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11661953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sthananga%20Sutra | Sthananga Sutra | Importance of Sthānāngasūtra can be gauged from the fact that Vyavahāra Chedasūtra (10, 20-34) mentions that it is suitable to be studied only by those ascetics, who have at least eight years standing in monkhood. Furthermore it is stated that only a monk who knows the Sthānānga by heart may attain the position of an ā... | 2.4375 | 0 |
11661976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda%20Atlantic%20Time-series%20Study | Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study | The Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) is a long-term oceanographic study by the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS). Based on regular (monthly or better) research cruises, it samples an area of the western Atlantic Ocean nominally at the coordinates . The cruise programme routinely samples physical pro... | 2.46875 | 0 |
11662028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Derbyshire%20%28swimmer%29 | John Derbyshire (swimmer) | John Henry "Rob" Derbyshire (29 November 1878 – 25 November 1938) was an English freestyle swimmer and water polo player from Chorlton, Lancashire, who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics (maybe), 1906 Intercalated Games, 1908 Summer Olympics and 1912 Summer Olympics. He and Alice Derbyshire founded swimming clubs in ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
11662037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil%20Plains%2C%20Queensland | Cecil Plains, Queensland | Cecil Plains is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Cecil Plains had a population of 380 people.
Geography
Cecil Plains is in the Darling Downs, west of the state capital, Brisbane. The fertile black soil around Cecil Plains is ideal for cotton productio... | 2.140625 | 0 |
11662072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968%20Greek%20constitutional%20referendum | 1968 Greek constitutional referendum | A constitutional referendum was held in Greece on 15 November 1968. Voters were asked whether they wished to ratify a new constitution prepared by the dictatorial regime. It was approved by 92.1% of voters, with a voter turnout of 77.7%.
Background
A military junta, presided over by Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos, had ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
11662126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dosthill | Dosthill | Dosthill is an area of Tamworth, Staffordshire, 2.5 miles south of the town centre, and close to the River Tame. The area is mostly residential, centering on Dosthill High Street, with local employment on the adjoining Tame Valley Industrial Estate. The High Street includes a public house called 'The Fox' and Dosthill ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
11662126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dosthill | Dosthill | Originally most of the buildings in the area were agricultural. In the late 18th and 19th centuries the village was developed with the building of a number of farms and cottages. By the 20th century Dosthill had been transformed into a coalmining and brick making village.
There are 2 important historical buildings in ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
11662146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samayanallur | Samayanallur | Samayanallur is a small town located on National Highway 7, 12 kilometers from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. The main town just lies between the strip formed by the NH7 and Rail Track. On the south side is the river Vaigai and on the north side is Todaneri Lake ("Todaneri Kanmaai"). The main reason for bearing this name... | 1.992188 | 0 |
11662151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watertable%20control | Watertable control | In geotechnical engineering, watertable control is the practice of controlling the height of the water table by drainage. Its main applications are in agricultural land (to improve the crop yield using agricultural drainage systems) and in cities to manage the extensive underground infrastructure that includes the foun... | 2.578125 | 0 |
11662151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watertable%20control | Watertable control | The design of subsurface drainage systems in terms layout, depth and spacing of the drains is often done using subsurface drainage equations with parameters like drain depth, depth of the water table, soil depth, hydraulic conductivity of the soil and drain discharge. The drain discharge is found from an agricultural w... | 2.515625 | 0 |
11662152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Ryerson | George Ryerson | George Sterling Ansel Ryerson (January 21, 1855 – May 20, 1925) was an Ontario physician, businessman, and political figure. He represented Toronto in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1893 to 1898 as a Conservative and then Conservative-Protestant Protective Association member.
