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8572374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Joachim%20Jabs | Hans-Joachim Jabs | As Caulton headed west in his damaged Spitfire a large gash opened on the wing. Soon he found his engine was running rough. He lost oil pressure, and as the engine overheated it soon seized up. Caulton had no choice but to put the aircraft down. He did so in a field about 30 miles away from the airfield at Deelen. Of t... | 2.28125 | 0 |
8572406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra%20Pelona%20Ridge | Sierra Pelona Ridge | The Sierra Pelona, also known as the Sierra Pelona Ridge or the Sierra Pelona Mountains, is a mountain ridge in the Transverse Ranges in Southern California. Located in northwest Los Angeles County, the ridge is bordered on the north by the San Andreas Fault and lies within and is surrounded by the Angeles National For... | 2.625 | 0 |
8572419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie%20Pollet | Howie Pollet | Howard Joseph Pollet (June 26, 1921 – August 8, 1974) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball during the 1940s and 1950s. A three-time All-Star in 1943, 1946 and 1949, he twice led the National League in earned run average (1.75 in 1943 and 2.10 in 1946).
Stellar minor league career
Born in New Or... | 2.109375 | 0 |
8572432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C4%83r%C4%83gan%20deportations | Bărăgan deportations | The plans allegedly involved, as was later discovered in a document written in Timișoara in 1956, the "purification of the Banat": the ethnic cleansing of Banat Germans, Banat Serbs, Banat Croats and Banat Bulgarians. Additionally, the plans involved the expulsion of members of several social categories considered dang... | 2.484375 | 0 |
8572477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn%20R.%20Williams | Lynn R. Williams | Lynn Russell Williams (July 21, 1924 – May 5, 2014) was a Canadian labour leader best remembered as the International President of the United Steelworkers union (USW) from 1983 until his retirement in 1994. Williams was the first Canadian to head a major North American industrial union.
Biography
Early years
Lynn Ru... | 1.960938 | 0 |
8572477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn%20R.%20Williams | Lynn R. Williams | At the time of his assumption of leadership of the USW, the union's membership had plummeted from 1.4 million members in 1979 to barely over 600,000 as a result of economic recession and deindustrialization. In an effort to stem the tide, Williams and the USW made a series of wage and benefit concessions to the struggl... | 2.125 | 0 |
8572557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Monastery | Red Monastery | The monastery was dedicated to Pshoi. He was a contemporary of Apa Pigol, the founder of the White Monastery. In his Life of Shenute, Besa says, "The holy apa [Pgol] and the young man Shenoute went out walking together, and with them also went Apa Psoi (from Mt. Psoou). He too was a holy man who walked after godly thin... | 2.515625 | 0 |
8572557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Monastery | Red Monastery | There are elements within this church, however, that distinguish it from the Church of St. Shenute in the White Monastery. In the White Monastery, considerable building material was robbed from towers dating to the Ptolemaic or Roman period, while in the Church of Saint Pshoi, the portals and columns (bases, shafts and... | 2.40625 | 0 |
8572878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somari | Somari | Although Somari borrows the concepts for its game dynamics from the original Sonic the Hedgehog, the implementation of them differs in many ways. Unlike the original Sonic the Hedgehog game, the player character can use the "spin-dash" feature first implemented in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992). Other notable differences ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
8572899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova%20Scotia%20Mass%20Choir | Nova Scotia Mass Choir | The Nova Scotia Mass Choir is a Canadian choral ensemble based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The choir performs mainly black gospel music, and focuses on spreading the message of racial harmony.
