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8574464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Creek%20Railroad | Georges Creek Railroad | The Georges Creek Railroad was acquired by the C&P on October 23, 1863. The shops and engine house at Lonaconing were used until 1867. These were located just north of where the road to Dan's Mountain State Park merges with Maryland Route 36, at Water Station Road, north of Lonaconing. This section of line still saw us... | 2.3125 | 0 |
8574477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20J.%20Deikman | Arthur J. Deikman | Arthur J. Deikman (September 27, 1929 – September 2, 2013) was an American physician who was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology and Human Givens. He was also a contributor to The Journal of Nervou... | 2.109375 | 0 |
8574497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortensia%20%28orator%29 | Hortensia (orator) | Hortensia ( 42 BC), daughter of consul and advocate Quintus Hortensius, earned renown during the late Roman Republic as a skilled orator. She is best known for giving a speech in front of the members of the Second Triumvirate in 42 BC that resulted in the partial repeal of a tax on wealthy Roman women.
Life
Little is... | 2.71875 | 0 |
8574497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortensia%20%28orator%29 | Hortensia (orator) | In 42 BC, nearly all of Rome's state-sponsored military legions, which were under the command of triumvirs Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Marcus Antonius, were at war with the assassins of Julius Caesar (Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus). To fu... | 2.671875 | 0 |
8574505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malabar%20grouper | Malabar grouper | The Malabar grouper (Epinephelus malabaricus) also known as blackspot rockcod, estuary rockcod, giant rock cod, greasy grouper, Malabar rockcod, Morgan's cod or speckled grouper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is part of the family Serranidae, which also include... | 2.4375 | 0 |
8574542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Barton | Samuel Barton | Colonel Samuel Barton (May 1749 – January 1810) was a pioneer and Patriot of the American Revolution (1775–1783) but is remembered more for the exploration and settlement of what was to become Nashville, Tennessee. Little is known of his early youth. Family tradition holds that Samuel, born in Virginia, was left bound... | 2.640625 | 0 |
8574542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Barton | Samuel Barton | With the advantages of military training and leadership he returned to Tennessee, then part of North Carolina, and contributed to the settling and development of Fort Nashborough, what was to become Nashville. His original home was called Barton Station and was located on Browns Creek where the Lipscomb University now ... | 2.796875 | 0 |
8574578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorlemoinea | Victorlemoinea | Victorlemoinea is an extinct litoptern genus of the family Sparnotheriodontidae, that lived from the Early to Middle Eocene. Fossils of Victorlemoinea have been found in the Las Flores, Sarmiento and Koluel Kaike Formations of Argentina, the Itaboraí Formation of Brazil and La Meseta Formation, Antarctica.
Description... | 2.484375 | 0 |
8574588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester%20Model%201892 | Winchester Model 1892 | The Winchester Model 1892 was a lever-action repeating rifle designed by John Browning as a smaller, lighter version of his large-frame Model 1886, and which replaced the Model 1873 as the company's lever-action for pistol-caliber rounds such as the .44-40.
History
When asked by Winchester to design an improved lever ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
8574604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Creek%20Coal%20and%20Iron%20Company | Georges Creek Coal and Iron Company | One key ingredient of a blast furnace is the blast. The company bought the necessary machinery from the West Point Foundry in New York City. The machinery went by ship from New York to Georgetown, then by canal to Williamsport. Here, the parts were loaded on wagons for the final leg of the journey. The canal charged $3... | 2.90625 | 0 |
8574604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Creek%20Coal%20and%20Iron%20Company | Georges Creek Coal and Iron Company | With production going well, iron piled up in Lonaconing. In 1842, sales of pig iron to foundries in Cumberland began, with delivery by wagon. An adjacent sawmill and lumberyard, also owned by the company, recorded sales to the nearby Mount Savage Iron Works, then involved in building its own furnaces. In the fall of 18... | 2.453125 | 0 |
8574635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRUA | KRUA | In 1991, KMPS received the approval to move forward with the construction of a tower site for the young station, and 88.1-megahertz was assigned as its frequency. A referendum to increase student fees to $5.25 per student passed by a landslide: this allowed the station to move towards FM status.
