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7066804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plainsfield%20Camp | Plainsfield Camp | Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, roughly during the start of the first millennium BC. The reason for their emergence in Britain, as well as their purpose, has been a subject of debate. It has been argued that they could have been military sites constructed in response to invasions from contin... | 2.828125 | 0 |
7066876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC%20UltraLite | NEC UltraLite | The UltraLite is a line of notebook-sized laptops first released by NEC in 1988. The original model was released in October 1988, alongside the heavier and more-capable ProSpeed. The UltraLite was the first notebook computer on the market compatible with the IBM PC. The original model was based on the NEC V30 microproc... | 2.203125 | 0 |
7066882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20Desmond%20Greaves | C. Desmond Greaves | During the 1950s Greaves used his influence at the Connolly Association to push the view that the best path to a United Ireland would be to discredit Ulster Unionism in the eyes of British Politicians. He believed this could be achieved by exposing how discriminatory the Stormont regime in Belfast was. Greaves' policy ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
7066907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Rhodes | Philip Rhodes | Philip Leonard Rhodes (1895–1974) was an American naval architect known for his diverse yacht designs.
Life
Rhodes designed a wide variety of vessels from 7' dinghies to 123' motor-sailors, from hydrofoil racers to America's Cup winners - his 12 Meter class Weatherly (USA-17) winning the 1962 defense. His work also in... | 2.09375 | 0 |
7066919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celliwig | Celliwig | Celliwig, Kelliwic or Gelliwic is perhaps the earliest named location for the court of King Arthur. It may be translated as 'forest grove'.
Literary references
It is mentioned in the Welsh tale Culhwch and Olwen whose manuscript dates from the 11th century, though the story is much older. The story describes the court... | 2.25 | 0 |
7066919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celliwig | Celliwig | Celliwig was also known to the Cornish, as it appears as Kyllywyc in the Cornish-language play Beunans Ke, written perhaps around 1500. In the Iolo Manuscripts (1843), a corpus of pseudo-medieval Welsh texts by the renowned literary forger and inventor of tradition Iolo Morganwg (1747–1826), Celliwig is referred as the... | 2.21875 | 0 |
7066926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Warwickshire%20Line | North Warwickshire Line | The North Warwickshire Line (also known as the Shakespeare Line) is a suburban railway line in the West Midlands region of the United Kingdom. It runs from Birmingham to Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, now the southern terminus of the line, although until 1976 the line continued to Cheltenham as part of the Great We... | 2.40625 | 0 |
7066926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Warwickshire%20Line | North Warwickshire Line | From the start, the line carried long-distance services from the West Midlands to Bristol, South Wales, and the South West of England. These were suspended during the First World War, then developed in the 1920s and '30s, were suspended again in the Second World War, finally reaching their peak in the 1950s, at which... | 2.359375 | 0 |
7066937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhamek%20Stupa | Dhamek Stupa | Dhamek Stupa (also spelled Dhamekh and Dhamekha) is a massive stupa located in Deer Park at Sarnath in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. One of the eight most important pilgrimage sites for Buddhists, the Dhamek Stupa marks the location where the Buddha gave his first teaching to his first five disciples Kaundinya, As... | 2.359375 | 0 |
7066937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhamek%20Stupa | Dhamek Stupa | History
Dhamek Stupa marks the location where the Buddha gave his first teaching to his first five disciples Kaundinya, Assaji, Bhaddiya, Vappa and Mahanama. All five eventually became fully liberated. This event also marked the formation of the sangha. Several of the ancient sources describe the site of this first tea... | 2.78125 | 0 |
7066939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia%20Park%2C%20Minneapolis | Columbia Park, Minneapolis | Columbia Park is a neighborhood in the Northeast community in Minneapolis. Its boundaries are 37th Avenue NE to the north, Central Avenue to the east, 27th Avenue NE to the south, and both University Avenue & Saint Anthony Parkway streets to the west. It is one of ten neighborhoods in Ward 1 of Minneapolis, currently ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
7066941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20LeRose | Bob LeRose | Robert K. LeRose (; June 3, 1921 – August 30, 2006) was an American advertising artist and a comic book colorist for DC Comics, who provided the color for hundreds of stories featuring Batman, Superman, and other major characters.
Biography
Early life and career
Born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, but raised n... | 2.046875 | 0 |
7066954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-energy%20transfer | Low-energy transfer | Edward Belbruno and James Miller of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory had heard of the failure, and helped to salvage the mission by developing a ballistic capture trajectory that would enable the main Hiten probe to itself enter lunar orbit. The trajectory they developed for Hiten used Weak Stability Boundary Theory and ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
7066997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensions%20Act%202004 | Pensions Act 2004 | The Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to improve the running of pension schemes.