History
The Nova Scotia Mass Choir was founded in 1992. In 1993 they performed in Washington, D.C., at a concert in memory of M... | 2.328125 | 0 |
8572926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20in%20Boston | Sports in Boston | Boston, Massachusetts, is home to several major professional sports franchises. They include the Red Sox (baseball), the Celtics (basketball, in the state where the sport was invented), and the Bruins (ice hockey). The New England Patriots (American football) and the New England Revolution (soccer, or association footb... | 2.3125 | 0 |
8572926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20in%20Boston | Sports in Boston | In 1862, The Oneida Football Club in Boston was the first organized team to play any kind of "football/soccer" in the United States. It was founded by Gerrit Smith "Gat" Miller, a graduate of the Latin School of Epes Sargent Dixwell, a private college preparatory school in Boston, who grew tired of the chaotic, disorga... | 2.5625 | 0 |
8572926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20in%20Boston | Sports in Boston | After the NASL folded on March 28, 1985, a new nationwide professional soccer league would re-emerge in 1996 in the form of Major League Soccer (MLS) following the success of the 1994 FIFA World Cup (with Foxboro Stadium as one of nine venues). Greater Boston would be represented by the New England Revolution, who play... | 2.234375 | 0 |
8572926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20in%20Boston | Sports in Boston | The TD Garden, above North Station, is the home to the Boston Bruins ice hockey team of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Bruins, founded in 1924, were the first American member of the NHL and an Original Six franchise, and have won six Stanley Cups, most recently in 2011, when they defeated the Vancouver Canucks i... | 2.109375 | 0 |
8572926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20in%20Boston | Sports in Boston | The Boston Red Sox are a founding member of the American League of Major League Baseball (MLB), and one of the four American League teams (the White Sox, Guardians, and Tigers are the others) to still play in their original city. The "BoSox", or "Sox" as they are colloquially called, play their home games at Fenway Par... | 2.34375 | 0 |
8572926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20in%20Boston | Sports in Boston | The Boston Braves were established in 1932, under the ownership of George Preston Marshall. At the time the team played in Braves Field, home of the Boston Braves baseball team in the National League. The following year, the club moved to Fenway Park, home of the American League's Boston Red Sox, whereupon owners chang... | 2.46875 | 0 |
8572926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20in%20Boston | Sports in Boston | In 1959, Boston business executive Billy Sullivan was awarded a franchise (Boston Patriots) in the American Football League (AFL), bringing professional football back to Boston. Throughout the 1960s, the team lacked a permanent home field, playing at Nickerson Field (at the time still known and configured as Braves Fie... | 2.125 | 0 |
8572926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20in%20Boston | Sports in Boston | Two different women's soccer teams known as the Boston Breakers have been charter members of three separate professional leagues. The original version, founded in 2001, played in the short-lived Women's United Soccer Association. The Breakers were resurrected in 2009 to play in WUSA's equally short-lived successor, Wom... | 2.40625 | 0 |
8572926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20in%20Boston | Sports in Boston | All except Harvard, which belongs to ECAC Hockey, belong to the Hockey East conference in hockey. The hockey teams of these four universities meet every year in a four-team tournament known as the "Beanpot Tournament", played at the TD Garden (and the Boston Garden before that) over two Monday nights in February.
The ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
8572928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai%20Weiwei | Ai Weiwei | Ai Weiwei ( ; , IPA: ; born 28 August 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human righ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
8572928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai%20Weiwei | Ai Weiwei | From 1981 to 1993, he lived in the United States. He was among the first generation of students to study abroad following China's reform in 1980, being one of the 161 students to take the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) in 1981. For the first few years, Ai lived in Philadelphia and San Francisco. He studi... | 2.171875 | 0 |
8572928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai%20Weiwei | Ai Weiwei | Internet activities
In 2005, Ai was invited to start blogging by Sina Weibo, the biggest internet platform in China. He posted his first blog on 19 November. For four years, he "turned out a steady stream of scathing social commentary, criticism of government policy, thoughts on art and architecture, and autobiographic... | 2.171875 | 0 |
8572928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai%20Weiwei | Ai Weiwei | This documentary on the Fukushima Art Project is about artist Ai Weiwei's investigation of the site as well as the project's installation process. In August 2014, Ai Weiwei was invited as one of the participating artists for the Fukushima Nuclear Zone by the Japanese art coalition Chim↑Pom, as part of the project Don't... | 2.296875 | 0 |
8572928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai%20Weiwei | Ai Weiwei | Hansel and Gretel
(2017) The exhibition at the Park Avenue Armory from 7 June- 6 August 2017, Hansel and Gretel was an installation exploring the theme of surveillance. The project, a collaboration of Ai Weiwei and architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, features surveillance cameras equipped with facial recog... | 2.140625 | 0 |
8572928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai%20Weiwei | Ai Weiwei | In 2011, Ai sat on the jury of an international initiative to find a universal Logo for Human Rights. The winning design, combining the silhouette of a hand with that of a bird, was chosen from more than 15,300 suggestions from over 190 countries. The initiative's goal was to create an internationally recognized logo t... | 2.078125 | 0 |
8572931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losing%20streak | Losing streak | In sports, a losing streak (a.k.a. a cold streak, losing skid, slide, schneid, or losing slump) is an uninterrupted string of contests (games, matches, etc.) lost by a team or individual. A losing streak is thus the opposite of a winning streak. A losing streak can last as few as two games, or it may last much longer.... | 2.734375 | 0 |
8572958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20People%27s%20Republic%20of%20Animation | The People's Republic of Animation | The People's Republic of Animation (PRA) is an animation studio based in Adelaide, Australia. It began as a creator of music videos for Australian bands in 2003, and has since created award-winning short films and TV commercials, and developed feature films.