On February 14, 1992, ... | 1.9375 | 0 |
8574662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Argyll%20Robertson | Douglas Argyll Robertson | Douglas Moray Cooper Lamb Argyll Robertson FRSE, FRCSEd LLD (1837 – 3 January 1909) was a Scottish ophthalmologist and surgeon. He introduced physostigmine into ophthalmic practice and the Argyll Robertson pupil is named after him. He was president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Early life
He was born ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
8574662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Argyll%20Robertson | Douglas Argyll Robertson | Effects of Calabar bean extract
Robertson made several contributions in the field of ophthalmology. The first was in 1863 when he researched the effects on the eye made by physostigmine, an extract from the Calabar bean (Physostigma venenosum), which is found in tropical Africa. Robert Christison, Professor of Materia... | 2.484375 | 0 |
8574662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Argyll%20Robertson | Douglas Argyll Robertson | Argyll Robertson pupil
He also described a symptom of neurosyphilis that affects the pupils of the eye, a condition subsequently known as Argyll Robertson pupil. In 1869 he published a paper giving the first description of unusual reactions of the pupils to light and accommodation in patients with tabes dorsalis (syphi... | 2.640625 | 0 |
8574681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedarhurst%20Cut-off | Cedarhurst Cut-off | The line between Springfield Junction and Cedarhurst has been rebuilt and abandoned twice, with electrification, first between 1905 and 1908 to help relieve the traffic off the Far Rockaway Branch; however, for unknown reasons the branch was never put into revenue service and instead was used to route equipment. In 191... | 2.09375 | 0 |
8574778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20de%20Sales%20Brunner | Francis de Sales Brunner | In 1833, with his mother, he made a pilgrimage to Rome, where they were both enrolled in the Archconfraternity of the Most Precious Blood. Returned to Lowenberg, his mother gathered around her pious virgins to "hold a perpetual (day and night) adoration and dedicate their lives to the education of orphans and the furni... | 2.609375 | 0 |
8574778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20de%20Sales%20Brunner | Francis de Sales Brunner | Brunner established a mission house at New Riegel, Ohio, in December 1844, followed by one at Thompson, and another at New Washington. In 1848 a mission was established at Glandorf, Ohio. In 1844, he became superior of the American province of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. Their missionary circuit included al... | 2.5 | 0 |
8574786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment%20in%20Malaysia | Capital punishment in Malaysia | On 3 April 2023, the Dewan Rakyat passed the Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Bill 2023 by a voice vote to abolish all mandatory death penalty under Malaysian criminal law. The bill was subsequently approved by the Dewan Negara on 11 April 2023 and received royal assent from the Yang di-Pertuan Agong on 9 June 2023... | 2.40625 | 0 |
8574786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment%20in%20Malaysia | Capital punishment in Malaysia | Of the various non-governmental organisations that made a submission for the review, three had an extract about capital punishment. The first was the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM). In their report, they noted that they were against capital punishment and natural life sentences and recommended that such ... | 1.921875 | 0 |
8574786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment%20in%20Malaysia | Capital punishment in Malaysia | The report noted that Malaysia's approach to drug offences violated international standards. They further noted that there was a serious lack of due process given that those accused of drug trafficking are presumed guilty upon arrest. The organisation argued that as a result of these presumptions, it has led to hundred... | 2.171875 | 0 |
8574786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment%20in%20Malaysia | Capital punishment in Malaysia | On 10 October 2018, Liew Vui Keong, the minister in charge of law in the Prime Minister's Department, announced that the Malaysian Government would abolish the death penalty. The minister announced that the government had imposed a moratorium on all executions until the passage of the new law. The Pakatan Harapan gover... | 2.171875 | 0 |
8574786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment%20in%20Malaysia | Capital punishment in Malaysia | On 10 December 2019, the Law Minister Liew Vui Keong announced that an anticipated proposal on alternatives to the death penalty would be submitted in January 2020, allowing judges a discretion in certain serious crimes. The 2020–2022 Malaysian political crisis beginning in February 2020 led to a change in government, ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
8574786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment%20in%20Malaysia | Capital punishment in Malaysia | Rules and procedures regarding death sentence
Only High Courts had jurisdiction in capital cases. Appeals to the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court are automatic. The last resort for the convicted is to plead pardon for clemency. Pardons or clemency were granted by the Ruler or Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of t... | 2.15625 | 0 |
8574871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20de%20la%20Calancha | Antonio de la Calancha | Antonio de la Calancha (1584–1654) was a pioneering anthropologist studying the South American natives and a senior Augustinian friar.
