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7077730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Federation%20of%20Action%20by%20Christians%20for%20the%20Abolition%20of%20Torture | International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture | Strengthened by their presence among the "forgotten" of justice, the ACAT partners of the project and FIACAT have decided since 2014 to fight against this phenomenon of abusive pre-trial detention in six countries (Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar and Chad). This practic... | 2.25 | 0 |
7077806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orography%20of%20Azerbaijan | Orography of Azerbaijan | Lateral Ridge
The same ridges are further divided into smaller and lower ridges to pass into low elevation mountain region named Gobustan, and further on into Absheron Peninsula. North off and parallel to the Great Caucasus ridge there is a southeast trending ridge called Lateral, of which Azerbaijan section starts fro... | 2.1875 | 0 |
7077806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orography%20of%20Azerbaijan | Orography of Azerbaijan | Lesser Caucasus
The Lesser Caucasus Mountain is less high and has a folded-boulder structure caused by the presence of abyssal fractures of transversal and longitudinal striking. The prominent elevations are Murguz, Murovdagh, Shakhdagh, Garabagh, Eastern Goycha, and Mykhtekyan. Shakhdagh ridge consists of volcanic ro... | 2.46875 | 0 |
7077806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orography%20of%20Azerbaijan | Orography of Azerbaijan | The lowland is covered by several sites which differ from one another according to their geological structures and orographic features and surrounded by Greater Caucasus and Lesser Caucasus Ridges. In the northern part of the Kur-Araz lowland Ganykh-Airichay synclinal valley extends and in the south of the valley cover... | 2.359375 | 0 |
7077845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Beck%20%28footballer%29 | John Beck (footballer) | Managerial career
Beck's career was ended by injury in 1989, and he was appointed assistant manager at Cambridge. Following the resignation of Chris Turner he was appointed manager January 1990, with Cambridge mid table in the Fourth Division. In his first season United won the Fourth Division playoffs, and reached the... | 2.0625 | 0 |
7077852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Abby%20%281968%29 | Hurricane Abby (1968) | Hurricane Abby made landfall in Cuba, Florida, and North Carolina in June 1968. The first tropical cyclone, first named storm, and first hurricane on the season, Abby developed over the northwestern Caribbean Sea on June 1, as a result of the interaction between a mid-tropospheric trough and a cold front. Moving genera... | 2.671875 | 0 |
7077852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Abby%20%281968%29 | Hurricane Abby (1968) | A mid-tropospheric trough persisted over the western Caribbean Sea in late May. Around that time, a short-wave trough moving eastward through the Caribbean Sea forced a cold front to move southward into the Straits of Florida. Satellite imagery indicated that the cold front and mid-tropospheric trough began merging as ... | 2.78125 | 0 |
7077852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Abby%20%281968%29 | Hurricane Abby (1968) | In May, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) scheduled a mock preparation session for the 1968 Atlantic hurricane season. However, as Abby approached, the USACE was faced with a real threat. About 100 men from the Clewiston area filled and placed sand bags around Lake Okeechobee and secure equipment. Addit... | 2.53125 | 0 |
7078101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldabrachelys | Aldabrachelys | Aldabrachelys is genus of giant tortoises, including the Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea) native to the Seychelles, as well as two extinct species, Aldabrachelys abrupta and Aldabrachelys grandidieri known from Madagascar. The genus name derives from Aldabra, a coral atoll in the Seychelles, plus chelys,... | 2.5 | 0 |
8565919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodewijk%20De%20Raet | Lodewijk De Raet | Lodewijk De Raet (; Brussels, 17 February 1870 – Forest, 24 November 1914) was a Flemish economist and politician. He played an important role in the Flemish movement. He was co-founder of the Vlaamsche volkspartij (1892), and was a proponent of the use of Dutch instead of French at the University of Ghent in Flanders ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
8565959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xihe%20%28deity%29 | Xihe (deity) | Xihe (), was a solar deity in Chinese mythology. One of the two wives of Di Jun (along with Changxi), she was the mother of ten suns in the form of three-legged crows residing in a mulberry tree, the Fusang, in the East Sea. Each day, one of the sun birds would be rostered to travel around the world on a carriage drive... | 2.34375 | 0 |
8565964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium%20hexafluorophosphate | Lithium hexafluorophosphate | Lithium hexafluorophosphate is an inorganic compound with the formula LiPF6. It is a white crystalline powder.
