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7069426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoysaleswara%20Temple | Hoysaleswara Temple | In terms of theology from different Hindu traditions, the large images on the outer walls of the west side present the following frequencies (excluding small panels and miniature friezes):
Shiva: as Umamahesvara (8), as Nataraja and destroyer of various demons (25), Dakshinamurti (1), as nude Bhairava (6)
Shakti: as Pa... | 2.375 | 0 |
7069426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoysaleswara%20Temple | Hoysaleswara Temple | Pillars and ceilings
The interior walls of the temple are quite plain compared to the outer wall, except for the lathe turned pillars that run in rows between the north and south entrances. The four pillars in front of each shrine are the most ornate and the only ones that have the madanika sculptures in their pillar b... | 2.546875 | 0 |
7069426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoysaleswara%20Temple | Hoysaleswara Temple | The twin-temple has two sanctums (garbha griha), both with Shiva linga. One sanctum is dedicated to "Hoysaleswara" Shiva (the king) and the other for "Shantaleswara" Shiva (the queen, Shantala). Both are of equal size. Each sanctum is a square with a darsana dvara (view doorway) on the east, with three inches on the no... | 1.921875 | 0 |
7069426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoysaleswara%20Temple | Hoysaleswara Temple | Other monuments
The Hoysaleswara Temple premises include a museum managed by the Archaeological Survey of India. It contains numerous pieces of ruins and temple artwork recovered from the site for closer three dimensional examination. The temple premises also has the so-called Garuda Sthamba (Garuda pillar) to the sout... | 2.578125 | 0 |
7069426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoysaleswara%20Temple | Hoysaleswara Temple | According to Kristen Kasdorf, Fergusson's publications on Indian architecture have been influential, served as the introductory foundation to several generations of scholars. His exclusive focus on this temple helped bring attention to it, but without the context of other Halebid temples. Fergusson erred in many detail... | 2.375 | 0 |
7069430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurtosis%20risk | Kurtosis risk | In statistics and decision theory, kurtosis risk is the risk that results when a statistical model assumes the normal distribution, but is applied to observations that have a tendency to occasionally be much farther (in terms of number of standard deviations) from the average than is expected for a normal distribution.... | 2.046875 | 0 |
7069468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructograph | Instructograph | The Instructograph was a paper tape-based machine used for the study of Morse code.
The paper tape mechanism consisted of two reels which passed a paper tape across a reading device that actuated a set of contacts which changed state dependent on the presence or absence of hole punches in the tape. The contacts could ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
7069490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langeled%20pipeline | Langeled pipeline | The Langeled pipeline (originally known as Britpipe) is an underwater gas pipeline transporting Norwegian natural gas to the United Kingdom. Before the completion of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, it was the longest subsea pipeline in the world.
History
The project was launched under the original name Britpipe. In Octobe... | 2.3125 | 0 |
7069505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Slany | John Slany | Career
John Slaney was presented to the Merchant Taylors by William Atkins on 1 December 1593, and was married on 15 January 1593/94, at St Martin Pomary, Ironmonger Lane in the City of London, to Margery Brodgat. Margery was probably a near kinswoman of Alderman Richard Brodgate, Skinner (died 1589), the first husband... | 2.015625 | 0 |
7069505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Slany | John Slany | In 1613 John Weld (Esq) (brother of Humphrey Slaney's wife) purchased the office of Town Clerk of London (holding it first until 1642, the year of his knighthood), and in June 1616 he bought the manor and estate of Willey, Shropshire, adjacent to Barrow, from Sir Francis, son of Roland Lacon of Kinlet for £7000. He rap... | 1.914063 | 0 |
7069533 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20J.%20Osterling | Frederick J. Osterling | Frederick John Osterling (October 4, 1865 – July 5, 1934) was an American architect, practicing in Pittsburgh from 1888.
Biography
Frederick J. Osterling was born to Philip and Bertha Osterling in Dravosburg, Pennsylvania, on October 4, 1865. The Osterling family moved to Allegheny City when Frederick was young. Fol... | 1.984375 | 0 |
7069603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverbend%20High%20School | Riverbend High School | Riverbend High School is a public secondary school located in Spotsylvania, Virginia, and is part of Spotsylvania County Public Schools. Opened in 2004, Riverbend is Spotsylvania County's newest high school. The school mascot is a bear and the school colors are royal blue and emerald green.
