithGroup. The project, labeled the Master Plan Project, ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
561399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20Institute%20of%20Arts | Detroit Institute of Arts | With much success from their first exhibit, Brearley then challenged 40 of Detroit's leading and prominent businessmen to contribute $1,000 each to help fund the building of a permanent museum. With $50,000 coming from Scripps alone, their goal was within reach. By 1888, Scripps and Brearley had incorporated Detroit ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
561399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20Institute%20of%20Arts | Detroit Institute of Arts | Another decision in 1919 that would have a lasting impact on the future of the museum was transferring ownership to the City of Detroit with the museum becoming a city department and receiving operating funds. The board of trustees became the Founder's Society a private support group that provided additional money for ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
561399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20Institute%20of%20Arts | Detroit Institute of Arts | Support for the museum came from Detroit philanthropists such as Charles Lang Freer, and the auto barons: art and funds were donated by the Dodges, the Firestones and the Fords, especially Edsel Ford and his wife Eleanor, and subsequently their children. Robert Hudson Tannahill of the Hudson's Department Store family, ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
561399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20Institute%20of%20Arts | Detroit Institute of Arts | Director
The current director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Salvador Salort-Pons a native of Madrid was previously head of the European Art Department at the DIA. Before coming to the DIA he was senior curator at the Meadows Museum at SMU and prior to that an assistant professor of art history at the Complutense Un... | 1.90625 | 0 |
561399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20Institute%20of%20Arts | Detroit Institute of Arts | In response to criticisms of Salort-Pons in 2020, some Detroit Black community activists and members of the art community in Detroit came to his defense. The Detroit News published an article in July 2020 in which Cledie Collins Taylor, a longtime Detroit art community figure stated, regarding Salort-Pons, that "his ou... | 1.9375 | 0 |
561399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%20Institute%20of%20Arts | Detroit Institute of Arts | The DIA art collection is valued in billions of dollars, up to $8.5 billion according to a 2014 estimate. After city's bankruptcy filing July 18, 2013, creditors targeted a part of the museum's collection that had been paid for with city funds as a potential source of revenue. Kevyn Orr, the city's state-appointed emer... | 2.203125 | 0 |
561413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick%20May%20%28musician%29 | Derrick May (musician) | Derrick May (born April 6, 1963), also known as Mayday and Is , is an American electronic musician from Belleville, Michigan, United States. May is credited with pioneering techno music in the 1980s along with collaborators Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson, commonly known as The Belleville Three.
Biography
Early lif... | 2.375 | 0 |
561439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20Rang%2C%20M%27Lord%3F | You Rang, M'Lord? | This, coupled with high production values and attention to period detail, was designed to give the series the feel of a comedy drama. In writing the series, the two writers drew on research and personal accounts from the period; Jimmy Perry's grandfather had been in service as a butler and David Croft's mother, Anne Cr... | 2.078125 | 0 |
561441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev%20Tu-155 | Tupolev Tu-155 | The Tupolev Tu-155 is a modified Tupolev Tu-154 (СССР-85035) which was used as an alternative fuel testbed, and was the world's first experimental aircraft operating on hydrogen and later liquid natural gas. The similar Tu-156 was never built.
Design and development
The Tu-155 first flew on 15 April 1988. It used fir... | 2.40625 | 0 |
561448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency%20Banking%20Act%20of%201933 | Emergency Banking Act of 1933 | The Emergency Banking Act (EBA) (the official title of which was the Emergency Banking Relief Act), Public Law 73-1, 48 Stat. 1 (March 9, 1933), was an act passed by the United States Congress in March 1933 in an attempt to stabilize the banking system.