Background
He was born in Toront... | 2.390625 | 0 |
11662195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrin%20District | Afrin District | Afrin District (, Kurdish: Herêma Efrînê) is a district of Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria. The administrative centre is the city of Afrin. At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 172,095. Syria's Afrin District fell under the control of the People's Protection Units (YPG) around 2012 and an "Afrin Ca... | 2.34375 | 0 |
11662195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrin%20District | Afrin District | In the 1930s, Kurdish Alevis who fled the persecution of the Turkish Army during the Dersim Massacre, settled in Maabatli in the Afrin District. Prior to the Syrian Civil War, the population of the Afrin District area was overwhelmingly ethnic Kurdish, to the degree that the district had been described as "homogeneousl... | 2.78125 | 0 |
11662195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrin%20District | Afrin District | A diverse agricultural industry is at the heart of the Afrin District's economy, traditionally olives in particular, and more recently there has been a focus on increasing wheat production. A well-known product from the area is Aleppo soap, a hard soap made from olive oil and lye, distinguished by the inclusion of laur... | 2.59375 | 0 |
11662235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town%20hall%20in%20Bansk%C3%A1%20%C5%A0tiavnica | Town hall in Banská Štiavnica | The town hall in Banská Štiavnica existed in the 14th century, as a ground floor house in Gothic style, with the name "Stuba Praetoriana" or "Stuba Judicis". Between 1507 and 1679 it was modified and extended in Renaissance style. The Chapel of St. Anna was attached to the building but was demolished in the 18th centur... | 2.3125 | 0 |
11662278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dar%20es%20Salaam%20Marine%20Reserve | Dar es Salaam Marine Reserve | The Dar es Salaam Marine Reserve System or DMRS (Hifahdi Akiba Bahari ya Dar es Salaam, in Swahili) is a group of marine reserves in Tanzania, with the IUCN category II located within Dar es Salaam Region of Tanzania. The reserve system consists of nine uninhabited islands, four located north of Dar es Salaam's Kinon... | 2.5 | 0 |
11662307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergasilidae | Ergasilidae | Ergasilidae is a widespread family of copepods and comprises many species. The type genus is Ergasilus. With a few doubtful exceptions all ergasilids are parasitic on fishes.
Biology
Various species of Ergasilidae parasitise hosts in various habitats, mostly freshwater, but some attack marine species, especially euryh... | 3.171875 | 0 |
11662324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangavini%20Island | Pangavini Island | Pangavini Island (Kisiwa cha Pangavini, in Swahili) is a protected, uninhabited island under the Dar es Salaam Marine Reserve with the IUCN category II located within Kinondoni District of Dar es Salaam Region in Tanzania. The island reserve measures around 2.13km2. Pangavini is the smallest island in the group, only a... | 2.21875 | 0 |
11662330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungu%20Yasini%20Island | Fungu Yasini Island | Fungu Yasini Island (Kisiwa cha Fungu Yasini, in Swahili) is a protected, uninhabited island under the Dar es Salaam Marine Reserve (DMRS) with the IUCN category II located within Kinondoni District of Dar es Salaam Region in Tanzania. The island reserve measures around 22.90km2 with most it underwater as a reef. South... | 2.4375 | 0 |
11662375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian%20passport | Armenian passport | The Armenian passport () is a passport issued to Armenian citizens to enable them to travel outside Armenia, and entitles the bearer to the protection of Armenia's consular officials overseas. Armenian citizens have visa-free or visa on arrival access to 65 countries and territories as of 2023.
Between the years 1994 ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
11662375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian%20passport | Armenian passport | In 2023, Armenian citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 65 countries and territories, ranking the Armenian passport 81st in the world according to the Henley Passport Index.
As of 2023, holders of an Armenian passport may enter all Commonwealth of Independent States and Eurasian Economic Union member sta... | 2.140625 | 0 |
11662377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio%20Clare | Horatio Clare | Horatio Clare is a Welsh author known for travel, memoir, nature and children's books, and his writing and broadcasting on mental health and psychiatry. He worked at the BBC as a producer on Front Row (BBC Radio 4), Night Waves (BBC Radio 3) and The Verb (BBC Radio 3). He is a senior lecturer in creative non-fiction at... | 2.171875 | 0 |
11662459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvadoran%20passport | Salvadoran passport | Salvadoran passports () are issued to citizens of El Salvador to travel outside the country.
Passports are issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or, if the citizen resides abroad, at the Salvadoran embassy. Besides serving as proof of identity and of citizenship, they facilitate the process of securing assistance ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
11662460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas%20of%20European%20unity%20before%201948 | Ideas of European unity before 1948 | This article aims to cover ideas of European unity before 1948.
Early history
Ancient concepts of European unity were generally undemocratic, and founded on domination, like the Empire of Alexander the Great, the Roman Empire, or the Catholic Church controlled by the Pope in Rome.