The high school has an enrol... | 1.984375 | 0 |
7069633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thannhauser%20Galleries | Thannhauser Galleries | The Thannhauser Galleries were established by the Thannhauser family in early 20th century Europe. Their cutting-edge exhibitions helped forge the reputations of many of the most important Modernist artists.
History
Heinrich Thannhauser (1859–1935) opened the first of the Thannhauser Galleries in Munich in the fall o... | 2.421875 | 0 |
7069633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thannhauser%20Galleries | Thannhauser Galleries | In 1919, Heinrich Thannhauser's son, Justin K. Thannhauser (1892–1976), established a branch of the gallery in Lucerne (Luzern), Switzerland. He ran the branch until 1921, when he was called back to Munich to assist his father, who had developed a serious condition in his larynx. The Lucerne gallery continued to be und... | 1.976563 | 0 |
7069643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20St.%20Martin%20Church%2C%20Cologne | Great St. Martin Church, Cologne | The Great Saint Martin Church (, mostly shortened to Groß St. Martin, or , ) is a Romanesque Catholic church in Cologne, Germany. Its foundations (c.960 AD) rest on remnants of a Roman chapel, built on what was then an island in the Rhine. The church was later transformed into a Benedictine monastery. The current b... | 2.34375 | 0 |
7069643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20St.%20Martin%20Church%2C%20Cologne | Great St. Martin Church, Cologne | Theories of the Church’s pre-Carolingian beginning are supported by the Chronicon Sancti Martini Coloniensis, which up until the end of the 19th century was regarded as a valid historical source for Churches and Abbeys in Cologne. According to it, Great St. Martin was founded as a chapel in 690, and was transformed in... | 2.390625 | 0 |
7069643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20St.%20Martin%20Church%2C%20Cologne | Great St. Martin Church, Cologne | Developments from the 14th to 17th century
After the completion of the church in the 13th century, few modifications to the form of the church were undertaken. Most significant during this period were the various renovations needed for the four surrounding towers.
In 1378, fire destroyed the roofs of the four towers... | 2.421875 | 0 |
7069643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20St.%20Martin%20Church%2C%20Cologne | Great St. Martin Church, Cologne | In the second half of the 18th century, a number of small changes were made to the interior construction and environment. Abbott Franz Spix, overseeing the abbey in 1741-1759, raised the area of the altar and laid it further back in the apse. His goal was to embellish its appearance for the holy mass. Through these ... | 2.90625 | 0 |
7069643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20St.%20Martin%20Church%2C%20Cologne | Great St. Martin Church, Cologne | The monastery at Great Saint Martin was disbanded in 1802, and the remaining 21 monks were obliged to find other places to live. Only 11 would be able to find positions as priests in Cologne. In the following years, Abbott Felix Ohoven would preside over Great Saint Martin as parish priest. Starting in 1808, the d... | 2.71875 | 0 |
7069643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20St.%20Martin%20Church%2C%20Cologne | Great St. Martin Church, Cologne | Great Saint Martin's was badly damaged by RAF bombing during World War II. On the night of May 30, 1942, the tower and nave of the church were burnt to the ground. The sacristy building and north apse were also destroyed. In the following year, during one of the heaviest bombardments of the war, the chapel of St. Bened... | 2.59375 | 0 |
7069647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suraj%20Prakash | Suraj Prakash | Suraj Parkash is a popular text in the Sikh community, profusely poetic, and it is sometimes recited in a katha form. Vir Singh in his introduction to his printed publication of Suraj Prakash writes:
“In Gurdwaras, Deras, Dharamsalas, courts and in houses, the katha spread so widely and many copies of this text spread... | 1.953125 | 0 |
7069697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20the%20Viking%20%28video%20game%29 | Erik the Viking (video game) | The Saga of Erik the Viking (popularly known as Erik the Viking) is a text-based adventure video game developed by Level 9 Computing and published by Mosaic Publishing in 1984. The game runs on the Amstrad CPC, BBC model B, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum.