Foundation
As 14-year-olds, in 1996, PRA founders Eddie Whit... | 2.0625 | 0 |
8572969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan%20Rawls | Morgan Rawls | Morgan Rawls (June 29, 1829 – October 18, 1906) was an American politician and lawyer, as well as an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Biography
Rawls was born near Statesboro, Georgia in 1829 and moved to Guyton, Georgia in 1856. During the American Civil War, he joined the Confede... | 2.125 | 0 |
8573098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case%E2%80%93Church%20Amendment | Case–Church Amendment | The Case–Church Amendment was proposed, as an amendment to several appropriations bills funding various departments of the United States Government, in 1972 and 1973. The first version actually to become law, passed by both houses of the Congress on June 29, 1973, and signed by President Richard Nixon on July 1, read:... | 2.140625 | 0 |
8573202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Morales | Dan Morales | Daniel C. Morales (born April 24, 1956) is an American politician. He served as the 48th Attorney General of Texas from January 15, 1991, through January 13, 1999, during the administrations of Governors Ann Richards and George W. Bush. As Attorney General, Morales reached a $17 billion settlement with big tobacco comp... | 2.328125 | 0 |
8573202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Morales | Dan Morales | Attorney General of Texas
After six years in the legislature, the earnest but obscure three-term San Antonio legislator announced his candidacy for Attorney General of Texas. The position opened up following the two-term incumbent, Jim Mattox declining to seek a third term—and later unsuccessfully ran for the Democrati... | 1.90625 | 0 |
8573235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgewood%20Plantation%20and%20Harrison%27s%20Mill | Edgewood Plantation and Harrison's Mill | Edgewood Plantation is an estate located north of the James River in Charles City County, Virginia. It is located along State Route 5, a scenic byway which runs between the independent cities of Richmond and Williamsburg. Edgewood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Construction
Circa 1849... | 2.21875 | 0 |
8573248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20E.%20Briggs | James E. Briggs | Briggs returned to the United States in June 1951 to become deputy commander of the Fifteenth Air Force at March Air Force Base, California. He was promoted to the rank of major general in October 1951 while at March Air Force Base and, one month later, was reassigned to Washington, D.C. as assistant deputy chief of st... | 1.976563 | 0 |
8573257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Rogers%20%28politician%29 | Joe Rogers (politician) | Joseph Bernard Rogers (July 8, 1964 – October 7, 2013) was an American politician and attorney who served as the 45th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado from 1999 to 2003. He was a member of the Republican Party and unsuccessfully mounted congressional campaigns in 1996 and 2002.
Early life and education
Rogers was born ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
8573283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja%20Lama | Ja Lama | Ja Lama (, also known as Dambiijantsan, or Dambiijaa, ; 1862–1922) was an adventurer and warlord of unknown birth and background who fought successive campaigns against the rule of the Qing dynasty in western Mongolia between 1890 and 1922. He claimed to be a Buddhist lama, though it is not clear whether he actually w... | 2.21875 | 0 |
8573283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja%20Lama | Ja Lama | Mongolia's struggle for independence
The Mongolian Revolution of 1911 was fought by the Khalkha Mongols against Qing China. However, western Mongolia remained under Manchu control. By spring of 1912, Ja Lama returned to Mongolia; this time he made his way to Khovd in northwest Mongolia, the last Qing stronghold in the... | 2.8125 | 0 |
8573380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czeslaw%20Brzozowicz | Czeslaw Brzozowicz | Czeslaw Peter Brzozowicz (June 28, 1911 - November 24, 1997) was a consulting engineer for the CN Tower, Toronto-Dominion Centre, first Toronto subway line, among many other construction projects in Canada.
Biography
Born in Sokolow Malopolski, Poland, in 1911, Brzozowicz graduated in civil engineering from the Univer... | 2.109375 | 0 |
8573406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenothrin | Phenothrin | Phenothrin, also called sumithrin and d-phenothrin, is a synthetic pyrethroid that kills adult fleas and ticks. It has also been used to kill head lice in humans. d-Phenothrin is used as a component of aerosol insecticides for domestic use. It is often used with methoprene, an insect growth regulator that interrupts th... | 2.265625 | 0 |
8573420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Curgenven | Henry Curgenven | Henry Grafton Curgenven (22 December 1875 — 14 February 1959) was an English cricketer. He played for Derbyshire in 1896 and 1897, and for Cambridge University in 1897.