Production
LiPF6 is manufactured by reacting phosphorus pentachloride with hydrogen fluoride and lithium fluoride
PCl5 + LiF + 5 HF → LiPF6 + 5 HCl
Suppliers include Targray and Morita Chemical Industries... | 2.1875 | 0 |
8565974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WildEarth%20Guardians | WildEarth Guardians | WildEarth Guardians is a non-profit grassroots environmental organization best known for its decade-long legal action against the US Fish and Wildlife Service, which culminated in 2011 with the Fish and Wildlife Service agreeing to move forward with protection for more than 800 species under the Endangered Species Act.... | 1.921875 | 0 |
8565974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WildEarth%20Guardians | WildEarth Guardians | WildEarth Guardians merged with two environmental groups during 2013, forming a greatly expanded organization that continues under the "WildEarth Guardians" name. Wildlands CPR was based in Montana, US, and had a 20-year history of protecting and resting healthy watersheds from the threats of roads and motorized recrea... | 2.484375 | 0 |
8566094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolleshunt%20D%27Arcy | Tolleshunt D'Arcy | Tolleshunt D'Arcy () is a village situated on the Blackwater estuary in the Maldon District of Essex, England. The village is southwest of Colchester, east of Chelmsford and north of Southend-on-Sea.
History
The name Tolleshunt originates from the Anglo-Saxon Tolleshunta which means Toll's spring. Toll was an Anglo... | 1.914063 | 0 |
8566094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolleshunt%20D%27Arcy | Tolleshunt D'Arcy | From 1904 to 1951 the village was served by the Kelvedon and Tollesbury Light Railway, with a small station to the north of the village. The whole line closed for passengers on 5 May 1951 with goods traffic continuing between Tollesbury Pier and Tiptree until 29 October 1951. The section between Tiptree and Kelvedon co... | 2.359375 | 0 |
8566094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolleshunt%20D%27Arcy | Tolleshunt D'Arcy | St. Nicholas Primary School provides a broad and balanced education for pupils between the ages of 4 and 11 years. It was founded according to the principles and practices of the Church of England. The school is a single-storey building built in 1983, which has 7 classrooms which include a large reception class room wi... | 2.609375 | 0 |
8566094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolleshunt%20D%27Arcy | Tolleshunt D'Arcy | In the summer months juvenile marsh harriers can be found in the reedbeds, along with greenshanks, spotted redshanks and ruffs which can be found in the muddy margins. Cuckoos are also a popular bird seen in the summer months.
In autumn Teals and Wigeons are most popular seen in the shallow open waters, as well as flo... | 2.4375 | 0 |
8566104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau%20de%20Termes | Château de Termes | The Château de Termes (Languedocien: Castèl de Tèrme) is a ruined castle near the village of Termes in the Aude département of France. It is one of the so-called Cathar castles.
History
Built on a promontory, defended on three sides by formidable deep ravines, the crumbling ruins of the castle cover an area of . Held ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
8566202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Mughayat%20Syah | Ali Mughayat Syah | While the exact origins of the Aceh Sultanate are still disputed, it likely first emerged from the unification of two kingdoms in Northern Sumatra: Aceh in Dar al-Kamal and Lamuri in Mahkota Alam. At the end of the 15th century, Inayat Syah, son of Abdullah Almalik Almubin, reigned over Aceh in Dar al-Kamal, the direc... | 2.796875 | 0 |
8566202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Mughayat%20Syah | Ali Mughayat Syah | The time when Sultan Ali Mughayat Syah came to the throne is not certain. The later chronicles give him 15, 16 or 18 years which would place his accession at c. 1512–1515. He may have reigned earlier than that since his reign reportedly overlapped with that of Sultan Ma'arif Syah of Pidie (d. 1511). According to the Hi... | 2.390625 | 0 |
8566202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Mughayat%20Syah | Ali Mughayat Syah | Meanwhile, the Portuguese had conquered Melaka in 1511. They rapidly gained the animosity of Muslim and other traders who preferred to move to other port cities in the region. In this process, the strongly Muslim Aceh was a clear winner. Aceh enjoyed a strategic location at the northern tip of Sumatra, which gave it ac... | 2.625 | 0 |
8566202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Mughayat%20Syah | Ali Mughayat Syah | The first direct contact between Aceh and the Portuguese took place in 1519 when Gaspar da Costa arrived by ship but was captured by the inhabitants. He was later ransomed by the syahbandar (harbour master) of Pasai and found refuge there. The next year, Sultan Ali and his brother Raja Ibrahim began a series of militar... | 3.03125 | 0 |
8566202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Mughayat%20Syah | Ali Mughayat Syah | Soon after Pidie was conquered, a Portuguese fleet which had been dispatched to support Pidie was successfully pushed back. Sultan Ali's brother and commander Raja Ibrahim died during the war of conquest on 30 November 1523. However, in 1524 Pasai was eventually captured and the Portuguese garrison there was expelled. ... | 2.625 | 0 |
8566224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20L.%20Ryerson | Frank L. Ryerson | Frank Layton Ryerson (3 July 1905 in Paterson, New Jersey – 15 May 1995 in Clearwater, Florida) was an American trumpeter, composer, arranger and educator.