Background
In the years following the introduction of the Pensions Act 1995, it was widely perceived that it was failing to offer the protection to pension scheme members that had been anticipated... | 2.5 | 0 |
7067009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Beach%2C%20New%20Jersey | Little Beach, New Jersey | Little Beach is a barrier island along the coast of New Jersey. It is believed to be the last uninhabited barrier island left on the U.S. Atlantic coast. It is part of Galloway Township, in Atlantic County, New Jersey.
The island is now part of the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. Access is permitted only t... | 2.328125 | 0 |
7067042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagunitas%2C%20California | Lagunitas, California | Lagunitas (Laguna, Spanish for "Little lagoons") is an unincorporated community in Marin County, California. It is located southwest of Novato, at an elevation of 217 feet (66 m). Lagunitas is aggregated with Forest Knolls by the U.S. Census into the census-designated place (CDP) Lagunitas-Forest Knolls.
The first po... | 1.992188 | 0 |
7067042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagunitas%2C%20California | Lagunitas, California | Roads
Lagunitas' main road is Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, which itself runs from its intersection with California State Route 1 just south of Point Reyes Station to the western terminus of Interstate 580 near San Rafael. The road serves as the only way in and out of Lagunitas by land.
Public transport
Lagunitas is ... | 2 | 0 |
7067095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro%20men%27s%20national%20basketball%20team | Montenegro men's national basketball team | The Montenegro men's national basketball team () represents Montenegro in international basketball tournaments. The supervising body is the Basketball Federation of Montenegro.
Montenegro joined FIBA in 2006, following the restoration of Montenegrin independence in the same year. Since 2006, the national team has qual... | 2.390625 | 0 |
7067199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania%20Route%2023 | Pennsylvania Route 23 | Pennsylvania Route 23 (PA 23) is an state highway in southeastern Pennsylvania. The route begins at PA 441 in Marietta and heads east to U.S. Route 1 (US 1) at City Avenue on the border of Lower Merion Township and Philadelphia. PA 23 begins at Marietta in Lancaster County and continues east to Lancaster, where it pas... | 1.921875 | 0 |
7067199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania%20Route%2023 | Pennsylvania Route 23 | At this point, PA 23 turns south onto Schuylkill Road, passing businesses and curving to the southeast. The route becomes the border between the borough of Phoenixville to the northeast and Schuylkill Township to the southwest and crosses French Creek before passing more businesses and intersecting PA 113. At this poin... | 1.984375 | 0 |
7067199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania%20Route%2023 | Pennsylvania Route 23 | Past this, the route becomes Crawford Avenue and curves to the east past commercial development. The road turns south and becomes Conshohocken State Road, passing under I-76. PA 23 enters Lower Merion Township and curves southeast, passing through forested areas of residential development. At the Spring Mill Road inter... | 2 | 0 |
7067199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania%20Route%2023 | Pennsylvania Route 23 | When Pennsylvania first legislated routes in 1911, what would become PA 23 was designated as Legislative Route 244 between Leacock and Morgantown and Legislative Route 201 between Phoenixville and King of Prussia. In 1927, PA 23 was designated to run from US 230/PA 41/PA 72 (Prince Street) in Lancaster east to City Ave... | 2.140625 | 0 |
7067199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania%20Route%2023 | Pennsylvania Route 23 | Plans were made in the late 1960s to build the Schuylkill Parkway, a freeway bypass of PA 23 between US 422 and US 202 in Upper Merion Township. In 1972, overhead traffic signals were installed and a portion of the road was built west from US 202 and PA 23 in Bridgeport. Construction was halted after PennDOT ran out of... | 2.125 | 0 |
7067202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surge%20channel | Surge channel | A surge channel is a narrow inlet, usually on a rocky shoreline, and is formed by differential erosion of those rocks by coastal wave action. As waves strike the shore, water fills the channel, and drains out again as the waves retreat. The narrow confines of the channel create powerful currents that reverse themselve... | 3.046875 | 0 |
7067212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renmin%20University%20of%20China%20Law%20School | Renmin University of China Law School | At present, RUC Law School educates more than 3,000 students annually with graduate students accounting for approximately 80% of the student body. The Law School confers undergraduate (LL.B.) and graduate degrees (LL.D. and LL.M.) in all secondary disciplines of law, including one national first-level key discipline a... | 1.929688 | 0 |
