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562208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Busby | Matt Busby | Sir Alexander Matthew Busby (26 May 1909 – 20 January 1994) was a Scottish football player and manager, who managed Manchester United between 1945 and 1969 and again for the second half of the 1970–71 season. He was the first manager of an English team to win the European Cup and is widely regarded as one of the greate... | 2.140625 | 0 |
562208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Busby | Matt Busby | Early life
Busby was born to Alexander and Helen "Nellie" (née Greer) Busby in a two-roomed pitman's cottage in the mining village of Orbiston, Bellshill, Lanarkshire. When he was born, Busby's mother was told by the doctor, "A footballer has come into this house today". Busby's father, Alexander, was a miner called up... | 1.96875 | 0 |
562208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Busby | Matt Busby | Club career
Aged 18, Busby signed for Manchester City on a one-year contract worth £5 per week on 11 February 1928, with the provision for him to leave at the end of the deal if he still wished to emigrate to the United States with his mother. He decided to stay and made his debut for City on 2 November 1929, more than... | 2.1875 | 0 |
562208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Busby | Matt Busby | International career
Busby made only one official international appearance for Scotland; he played in a 3–2 British Home Championship defeat to Wales at Ninian Park, Cardiff, on 4 October 1933. Playing opposite Busby in the Welsh half-back line was his future assistant Jimmy Murphy. Busby also made seven appearances fo... | 2.296875 | 0 |
562208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Busby | Matt Busby | In February 1945, still in uniform, Busby turned up at Cornbrook Cold Storage, one of the United chairman James W. Gibson's businesses at Trafford Park to discuss the contents of Rocca's letter with the chairman. Busby requested that he be directly involved in training, pick the team on matchdays and even choose the pl... | 2.25 | 0 |
562210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwark%20Towers | Southwark Towers | Southwark Towers was a high rise building at 32 London Bridge Street, designed by TP Bennett architects, overlooking London Bridge station, in Southwark, London. When it was demolished in 2008 to make way for The Shard, it was jointly the tallest building ever to have been demolished in the United Kingdom, alongside th... | 2.15625 | 0 |
562215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton%20Strathcona | Edmonton Strathcona | Edmonton Strathcona (formerly known as Edmonton—Strathcona) is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1953. It spans the south-central part of the city of Edmonton. In the periods 2008–2015 and since 2019, during the 40th, 41st, and 43rd Canadi... | 2.078125 | 0 |
562222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Wrinkle%20in%20Time | A Wrinkle in Time | A Wrinkle in Time is a young adult science fantasy novel written by American author Madeleine L'Engle. First published in 1962, the book won the Newbery Medal, the Sequoyah Book Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. The main characters – Meg Murry, Charles Wal... | 2.296875 | 0 |
562222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Wrinkle%20in%20Time | A Wrinkle in Time | L'Engle wrote A Wrinkle in Time between 1959 and 1960. In her memoir, L'Engle explains that the book was conceived "during a time of transition". After years of living in rural Goshen, Connecticut where they ran a general store, L'Engle's family, the Franklins, moved back to New York City, first taking a ten-week campi... | 2.46875 | 0 |
562222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Wrinkle%20in%20Time | A Wrinkle in Time | After trying "forty-odd" publishers (L'Engle later said "twenty-six rejections"), L'Engle's agent returned the manuscript to her. Then at Christmas, L'Engle threw a tea party for her mother. One of the guests happened to know J.C. Farrar of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and he insisted that L'Engle should meet with him. A... | 1.992188 | 0 |
562222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Wrinkle%20in%20Time | A Wrinkle in Time | Happy Medium
The Happy Medium is human in appearance, but of uncertain gender. She uses her powers and a crystal ball to look at distant places and people. She prefers to look for happy events and her customary demeanor is jolly, but becomes sad upon viewing sad events. She lives in a cavern on a planet in Orion's Bel... | 2.203125 | 0 |
562222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Wrinkle%20in%20Time | A Wrinkle in Time | L'Engle utilizes numerous religious references and allusions in the naming of locations within the novel. Camazotz is the name of a Mayan bat god, one of L'Engle's many mythological allusions in her nomenclature.