It is loosely based on the 1983 award-winning children's novel... | 2.625 | 0 |
7069697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20the%20Viking%20%28video%20game%29 | Erik the Viking (video game) | The Saga of Erik the Viking is a text-based adventure, in which the player inputs simple commands which Erik follows. As in similar adventure games, the world is divided into a number of screens or "rooms", all of which have simple pictures to enhance the atmosphere. The game's graphics were reminiscent of Beam Softwar... | 1.984375 | 0 |
7069697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20the%20Viking%20%28video%20game%29 | Erik the Viking (video game) | If the parser cannot recognise a command, the game will respond to the player with one of a number of phrases with which the gamer will be very familiar by the game's end. These include "Eh?", the response to a nonsense phrase; "Try again" for a command that is almost recognisable; and "Do WHAT to [an object]..." if th... | 2.140625 | 0 |
7069805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedensau%20Adventist%20University | Friedensau Adventist University | During the First World War, the War Department set up a military hospital in the buildings. It was not until 1919 that training could be resumed once more. In the following years, new courses were offered (home economics, preparation for nurses' training, 10th grade secondary education, business and child care). In 192... | 2.234375 | 0 |
7069807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Colston | William Colston | William Colston (fl. 1610–1612) was an Englishman and one of the first settlers in the colony at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
He was almost certainly a native of Bristol, England, and travelled to Newfoundland in 1610 as one of the first settlers in a scheme for the plantation of Newfoundland. They... | 2.25 | 0 |
7069815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrion%20L.%20Aubry | Jeffrion L. Aubry | Jeffrion L. Aubry (born February 8, 1948) is an American politician who represents District 35 in the New York State Assembly, which comprises East Elmhurst, LeFrak City, and parts of Corona, Woodside, Elmhurst and Rego Park, Queens.
Early life and education
Aubry was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received a Bac... | 2.296875 | 0 |
7069869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella%20Bay | Ella Bay | Ella Bay is a bay located in the Cassowary Coast Region in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is in close proximity to the town of Innisfail. Innisfail is situated south of Cairns and north of Townsville. The bay is bounded by Cooper's point in the north and Heath's point in the south. The land area adjacent to Ella... | 2.515625 | 0 |
7069869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella%20Bay | Ella Bay | Ella Bay lies within the traditional country of the Mamu peoples, an Australian Aboriginal tribe with a number of distinctive clan groups. These clan groups have cultural and spiritual ties to coastal lowlands, coastal lands and waters within what is now known as the northern part of the Cassowary Coast region of north... | 2.96875 | 0 |
7069869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella%20Bay | Ella Bay | The first settlers were the "cedar getters" in 1880 during the influx of timber cutters after the local red cedar species (Toona ciliata), quickly followed by becoming a key growing area for bananas and sugar cane. The later industries persist into the present day.
The latest Cyclone to hit the Innisfail region was Cy... | 2.765625 | 0 |
7069869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella%20Bay | Ella Bay | The 470 hectare site is mostly cleared. Introduced weed infestation (Pond apple, Hymenachne, Sicklepod etc.) have further degraded much of these pasture areas and the margins of remnant vegetated areas and this situation has been brought about by a failure of successive property owners to control these invasive weed sp... | 2.0625 | 0 |
7069893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napa%20River%20Flood%20Project | Napa River Flood Project | The Napa River-Napa Creek Flood Protection Project is a Civil Works project of the US Army Corps of Engineers in the city of Napa, California. The Project area includes some 6 miles (10 km) of the Napa River from the Butler Bridge on State Route 29 on the south to Trancas Street on the north. This section is the upper ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
7069893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napa%20River%20Flood%20Project | Napa River Flood Project | The US Congress authorized a flood protection project in the City of Napa in 1965 but no funding was provided. Needing matching funds at the local level to gain federal funding, local officials attempted to gain voter support twice in the 1970s but tax measures failed. A severe flood in 1986 regenerated interest and th... | 2.40625 | 0 |
7069893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napa%20River%20Flood%20Project | Napa River Flood Project | Local politicians and interest groups could not support the COE design as presented. Rather than submit it to voters for certain defeat, an ad hoc Community Coalition formed with the intent of re-working the design into a project with a chance of success. With the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Napa County Flood Co... | 2.421875 | 0 |
7069893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napa%20River%20Flood%20Project | Napa River Flood Project | The average annual flow of the Napa River is about through the populated center of the City of Napa. During a 100-year flood, the flow increases to an estimated to . The Napa River-Napa Creek Flood Protection Project employs a combination of traditional and innovative approaches to reduce the flooding threat. In the ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