"Europe" as a cultural sphere is f... | 2.609375 | 0 |
11662460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas%20of%20European%20unity%20before%201948 | Ideas of European unity before 1948 | In the conservative reaction after Napoleon's defeat in 1815, the German Confederation () was established as a loose association of thirty-eight sovereign German states formed by the Congress of Vienna. Napoleon had swept away the Holy Roman Empire and simplified the map of Germany. In 1834, the Zollverein ("customs un... | 2.375 | 0 |
11662460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas%20of%20European%20unity%20before%201948 | Ideas of European unity before 1948 | In 1843 the Italian writer and politician Giuseppe Mazzini called for the creation of a federation of European republics. This set the stage for perhaps the best known early proposal for peaceful unification, through cooperation and equality of membership, made in 1847 by the pacifist Victor Hugo. Hugo used the term Un... | 2.4375 | 0 |
11662460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas%20of%20European%20unity%20before%201948 | Ideas of European unity before 1948 | As part of 19th-century concerns about an ailing Europe and the threat posed by the Mahdi, the Polish writer Theodore de Korwin Szymanowski's original contribution was to focus not on nationalism, sovereignty, and federation, but foremost on economics, statistics, monetary policy, and parliamentary reform. His L'Avenir... | 2.09375 | 0 |
11662460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas%20of%20European%20unity%20before%201948 | Ideas of European unity before 1948 | Among liberal-democratic parties, the French centre-left undertook several initiatives to group like-minded parties from the European states. In 1927, the French politician Emil Borel, a leader of the centre-left Radical Party and the founder of the Radical International, set up a French Committee for European Cooperat... | 2.375 | 0 |
11662460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas%20of%20European%20unity%20before%201948 | Ideas of European unity before 1948 | The Great Depression, the rise of fascism and communism and subsequently World War II prevented the interwar movements from gaining further support: between 1933 and 1936 most of Europe's remaining democracies became dictatorships, and even Ortega's Spain and Venizelos's Greece had both been plunged into civil war. One... | 2.578125 | 0 |
11662460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas%20of%20European%20unity%20before%201948 | Ideas of European unity before 1948 | Among those who were early advocates of a union of European nations was Hungarian Prime Minister Pál Teleki. Hungary had lost over two-thirds of its territory at the end of World War I in the 1920 Treaty of Trianon. In early 1941 during World War II, he was striving to keep Hungary autonomous. Internally, he tried to s... | 2.546875 | 0 |
11662460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas%20of%20European%20unity%20before%201948 | Ideas of European unity before 1948 | One of the most influential figures in this process was Altiero Spinelli, author of the Ventotene Manifesto entitled "Towards a Free and United Europe" and smuggled out of an internment camp – on the island of Ventotene – as early as 1941, well before the outcome of the war was safely predictable, and widely circulate... | 1.960938 | 0 |
11662460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas%20of%20European%20unity%20before%201948 | Ideas of European unity before 1948 | After the war on 19 September 1946 Churchill went further as a civilian, after leaving his office, at the University of Zürich, calling for a United States of Europe. Coincidentally parallel to his speech the Hertenstein Congress in the Lucerne Canton was being held, resulting in the Union of European Federalists. Rich... | 2.734375 | 0 |
11662478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primula%20pauciflora | Primula pauciflora | Primula pauciflora has been divided into up to seven varieties each with their own often complex set of synonyms. Primula pauciflora var. pauciflora, synonym Dodecatheon pulchellum, is a herbaceous perennial with single, leafless flower stems, growing from very short erect root stocks with no bulblets. It grows to a he... | 2.203125 | 0 |
11662516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20European%20integration%20%281948%E2%80%931957%29 | History of European integration (1948–1957) | With the start of the Cold War, the Treaty of Brussels was signed in 1948 establishing the Western Union (WU). It expanded upon the Dunkirk Treaty which was a military pact between France and the United Kingdom who were concerned about the threat from the USSR following the communist takeover in Czechoslovakia. The new... | 2.78125 | 0 |
11662516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20European%20integration%20%281948%E2%80%931957%29 | History of European integration (1948–1957) | The start of the cold war changed the context of French policy toward Germany. Further, the U.S. Marshall Plan (the European Recovery Plan) was aimed at reviving the economies of western Europe, including west Germany. To address French concerns, the International Authority for the Ruhr (IAR) was announced at the Lon... | 2.578125 | 0 |
11662516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20European%20integration%20%281948%E2%80%931957%29 | History of European integration (1948–1957) | In May 1950, the French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman proposed a new strategy: pooling the markets for coal and steel of France, Germany, and other European countries wanting to participate. Schuman's plan was an entirely different approach to the coal and steel issue, as it involved treating the Germans as equals, a... | 2.359375 | 0 |
11662516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20European%20integration%20%281948%E2%80%931957%29 | History of European integration (1948–1957) | The member states' governments were represented by the Council of Ministers, the Presidency of which rotated between each state every three months in alphabetical order. It was added at the request of smaller states, fearing undue influence from the High Authority. Its task was to harmonise the work of national governm... | 2.5625 | 0 |