The name Ixchel refers to a Mayan jaguar goddess of medicine. Uriel is a planet with extremely tall mountai... | 2.328125 | 0 |
562222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Wrinkle%20in%20Time | A Wrinkle in Time | Conformity
Themes of conformity and yielding to the status quo are prominent in the novel:
IT is a powerful dominant group that manipulates the planet of Camazotz into conformity. Even Charles Wallace falls prey and is hence persuaded to conform. It is thanks to Meg that she and her father and brother are able to bre... | 2.671875 | 0 |
562222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Wrinkle%20in%20Time | A Wrinkle in Time | In doing so, L'Engle has been credited for paving the way for other bright heroines, including Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter book series, as well as Katniss Everdeen of the Hunger Games trilogy. Regarding her choice to include a female protagonist, L'Engle has stated in her acceptance speech upon receiving the M... | 2.203125 | 0 |
562224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh%27s%20War | Tecumseh's War | The tribes of the region participated in several treaties, including the Treaty of Grouseland and the Treaty of Vincennes that gave and recognized American possession of most of southern Indiana. The treaties resulted in an easing of tensions by allowing settlers into Indiana and appeasing the Indians with reimbursemen... | 2.859375 | 0 |
562224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh%27s%20War | Tecumseh's War | In 1809, Harrison began to push for another treaty to open more land for settlement. The Miami, Wea, and Kickapoo were vehemently opposed to selling any more land around the Wabash River. To influence those groups to sell the land, Harrison decided, against the wishes of President James Madison, to first conclude a tre... | 2.65625 | 0 |
562224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh%27s%20War | Tecumseh's War | After two weeks of negotiating, the Potawatomi leaders convinced the Miami to accept the treaty as reciprocity to the Potawatomi who had earlier accepted treaties less advantageous to them at the request of the Miami. Finally, the Treaty of Fort Wayne was signed on September 30, 1809, selling the United States over 3,0... | 2.78125 | 0 |
562224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh%27s%20War | Tecumseh's War | Harrison was impressed by Tecumseh and even referred to him in one letter as "one of those uncommon geniuses". Harrison thought that Tecumseh had the potential to create a strong empire if he went unchecked. Harrison suspected that he was behind attempts to start an uprising, and feared that if he were able to achieve ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
562224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh%27s%20War | Tecumseh's War | Tecumseh launched an "impassioned rebuttal", but Harrison was unable to understand his language. A Shawnee who was friendly to Harrison cocked his pistol from the sidelines to alert Harrison that Tecumseh's speech was leading to trouble. Finally, an army lieutenant who could speak Tecumseh's language warned Harrison th... | 2.578125 | 0 |
562224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh%27s%20War | Tecumseh's War | Having heard from intelligence that Tecumseh was far away, Governor Harrison sent this report to the Department of War, concerning Vincennes's meeting, saying Tecumseh "is now upon the last round to put a finishing stroke upon his work. I hope, however, before his return that that part of the work which he considered c... | 1.960938 | 0 |
562224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh%27s%20War | Tecumseh's War | On November 6, 1811, Harrison's army arrived outside Prophetstown, and Tenskwatawa agreed to meet Harrison in a conference to be held the next day. Tenskwatawa, perhaps suspecting that Harrison intended to attack the village, decided to risk a pre-emptive strike, sending out about 500 of his warriors against the Americ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
562231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantar%20de%20mio%20Cid | Cantar de mio Cid | El Cantar de mio Cid (, or 'The Song of my Sidi ('lord')'), or El Poema de mio Cid, also known in English as The Poem of the Cid, is the oldest preserved Castilian epic poem. Based on a true story, it tells of the deeds of the Castilian hero and knight in medieval Spain Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar—known as El Cid—and takes p... | 2.921875 | 0 |
562231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantar%20de%20mio%20Cid | Cantar de mio Cid | El Cantar de mio Cid shows signs of being designed for oral transmission. For example, the poem ends with a request for wine for the person who has recited it (Es leido, dadnos del vino).