Curgenven was born at Friar Gate Derby, the son of William Curgenven who was a doctor and former Derbyshire cricketer, and his wife Pamela Harman. He ... | 2 | 0 |
8573459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20of%20Santos | Port of Santos | Millions of immigrants reached Brazil via the Port of Santos in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, proceeding to the country's interior by railway.
History
The port of Santos was originally founded on Tuesday, 2 February 1892. In 1913, there were about 90,000 inhabitants in the city of Santos and the economical... | 2.9375 | 0 |
8573459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20of%20Santos | Port of Santos | Worker Culture
The port is the principal source of jobs for the city of Santos. The fact that the town is mainly dependent on the one industry of the port, a strike in the port would cause considerable losses that could affect the entire city of Santos. Whenever the workers stopped working, the movement of goods would... | 2.421875 | 0 |
8573459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20of%20Santos | Port of Santos | Economy
Shaped by urban, economic and demographic development from the maritime industry, the Port of Santos is the largest port in Latin America, and the gateway to most of the goods that circulate Brazil. It drives the economy of the town of Santos and therefore the town is mainly dependent on the port. The people t... | 2.390625 | 0 |
8573469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doswellia | Doswellia | Doswellia is an extinct genus of archosauriform from the Late Triassic of North America. It is the most notable member of the family Doswelliidae, related to the proterochampsids. Doswellia was a low and heavily built carnivore which lived during the Carnian stage of the Late Triassic. It possesses many unusual feature... | 2.40625 | 0 |
8573469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doswellia | Doswellia | In the 1950s and 1960s, several additional bones (including vertebrae, osteoderms, a dentary, and a femur) were unearthed near Ashland, a little south of Doswell. These specimens were initially believed to have belonged to phytosaurs, but were recognized as pertaining to Doswellia after the Doswell specimens were found... | 2.421875 | 0 |
8573469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doswellia | Doswellia | Doswellia possesses many highly derived features in its skeleton. The skull is low and elongated with a narrow snout and wide temporal region behind the eye sockets. The temporal region is unusual in that it is euryapsid, which means that the lower of the two temporal holes on either side of the skull has closed. The j... | 2.640625 | 0 |
8573469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doswellia | Doswellia | The neck of Doswellia was long and flexible, although also heavily armored, so it was likely incapable of bending above the horizontal, instead probably being used more for downwards and lateral (side-to-side) movement. The body was also probably incapable of moving up and down to much of an extent due to the extensive... | 2.8125 | 0 |
8573469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doswellia | Doswellia | In 2017, an osteoderm from the Doswellia holotype was given a histological analysis to study growth patterns. The analysis concluded that the osteoderm formed by "intramembraneous ossification" due to the lack of structural fibers within it. This means that the bone of the osteoderm formed from a soft layer of perioste... | 2.46875 | 0 |
8573469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doswellia | Doswellia | Classification
The type species, Doswellia kaltenbachi, was described by Weems in 1980. Weems placed Doswellia within Thecodontia, a group of archosaurs that traditionally included many Triassic archosaurs. He placed the genus within its own family, Doswelliidae, and suborder, Dosweliina. Parrish (1993) placed Doswell... | 2.078125 | 0 |
8573510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoru | Sokoru | Based on figures published by the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this woreda has an estimated total population of 157,552, of whom 79,305 were males and 78,247 were females; 19,676 or 12.49% of its population are urban dwellers, which is about the same as the Zone average of 12.3%. With an estimated area of 923.44... | 2.34375 | 0 |
8573552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/440th%20Airlift%20Wing | 440th Airlift Wing | Initial activation and mobilization for the Korean War
The wing was first activated as the 440th Troop Carrier Wing at Wold-Chamberlain Field, Minnesota in June 1949, when Continental Air Command (ConAC) reorganized its flying units under the wing base organization system, which united the flying units and supporting u... | 2.546875 | 0 |
8573552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/440th%20Airlift%20Wing | 440th Airlift Wing | Since 1955, the Air Force had been detaching Air Force Reserve squadrons from their parent wing locations to separate sites. The concept offered several advantages: communities were more likely to accept the smaller squadrons than the large wings and the location of separate squadrons in smaller population centers woul... | 2.640625 | 0 |
8573552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/440th%20Airlift%20Wing | 440th Airlift Wing | The next two years were a busy operational period for the wing. The 440th took part in Operation Uphold Democracy (Haiti) and Operation Safe Borders, support of U.S. Army forces in Honduras while preparing a defense of the unit before the congressionally mandated Base Realignment and Closure Commission).