11662516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20European%20integration%20%281948%E2%80%931957%29 | History of European integration (1948–1957) | The Court of Justice was to ensure the observation of ECSC law along with the interpretation and application of the Treaty. The Court was composed of seven judges, appointed by common accord of the national governments for six years. There were no requirements that the judges had to be of a certain nationality, simply ... | 2.375 | 0 |
11662516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20European%20integration%20%281948%E2%80%931957%29 | History of European integration (1948–1957) | The Treaty made no decision on where to base the institutions of the new community. The Treaty allowed for the seat(s) to be decided by common accord of governments yet at a conference of the ECSC members on 23 July 1952 no permanent seat was decided. The seat was contested with Liège, Luxembourg, Strasbourg and Turin ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
11662516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20European%20integration%20%281948%E2%80%931957%29 | History of European integration (1948–1957) | In 1956, the Egyptian government under Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal and closing it to Israeli traffic, sparking the Suez Crisis. This was in response to the withdrawal of funding for the Aswan Dam by the UK and United States due to Egypt's ties to the Soviet Union. The canal was owned by the UK and Fr... | 2.390625 | 0 |
11662516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20European%20integration%20%281948%E2%80%931957%29 | History of European integration (1948–1957) | The Spaak Report drawn up by the Spaak Committee provided the basis for further progress and was accepted at the Venice Conference (29 and 30 May 1956) where the decision was taken to organize an Intergovernmental Conference. The report formed the cornerstone of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and... | 2.1875 | 0 |
11662548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20European%20Communities%20%281958%E2%80%931972%29 | History of the European Communities (1958–1972) | The history of the European Communities between 1958 and 1972 saw the early development of the European Communities. The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) had just been joined by the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and the European Economic Community (EEC), the latter of which soon became the most imp... | 2.71875 | 0 |
11662548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20European%20Communities%20%281958%E2%80%931972%29 | History of the European Communities (1958–1972) | Another crisis was triggered in regard to proposals for the financing of the Common Agricultural Policy, which came into force in 1962. The transitional period whereby decisions were made by unanimity had come to an end, and majority-voting in the council had taken effect. De Gaulle's opposition to supranationalism and... | 2.34375 | 0 |
11662591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20European%20Communities%20%281973%E2%80%931993%29 | History of the European Communities (1973–1993) | Intergovernmental
The Single European Act was signed by the foreign ministers on 17 and 28 February 1986 in Luxembourg and The Hague respectively. In a single document it dealt with reform of institutions, extension of powers, foreign policy cooperation and the single market. It came into force on 1 July 1987.
The act... | 2.53125 | 0 |
11662649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy%20Delapenha | Lindy Delapenha | Lloyd Lindbergh "Lindy" Delapenha (20 May 1927 – 26 January 2017) was a Jamaican footballer and sports journalist. He was the first Jamaican to play professional football in England. Between 1948 and 1960, he played league football for Portsmouth, Middlesbrough and Mansfield Town. Despite limited appearances for Portsm... | 2.28125 | 0 |
11662689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevillea%20thyrsoides | Grevillea thyrsoides | Grevillea thyrsoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae, and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a small, spreading or low-lying shrub, with pinnatisect to comb-like leaves, the end lobes linear, and clusters of hairy pinkish-red flowers.
Description
Grevillea thyrsoides is a ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
11662699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Rush%20and%20a%20Push%20and%20the%20Land%20Is%20Ours | A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours | "A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours" is a 1987 song by English alternative rock band the Smiths, which appeared as the opening track for the band's 1987 final album, Strangeways, Here We Come. Written by Morrissey and Johnny Marr, the song features no guitar and was inspired musically by Reparata's "Shoes" and lyri... | 2.03125 | 0 |
11662725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20Iranian%20legislative%20election | 2008 Iranian legislative election | From amongst the 49 million eligible voters above 18 years of age announced by the Iran Statistics Center some 23 million Iranians, i.e. 47 percent, participated in the parliamentary elections of March 2, 2008. This is the lowest level when compared with the eight previous parliamentary elections. Of this amount, 30 pe... | 2.125 | 0 |
11662727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday%20Building | Faraday Building | The present edifice, known as the Faraday Building, replaced the old Savings Bank building in Queen Victoria Street. Designed by the architect A. R. Myers for the Office of Works, it was completed in 1933. That same year the international telephone exchange was opened at Faraday. In 1935, an automatic exchange was open... | 2.09375 | 0 |
11662736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suneet%20Chopra | Suneet Chopra | Suneet Chopra (24 December 1941 – 4 April 2023) was an Indian communist politician and trade unionist. He was the All-India joint secretary of the All India Agricultural Workers Union. He was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Earlier he was on the Central Committee of the Students F... | 1.9375 | 0 |
11662741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibsonia%2C%20Pennsylvania | Gibsonia, Pennsylvania | Gibsonia is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Richland Township, Allegheny County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, north of the city of Pittsburgh.
