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561748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Georgia%20Sound | New Georgia Sound | New Georgia Sound is the sound in the New Georgia Islands region that runs approximately southeast–northwest through the middle of the Solomon Islands archipelago in the Southern Pacific Ocean and Melanesia.
Geography
The sound is bounded by Choiseul Island, Santa Isabel Island, and Florida Island to the north, and by... | 2.265625 | 0 |
561756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble%20Hill%20station | Marble Hill station | Marble Hill station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line, serving the Marble Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The station is located at 125 West 225th Street, two blocks west of the Broadway Bridge on the north side of the Harlem River, near the New York City Subway's Marbl... | 1.9375 | 0 |
561763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megascolecidae | Megascolecidae | Megascolecidae is a family of earthworms native to Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and North America. At up to 2 meters in length, their large size distinguishes the Megascolecidae from other earthworm families. They are an essential part of maintaining soil structure, minor carbon sequestration, and maintain... | 3.34375 | 0 |
561763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megascolecidae | Megascolecidae | The male reproductive organ of the Megascolecidae includes testes, seminal vesicles, spermathecae, prostate glands, and spermathecal pores. The sperm can be found in testes and seminal vesicles, but cannot be found in spermathecae. The female reproductive organ consists of female pores, which normally occur in pairs. B... | 3.109375 | 0 |
561763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megascolecidae | Megascolecidae | The ideal habitat for Megascolecidae is a terrestrial environment with soil with a high content of organic material, such as loamy soil, cattlebor pig manure, and aerobically digested sewage sludge. Megascolecidae species grow and produce more cocoons during the summer than the winter, because their lifecycle is highl... | 3.4375 | 0 |
561767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20Heights%20station | University Heights station | University Heights station (also known as the University Heights–West 207th Street station) is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line, serving the University Heights neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City.
The station located between the Harlem River and the Major Deegan Expressway. Access to... | 2.171875 | 0 |
561777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%20Martin%20X-44%20MANTA | Lockheed Martin X-44 MANTA | The Lockheed Martin X-44 MANTA (Multi-Axis No-Tail Aircraft) was an American conceptual aircraft design by Lockheed Martin that has been studied by NASA and the U.S. Air Force. It was intended to test the feasibility of full yaw, pitch and roll authority without tailplanes (horizontal or vertical). Attitude control wou... | 2.515625 | 0 |
561785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem%E2%80%93125th%20Street%20station | Harlem–125th Street station | Harlem–125th Street station is a commuter rail stop serving the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson, Harlem, and New Haven Lines. It is located at East 125th Street and Park Avenue in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. The station also serves as an important transfer point between the Metro-North trains and the New York ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
561785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem%E2%80%93125th%20Street%20station | Harlem–125th Street station | In 1888, the United States Department of War began work on the Harlem River to allow for unrestricted shipping activity between the Hudson River and the East River and through the new Harlem River Ship Canal at 225th Street. To remedy the situation, the Central opted to raise the bridge to above the water for $300,000... | 2.9375 | 0 |
561785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem%E2%80%93125th%20Street%20station | Harlem–125th Street station | On October 15, 1897, a spacious new station in Harlem was opened at 125th Street, replacing a small station in the old Park Avenue open cut located between 125th Street and 126th Street. The new station was built atop the old open cut and directly under the new Park Avenue Viaduct. The station was higher than the old ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
561785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem%E2%80%93125th%20Street%20station | Harlem–125th Street station | On April 14, 1986, Metro-North awarded a $500,000 contract to URS Inc. to design a renovation of the station. At the time, it was expected that the renovation would repair the station's leaky roof, install new windows, lighting, and doors, and replace its dilapidated platforms. URS was expected to issue a preliminary r... | 1.984375 | 0 |
561785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem%E2%80%93125th%20Street%20station | Harlem–125th Street station | Service
The station is used for travel to and from suburbs north of New York City and the Bronx rather than travel to and from Grand Central Terminal. All off peak and reverse peak trains to or from Grand Central Terminal stop at Harlem. It is in the same fare zone as Grand Central Terminal, so customers pay the same f... | 1.945313 | 0 |
561790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midhurst | Midhurst | The Midhurst Medieval Festival takes place annually in the Old Town, in early May, featuring re-enactments, falconry, spinning and weaving demonstrations, have-a-go archery, medieval music, stalls and medieval food.