Operation Jo... | 1.914063 | 0 |
8573560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrofluidic%20seal | Ferrofluidic seal | Benefits and limitations
Magnetic liquid rotary seals operate with little maintenance and minimal leakage in a range of applications. Ferrofluid-based seals used in industrial and scientific applications are most often packaged in mechanical seal assemblies called rotary feed-throughs, which also contain a central shaf... | 2.078125 | 0 |
8573657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kersa%2C%20Jimma | Kersa, Jimma | Kersa is a woreda in the Jimma Zone of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. It is bordered on the south by Dedo, on the southwest by Seka Chekorsa, on the west by Mana, on the north by Limmu Kosa, on the northeast by Tiro Afeta, and on the southeast by Omo Nada. Towns and cities in Kersa include Jimma, the zone's capital, an... | 2.375 | 0 |
8573669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali%20Rebellion | Somali Rebellion | The Somali Rebellion was the start of the Somali Civil War that began in the 1970s and resulted in the collapse of the Somali Democratic Republic in 1991. The rebellion effectively began in 1978 following a failed coup d’état and President Siad Barre began using his special forces, the "Red Berets" (Duub Cas), to attac... | 2.4375 | 0 |
8573669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali%20Rebellion | Somali Rebellion | As Barre's regime weakened in its last two years, government institutions collapsed, and clan cohesion disintegrated. The state went bankrupt as taxes went unpaid and foreign aid was withdrawn. The July 1989 riots and massacres brought large scale violence to Mogadishu for the first time, intensifying the rebellion. By... | 2.4375 | 0 |
8573669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali%20Rebellion | Somali Rebellion | In April 1981, a group of Isaaq businesspeople, students, former civil servants and former politicians who lived in the United Kingdom founded the Somali National Movement (SNM( in London. Initially, the aim of the various groups that merged to create the SNM was not to create an armed liberation front, but rather thes... | 2.546875 | 0 |
8573669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali%20Rebellion | Somali Rebellion | A policy letter written by Barre's son-in-law and viceroy in the north General Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan known as The Morgan Report formed the basis of the Barre regime's retaliation against the Isaaq following a successful SNM attack on Hargeisa and Burao. The policy letter provided “implemented and recommended measu... | 1.914063 | 0 |
8573669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali%20Rebellion | Somali Rebellion | Mohamed Hawadle Madar was quoted to have said that the rebels had been beaten back from an assault into Wardigley district, where the palace is located. The rebels claimed to have captured the cities' radio station, Radio Mogadishu, by January 2, but a government broadcast from the station disproved this; by this time,... | 2.375 | 0 |
8573680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poecilotheria | Poecilotheria | Biology
Species of Poecilotheria are easily distinguishable from other species of family Theraphosidae due to the flattened carapace, maxilla with spines, and black teeth like tubercles. Their legs lack spines and the scopula of the legs are clearly seen. There are unique color patterns on the ventral surface, especial... | 2.53125 | 0 |
8573707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Soldier%27s%20Play | A Soldier's Play | A Soldier's Play is a play by American playwright Charles Fuller. Set on a US Army installation in the segregation-era South, the play is a loose adaptation of Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd, and follows the murder investigation of the Sergeant in an all-black unit. The play uses a murder mystery to explore the c... | 2.453125 | 0 |
8573707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Soldier%27s%20Play | A Soldier's Play | As Davenport interviews witnesses and suspects, we see flashbacks showing what Sergeant Waters was like, and how he treated his men. The light-skinned Waters was highly intelligent and extremely ambitious, and loathed black men who conformed to old-fashioned racist stereotypes. Waters dreamed of sending his own childre... | 2.265625 | 0 |
8573708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racking%20Horse | Racking Horse | The Racking Horse is a horse breed derived from the Tennessee Walking Horse, recognized by the USDA in 1971. It is known for a distinctive singlefoot gait. In 1971, the Racking Horse Breeders' Association of America, headquartered in Decatur, Alabama, was formed as the breed registry. Its goal is to preserve the bree... | 2.53125 | 0 |
8573708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racking%20Horse | Racking Horse | Colors accepted by the breed registry include all solid equine coat colors and roan. Racking Horses are also commonly seen in colors created by dilution genes, such as dun, cream and champagne. Some horses may also have body markings. Pinto Racking Horses may be double-registered as Spotted Saddle Horses. The breed i... | 2.5625 | 0 |
8573708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racking%20Horse | Racking Horse | Tennessee Walking Horses have continued to have an influence on modern Racking Horses. Many notable Racking Horses are a result of crossbreeding between the two, including many World and World Grand Champions. In the mid-1990s the RHBAA tried to stop dual registration of horses with their association and the Tennessee ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
8573787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Fairfield%20Warren | William Fairfield Warren | William Fairfield Warren (March 13, 1833 – December 7, 1929) was the first president of Boston University.