Professional Musician
Ryerson was raised in Paterson, NJ and got his start as a professional trumpet player at the Meadowbrook in nearby Cedar Grove. As a trumpe... | 2.53125 | 0 |
8566257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egremont%20Castle | Egremont Castle | Egremont Castle is located in the town of Egremont, Cumbria ().
History
The original castle was built on a mound above the River Ehen on the site of a Danish fort following the conquest of Cumberland in 1092 by William II of England. The present castle was built by William Meschin, who founded the castle between 1120 ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
8566293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hyde%20Collection | The Hyde Collection | The Hyde Collection is an art museum in the city of Glens Falls in Upstate New York. The collections were endowed by the Hyde family. The museum is housed in a historic refurbished early twentieth-century residence, the Hyde House, located at 161 Warren Street in Glens Falls, New York, a building that is listed on the... | 2.421875 | 0 |
8566293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hyde%20Collection | The Hyde Collection | Samuel's oldest daughter Charlotte met the young Harvard law student Louis Hyde (1866–1934) while attending finishing school in Boston. They married in 1901 and in 1906 Charlotte's father encouraged his son-in-law to leave his practice in Massachusetts and join the family business. Consequently, the couple returned to ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
8566293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hyde%20Collection | The Hyde Collection | Three months after Charlotte Hyde died in 1963, the Hyde Collection opened to the general public. In 1984 Hyde House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1989, an expansion designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes connected Hyde House and the recently acquired Cunningham House. Overnight, this addition ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
8566325 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Michael%20Miller | J. Michael Miller | John Michael Miller, CSB (born July 9, 1946) is a Canadian bishop of the Catholic Church. He is the Archbishop of Vancouver, succeeding to the position in 2009 after serving as its coadjutor archbishop and as Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education. Prior to his appointment as bishop, he was a professor ... | 1.90625 | 0 |
8566332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Hampshire%20Red | New Hampshire Red | The New Hampshire Red or New Hampshire is an American breed of chicken. It was developed in the early twentieth century in the state of New Hampshire by selective breeding of Rhode Island Red stock; no other breed was involved. It is fast-growing, early-maturing, quick-feathering, and yields a meaty carcass. Mature bir... | 2.71875 | 0 |
8566364 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protictitherium | Protictitherium | Protictitherium (gr. first striking beast) is an extinct genus of hyena that lived across Europe and Asia during the Middle and Late Miocene, it is often considered to be the first hyena since it contains some of the oldest fossils of the family. They were especially prolific in Turkey, where every species has been reg... | 2.5625 | 0 |
8566364 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protictitherium | Protictitherium | Protictitherium cingulatum
Originally described in 1976 by Schmidt-Kittler, it is neither the biggest nor smallest species in the genus. P. cingulatum possesses somewhat primitive characteristics in its mandible, like a higher protoconid in relation to its paraconid on its first molar. Its holotype hails from the Yeni... | 2.34375 | 0 |
8566391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhtala | Akhtala | Akhtala (), is a town and municipal community in the Lori Province of Armenia, located along the Shamlugh river, on the slopes of Lalvar mountain, at a distance of north of the capital Yerevan and north of provincial centre Vanadzor.
As per the 2011 census, Akhtala had a population of 2,092. Based on the 2016 offici... | 2.390625 | 0 |
8566391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhtala | Akhtala | The 10th-century Akhtala Monastery is among the most well-preserved monasteries in modern Armenia. The main church of the complex is famous for its highly artistic frescoes, which cover the inside walls, the partitions, and the bearings of the building. The nearby Holy Trinity Church dates back to the 13th century, loc... | 2.375 | 0 |
8566437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeghvard | Yeghvard | Yeghvard () is a town and urban municipal community in the Kotayk Province of Armenia. It is located 39 kilometres southwest of the provincial centre Hrazdan. As of the 2011 census, the population of the town is 11,672, almost same as reported during the 2001 census. As per the 2016 official estimate, Yeghvard has a p... | 2.296875 | 0 |
8566437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeghvard | Yeghvard | The remains of the 7th-century Saint Theodore Monastery -also known as Gharghavank of Zoravan- are found at the northeast of the town. According to the Catholicos of All Armenians John V the Historian, the monastic complex was built by prince Grigor I Mamikonian, between 666 and 685.
Between the 7th and 9th centuries, ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
8566437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeghvard | Yeghvard | In 1995, it was given the status of an urban settlement by the government of independent Armenia. Many new industrial firms were formed in Yeghvard during the 1st decade of the 21st century.