The architectural heritage of Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buildings in Midhurst is considerable, with... | 2.171875 | 0 |
561790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midhurst | Midhurst | The South Downs National Park, established in 2011, stretches for between Winchester in the West to Eastbourne and Beachy Head in the East. It encompasses the whole of the South Downs, together with a significant area of the western Weald to the north of the Downs, as far north as Alice Holt near Farnham. The Park's ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
561790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midhurst | Midhurst | History
Midhurst developed as a Saxon village at a strategic crossroads of what are now the A272 (east-west) and A286 (north-south) routes. There may have been a village there since Roman times. After the Norman Conquest Robert de Montgomery ordered the building of a motte-and-bailey castle on what is now called St An... | 2.515625 | 0 |
561790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midhurst | Midhurst | The little town developed outside the castle, mainly to service it and the immediate surrounding area, and to provide a market place for local agricultural surpluses. It was bounded by an escarpment dropping in the north to the Town Meadow, in the east to the River Rother and in the South to a tributary to the Rother. ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
561790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midhurst | Midhurst | Midhurst was a 'free borough' and in 1278 was said to have been so from time beyond memory. It was governed by a bailiff who was elected by the burgesses from among themselves. The bailiff regulated the market by ensuring the assize of bread and ale, appointing two ale-tasters yearly, and acted as clerk of the market.... | 2.609375 | 0 |
561790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midhurst | Midhurst | The extension of the town along the former lane to Easebourne towards the new mansion, which had begun in the early 14th century with the building of the first mansion on the river-side site, now intensified. This contributed to the economic expansion, as merchants built new houses and shops on North Street to facilita... | 2.078125 | 0 |
561790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midhurst | Midhurst | In 1605, the owner of Cowdray House, Anthony-Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu, was briefly arrested in connection with the Gunpowder Plot. He was suspected as a plotter because of his Catholic religion and connections with several of the known plotters. Among others, he had briefly employed Guy Fawkes, a native of Le... | 2.234375 | 0 |
561790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midhurst | Midhurst | The Midhurst War Memorial is situated outside the Midhurst parish church at the confluence of Red Lion Street and Church Hill, adjacent to the Market Square. It occupies land donated to the town for this purpose by Major Harold Pearson. Mr. Percy Oliver (1885–1949), a local stonemason, was commissioned to build and ca... | 2.28125 | 0 |
561790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midhurst | Midhurst | The town's local newspaper is the Midhurst and Petworth Observer, published on Thursdays.
Education
The secondary school in the town is Midhurst Rother College. It succeeds the former grammar school, founded in 1672. It is an Academy school formed following the closure of the grammar school and Midhurst Intermediat... | 1.929688 | 0 |
561795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Byron%2C%205th%20Baron%20Byron | William Byron, 5th Baron Byron | William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (5 November 1722 – 19 May 1798), was a British nobleman, peer, politician, and great-uncle of the poet George Gordon Byron who succeeded him in the title. As a result of a number of stories that arose after a duel, and then because of his financial difficulties, he became known after his ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
561795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Byron%2C%205th%20Baron%20Byron | William Byron, 5th Baron Byron | Duel with William Chaworth
On 26 January 1765, Byron killed his distant cousin and neighbour, William Chaworth, in a dispute at the 'Star and Garter' tavern (on the site of the Carlton Club), Pall Mall, in London. The fight resulted from an argument the two had been engaged in over cups of wine, with both insisting the... | 2.25 | 0 |
561795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Byron%2C%205th%20Baron%20Byron | William Byron, 5th Baron Byron | Many more myths about him were first set in print in the 19th century, decades after his death. These first appear in the 1820s and 1830s, some of which appear to have been invented by the American writer Washington Irving, including:
That he became a recluse at Newstead Abbey after the duel of 1765;
That he intentiona... | 2.421875 | 0 |
561800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andagoya | Andagoya | Andagoya is a village in west-central Colombia. Andagoya is named for Pascual de Andagoya (1495–1548), a Spanish conquistador.
History
A cacique named Pocorosa lived in Andagoya in the 19th century. Pocorosa met the Spanish conquistadors.