Biography
Born in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, he graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut (1853), and there became a member of the Mystical Seven. He later studied at Andover Theological Semi... | 2.59375 | 0 |
8573787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Fairfield%20Warren | William Fairfield Warren | Warren's identification of Atlantis with the North Pole was maintained by positioning Atlas in the far north by mapping out ancient Greek cosmology. Warren equated the primordial Titan Atlas of Greek mythology who supported the Heavens on his shoulders (or supported the earth on a pillar) to the Atlas described in Plat... | 2.171875 | 0 |
8573842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Live%20Alerts | Windows Live Alerts | Windows Live Alerts (formerly MSN Alerts) was a part of the Windows Live services from Microsoft that allowed users to get notification of time-sensitive events and information from various alert content providers. Users were able to choose how and when to receive alerts, so that users may stay informed no matter where... | 1.976563 | 0 |
8573852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miron%20Constantinescu | Miron Constantinescu | With Bârlădeanu, Grigore Preoteasa, Gheorghe Rădulescu, Constanța Crăciun, and others, Constantinescu founded the anti-fascist Frontul Studențesc Democrat (FSD, the Students' Democratic Front) in 1935. The group was, in effect, an outlet of the Communist Party — its entire leadership continued to carry party work throu... | 2.328125 | 0 |
8573871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Riely%20Gordon | James Riely Gordon | Gordon's most successful plan—apparently his own unique design, without precedent—was that of a Greek cross with a square central atrium and stairwell, and quarter-circular entrance porches in each corner. This Signature Plan of his captured the passing breeze, which lifted thru the central atrium like a chimney, provi... | 2.5 | 0 |
8573871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Riely%20Gordon | James Riely Gordon | Using his design for the Mississippi capitol, Gordon won the commission for the Arizona Territorial Capitol building in Phoenix, which became the state capitol when Arizona was admitted to the Union in 1912; today, it is a museum. Another notable building was the award-winning Texas Pavilion at the 1893 World's Columbi... | 2.40625 | 0 |
8573871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Riely%20Gordon | James Riely Gordon | Other buildings
Among Gordon's nonpublic work in Texas is the 1890 Protestant Home for Destitute Children at 802 Kentucky Ave in San Antonio. The building was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1991. The Stevens Building, which Gordon designed at 315 E. Commerce, received the Recorded Texas Historic Landm... | 2.234375 | 0 |
8573918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart%20Edward%20White | Stewart Edward White | Stewart Edward White (March 12, 1873 – September 18, 1946) was an American writer, novelist, and Spiritualist. He was a brother of noted mural painter Gilbert White.
Personal life
White was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of Mary E. (Daniell) and Thomas Stewart White, a lumberman. He attended Grand Rapids High... | 2.046875 | 0 |
8573919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsense%20suppressor | Nonsense suppressor | A nonsense suppressor is a factor which can inhibit the effect of the nonsense mutation. Nonsense suppressors can be generally divided into two classes: a) a mutated tRNA which can bind with a termination codon on mRNA; b) a mutation on ribosomes decreasing the effect of a termination codon. It is believed that nonsens... | 2.046875 | 0 |
8573969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Margaret%20Chandler | Elizabeth Margaret Chandler | It is hard to say exactly how influential her writings were to the public at large. However, many of her articles were copied and circulated in the most popular newspapers of the time. She also introduced one of the most famous abolitionist images, the kneeling female slave with the slogan "Am I not a Woman and a Sist... | 2.703125 | 0 |
8573978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omo%20Nada | Omo Nada | Omo Nada is one of the woredas in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. Part of the Jimma Zone, Omo Nada is bordered on the south by the Gojeb River, which separates it from the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR), on the west by Dedo, on the northwest by Kersa, on the north by Nadhi Gibe, on the northe... | 2.453125 | 0 |
8573984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhart%20Mines%2C%20Maryland | Eckhart Mines, Maryland | Eckhart Mines is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Allegany County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 932.