Calancha was the son of an Andalusian holder of an encomienda, Captain Francisco de la Calancha, and Doña Maria de Benavides. Although he himself declares in his chronicle that his pa... | 3.015625 | 0 |
8574871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20de%20la%20Calancha | Antonio de la Calancha | In those places he gathered a great number of news for his Coronica moralizada de la orden de San Agustín en Perú, published in Barcelona in 1631, translated shortly after to Latin and French and reissued in Lima in 1653. Calancha continued gathering data with a view to write another volume, but his work was left unfin... | 2.328125 | 0 |
8574885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will%20H.%20Daly | Will H. Daly | Labor, politics and business success
Throughout his career, he had been active in progressive politics and organized labor, gaining election to both the Portland printer's local and the Oregon State Federation of Labor in 1908. His hard-line leftist views were evident in a speech he gave at a labor parade in 1909 intr... | 2.40625 | 0 |
8574900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Dale | Anna Dale | Anna Dale (born 1971) is an English novelist for children's literature, who rose to prominence after her novel, Whispering to Witches, was published in 2004.
Early life
Dale was born in 1971, and lived in Suffolk and Hampshire before settling in Essex when she was seven. Dale spent most of her childhood in a village c... | 2.15625 | 0 |
8574975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20of%20Clairvaux | Geoffrey of Clairvaux | Geoffrey of Clairvaux, or Geoffrey of Auxerre, was the secretary and biographer of Bernard of Clairvaux and later abbot of a number of monasteries in the Cistercian tradition.
Life
He was born between the years 1115 and 1120, at Auxerre. At an early age he entered the ranks of the clergy, and followed for some time t... | 2.140625 | 0 |
8575020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahmima%20Anam | Tahmima Anam | Tahmima Anam (; born 8 October 1975) is a Bangladeshi-born British writer, novelist and columnist. Her first novel, A Golden Age (2007), was the Best First Book winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prizes. Her follow-up novel, The Good Muslim, was nominated for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize. She is the granddau... | 2.3125 | 0 |
8575026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Valley%20High%20School%20%28Alaska%29 | West Valley High School (Alaska) | West Valley High School (WVHS) is a public high school in College, Alaska, United States, with a Fairbanks postal address. It is one of four standalone high schools and one of ten schools offering instruction in grades nine through twelve in the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District. Physically located adjacent... | 2.390625 | 0 |
8575026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Valley%20High%20School%20%28Alaska%29 | West Valley High School (Alaska) | The current principal of West Valley is Mark Winford, who replaced Sarah Gilliam, who had been the principal since 2016. The principal before her was Shaun Kraska —who had been an English teacher for several years prior. At the school's inception it come to be known as "Mr. Rodgers' Neighborhood" after long time school... | 2.1875 | 0 |
8575026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Valley%20High%20School%20%28Alaska%29 | West Valley High School (Alaska) | Sports
West Valley offers all standard high school sports, including swimming, baseball, basketball, cross-country running and skiing, football, gymnastics, hockey, soccer, softball, tennis, track and field, wrestling, rifle and volleyball. The West Valley girls' cross-country running team won the 2005, 2006, and 2009 ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
8575069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Golden%20Age | A Golden Age | A Golden Age is the first novel of the Bangladesh-born writer Tahmima Anam. It tells the story of the Bangladesh War of Liberation through the eyes of one family. The novel was awarded the prize for Best First Book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2008. It was also shortlisted for the 2007 Guardian First Book Award.... | 2.3125 | 0 |
8575069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Golden%20Age | A Golden Age | Motherhood
Rehana's whole adult life has centered around her children. As a young widow she fights to regain custody of her children after losing them to her late husband's brother and wife. As her children get older Rehana struggles to relate to them. The struggle to relate intensifies as the tension in East Pakistan... | 2.5625 | 0 |
8575087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littleton%E2%80%93Downtown%20station | Littleton–Downtown station | 2009 BNSF derailment
On January 16, 2009, a southbound BNSF freight train consisting of three locomotives and 68 train cars derailed on the freight tracks adjacent to the station. Three of the train cars were punctured, releasing roughly of liquid sulfur onto the tracks. The sulfur did not pose a health risk to the su... | 1.914063 | 0 |
8575087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littleton%E2%80%93Downtown%20station | Littleton–Downtown station | The station is also served by four RTD bus routes. Route 29 serves Littleton-Downtown every 60 minutes, running north from the station along Federal Boulevard to the Federal and Evans bus hub. Route 36 travels on a 60 minute headway between the same termini as Route 29, however it runs primarily via Lowell Boulevard in... | 2.125 | 0 |
8575098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soprano%20helicon | Soprano helicon | The soprano helicon (in E) is a coiled brass instrument from the helicon family.