7067238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danishefsky%27s%20diene | Danishefsky's diene | Danishefsky's diene (Kitahara diene) is an organosilicon compound and a diene with the formal name trans-1-methoxy-3-trimethylsilyloxy-buta-1,3-diene named after Samuel J. Danishefsky. Because the diene is very electron-rich it is a very reactive reagent in Diels-Alder reactions. This diene reacts rapidly with electrop... | 1.992188 | 0 |
7067306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20%28High%20Priest%29 | Jason (High Priest) | Jason (Hebrew: Yason, יאסון; Greek: Ἰάσων, Iásōn) was the High Priest of Israel from around 175 BCE to 171 BCE during the Second Temple period of Judaism. He was of the Oniad family and was brother to Onias III, his predecessor as High Priest. Josephus records that his name was originally Jesus or Joshua (Hebrew יֵשׁ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
7067306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20%28High%20Priest%29 | Jason (High Priest) | Biography
Onias III ruled as High Priest for an unknown length of time prior to Jason's accession. Both Onias III and Jason were sons of Simon II, an earlier High Priest. In 175 BCE, Antiochus IV Epiphanes returned from exile in Greece to take the throne of the Seleucid Empire. He appointed Jason as the new High Pri... | 2.53125 | 0 |
7067306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20%28High%20Priest%29 | Jason (High Priest) | During his reign, Jason was given permission to start a Greek-style polis (or city) and a gymnasium at or near Jerusalem, called Antioch or Antiochia. Residents there would presumably raise their children in the style of the Greeks and learn the Greek language; such Greek settlements were scattered across the Empire. ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
7067306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20%28High%20Priest%29 | Jason (High Priest) | In 170–168 BCE, the Sixth Syrian War between the Seleucids and the Ptolemaic Egyptians arose. Antiochus IV led an army to attack Egypt in 170 BCE before returning in 169 BCE. Tensions with the Ptolemaic dynasty continued, and Antiochus rode out on campaign again in 168 BCE. According to the book of 2 Maccabees, Jaso... | 2.78125 | 0 |
7067319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20the%20Congo%20Civil%20War%20%281997%E2%80%931999%29 | Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999) | Citing electoral fraud during the 1993 parliamentary elections, the Ninja and Cobra militia launched a civil war against the Cocoye. The conflict ended in December 1994, leaving 2,000 people dead and many more displaced. Despite remaining in power, Lissouba failed to fully implement the peace accords signed at the end ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
7067319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20the%20Congo%20Civil%20War%20%281997%E2%80%931999%29 | Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999) | At the same time Lissouba personally visited Rwanda, Uganda and Namibia, attempting to gain the support of their leaders. He publicly accused the Cobra of employing supporters of former Zairian president Mobutu Sese Seko, prompting the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Laurent Kabila, to send sev... | 2.03125 | 0 |
7067319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20the%20Congo%20Civil%20War%20%281997%E2%80%931999%29 | Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999) | In September 1997, following Sassou's refusal to accept five ministerial portfolios, Lissouba granted Bernard Kolelas the position of Prime Minister, as the Ninja militia officially entered the conflict on the side of the government.
Between 11–12 October 1997, Angolan air force fighter jets conducted a number of air ... | 1.945313 | 0 |
7067373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Concordia%20Wilhelmsruh | FC Concordia Wilhelmsruh | FC Concordia Wilhelmsruh is a German football club based in Berlin. The club was founded on 29 June 1895 as Concordia Berlin and was one of the founding members of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900. It is named after Concordia, the Roman goddess of unity.
History
In its early years the club moved bet... | 2.1875 | 0 |
7067373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Concordia%20Wilhelmsruh | FC Concordia Wilhelmsruh | The burgeoning Cold War that would divide the country into East and West Germany led to the formation of separate football leagues in the Soviet-occupied areas. Being based in what would become East Berlin, Concordia was ousted from the Amateurliga Berlin to play in the DDR-Liga (II) as SG Concordia Wilhelmsruh. They w... | 2.28125 | 0 |
7067375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Enckell | Carl Enckell | Carl Johan Alexis Enckell (7 June 1876 – 26 March 1959) was a Finnish politician, diplomat, officer and businessman.