7069939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20Anthony | Lawrence Anthony | Lawrence Anthony (17 September 1950 – 2 March 2012) was a South African conservationist, environmentalist, explorer and author. He was the long-standing head of conservation at the Thula Thula animal reserve in Zululand, South Africa, and the Founder of The Earth Organization, a privately registered, independent, inter... | 2.375 | 0 |
7069939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20Anthony | Lawrence Anthony | Biography
Anthony was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. His grandfather, who was a miner in Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, had migrated to the area in the 1920s to work in the gold mines. His father, who ran an insurance business, went about establishing new offices across Southern Africa; Anthony was raised in rural ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
7069939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20Anthony | Lawrence Anthony | In April 2012, he was posthumously awarded honorary Doctor of Science degree by College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Baghdad Zoo
Baghdad Zoo was the biggest zoo in the Middle East; however, by 8 days after the 2003 invasion, when Anthony reached the zoo on a private rescue ini... | 2.796875 | 0 |
7070214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%20Route%2028 | Maryland Route 28 | Maryland Route 28 (MD 28) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs from U.S. Route 15 (US 15) in Point of Rocks east to MD 182 in Norwood. The western portion of MD 28 is a rural highway connecting several villages in southern Frederick County and western Montgomery County. By contra... | 2.140625 | 0 |
7070214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%20Route%2028 | Maryland Route 28 | Point of Rocks to Darnestown
MD 28 begins at an intersection with US 15 (Catoctin Mountain Highway) in Point of Rocks, just north of the Point of Rocks Bridge that carries US 15 across the Potomac River. The state highway heads east as two-lane undivided Clay Street, which parallels CSX's Metropolitan Subdivision rail ... | 1.921875 | 0 |
7070256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torr%20Vale%20Mill | Torr Vale Mill | Torr Vale Mill is a Grade II* listed former cotton mill located in New Mills, Derbyshire, England, on a small rocky outcrop at the bottom of the Torrs gorge in a bend of the River Goyt.
The mill was built in the late 1780s by Daniel Strafford and was known as Strafford's Mill. It was powered by two waterwheels to spin... | 2.265625 | 0 |
7070301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescope | Telescope | A telescope is a device used to observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation. Originally, it was an optical instrument using lenses, curved mirrors, or a combination of both to observe distant objects – an optical telescope. Nowadays, the word "telescope" is defined ... | 2.921875 | 0 |
7070301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescope | Telescope | As wavelengths become longer, it becomes easier to use antenna technology to interact with electromagnetic radiation (although it is possible to make very tiny antenna). The near-infrared can be collected much like visible light; however, in the far-infrared and submillimetre range, telescopes can operate more like a r... | 3 | 0 |
7070301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescope | Telescope | Unlike an optical telescope, which produces a magnified image of the patch of sky being observed, a traditional radio telescope dish contains a single receiver and records a single time-varying signal characteristic of the observed region; this signal may be sampled at various frequencies. In some newer radio telescope... | 2.953125 | 0 |
7070301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescope | Telescope | An optical telescope gathers and focuses light mainly from the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Optical telescopes increase the apparent angular size of distant objects as well as their apparent brightness. For the image to be observed, photographed, studied, and sent to a computer, telescopes work by empl... | 3.234375 | 0 |
7070302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alagoas%20curassow | Alagoas curassow | The Alagoas curassow (Mitu mitu) is a glossy-black, pheasant-like bird. It was formerly found in forests in Northeastern Brazil in what is now the states of Pernambuco and Alagoas, which is the origin of its common name. It is now extinct in the wild; there are about 130 individuals in captivity.
German naturalist Geo... | 2.765625 | 0 |
7070302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alagoas%20curassow | Alagoas curassow | Population
Since 1977, the entire Mitu mitu population has been in captivity. The population numbered 44 in 2000, and by 2008, there were 130 birds in two aviaries. About 35% of the birds were hybrids with M. tuberosum.
Habitat and ecology
Mitu mitu native habitat is subtropical/tropical moist lowland primary forest, ... | 2.96875 | 0 |
7070302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alagoas%20curassow | Alagoas curassow | The lack of knowledge about their behavior in the wild makes it difficult to know how the birds interact with other species. The impact of their introduction on interactions with other species is difficult to predict. For instance, the Chamek spider monkey also eats Clarisia racemosa, which could lead to competition wi... | 2.890625 | 0 |
7070415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Book%20of%20Lord%20Shang | The Book of Lord Shang | The Book of Lord Shang () is an ancient Chinese text from the 3rd century BC, regarded as a foundational work of "Chinese Legalism". The earliest surviving of such texts (the second being the Han Feizi), it is named for and to some extent attributed to major Qin reformer Shang Yang, who served as minister to Duke Xiao ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
7070457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Little%20Bull-Calf | The Little Bull-Calf | The Little Bull-Calf is an English Romani fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in More English Fairy Tales.