The design of the modern soprano helicon takes acoustical advantage of the helicon's easy blowing, but is not simply another circular petite bugle or soprano cornet. The helicon clearly has a larger bore and wider tapered conical tube wit... | 2.84375 | 0 |
8575098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soprano%20helicon | Soprano helicon | The instrument was ready for the first public appearance. Matej Rihter, the eminent Slovenian trumpeter gave its first performance, playing Après un rêve by Gabriel Fauré by himself on the MID EUROPE Festival 2006 in Schladming on 14 July. After this debut, the instrument had to go back to the Melton factory in Geretsr... | 2.53125 | 0 |
8575099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intra-frame%20coding | Intra-frame coding | Intra-frame coding is a data compression technique used within a video frame, enabling smaller file sizes and lower bitrates, with little or no loss in quality. Since neighboring pixels within an image are often very similar, rather than storing each pixel independently, the frame image is divided into blocks and the t... | 2.515625 | 0 |
8575130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregoria%20de%20Jes%C3%BAs | Gregoria de Jesús | Gregoria de Jesús y Álvarez (May 9, 1875 – March 15, 1943), also known by her nickname Oriang, acted as secretary of the women's section and also the custodian of the documents and seal of the Katipunan. She married Andrés Bonifacio, the Supremo of the Katipunan and President of the Katagalugan Revolutionary Government... | 2.125 | 0 |
8575130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregoria%20de%20Jes%C3%BAs | Gregoria de Jesús | Before they got married in March 1893, she joined the Katipunan adopting the name Lakambini (Tagalog, "noblewoman", also "goddess" or "Muse"). They had a traditional religious wedding at the Binondo Church, followed a week later by a ceremony according to the Katipunan's rites, as the society's members did not approve ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
8575130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregoria%20de%20Jes%C3%BAs | Gregoria de Jesús | On August 19, 1896, the Katipunan was exposed by Teodoro Patino, a disgruntled member. The Spanish forces reacted quickly to halt the revolution. Many Filipinos were arrested, jailed, and shot, but Bonifacio and De Jesús went into hiding. The Spanish government was able to tighten its surveillance over the Katipunan. T... | 2.59375 | 0 |
8575145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paco%20Park | Paco Park | Interment at the Paco Cemetery ceased in 1912. It had been the burial ground for several generations and descendants of those buried in the park had the remains of their ancestors exhumed and transferred to other cemeteries in Manila. However, 65 people still remain buried at Paco.
American and Japanese period
During ... | 2.875 | 0 |
8575214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex%20Sports%20Car%20Series | Rolex Sports Car Series | History
Following the failure of the United States Road Racing Championship in 1999, the new Grand American Road Racing Association announced their intentions to adopt a format similar to the one used in the USRRC, centering on the 24 Hours of Daytona. This series was seen as an alternative to the former IMSA GT Champ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
8575239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Street%20%28American%20football%29 | James Street (American football) | James Lowell Street (August 2, 1948 – September 30, 2013) was a two-sport star athlete at the University of Texas. As quarterback, he led the team to the 1969 National Championship in football and posted a perfect 20-0 record, the most wins without a loss in Longhorns history. As a pitcher he was a two time All-America... | 1.945313 | 0 |
8575327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20learning | Action learning | Action Learning is an approach to problem solving that involves taking action and reflecting upon the results. This method is purported to help improve the problem-solving process and simplify the solutions developed as a result. The theory of Action Learning and its epistemological position were originally developed b... | 2.8125 | 0 |
8575327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20learning | Action learning | History and Development
The action learning approach was originated by Reg Revans. Formative influences for Revan included his time working as a physicist at the University of Cambridge, wherein he noted the importance of each scientist describing their own ignorance, sharing experiences, and communally reflecting in o... | 2.75 | 0 |
8575327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20learning | Action learning | Models of Action Learning
The influence of Revans's Action Learning Formula can be seen today in many leadership and organization development initiatives in corporate training and executive education institutes. Since the 1940s, several developments to Revan's original training model have been created. As with other pe... | 2.3125 | 0 |
8575327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20learning | Action learning | The World Institute for Action Learning model
The World Institute for Action Learning (WIAL) model was developed by Michael Marquardt, Skipton Leonard, Bea Carson and Arthur Freedman. The model starts with two simple "ground rules" that ensure that statements are related to questions, and grant authority to the coach ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
8575327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20learning | Action learning | "Unlearning" as a prerequisite for "learning"
The process of learning more creative ways of thinking, feeling, and being is achieved in Action Learning by reflecting on what is working now and on actions that can be improved. Action Learning is consistent with the principles of positive psychology and appreciative inqu... | 2.671875 | 0 |
8575431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%20Village%20%28Coshocton%2C%20Ohio%29 | Roscoe Village (Coshocton, Ohio) | Roscoe Village is a restored Ohio and Erie Canal town located in Coshocton, Ohio, United States. Roscoe Village, was laid out in 1816. It was originally named Caldersburgh after its founder James Calder. After going bankrupt, the Coshocton merchant moved across the Muskingum River to some land he had managed to retain... | 2.515625 | 0 |
8575803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20Castle | Ford Castle | Ford Castle is a Grade I listed building situated at a shallow crossing point on the River Till, Ford, Northumberland, England.