Geography
It is located at the west of the central part of modern-day Armenia, 18 km north of the capital Yerevan. Situated at ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
8566445 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bochasan | Bochasan | Bochasan (Gujarati : બોચાસણ) is a village in Anand district, Gujarat, western India. It is known primarily as the origin of Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS), so named because its first formal center was established in Bochasan in 1907 by its guru Shastriji Maharaj.
Demographics
As per ... | 1.984375 | 0 |
8566503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shastriji%20Maharaj | Shastriji Maharaj | Dungar Patel was born on 31 January 1865 in Mahelav into a deeply religious family. His parents, Dhoribhai and Hetba Patel had 4 other children, Mathurbhai, Laldas, Sonaba and Raliatben, of which Dungar was the youngest.
Various anecdotes of Shastriji Maharaj's childhood demonstrate his early spiritual inclination and ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
8566503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shastriji%20Maharaj | Shastriji Maharaj | Subsequent activities and later life
An important meeting that would have a significant impact on the future of BAPS occurred on 12 August 1910 when Shastriji Maharaj met his eventual spiritual successor, Jhina Bhagat (Yogiji Maharaj). This meeting in Rajkot ultimately resulted in several swamis from the Vadtal dioces... | 2.046875 | 0 |
8566627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budmouth%20Academy | Budmouth Academy | Budmouth Academy (formerly Budmouth College) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form situated in Weymouth, Dorset, overlooking the Jurassic Coast in England. It is named after the semi-fictional town of Budmouth (based on Weymouth) in Thomas Hardy's novels.
Facilities
The school caters for over 1,500 studen... | 1.953125 | 0 |
8566633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Zhovti%20Vody | Battle of Zhovti Vody | The Battle of Zhovti Vody (Ukrainian: Битва під Жовтими Водами, Polish: Bitwa pod Żołtymi Wodami — literally means “Yellow Waters”; 29 April — 16 May, 1648) was the first significant battle of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Near the site of the present-day city of Zhovti Vody on the Zhovta River in Ukraine, the forces of th... | 2.171875 | 0 |
8566633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Zhovti%20Vody | Battle of Zhovti Vody | At the beginning of May 1647, the next session of the Polish Sejm took place, where plans were made to discuss the king's drive to war. By the end of May, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, with an escort of ten other Cossacks, appeared in Warsaw. Officially his arrival could have been explained by his desire to seek justice in his c... | 2.015625 | 0 |
8566633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Zhovti%20Vody | Battle of Zhovti Vody | Khmelnytsky's conspiracy, arrest and bail
An important gathering took place in October 1647 near Chyhyryn, where Khmelnytsky reminded the public about the situation in the region, the intentions of the king of Poland to start a war against the Ottomans and how the Polish magnates counteracted those plans. He showed the... | 2.03125 | 0 |
8566633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Zhovti%20Vody | Battle of Zhovti Vody | The main element of Mikołaj Potocki was quartered in Cherkasy, while the Kalinowski's regiment stayed in Korsun, others in the estates of Crown Chorazy Aleksander Koniecpolski in Kaniv. The whole Crown Army, designated to suppress the uprising, accounted for less than 7,000 soldiers. Before departing the Sich, Khmelnyt... | 2.53125 | 0 |
8566633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Zhovti%20Vody | Battle of Zhovti Vody | On 4 May 1648, near Kamianyi Zaton, Mykhailo Krychevsky's 1,500 registered Cossacks mutinied, killing all the officers (Krychevsky himself was taken prisoner and would join Khmelnytsky's army). Cossacks who stayed loyal to the Crown Army, such as Ivan Barabash, were cut down, as well as the German dragoons in their mid... | 2.390625 | 0 |
8566698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corduff | Corduff | Richard Warren
The landed estate at Corduff was initially home to the de la Field family, and later acquired by the Warren family. One member of the Warren family, Richard Warren, son of John “the old Lion of Corduff” was born in Corduff House in 1705. He emigrated to France as a young man along with his brothers John ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
8566698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corduff | Corduff | Following the relaxation of the penal laws, it became possible for Catholic adherents to consider the construction of additional churches and to repair the existing stock of religious buildings. St Brigid's Church, Blanchardstown, not to be confused with a Church of Ireland building in nearby Castleknock, was construct... | 2.265625 | 0 |
8566709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellesmere%20Castle | Ellesmere Castle | Ellesmere Castle was in the town of Ellesmere, Shropshire. ().
This was a motte and bailey castle which was probably founded by Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury on a prominent hill to the east of the town, overlooking the Mere, soon after the Norman conquest. It was given to the Peverel family by Henry I ... | 3.015625 | 0 |
8566730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Busch%20%28baseball%29 | Mike Busch (baseball) | Michael Anthony Busch (born July 7, 1968) is an American former professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a third baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and also in the KBO League for the Hanwha Eagles.
