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11663892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginninderra | Ginninderra | Ginninderra is the name of the former agricultural lands surrendered to urban development on the western and north-western fringes of Canberra, the capital of Australia. Ginninderra corresponds with the watershed of Ginninderra Creek, which is now in part occupied by the Canberra districts of Belconnen and Gungahlin. ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
11663892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginninderra | Ginninderra | Indigenous Australian peoples have long inhabited what is now the ACT.[1] Anthropologist Norman Tindale has suggested the principal group occupying the region were the Ngunnawal people, while the Ngarigo and Walgalu lived immediately to the south, the Wandandian to the east, the Gandangara to the north, and the Wiradju... | 2.46875 | 0 |
11663917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwich%20Bus%20Station | Norwich Bus Station | Norwich Bus Station is situated off Surrey Street and Queen's Road, Norwich, Norfolk, England. It is served by a number of bus operators, such as Konectbus, Norse, First Eastern Counties, National Express, Megabus and City Sightseeing Norwich.
The land between Surrey Street and Bull Lane was acquired in April 1934 by... | 2.078125 | 0 |
11663930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%2C%20Greater%20Manchester | Newton, Greater Manchester | Newton is an area of Hyde, in the Tameside district, in Greater Manchester, England; it occupies a narrow strip of land from the River Tame, near Newton Hall, to Matley, between Hyde and Dukinfield.
Newton can be divided into four separate parts:
Newton Green
Flowery Field
Newton Moor
Newton
The former site of Sh... | 1.953125 | 0 |
11664080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity%20%282013%20video%20game%29 | SimCity (2013 video game) | Unlike previous games in the series, the game has non-orthogonal and curved roads and zoning areas that can conform to different road types. Types of zones include residential, commercial and industrial. The density is driven by the types of roads built around these zones.
Cities in a region are connected to each othe... | 2.296875 | 0 |
11664080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity%20%282013%20video%20game%29 | SimCity (2013 video game) | The user interface, which was inspired by Google Maps and infographics, was designed to convey information to the player more clearly than in previous SimCity games. Animations and color-coded visual cues that represent how efficiently a city functions are only presented when needed at any given moment. For instance, o... | 2.375 | 0 |
11664080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity%20%282013%20video%20game%29 | SimCity (2013 video game) | Roads in SimCity are one of the most fundamental elements of the mechanics. Unlike previous SimCity games, roads carry water, power, and sewage. There are also many new tools for drawing roads. They include a straight line tool, one for making rectangular road squares, one for making sweeping arcs, one for making circl... | 2.453125 | 0 |
11664080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity%20%282013%20video%20game%29 | SimCity (2013 video game) | Players will be able to specialize cities on certain industries, such as manufacturing, tourism, education, or others. Each have distinct appearances, simulation behavior, and economic strategies. Players have the option to heavily specialize on one or build multiple specializations in any given city for diversity. The... | 1.953125 | 0 |
11664080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity%20%282013%20video%20game%29 | SimCity (2013 video game) | The new features in Cities of Tomorrow are divided into three categories: "MegaTowers", "Academy" and the "OmegaCo". The MegaTowers are massive buildings built floor by floor with each floor having a specific purpose, being residential, commercial, or to provide services like schools, security, power, and entertainment... | 2.03125 | 0 |
11664139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk%20%28UK%20Parliament%20constituency%29 | Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency) | Norfolk was a County constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1290 to 1707, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Members of Parliament. In 1832 the county was divided for parliamen... | 2.453125 | 0 |
11664139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk%20%28UK%20Parliament%20constituency%29 | Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency) | At the time of the Great Reform Act in 1832, Norfolk had a population of approximately 390,000, though only a fraction of these could vote: the highest recorded turnouts in Norfolk were at the 1802 and 1806 elections, at each of which under 12,000 votes were cast, even though each voter could cast two votes.
Political... | 2.515625 | 0 |
11664143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.%20R.%20Bommai | S. R. Bommai | Somappa Rayappa Bommai (6 June 1924 – 10 October 2007) was an Indian Politician who was the 4th Chief Minister of Karnataka. He was also the Human Resource Development Minister in the United Front government from 1996 to 1998. He is widely remembered as the champion for the landmark judgment of the Supreme Court of Ind... | 2.046875 | 0 |
11664229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Pullin | John Pullin | John Vivian Pullin (1 November 1941 – 5 February 2021) was an England international rugby union player. A hooker, he played club rugby for Bristol Rugby and captained the England national rugby union team for which he played 42 times between 1966 and 1976. He also won 7 full caps for the British & Irish Lions and has t... | 2.421875 | 0 |
11664252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dromiidae | Dromiidae | Dromiidae is a family of crabs, often referred to as sponge crabs. They are small or medium-sized crabs which get their name from the ability to shape a living sponge into a portable shelter for themselves. A sponge crab cuts out a fragment from a sponge and trims it to its own shape using its claws. The last two pairs... | 2.515625 | 0 |
11664366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalbergia%20sissoo | Dalbergia sissoo | Dalbergia sissoo, known commonly as North Indian rosewood or shisham, is a fast-growing, hardy, deciduous rosewood tree native to the Indian subcontinent and southern Iran. D. sissoo is a large, crooked tree with long, leathery leaves and whitish or pink flowers.