It had a population of 2,785 at the 2020 Census. Its ZIP code is 15044.
Geography
Gibsonia is located in the central and southwest parts of Ri... | 2.109375 | 0 |
11662788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish%20National%20Police%20Academy | Turkish National Police Academy | The Turkish National Police Academy () is a public institution of higher education in Ankara, Turkey dedicated to the training of police officers. It was founded in 1937 and has offered a four-year undergraduate program since 1984.
History
The police academy was founded on 6 November 1937 in accordance with Article 18... | 2.0625 | 0 |
11662788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish%20National%20Police%20Academy | Turkish National Police Academy | Institute of Security Sciences
The students who follow the postgraduate program are those who have already completed their undergraduate education at the Police Academy, military schools, universities if educated on behalf of the General Directorate of Security and other institutions of higher education (Faculty of Law... | 1.945313 | 0 |
11662795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A5rst%C3%B8 | Kårstø | Kårstø is an industrial facility located near the village of Susort, along the Boknafjorden, in the municipality of Tysvær in Rogaland county, Norway. The site features a number of natural gas processing plants that refine natural gas and condensate from the fields in the northern parts of the North Sea, including the ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
11662800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah%20Kot%20Tehsil | Shah Kot Tehsil | Shahkot (), is a town and one of three tehsils in the Nankana Sahib District of Punjab, Pakistan. It is one the oldest cities of Pakistan. It has a hill park which is being converted into a theme park. It also has Baba Nau Lakh Hazari Mizar which is visited by hundreds of people from different cities every year. The pe... | 2.34375 | 0 |
11662841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi%20cinema | Marathi cinema | With the advent of sound in the 1930s, a shift toward more naturalistic acting emerged in Marathi cinema, although traces of the theatrical style remained. V. Shantaram, a prominent actor-director of the era, introduced a more refined approach to acting. Renowned actors of this time included Shanta Apte, Durga Khote, L... | 2.34375 | 0 |
11662857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la%20Ap%C3%A1ti%20Abkarovics | Béla Apáti Abkarovics | Béla Apáti Abkarovics (born 1888, Érmihályfalva, Austro-Hungarian Empire - died 1957, Szentendre, Hungary) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist.
He used his original family name in both Abkarovics and Abkarovits versions, the stage name Apáti-Abkarovics later became his final family name (he was also often menti... | 2.171875 | 0 |
11662864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdzis%C5%82aw%20Stieber | Zdzisław Stieber | Zdzisław Stieber, (June 7, 1903 – October 12, 1980) was a Polish linguist and Slavist. He was born in Szczakowa, then part of the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia (since 1918 Poland). His family was of assimilated German descent in Poland for generations. He died in Warsaw.
Initially a student of chemistry, Stiebe... | 2.515625 | 0 |
11662896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forties%20Oil%20Field | Forties Oil Field | The Forties Oil Field is the second largest oil field in the North Sea, after the Clair oilfield, which is located 110 miles east of Aberdeen. It was discovered in 1970 and first produced oil in 1975 under ownership of British Petroleum, now called BP.
History
BP had made the announcement to the press on 7 October 197... | 2.578125 | 0 |
11662896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forties%20Oil%20Field | Forties Oil Field | In the late 1970s and early 1980s, BP was ubiquitous in the North Sea, owning or partnering with other firms to own the best and biggest fields in the North Sea. BP owned their own commercial deepsea diving company, Subsea International, which serviced their structures and pipelines as well as others worldwide. BP con... | 2.578125 | 0 |
11662917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff%20Brumbaugh | Cliff Brumbaugh | Early life
Clifford Michael Brumbaugh was born on April 21, 1974, in Wilmington, Delaware. He attended William Penn High School in Wilmington, where he was a top baseball player. In his junior year at William Penn, he had a batting average of .451 and recorded 22 runs batted in (RBIs). He then went on a training progra... | 2.296875 | 0 |
11662953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili%20%C3%81rkayn%C3%A9%20Sztehl%C3%B3 | Lili Árkayné Sztehló | Her art
Lily Sztehlo perfectly solved the problem of modern church art in her field, the art of the colored window. The nature of the material also helped her in this, because the most valuable property of colored glass is the saturation of the color with light, and this brilliance it is killed by those who - as the R... | 2.390625 | 0 |
11663006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob%20Walz | Gottlob Walz | Gottlob Walz (29 June 1881 – 1943) was a German diver who competed in the 1906 Intercalated Games and 1908 Summer Olympics.
