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7073488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cityscape%20of%20Cincinnati | Cityscape of Cincinnati | The area in between I-75 and I-71 tends to be denser and more urban and can be further divided into four smaller areas that decrease in density as one moves further away from the river.
The central business district is the area south of Central Parkway and is surrounded on three sides by Interstate Highways 75 and 71.
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7073488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cityscape%20of%20Cincinnati | Cityscape of Cincinnati | The suburbs of the city also tend to follow this pattern, with higher density found between the two highways (the business centers of Blue Ash, Evendale, and Sharonville, for instance), heavy industry and freight located along Mill Creek and I-75 (The sprawling GE Aviation plant, for instance), and residential suburbs ... | 1.992188 | 0 |
7073516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act%20for%20the%20Advancement%20of%20True%20Religion | Act for the Advancement of True Religion | The Act for the Advancement of True Religion (34 & 35 Hen. 8. c. 1) was an Act passed by the Parliament of England on 12 May 1543. Its intent was to quash the possession and reading of Tyndale's translations of scripture by "the lower sortes", and any commentary that spread doctrines contrary to Henry's theology, parti... | 1.945313 | 0 |
7073523 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Duncan | Tommy Duncan | As a lyricist, he contributed to "New San Antonio Rose" (1940); the recording, with Duncan on vocals, sold three million copies for Columbia Records. Duncan married, but after only a few years his wife developed cancer and died. Ironically, Duncan's first royalty check for "Time Changes Everything" was used to cover he... | 1.9375 | 0 |
7073526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management%20of%20Pacific%20Northwest%20riparian%20forests | Management of Pacific Northwest riparian forests | Management of Pacific Northwest riparian forests is necessary because many of these forests have been dramatically changed from their original makeup. The primary interest in riparian forest and aquatic ecosystems under the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) is the need to restore stream habitat for fish populations, particu... | 3.015625 | 0 |
7073526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management%20of%20Pacific%20Northwest%20riparian%20forests | Management of Pacific Northwest riparian forests | Seeding is done following site preparation. Seeding is one way to ensure the survival of the desired species on a site. With seeding, foresters have control of genetic makeup of the species and the source of the seed.
Natural regeneration may be obtained because of the high numbers of annual seed crops (100,000–1 m... | 2.875 | 0 |
7073569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fifth%20Form%20at%20St.%20Dominic%27s | The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's | The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's (published 1881) is the best known of the school stories by the late nineteenth century author Talbot Baines Reed. The stories as well as the book were written for the Boy's Own Paper and published by the Religious Tract Society, with illustrations by Gordon Browne. It was adapted into t... | 2.5 | 0 |
7073591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20microbiology | Food microbiology | In the study of bacteria in food, important groups have been subdivided based on certain characteristics. These groupings are not of taxonomic significance:
Lactic acid bacteria are bacteria that use carbohydrates to produce lactic acid. The main genera are Lactococcus, Leuconostoc, Pediococcus, Lactobacillus and Stre... | 2.953125 | 0 |
7073591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20microbiology | Food microbiology | Food safety
Food safety is a major focus of food microbiology. Numerous agents of disease and pathogens are readily transmitted via food which includes bacteria and viruses. Microbial toxins are also possible contaminants of food; However, microorganisms and their products can also be used to combat these pathogenic ... | 2.859375 | 0 |
7073591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20microbiology | Food microbiology | To ensure safety of food products, microbiological tests such as testing for pathogens and spoilage organisms are required. This way the risk of contamination under normal use conditions can be examined and food poisoning outbreaks can be prevented. Testing of food products and ingredients is important along the whole ... | 3.109375 | 0 |
7073596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spharophon | Spharophon | The Sphärophon or a Spherophone is an electrical musical instrument that was first made as the "Electrophon" around 1921 by Jörg Mager, later modified, renamed and exhibited in 1926.
Two variants of the Sphärophon
Mager invented two different variants of the Sphärophon. The first version was similar to a Theremin, bu... | 2.640625 | 0 |
7073630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Sayers%20Ellis | Thomas Sayers Ellis | Thomas Sayers Ellis (born Washington, D.C.) is an American poet, photographer and bandleader. He previously taught as an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Bennington College in Vermont, and also at Sarah Lawrence College until 2012.
Life
He was raised in Washington, D.C., and attende... | 2.09375 | 0 |
7073660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar%20Kaufmann%20Jr. | Edgar Kaufmann Jr. | Edgar Kaufmann Jr. (stylized as Edgar Kaufmann jr.; April 9, 1910 – July 31, 1989) was an American architect, lecturer, author, and an adjunct professor of architecture and art history at Columbia University.