Description
Dalbergia sissoo is a medium to large decid... | 2.5 | 0 |
11664366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalbergia%20sissoo | Dalbergia sissoo | It is the best known economic timber species of the rosewood genus sold internationally, but it is also used as fuel wood and for shade and shelter. After teak, it is the most important cultivated timber tree of Bihar, which is the largest producer of shisham timber in India. In Bihar, the tree is planted on roadsides... | 2.65625 | 0 |
11664367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta%20Johansson | Greta Johansson | Anna Teresa Margareta "Greta" Johansson (9 January 1895 – 28 January 1978) was a Swedish diver and swimmer, who competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics. She won the gold medal in the 10 m platform and finished fourth with the Swedish 4 × 100 m freestyle relay team.
Johansson learned to swim and dive in Stockholm's munici... | 2.53125 | 0 |
11664391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumilla%20%28DO%29 | Jumilla (DO) | Jumilla is a Spanish Denominación de Origen Protegida (DOP) for wines that extends over the north of the region of Murcia, Spain. The area includes the municipality of Jumilla, from which it takes its name, and the contiguous southeast of the Albacete province (municipalities of Montealegre del Castillo, Fuente-Álamo, ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
11664391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumilla%20%28DO%29 | Jumilla (DO) | Soils
The soils are dark, lime bearing and sometimes with a hard lime crust. In general, they are permeable and have good moisture retaining properties, which allows the vines to survive during periods of prolonged drought. They are poor in organic material and their structure does not favour the propagation of phyllox... | 2.578125 | 0 |
11664412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-adaptive%20binary%20arithmetic%20coding | Context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding | Context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) is a form of entropy encoding used in the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standards. It is a lossless compression technique, although the video coding standards in which it is used are typically for lossy compression applications. CABAC is notab... | 1.90625 | 0 |
11664412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-adaptive%20binary%20arithmetic%20coding | Context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding | History
In 1986, IBM researchers Kottappuram M. A. Mohiuddin and Jorma Johannes Rissanen filed a patent for a multiplication-free binary arithmetic coding algorithm. In 1988, an IBM research team including R.B. Arps, T.K. Truong, D.J. Lu, W. B. Pennebaker, L. Mitchell and G. G. Langdon presented an adaptive binary arit... | 2.046875 | 0 |
11664440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Osprey%20%28AM-56%29 | USS Osprey (AM-56) | USS Osprey (AM–56), was a of the United States Navy, laid down on 28 June 1939 at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia; launched on 24 August 1940; sponsored by Ms. Margaret Kays; and commissioned on 16 December 1940.
Service career
The United States' entrance into World War II extended Ospreys coastal patrol and escort d... | 2.28125 | 0 |
11664594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle%20White | Belle White | Isabelle Mary White (1 September 1894 – 24 June 1972) was the first British diver to win a medal at the Olympic Games, and the first to win a European championship. She competed in four Olympics, including the 1912 Summer Olympics, where she won a bronze medal in the women's plain high diving event, as well as the 1920... | 2.609375 | 0 |
11664640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidoro%20Malmierca%20Peoli | Isidoro Malmierca Peoli | Isidoro Octavia Malmierca Peoli (25 September 193011 August 2001) was a Cuban politician who was Cuba's foreign minister from 1976 to 1992 and founder of the Cuban Communist Party.