Walz was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1881 and from 1903 became an accomplished diver who won the German National Diving Champion 11 times and the European Champion three times, so when he enter... | 2.265625 | 0 |
11663018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Wilcox | Herbert Wilcox | Herbert Sydney Wilcox CBE (19 April 1890 – 15 May 1977) was a British film producer and director.
He was one of the most successful British filmmakers from the 1920s to the 1950s. He is best known for the films he made with his third wife Anna Neagle.
Early life
Wilcox's mother was from County Cork, Ireland, and W... | 2.140625 | 0 |
11663114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Tennant%20%28bushranger%29 | John Tennant (bushranger) | The bushrangers then retired to the men's hut, where one of Mr. Ainslie's men was ordered to get them some food, having partaken of which the miscreants made off. At sunrise, Mr. Cowan went over to Mr. Campbell's station and reported to James Ainslie what had happened, saying, "It was time something was done." Ainslie... | 2.15625 | 0 |
11663129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abergasilus | Abergasilus | Abergasilus amplexus is a species of parasitic copepod endemic to euryhaline habitats in New Zealand. It is the only known species in the genus Abergasilus.
Description
This species is unique among ergasilids in that it only has three pairs of legs: the fourth and fifth pairs are reduced to single spines or are comple... | 2.390625 | 0 |
11663241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creigiau%20Gleision | Creigiau Gleision | Creigiau Gleision is a mountain in Snowdonia, Wales, near Capel Curig. It is the easternmost of the high Carneddau and is separated from the others by Llyn Cowlyd. Directly across this reservoir from Creigiau Gleision is Pen Llithrig y Wrach. To the north-east it runs into the broad ridge of Cefn Cyfarwydd.
Creigiau G... | 1.960938 | 0 |
11663279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Lloyd%20Wright | Eric Lloyd Wright | Eric Lloyd Wright (November 8, 1929 – March 13, 2023) was an American architect, son of Frank Lloyd Wright Jr. and the grandson of the famed Frank Lloyd Wright.
Early life and education
Wright was born in Los Angeles on November 8, 1929, to Helen Taggart and Lloyd Wright (Frank Lloyd Wright Jr.). His father was a land... | 2.21875 | 0 |
11663279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Lloyd%20Wright | Eric Lloyd Wright | The nonprofit Center provides educational programs on the grounds, which also include his home and the offices of his firm. The 24-acre site was purchased by his father in 1956, but never developed. Wright inherited the land from his father, and he had developed it slowly over the years, first as an office, and beginni... | 2.21875 | 0 |
11663316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar%20Johansson | Hjalmar Johansson | Carl Hjalmar August Johansson (20 January 1874 – 30 September 1957) was a Swedish pioneer diver and swimmer who competed at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics.
Biography
Johansson was 32 years old when he competed in three different events at the 1906 Intercalated Games, firstly he entered the 100 m freestyle swimming,... | 2.84375 | 0 |
11663321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip%20protocol | Gossip protocol | A gossip protocol or epidemic protocol is a procedure or process of computer peer-to-peer communication that is based on the way epidemics spread. Some distributed systems use peer-to-peer gossip to ensure that data is disseminated to all members of a group. Some ad-hoc networks have no central registry and the only wa... | 2.640625 | 0 |
11663321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip%20protocol | Gossip protocol | Protocol types
It is useful to distinguish two prevailing styles of gossip protocol:
Dissemination protocols (or rumor-mongering protocols). These use gossip to spread information; they basically work by flooding agents in the network, but in a manner that produces bounded worst-case loads:
Event dissemination proto... | 2.03125 | 0 |
11663321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip%20protocol | Gossip protocol | Many protocols that predate the earliest use of the term "gossip" fall within this rather inclusive definition. For example, Internet routing protocols often use gossip-like information exchanges. A gossip substrate can be used to implement a standard routed network: nodes "gossip" about traditional point-to-point mess... | 1.953125 | 0 |
11663321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip%20protocol | Gossip protocol | In this scenario, searches might automatically age out of the network after, say, 10 seconds. By then, the initiator knows the answer and there is no point in further gossip about that search.