Early years
He was the son of Edgar J. Kaufmann, a wealthy Pittsburgh businessman and philanthropist who owned... | 2.65625 | 0 |
7073786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistling%20coqu%C3%AD | Whistling coquí | The whistling coquí, coquí pitito, Cochran's treefrog, or Cochran's robber frog (Eleutherodactylus cochranae) is a species of frog native to Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and the British Virgin Islands. This nocturnal insectivore is also referred to as the coquí pitito in Puerto Rico. Their distinctive song is a ... | 2.609375 | 0 |
7073789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%2C%20Brandywine%20and%20Point%20Lookout%20Railroad | Washington, Brandywine and Point Lookout Railroad | In March 1881, the railroad began to lay track from Brandywine where it would connect with the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad (later the Pope's Creek branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad). The WC&PL also broke ground on its rail line to Point Lookout in 1881 and, like the SMR, it started at a connection with the Baltim... | 2.453125 | 0 |
7073789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%2C%20Brandywine%20and%20Point%20Lookout%20Railroad | Washington, Brandywine and Point Lookout Railroad | Washington, Potomac & Chesapeake Railway
After the Washington and Potomac was sold, there were many people interested in acquiring its assets and trying to connect it to Point Lookout and its strategic location and deep water, included a group headed by John Prentiss Poe and John's sons Edgar A. Poe and Johnny Poe. But... | 2.46875 | 0 |
7073789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%2C%20Brandywine%20and%20Point%20Lookout%20Railroad | Washington, Brandywine and Point Lookout Railroad | In November 1921, work began on expanding the line to Hollywood and then to Esperanza with a spur off the main line south of California, where they hoped to gain access to an important freight terminal, and then later to Point Lookout. The work was made easier because much of the route had been surveyed and graded in t... | 2.109375 | 0 |
7073789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%2C%20Brandywine%20and%20Point%20Lookout%20Railroad | Washington, Brandywine and Point Lookout Railroad | Navy control
On June 1, 1942, the federal government took over operation of the line; 15 days later, it took possession of the railroad under the Second War Powers Act. The United States Navy put the railroad to use moving the vast amount of equipment needed to build and support Patuxent River Naval Air Station, the Ce... | 2.5625 | 0 |
7073789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%2C%20Brandywine%20and%20Point%20Lookout%20Railroad | Washington, Brandywine and Point Lookout Railroad | Pennsylvania Railroad control
The Navy chose not to dispose of the railroad, to leave it "available for prompt return to the Government should occasion arise." and later that year, the PRR took control. It continued to run a weekly train through St. Mary's and used the line to deliver aviation fuel to the base. However... | 2.390625 | 0 |
7073848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic%20Park%20%28film%20score%29 | Jurassic Park (film score) | Jurassic Park: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the film score to the 1993 Steven Spielberg film of the same name, composed and conducted by John Williams. Alexander Courage, John Neufeld, Conrad Pope, Aimee Vereecke and Dennis Dreith served as orchestrators.
MCA Records released a soundtrack album for the film o... | 2.171875 | 0 |
7073848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic%20Park%20%28film%20score%29 | Jurassic Park (film score) | Composition
Williams began writing the Jurassic Park score at the end of February 1993, and it was conducted a month later; because Williams sustained a back injury during the scoring sessions, several cues were conducted by Artie Kane (Kane is uncredited in the film, but receives special thanks in the 1993 soundtrack ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
7073848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic%20Park%20%28film%20score%29 | Jurassic Park (film score) | The score uses a large orchestra that often includes a variety of percussion, two harps, baritone horns, and choir. Some passages also call for unusual woodwinds, such as shakuhachi and E♭ piccolo oboe. Furthermore, Williams included synthesizers in much of the score. Some cues, such as "Dennis Steals the Embryos", fea... | 1.914063 | 0 |
7073866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot%20Baines%20Reed | Talbot Baines Reed | Talbot Baines Reed (3 April 1852 – 28 November 1893) was an English writer of boys' fiction who established a genre of school stories that endured into the mid-20th century. Among his best-known work is The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's. He was a regular and prolific contributor to The Boy's Own Paper (B.O.P.), in which ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