Early life
Born in Havana, he became involved in Cuba's turbulent left-wing politics as a young man, joining the tiny Popular Socialist P... | 2.09375 | 0 |
11664690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetofection | Magnetofection | Magnetofection is a transfection method that uses magnetic fields to concentrate particles containing vectors to target cells in the body. Magnetofection has been adapted to a variety of vectors, including nucleic acids, non-viral transfection systems, and viruses. This method offers advantages such as high transfectio... | 2.421875 | 0 |
11664690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetofection | Magnetofection | The nucleic acids are then released into the cytoplasm by different mechanisms depending upon the formulation used:
the proton sponge effect caused by cationic polymers coated on the nanoparticles that promote endosome osmotic swelling, disruption of the endosome membrane and intracellular release of DNA form,
the d... | 2.1875 | 0 |
11664690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetofection | Magnetofection | Transfection efficiency
Coupling magnetic nanoparticles to gene vectors results in hundreds-fold increase of the uptake of these vectors on a time scale of minutes, thus leading to high transfection efficiency. Gene vector and magnetic nanoparticle complexes are transfected into cells after 10–15 minutes, which is fas... | 2.3125 | 0 |
11664695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton%20Democratic%20Union | Breton Democratic Union | Breton Democratic Union (, , UDB) is a Breton nationalist, autonomist, and regionalist political party in Brittany () and Loire-Atlantique. The UDB advocates devolution for Brittany as well as the promotion of its regional languages (Breton and Gallo) and its associated culture.
The Breton Democratic Union has present... | 2.265625 | 0 |
11664716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartwood%20Acres%20Park | Hartwood Acres Park | Hartwood Acres is a county park in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Hartwood is considered the crown jewel of the county's network of nine distinct parks.
Purchased by the county in 1969, its special feature is one of the largest and most spectacular country estates in the region. Hartwood consis... | 2.046875 | 0 |
11664784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizeau%20experiment | Fizeau experiment | The Fizeau experiment was carried out by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1851 to measure the relative speeds of light in moving water. Fizeau used a special interferometer arrangement to measure the effect of movement of a medium upon the speed of light.
According to the theories prevailing at the time, light traveling through a ... | 3.046875 | 0 |
11664784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizeau%20experiment | Fizeau experiment | As scientists in the 1700's worked on a theory of light and of electromagnetism, luminiferous aether, a medium that would support waves, was the focus of many experiments. Two critical issues were the relation of aether to motion and its relation to matter. For example, astronomical aberration, the apparent motion of ... | 2.984375 | 0 |
11664784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizeau%20experiment | Fizeau experiment | A light ray emanating from the source is reflected by a beam splitter G and is collimated into a parallel beam by lens L. After passing the slits O1 and O2, two rays of light travel through the tubes A1 and A2, through which water is streaming back and forth as shown by the arrows. The rays reflect off a mirror m at t... | 2.984375 | 0 |
11664784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizeau%20experiment | Fizeau experiment | According to the Stokes' hypothesis, the speed of light should be increased or decreased when "dragged" along by the water through the aether frame, dependent upon the direction. The overall speed of a beam of light should be a simple additive sum of its speed through the water plus the speed of the water.
That is, if ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
11664784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizeau%20experiment | Fizeau experiment | An indirect confirmation of Fresnel's dragging coefficient was provided by Martin Hoek (1868).
His apparatus was similar to Fizeau's, though in his version only one arm contained an area filled with resting water, while the other arm was in the air. As seen by an observer resting in the aether, Earth and hence the wate... | 2.125 | 0 |
11664784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizeau%20experiment | Fizeau experiment | Mascart's birefringence experiment
Éleuthère Mascart (1872) demonstrated a result for polarized light traveling through a birefringent medium gives different velocities in accordance with Fresnel's empirical formula. However, the result in terms of Fresnel's physical model requires different aether drag in different d... | 2.546875 | 0 |
11664784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizeau%20experiment | Fizeau experiment | Zeeman and Lorentz's improved formula
In 1895, Hendrik Lorentz predicted the existence of an extra term due to dispersion:
Since the medium is flowing towards or away from the observer, the light traveling through the medium is Doppler-shifted, and the refractive index used in the formula has to be th... | 2.25 | 0 |
11664784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizeau%20experiment | Fizeau experiment | In 1895, Lorentz more generally explained Fresnel's coefficient based on the concept of local time. However, Lorentz's theory had the same fundamental problem as Fresnel's: a stationary aether contradicted the Michelson–Morley experiment. So in 1892 Lorentz proposed that moving bodies contract in the direction of motio... | 2.8125 | 0 |
11664800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Stuart%20%28daughter%20of%20Charles%20I%29 | Elizabeth Stuart (daughter of Charles I) | Elizabeth Stuart (28 December 1635 – 8 September 1650) was the second daughter of Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France.