On the other hand, some critics (known as individualists) believe El Cantar de mio Cid was composed by one Per Abbad (in English, Ab... | 2.65625 | 0 |
562231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantar%20de%20mio%20Cid | Cantar de mio Cid | Title
One of the oldest documents preserved at the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid presents only this phrase as the poem's title: Hic incipiunt gesta Roderici Campi Docti, which means "Here begin the deeds of Rodrigo the Campeador." Its current title is a 19th-century proposal by Ramón Menéndez Pidal since its o... | 2.78125 | 0 |
562231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantar%20de%20mio%20Cid | Cantar de mio Cid | The story begins with the exile of El Cid, whose enemies had unjustly accused him of stealing money from the king, Alfonso VI of Castile and León, leading to his exile. To regain his honor, he participated in the battles against the Moorish armies and conquered Valencia. By these heroic acts he regained the confidence ... | 2.96875 | 0 |
562235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc%20Daneeka | Doc Daneeka | Doc Daneeka is a fictional character in the 1961 novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
Doc Daneeka is the squadron physician and a friend of the novel's protagonist, Yossarian. "Catch-22" itself is first explained in the novel when Yossarian asks Doc Daneeka to excuse him from combat duty. Doc Daneeka is also the title o... | 2.21875 | 0 |
562259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20eponymous%20diseases | List of eponymous diseases | An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a literary character who exhibited signs of the disease or an actor or subject of an a... | 2.796875 | 0 |
562259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20eponymous%20diseases | List of eponymous diseases | Most commonly, diseases are named for the person, usually a physician, but occasionally another health care professional, who first described the condition—typically by publishing an article in a respected medical journal. Less frequently, an eponymous disease is named after a patient, examples being Lou Gehrig disease... | 2.65625 | 0 |
562259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20eponymous%20diseases | List of eponymous diseases | In May 2015, the World Health Organization, in collaboration with the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), released a statement on the Best Practices for the Naming of New Human Infectious Diseases "with the aim to minimize unnecessary negativ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
562259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20eponymous%20diseases | List of eponymous diseases | The problem is, in fact, that the possessive case was given its misleading name for historical reasons and that now even educated people, if they are not linguists, often make incorrect assumptions and decisions based on this misleading name. Nevertheless, no native speakers would accept the ungrammatical "men departme... | 2.5625 | 0 |
562259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20eponymous%20diseases | List of eponymous diseases | Explanation of listing sequence
As described above, multiple eponyms can exist for the same disease. In these instances, each is listed individually (except as described in item 1 below), followed by an in-line parenthetical entry beginning 'aka' ('also known as') that lists all alternative eponyms. This facilitates th... | 1.921875 | 0 |
562263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderton%20Boat%20Lift | Anderton Boat Lift | The Anderton Boat Lift is a two-caisson lift lock near the village of Anderton, Cheshire, in North West England. It provides a vertical link between two navigable waterways: the River Weaver and the Trent and Mersey Canal. The structure is designated as a scheduled monument, and is included in the National Heritage Li... | 2.3125 | 0 |
562263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderton%20Boat%20Lift | Anderton Boat Lift | Rather than competing with each other the owners of the two waterways decided it would be more profitable to work together. In 1793 a basin was excavated on the north bank of the Weaver at Anderton that took the river to the foot of the escarpment of the canal – above. The Anderton Basin was owned and operated by the ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
562263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderton%20Boat%20Lift | Anderton Boat Lift | The Trustees asked their Chief Engineer, Edward Leader Williams, to draw up plans for a boat lift. He settled on a design involving a pair of water-filled caissons that would counterbalance one another and require relatively little power to lift boats up and down. A similar boat lift on the Grand Western Canal, complet... | 2.703125 | 0 |
562263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderton%20Boat%20Lift | Anderton Boat Lift | Problems of hydraulic operation
For five years the boat lift operated successfully, the longest closures being during spells of cold weather when the canal froze over. In 1882 a cast iron hydraulic cylinder burst while the caisson it supported was at canal level with a boat in it. The caisson descended rapidly, but wat... | 2.53125 | 0 |
562263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderton%20Boat%20Lift | Anderton Boat Lift | Conversion to electrical operation
By 1904 the Weaver Navigation Trustees faced the prospect of closing the boat lift for a considerable period to repair the hydraulic rams. They asked their Chief Engineer Colonel J. A. Saner, to investigate alternatives to hydraulic operation. Saner proposed electric motors and a syst... | 2.59375 | 0 |
562263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderton%20Boat%20Lift | Anderton Boat Lift | In addition to the new foundations and superstructure, the wet dock at river level was also converted into a dry dock and the aqueduct between the lift and the canal was strengthened. The original caissons were retained but were modified to take the wire ropes that now supported them on each side.