Climate
Andagoya has one of the most monotonous climates in the world. Its annu... | 2.890625 | 0 |
561805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%20MacKenzie | Lewis MacKenzie | Lewis Wharton MacKenzie CM, MSC, OOnt, CD (born 30 April 1940) is a Canadian retired major general, author and media commentator. MacKenzie is known for establishing and commanding Sector Sarajevo as part of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in the former Yugoslavia in 1992. MacKenzie was criticized for hi... | 2.078125 | 0 |
561805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%20MacKenzie | Lewis MacKenzie | Politics
In the 1997 federal election, MacKenzie was Progressive Conservative candidate for Parliament for the central Ontario riding of Parry Sound-Muskoka. Visiting the riding, Tory leader Jean Charest rhetorically asked a crowd of supporters whether MacKenzie or Sheila Copps would be a better Deputy Prime Minister, ... | 1.9375 | 0 |
561809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior%20airman | Senior airman | Formerly, from 1976 to 1991, this grade was divided into ranks with separate titles: sergeant (referred to unofficially but almost universally within the USAF as "buck sergeant" or simply "buck"), a non-commissioned officer; and senior airman, which is the equivalent of specialist, a non-supervisory rank. Senior airmen... | 2.109375 | 0 |
561809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior%20airman | Senior airman | The ranks of senior airman and sergeant held the same pay grade, but sergeants were expected to supervise other airmen as part of their duties as non-commissioned officers. As with any change in policy, many airmen supported this change, while others protested. Those Air Force members against the change protested that ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
561822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid%20bin%20Saeed%20Al%20Maktoum | Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum | Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum (; 11 June 1912 – 7 October 1990) was an Emirati royal, politician and a founder of the United Arab Emirates. Al Maktoum was the first vice president and second prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, and was the ruler of Dubai. He ruled Dubai for 32 years from 1958 until his deat... | 2.34375 | 0 |
561822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid%20bin%20Saeed%20Al%20Maktoum | Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum | Relationship with other emirates
There had been an armed border dispute between the Emirate of Dubai and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in 1946, and when Sheikh Rashid became ruler of Dubai, there was still a state of stand-off between the two emirates. Sheikh Rashid's accession did not serve to improve the situation becaus... | 2.484375 | 0 |
561826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surry%20Hills | Surry Hills | After Palmer's political failures, his reduced financial circumstances forced the first subdivision and sale of his estate in 1814. Isaac Nichols bought Allotment 20, comprising over . Due to the hilly terrain, much of the suburb was considered remote and 'inhospitable'. In the early years of the nineteenth century the... | 2.328125 | 0 |
561834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior%20master%20sergeant | Senior master sergeant | Promotion to senior master sergeant is the most difficult enlisted promotion to attain in the Air Force and Space Force. It is the second enlisted grade in which results of a central promotion board is the only factor in selection for promotion. Usually, less than ten percent of eligible master sergeants are selected f... | 2.125 | 0 |
561837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumy | Sumy | Sumy (, ) is a city in northeastern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Sumy Oblast. The city is situated on the banks of the Psel River with a population of making it the 23rd-largest in the country.
The city of Sumy was founded in the 1650s by Cossacks within the historical region of Sloboda Ukraine.... | 2.28125 | 0 |
561837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumy | Sumy | Following the liquidation of the Cossack community in 1765, the Sumy Cossack Regiment as an administrative division was turned into Sumy Province of the newly created Sloboda Ukraine Governorate and the city of Sumy became its center. In 1780 Sumy was turned into a centre of Sumy uyezd. In 1786-89 the city was reformed... | 2.5 | 0 |
561837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumy | Sumy | The Sumy Regional Art Museum was opened in 1920. It started with nationalized private collections of the town and district. Paintings of Taras Shevchenko, Vladimir Borovikovsky, I. Shyskin, Arkhip Kuindzhi and Tetyana Yablonska are on display, including a Dutch landscape by a painter of Jan van Goyen's circle. Today th... | 2.109375 | 0 |
561840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief%20master%20sergeant | Chief master sergeant | Attaining the rank of chief master sergeant is the pinnacle of an Air Force or Space Force enlisted person's career. Some chief master sergeants manage the efforts of all enlisted personnel within their unit or major subsection while others run major staff functions at higher headquarters levels. All chief master serge... | 2.40625 | 0 |
561840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief%20master%20sergeant | Chief master sergeant | Wing Weapons Manager
In the Air Force, the Wing Weapons Manager (WWM) is a wing's focal point for all weapons loading and armament systems-related matters and serves as the functional manager for all assigned 2W1X1's. The WWM's primary efforts focus on compliance, continuity, and standardization. The WWM is a (Chief E... | 2.21875 | 0 |
561840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief%20master%20sergeant | Chief master sergeant | Command Chief Master Sergeant
The position of command chief master sergeant (CCM) is unique, as it is considered a rank and billet. Formerly, the billets were called senior enlisted advisors and were held by a chief master sergeant. These billets were turned into the permanent rank of command chief master sergeants in... | 2.65625 | 0 |
561843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imatinib | Imatinib | Imatinib, sold under the brand names Gleevec and Glivec (both marketed worldwide by Novartis) among others, is an oral targeted therapy medication used to treat cancer. Imatinib is a small molecule inhibitor targeting multiple tyrosine kinases such as CSF1R, ABL, c-KIT, FLT3, and PDGFR-β. Specifically, it is used for c... | 2.265625 | 0 |
561843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imatinib | Imatinib | While Imatinib is a very effective treatment for CML and some types of ALL, it is not a cure for leukemia. Instead, it is a 'chronic therapy' that helps to control the disease and prevent it from progressing. Some patients may need to continue taking Imatinib for an extended period of time to maintain remission, and so... | 1.9375 | 0 |
561843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imatinib | Imatinib | Patient biopsies as well as mice treated with large doses of imatinib exhibited cellular signs of cardiotoxicity. Cardiotoxic effects appeared to mediated by inhibition of cytoplasmic ABL1 tyrosine kinase.