Busch is an alumnus of Iowa State University where he played both baseball and A... | 1.90625 | 0 |
8566750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSNL%20Broadband | BSNL Broadband | BSNL Broadband (formerly DataOne) is an Indian wireline broadband operator, a division of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited owned by Department of Telecommunications under Ministry of Communications of the Government of India. It provides both wired and wireless broadband services as well as many value-added services. BSNL ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
8566796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972%20Finnish%20parliamentary%20election | 1972 Finnish parliamentary election | Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 2 and 3 January 1972.
Background
Prime Minister Ahti Karjalainen's centre-left coalition government lost the Finnish People's Democratic League in March 1971 as they opposed the removal of government subsidies from certain foods whose prices rose, and was forced to resig... | 2.203125 | 0 |
8566872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyte%20Camille%20Delpy | Hippolyte Camille Delpy | Hippolyte Camille Delpy (1842–1910) was a French painter.
He came from a moderately wealthy family from Joigny, in the Burgundy region of France. His son, (1877–1957), also became a painter, as did a cousin on his father's side, (1898–1967).
Delpy studied with Charles-François Daubigny as well as Corot. A contempor... | 2.078125 | 0 |
8566947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Symposium%20on%20Biocomputing | Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing | The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) is an annual multidisciplinary scientific meeting co-founded in 1996 by Dr. Teri Klein, Dr. Lawrence Hunter and Sharon Surles. The conference is to presentation and discuss research in the theory and application of computational methods for biology. Papers and presentations ... | 1.929688 | 0 |
8566976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years%20of%20potential%20life%20lost | Years of potential life lost | In the developed world, mortality counts and rates tend to emphasise the most common causes of death in older people because the risk of death increases with age. Because YPLL gives more weight to deaths among younger people, it is the favoured metric among those who wish to draw attention to those causes of death that... | 2.75 | 0 |
8567041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loughlinstown | Loughlinstown | Loughlinstown () is a southern Dublin suburb, located in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, on the N11 national road.
Loughlinstown is the location of St. Columcille's Hospital, which serves both south Dublin and Wicklow. The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, an EU body, is located in Loug... | 2.0625 | 0 |
8567054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGregor%2C%20South%20Africa | McGregor, South Africa | McGregor is a small village in the mountains of the Western Cape, South Africa. It is roughly 150 km east of Cape Town. It is located in Ward 5 of the Langeberg Municipality. According to the Census 2001, this Ward has a population of 10,254 people (Stats SA, 2001).
The village was established in 1861 and was origina... | 2.109375 | 0 |
8567064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronoid%20process%20of%20the%20mandible | Coronoid process of the mandible | In human anatomy, the mandible's coronoid process () is a thin, triangular eminence, which is flattened from side to side and varies in shape and size. Its anterior border is convex and is continuous below with the anterior border of the ramus. Its posterior border is concave and forms the anterior boundary of the mand... | 2.5625 | 0 |
8567213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilac%20Centre | Ilac Centre | The Ilac Centre is a shopping centre, located in central Dublin, north of the River Liffey. It has entrances opening onto Henry Street, Parnell Street and Moore Street.
History
The Ilac Centre was opened in 1981, and was one of the first shopping centres in Dublin city centre. It has been characterised as a "large, lo... | 1.929688 | 0 |
8567222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia%20Stock%20Exchange | Colombia Stock Exchange | Bogotá Stock Exchange remained as Colombia's only stock trading organization until the 1950s when Medellín created its own Stock Exchange. This was particularly useful for the coffee trade since Colombia's coffee market's original birthplace is the Department of Antioquia. Cali created its stock exchange in the mid-197... | 2.15625 | 0 |
8567275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeko | Xeko | Xeko is an out-of-print collectible card game revolving around endangered species. It was launched on Earthday 2006. It won the Creative Child Magazine 2006 Toy of the Year Award and the National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval in its first year. Four "Mission" sets have been released. Mission: Costa Rica and Miss... | 2.078125 | 0 |
8567316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclonic%20spray%20scrubber | Cyclonic spray scrubber | Cyclonic spray scrubbers are an air pollution control technology. They use the features of both the dry cyclone and the spray chamber to remove pollutants from gas streams.
Generally, the inlet gas enters the chamber tangentially, swirls through the chamber in a corkscrew motion, and exits. At the same time, liquid i... | 2.40625 | 0 |
8567316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclonic%20spray%20scrubber | Cyclonic spray scrubber | Cyclonic spray scrubbers are more efficient than spray towers, but not as efficient as venturi scrubbers, in removing particulate from the inlet gas stream. Particulates larger than 5 μm are generally collected by impaction with 90% efficiency. In a simple spray tower, the velocity of the particulates in the gas stream... | 1.96875 | 0 |
8567420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975%20Finnish%20parliamentary%20election | 1975 Finnish parliamentary election | Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 21 and 22 September 1975.