Enckell followed his father's footsteps in the Russian military and rose to the Imperial Russian Guard. As he was not satisfied with the salary and his stagnated military career, he studied mechanical e... | 2.15625 | 0 |
7067375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Enckell | Carl Enckell | Enckell was one of the few Finnish politicians who had experience in foreign relations; during the first years of independence he was Minister of Foreign affairs in Lauri Ingman's cabinet 1918–1919 after which he was appointed Finnish Representative to Paris. In the peace negotiations that followed the First World War,... | 1.96875 | 0 |
7067375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Enckell | Carl Enckell | Back to politics
Enckell returned to politics in September 1944 when he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in Antti Hackzell's cabinet. He was sent to peace negotiations to Moscow to replace the head of the Finnish delegation, prime minister Hackzell, who had fallen seriously ill. As an outcome, Finland signed ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
7067420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92-Methylamino-L-alanine | Β-Methylamino-L-alanine | Mechanisms
Although the mechanisms by which BMAA causes motor neuron dysfunction and death are not entirely understood, current research suggests that there are multiple mechanisms of action. Acutely, BMAA can act as an excitotoxin on glutamate receptors, such as NMDA, calcium-dependent AMPA, and kainate receptors. Th... | 2.140625 | 0 |
7067420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92-Methylamino-L-alanine | Β-Methylamino-L-alanine | Chronic dietary exposure to BMAA is now considered to be a cause of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/parkinsonism–dementia complex (ALS/PDC) that had an extremely high rate of incidence among the Chamorro people of Guam. The Chamorro call the condition lytico-bodig. In the 1950s, ALS/PDC prevalence ratios and death r... | 2.796875 | 0 |
7067451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meal%20Fell | Meal Fell | Meal Fell is a small fell in the northern region of the English Lake District, it is situated south-west of the village of Caldbeck and is one of the four main Uldale Fells (the others being Longlands Fell, Great Cockup and Great Sca Fell).
Topography
Meal fell reaches a height of and although it is largely grassy a... | 2.125 | 0 |
7067473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20applications%20of%20nanotechnology | Industrial applications of nanotechnology | Foods
A complex set of engineering and scientific challenges in the food and bioprocessing industry for manufacturing high quality and safe food through efficient and sustainable means can be solved through nanotechnology. Bacteria identification and food quality monitoring using biosensors; intelligent, active, and s... | 2.578125 | 0 |
7067473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20applications%20of%20nanotechnology | Industrial applications of nanotechnology | Surfaces and coatings
The most prominent application of nanotechnology in the household is self-cleaning or "easy-to-clean" surfaces on ceramics or glasses. Nanoceramic particles have improved the smoothness and heat resistance of common household equipment such as the flat iron.
The first sunglasses using protective... | 2.609375 | 0 |
7067473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20applications%20of%20nanotechnology | Industrial applications of nanotechnology | Aerospace and vehicle manufacturers
Lighter and stronger materials will be of immense use to aircraft manufacturers, leading to increased performance. Spacecraft will also benefit, where weight is a major factor. Nanotechnology might thus help to reduce the size of equipment and thereby decrease fuel-consumption requir... | 2.46875 | 0 |
7067473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20applications%20of%20nanotechnology | Industrial applications of nanotechnology | Another way nanotechnology can improve soldiers’ uniforms is by creating a better form of camouflage. Mobile pigment nanoparticles injected into the material can produce a better form of camouflage. These mobile pigment particles would be able to change the color of the uniforms depending upon the area that the soldier... | 2.34375 | 0 |
7067473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20applications%20of%20nanotechnology | Industrial applications of nanotechnology | Platinum nanoparticles are being considered in the next generation of automotive catalytic converters because the very high surface area of nanoparticles could reduce the amount of platinum required. However, some concerns have been raised due to experiments demonstrating that they will spontaneously combust if methane... | 2.515625 | 0 |
7067473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20applications%20of%20nanotechnology | Industrial applications of nanotechnology | Silica (SiO2) is present in conventional concrete as part of the normal mix. However, one of the advancements made by the study of concrete at the nanoscale is that particle packing in concrete can be improved by using nano-silica which leads to a densifying of the micro and nanostructure resulting in improved mechanic... | 2.390625 | 0 |
7067473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20applications%20of%20nanotechnology | Industrial applications of nanotechnology | Steel cables can be strengthened using carbon nanotubes. Stronger cables reduce the costs and period of construction, especially in suspension bridges, as the cables are run from end to end of the span.