Marian Roalfe Cox, in her pioneering study of Cinderella, identified it as a "hero" type, featuring a male hero instead of the usual heroine.
Source
The tale was collected by Irish linguist John Sampson from a... | 2.453125 | 0 |
7070457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Little%20Bull-Calf | The Little Bull-Calf | The boy came, but the king turned him away as a beggar, though the princess knew he was like the boy. Somewhat later, he came back, better dressed, and the princess insisted on speaking with him. He produced the ring and the tongue and married the princess. And they lived happily ever after.
Analysis
Tale type
In ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
7070568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo%20M%C3%BCller-Ury | Adolfo Müller-Ury | Adolfo Müller-Ury, KSG (March 29, 1862 – July 6, 1947) was a Swiss-born American portrait painter and impressionistic painter of roses and still life.
Early life and education
Müller was born on 29 March 1862 at Airolo, Switzerland, to a prominent patrician family that by the 18th and 19th centuries included mercenari... | 1.90625 | 0 |
7070568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo%20M%C3%BCller-Ury | Adolfo Müller-Ury | In the Newark Museum, New Jersey, is a portrait of a little girl dressed in pink called Miss Brandeis which is probably his first commissioned picture made in America (it is signed with a variation of his family name, A. Lombardi-Muller), though a portrait of Father Joseph Fransioli, who was minister to the large influ... | 2.25 | 0 |
7070568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo%20M%C3%BCller-Ury | Adolfo Müller-Ury | The New York State Museum at Albany contains six portraits, five of which were in the former New York Chamber of Commerce: Theodore Havemeyer, Oswald Ottendorfer, James Constable, William 'Boyce' Thompson, and Benjamin Altman. Much of his work remains in private collections or with the descendants of his sitters, and m... | 1.90625 | 0 |
7070568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo%20M%C3%BCller-Ury | Adolfo Müller-Ury | She founded and directed the Galleon Art School in San Augustine in 1925, but this was more a club for artists than a school, so by 1931 she founded the San Augustine Arts Club, where she proved herself a capable arts administrator; she was producing much art of her own in these years and by May 1933 she was able to ex... | 2.328125 | 0 |
7070579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics%20of%20aggression | Genetics of aggression | The field of psychology has been greatly influenced by the study of genetics. Decades of research have demonstrated that both genetic and environmental factors play a role in a variety of behaviors in humans and animals (e.g. Grigorenko & Sternberg, 2003). The genetic basis of aggression, however, remains poorly unders... | 3.03125 | 0 |
7070579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics%20of%20aggression | Genetics of aggression | The XYY genotype first gained wide notoriety in 1968 when it was raised as a part of a defense in two murder trials in Australia and France. In the United States, five attempts to use the XYY genotype as a defense were unsuccessful—in only one case in 1969 was it allowed to go to a jury—which rejected it.
Results from... | 3.015625 | 0 |
7070579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics%20of%20aggression | Genetics of aggression | Mouse studies
Mice are often used as a model for human genetic behavior since mice and humans have homologous genes coding for homologous proteins that are used for similar functions at some biological levels. Mice aggression studies have led to some interesting insight in human aggression. Using reverse genetics, the ... | 2.875 | 0 |
7070579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics%20of%20aggression | Genetics of aggression | Molecular genetics
A number of molecular genetics studies have focused on manipulating candidate aggression genes in mice and other animals to induce effects that can be possibly applied to humans. Most studies have focused on polymorphisms of serotonin receptors, dopamine receptors, and neurotransmitter metabolizing e... | 2.5625 | 0 |
7070579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics%20of%20aggression | Genetics of aggression | Human behavior genetics
In determining if a trait is related to genetic factors or environmental factors, twin studies and adoption studies are used. These studies examine correlations based on similarity of a trait and a person's genetic or environmental factors that could influence the trait. Aggression has been exam... | 3.0625 | 0 |
7070579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics%20of%20aggression | Genetics of aggression | Twin studies
Twin studies are studies typically conducted comparing identical and fraternal twins. They aim to reveal the importance of environmental and genetic influences for traits, phenotypes, and disorders. Before the advancement of molecular genetics, twin studies were almost the only mode of investigation of gen... | 3.015625 | 0 |
7070579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics%20of%20aggression | Genetics of aggression | Genetics of aggression over time
Over time, studies pertaining to the genetics of aggression have improved, and become an interesting research topic for those looking for research opportunities. Experiments started in 1963 with the Milgram's experiment. The results of this experiment proved that in certain situations,... | 2.9375 | 0 |
7070582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Bell%20%28artist%29 | Richard Bell (artist) | Richard Bell (born 13 December 1953) is an Aboriginal Australian artist and political activist. He is one of the founders of proppaNOW, a Brisbane-based Aboriginal art collective.