Childhood growth inhibition
Multiple human and animal studies suggest that if imatinib is used in prepubescent c... | 1.90625 | 0 |
561843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imatinib | Imatinib | In chronic myelogenous leukemia, the Philadelphia chromosome leads to a fusion protein of abl with bcr (breakpoint cluster region), termed bcr-abl. As this is now a constitutively active tyrosine kinase, imatinib is used to decrease bcr-abl activity.
The active sites of tyrosine kinases each have a binding site for AT... | 2.296875 | 0 |
561843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imatinib | Imatinib | History
Imatinib was invented in the late 1990s by scientists at Ciba-Geigy (which merged with Sandoz in 1996 to become Novartis), in a team led by the British biochemist Nicholas Lydon and that included Elisabeth Buchdunger and Jürg Zimmermann, and its use to treat CML was driven by oncologist Brian Druker of Oregon H... | 2.390625 | 0 |
561843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imatinib | Imatinib | Research
One study demonstrated that imatinib mesylate was effective in patients with systemic mastocytosis, including those who had the D816V mutation in c-KIT. However, since imatinib binds to tyrosine kinases when they are in the inactive configuration and the D816V mutant of c-KIT is constitutively active, imatinib... | 2.015625 | 0 |
561843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imatinib | Imatinib | In vitro studies identified that a modified version of imatinib can bind to gamma-secretase activating protein (GSAP). GSAP selectively increases the production and accumulation of neurotoxic beta-amyloid plaques, which suggests that molecules which target GSAP and are able to cross blood–brain barrier are potential th... | 2.265625 | 0 |
561844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief%20Master%20Sergeant%20of%20the%20Air%20Force | Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force | The CMSAF wears distinctive collar insignia. Traditionally, enlisted airmen's collar insignia was silver-colored "U.S." within a ring. The CMSAF's collar brass replaced the standard ring with a silver laurel wreath. The CMSAF also wears a distinctive cap device. Enlisted airmen's cap device is the Coat of Arms of the ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
561845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Bekenstein | Jacob Bekenstein | Jacob David Bekenstein (; May 1, 1947 – August 16, 2015) was a Mexican-born American-Israeli theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation.