The use of vanadium and molybdenum nanoparticles improves the delayed fracture problems associated with high strengt... | 2.484375 | 0 |
7067473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20applications%20of%20nanotechnology | Industrial applications of nanotechnology | Due to its natural origins, wood is leading the way in cross-disciplinary research and modelling techniques. BASF have developed a highly water repellent coating based on the actions of the lotus leaf as a result of the incorporation of silica and alumina nanoparticles and hydrophobic polymers. Mechanical studies of bo... | 2.65625 | 0 |
7067473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20applications%20of%20nanotechnology | Industrial applications of nanotechnology | Coatings is an important area in construction coatings are extensively use to paint the walls, doors, and windows. Coatings should provide a protective layer bound to the base material to produce a surface of the desired protective or functional properties. The coatings should have self healing capabilities through a p... | 2.625 | 0 |
7067524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montagne%20Sainte-Victoire | Montagne Sainte-Victoire | Montagne Sainte-Victoire (Provençal according to classical orthography and according to Mistralian orthography) is a limestone mountain ridge in the south of France which extends over between the départements of Bouches-du-Rhône and Var. Its highest point is the Pic des mouches at ; this is not however the highest p... | 2.421875 | 0 |
7068006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Darling-Hammond | Linda Darling-Hammond | Darling-Hammond was president of the American Educational Research Association and a member of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. She has served on the boards of directors for the Spencer Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and the Alliance for Excellent Education.... | 2 | 0 |
7068006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Darling-Hammond | Linda Darling-Hammond | Learning and teaching standards
While William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia, Darling-Hammond co-founded the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching (NCREST), which documented highly successful school models and supported a range of school reform initiatives in New York a... | 2.203125 | 0 |
7068006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Darling-Hammond | Linda Darling-Hammond | Developing schools and programs
Darling-Hammond began her career as a public school teacher and has co-founded both a preschool/day care center and a charter public high school serving low-income students of color in East Palo Alto, California. In a community where only a third of students were graduating and almost n... | 2.546875 | 0 |
7068006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Darling-Hammond | Linda Darling-Hammond | Darling-Hammond has said, "Lagging far behind our international peers in educational outcomes--and with one of the most unequal educational systems in the industrialized world--we need, I believe, something much more than and much different from what NCLB offers." She also praised the law for drawing attention to achie... | 2.0625 | 0 |
7068021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carr%20Mill%20Mall | Carr Mill Mall | Carr Mill Mall is a small, local shopping mall located in Carrboro, North Carolina. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Alberta Mill Complex. It is also a host for numerous local live performances and other cultural events.
History
Built in 1898 by Thomas F. Lloyd, it was formerly a cotton ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
7068038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20barrier%20coating | Thermal barrier coating | Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) are advanced materials systems usually applied to metallic surfaces on parts operating at elevated temperatures, such as gas turbine combustors and turbines, and in automotive exhaust heat management. These 100 μm to 2 mm thick coatings of thermally insulating materials serve to insulate... | 2.015625 | 0 |
7068038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20barrier%20coating | Thermal barrier coating | Thermal barrier coatings typically consist of four layers: the metal substrate, metallic bond coat, thermally-grown oxide (TGO), and ceramic topcoat. The ceramic topcoat is typically composed of yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ), which has very low conductivity while remaining stable at the nominal operating temperature... | 2.078125 | 0 |
7068038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20barrier%20coating | Thermal barrier coating | At peak operating conditions found in gas-turbine engines with temperatures in excess of 700 °C, oxidation of the bond-coat leads to the formation of a thermally-grown oxide (TGO) layer. Formation of the TGO layer is inevitable for many high-temperature applications, so thermal barrier coatings are often designed so th... | 2.171875 | 0 |
7068038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20barrier%20coating | Thermal barrier coating | TGO layer growth
The growth of the thermally-grown oxide (TGO) layer is the most important cause of TBC spallation failure. When the TGO forms as the TBC is heated, it causes a compressive growth stress associated with volume expansion. When it is cooled, a lattice mismatch strain arises between TGO and the top coat (T... | 2.09375 | 0 |
7068038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20barrier%20coating | Thermal barrier coating | Thermal shock
Because the purpose of TBCs is to insulate metallic substrates such that they can be used for prolonged times at high temperatures, they often undergo thermal shock, which is a stress that arises in a material when it undergoes a rapid temperature change. This thermal shock is a major contributor to the ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
7068038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20barrier%20coating | Thermal barrier coating | Mullite
Mullite is a compound of alumina and silica, with the formula 3Al2O3-2SiO2. It has a low density, along with good mechanical properties, high thermal stability, low thermal conductivity, and is corrosion and oxidation resistant. However, it suffers from crystallization and volume contraction above 800 °C, whic... | 2.25 | 0 |
7068038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20barrier%20coating | Thermal barrier coating | To avoid the difficulties associated with the melting point of superalloys, many researchers are investigating ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs) as high-temperature alternatives. Generally, these are made from fiber-reinforced SiC. Rotating parts are especially good candidates for the material change due to the enormous... | 2.3125 | 0 |
7068078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20S%C3%A1nchez%20%28American%20politician%29 | Francisco Sánchez (American politician) | Francisco María Sánchez (April 11, 1805 – September 8, 1862) was a Californio politician, military officer, and ranchero who served as 8th Alcalde of San Francisco and Commandant of the Presidio of San Francisco.