Early life
Born in 1953 in Charleville, Queensland, Bell is a Kamilaroi man.
He engaged in political activism in Redfern, Sydney, in the 1... | 2.984375 | 0 |
7070586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Barn%20Dance | The Barn Dance | The Barn Dance is a 1929 American animated short film and the third short film in the Mickey Mouse film series; it was the first of twelve shorts released during that year. It was directed by Walt Disney with Ub Iwerks as the head animator. The title is written as Barn Dance on the poster, while the full title is used ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
7070629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Opry%20House | The Opry House | The Opry House is a 1929 Mickey Mouse short animated film released by Celebrity Pictures, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series. It was the fifth Mickey Mouse short to be released, the second of that year. It cast Mickey as the owner of a small theater (or opera house according to the title). Mickey performs a vaudev... | 2 | 0 |
7070629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Opry%20House | The Opry House | Production
The Opry House was the fifth Mickey Mouse cartoon released by Walt Disney Productions. It appears in black and white, and the audio was recorded using Pat Powers's cinephone system. It was animated mostly by Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney's first employee who later became known as a "Disney Legend". The short became... | 2.640625 | 0 |
7070643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum%20geologist | Petroleum geologist | A petroleum geologist is an earth scientist who works in the field of petroleum geology, which involves all aspects of oil discovery and production. Petroleum geologists are usually linked to the actual discovery of oil and the identification of possible oil deposits, gas caps, or leads. It can be a very labor-intensiv... | 2.84375 | 0 |
7070643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum%20geologist | Petroleum geologist | These seven key aspects require the petroleum geologist to obtain a 4-dimensional idea of the subsurface (the three spatial dimensions, plus time). Data may be obtained via geophysical methods. Geophysical surveys show the seismology data of elastic waves, mainly seismic reflection. This provides a 3-dimensional look o... | 2.46875 | 0 |
7070671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage-to-film%20adaptation | Stage-to-film adaptation | Most stage-to-film adaptations must confront the charge of being "stagy". Many successful attempts have been made to "open up" stage plays to show things that could not possibly be done in the theatre (notably in The Sound of Music, in which the Alps and the city of Salzburg were displayed, in Frost/Nixon, and in Franc... | 2.625 | 0 |
7070683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Barnyard%20Battle | The Barnyard Battle | The Barnyard Battle is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on June 1, 1929, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series. It was the seventh Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the fourth of that year. As the title implies, it features a battle between an invading army of cats and an army of mice trying to defe... | 2.609375 | 0 |
7070725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Plowboy | The Plowboy | The Plowboy is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on June 28, 1929, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series. It was the eighth Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the fifth of that year.
Plot
As the title implies, Mickey is depicted as a farmer alongside Minnie Mouse. He is first seen with his horse whi... | 2.203125 | 0 |
7070844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Abaco | Joseph Abaco | Joseph Abaco (full name Joseph (Giuseppe) Marie Clément Ferdinand dall'Abaco) (27 March 171031 August 1805) was an Italian violoncellist and composer. He was born and baptised in Brussels, the capital of the Spanish Netherlands, on 27 March 1710, and was musically trained by his father, Evaristo Felice dall'Abaco.
At ... | 1.976563 | 0 |
7070851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles%20Aerovan | Miles Aerovan | The Miles M.57 Aerovan was a British twin-engined short-range low-cost transport aircraft designed and produced by Miles Aircraft. It was primarily used for freight and passenger services.