Gossip protocols have also been used for achieving and maintaining distributed database consistency or with other types of dat... | 2.390625 | 0 |
11663331 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartermaster%20sergeant | Quartermaster sergeant | The rank was in use by both the Union Army and the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. The rank was below sergeant major and above ordnance sergeant. The same rank insignia was used by both armies. Both armies varied the colour of the stripes by assigning red for artillery, yellow for cavalry, and blue for ... | 2.8125 | 0 |
11663331 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartermaster%20sergeant | Quartermaster sergeant | Additionally, on 4 May 1861, each company of Union cavalry was authorised a company quartermaster sergeant. The company quartermaster sergeant was responsible for the company wagon and all the property it contained, including the tents, the company mess gear, the company desk, the company library, the ordnance, the sub... | 2.75 | 0 |
11663455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Drohan | William Drohan | William N. Drohan (1946 – ) was an American microbiologist and academic known for his research in the field of hematology.
Education
Drohan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in bacteriology from the University of California, Los Angeles and a PhD in medical microbiology and immunology from UCLA School of Medicine.
Ca... | 2.453125 | 0 |
11663487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich%20Rademacher | Erich Rademacher | National titles
In 1918, Rademacher became national champion in the 100 metre backstroke, the first of many national titles. From 1919-1927 excluding 1922, Rademacher was the national champion in the 100 metre breaststroke, meaning he was national champion in this event 7 times. In 1928, he became national champion in... | 2.609375 | 0 |
11663487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich%20Rademacher | Erich Rademacher | World records
By 1925, Rademacher owned every single breaststroke world record in breaststroke events from 50 yards to 500 metres.
Rademacher set separate world records in the 400 metre breaststroke event in 1920, 1921, 1923, 1925 and 1926. In the 200 metre breaststroke event, he set world records in 1922 and 1927. I... | 2.671875 | 0 |
11663522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%20pad | Π pad | The Π pad (pi pad) is a specific type of attenuator circuit in electronics whereby the topology of the circuit is formed in the shape of the Greek capital letter pi (Π).
Attenuators are used in electronics to reduce the level of a signal. They are also referred to as pads due to their effect of padding down a signal ... | 2.96875 | 0 |
11663657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Apology%20of%20Justin%20Martyr | First Apology of Justin Martyr | The First Apology was an early work of Christian apologetics addressed by Justin Martyr to the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius. In addition to arguing against the persecution of individuals solely for being Christian, Justin also provides the Emperor with a defense of the philosophy of Christianity and a detailed explanat... | 2.71875 | 0 |
11663657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Apology%20of%20Justin%20Martyr | First Apology of Justin Martyr | In the early chapters of the First Apology, Justin discusses the principal criticisms of contemporary Christians; namely, atheism, immorality, and disloyalty to the Empire. He first argues that “the name” of Christianity by itself is not reason enough to punish or persecute, and he urges the Empire instead to only puni... | 2.34375 | 0 |
11663657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Apology%20of%20Justin%20Martyr | First Apology of Justin Martyr | This theme is paramount to understanding Justin’s defense of Christianity, and was a groundbreaking statement in Christian apologetic writing. The use of the term “logos” indicates that Justin likely drew upon prior philosophical teachings, but Justin makes the argument that these teachings represent only partial trut... | 2.6875 | 0 |
11663759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution%20in%20Australia | Prostitution in Australia | Prostitution in Australia is governed by state and territory laws, which vary considerably, although none ban the selling of sex itself.
Tasmania, Western Australia and South Australia operate under an abolitionism framework, where the selling of sex itself is not illegal, but activities such as keeping brothels and ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
11663759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution%20in%20Australia | Prostitution in Australia | Subsequent amending acts include the Prostitution Amendment Act 2002 and the Justice and Community Safety Legislation Amendment Act 2011(Part 1.7), a minor administrative amendment.
History
Prior to passage of the Prostitution Act 1992, prostitution policy in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) consisted of "con... | 2.484375 | 0 |
11663759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution%20in%20Australia | Prostitution in Australia | Politics
Generally prostitution policy in NSW has been bipartisan. But in 2010 the Liberal (centre-right) opposition announced that it would make prostitution reform part of its campaign for the March 2011 State election. The plan would involve a new licensing authority, following revelations that the sex industry had... | 2.53125 | 0 |
11663759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution%20in%20Australia | Prostitution in Australia | Anti-Discrimination Amendment 2022
In November 2022, the NT Government passed the Anti-Discrimination Amendment Bill giving full protection of sex workers making it the first region in the world to do so.
Queensland
Since full implementation on 2 August 2024 under proclamation sex work within Queensland has been for... | 2.375 | 0 |
11663759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution%20in%20Australia | Prostitution in Australia | No other "days of religious significance" have been prescribed. Other offenses exist such as a business owner or manager allowing a person aged between 18 months and 18 years of age to enter or remain in a sexual services business except if that premises is primarily used as a residence.