Conversion was carri... | 2.640625 | 0 |
562263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderton%20Boat%20Lift | Anderton Boat Lift | Restoration
During the 1990s British Waterways carried out preliminary investigations before launching a restoration bid. It was originally intended to restore the lift to electrical operation but after consultation with English Heritage, in 1997 it was decided to restore the lift to hydraulic operation using hydraulic... | 2.078125 | 0 |
562270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Theory%20of%20the%20Leisure%20Class | The Theory of the Leisure Class | The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899), by Thorstein Veblen, is a treatise of economics and sociology, and a critique of conspicuous consumption as a function of social class and of consumerism, which are social activities derived from the social stratification of people and the divis... | 2.3125 | 0 |
562270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Theory%20of%20the%20Leisure%20Class | The Theory of the Leisure Class | Background
The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) was published during the Gilded Age (1870–1900), the time of the robber baron millionaires John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt, at the end of the 19th century. Veblen presents the evolutionary development of the social and economic institution... | 2.421875 | 0 |
562270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Theory%20of%20the%20Leisure%20Class | The Theory of the Leisure Class | Originally published as The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions, the book arose from three articles that Veblen published in the American Journal of Sociology between 1898 and 1899: (i) "The Beginning of Ownership" (ii) "The Barbarian Status of Women", and (iii) "The Instinct... | 2.265625 | 0 |
562270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Theory%20of%20the%20Leisure%20Class | The Theory of the Leisure Class | (i) Occupation
The concepts of dignity and Self-worth and Honour are the bases of the development of social class and distinctions of type among the social classes; thus, by way of social stratification, productive labor came to be seen as disreputable. Therefore, the accumulation of wealth does not confer social stat... | 2.453125 | 0 |
562270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Theory%20of%20the%20Leisure%20Class | The Theory of the Leisure Class | Contemporary society did not psychologically supersede the tribal-stage division of labor, but evolved the division-of-labor by social status and social stratum. During the Mediæval period (5th–15th c.) only land-owning noblemen had the right to hunt and to bear arms as soldiers; status and income were parallel. Likewi... | 2.703125 | 0 |
562270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Theory%20of%20the%20Leisure%20Class | The Theory of the Leisure Class | With The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions (1899), Veblen introduced, described, and explained the concepts of "conspicuous consumption" and of "conspicuous leisure" to the nascent, academic discipline of sociology. Conspicuous consumption is the application of money and ma... | 2.65625 | 0 |
562270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Theory%20of%20the%20Leisure%20Class | The Theory of the Leisure Class | Chapter VI: Pecuniary Canons of Taste
To the leisure class, a material object becomes a product of conspicuous consumption when it is integrated to the canon of honorific waste, by being regarded either as beautiful or worthy of possession for itself. Consequently, to the lower classes, possessing such an object become... | 2.125 | 0 |
562270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Theory%20of%20the%20Leisure%20Class | The Theory of the Leisure Class | Chapter XII: Devout Observances
The existence, function, and practice of religion in a socially-stratified society, is a form of abstract conspicuous consumption for and among the members of the person's community, of devotion to the value system that justifies the existence of his or her social class. As such, attendi... | 2.203125 | 0 |
562278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Barker%20%28poet%29 | George Barker (poet) | George Granville Barker (26 February 1913 – 27 October 1991) was an English poet. He identified with the New Apocalyptics movement, which reacted against 1930s realism with mythical and surrealistic themes. His long liaison with Elizabeth Smart was the subject of her cult-novel By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and W... | 1.992188 | 0 |
562289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev%20Tu-4 | Tupolev Tu-4 | The engineers and suppliers of components were under pressure from Tupolev, Stalin, and the government to create an exact clone of the original B-29 to facilitate production. Tupolev had to overcome substantial resistance to use equipment that was not only already in production but also sometimes superior to that found... | 2.25 | 0 |
562293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Des%20Moines%20%28CA-134%29 | USS Des Moines (CA-134) | USS Des Moines (CA-134) was the lead ship of the class of United States Navy (USN) heavy cruisers. She was the first USN ship to mount the auto-loading 8-inch (203 mm) Mark 16 guns, the first large-caliber auto-loading guns in the world. She was the second ship of the USN to be commissioned with the name of the city of... | 2.265625 | 0 |
562293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Des%20Moines%20%28CA-134%29 | USS Des Moines (CA-134) | In a varied operating schedule designed to maintain the readiness of the Navy to meet the constant demands of defense and foreign policy, Des Moines cruised from her home port at Newport, Rhode Island and after 1950, from Norfolk, Virginia on exercises of every type in the Caribbean, along the East Coast, in the Medite... | 2.375 | 0 |
562306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Flint%20%28CL-97%29 | USS Flint (CL-97) | USS Flint (CL-97) was a modified light cruiser, sometimes referred to as an "Oakland-class". She was named after the city of Flint, Michigan. She was launched on 25 January 1944 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation of San Francisco, California, sponsored by Mrs. R. A. Pitcher. She was and commissioned on 31 August 19... | 2.046875 | 0 |
562309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvellyn | Helvellyn | Helvellyn (; possible meaning: pale yellow moorland) is a mountain in the English Lake District, the highest point of the Helvellyn range, a north–south line of mountains to the north of Ambleside, between the lakes of Thirlmere and Ullswater.