From age six until her death at age 14, Elizabeth was a prisoner of the English Parliament during the English Civil War. Her emotional written acc... | 2.515625 | 0 |
11664800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Stuart%20%28daughter%20of%20Charles%20I%29 | Elizabeth Stuart (daughter of Charles I) | In 1647, Parliament allowed Elizabeth and her brothers Henry and James to travel to Maidenhead to meet their father Charles I and spent two days with him. After the Parliament moved Charles I to Hampton Court Palace, he visited his children under the care of the Northumberlands at Syon House. These visits ended when he... | 2.59375 | 0 |
11664800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Stuart%20%28daughter%20of%20Charles%20I%29 | Elizabeth Stuart (daughter of Charles I) | Death
During the move to the Isle of Wight, Elizabeth caught a cold that quickly developed into pneumonia. She died on 8 September 1650, at Carisbrooke Castle.
Some accounts say that Elizabeth was found dead with her head on the Bible from her father. In her last days, she was described as a sad child by those who had... | 2.46875 | 0 |
11664810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s%20Gambit%2C%20Rice%20Gambit | King's Gambit, Rice Gambit | The Rice Gambit is a chess opening that arises from the King's Gambit Accepted. An offshoot of the Kieseritzky Gambit, it is characterized by the moves 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Nf6 6. Bc4 d5 7. exd5 Bd6 8. 0-0 (instead of the normal 8.d4). White offers the sacrifice of the knight on e5 in order to ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
11664864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamiya%20RZ67 | Mamiya RZ67 | The Mamiya RZ67 is a professional medium format single-lens reflex camera manufactured by Mamiya. There are three successive models: the RZ67 Professional (released in 1982), RZ67 Professional II (released in 1993) and RZ67 Professional IID (released in 2004). It is primarily designed for studio use, but can also be u... | 2.15625 | 0 |
11664880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir%20Margalit | Meir Margalit | Dr. Meir Margalit (born 1952) is a human and civil rights activist in Jerusalem. He received a Ph.D. in history from Haifa University. Dr. Margalit is a researcher of the history of the Jewish community during the period of Mandatory Palestine, specializing in the early peace and bi-national movements within the popula... | 2.40625 | 0 |
11664881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Church%20Brownell | Thomas Church Brownell | Thomas Church Brownell (October 19, 1779 – January 13, 1865) was founder of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1852 to 1865.
Biography
Brownell was born in Westport, Massachusetts, on October 19, 1779. He was a descendant on his mother's side from Colonel Benjam... | 2.015625 | 0 |
11664881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Church%20Brownell | Thomas Church Brownell | American Colonization Society
The American Colonization Society would add a chapter in Connecticut when the Connecticut Colonization Society was founded in May of 1827. Rev. Brownell is voted as a manager of the chapter, which is a board of director position. In their Address to the Public by the Managers of the Colon... | 2.875 | 0 |
11664929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayyan%20Dalawa | Ramayyan Dalawa | Ramayyan Dalawa was the Dalawa of Travancore state, India, during 1737 and 1756 and was responsible for the consolidation and expansion of that kingdom after the defeat of the Dutch at the 1741 Battle of Colachel during the reign of Maharajah Marthanda Varma, the creator of modern Travancore.
Early life
Ramayyan, was ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
11665017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airman%20%28novel%29 | Airman (novel) | Airman, by Eoin Colfer, is a best-selling historical adventure novel set in the 19th century. It was released in the UK, Ireland and US in January 2008. The novel was shortlisted for the 2009 Carnegie Medal.
Colfer was inspired to write the book after a frightening skydiving experience. He combined this with his child... | 2.015625 | 0 |
11665071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy%20Cross%20High%20School%20%28Kurla%29 | Holy Cross High School (Kurla) | Holy Cross High School is a school located in Kurla, a suburb of Mumbai, India. It prepares students for the Secondary School Leaving Certificate examinations conducted by the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education.
About Holy Cross School and its history
Holy Cross High School (affiliate... | 2.25 | 0 |
11665101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre%20Dame%20Catholic%20School%20%28Wichita%20Falls%2C%20Texas%29 | Notre Dame Catholic School (Wichita Falls, Texas) | Notre Dame Catholic School was a Roman Catholic high school, middle school, and elementary school in Wichita Falls, Texas. It was located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth.
Notre Dame Catholic School was one school on two campuses. The lower campus accommodated pre-K through 5th grade. The upper campus accom... | 2.359375 | 0 |
11665131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwardian%20musical%20comedy | Edwardian musical comedy | The chief glories of Edwardian musical comedies lie in their musical scores. At their best, these combined the delicacy and sophistication of operetta with the robust tunefulness of the music hall. The major composers of the genre were Sidney Jones (The Geisha), Ivan Caryll (Our Miss Gibbs), Lionel Monckton (The Quaker... | 2.421875 | 0 |
11665159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%20Sale%C5%A1ki%20Fin%C5%BEgar | Fran Saleški Finžgar | Fran Saleški Finžgar (February 9, 1871 – June 2, 1962) was perhaps the most popular Slovene folk writer. He is particularly known for his novels and short stories, although he also wrote poems and plays.