Biography
Jacob Bekenstein was born in Mexico... | 2.140625 | 0 |
561852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCleymaniye%20Mosque | Süleymaniye Mosque | The mosque was built on the site of the old Ottoman palace (Eski Saray) which was still in use at the time and had to be demolished. The Arabic inscription above the entrance to prayer hall gives a foundation date of 1550 and an inauguration date of 1557. In reality, the planning of the mosque began before 1550 and par... | 2.546875 | 0 |
561852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCleymaniye%20Mosque | Süleymaniye Mosque | The courtyard, measuring around , is of exceptional grandeur with a colonnaded peristyle supported by tall columns of marble, granite and porphyry. The columns are topped by classic Ottoman "stalactite" capitals (carved with muqarnas). On the southeast side of the courtyard, the portico preceding the prayer hall is hig... | 2 | 0 |
561852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCleymaniye%20Mosque | Süleymaniye Mosque | Behind the southeast portico, the main entrance to the prayer hall is set within a recess with a complex muqarnas canopy. This is preceded by a dome with a more distinctive design than the other domes of the peristyle. The entrance portal features a foundation inscription carved onto three rectangular panels (two verti... | 2.125 | 0 |
561852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCleymaniye%20Mosque | Süleymaniye Mosque | Sinan refined the design by repeating the innovations he had previously used in the Şehzade Mosque. The dome and semi-domes are supported by a limited number of load-bearing pillars and buttresses, allowing for more windows in the walls between them and minimizing any obstructive divisions within the prayer space. He d... | 2.0625 | 0 |
561852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCleymaniye%20Mosque | Süleymaniye Mosque | Sinan also introduced greater variety and detail to the mosque's design than in previous works. For example, in the domes covering the lateral aisles, he alternated between domes of different sizes, thus introducing a certain visual rhythm. The spaces in front of the side entrances of the prayer hall, between the pairs... | 2.40625 | 0 |
561852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCleymaniye%20Mosque | Süleymaniye Mosque | Most or all of the mosque's original painted decoration has been destroyed in the course of later damages and repairs. Very little is known directly about the original painted decoration. The present-day painting of the central dome dates from a 19th-century restoration by the Fossati brothers, who chose to roughly imi... | 2.703125 | 0 |
561852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCleymaniye%20Mosque | Süleymaniye Mosque | The large octagonal mausoleum of Suleiman the Magnificent bears the date of 1566, the year of his death, but it was probably not completed until the following year. It is one of the largest Ottoman mausoleums and its design has been compared to the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, on which it may have been modeled on the... | 2.390625 | 0 |
561852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCleymaniye%20Mosque | Süleymaniye Mosque | Other buildings
As with other imperial mosques in Istanbul, the Süleymaniye Mosque was designed as a külliye, or complex, with adjacent structures to service both religious and cultural needs. The mosque incorporates the everyday needs for an Islamic community such as prayer, education, health and much more. Due to the... | 2.8125 | 0 |
561853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umber | Umber | Umber is a natural earth pigment consisting of iron oxide and manganese oxide; it has a brownish color that can vary among shades of yellow, red, and green. Umber is considered one of the oldest pigments known to humans, first seen in Ajanta Caves in 200 BC – 600 AD. Umber's advantages are its highly versatile color, w... | 3.0625 | 0 |
561853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umber | Umber | Umber gained widespread popularity in Dutch landscape painting in the eighteenth century. Artists recognized the value of umber's high stability, inertness, and drying abilities. It became a standard color within eighteenth-century palettes throughout Europe. Umber's popularity grew during the Baroque period with the r... | 3 | 0 |
561861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Turkish%20War%20%281806%E2%80%931812%29 | Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) | The Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire was one of the Russo-Turkish Wars. Russia prevailed, but both sides wanted peace as they feared Napoleon's moves to the east.
Background
The war broke out against the background of the Napoleonic Wars. In 1806, Sultan Selim III, encour... | 2.453125 | 0 |
561861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Turkish%20War%20%281806%E2%80%931812%29 | Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) | Campaigns of 1808–10
At this point the war might have ended, if it were not for the Peace of Tilsit. The Russian Emperor, constrained by Napoleon to sign an armistice with the Turks, used the time of peace to transfer more Russian soldiers from Prussia to Bessarabia. After the southern army was augmented to 80,000 and ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
561867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing%20in%20the%201930s | Boxing in the 1930s | The sport of boxing in the 1930s was affected by one of the biggest economic struggles in the history of the United States: the depression era. Because of the suffering American economy, many boxers were offered lower amounts of money causing them to only box for passion. When the decade began, the world Heavyweight ti... | 2.703125 | 0 |
561873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%20pigment | Earth pigment | Earth pigments are naturally occurring minerals that have been used since prehistoric times as pigments. Among the primary types of earth pigments include the reddish-brown ochres, siennas, and umbers, which contain various amounts of iron oxides and manganese oxides. Other earth pigments include the green earth pigmen... | 3.015625 | 0 |
561874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimar%20Sinan | Mimar Sinan | Mimar Sinan (; , ; – 17 July 1588) also known as Koca Mi'mâr Sinân Âğâ, ("Sinan Agha the Grand Architect" or "Grand Sinan") was the chief Ottoman architect, engineer and mathematician for sultans Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II and Murad III. He was responsible for the construction of more than 300 major structures... | 2.328125 | 0 |
561874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimar%20Sinan | Mimar Sinan | Mimar Sinan was born with the name Joseph in a small town called Ağırnas near the city of Kayseri in Anatolia (as stated in an order by Sultan Selim II).