Helvellyn is the third-highest point both in England and in the Lake Distri... | 2.40625 | 0 |
562309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvellyn | Helvellyn | Since the end of the last ice age, small populations of arctic-alpine plants have survived in favourable spots on rock ledges high in the eastern coves. Rare to Britain species of alpine butterfly, the mountain ringlet, also live on and around Helvellyn.
Mineral veins, some with deposits of the lead ore galena, do exi... | 2.625 | 0 |
562309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvellyn | Helvellyn | Whelp Side, between Whelpside Gill and Mines Gill, appears as a distinct shoulder of the mountain when seen from the west, largely grassy though with a few crags and boulders in places, and with coniferous plantations on its lower slopes which were planted to stabilise the land around the reservoir. North of Mines Gill... | 2.46875 | 0 |
562309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvellyn | Helvellyn | The north-west ridge continues from Lower Man over Browncove Crags, becoming almost insignificant when it reaches the shore of Thirlmere, yet still separating the valley of Helvellyn Gill from the reservoir, before finally rising again to the wooded height of Great How at its terminus.
The north ridge, the main ridge ... | 1.90625 | 0 |
562309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvellyn | Helvellyn | Striding Edge is a popular route which involves some scrambling, linking the summit ridge of Birkhouse Moor to Helvellyn's summit by what becomes a sharp arête.
Striding Edge begins at Hole-in-the-Wall and then stretches for over to the Helvellyn summit plateau. This starting point is accessible from both Glenridding... | 1.929688 | 0 |
562309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvellyn | Helvellyn | Fell top assessors
The Lake District National Park Authority employs two "Fell top assessors" during the winter months, usually between December and March. Working alternate weeks, one of these walks up Helvellyn each day during that period to check the weather, snow and walking conditions. Their report and daily phot... | 2.6875 | 0 |
562309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvellyn | Helvellyn | The view from the top on a clear day extends across the whole of the Lake District to the Solway Firth and hills of south-west Scotland to the north-west, Cheviot and the Pennine Hills to the north-east, Morecambe Bay, Blackpool and the coast of North Wales to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west. Snowdon is hidden... | 2.578125 | 0 |
562309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvellyn | Helvellyn | Poets and artists were among the early visitors to Helvellyn at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Samuel Taylor Coleridge did a lot of fellwalking during the years when he lived near Keswick. In August 1800, barely a month after moving there, he went to visit his friends William and Dorothy Wordsworth in Grasmer... | 2.34375 | 0 |
562309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvellyn | Helvellyn | Red Tarn, a classic corrie tarn, is a high-elevation tarn with low nutrient levels and poor in the number of species it supports. Characteristic vegetation zones include a water-starwort (Callitriche) in shallower areas and the alga Nitella flexilis in deeper water and around the inlet. Other species include a pondweed... | 2.609375 | 0 |
562309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvellyn | Helvellyn | This caldera was formed by an eruption of exceptional magnitude which produced a series of pyroclastic flows, fast moving currents of hot gas and rock, which buried the whole district of roughly beneath at least (in places up to of ignimbrite). This succession of ignimbrites is known as the Lincomb Tarns Tuff Format... | 2.4375 | 0 |
562309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvellyn | Helvellyn | The highest surviving rocks on Helvellyn, found on the summit plateaux of Helvellyn itself and of Nethermost Pike, and along the crest of Striding Edge, are the volcaniclastic sandstones of the Deepdale Sandstone Formation. Again, this formation is confined to the limits of the caldera, and represents another return to... | 2.46875 | 0 |
562309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvellyn | Helvellyn | Helvellyn Mine or Wythburn Mine opened in 1839 by the gill between Whelpside and Helvellyn Screes. It was operated by a succession of different owners, driving five levels through mostly barren rock to explore three mineral veins. It finally closed in 1880 when Manchester Corporation acquired the land for the Thirlmere... | 2.4375 | 0 |
562309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvellyn | Helvellyn | Recent place-name studies have accepted the "yellow moorland" derivation, but have struggled to understand how Helvellyn can be regarded as a yellow mountain. Colour, in the Celtic languages, is perceived differently from the way it is seen and described in modern English. For example, in Scottish Gaelic the spectrum o... | 2.875 | 0 |
562316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Cantillon | Richard Cantillon | Richard Cantillon (; 1680s – ) was an Irish-French economist and author of Essai Sur La Nature Du Commerce En Général (Essay on the Nature of Trade in General), a book considered by William Stanley Jevons to be the "cradle of political economy". Although little information exists on Cantillon's life, it is known that h... | 2.234375 | 0 |
562316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Cantillon | Richard Cantillon | Early life
While details regarding Richard Cantillon's life are scarce, it is thought that he was born sometime during the 1680s in County Kerry, Ireland. He was son to land-owner Richard Cantillon of Ballyheigue.