Bank holiday
Beginning on February 14, 1933, Michigan, an indus... | 3.125 | 0 |
561448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency%20Banking%20Act%20of%201933 | Emergency Banking Act of 1933 | The EBA was one of President Roosevelt's first projects in the first 100 days of his presidency. The sense of urgency was such that the act was passed with only a single copy available on the floor of the House of Representatives and legislators voted on it after the bill was read aloud to them by Chairman of the House... | 2.4375 | 0 |
561449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chardi%20kala | Chardi kala | In Sikhism, (Gurmukhi: ਚੜ੍ਹਦੀ ਕਲਾ caṛhadī kalā) or Charhdi Kala, is the Punjabi term for aspiring to maintain a mental state of eternal resilience, optimism and joy; an acceptance that life ebbs and flows with hardship and to rise above that adversity. Sikhs are ideally expected to be in this positive state of mind as... | 2.609375 | 0 |
561460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack%20and%20slash | Hack and slash | Hack and slash, also known as hack and slay (H&S or HnS) or slash 'em up, refers to a type of gameplay that emphasizes combat with melee-based weapons (such as swords or blades). They may also feature projectile-based weapons as well (such as guns) as secondary weapons. It is a sub-genre of beat 'em up games, which foc... | 2.453125 | 0 |
561460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack%20and%20slash | Hack and slash | In the early 21st century, journalists covering the video game industry often use the term "hack and slash" to refer to a distinct genre of 3D, third-person, weapon-based, melee action games. Examples include Capcom's Devil May Cry, Onimusha, and Sengoku Basara franchises, Koei Tecmo's Dynasty Warriors and 3D Ninja Gai... | 2.578125 | 0 |
561467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population%20of%20the%20Byzantine%20Empire | Population of the Byzantine Empire | The population of the Byzantine Empire encompassed all ethnic and tribal groups living there, mainly Byzantine Greeks, but also Albanians, Arabs, Armenians, Assyrians, Bulgarians, Goths, Latini, Serbs and other Slavs, Thracians, Tzans, Vlachs and other groups. It fluctuated throughout the state's millennial history. Th... | 3.078125 | 0 |
561472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Fisher | Geoffrey Fisher | Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth, (5 May 1887 – 15 September 1972) was an English Anglican priest, and 99th Archbishop of Canterbury, serving from 1945 to 1961.
From a long line of parish priests, Fisher was educated at Marlborough College and Exeter College, Oxford. He achieved high academic honours ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
561472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Fisher | Geoffrey Fisher | Theologically, Fisher was nearer the Evangelical wing of the Church than the Anglo-Catholic, but strongly believed that neither had a monopoly of religious truth. His predecessor and his successor at Canterbury – Temple and Michael Ramsey – were known for scholarly spirituality; Fisher was distinguished by a simple fai... | 1.953125 | 0 |
561472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Fisher | Geoffrey Fisher | After completing his studies, Fisher declined two offers of lecturerships in theology from Oxford colleges. Although intellectually able he was not of an academic turn of mind. In the words of his biographer David Hein, "scholars must be intellectually imaginative and also persistently dissatisfied, even sceptical, in ... | 2.375 | 0 |
561472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Fisher | Geoffrey Fisher | Bishop of London
In 1939, Arthur Winnington-Ingram, the long-serving Bishop of London, retired at the age of 81. During his 38-year tenure, the diocese was riven by factions and came close to disintegrating. It was clear that Winnington-Ingram's successor must be a man with a strong hand; Fisher was seen as one such, a... | 2.359375 | 0 |
561472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Fisher | Geoffrey Fisher | Fisher, in the words of The Times, went about his duties "with a calm diligence which won general respect" and returned each night to sleep in the cellar at Fulham Palace. The war and the leadership of Temple – who succeeded Lang at Canterbury in 1942 – had begun to improve relations between the various Christian churc... | 2.1875 | 0 |
561472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Fisher | Geoffrey Fisher | Church unity and administration
For Fisher, the most important initiative of his archiepiscopate was to advance the cause of Christian unity. Strengthening ties did not necessarily mean converging theologically. To Fisher, better relations grew out of free communication and mutual respect. In his speech at Cambridge in... | 2.453125 | 0 |
561473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Leedskalnin | Edward Leedskalnin | In the winter of 1922–1923, after allegedly contracting tuberculosis, Leedskalnin moved to the warmer climate of Florida, where he purchased an undeveloped parcel of land in Florida City, which at the time was lightly inhabited. On February 27, 1923 The Homestead Enterprise newspaper published a notice that "E. Leedska... | 2.546875 | 0 |
561473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Leedskalnin | Edward Leedskalnin | In the 1920s, the structure with an assortment of sculpted stones was located in Florida City; then, in the mid-1930s, Leedskalnin hired a truck with a driver to move it to its present location on a site in the adjacent Homestead, Florida. Leedskalnin was an eccentric and lived on an exclusive diet of only crackers an... | 2.46875 | 0 |
561473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Leedskalnin | Edward Leedskalnin | Some writers have suggested that Leedskalnin's booklet contains further information on his electromagnetic research and philosophies encoded in its pages, and the blank pages are provided for the reader to fill in their decrypted solutions. It has also been suggested that Leedskalnin's frequent referral to his "Sweet S... | 2.546875 | 0 |
561474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche%20911%20%28930%29 | Porsche 911 (930) | The Porsche 930 is a turbocharged variant of the 911 model sports car manufactured by German automobile manufacturer Porsche between 1975 and 1989. It was the maker's top-of-the-range 911 model for its entire production duration and, at the time of its introduction, was the fastest production car available in Germany.