7073866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot%20Baines%20Reed | Talbot Baines Reed | Family background
The Reeds were descended from John Reed, a colonel in Oliver Cromwell's army during the English Civil War. The family was based in Maiden Newton in the county of Dorset before moving to London at the end of the 18th century. Talbot Reed's grandfather, Andrew Reed (1787–1862), was a minister of the Co... | 2.359375 | 0 |
7073866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot%20Baines%20Reed | Talbot Baines Reed | Despite evidence of considerable academic ability, Reed did not follow his brother Charles, who went on from the school to Trinity College, Cambridge. Instead, in 1869, Reed left the school to join the family firm, known as Sir Charles Reed & Sons or informally as the Fann Street Foundry, beginning a lifelong associati... | 2.234375 | 0 |
7073866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot%20Baines%20Reed | Talbot Baines Reed | Sir Charles Reed, who had been knighted on Gladstone's recommendation in 1874, died in 1881. A few months later, Talbot's elder brother Andrew retired from the business because of ill health. As a result, at the age of 29, Talbot became the sole managing director of the Fann Street business, a position he held until hi... | 2.265625 | 0 |
7073866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot%20Baines%20Reed | Talbot Baines Reed | The Reed family had longstanding connections with The Religious Tract Society (RTS), which had been founded in 1799 to publish and disseminate material of a Christian nature. Talbot's grandfather Andrew Reed, at the age of 12, had attended the Society's inaugural meeting; Charles Reed and his eldest son, Charles junior... | 2.390625 | 0 |
7073866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot%20Baines%20Reed | Talbot Baines Reed | Reed's first response to the request for school stories for The Boy's Own Paper was The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch, which ran for 19 instalments from October 1880 to April 1881. The travels of a schoolboy's pocket watch are charted through school, university and, finally, India at the time of the Indian Rebelli... | 2.515625 | 0 |
7073866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot%20Baines%20Reed | Talbot Baines Reed | In 1876 Reed married Elizabeth Greer, the daughter of Samuel MacCurdy Greer, a County Court judge and former MP for the County of Londonderry in the north of Ireland. Their first child, a daughter, died in infancy, but three healthy children followed: Charles in 1879, Margaret in 1882 and Talbot in 1886. The connection... | 2.171875 | 0 |
7073903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Plainfield%20High%20School | North Plainfield High School | North Plainfield High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grade from North Plainfield, in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the North Plainfield School District. The school is fully certified by the New Jersey Department o... | 2.1875 | 0 |
7073903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Plainfield%20High%20School | North Plainfield High School | Academic programs
North Plainfield High School offers a comprehensive program of studies. 81% of the class of 2005 entered college or other post-secondary education, 13% sought employment, and 6% pursued other options. The array of classes at Advanced Placement (AP), high ability, college preparatory, and general level... | 2.34375 | 0 |
7073903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Plainfield%20High%20School | North Plainfield High School | Athletics
The North Plainfield High School Canucks have competed since 2005 in the Raritan Division of the Skyland Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools in Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren counties, and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association... | 2.421875 | 0 |
7073917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sancho%20II%20S%C3%A1nchez%20of%20Gascony | Sancho II Sánchez of Gascony | Sancho II Sánchez or Sans II Sancion (died sometime between 854 and 864) succeeded his brother Aznar Sánchez as count of Vasconia Citerior (Gascony) in 836, in spite of the objections of King Pepin I of Aquitaine.
After Pepin's death in 838, confusion enveloped southern Gaul. Most Aquitainian counts elected Pepin II a... | 2.0625 | 0 |
7073958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewan%20Pearson | Ewan Pearson | Early life
Pearson (born 1 April 1972) grew up in Kidderminster where he attended Franche Middle School and Wolverley High School in Wolverley. His father had a keen interest in guitar and played in folk bands. This may have been an early inspiration for Ewan who played both piano and cello in his youth. Indeed, his ea... | 2.265625 | 0 |
7074058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aemilian%20of%20Cogolla | Aemilian of Cogolla | Saint Aemilian (; (in Latin Emilianus or Aemilianus) (12 November 472 – 11 June 573) is an Iberic saint, widely revered throughout Spain, who lived during the age of Visigothic rule.