Career
Sometime in the middle of the first decade of the 18th century Cantillon moved to France, where he... | 2.578125 | 0 |
562316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Cantillon | Richard Cantillon | In Essai, Cantillon provided an advanced version of John Locke's quantity theory of money, focusing on relative inflation and the velocity of money. Cantillon suggested that inflation occurs gradually and that the new supply of money has a localised effect on inflation, effectively originating the concept of non-neutra... | 2.28125 | 0 |
562316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Cantillon | Richard Cantillon | Addressing the mercantilist belief that monetary intervention could cause a perpetually favourable balance of trade, Cantillon developed a specie-flow mechanism foreshadowing future international monetary equilibrium theories. He suggested that in countries with a high quantity of money in circulation, prices will incr... | 2.265625 | 0 |
562316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Cantillon | Richard Cantillon | Other contributions
Traditionally, it is Jean-Baptiste Say who is credited for coining the word and advancing the concept of the entrepreneur, but in fact it was Cantillon who first introduced the term in Essai.Brewer 1992, p. 51; Anthony Brewer, however, distinguishes between Say's and Cantillon's use of the term "ent... | 2.203125 | 0 |
562316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Cantillon | Richard Cantillon | Spatial economics deal with distance and area, and how these may affect a market through transportation costs and geographical limitations. The development of spatial economics is usually ascribed to German economist Johann Heinrich von Thünen; however, Cantillon addressed spatial economics nearly a century earlier. Ca... | 2.765625 | 0 |
562348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Nepalese%20War | Anglo-Nepalese War | The Tibet affair had postponed a planned attack on the Garhwal Kingdom, but by 1803, the Raja of Garhwal, Pradyuman Shah, had also been defeated. He was killed in the struggle in January 1804, and all his land was annexed. Further west, general Amar Singh Thapa overran lands as far as Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, the stro... | 2.8125 | 0 |
562348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Nepalese%20War | Anglo-Nepalese War | Territorial Conflict
Territorial conflict represents a significant cause of the Anglo-Nepalese War. First, Nepal’s views on borders and borderlands clashed with the Company’s visions of space and territoriality. Borderlands represent “zones of contact for the management, separation, and negotiation of difference,” and ... | 3.078125 | 0 |
562348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Nepalese%20War | Anglo-Nepalese War | Contents from the Treaty of Sagauli illustrate that clashes over territorial views aided in causing the war. Article 2 states, “The Raja of Nepal renounces all claim to the lands which were the subject of discussion between the two States before the war, and acknowledges the right of the Honourable Company to the sover... | 2.84375 | 0 |
562348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Nepalese%20War | Anglo-Nepalese War | The acquisition of the Nawab of Awadh's lands by the British East India Company brought the region of Gorakhpur into the close proximity of the raja(king) of Palpa – the last remaining independent town within the Nepalese heartlands. Palpa and Butwal were originally two separate principalities; they were afterwards uni... | 2.53125 | 0 |
562348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Nepalese%20War | Anglo-Nepalese War | In October 1813, the ambitious the Earl of Moira, assumed the office of the Governor-General, and his first act was to re-examine the border dispute between Nepal and British East India Company. These disputes arose because there was no fixed boundary separating the Nepalese and the British. A struggle with the former ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
562348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Nepalese%20War | Anglo-Nepalese War | Economic Interests
Economic interests also represent vital causes of the Anglo-Nepalese War. First, the British sought to utilize the trans-Himalayan trade routes through Kathmandu and eastern Nepal. These routes would create access to untapped markets for British manufactured goods in Tibet and China. In the late eigh... | 2.9375 | 0 |