... | 2.125 | 0 |
561474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche%20911%20%28930%29 | Porsche 911 (930) | The 930 proved very fast but also very demanding to drive, and due to its short wheelbase and rear engine layout, was prone to oversteer and turbo-lag. It acquired the nickname "the Widowmaker" after several crashes and deaths attributed to its handling characteristics, which were unfamiliar to many drivers. Under cert... | 1.953125 | 0 |
561475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Ramsey | Michael Ramsey | Arthur Michael Ramsey, Baron Ramsey of Canterbury, (14 November 1904 – 23 April 1988) was a British Church of England bishop and life peer. He served as the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury. He was appointed on 31 May 1961 and held the office until 1974, having previously been appointed Bishop of Durham in 1952 and the ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
561475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Ramsey | Michael Ramsey | Conscious always of the atheism which his short-lived brother Frank had espoused, he maintained a lifelong respect for honest unbelief, and considered that such unbelief would not automatically be a barrier to salvation. Acting on his respect for beliefs other than his, Ramsey made a barefoot visit to the grave of Maha... | 2.40625 | 0 |
561475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Ramsey | Michael Ramsey | These warm relations with Rome caused Ramsey to be dogged by protests by fundamentalist Protestants, particularly Ian Paisley.
Ramsey encouraged efforts to promote closer relations between Anglicans and Orthodox. He enjoyed friendship with the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, Athenagoras, and Alexius, Patriarch o... | 2.296875 | 0 |
561475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Ramsey | Michael Ramsey | During his retirement, he also spent several terms at Nashotah House, an Anglo-Catholic seminary of the Episcopal Church in Wisconsin where he was much beloved by students. A first-floor flat was designated "Lambeth West" for his personal use. A stained-glass window in the Chapel, bears his image and the same inscripti... | 1.984375 | 0 |
561475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Ramsey | Michael Ramsey | Legacy
Dr Sam Brewitt-Taylor, a historian at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, holds that “there is much more historical and theoretical work to be done before Ramsey’s legacy can be properly ascertained.”
Ramsey's name has been given to Ramsey House, a residence of St Chad's College, University of Durham. He was... | 2.4375 | 0 |
561479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Bingham%2C%20Baron%20Bingham%20of%20Cornhill | Tom Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill | Thomas Henry Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, (13 October 193311 September 2010) was a British judge who was successively Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and Senior Law Lord. On his death in 2010, he was described as the greatest judge of his generation. The Baroness Hale of Richmond observed that his pione... | 2.03125 | 0 |
561482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20E.%20Blaha | John E. Blaha | John Elmer Blaha (born August 26, 1942, in San Antonio, Texas) is a retired United States Air Force colonel and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five space missions aboard the Space Shuttle and Mir.
Blaha is married to the former Brenda I. Walters of St. Louis, Missouri. They have three children.
Education... | 2.171875 | 0 |
561488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Foster%20%28American%20football%29 | Jim Foster (American football) | James Foster is the inventor of the game of Arena Football, (and US patent recipient), the founder and first commissioner of the Arena Football League (AFL).
He is also a former National Football League (NFL) and United States Football League (USFL) executive and was later the Managing Owner of both the Iowa Barnstorm... | 2.015625 | 0 |
561488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Foster%20%28American%20football%29 | Jim Foster (American football) | When the fateful decision was later made to move the USFL in 1985 from a spring season to a fall season on a head-to-head basis with the NFL, Foster made a pivotal decision to begin working full-time on carefully testing and researching the mechanics and basic rules of the new game he had invented before actually launc... | 1.90625 | 0 |
561499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20S%C3%A3o%20Paulo | University of São Paulo | The University of São Paulo is the result of a combination of the newly founded School of Philosophy, Sciences and Languages (Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras, FFCL, currently the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences – Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, FFLCH) with the existing P... | 2.15625 | 0 |
561499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20S%C3%A3o%20Paulo | University of São Paulo | In the 1960s, the university gradually transferred the headquarters of some of its units to the City University Armando de Salles Oliveira, in São Paulo. In 1963, the Heart Institute of the University of São Paulo was founded. After that, new institutes and schools were created, for instance, the School of Journalism, ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
561499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20S%C3%A3o%20Paulo | University of São Paulo | Today, the USP has five hospitals and offers 247 undergraduate programs and 239 graduate programs in all areas of study. The university houses altogether 24 museums and galleries – with half a million visitors a year – two theaters, a cinema, a TV channel and an orchestra. The University of São Paulo welcomes people fr... | 2.015625 | 0 |
561507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenna%20Henderson | Zenna Henderson | Zenna Chlarson Henderson (November 1, 1917 – May 11, 1983) was an American elementary school teacher and science fiction and fantasy author. Her first story was published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1951. Her work is cited as pre-feminist, often featuring middle-aged women, children, and their relat... | 2.25 | 0 |
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