Sánchez was the grantee of the 8,926-acre Rancho San Pedro and built the Sánchez Adobe in Pacifica. He was... | 2.140625 | 0 |
7068164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Banta%20%28baseball%29 | Jack Banta (baseball) | Jackie Kay Banta (June 24, 1925 – September 17, 2006) was an American professional baseball pitcher who appeared in 69 games in Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers between and . The native of Hutchinson, Kansas, threw right-handed and batted left-handed; he stood tall and weighed .
Banta's professional ca... | 1.9375 | 0 |
7068193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurter%20Kranz | Frankfurter Kranz | The Frankfurter Kranz ( or Frankfurt Crown Cake) is a cake specialty of Frankfurt, Germany.
Preparation starts with the baking of a firm sponge cake in a ring-shaped baking tin. The cake is then sliced horizontally to divide it into two or three rings, and thick layers of buttercream icing are placed between the rings... | 2.296875 | 0 |
7068209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman%20Lehmann | Herman Lehmann | Herman Lehmann (June 5, 1859 – February 2, 1932) was captured as a child by Native Americans. He lived first among the Apache and then the Comanche but returned to his Euro-American birth family later in life. He published his autobiography, Nine Years Among the Indians, in 1927.
Early life
Herman Lehmann was born nea... | 2.515625 | 0 |
7068209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman%20Lehmann | Herman Lehmann | Life with the Apaches
A few months after Lehmann's capture, the Apaches told Lehmann they had killed his entire family, depriving him of any incentive to attempt escape. The Apaches took Herman Lehmann to their village in eastern New Mexico. He was adopted by a man named Carnoviste and his wife, Laughing Eyes. A year a... | 2.875 | 0 |
7068209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman%20Lehmann | Herman Lehmann | In the spring of 1877, Lehmann and the Comanches attacked buffalo hunters on the high plains of Texas. Lehmann was wounded by hunters in a surprise attack on the Indian camp at Yellow House Canyon (present-day Lubbock, Texas) on March 18, 1877, the last major fight between Indians and non-Indians in Texas.
In July 187... | 2.71875 | 0 |
7068209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman%20Lehmann | Herman Lehmann | In April 1878, Lt. Col. John W. Davidson ordered that Lehmann be sent under guard to his family in Texas. Five soldiers and a driver escorted Lehmann on a four-mule-drawn ambulance to Loyal Valley in Mason County, Texas. Lehmann arrived in Loyal Valley with an escort of soldiers on May 12, 1878, almost nine years after... | 2.3125 | 0 |
7068209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman%20Lehmann | Herman Lehmann | His second autobiography, Nine Years Among the Indians (1927, edited by J. Marvin Hunter) was at the request of Lehmann. He requested that this time the book be written just as he told it. It is one of the finest captivity narratives in American literature, according to J. Frank Dobie.
Herman Lehmann's story also insp... | 2.328125 | 0 |
7068258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott%20and%20Costello%20Go%20to%20Mars | Abbott and Costello Go to Mars | Abbott and Costello Go to Mars is a 1953 American science fiction comedy film starring the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello and directed by Charles Lamont. It was produced by Howard Christie and made by Universal-International. Despite the film's title, no character in the film actually travels to the planet ... | 1.9375 | 0 |
7068306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbuster | Cloudbuster | A cloudbuster is a device designed by Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), which Reich claimed could produce rain by manipulating what he called "orgone energy" present in the atmosphere.
The cloudbuster was intended to be used in a way similar to a lightning rod: focusing it on a location in the sky and ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
7068320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta%20Cowell | Roberta Cowell | Roberta Elizabeth Marshall Cowell (8 April 1918 – 11 October 2011) was a British racing driver and Second World War fighter pilot. She was the first known British trans woman to undergo gender-affirming surgery in 1951.