Life
According to his Vita, written by Braulio, the bishop of Caesaraugusta (modern Zaragoza) roughly a hundred years after the saint's ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
7074066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment%20in%20Taiwan | Capital punishment in Taiwan | Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Taiwan. The list of capital offences, for which the death penalty can be imposed includes murder, treason, drug trafficking, piracy, terrorism, and especially serious cases of robbery, rape, and kidnapping, as well as military offences, such as desertion during war time. In prac... | 2.4375 | 0 |
7074066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment%20in%20Taiwan | Capital punishment in Taiwan | Executions are carried out by shooting using a handgun aimed at the heart from the back, or aimed at the brain stem under the ear if the prisoner had consented to organ donation prior to the withdrawal of legal death row organ donation. The execution time used to be 5:00 a.m., but was changed to 9:00 p.m. in 1995 to re... | 2.3125 | 0 |
7074066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment%20in%20Taiwan | Capital punishment in Taiwan | The Death Penalty Procedural Rules of Taiwan used to state that inmates who have agreed to donate their organs are shot in the head. Twenty minutes after the execution, an examination is conducted to verify the death of the condemned person. The bodies of donors are sent to hospitals for organ collection after completi... | 2.3125 | 0 |
7074066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment%20in%20Taiwan | Capital punishment in Taiwan | Buddhist
Taiwan's major Buddhist authorities hold diverse interpretations of what can be considered a "Buddhist perspective" to capital punishment:
Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order holds that the abolishment of capital punishment "is not necessary", and that it corresponds to the laws of cause and effect in Buddhism.
Mast... | 2.03125 | 0 |
7074066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment%20in%20Taiwan | Capital punishment in Taiwan | Currently, there are a number of NGOs in Taiwan promoting the abolition of the death penalty. The organizations that actively advocate for abolition are Taiwan Association for Human Rights, Judicial Reform Foundation, Taiwan Covenants Watch, Amnesty International Taiwan, Taipei Bar Association, and Taiwan Alliance to E... | 2.1875 | 0 |
7074070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillus%20granulatus | Suillus granulatus | Suillus granulatus is a pored mushroom of the genus Suillus in the family Suillaceae. It is similar to the related S. luteus, but can be distinguished by its ringless stalk. Like S. luteus, it is an edible mushroom that often grows in a symbiosis (mycorrhiza) with pine. It has been commonly known as the weeping bolete... | 2.875 | 0 |
7074144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belvidere%20High%20School%20%28New%20Jersey%29 | Belvidere High School (New Jersey) | Athletics
The Belvidere High School County Seaters athletic teams compete in the Valley Division of the Skyland Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools in Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren counties, and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (N... | 2.296875 | 0 |
7074155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Keene%20%28writer%29 | John Keene (writer) | John R. Keene Jr. (born 1965) is an American writer, translator, professor, and artist who was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2018. His 2022 poetry collection, Punks: New & Selected Poems, received the National Book Award for Poetry.
Biography
John Keene was born and raised in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, and in Webs... | 2.234375 | 0 |
7074166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Porter%20Stomp | King Porter Stomp | "King Porter Stomp" is a jazz standard by pianist Jelly Roll Morton, first recorded in 1923. The composition is considered to be important in the development of jazz. It became a hit during the swing era, when it was recorded by Benny Goodman.
History
According to Jelly Roll Morton, the tune was composed in 1906 and ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
7074170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marv%20Owen | Marv Owen | 1934 season
In 1934, the Tigers' Battalion of Death infield collected 769 hits (214 by Gehringer, 201 by Greenberg, 179 by Owen and 175 by Rogell), 462 RBIs (139 by Greenberg, 127 by Gehringer, 100 by Rogell, and 96 by Owen), and 179 doubles (63 by Greenberg, 50 by Gehringer, 34 by Owen and 32 by Rogell). Three members... | 1.984375 | 0 |
7074214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College%20recruiting | College recruiting | In college athletics in the United States, recruiting is the process in which college coaches add prospective student athletes to their roster each off-season. This process typically culminates in a coach extending an athletic scholarship offer to a player who is about to be a junior in high school or higher. There are... | 2.65625 | 0 |
7074214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College%20recruiting | College recruiting | In Division II, schools are limited to an amount equal to 36 full scholarships. This can be limited due to lack of funding for a schools program.
The football recruiting season typically begins as soon as the previous year's class has signed — though the building of relationships between college coaches and high schoo... | 2.484375 | 0 |
7074214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College%20recruiting | College recruiting | In April 2017, the NCAA Division I Council approved a piece of legislation that significantly changed the FBS recruiting landscape.