Life
Fran Saleški Finžgar was born into a poor peasant family in the Upper Carniolan village of Doslovče, in what w... | 2.09375 | 0 |
11665159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%20Sale%C5%A1ki%20Fin%C5%BEgar | Fran Saleški Finžgar | Work
Finžgar started his literary career as a poet, but later turned to prose. He wrote novels in the Neo-Romantic style, depicting rural and small-town life. He is best known for his patriotic historical novel (), written between 1906 and 1907 and partially modelled on Quo Vadis. The narrative was set during the late... | 2.484375 | 0 |
11665172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankalilla%2C%20South%20Australia | Yankalilla, South Australia | Yankalilla is an agriculturally based town situated on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia, located 72 km south of the state's capital of Adelaide. The town is nestled in the Bungala River valley, overlooked by the southern Mount Lofty Ranges and acts as a service centre for the surrounding agricultural district.... | 2.109375 | 0 |
11665172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankalilla%2C%20South%20Australia | Yankalilla, South Australia | In 2002, Kaurna scholar Georgina Yambo Williams, in a paper co-authored by University of Adelaide linguist Robert Amery, drew from her own knowledge and various literary sources from the period of British colonisation of South Australia. In it, she relates that Yankalilla comes from the words yerkandi, meaning "to fall... | 2.65625 | 0 |
11665172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankalilla%2C%20South%20Australia | Yankalilla, South Australia | Aboriginal history
The Yankalilla area was originally inhabited by the Kaurna, an Aboriginal Australian people, who occupied an area of land stretching from Cape Jervis, up the western side of the Fleurieu Peninsula, to the top of Gulf St Vincent. The Kaurna occasionally met with the Ramindjeri people from the Encounte... | 2.84375 | 0 |
11665172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankalilla%2C%20South%20Australia | Yankalilla, South Australia | The town's Anglican church, 'Christ Church', has a marble font which has its origins in the Middle Ages, once gracing Salisbury Cathedral in England. It was given to a former Christ Church rector during a visit to England. The former owners subsequently regretted their generosity and requested its return, but this was... | 2.59375 | 0 |
11665172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankalilla%2C%20South%20Australia | Yankalilla, South Australia | The area was impacted during the Delamerian Orogeny around 500 Million Years ago, forming mountain ranges, which have long since eroded away. During the Permian ice ages, many of the areas rocks were left with striation pavements, showing the direction of glacial movement, with Glacier Rock at Inman Valley, South Austr... | 2.703125 | 0 |
11665172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankalilla%2C%20South%20Australia | Yankalilla, South Australia | Since its establishment, Yankalilla has had cereal crops such as wheat and barley as a major agricultural component, and today this still remains the case. Dairy farming and livestock grazing, including sheep and cattle have also become important to the economy, with dairy products one of the towns biggest exports. For... | 2.546875 | 0 |
11665196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish%20Lakeland | Finnish Lakeland | Finnish Lakeland or Finnish lake district ( , "Lake Finland", ) is the largest of the four landscape regions into which the geography of Finland is divided.
The hilly, forest-covered landscape of the lake plateau is dominated by drumlins and by long sinuous eskers. Both are glacial remnants deposited after the contine... | 2.890625 | 0 |
11665196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish%20Lakeland | Finnish Lakeland | Because no set definition of what constitutes a lake and no procedures for counting the number of lakes exist, it has been impossible to ascertain exactly how many lakes the region has. There are, however, at least 55,000 lakes that are at least 200 metres wide.
If lake is defined to be a body of standing water larger... | 2.8125 | 0 |
11665234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency%20of%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | Presidency of George H. W. Bush | George H. W. Bush's tenure as the 41st president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1989, and ended on January 20, 1993. Bush, a Republican from Texas and the incumbent vice president for two terms under President Ronald Reagan, took office following his landslide victory over Democratic no... | 2.625 | 0 |
11665234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency%20of%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | Presidency of George H. W. Bush | Having served in various government positions, particularly the position of Director of the CIA, Bush sought the presidential nomination in the 1980 Republican primaries. He was defeated by Ronald Reagan, a conservative former governor from California. Seeking to balance the ticket with an ideological moderate, Reagan ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
11665234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency%20of%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | Presidency of George H. W. Bush | Bush's first major appointment was that of James Baker as Secretary of State; Baker was Bush's closest friend and had served as Reagan's White House Chief of Staff. Bush's first pick for Defense Secretary, John Tower, was rejected by the Senate, becoming the first cabinet nominee of an incoming president to be rejected... | 2.046875 | 0 |
11665234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency%20of%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | Presidency of George H. W. Bush | End of the Cold War: The most significant foreign policy achievement of the Bush administration was overseeing the peaceful end of the Cold War. Bush played a crucial role in managing the transition as the Soviet Union dissolved, ensuring stability and avoiding a potential conflict between the two superpowers.