Early life
Roberta Cowell was born on 8 April 1918 in Croydon, London, one of three children of Maj... | 2.125 | 0 |
7068320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta%20Cowell | Roberta Cowell | On 28 December 1940, Cowell was commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps as second lieutenant. In June 1941, she married, before transferring from the Army to the RAF on 24 January 1942 with the rank of pilot officer (temporary). She had obtained a private pilot's licence before the war and completed RAF flying t... | 2.265625 | 0 |
7068320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta%20Cowell | Roberta Cowell | By October 1944, 4 Squadron was based at Deurne, Belgium, on the outskirts of Antwerp and its Spitfires were supplemented by an allocation of Hawker Typhoon FR IBs, a photo-reconnaissance version of the Hawker Typhoon fighter-bomber. On 18 November 1944, Cowell was piloting one of a pair of Typhoons on a low-level sort... | 1.984375 | 0 |
7068320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta%20Cowell | Roberta Cowell | By April 1945, the advancing Red Army was approaching. The initial German intention was to evacuate the camp, but the prisoners refused to leave. After negotiations between the senior American officer and German Kommandant, the Germans guarding Stalag Luft I abandoned it and evacuated towards the west, leaving the pris... | 2.09375 | 0 |
7068320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta%20Cowell | Roberta Cowell | Later life and death
By 1954, her two business ventures, a racing car engineering company (Leacroft of Egham) and a clothing company had both ceased trading and her change of legal gender had made it impossible for her to continue Grand Prix motor racing. However, in March 1954, news of her gender reassignment broke, g... | 2.25 | 0 |
7068326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20process%20network | Business process network | Business process networks (BPN), also referred to as business service networks or business process hubs, enable the efficient execution of multi-enterprise operational processes, including supply chain planning and execution. A BPN extends and implements an organization's Service-orientation in Enterprise Applications.... | 1.929688 | 0 |
7068381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki%20Versys%20650 | Kawasaki Versys 650 | The Kawasaki Versys 650 (codenamed KLE650) is a middleweight motorcycle. It borrows design elements from dual-sport bikes, standards, adventure tourers and sport bikes; sharing characteristics of all, but not neatly fitting into any of those categories.
The name Versys is a portmanteau of the words versatile and syst... | 1.976563 | 0 |
7068424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Black%20Mass | A Black Mass | A Black Mass is a play written by Amiri Baraka and performed at Proctor's Theatre in Newark, New Jersey in 1966. Baraka also recorded a version of the play with Sun Ra's Myth-Science Orchestra in 1968. The play is based on the religious doctrine of Yakub as taught by the Nation of Islam, and it describes the origin of ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
7068454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda%20women%27s%20national%20cricket%20team | Bermuda women's national cricket team | The Bermuda women's national cricket team represents the British overseas territory of Bermuda in international women's cricket matches. The team made its international debut in 2006 and qualified for the 2008 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier, but has played no international matches since 2012.
History
Background
... | 2.484375 | 0 |
7068593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20safety | Active safety | The term active safety (or primary safety) is used in two distinct ways.
The first, mainly in the United States, refers to automobile safety systems that help avoid accidents, such as good steering and brakes. In this context, passive safety refers to features that help reduce the effects of an accident, such as seat... | 2.859375 | 0 |
7068605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots%20%282005%20video%20game%29 | Robots (2005 video game) | Robots is a platform video game released in 2005. The game was developed by Eurocom and published by Vivendi Universal Games to coincide with the film of the same name.
Summary
PC/PS2/Xbox/GameCube version
A robot named Rodney Copperbottom decides to leave his home at Rivet Town and head to Robot City to realize his... | 2.28125 | 0 |
7068649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.%20Bumble%20and%20the%20Stingers | B. Bumble and the Stingers | B. Bumble and the Stingers was an American instrumental ensemble in the early 1960s, specializing in rock and roll arrangements of classical melodies. The band's biggest hits were "Bumble Boogie", which reached number 21 in the US, and "Nut Rocker", which reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in 1962. The recordings... | 2.34375 | 0 |
7068659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Wahoos%20Stadium | Blue Wahoos Stadium | Blue Wahoos Stadium, located in the Community Maritime Park, is a multi-use park in Pensacola, Florida, that includes a stadium, commercial buildings, a waterfront public park and amphitheater. The mixed use stadium holds 5,038 people and can be used for a number of events year-round, including baseball, soccer, footba... | 1.914063 | 0 |
7068992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugrats%3A%20Royal%20Ransom | Rugrats: Royal Ransom | Rugrats: Royal Ransom is an action-adventure game developed by Avalanche Software and published by THQ for the PlayStation 2 and GameCube. The game was released on November 26, 2002, and is based on the Rugrats television series, which aired from 1991 to 2004 on Nickelodeon. The game's plot is loosely based on Rugrats:... | 2.265625 | 0 |
7069000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union%20Trust%20Building%20%28Pittsburgh%29 | Union Trust Building (Pittsburgh) | The Union Trust Building is a high-rise building located in the Downtown district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at 501 Grant Street. It was erected in 1915–16 by the industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The Flemish-Gothic structure's original purpose was to serve as a shopping arcade.