562348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Nepalese%20War | Anglo-Nepalese War | Similarly David Ochterlony, then an agent at Ludhiana, on 24 August 1814 noted of Dehra Dun as a "potentially thriving entrepot for Trans-Himalayan trade." He contemplated annexing Garhwal not so much with the view to revenue, but for security of commercial communications with the country where the shawl wool is produc... | 2.34375 | 0 |
562348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Nepalese%20War | Anglo-Nepalese War | The Treaty of Sagauli showcases British security concerns. Article 6 of the treaty states, “The Raja of Nepal renounces for himself, his heirs, and successors, all claim to or connection with the countries lying to the west of the River Kali and engages never to have any concern with those countries or the inhabitants ... | 2.765625 | 0 |
562348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Nepalese%20War | Anglo-Nepalese War | The Battle of Nalapani was the first battle of the Anglo-Nepalese War. The battle took place around the Nalapani fort, near Dehradun, which was placed under siege by the British between 31 October and 30 November 1814. The fort's garrison was commanded by Captain Balbhadra Kunwar, while Major-General Rollo Gillespie, w... | 2.75 | 0 |
562348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Nepalese%20War | Anglo-Nepalese War | A single day of battle at Jaithak cost the British over three hundred men dead and wounded and cooled Martindell's ardour for battle. For over a month and a half, he refused to take any further initiative against the Nepalese army. Thus by mid-February, of the four British commanders the Nepalese army had faced till th... | 2.609375 | 0 |
562348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Nepalese%20War | Anglo-Nepalese War | Meanwhile, Hastings sent Colonel Nicolls, Quartermaster-General for the British troops in India, to take charge of the Almora campaign and assigned two thousand regular troops to this front in addition to the very large number of irregulars already assigned to the area – all of this against fewer than one thousand Nepa... | 2.546875 | 0 |
562348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Nepalese%20War | Anglo-Nepalese War | Kazi Amar Singh Thapa's position in the Malaon Hills depended on Bilaspur in the lowlands for his food supplies, and the nature of the hills forced him to spread his forces very thinly in an attempt to defend every vantage point. Ochterlony cut off the supply of food from Bilaspur and then turned his attention to the i... | 2.625 | 0 |
562348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Nepalese%20War | Anglo-Nepalese War | During the campaign in February 1816, Ochterlony decided to take a very infrequently used pass through the mountains. The failure there would have been a disaster for British. But the successful passage would allow British to directly emerge and attack the Nepalese's rear. Colonel Kelly and Colonel O’Hollorah followed ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
562348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Nepalese%20War | Anglo-Nepalese War | The Treaty of Sugauli was ratified on 4 March 1816. As per the treaty, Nepal lost all Sikkim (including Darjeeling), the territories of Kumaon and Garhwal and Western Terai. The Mechi River became the new eastern border and the Mahakali river the western boundary of the kingdom. The British East India Company would pay... | 2.96875 | 0 |
562353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterworth%20filter | Butterworth filter | Butterworth solved the equations for two-pole and four-pole filters, showing how the latter could be cascaded when separated by vacuum tube amplifiers and so enabling the construction of higher-order filters despite inductor losses. In 1930, low-loss core materials such as molypermalloy had not been discovered and air-... | 2.21875 | 0 |
562355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Helena%20%28CA-75%29 | USS Helena (CA-75) | After training operations in California waters Helena departed once more for the East Asia on 3 April 1948, arriving at Shanghai 24 days later. Throughout the summer and fall of 1948, she operated primarily in Chinese waters, returning to Long Beach, California, in December 1948.