Strateg... | 2.390625 | 0 |
11665234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency%20of%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | Presidency of George H. W. Bush | Panama: Operation Just Cause
During the 1980s, the U.S. had supplied aid to Manuel Noriega, an anti-Communist dictator of Panama who engaged in drug trafficking. In May 1989, Noriega annulled the results of a democratic presidential election. Bush objected to the annulment of the election and worried about the status ... | 2.46875 | 0 |
11665234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency%20of%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | Presidency of George H. W. Bush | Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev had eased Cold War tensions during Reagan's second term, but Bush was initially skeptical of Soviet intentions. During the first year of his tenure, Bush pursued what Soviets referred to as the pauza, a break in Reagan's détente policies. While Bush implemented his ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
11665234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency%20of%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | Presidency of George H. W. Bush | While Britain and France were wary of a re-unified Germany, Bush pushed for German reunification alongside West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Gorbachev also resisted the idea of a reunified Germany, especially if it became part of NATO, but the upheavals of the previous year had sapped his power at home and abroad. "T... | 2.5 | 0 |
11665234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency%20of%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | Presidency of George H. W. Bush | After Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, Bush imposed economic sanctions on Iraq and assembled a multi-national coalition opposed to the invasion. The administration feared that a failure to respond to the invasion would embolden Hussein to attack Saudi Arabia or Israel, and wanted to discourage other countries from s... | 2.421875 | 0 |
11665234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency%20of%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | Presidency of George H. W. Bush | In January 1991, Bush asked Congress to approve a joint resolution authorizing a war against Iraq. Bush believed that the UN resolution had already provided him with the necessary authorization to launch a military operation against Iraq, but he wanted to show that the nation was united behind a military action. Speaki... | 2.03125 | 0 |
11665234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency%20of%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | Presidency of George H. W. Bush | After the January 15 deadline passed without an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait, U.S. and coalition forces began a 39-day bombing of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and other Iraqi positions. The bombing devastated Iraq's power grid and communications network, and resulted in the desertion of about 100,000 Iraqi soldiers. In... | 2.0625 | 0 |
11665234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency%20of%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | Presidency of George H. W. Bush | One of Bush's priorities was strengthening relations between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China (PRC), and Bush had developed a warm relationship with Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping prior to taking office. Despite the personal rapport between Bush and Deng, human rights issues presented a serious challenge to Bu... | 2.125 | 0 |
11665234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency%20of%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | Presidency of George H. W. Bush | The U.S. economy had generally performed well since emerging from recession in late 1982, but finally slipped into a mild recession in 1990. The unemployment rate rose from 5.9 percent in 1989 to a high of 7.8 percent in mid-1991. A number of highly publicized early layoffs by companies like Aetna led some to call it a... | 2.453125 | 0 |
11665234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency%20of%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | Presidency of George H. W. Bush | In September 1990, Bush and Congressional Democrats announced a compromise to cut funding for mandatory and discretionary programs while also raising revenue, partly through a higher gas tax. The compromise additionally included a "pay as you go" provision that required that new programs be paid for at the time of impl... | 2.359375 | 0 |
11665234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency%20of%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | Presidency of George H. W. Bush | Though Bush generally refrained from making major proposals for new domestic programs, he stated his intention to be an education and environmental president. A 1983 report, titled A Nation at Risk, had raised concern about the quality of the American educational system. Bush proposed the Educational Excellence Act of... | 2.421875 | 0 |
11665234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency%20of%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | Presidency of George H. W. Bush | The disabled had not received legal protections under the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, and many faced discrimination and segregation as Bush took office. In 1988, Lowell P. Weicker Jr. and Tony Coelho had introduced the Americans with Disabilities Act, which barred employment discrimination against qualified indi... | 2.6875 | 0 |
11665234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency%20of%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | Presidency of George H. W. Bush | In 1982, Congress had passed the Garn–St. Germain Depository Institutions Act, which deregulated savings and loans associations and increased FDIC insurance for savings and loans associations. As the real estate market declined in the late 1980s, hundreds of savings and loans associations collapsed. In February 1989, B... | 2.578125 | 0 |
11665234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency%20of%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | Presidency of George H. W. Bush | In 1990, the Points of Light Foundation was created as a nonprofit organization in Washington to promote this spirit of volunteerism. In 2007, the Points of Light Foundation merged with the Hands On Network with the goal of strengthening volunteerism, streamlining costs and services and deepening impact. Points of Ligh... | 2.171875 | 0 |