The castle dates from about 1278. The owner Sir William Heron was granted a licence to crenellate the castle in 1338. It was captured by the Scots in 1385 and dismantled by them. However, b... | 2.453125 | 0 |
8575889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%20Kelly%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201911%29 | Jimmy Kelly (footballer, born 1911) | Jimmy Kelly (1911 in Ballybofey, County Donegal, Ireland – November 1970) was an Irish footballer who played for, among others, Derry City, Shamrock Rovers and Dundalk. Kelly was one of the most prolific goalscorers ever to play in the (Northern) Irish League, scoring 748 goals in the league between 1928 and 1952. He a... | 2.03125 | 0 |
8575912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishan-Ang%20Mo%20Kio%20Park | Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park | Background
The Active, Beautiful, Clean Waters (ABC Waters) Programme was launched in 2006 to transform the country’s water bodies beyond their functions of drainage and water supply into beautiful and clean rivers and lakes with new spaces for community bonding and recreation. At the same time, it promotes the applica... | 2.421875 | 0 |
8575932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Niland%20%28American%20football%29 | John Niland (American football) | John Hugh Niland (born February 29, 1944) is an American former professional football player who was an offensive guard in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles. He was a six-time Pro Bowler and a three-time All-Pro. He played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes.
In 2021,... | 2.015625 | 0 |
8575980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon%20Military%20Department | Oregon Military Department | The National Guard is the only statewide civil defense organization of significant size and provides emergency assistance. In the event of a federal call-up of the National Guard sufficient that it cannot fulfill its state role, domestic deployment of the reserve can be ordered. Since 1989 the Oregon National Guard Res... | 2.234375 | 0 |
8576047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant%20media | Restaurant media | Technology trends
Attempts have been made by several companies to digitize the materials on the restaurant tray cover and enhance the consumer experience by integrating multimedia devices into the fast food trays. In 2006, the manufacturer of multimedia tablets called Mediox showcased the first prototypes of multimedia... | 2.046875 | 0 |
8576201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenosporum | Hymenosporum | Hymenosporum is a monotypic genus of trees in the family Pittosporaceae. The sole included species is Hymenosporum flavum, commonly known as native frangipani, found in the rainforests and wet sclerophyll forests of New Guinea, Queensland and New South Wales. Despite its common name, it is not closely related to the fr... | 2.859375 | 0 |
8576213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20fundamentalism%20in%20Iran | Islamic fundamentalism in Iran | Traditionally, the thought and practice of Islamic fundamentalism and Islamism in the nation of Iran has referred to various forms of Shi'i Islamic religious revivalism
that seek a return to the original texts and the inspiration of the original believers of Islam. Issues of importance to the movement include the elim... | 2.21875 | 0 |
8576213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20fundamentalism%20in%20Iran | Islamic fundamentalism in Iran | Following World War II, Western capitalist and other anti-Communist leaders were alarmed at how large, centralized and powerful the Eastern bloc of countries ruled by Communist parties (now including China), had become. As the peoples of Western colonial empires were given independence, the idea that poor, formerly c... | 1.929688 | 0 |
8576213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20fundamentalism%20in%20Iran | Islamic fundamentalism in Iran | Opposition to capitulation
Khomeini attacked the Shah not only for the White Revolution but for violating the constitution, the spread of moral corruption, submission to the United States and Israel, and in October 1964 for "capitulations" or diplomatic immunity granted by the Shah to American military personnel in Ira... | 2.15625 | 0 |
8576213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20fundamentalism%20in%20Iran | Islamic fundamentalism in Iran | On 16 January 1979, Shah left the country "on vacation", never to return and to die of cancer a year and a half later. By 11 February 1979, the monarchy was officially brought down and Khomeini assumed leadership over Iran while guerrillas and rebel troops overwhelmed Pahlavi loyalists in armed combat. Following the Ma... | 2.234375 | 0 |
8576213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20fundamentalism%20in%20Iran | Islamic fundamentalism in Iran | The Islamic Revolution Committees, or Komiteh, were indeed one of the first institutions established after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. They functioned as a form of religious police, enforcing Islamic laws and social norms within the community. Komiteh, were instrumental in the rigorous enforcement of Islamic regulatio... | 2.421875 | 0 |
8576213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20fundamentalism%20in%20Iran | Islamic fundamentalism in Iran | While the principlists were generally suspicious of modern ideas and resistant to modern lifestyles at the time of the revolution, the neo-principlists were receptive to many aspects of modernity and willing to collaborate with secular intellectuals and political activists.