Helena spent much of the spring of 194... | 2.28125 | 0 |
562355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Helena%20%28CA-75%29 | USS Helena (CA-75) | Serving as flagship of the Bombardment Task Group, Helena pounded enemy positions, aiding immeasurably in keeping the invaders off balance and preventing them from mounting a formidable drive, as United Nations forces prepared to take the offensive. Operations such as hers provided the diversion necessary to cover the ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
562355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Helena%20%28CA-75%29 | USS Helena (CA-75) | Helena's accurate gunnery was next sought by the Eighth Army, for whom she fired at 13 targets along the bombline in aid of advancing infantry. Her support to ground forces continued with missions fired for United States Marines and Republic of Korea Army units. On 20 September 1951 she returned to Yokosuka. Here, at a... | 2.265625 | 0 |
562355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Helena%20%28CA-75%29 | USS Helena (CA-75) | After 6 months' training in home waters, Helena again sailed for Yokosuka, arriving on 25 January 1956. During the 6 months of this tour of duty, she once more operated primarily in the Taiwan area and briefly in Philippine waters on exercises. She returned to Long Beach on 8 July. While there alterations were performe... | 2.0625 | 0 |
7066493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20Coughlin | Timothy Coughlin | Timothy Coughlan (1906-1928) was a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army, mainly known for his part in assassinating Kevin O'Higgins in 1927 and for the controversy surrounding the circumstances of his death in 1928.
Early life
The second-eldest in a family of nine, Coughlan lived with his parents in the family home... | 1.921875 | 0 |
7066598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Consumer%27s%20Guide%20to%20Effective%20Environmental%20Choices | The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices | The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists is a handbook printed by the nonprofit environmental group Union of Concerned Scientists.
In accordance with UCS's pledge to provide scientifically sound and nonbiased solutions to environmental problems, t... | 2.625 | 0 |
7066619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty%20of%20Vienna%20%281731%29 | Treaty of Vienna (1731) | The result was an almost continuous series of conferences and agreements, among them the 1725 Peace of Vienna between Austria and Spain. This alignment was short-lived, Charles VI deciding Austria's interests were better served by an alliance with Britain and the Dutch Republic.
Details
In the 1720 Treaty of The Hag... | 2.78125 | 0 |
7066692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20J.%20Adler | George J. Adler | George J. Adler (1821, Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony – August 24, 1868, New York, New York) was a noted philologist and linguist.
Early years
Adler was born to John J. Adler and a mother whose name is unknown in Germany in 1821. He arrived in the United States in 1833, with his parents, who settled in New York city, wher... | 1.914063 | 0 |
7066705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chena%20Hot%20Springs%2C%20Alaska | Chena Hot Springs, Alaska | Chena Hot Springs is an unincorporated community and hot spring resort in the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States, 56.5 miles northeast of Fairbanks near the Chena River State Recreation Area. The resort makes use of the first low-temperature binary geothermal power plant built in Alaska, and is working... | 2.234375 | 0 |
7066763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shack%E2%80%93Hartmann%20wavefront%20sensor | Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor | A Shack–Hartmann (or Hartmann–Shack) wavefront sensor (SHWFS) is an optical instrument used for characterizing an imaging system. It is a wavefront sensor commonly used in adaptive optics systems. It consists of an array of lenses (called lenslets) of the same focal length. Each is focused onto a photon sensor (typical... | 2.546875 | 0 |
7066791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20encryption | Disk encryption | Disk encryption is a technology which protects information by converting it into code that cannot be deciphered easily by unauthorized people or processes. Disk encryption uses disk encryption software or hardware to encrypt every bit of data that goes on a disk or disk volume. It is used to prevent unauthorized access... | 2.484375 | 0 |
7066791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20encryption | Disk encryption | Disk encryption vs. filesystem-level encryption
Disk encryption does not replace file encryption in all situations. Disk encryption is sometimes used in conjunction with filesystem-level encryption with the intention of providing a more secure implementation. Since disk encryption generally uses the same key for encry... | 2.28125 | 0 |
7066791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20encryption | Disk encryption | Although this has the advantage that the disk cannot be removed from the device, it might create a single point of failure in the encryption. For example, if something happens to the TPM or the motherboard, a user would not be able to access the data by connecting the hard drive to another computer, unless that user ha... | 2.078125 | 0 |
7066791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20encryption | Disk encryption | Nearly everything including the swap space and the temporary files is encrypted. Encrypting these files is important, as they can reveal important confidential data. With a software implementation, the bootstrapping code cannot be encrypted however. For example, BitLocker Drive Encryption leaves an unencrypted volume t... | 2.1875 | 0 |
7066793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icara%202 | Icara 2 | ICARA 2 or ICARA II: The Second International Conference on Assistance to Refugees in Africa was held at Geneva in July 1984.
This was an attempt that was jointly organized by UNHCR and UNDP, and had as its principal theme "Time for Solutions." The solutions were geared towards refugee flow and remuneration to the nat... | 2.296875 | 0 |
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