Effective with the 2017–18 school year, an early signing period for high school players, to take place in December, was added for the first time. This particular item required the approva... | 2.03125 | 0 |
7074214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College%20recruiting | College recruiting | College basketball
Recruiting for Division I basketball teams is also closely followed by fans. Schools are limited to having 13 scholarship players in men's basketball and 15 in women's basketball. The formal NCAA rules and processes for recruiting and signing recruits are similar, but the identification and recruitin... | 2.5 | 0 |
7074214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College%20recruiting | College recruiting | Early enrollment - Enrollment of student athletes to a university during the 2nd semester or 3rd quarter of the academic calendar year that runs concurrent with their final high school calendar year. The student athlete must have completed the secondary education requirements needed to receive his or her diploma, have ... | 1.96875 | 0 |
7074217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau%20of%20International%20Information%20Programs | Bureau of International Information Programs | The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP) supported the department's public diplomacy efforts by providing and supporting the places, content, and infrastructure needed for "sustained conversations" with foreign audiences. It was headed by the Coordinator for International Inform... | 2.046875 | 0 |
7074241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wumen%20Huikai | Wumen Huikai | Wumen Huikai (; Wade-Giles: Wu-men Hui-k'ai; ) (1183–1260) was a Chinese Chán (Japanese: Zen) master during China‘s Song period. He is most famous for having compiled and commentated the 48-koan collection The Gateless Barrier (Mandarin: 無門關 Wúménguān; Japanese: 無門関 Mumonkan).
Early life and education
Wumen was born i... | 2.515625 | 0 |
7074251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20LaVerne | Andy LaVerne | Andy LaVerne (born December 4, 1947) is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and educator.
Education and musical career
Born in New York City, LaVerne studied at Juilliard School of Music, Berklee College, and the New England Conservatory, and took private lessons from jazz pianist Bill Evans. LaVerne has wor... | 2.453125 | 0 |
7074270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianhe%2C%20Guangzhou | Tianhe, Guangzhou | Tianhe District () is one of the eleven districts of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province. In Chinese, the name Tianhe literally means "a river in the sky/heavens", which is also a Chinese name for the Milky Way. It is bordered by Yuexiu District on the west, Baiyun District on the north and Huangpu District on... | 2.25 | 0 |
7074311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20F.%20Goheen | Robert F. Goheen | Robert Francis Goheen (August 15, 1919 – March 31, 2008) was an American academic, president of Princeton University and United States Ambassador to India.
Biography
Robert Francis Goheen was born on August 15, 1919, to Anne (Ewing) and Dr Robert H. H. Goheen in Vengurla, India, where both his parents were serving as ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
7074311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20F.%20Goheen | Robert F. Goheen | Princeton University career
Goheen taught classics at Princeton as an assistant professor from 1950 until 1957, when he was appointed the university’s 16th president. He served as president of the university from 1957 to 1972. At 37, he was the youngest man to assume that position since the 18th century. Faced with th... | 2.484375 | 0 |
7074351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby%20Lyle | Bobby Lyle | Robert Lyle (born March 11, 1944) is a jazz pianist/organist and educator.
Early life
Lyle was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 11, 1944, to parents Robert and Elise Lyle. He grew up in a musical household after the family moved from Memphis to Minneapolis when Lyle was age 1. He showed an early aptitude for music... | 2.296875 | 0 |
7074381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy%20K.%20Smith | Tracy K. Smith | Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972) is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. She has published five collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her 2011 collection Life on Mars. Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was published in 2015.... | 2.421875 | 0 |
7074418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erzhu%20Zhao | Erzhu Zhao | Erzhu Zhao (爾朱兆) (died February 533), courtesy name Wanren (萬仁), Xianbei name Tumo'er (吐沒兒), was a general of the Xianbei-led Northern Wei dynasty of China. He was ethnically Xiongnu and a nephew of the paramount general Erzhu Rong. After Erzhu Rong was killed by Emperor Xiaozhuang, Erzhu Zhao came to prominence by de... | 1.984375 | 0 |
7074418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erzhu%20Zhao | Erzhu Zhao | Despite the opposition of Gao Huan (who subsequently refused to participate in the campaign), Erzhu Rong advanced south to the Yellow River. Then, surprising Emperor Xiaozhuang, he quickly crossed the Yellow River, entering Luoyang and capturing Emperor Xiaozhuang. He allowed his soldiers to pillage the capital and k... | 1.96875 | 0 |
7074431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGO%20Coordination%20and%20Resource%20Centre | NGO Coordination and Resource Centre | The Non-governmental organization Coordination and Resource Centre (NCRC) is a joint initiative of the South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies SIFFS and Social Need Education and Human Awareness (SNEHA), supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Nagapattinam District Administration is ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