Many of the neo-principlists, like Christian... | 2.328125 | 0 |
8576213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20fundamentalism%20in%20Iran | Islamic fundamentalism in Iran | A major difference between Shia fundamentalism in Iran and mainstream Islamic fundamentalism is that the former has nothing to do with Salafism. According to Gary Legenhausen: "The term Islamic Fundamentalism is one that has been invented by Western journalists by analogy with Christian Fundamentalism. It is not a very... | 2.03125 | 0 |
8576213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20fundamentalism%20in%20Iran | Islamic fundamentalism in Iran | Khamenei has remained silent on the issue. However, he clearly rejected the supervision of Assembly of Experts over the institutions under his responsibility (e.g. Military forces, Judiciary system and IRIB).
Neo-fundamentalists believe that the supreme leader is holy and infallible and the role of people and election... | 1.976563 | 0 |
8576213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20fundamentalism%20in%20Iran | Islamic fundamentalism in Iran | While promoting conforming art and literature, principlists rejected the development of art and literature that has no "valuable content." In 1996, following a fatwa by Ali Khamenei stating that music education corrupts the minds of young children, many music schools were closed and music instruction to children under ... | 1.9375 | 0 |
8576213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20fundamentalism%20in%20Iran | Islamic fundamentalism in Iran | Principlists and women issues
Principlists, irrespective of their gender, promote a strictly limited lifestyle for women. The women in the seventh Iranian parliament were against the proposal to join the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), for which the female reformists... | 1.960938 | 0 |
8576213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20fundamentalism%20in%20Iran | Islamic fundamentalism in Iran | In October 2002, Ali Khamenei called on Iranian women to avoid feminism and sexism in their rights campaigns. "In the process of raising women's issues and solving their problems, feminist inclinations and sexism should be avoided," he told a group of female parliamentarians.
Like many other Grand Ayatollahs, Khamenei... | 2.34375 | 0 |
8576213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20fundamentalism%20in%20Iran | Islamic fundamentalism in Iran | In 1987, Saudi Arabia's fundamentalist regime attacked Iranian pilgrims who were peacefully demonstrating Hajj and killed some 275 people. 303 others were seriously injured. For years, Iranian pilgrims had attempted to stage peaceful demonstrations in Mecca. Iran claimed the slaughter was the first major attack by Sunn... | 2.15625 | 0 |
8576243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidebound | Hidebound | Hidebound (Icelandic: Þröng Sýn) is a 2005 animated film that tells of Aron, a young man who is concerned about communications and the human situation in society. He decides to conduct an experiment and observes the reactions of other people to it. Through this unique experiment or observations we meet several characte... | 2.359375 | 0 |
8576306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April%201920%20Danish%20Folketing%20election | April 1920 Danish Folketing election | Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 26 April 1920, except in the Faroe Islands, where they were held on 20 May. The election campaign was the most aggressive and bitter in Denmark in the 20th century. Voter turnout was 80.6% in Denmark proper and 58.8% in the Faroe Islands.
Background
In what is referred to as... | 2.625 | 0 |
8576311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammatory%20demyelinating%20diseases%20of%20the%20central%20nervous%20system | Inflammatory demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system | Preclinical MS: CIS and CDMS
The first manifestation of MS is the so-called Clinically isolated syndrome, or CIS, which is the first isolated attack. The current diagnosis criteria for MS do not allow doctors to give an MS diagnosis until a second attack takes place. Therefore, the concept of "clinical MS", for an MS ... | 1.9375 | 0 |
8576311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammatory%20demyelinating%20diseases%20of%20the%20central%20nervous%20system | Inflammatory demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system | An iron-responsive variant of MS has been reported in children.
Controversy for the definition
Given that the etiology of MS is unknown, the current definitions of MS are all based on its appearance. The most commonly used definition, the McDonald criteria, requires just the presence of demyelinating lesions separate... | 2.0625 | 0 |
8576385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20integration | System integration | Industrial lifecycle integration is a system integration process that considers four categories or stages of integration: initial system implementation, engineering and design, project services, and operations. This approach incorporates the requirements of each lifecycle stage of the industrial asset when integrating ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
8576404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adarna%20House | Adarna House | Adarna House, Inc. is a Philippine company engaged in the publication of local literature for children of all ages. The company is headquartered in Quezon City in metropolitan Manila.