His birth is variously placed either between 1489 and 1491 or between 1494 and 1499. His origin is disputed, mainly between Armenian, and Cappadocian Greek. One argum... | 2.125 | 0 |
561874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimar%20Sinan | Mimar Sinan | During the next six years, he also trained to be a Janissary officer (acemioğlan). He possibly joined Selim I in his last military campaign, Rhodes according to some sources, but when the Sultan died, this project ended. Two years later he witnessed the conquest of Belgrade. Under the new sultan, Suleiman the Magnifice... | 2.53125 | 0 |
561874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimar%20Sinan | Mimar Sinan | When Chelebi Lütfi Pasha became Grand Vizier in 1539, he appointed Sinan, who had previously served under his command, to the office of Architect of the Abode of Felicity. This was the start of a remarkable career. The job entailed the supervision infrastructure construction and the flow of supplies within the Ottoman ... | 2.84375 | 0 |
561874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimar%20Sinan | Mimar Sinan | His first major commission as the royal architect was the construction of the Haseki Sultan Complex for Hurrem Sultan, the wife of the sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent. He had to follow the plans drawn by his predecessors. Sinan retained the traditional arrangement of the available space without any innovations. Nevert... | 2.328125 | 0 |
561874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimar%20Sinan | Mimar Sinan | By 1550, Suleiman the Magnificent was at the height of his powers. Having built a mosque for his son, he felt it was time to construct his own imperial mosque, an enduring monument larger than all the others, to be built on a gently sloping hillside dominating the Golden Horn. Money was no problem, since he had accumul... | 2.765625 | 0 |
561874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimar%20Sinan | Mimar Sinan | In 1559, he built the Cafer Ağa madrasah below the forecourt of the Hagia Sophia. In the same year he began the construction of a small mosque for Iskender Pasha at Kanlıca, beside the Bosphorus. This was one of the many minor and routine commissions the office of Sinan received over the years.
In 1561, when Rüstem Pa... | 2.46875 | 0 |
561874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimar%20Sinan | Mimar Sinan | According to him from his autobiography Tezkiretü'l-Bünyan, his masterpiece is the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne. Breaking free of the handicaps of traditional Ottoman architecture, this mosque marks the climax of Sinan's work and of all classical Ottoman architecture. While it was being built, the architect's saying of "Y... | 2.265625 | 0 |
561875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion%20of%20Java%20%281811%29 | Invasion of Java (1811) | The Dutch had been under French control for several years and were already at war with Britain. The strongly pro-French Herman Willem Daendels was appointed governor-general of the Dutch East Indies in 1807. He arrived in Java aboard the French privateer Virginie in 1808, and began fortifying the island against the Bri... | 2.984375 | 0 |
561875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion%20of%20Java%20%281811%29 | Invasion of Java (1811) | British advances
General Janssens had always intended to rely on the tropical climate and disease to weaken the British army rather than oppose a landing. The British now advanced on Janssens's stronghold, reducing enemy positions as they went. The Dutch military and naval station at Weltevreeden fell to the British af... | 2.984375 | 0 |
561875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion%20of%20Java%20%281811%29 | Invasion of Java (1811) | A sortie from the fort early on the morning of 22 August briefly seized three of the British batteries, until they were driven back by some of the Bengal Sepoys and the 69th Foot. The two sides then exchanged heavy fire, faltering on 23 August, but resuming on 24 August. The Franco-Dutch position worsened when a desert... | 2.328125 | 0 |
561879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denishawn%20school | Denishawn school | The Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts, founded in 1915 by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn in Los Angeles, California, helped many perfect their dancing talents and became the first dance academy in the United States to produce a professional dance company. Some of the school's more notable pupils include Martha... | 2.625 | 0 |
561879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denishawn%20school | Denishawn school | On February 6, 1915, on yet another tour, the term "Denishawn" surfaced. At a performance in Portland, Oregon, a theater manager promised eight box seats to whoever could dream up the most creative name for the latest St. Denis-Shawn ballroom exhibition. The unchallenged, winning title was "The Denishawn Rose Mazurka."... | 2.46875 | 0 |
561879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denishawn%20school | Denishawn school | Their second school location in Los Angeles was in an old house in West Lake Park and shared similar characteristics to the St. Paul Street estate. This location had a garden and a tennis court, like the previous school had. Another dance platform was built over the tennis court, a tent was placed over that, and an aud... | 2.4375 | 0 |