7074436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20graphical%20user%20interface%20elements | List of graphical user interface elements | A window is an area on the screen that displays information, with its contents being displayed independently from the rest of the screen. An example of a window is what appears on the screen when the "My Documents" icon is clicked in Microsoft Windows. It is easy for a user to manipulate a window: it can be shown and h... | 2.984375 | 0 |
7074436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20graphical%20user%20interface%20elements | List of graphical user interface elements | Menu
Menus allow the user to execute commands by selecting from a list of choices. Options are selected with a mouse or other pointing device within a GUI. A keyboard may also be used. Menus are convenient because they show what commands are available within the software. This limits the amount of documentation the use... | 2.890625 | 0 |
7074436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20graphical%20user%20interface%20elements | List of graphical user interface elements | Common uses for widgets involve the display of collections of related items (such as with various list and canvas controls), initiation of actions and processes within the interface (buttons and menus), navigation within the space of the information system (links, tabs and scrollbars), and representing and manipulating... | 2.890625 | 0 |
7074478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave%20raiding | Slave raiding | Methods
The act of slave raiding involves an organised and concerted attack on a settlement with the purpose of taking the area's people. The collected new slaves are often kept in some form of slave pen or depot. From there, the slave takers will transport them to a distant place by means such as a slave ship or came... | 3.015625 | 0 |
7074537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cups%20and%20Saucers | Cups and Saucers | Cups and Saucers is a one-act "satirical musical sketch" written and composed by George Grossmith. The piece pokes fun at the china collecting craze of the later Victorian era, which was part of the Aesthetic movement later satirised in Patience and The Colonel. The story of the sketch involves an engaged man and woman... | 2.25 | 0 |
7074559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height%20adjustable%20suspension | Height adjustable suspension | Height adjustable suspension is a feature of certain automobile suspension systems that allow the motorist to vary the ride height or ground clearance. This can be done for various reasons including giving better ground clearance over rough terrain, a lower ground clearance to improve performance and fuel economy at hi... | 2.34375 | 0 |
7074559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height%20adjustable%20suspension | Height adjustable suspension | Some cars use these systems to improve the vehicle's handling by lowering the vehicle's height during higher speeds a current example being the Mercedes-Benz Active Body Control system. Another example is the Audi A8, which when driven at speeds of more than 120 km/h for more than 30 seconds reduces its clearance from... | 2.203125 | 0 |
7074559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height%20adjustable%20suspension | Height adjustable suspension | In 1959, auto customizer Ron Aguirre scavenged the Pesco pumps and valves from a B-52 Bomber and adapted them to the front suspension of his X-Sonic bubble-topped custom car Corvette, allowing him to change the height of the car with a switch on the dashboard. This was done to evade California law regarding ground cle... | 2 | 0 |
7074595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne%2C%20Minneapolis | Hawthorne, Minneapolis | Hawthorne is a neighborhood in the Near North community in Minneapolis. Its boundaries are Lowry Avenue North to the north, the Mississippi River to the east, West Broadway to the south, and Emerson Avenue North to the west. It is located in Ward 5, represented by city council member Jeremiah Ellison. The neighborhood... | 2.46875 | 0 |
7074610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hay%20Center | John Hay Center | The John Hay Center is on the eastern edge of the Salem Downtown Historic District in Salem, Indiana. It comprises:
Hay-Morrison House: birthplace and home of Abraham Lincoln's private secretary and Secretary of State under William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, John Hay, and is on the National Register of Historic ... | 2.5 | 0 |
7074660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20Harscher%20von%20Almendingen | Ludwig Harscher von Almendingen | He had for a long time pleaded the cause of the widowed duchess of Anhalt-Schaumburg (as guardian of her children) against the duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, in a question relative to the validity of the transference of some property; and the course of the suit requiring his presence at Berlin, he went there in 1819; but the... | 1.914063 | 0 |
7074688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatomir%20An%C4%91eli%C4%87 | Tatomir Anđelić | Tatomir P. Anđelić (Serbian Cyrillic Татомир П. Анђелић ) was a Serbian mathematician, academic and an expert in mechanics.
Biography
Tatomir P. Anđelić was born on November 11, 1903, in a small village Bukovica, near Mrcajevci between towns of Čačak and Kraljevo in the family of six children. His mother Dmitra was il... | 2.03125 | 0 |
7074701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spade%20Ranch%20%28Texas%29 | Spade Ranch (Texas) | Spade Ranch was the name of two separate West Texas ranches under separate ownership, before being combined by Isaac L. Ellwood. Both ranches are known for their use of barbed wire.
History
The first ranch, in the Texas panhandle, was started by John F. "Spade" Evans on August 25, 1880, after Evans purchased 23 piece... | 2.265625 | 0 |
7074727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoporous%20silicate | Mesoporous silicate | Mesoporous silicates are silicates with a special morphology.