History
During the mid-1970s, the Nutrition Center of the Philippines (NCP), an organization, which primarily addresses malnutrition in... | 2.671875 | 0 |
8576404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adarna%20House | Adarna House | Intermediate Readers
Adarna House published its first teen novellas, Jacobo’s Ghost, Mga Ako, and Sup?, under Pilar Perez Medallion for Young Adult Literature in 2001. In 2014, the company tried to revive the genre and published four (4) new books that year. This includes Supremo and Janus Silang at Ang Tiyanak ng Tab... | 2.640625 | 0 |
8576404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adarna%20House | Adarna House | The publishing house is also known for its storytelling sessions, called Kuwentong Adarna. Facilitated by a member of Adarna House's pool of storytellers, the sessions are done to encourage children to take up the habit of reading.
Apart from storytelling, Adarna House also facilitates numerous workshops for children... | 2.859375 | 0 |
8576409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Davidson%20%28British%20politician%29 | James Davidson (British politician) | Parliament
In his new role as a landed farmer, having taught himself the agricultural business and being elected to the North-east Area Executive of the National Farmers' Union, Davidson was selected to fight Aberdeenshire West for the Liberals. During the 1966 general election campaign one of Davidson's main policy po... | 2 | 0 |
8576437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umpachene%20River | Umpachene River | The Umpachene River is an tributary of the Housatonic River in New Marlborough, Massachusetts. Issuing from small ponds and wetlands on the east side of town, it meanders generally westward through mostly wooded areas before emptying into the Konkapot River near the village of Southfield.
History
The name of the r... | 2.546875 | 0 |
8576453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bremen%20Town%20Musicians%20%281969%20film%29 | The Bremen Town Musicians (1969 film) | The Bremen Town Musicians () is a 1969 Soviet musical animated short film produced by Soyuzmultfilm, directed by Inessa Kovalevskaya and written by Yuri Entin and Vasily Livanov, with music by Gennady Gladkov. It is based on the characters of Brothers Grimm fairy-tale, "Town Musicians of Bremen". The film became a cult... | 2.03125 | 0 |
8576556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aravidu%20dynasty | Aravidu dynasty | The Aravidu Dynasty was the fourth and last Hindu dynasty of Vijayanagara Empire in South India. Its founder was Tirumala Deva Raya, whose brother Rama Raya had been the masterful regent of the last ruler of the previous dynasty. Rama Raya's death at the Battle of Talikota in 1565 led to the subsequent destruction of V... | 2.28125 | 0 |
8576617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jilin%20Self-Defence%20Army | Jilin Self-Defence Army | The Jilin Self-Defence Army was an anti-Japanese volunteer army formed in 1931 to defend local Chinese residents against the Japanese invasion of northeast China. General Ding Chao, Li Du, Feng Zhanhai, Xing Zhanqing, and Zhao Yi organised the Jilin Self-Defence Army in order to prevent the fall and occupation of Harbi... | 2.28125 | 0 |
8576653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast%20People%27s%20Counter-Japanese%20Volunteer%20Army | Northeast People's Counter-Japanese Volunteer Army | The Northeast People's Counter-Japanese Volunteer Army was led by Tang Juwu, formerly the commander of a Northeastern infantry regiment, interned by the Japanese at the beginning of the invasion of Manchuria. It was created by the Northeast National Salvation Society that had appointed Tang as commander following his e... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6909115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constable%20Hook | Constable Hook | Constable Hook is a cape located on the north side of the outlet of Kill van Kull into Upper New York Bay in Bayonne, New Jersey.
The cape has long been an important site of marine transfer operations in the Port of New York and New Jersey. Just offshore, Robbins Reef Light serves to guide harbor traffic. Since the la... | 2.265625 | 0 |
6909115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constable%20Hook | Constable Hook | The Van Buskirk farmhouse was demolished in 1906 by the Standard Oil Company, which owned the land and were expanding their refinery. Standard Oil has now refurbished the cemetery.