History
Known as the Union Arcade, it f... | 2.375 | 0 |
7069026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver%20Island%20Head%20Light | Beaver Island Head Light | The Beaver Head Light is located high on a bluff on the southern tip of Beaver Island. Boats trying to navigate North on Lake Michigan need to carefully work their way between Beaver Island and Gray's Reef.
The cylindrical tower was built in 1858, to replace an 1852 tower. The decagonal lantern room offers panoramic... | 2.46875 | 0 |
7069055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Junior%20Horticultural%20Association | National Junior Horticultural Association | The National Junior Horticultural Association (NJHA) is a non-profit organization in the United States that was founded in 1934 to promote and develop horticulture among youth. The organization hosts a variety of horticulturally related tours, activities, and competitions organized at annual national conventions held ... | 3 | 0 |
7069059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbay%20P-Patch | Interbay P-Patch | Interbay P-Patch, "The Garden Between The Bays", is one of Seattle, Washington's largest and most involved community gardens, and is recognized as an example of resourcefulness and sustainability.
History
Gardeners originally established the garden in 1974 as one of the earliest P-Patch locations in the city. First lo... | 1.96875 | 0 |
7069066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najas%20minor | Najas minor | Invasive spread and control
Brittle naiad was introduced to the United States, where it is considered an invasive species or noxious weed, in the 1900s. Brittle naiad in the United States is established in the Mid-Atlantic States. Established populations are found as far west as Oklahoma and Ontario, Canada in the nor... | 2.75 | 0 |
7069142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma%20State%20Highway%2047 | Oklahoma State Highway 47 | State Highway 47 (SH-47 or OK-47) is a state highway in Oklahoma. It runs west-to-east in Roger Mills, Dewey and Custer counties.
The current SH-47 was first established in late 1936. Over time it was expanded, reaching its current extent in 1945. A lettered spur route, SH-47A, was added in 1965.
Route description
S... | 1.929688 | 0 |
7069292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%20Carroll%20Shelf%20Award | Lewis Carroll Shelf Award | The Lewis Carroll Shelf Award was an American literary award conferred on several books by the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education annually from 1958 to 1979. Award-winning books were deemed to "belong on the same shelf" as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll,... | 2.25 | 0 |
7069307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strindberg%27s%20Intimate%20Theater | Strindberg's Intimate Theater | Strindberg's Intimate Theater ( or Intima teatern), is a theatre stage in Stockholm, Sweden.
History
It was founded and managed by the famous Swedish playwright August Strindberg and the young actor August Falck (1882–1938) between 1907 and 1910. The playhouse was a small (6 x 6 meters) but engaging space based on th... | 2.3125 | 0 |
7069426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoysaleswara%20Temple | Hoysaleswara Temple | Hoysaleshwara temple, also referred simply as the Halebidu temple, is a 12th-century Hindu temple dedicated to the god Shiva. It is the largest monument in Halebidu, a town in the state of Karnataka, India and the former capital of the Hoysala Empire. The temple was built on the banks of a large man-made lake, and spon... | 2.46875 | 0 |
7069426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoysaleswara%20Temple | Hoysaleswara Temple | The artwork in Hoysaleswara temple is damaged but largely intact. Within a few kilometers of the temple are numerous ruins of Hoysala architecture, including the Jain Basadi complex and the Kedareshwara temple.
The Hoysaleswara Temple, along with the nearby Chennakeshava Temple at Belur and the Keshava Temple at Soma... | 2.328125 | 0 |
7069426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoysaleswara%20Temple | Hoysaleswara Temple | Unlike other Hoysala temples that have survived into the modern age, and despite numerous inscriptions in the temple premises, the Hoysaleswara Temple lacks a dedication inscription. It is likely lost, along with the many other features of the original temple. An inscription found about five kilometers from the temple ... | 2.5 | 0 |
7069426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoysaleswara%20Temple | Hoysaleswara Temple | With the defeat of Tipu Sultan in 1799, Mysore came under the influence of the colonial British rule and scholarship. The Hoysaleswara temple ruins were among the earliest surveyed, then earliest photographed in the 1850s, and the subject of several rounds of good will repairs and restoration that lacked thorough docum... | 2.796875 | 0 |
7069426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoysaleswara%20Temple | Hoysaleswara Temple | The temple complex as a whole is placed on a jagati (literally, worldly platform). The platform is 15 feet wide around the outer walls of the temple, meant for the visitor to walk on and view the artwork clockwise while completing the circumambulation of the sanctums. It is called the pradakshina-patha (path for circum... | 2.59375 | 0 |
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