Development of the Aerovan started during the latter years of the Second World War as an affordable freighter suitable for both ci... | 2.421875 | 0 |
7070851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles%20Aerovan | Miles Aerovan | To suit its intended use, it was recognised early on that such an aircraft would need to be operated from austere airstrips and less hospitable terrain. Furthermore, it was recognised that the type could be subsequently scaled upwards into a larger freighter, of which Miles had formulated multiple proposals even prior ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
7070851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles%20Aerovan | Miles Aerovan | Into production
Work on the Aerovan was resumed shortly after Victory in Europe Day. While there was immediate demand for the type amongst civilian customers, Miles were not able to keep up with the rate of orders incoming, an outcome which aviation author Don Brown attributed to the Air Ministry's decision to place th... | 2.484375 | 0 |
7070851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles%20Aerovan | Miles Aerovan | Even prior to the Aerovan entering quantity production, Miles had ambitions to produce multiple derivatives of the type. One such design was a specialised aircraft for the air observation post role, intended to be operated by a four-man crew and featuring an enlarged glazed canopy to provide an all-round view in combin... | 2.234375 | 0 |
7070851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles%20Aerovan | Miles Aerovan | The Aerovan had a relatively deep-sided forward fuselage, which necessitated the use of a large fin area. A pair of pilots were accommodated within a large clear perspex canopy which formed the front dorsal part of the pod, while the pod-shaped fuselage was lined with four or five circular windows on either side for us... | 2.515625 | 0 |
7070924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee%20Public%20Library | Milwaukee Public Library | Milwaukee Public Library (MPL) is the public library system in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, consisting of a central library and 13 branches, all part of the Milwaukee County Federated Library System. MPL is the largest public library system in Wisconsin.
History
The Milwaukee Public Library can trace its line... | 2.515625 | 0 |
7071057 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Davis%20Mansion | David Davis Mansion | The David Davis Mansion, also known as Clover Lawn, is a Gilded Age home in Bloomington, Illinois that was the residence of David Davis, Supreme Court justice (1862–1877) and U.S. Senator from Illinois. The mansion has been a state museum since 1960. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and... | 2.03125 | 0 |
7071096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering%20design%20process | Engineering design process | The engineering design process, also known as the engineering method, is a common series of steps that engineers use in creating functional products and processes. The process is highly iterative – parts of the process often need to be repeated many times before another can be entered – though the part(s) that get iter... | 2.6875 | 0 |
7071096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering%20design%20process | Engineering design process | One example framing of the engineering design process delineates the following stages: research, conceptualization, feasibility assessment, establishing design requirements, preliminary design, detailed design, production planning and tool design, and production. Others, noting that "different authors (in both research... | 2.578125 | 0 |
7071096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering%20design%20process | Engineering design process | Design requirements
Establishing design requirements and conducting requirement analysis, sometimes termed problem definition (or deemed a related activity), is one of the most important elements in the design process in certain industries, and this task is often performed at the same time as a feasibility analysis. T... | 2.59375 | 0 |
7071166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust%20Lake%20State%20Park | Locust Lake State Park | Locust Lake State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on in Ryan Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Locust Lake State Park is located approximately north of Pottsville, south of Mahanoy City, west of Tamaqua and west of Tuscarora State Park. The lake is . The park offers hiking, camping,... | 2.390625 | 0 |
7071234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%20madder | Rose madder | Natural rose madder supplied half the world with red, until 1868, when its alizarin component became the first natural dye to be synthetically duplicated by Carl Gräbe and Carl Liebermann. Advances in the understanding of chemistry, such as chemical structures, chemical formulas, and elemental formulas, aided these Ber... | 2.75 | 0 |
7071266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanzi%20%28text%29 | Guanzi (text) | The Guanzi () is an anonymously written, foundational Chinese political and philosophical text originally comprising 86 chapters, of which 76 survive. Compiled in the early Han dynasty, earlier versions potentially date back to the late Warring states period. At over 135,000 characters, it is one of the longest early C... | 2.28125 | 0 |
7071266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanzi%20%28text%29 | Guanzi (text) | Most chapters of the text deal with government and the art of rulership. Although prominent in Taiwan, translator W. Allyn Rickett dissented from the historical, traditional Confucian view of the text as Legalist, judging it to present a view much closer to that of the late Warring States period's "realistic" Confucian... | 1.984375 | 0 |