Additionally, it is against th... | 2.390625 | 0 |
11663759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution%20in%20Australia | Prostitution in Australia | The Crimes Act 1891 included specific prohibitions under PART II.—Suppression of Prostitution Procurement (ss 14–17) or detention (ss 18–21) of women either through inducements or violence to work as prostitutes was prohibited, with particular reference to underage girls. The Police Offences Act 1891 separated riotous ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
11663759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution%20in%20Australia | Prostitution in Australia | In terms of HIV, a 2010 journal article by the Scarlet Alliance (SA) organisation—based on research conducted in 2008—explained that it is illegal for a HIV-positive sex worker to engage in sex work in Victoria; although, it is not illegal for a HIV-positive client to hire the services of sex workers. Additionally, acc... | 1.96875 | 0 |
11663759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution%20in%20Australia | Prostitution in Australia | In a 2005 study Mary Sullivan of CATWA stated that prostitution businesses made revenues of A$1,780 million in 2004/5 and that the sex industry was growing at a rate of 4.6% annually (a rate higher than GDP). In the state of Victoria, there were 3.1 million instances of buying sex per year as compared with a total male... | 2.109375 | 0 |
11663759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution%20in%20Australia | Prostitution in Australia | Like other Australian states, Western Australia has had a long history of debates and attempts to reform prostitution laws. In the absence of reform, varying degrees of toleration have existed. The current legislation is the Prostitution Act 2000, with some offences under the Criminal Code, Health Act 1911 (addressing ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
11663759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution%20in%20Australia | Prostitution in Australia | Laws were further strengthened by the Police Act Amendment Act 1902, and Criminal Code 1902. Despite this the brothels of Kalgoorlie were legendary. Prostitution was much debated in the media and parliament, but despite much lobbying, venereal diseases were not included in the Health Act 1911. Prostitution was also dea... | 2.15625 | 0 |
11663825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessa | Plessa | From 1816 to 1944, Plessa was part of the Prussian Province of Saxony. The Oberlausitzer Railway. running from Kohlfurt to Falkenberg, opened in 1874, crossing Plessa, but initially there was no provision for the trains to stop, following opposition to railway development from local farmers who had refused to provide l... | 2.484375 | 0 |
11663864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie%20Penn-Lewis | Jessie Penn-Lewis | Jessie Penn-Lewis (28 February 1861 – 15 August 1927, née Jones) was a Welsh evangelical speaker, who wrote several Christian evangelical works. Her religious work took her to Russia, Scandinavia, Canada, the United States and India.
Early life
Penn-Lewis was born on 28 February 1861 under the name Jessie Jones in Nea... | 2.5625 | 0 |
11663864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie%20Penn-Lewis | Jessie Penn-Lewis | Public speaker
In 1892, Penn-Lewis had a sense of epiphany while studying Romans 6. She had previously thought that the Baptism with the Holy Spirit was the primary goal of the Christian life, but she now viewed this as only the beginning of the Christian's path. In her view, the Christian believer should pursue a fell... | 2.640625 | 0 |
11663864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie%20Penn-Lewis | Jessie Penn-Lewis | In 1897, Penn-Lewis reportedly first visited Keswick, Cumbria, where she "prayed publicly". She returned there as a public speaker in 1898. In 1901, she served as a speaker at the Scottish Bridge of the Allan Keswick Convention. There was controversy at the time, because she addressed a mixed audience of men and women.... | 2.53125 | 0 |
11663864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie%20Penn-Lewis | Jessie Penn-Lewis | Welsh revival
Penn-Lewis was involved in the 1904–1905 Welsh Revival, which led to the mental and physical collapse of Evan Roberts.
While attending the 1902 Keswick Convention, Penn-Lewis was approached by an informal group of Welsh ministers. They wanted to establish a similar convention in Wales, and asked for her ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
11663864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie%20Penn-Lewis | Jessie Penn-Lewis | After the breakdown by Roberts, he stayed with the Penn-Lewises from 1905. He and Penn-Lewis co-wrote War on the Saints (1912). The book continued the controversy over whether demons were influencing Revival-associated beliefs. The writers described their book as "a testimony against the outbreak of demons upon the spi... | 2.453125 | 0 |
11663864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie%20Penn-Lewis | Jessie Penn-Lewis | In the 1920s, Penn-Lewis was preoccupied with her work for the revived version of The Overcomer and her other publications. She started a series of "Overcomer" conferences in various locations. She also organized "monthly Christian Worker meetings". She was essentially the only attraction at these conferences.
Due to ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
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