561879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denishawn%20school | Denishawn school | Most Denishawn works fall into one of four categories:
Orientalia: Chronologically, these were the first true Denishawn works. St. Denis was responsible for the majority of these pieces, though Shawn did put together a small number of Oriental solos and group dances. As their title suggests, these pieces incorporate as... | 2.46875 | 0 |
561879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denishawn%20school | Denishawn school | Many Denishawn solo works remain in the active repertoire of many companies. Their solos are of special interest to many for their exotic qualities. Several of their solos were included in "The Art of the Solo" presented at the Baltimore Museum of Art on September 29, 2006. These included three revival premieres, namel... | 2.0625 | 0 |
561883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettrick%20and%20Lauderdale | Ettrick and Lauderdale | The Borders region and its four districts were abolished in 1996, merging to form the present Scottish Borders council area. A new lieutenancy area was created at the same time, called Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale, covering the combined area of the abolished districts of Ettrick and Lauderdale and neighbouring Roxb... | 2.109375 | 0 |
561885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria%20mellea | Armillaria mellea | Armillaria mellea, commonly known as honey fungus, is an edible basidiomycete fungus in the genus Armillaria. It is a plant pathogen and part of a cryptic species complex of closely related and morphologically similar species. It causes Armillaria root rot in many plant species and produces mushrooms around the base of... | 2.671875 | 0 |
561885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria%20mellea | Armillaria mellea | The basidiocarp of each has a smooth cap in diameter, convex at first but becoming flattened with age often with a central raised umbo, later becoming somewhat dish-shaped. The margins of the cap are often arched at maturity and the surface is sticky when wet. Though typically honey-coloured, this fungus is rather var... | 2.546875 | 0 |
561885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria%20mellea | Armillaria mellea | Pathogenesis
Armillaria mellea infects new hosts through rhizomorphs and basidiospores. It is rare for basidiospores to be successful in infecting new hosts and often colonize woody debris instead, but rhizomorphs, however, can grow up to ten feet long in order to find a new host.
Distribution and habitat
Armillaria... | 3.078125 | 0 |
561885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria%20mellea | Armillaria mellea | Disease cycle
Armillaria mellea infects both through basidiospore and penetration of host species by rhizomorphs which can grow up to long per year to find new, living tissue to infect. However, infection of living host tissue through basidiospores is quite rare. Two basidiospores must germinate and fuse to be viable... | 3.203125 | 0 |
561885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria%20mellea | Armillaria mellea | In 1893, the American mycologist Charles Horton Peck reported finding Armillaria fruiting bodies that were "aborted", in a similar way to specimens of Entoloma abortivum. It was not until 1974 that Roy Watling showed that the aborted specimens included cells of both Armillaria mellea and Entoloma abortivum. He thought ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
561887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Loussier | Jacques Loussier | Jacques Loussier (26 October 1934 – 5 March 2019) was a French pianist and composer. He arranged jazz interpretations of many of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, such as the Goldberg Variations. The Jacques Loussier Trio, founded in 1959, played more than 3,000 concerts and sold more than 7 million recordings—mostly... | 2.65625 | 0 |
561893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%2093%20torpedo | Type 93 torpedo | The was a -diameter torpedo of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), launched from surface ships. It is commonly referred to as the Long Lance by most modern English-language naval historians, a nickname given to it after the war by Samuel Eliot Morison, the chief historian of the U.S. Navy, who spent much of the war in t... | 2.5 | 0 |
561893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%2093%20torpedo | Type 93 torpedo | In the early surface battles of 1942–43, Japanese destroyers and cruisers were able to launch their torpedoes from about at the unsuspecting Allied warships attempting to close to gun range. The Allied warships expected that, if torpedoes were used, they would be fired from not more than , their own typical torpedo ra... | 2.421875 | 0 |
561893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%2093%20torpedo | Type 93 torpedo | A disadvantage of the Type 93 was that its Shimose explosive warhead was far more likely to detonate due to shock than a TNT-loaded torpedo. The explosion from one Type 93, with its heavy warhead, was usually enough to sink the destroyer, or heavily damage the cruiser, carrying it. As American air strikes against IJN s... | 2.078125 | 0 |
561898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loquat | Loquat | The loquat (Eriobotrya japonica, Chinese: 枇杷; Pinyin: pípá) is a large evergreen shrub or tree grown commercially for its orange fruit. It is also cultivated as an ornamental plant.