Background
Porous inorganic solids have found great utility as catalysts and sorption media because of their large internal surface area, i.e. the presence of voids of controllable dimensions at the atomic, molecular, and nanometer scales. With increasing ... | 2.125 | 0 |
7074751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koganei%20Station | Koganei Station | is a railway station in the city of Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Koganei Station is served by the Utsunomiya Line (Tohoku Main Line), and is 88.1 km from the starting point of the line at . Through services to and from the Tokaido Line and Yokosuka Line are al... | 1.945313 | 0 |
7074757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck%27s%20Mill | Beck's Mill | Beck's Mill is a historic gristmill in Washington County, Indiana, in the United States. It is seven miles (11 km) southwest of Salem. It was built in 1808, rebuilt in 1864 after a fire, one year after John Hunt Morgan demanded ransom for every Washington County mill to be spared from burning. The mill was placed on th... | 2.28125 | 0 |
7074757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck%27s%20Mill | Beck's Mill | While exploring his property, Beck saw a waterfall coming out of a cave while hunting on the property. He quickly decided it would be a perfect place for a mill. This waterfall, which is actually a spring, is the second largest spring in Indiana. The cave is a mile-long, and provides water throughout the year. The ... | 2.625 | 0 |
7074757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck%27s%20Mill | Beck's Mill | The Washington County Chamber of Commerce gave their 2007 Citizen of the Year award to the Friends, due to the restoration of the mill. There is some fear that restoration of the mill by using cave water may affect the ecology of the cave, in particular its blind fish. Beck's Mill is set to be reopened for the public o... | 1.992188 | 0 |
7074797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lost%20World%3A%20Jurassic%20Park%20%28film%20score%29 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park (film score) | The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Original Motion Picture Score) is the film score to the 1997 film of the same name composed and conducted by John Williams and was orchestrated by Conrad Pope, John Neufeld, Dennis Dreith, Marian Mayer and Vince Bartold. Unlike most sequel scores written by Williams, the composer did not ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
7074871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighting%20ratio | Lighting ratio | Lighting ratio in photography refers to the comparison of key light (the main source of light from which shadows fall) to the total fill light (the light that fills in the shadow areas). The higher the lighting ratio, the higher the contrast of the image; the lower the ratio, the lower the contrast. The lighting ratio ... | 3.09375 | 0 |
7074964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Lee%20%28field%20hockey%29 | Jason Lee (field hockey) | Jason David Lee (born 21 May 1970)) is an English field hockey coach and former international player. Lee was born at Hayes in Greater London and played hockey at Old Bordenians Hockey Club in Sittingbourne in Kent.
International career
As a player, he won 82 caps for England and 35 for Great Britain, scoring 35 goals... | 2.046875 | 0 |
7074971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDade%20Independent%20School%20District | McDade Independent School District | McDade Independent School District is a public school district based in the community of McDade, Texas, USA.
The district has two schools - McDade Elementary - that serves students in grades pre-kindergarten through 5th, Middle School grades 6th through 8th and McDade High School, which is designated for grades 7-12.
... | 2.359375 | 0 |
7074976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%20Collegiate%20Independent%20School%20District | Roscoe Collegiate Independent School District | Roscoe Collegiate Independent School District is a public school district based in Roscoe, Texas, United States. The name was formerly Roscoe Independent School District, but it officially changed to its current name on October 22, 2012.
Located in Nolan County, small portions of the district extend into Fisher, Mitch... | 2.75 | 0 |
7075104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipan%20Independent%20School%20District | Lipan Independent School District | Lipan Independent School District is a public school district based in Lipan, Texas, United States.
Located in Hood County, portions of the district extend into Erath, Palo Pinto, and Parker counties.
Lipan ISD has one school that serves students in grades pre-kindergarten through twelve.
In 2009, the school distric... | 2.734375 | 0 |
7075119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiangqiao%20campaign | Jiangqiao campaign | The Jiangqiao campaign was a series of battles and skirmishes occurring after the Mukden Incident, during the invasion of Manchuria by the Imperial Japanese Army, prior to the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Background
After the Mukden Incident, the Japanese Kwantung Army quickly overran the provinces of Liaoning and Jilin,... | 2.640625 | 0 |
7075119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiangqiao%20campaign | Jiangqiao campaign | Later General Ma Zhanshan returned to counterattack with a much larger force. Japanese Major General Shogo Hasebe, had the sluggish river on his left, the railway on his right. Wide swamplands made the Japanese left wing impregnable, forcing Ma to concentrate his cavalry against the exposed Japanese right wing. Althoug... | 2.484375 | 0 |
7075157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Frank%20Martin | Brian Frank Martin | In 1978 Chief Justice Martin chaired a committee established by the new Northern Territory Government to inquire into the welfare needs of the Northern Territory. In 1980 he was appointed to chair a Committee of Inquiry into pastoral land tenure in the Northern Territory. He was also appointed that year to the Board o... | 2.15625 | 0 |
7075186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere%20%28lake%29 | Mere (lake) | Characteristics
Where land similar to that of Martin Mere, gently undulating glacial till, becomes flooded and develops fen and bog, the remnants of the original mere remain until the whole is filled with peat. This can be delayed where the mere is fed by lime-rich water from chalk or limestone upland and a significant... | 3.140625 | 0 |
7075191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azrieli%20Center | Azrieli Center | Square Tower
The Azrieli Center Square Tower was completed in June 2007. The tower has 42 floors, and is high. It is the shortest of the three towers in the Azrieli complex. Construction of the third tower was stopped in 1998 due to urban planning disagreements and was resumed in 2006.