Eckhart Mines lies at the southwestern base of Federal Hill, east of Frostburg and northwest of Clarysville. Braddock Run begins near Eckhart M... | 2.234375 | 0 |
8573991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio%20Jacinto | António Jacinto | António Jacinto do Amaral Martins (28 September 1924 – 23 June 1991) was an Angolan poet and politician. He was also known by his pseudonym Orlando Tavora.
Biography
Jacinto was born in Luanda, Angola, to parents of Portuguese descent. He was raised and studied in the interior of Angola in the remote town of Golungo A... | 2.078125 | 0 |
8574016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuyler%20Wheeler | Schuyler Wheeler | These blind workers were paid a minimum wage during training and afterwards promoted to full-time positions to earn a normal income. One of their duties at first was the taping of wire coils which were on the armatures of electric motors. This was easily learned and advanced work was soon taught of winding wire coils f... | 2.828125 | 0 |
8574016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuyler%20Wheeler | Schuyler Wheeler | Personal life
Wheeler was married in 1898 to Ella Adams Peterson, daughter of Richard N. Peterson of New York City. She died in 1900 and he married again in 1901 to Amy Sutton, daughter of John Joseph Sutton of Rye, New York. He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers; the American Society of Mechanica... | 2.140625 | 0 |
8574142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular%20Front%20of%20India | Popular Front of India | In 2012, PFI launched a nationwide campaign "Why the Popular Front", detailing the alleged false accusations and attempts by mainstream media and other organisations to tarnish its image. The organisation maintains that it strives hard to restore the rights of the depressed and marginalised sections of the Indian socie... | 2.046875 | 0 |
8574175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob%20Ritter%20von%20Danner | Jakob Ritter von Danner | Jakob Ritter von Danner (7 August 1865 in Queichheim/Landau – 28 December 1942 in Munich) was a general in the Royal Bavarian Army, the Imperial German Army and the Reichswehr. As commandant of the Munich garrison of the Reichswehr, he was a central figure in putting down the attempted Beer Hall Putsch by Adolf Hitler ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
8574175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob%20Ritter%20von%20Danner | Jakob Ritter von Danner | For valor on 1 December 1916 in the fighting in the Upper Alsace region, Danner was decorated with the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Max Joseph, Bavaria's highest military honor, on 1 September 1917. For a Bavarian commoner, award of this order of knighthood conferred nobility. Danner received his patent of n... | 2.703125 | 0 |
8574203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immediate%20Response%20Force | Immediate Response Force | The Immediate Response Force (IRF) is a rapid deployment force jointly maintained by the United States Army and United States Air Force, which is capable of deploying worldwide within 18 hours of notification.
Background
By 1980, the United States formed the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDJTF) as a rapid reactio... | 2.5625 | 0 |
8574248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhart%20Branch%20Railroad | Eckhart Branch Railroad | Operations
Service on the Eckhart Branch was hard, as evidenced by a series of correspondence with the Winans works in Baltimore in 1856. On June 16, 1856, CC&I ordered a replacement right-hand crosshead for the Braddock. The Braddock had gone into service on July 1, 1854. On September 24, they needed the same part for... | 2 | 0 |
8574248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhart%20Branch%20Railroad | Eckhart Branch Railroad | From 1846 to 1870, the Winans Camel engines of the Eckhart Railroad eased the heavy coal loads down the mountain, around the horseshoe curve, and through the tunnels to Cumberland. These were the days of manual car brakes, and link-and-pin couplers. Brakemen ran across the tops of cars, in all sorts of weather, to manu... | 2.46875 | 0 |
8574248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhart%20Branch%20Railroad | Eckhart Branch Railroad | There are no details on the conversion, but if we assume that the cylinders were bored an additional 1", the tractive effort would have increased by about 10 percent. This is following Baldwin's published formula for tractive effort (ref. 78). Boring out the cylinders would have required new pistons, of course. The wei... | 2.21875 | 0 |
8574285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%20Square%2C%20Ontario | Victoria Square, Ontario | Today's residential development of the area began in the 2006 with the development of Cathedraltown to the south and west of Victoria Square and accelerated with the building of the new bypass of Woodbine Avenue in 2010.