On July 4, 1900, a fire broke out in the Standard Oil refinery. It started when lightning caused a number of the large oil tanks to explod... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6909115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constable%20Hook | Constable Hook | Exxon is responsible for clean-up of environmental damage caused by oil facilities, and has been the subject of extended litigation. As of 2015, Exxon has completed a soil investigation at the 324-acre terminal. It has until May 7, 2016, to finish its groundwater investigation under a bill passed unanimously by the New... | 1.921875 | 0 |
6909149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badin%20Hall%20%28University%20of%20Notre%20Dame%29 | Badin Hall (University of Notre Dame) | Badin Hall is one of the 32 Residence Halls on the campus of the University of Notre Dame and one of the 14 female dorms. The smallest residence hall on campus, it is located on South Quad, between Howard Hall and the Coleman-Morse center. It was built in 1897 and hosted the Manual Labor School until 1917 before being ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
6909149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badin%20Hall%20%28University%20of%20Notre%20Dame%29 | Badin Hall (University of Notre Dame) | Construction and years as Manual Labor School
Before the Main Building at the university burned down in the great fire of 1879, it hosted a Manual Labor School (founded in 1843), that was then moved after the fire to a location near currently Walsh Hall. It was the first Catholic trade school in the United States. The... | 2.390625 | 0 |
6909149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badin%20Hall%20%28University%20of%20Notre%20Dame%29 | Badin Hall (University of Notre Dame) | University dormitory
Due to the conversion from a profitable institution to non-profit with an academic focus, the Manual Labor School was abolished and St. Joseph Hall was converted to a men's university dormitory in 1917. It underwent major expansion, including two wings that were added at the cost of $20,000, and it... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6909266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag%20II-D | Stalag II-D | Stalag II-D Stargard (American named, "Camp #86") was a World War II German Army prisoner-of-war camp located near Stargard, Pomerania. It housed Polish, American, French, Dutch, Belgian, Serbian, Soviet, Italian and Canadian prisoners of war, and Polish civilians.
Camp history
The camp was established as a temporary ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
6909266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag%20II-D | Stalag II-D | Germans introduced racial segregation, and Poles, Africans, Arabs, Jews and Soviet troops were separated from POWs of other nationalities. There were about 4,600 prisoners from Africa, specifically Moroccans, Tunisians and Senegalese, and there was a high mortality rate among them, although from summer 1940 they were g... | 3.125 | 0 |
6909323 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Minnesota%20March | The Minnesota March | “The Minnesota March” is a march for wind band written by John Philip Sousa in 1927 for the University of Minnesota. Sousa received an informal request to compose the march from Minnesota football coach Clarence Spears, and agreed to a request from a committee of university officials in October 1926. Sousa used Indian ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
6909344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneaded%20eraser | Kneaded eraser | A kneaded eraser, also commonly known as a putty rubber, is a pliable erasing tool used by artists. It is usually made of a grey or white unvulcanized rubber (though it can be found in many different colors, such as green, blue, hot pink, yellow, and so forth) resembling putty or chewing gum. It functions by absorbing ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
6909365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir%20stag | Kashmir stag | These deer once numbered from about 5,000 animals in the beginning of the 20th century. Unfortunately, they were threatened, due to habitat destruction, over-grazing by domestic livestock, and poaching. This dwindled to as low as 150 animals by 1970. However, the state of Jammu & Kashmir, along with the IUCN and the WW... | 2.953125 | 0 |
6909382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenkappel-Vellach | Eisenkappel-Vellach | Eisenkappel-Vellach () is a market town in the Völkermarkt District in the Austrian state of Carinthia. The spa town is the southernmost municipality of Austria, close to the border with Slovenia.
Geography
The municipal area covers the valley of the Vellach creek, which runs in north–south direction from the heights ... | 2.375 | 0 |
6909387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains%20and%20Sierra%20Miwok | Plains and Sierra Miwok | The Plains and Sierra Miwok were once the largest group of California Indian Miwok people, Indigenous to California. Their homeland included regions of the Sacramento Valley, San Joaquin Valley, and the Sierra Nevada.
Geography
The Plains and Sierra Miwok traditionally lived in the western Sierra Nevada between the Fr... | 2.96875 | 0 |
6909387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains%20and%20Sierra%20Miwok | Plains and Sierra Miwok | Miwok mythology is similar to other natives of Central and Northern California. The Plains and Sierra Miwok believe in animal and human spirits, and see the animal spirits as their ancestors. Coyote is seen as their ancestor and creator god.
Divisions
There were four definite regional and linguistic sub-divisions: Pl... | 3.109375 | 0 |
6909387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains%20and%20Sierra%20Miwok | Plains and Sierra Miwok | The Mono tribe people (considered Northern Paiute) occupied the higher eastern Sierras and the Mono Lake Basin, and entered Yosemite from the east. The Mono name for the Southern Miwok was qohsoo?moho. Miwoks occupied the lower western foothills of the Sierras and entered from the west. Disputes between the two tribes ... | 2.640625 | 0 |
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