11665234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency%20of%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | Presidency of George H. W. Bush | In early 1992, the race took an unexpected twist when Texas billionaire Ross Perot launched a third party bid, claiming that neither Republicans nor Democrats could eliminate the deficit and make government more efficient. His message appealed to voters across the political spectrum disappointed with both parties' perc... | 2.140625 | 0 |
11665234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency%20of%20George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | Presidency of George H. W. Bush | Despite his defeat, Bush climbed back from low election day approval ratings to leave office in 1993 with a 56% job approval rating. Bush's oldest son, George W. Bush, served as the country's 43rd president from 2001 to 2009. The Bushes were the second father and son pair to serve as president, following John Adams and... | 2.296875 | 0 |
11665256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alella%20%28DO%29 | Alella (DO) | Alella is a Spanish Denominación de Origen (DO) (Denominació d'Origen in Catalan) for wines produced in Maresme county in the province of Barcelona in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, located on the Mediterranean coast, 15 km to the north of the city of Barcelona.
It is one of the smallest DOs in Spain... | 2.1875 | 0 |
11665256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alella%20%28DO%29 | Alella (DO) | Maresme, on the foothills overlooking the sea, is influenced by the sun and the Mediterranean breezes. The hills protect the vines from the cold winds and condense the humidity caused by the sea. The wines from this area are smooth with low acidity levels.
Vallès, on the interior slopes facing inland, has a more conti... | 2.6875 | 0 |
11665257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajikistan%E2%80%93Uzbekistan%20border%20minefields | Tajikistan–Uzbekistan border minefields | The Uzbekistan–Tajikistan border minefields are the result of Uzbekistan's unilateral decision to indiscriminately mine rural areas along its border region with Tajikistan. This action is aimed at hindering drug trafficking and cross-border infiltrations of terrorists of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, but the mine... | 2.078125 | 0 |
11665290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Tawakoni | Lake Tawakoni | Lake Tawakoni ( ) is a reservoir located in Northeast Texas, about east of Dallas. It lies within three Texas counties, Hunt, Rains, and Van Zandt. It is used for water supply and recreation. It is under the Sabine River Authority of Texas and the original headwaters of the Sabine are converged under the lake surface... | 2.765625 | 0 |
11665307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33rd%20Illinois%20Infantry%20Regiment | 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment | The 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment (nicknamed the Teacher's Regiment) was an infantry regiment from Illinois that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. A number of the soldiers were college students and graduates, and for a time the regiment included a 17-piece band. The unit fought at Fredericktown ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
11665307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33rd%20Illinois%20Infantry%20Regiment | 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment | Facing a supply shortage, Curtis marched south along the White River in an attempt to make contact with a Union fleet. While crossing the Cache River on 7 July 1862, Curtis sent Hovey with 400 soldiers to make a reconnaissance. Hovey's force included one cannon and four companies each of the 33rd Illinois and the 11th ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
11665307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33rd%20Illinois%20Infantry%20Regiment | 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment | The regiment sustained losses of 13 wounded at Port Gibson, 1 killed and 2 wounded at Champion Hill, and 13 wounded at Big Black River Bridge. The highest casualties were suffered during the 22 May assault: 15 killed and 87 wounded. Captain Henry M. Kellogg was killed in action on 20 May. At Port Gibson, Benton's briga... | 1.921875 | 0 |
11665307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33rd%20Illinois%20Infantry%20Regiment | 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment | Department of the Gulf
The 33rd Illinois took part in the Jackson Expedition, which involved continuous fighting during 9–16 July 1863. While skirmishing on 13 July, Private Joseph W. Fifer from the regiment was wounded. Fifer would later become governor of Illinois. The Confederate defenders evacuated Jackson, Mississ... | 2.5 | 0 |
11665307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33rd%20Illinois%20Infantry%20Regiment | 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment | On 10 November 1863, the 33rd Illinois was ordered to New Orleans where it embarked for the Texas coast two days later. The expedition's goals were to raise the national flag in Texas, to cut off the cotton trade with Mexico, to damage the Texas economy, and to serve warning to the French occupation force in Mexico. On... | 2.453125 | 0 |
11665307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33rd%20Illinois%20Infantry%20Regiment | 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment | On 8 January 1864, most of the soldiers of the 33rd Illinois reenlisted as veterans; a bounty of $402 was offered. The men who chose to reenlist left Texas on 28 January 1864 while those who chose not to reenlist were transferred to the 99th Illinois Infantry Regiment. The men who reenlisted reached Bloomington on 14 M... | 1.929688 | 0 |
11665307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33rd%20Illinois%20Infantry%20Regiment | 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment | The 33rd Illinois participated in the Mobile campaign on 18 March–12 April 1865. The regiment was assigned to Colonel William L. McMillen's 1st Brigade, Brigadier General John McArthur's 1st Division, Major General Andrew Jackson Smith's XVI Corps, Major General Edward Canby's Army of West Mississippi. McArthur's Divis... | 2.40625 | 0 |
11665350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy%20Sugarman | Tracy Sugarman | Tracy A. Sugarman (1921 – January 20, 2013) was an American illustrator. He illustrated hundreds of books and record covers in a career lasting over 50 years. He authored an annotated work on his sketches from World War II.