Background
Prime Minister Kalevi Sorsa's Social Democratic Party government survived until June 1975. It resigned because of internal disagreements over the ways to combat Finland's recession, which had largely been caused by the 1973 oil crisi... | 2.015625 | 0 |
8567429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20One%20Thousand%20and%20One%20Nights%20characters | List of One Thousand and One Nights characters | The vizier tells Scheherazade the Tale of the Bull and the Ass, in an attempt to discourage his daughter from marrying the king. It does not work, and she marries Shahryar anyway. At the end of the 1,001 nights, Scheherazade's father goes to Samarkand where he replaces Shah Zaman as sultan.
Shahryar
Shahryar (, Šahry... | 2.1875 | 0 |
8567429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20One%20Thousand%20and%20One%20Nights%20characters | List of One Thousand and One Nights characters | Shah Zaman
Shah Zaman or Schazzenan (, Šāhzamān) is the Sultan of Samarkand (aka Samarcande) and brother of Shahryar. Shah Zaman catches his first wife in bed with a cook and cuts them both in two. Then, while staying with his brother, he discovers that Shahryar's wife is unfaithful. At this point, Shah Zaman comes to ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
8567429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20One%20Thousand%20and%20One%20Nights%20characters | List of One Thousand and One Nights characters | Zayn Al-Asnam
Prince Zayn Al-Asnam or Zeyn Alasnam (, zayn al-aṣnām), son of the Sultan of Basra (or Bassorah), is the eponymous character in The Tale of Zayn Al-Asnam.
After his father's death, al-Asnam wastes his inheritance and neglects his duties, until the people revolt and he narrowly escapes death. In a dream,... | 1.9375 | 0 |
8567475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller-compacted%20concrete | Roller-compacted concrete | Roller-compacted concrete (RCC) or rolled concrete (rollcrete) is a special blend of concrete that has essentially the same ingredients as conventional concrete but in different ratios, and increasingly with partial substitution of fly ash for portland cement. The partial substitution of fly ash for Portland Cement is... | 2.578125 | 0 |
8567475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller-compacted%20concrete | Roller-compacted concrete | For dam applications, RCC sections are built lift-by-lift in successive horizontal layers resulting in a downstream slope that resembles a concrete staircase. Once a layer is placed, it can immediately support the earth-moving equipment to place the next layer. After RCC is deposited on the lift surface, small dozers... | 2.609375 | 0 |
8567484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Vincent%20Ferrer%20Seminary | St. Vincent Ferrer Seminary | Revolution for Philippine independence
The happy school days came to sudden stop with the outbreak of Filipino-Spanish conflict. The seminary became a military barrack of three nationalities: first by the Spanish soldiers, then by the Filipino forces and later by the American soldiers. By then, the seminarians had dis... | 2.328125 | 0 |
8567484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Vincent%20Ferrer%20Seminary | St. Vincent Ferrer Seminary | World War II
In 1941, the World War II brought the happy seminary life to a sudden stop. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and placed the Philippines in a state of alarm. The atmosphere became tense and Mariano Auzmendi, rector, caught by the general panic and perilous situation, closed classes on December 12. That sa... | 2.421875 | 0 |
8567500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Sky%20Shield | Operation Sky Shield | Operation Sky Shield, properly Exercise Sky Shield, was a series of three large-scale military exercises conducted in the United States and Canada in 1960, 1961, and 1962 by NORAD (North American Air Defense) Command and CONAD (Continental Air Defense) Command to test defenses against an air attack from the Soviet Unio... | 2.71875 | 0 |
8567500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Sky%20Shield | Operation Sky Shield | Sky Shield II phases were transmitted to Royal Canadian Air Force stations by secure media, but in case of intercept, not the details. Operations were given RCAF code names, and planning conferences included Trusted Agents. Final pre-event checklists were dubbed Double Take A or B. The harried, last moments: Fast Pace.... | 2.171875 | 0 |
8567500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Sky%20Shield | Operation Sky Shield | U.S. media reaction to Operation Sky Shield II
On Wednesday, October 11, 1961, the Leader-Herald of Gloversville and Johnstown, N.Y. wrote a front-page article entitled "U.S. Air Defense to Test Muscle in Operation Sky Shield II." This article outlined the North American Air Defense System's (NORAD) plan to simulate a... | 2.140625 | 0 |
8567500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Sky%20Shield | Operation Sky Shield | United States Navy Airborne Early Warning Squadrons consisting of Lockheed WV-2 Super Constellations and Navy picket ships were planned to be the first warning line in the NORAD defense system by being positioned on the outer ring of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean defense systems. The WV-2s would patrol the northern pa... | 2.78125 | 0 |
8567500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Sky%20Shield | Operation Sky Shield | Airport activities during the operations
During Operation Sky Shield, airports and airlines prepared tours charging around 50 cents for a 20-minute tour. For example, at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) temporary guides met visitors at ticketing posts and showed off the new passenger terminal and ramp. To go al... | 2.546875 | 0 |
8567551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Clara%20Aqueduct | Santa Clara Aqueduct | The Aqueduct of Santa Clara is the second largest Portuguese aqueduct system. Built between 1626 and 1714, it includes 999 arches stretching for from the spring of Terroso in the municipality of Póvoa de Varzim to the Convent of Santa Clara in the municipality of Vila do Conde.