The loquat is in the family Rosaceae and is native to the cooler hill regions of south-central China. In Japan, the loquat has been grow... | 2.84375 | 0 |
561898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loquat | Loquat | Fruit
Loquats are unusual among fruit trees in that the flowers appear in the autumn or early winter, and the fruits are ripe at any time from early spring to early summer. The flowers are in diameter, white, with five petals, and produced in stiff panicles of three to ten flowers. The flowers have a sweet, heady arom... | 3.109375 | 0 |
561898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loquat | Loquat | The most common variety in Portugal is the late-ripening 'Tanaka', where it is popular in gardens and backyards, but not commercially produced. In northern Portugal, it is also popularly called magnório or magnólio, probably having to do with French botanist Pierre Magnol. In Spain, the fruits are similarly called nísp... | 2.546875 | 0 |
561898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loquat | Loquat | The many named cultivars have orange or white flesh. Some cultivars are intended for home growing, where the flowers open gradually, thus the fruit also ripens gradually, compared to the commercially grown species where the flowers open almost simultaneously, and the whole tree's fruit also ripen together.
China is th... | 2.78125 | 0 |
561898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loquat | Loquat | In Russia, loquat produces fruits in subtropical and near-subtropical areas (Gelendzhik, Sochi). It also produces fruits in subtropical areas of Georgia.
In Canada, it can be found growing in Vancouver, though it does not produce fruit. More frost-resistant varieties grow and produce fruit in Sidney, British Columbia,... | 2.75 | 0 |
561898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loquat | Loquat | Loquats are used commonly as a natural sweetener for many different types of food, and are used to make marmalade and jelly in various locales. Many people use loquats to create sauces and other juices, since the acidity goes well with the sweetness, another reason why they are popular for making pies and other pastrie... | 2.453125 | 0 |
561899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxburgh | Roxburgh | Roxburgh () is a civil parish and formerly a royal burgh, in the historic county of Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. It was an important trading burgh in High Medieval to early modern Scotland. In the Middle Ages it had at least as much importance as Edinburgh, Stirling, Perth, or Berwick-upon-Tweed, fo... | 2.53125 | 0 |
561901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss-Wright%20XF-87%20Blackhawk | Curtiss-Wright XF-87 Blackhawk | The Curtiss-Wright XF-87 Blackhawk (previously designated the XP-87) was a prototype American all-weather jet fighter-interceptor, and the company's last aircraft project. Designed as a replacement for the World War II–era propeller-driven P-61 Black Widow night/interceptor aircraft, the XF-87 lost in government procur... | 1.96875 | 0 |
561903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS%20De%20Ruyter%20%281935%29 | HNLMS De Ruyter (1935) | HNLMS De Ruyter () was a light cruiser of the Royal Netherlands Navy. She was originally designed as a ship with a lighter armament due to financial problems and the pacifist movement. Later in the design stage, an extra gun turret was added and the armor was improved. She was the seventh ship of the Dutch Navy to be ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
561903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS%20De%20Ruyter%20%281935%29 | HNLMS De Ruyter (1935) | Its function was to aid the two existing cruisers of the in the defence of the Dutch East Indies; the idea was that with three cruisers, there would always be two cruisers available, even if one cruiser had to be repaired.
However, due to the cost-cutting policy that went into her design, De Ruyter was not quite up t... | 2.515625 | 0 |
561903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS%20De%20Ruyter%20%281935%29 | HNLMS De Ruyter (1935) | On February 18, De Ruyter departed the Java coast alongside the light cruiser HNLMS Java and the destroyers USS Pope, USS John D. Ford, and HNLMS Piet Hein in another attempt to disrupt Japanese troop convoys destined to Bali Indonesia consisting of two troop transports escorted by four destroyers of the Asashio class ... | 2.25 | 0 |
561912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS%20Jacob%20van%20Heemskerck%20%281939%29 | HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck (1939) | HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck was the second and last of the destroyer leaders of the Royal Netherlands Navy, named after Admiral Jacob van Heemskerk (1567–1607).
Originally designated as a flotilla leader and a torpedo cruiser in Decker's Fleet Plan of 1931, she was hastily commissioned on 10 May 1940, when Germany inv... | 2.28125 | 0 |
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