The lower 13 floors house Afric... | 1.90625 | 0 |
7075199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventral%20ramus%20of%20spinal%20nerve | Ventral ramus of spinal nerve | The ventral ramus (: rami) (Latin for 'branch') is the anterior division of a spinal nerve. The ventral rami supply the antero-lateral parts of the trunk and the limbs. They are mainly larger than the dorsal rami.
Shortly after a spinal nerve exits the intervertebral foramen, it branches into the dorsal ramus, the ven... | 3.046875 | 0 |
7075204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20of%20Maleval | William of Maleval | William of Maleval (), also known as William the Hermit
or William the Great, was
a French Christian and the founder of the Catholic congregation of Williamites, an early branch of the Hermits of St. Augustine. He was beatified in 1202.
Sources
The account of his life, written by his disciple Albert, who lived with h... | 2.25 | 0 |
7075205 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20Lee%20Pelton | M. Lee Pelton | M. Lee Pelton (born September 27, 1950) is the President and CEO of the Boston Foundation, the community foundation serving the Greater Boston area since 1915. A native of Wichita, Kansas, Pelton studied English literature at Wichita State University and Harvard University. He then held various deanship positions at Co... | 1.953125 | 0 |
7075218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy%20Sandke | Randy Sandke | Jay Randall Sandke (born May 5, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois) is a jazz trumpeter and guitarist.
While a student at Indiana University in 1968, he and Michael Brecker started a jazz-rock band (Mrs. Seamon's Sound Band) that performed at the Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival. He was invited to be a member of the backing... | 1.953125 | 0 |
7075320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Yorkshire%20Metropolitan%20Ambulance%20Service | West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service | West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service (WYMAS) was the NHS ambulance service covering West Yorkshire and the western side of North Yorkshire, England. On 1 July 2006, it was merged to the single Yorkshire Ambulance Service.
History
West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service was formed in 1974, bringing toge... | 2.34375 | 0 |
7075337 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%20harp | Glass harp | A glass harp (also called musical glasses, singing glasses, angelic organ, verrillon or ghost fiddle) is a musical instrument made of upright wine glasses.
It is played by running moistened or chalked fingers around the rim of the glasses. Each glass is tuned to a different pitch, either by grinding each goblet to the... | 2.96875 | 0 |
7075360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henderson%20High%20School%2C%20Auckland | Henderson High School, Auckland | Henderson High School is a co-educational secondary school in the West Auckland suburb of Henderson, New Zealand, catering for students from Year 9 to Year 13. Many notable alumni attended Jubilees held in 2003 (50th) and 2013 (60th). Historically the school has always been an important part of the community and stabil... | 2.125 | 0 |
7075360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henderson%20High%20School%2C%20Auckland | Henderson High School, Auckland | Facilities
Henderson High School was the first school constructed to a new common design plan, which was used during the post-World War II period to speed up secondary school construction. The "Henderson type school" was a single-storey all-timber school design, with long wings of classrooms facing onto corridors, fann... | 2.4375 | 0 |
7075360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henderson%20High%20School%2C%20Auckland | Henderson High School, Auckland | Overseen by the Waitakere Regional Hockey Turf Trust, the school completed a $2 million full-sized hockey pitch in 2011. Also including extra tennis and netball courts, this was part of an ambitious project led by Purcell to improve academic performance through physical activity.The pitch, which had floodlights, was se... | 2.21875 | 0 |
7075376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divis%20Tower | Divis Tower | In popular culture
Both Divis Tower and the former Divis Flats have featured in multiple works of popular culture.
In films
In the film '71, new recruits to the British Army, who are deployed in Belfast, are told never to enter Divis Flats. However, when a father and daughter find the protagonist lying unconscious in... | 2.0625 | 0 |
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