7071266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanzi%20%28text%29 | Guanzi (text) | The present text is "arguably a much later expression of ideas in the direction of the Han Feizi". None of its existing chapters would appear to predate the first century BCE, so that much of it would have been compiled after the Han Feizi. However, the Han Feizi is the first reference for both the Guanzi and the Book ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
7071278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasquachismo | Rasquachismo | Rasquachismo is a theory developed by Chicano scholar Tomás Ybarra-Frausto to describe "an underdog perspective, a view from "los de abajo" (from below) in working class Chicano communities which uses elements of "hybridization, juxtaposition, and integration" as a means of empowerment and resistance. Rasquachismo is c... | 2.921875 | 0 |
7071278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasquachismo | Rasquachismo | The Chicano movement began to develop in the 1960s which primarily focused on the struggles and identity of Mexican-Americans. This allowed for the Chicano art to also begin in the 1960s as artists used different mediums to highlight the social and cultural aspects of being Mexican-American. This movement became a form... | 3.28125 | 0 |
7071278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasquachismo | Rasquachismo | Parameters of "Rasquachismo"
There has been a questioning of whether this art form can be considered a fine art due to its use of unconventional materials and how the art movement has been recorded. The main parameter to be included as a part of this art movement through the repurposing of certain objects as the movem... | 2.765625 | 0 |
7071278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasquachismo | Rasquachismo | Ester Hernandez was born in the San Joaquin valley in California. Hernandez is most known for her print work and serigraphs as she was very involved in the Chicano Art Movement. Her art focuses mainly on Indigenous and Latina women, iconographies, and is mainly political as she aims to showcase her culture and the life... | 2.515625 | 0 |
7071278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasquachismo | Rasquachismo | Amalia Mesa-Bains, born in Santa Clara California, is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and author best known for coining the term "domesticana". As the Latino community holds patriarchal values such as machismo and marianismo there are certain gender dynamics that Mesa-Bains dissects within her work. Mesa-Bains cen... | 2.234375 | 0 |
7071397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Shakhnevich | George Shakhnevich | George Oleksandrovych Shakhnevich (born January 11, 1954) is a Ukrainian-American accordionist, songwriter, composer, musician and former television personality.
Early life
Shakhnevich was born in Kiev, Ukraine and began playing the accordion at age six. As a teenager, he began playing professionally in regional area... | 1.914063 | 0 |
7071407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition%20in%20Russia | Superstition in Russia | Knife
It is believed that licking food off of a knife makes one a cruel person.
Handing someone a knife is considered a warning of future conflict. Instead a person should always place the knife down on a surface, and only then can the other person pick it up. In several cases, one can give it directly, but only point... | 2.46875 | 0 |
7071407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition%20in%20Russia | Superstition in Russia | Traditions for the use of alcohol in Russia
When you're having alcohol, especially vodka, the glass must be drunk until it is gone, "to the bottom" of it. However, the glass is not to be poured full if one wishes a bit.
If one raised a glass with alcohol during a toast, one should not put a glass with alcohol back on t... | 1.992188 | 0 |
7071407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition%20in%20Russia | Superstition in Russia | "Cause and effect" Russian superstitions
If your ears or cheeks are hot, someone is thinking or talking about you (usually speaking ill).
If your nose itches, you'll be drinking soon. For children they might say, "You'll get hit in the nose".
If your right eye itches, you're going to be happy soon. If your left eye ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
7071407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition%20in%20Russia | Superstition in Russia | Communion or hold conversations with demons. Sorcerers primarily used black magic to summon devils. The goals of summoning devils include attaining wealth, fame, approval of superiors, sex, or harming another person. Those that rejected Christianity and sought the Devil felt that the Devil was as strong as God and impi... | 2.5 | 0 |
7071407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition%20in%20Russia | Superstition in Russia | Funeral rites
Several steps must be taken once a person has died so their body can be buried and their soul can travel to the “other world.” The first step is washing the body. In a Dual-Faith (dvoeverie) setting (in which Orthodoxy and folk tradition are combined) this ritual prepares the deceased for their meeting wi... | 2.625 | 0 |
7071407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition%20in%20Russia | Superstition in Russia | The Unclean Force
The phrase Unclean force (Нечистая сила) refers to both the Devil and all demons and potentially harmful things in the Russian pantheon. Although the beings of the unclean force resided primarily in the spirit realm (тот свет), they were able to manifest themselves in this world in many forms, the mos... | 2.078125 | 0 |
7071430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%20Akaroa%20%281914%29 | SS Akaroa (1914) | Second World War
On 1 September 1939, the day the Second World War began, Akaroa left Southampton for New Zealand as normal. She reached Auckland on 8 October, where her passengers presented her Master, William Horation Hartman, with a silver salver in commemoration of "a notable and perilous voyage". On her return voy... | 2.5625 | 0 |
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