He was a naval officer on D-Day when he led his troops on an amphibious assault of Utah beach... | 2.171875 | 0 |
11665350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy%20Sugarman | Tracy Sugarman | Sugarman's earlier career was a U.S. Navy Reserve ensign who served on an amphibious boat during the D-Day invasion of Normandy June 6, 1944. Among Tracy's many works is “My War.” In 2000 he published a collection of over 400 letters, drawings and watercolours he sent to his young wife, during the harrowing days of Wor... | 2.453125 | 0 |
11665389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Barker | Arthur Barker | Arthur Raymond "Doc" Barker (June 4, 1899 – January 13, 1939) was an American criminal, the son of Ma Barker and a member of the Barker-Karpis gang, founded by his brother Fred Barker and Alvin Karpis. Barker was typically called on for violent action, while Fred and Karpis planned the gang's crimes. He was arrested a... | 2.15625 | 0 |
11665389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Barker | Arthur Barker | On August 25, 1921, Barker and three other men robbed a woman at a hospital construction site in Tulsa. The three men were surprised by the night watchman, Thomas Sherill. When Sherill saw them he opened fire. Sherill was fatally shot when two of the men shot at him while fleeing the scene. After Sherill's family hired... | 1.929688 | 0 |
11665389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Barker | Arthur Barker | Barker also helped the gang kidnap two wealthy St. Paul men: William Hamm in June 1933 and Edward Bremer in January 1934. Barker personally grabbed both Hamm and Bremer, intimidating them with his brutality. However, it was Barker who made a slip-up that led to the gang's capture. Having collected the ransom for Bremer... | 1.921875 | 0 |
11665432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washburn%20Island%2C%20Massachusetts | Washburn Island, Massachusetts | Washburn Island is a island off the coast of East Falmouth, Massachusetts within Waquoit Bay. It is home to some primitive campsites and is part of the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. It is part of the Town of Falmouth, in Barnstable County in the village of Waquoit.
During World War II, the island w... | 2.5625 | 0 |
11665452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Margate | History of Margate | In 1820 it was said that "the inhabitants of Margate ought to eulogise the name of Watt, as the founder of their good fortune; and steam vessels as the harbingers of their prosperity".
Railways
The railway came to Margate via two separate companies. The South Eastern Railway (SER) was the first to reach the town when ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
11665477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical%20Church%20of%20the%20Deaf | Evangelical Church of the Deaf | The Evangelical Church of the Deaf is a congregation of the United Church of Canada for the deaf. It is located at the Bob Rumball Centre for the Deaf in Toronto, Ontario. Services, conducted entirely by signing, draw deaf worshipers who were reared in Catholic churches and in an array of Protestant denominations.
His... | 2.046875 | 0 |
11665519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27th%20Illinois%20Infantry%20Regiment | 27th Illinois Infantry Regiment | The 27th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The 27th Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois and mustered into Federal service 10 August 1861. The regiment fought in the Battles of Belmont [Missouri], Island No. 10,... | 1.9375 | 0 |
11665540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobb%20Point%20Bar%20Light | Cobb Point Bar Light | The Cobb Point Bar Light (also called Cobb Island Bar Light) was a screw-pile lighthouse located in the Potomac River.
History
A light at Cobb Point was first requested in 1875 to mark the entrance to the tricky channel leading into the Wicomico River (not to be confused with the river of the same name on the Eastern ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
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