Today, farmlands are slowly but progressively disappearing in the area and replaced with newer exe... | 2.09375 | 0 |
8574287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20O%27Dowd | Bernard O'Dowd | Bernard Patrick O'Dowd (11 April 1866 – 1 September 1953) was an Australian poet, activist, lawyer, and journalist. He worked for the Victorian colonial and state governments for almost 50 years, first as an assistant librarian at the Supreme Court in Melbourne, and later as a parliamentary draughtsman.
Life and work ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
8574287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20O%27Dowd | Bernard O'Dowd | Over the years, O'Dowd's official career remained distinct from his poetic and political activities. Beginning in 1897 he was a co-publisher of the first issues of the radical paper the Tocsin, which was associated with the United Labor Party. He wrote a regular column in the Tocsin as 'Gavah the Blacksmith'. Active as... | 1.960938 | 0 |
8574293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20File%20Exchange | Apple File Exchange | Apple File Exchange (AFE) is a utility program for Apple Macintosh computers. It was included on the Apple "Tidbits" or "Install 2" disk in system versions 7.0 through 7.1. In System 7.5 (released in 1994), it was replaced by PC Exchange.
Apple File Exchange could read floppy disks from DOS/Windows and ProDOS (Apple I... | 2.09375 | 0 |
8574360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20Street%20Bridge%20%28Harrisburg%2C%20Pennsylvania%29 | State Street Bridge (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) | The State Street Bridge, also known as the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Bridge, is a concrete, deck arch bridge that spans Pennsylvania Route 230 and Paxton Creek in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The bridge was completed in 1930 and was intended to be the principal entrance into downtown Harrisburg and the Pennsylvania S... | 2.546875 | 0 |
8574379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge%20Ochoa | Jorge Ochoa | Jorge Luis Ochoa Vásquez (born 30 September 1950) is a Colombian former drug trafficker who was one of the founding members of the Medellín Cartel in the late 1970s. The cartel's key members were Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder, José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha,
Gustavo Gaviria, Jorge Ochoa, and his brothers Juan David and Fa... | 2.21875 | 0 |
8574398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger%20Wharf | Finger Wharf | The Finger Wharf is a heritage-listed former wharf and passenger terminal and now marina, residential apartments, hotel and restaurant located at 6 Cowper Wharf Road, in the inner city Sydney suburb of Woolloomooloo, Australia. It was designed by Henry D. Walsh and built from 1910 to 1915 by the Sydney Harbour Trust. I... | 2.015625 | 0 |
8574398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger%20Wharf | Finger Wharf | In 1926, the northern end shed was constructed to serve as a store and a carpenter's shop. During World War 1 and World War 2, the wharf was an embarkation point for troops boarding converted passenger liners to be transported to foreign theatres of the wars.
The finger wharf was an operational working wharf for much ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
8574424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Benjamin%20Pryor | John Benjamin Pryor | John Benjamin Pryor (1812 – December 26, 1890), was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He trained Lexington, a top racehorse of the 1850s whose excellence in competition and reputation as a sire stud continued well into the 20th century, earning the horse induction into the United States' National Museum of R... | 2.40625 | 0 |
8574424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Benjamin%20Pryor | John Benjamin Pryor | Return to United States
Pryor and his family returned to the United States aboard the ship Cimbria, entering New York City on October 12, 1872. By 1880 Pryor was living in Monmouth County, New Jersey. The 1880 US Census answers a question as to the possible identity of Pryor's wife. Although UK records reflect that P... | 2.609375 | 0 |
8574428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%20to%20the%20Brazos | March to the Brazos | March to the Brazos was revived in 1977 when cadet leadership saw the natural tie between March to the Brazos and the March of Dimes. This special partnership was seen as a way to build Corps spirit and also benefit a worthwhile charity. From 1977 through 2003, the event raised a total of $1.3 million, with $130,000 r... | 2.125 | 0 |
8574435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Furtado | Abraham Furtado | Abraham Furtado (1756-1817) was born to a French Jewish family of Portuguese Marrano descent. He was born in London after his family emigrated there after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. Soon after, they moved to a small town in southwestern France, Saint-Esprit (today, a district of Bayonne). After a short time, the famil... | 2.578125 | 0 |
8574464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Creek%20Railroad | Georges Creek Railroad | The Georges Creek Railroad was a railroad operated by the Georges Creek Coal and Iron Company in Western Maryland. The railroad operated from 1853 to 1863, when it was acquired by the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad (C&P).
History
Georges Creek Coal and Iron Company (GCC&I) had constructed and was operating a b... | 2.1875 | 0 |
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