History
Founded at the beginning of th... | 2.703125 | 0 |
8567569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champions%20for%20Christ | Champions for Christ | Established in 1985 as part of the controversial Maranatha Campus Ministries, Champions for Christ (CFC) is an outreach to college and professional athletes. Now a part of the Every Nation group of ministries, CFC has also come under the auspices of other organizations since initial establishment.
Champions for Christ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
8567633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cage%20ball | Cage ball | A cage ball, also known as an Earth ball, is a large, inflated ball, used in many American elementary schools physical education programs. Cage balls typically have a diameter of 48" or 60", though 72" diameter models are available. The inventor of the cage ball is Doctor Emmett Dunn Angell.
Physical education teach... | 2.796875 | 0 |
8567712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Carron%2C%20Forth | River Carron, Forth | The Carron (Gaelic: Carrann) is a river in central Scotland, rising in the Campsie Fells and flowing along Strathcarron into the Firth of Forth. It has given its name to several locations in Stirlingshire, as well as a type of cannon, a line of bathtubs, two warships, and an island in the Southern Hemisphere.
Course
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8567712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Carron%2C%20Forth | River Carron, Forth | The Carron Works
The Carron Company was an ironworks established in 1759 on the north bank of the Carron two miles downstream of Falkirk. This company was at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution in Britain.
The company's local coal mining operations were known as the "Carron Collieries". The villages of Carronh... | 2.453125 | 0 |
8567722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limmu%20Sakka | Limmu Sakka | Limmu Sakka is one of the woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. It is named in part after the former kingdom of Limmu-Ennarea, whose territories included the area this woreda now covers. Part of the Jimma Zone, Limmu Sakka is bordered on the southwest by the Didessa River which separates it from the Illubabor Zone,... | 2.515625 | 0 |
8567727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%20Route%20194 | Maryland Route 194 | In the 18th century, the corridor of what is now MD 194 was the Hanover–Frederick portion of the Monocacy Road, a migration route that connected Philadelphia and Winchester, Virginia, via York, Frederick, Boonsboro, and Williamsport. The Frederick County portion of the highway later became the path of a pair of turnpik... | 1.976563 | 0 |
8567744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urus%20Khan | Urus Khan | During Urus' campaigns on the Lower Volga, his alienated and vengeful cousin Tokhtamysh made his way to Timur (Tamerlane) and sought his assistance against Urus and his family. Timur was accommodating, and furnished Tokhtamysh with resources and forces, allowing him to establish himself at Otrar and Sayram. Urus' son Q... | 2.21875 | 0 |
8567753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Church%2C%20Plymouth | Charles Church, Plymouth | The reason for a second church was not that the existing Church of St Andrew was too small (it could comfortably seat 1,200 and the population was around 8,000 at the time), but rather one of religious controversy. Plymouth had grown into a Puritan town. This is hinted at by the Pilgrim fathers who felt at home here, "... | 2.546875 | 0 |
8567753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Church%2C%20Plymouth | Charles Church, Plymouth | Septimus Courtney (1832-1843). When Hawker died, he was the curate and widely tipped to be the next pastor. The nearby Charles chapel (later St Luke's) was built for him instead. It was said of him that "he made the glory of Christ known and His redemption great subjects of his ministry, and while he laboured diligentl... | 2.5 | 0 |
8567753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Church%2C%20Plymouth | Charles Church, Plymouth | Destruction and recent history 1941-2002
After the Battle of Britain phase of World War II, the air raids on Plymouth were rapidly intensified. During the night of 20–21 March 1941 Charles Church was destroyed by fire. The congregation joined St Luke's for a month and then joined the daughter church St Matthias (as di... | 2.4375 | 0 |
8567806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordGirl | WordGirl | WordGirl is an American animated superhero children's television series produced by the Soup2Nuts animation unit of Scholastic Entertainment for PBS Kids. The series began as a series of shorts entitled The Amazing Colossal Adventures of WordGirl that premiered on PBS Kids Go! on November 10, 2006, usually shown at the... | 2.53125 | 0 |
8567806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordGirl | WordGirl | Main characters
WordGirl (voiced by Dannah Phirman) – She is a 10-year-old superhero from the planet Lexicon who uses the alias of Becky Botsford when adopted by the Botsford family. She possesses super-strength, super-speed, super-hearing, and the knowledge of different word meanings. While WordGirl works to keep her... | 2.109375 | 0 |
8567833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsdon%20Castle | Elsdon Castle | Elsdon Castle is a castle in the village of Elsdon about to the southwest of Rothbury, in Northumberland, England, and also known as Mote Hills. The site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The castle is the best preserved medieval motte and bailey castle site in Northumberland. It was built by Robert de Umfraville in 1... | 2.265625 | 0 |
8567874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20Our%20Lady%20of%20Sorrows%2C%20P%C3%B3voa%20de%20Varzim | Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Póvoa de Varzim | The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows (, also referred to as Capela, chapel) is a Roman Catholic church in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. It is located in Largo das Dores square, in the old town of Póvoa de Varzim, and is part of the parish of Matriz. The church is dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows, Nossa Senhora das Dores in P... | 2.078125 | 0 |
8567874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20Our%20Lady%20of%20Sorrows%2C%20P%C3%B3voa%20de%20Varzim | Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Póvoa de Varzim | An 1868 description said "the ornaments and paintings of this chapel are in harmony with the plan adopted for the whole church. It has a church organ. It has a large and elegant tower that is seen from great distance at sea," and "it serves as a reference to seafarers when docking at the beach."
The six small chapels w... | 2.28125 | 0 |
8567874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20Our%20Lady%20of%20Sorrows%2C%20P%C3%B3voa%20de%20Varzim | Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Póvoa de Varzim | One day, Alexandrina was terrified and started bleeding from her head and felt her eyes being glued together.
She said this was caused by a crown of thorns.
Jesus started speaking to her and said "I went through the dark and straight streets of the Calvary like that. Oh, it was a painful walking!".
Alexandrina felt h... | 2.328125 | 0 |
8567882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20R.%20Dellenback | John R. Dellenback | John Richard Dellenback (November 6, 1918 – December 7, 2002) was a Republican U.S. congressman from Oregon.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Dellenback's maternal grandparents were Norwegian and his paternal grandparents were each from Alsace-Lorraine and Germany. After graduating from Yale University, he served in the Uni... | 1.921875 | 0 |
8567914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Spencer | Charlie Spencer | Charles William Spencer (4 December 1899 – 9 February 1953) was an English football player and manager.
Club career
After service with the Royal Engineers during the First World War, Spencer joined Newcastle United from non-league football in October 1921. He played for the club until 1928, making a total of 175 appea... | 1.992188 | 0 |
8567924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matriz%20Church%20of%20P%C3%B3voa%20de%20Varzim | Matriz Church of Póvoa de Varzim | Because Madre de Deus chapel was located in the civic center, it was more popular than the mother church of Póvoa de Varzim, the ancient Senhora de Varzim Church, established in the 11th century, in Póvoa de Varzim Old Town. The Lady of Varzim icon was a medieval representation of Mary with Baby Jesus. The Parish of Sa... | 2.765625 | 0 |
8567924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matriz%20Church%20of%20P%C3%B3voa%20de%20Varzim | Matriz Church of Póvoa de Varzim | The interior is wide and in a single nave covered by a barrel vault. The nave is strengthened by three robust toroidal arches and the walls are decorated by nine Joanino (King John's style) Baroque altars, in gilded woodcarving, displaying 18th century sculptures. Its retables are notable, especially the one from the c... | 2.046875 | 0 |
8568005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prentice%20Earl%20Sanders | Prentice Earl Sanders | Prentice Earl Sanders, also known as Earl Sanders (October 12, 1937 – January 11, 2021), was a member of the San Francisco Police Department from 1964 through 2003. He became the first African American chief of that department in 2002. His tenure was marked by "Fajitagate", a scandal over a street brawl involving sever... | 2.171875 | 0 |
8568007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Thomson%20%28naturalist%29 | Arthur Thomson (naturalist) | Sir John Arthur Thomson (8 July 1861 – 12 February 1933) was a Scottish naturalist who authored several notable books and was an expert on soft corals.
Life
He was born at Pilmuir east of East Saltoun, East Lothian, the second son of Isabella Landsborough (1828-1905) and the Rev Arthur Thomson (1823-1881), a ministe... | 2.578125 | 0 |
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