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6909477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon%20Peak | Pigeon Peak | Pigeon Peak, elevation , is a summit in the Needle Mountains, a subrange of the San Juan Mountains in the southwestern part of the US State of Colorado. It rises dramatically on the east side of the Animas River, west of the fourteener Mount Eolus. It is located in the Weminuche Wilderness, part of the San Juan Nation... | 2.25 | 0 |
6909487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel%20Hill%20Transit | Chapel Hill Transit | History
In the early 1970s, during the administration of Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Nathaniel Lee, the Public Transportation Study Committee was formed, consisting of representatives from the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, and UNC. The committee then received a Federal Urban Mass Transit Administration grant to exam... | 2.5625 | 0 |
6909487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel%20Hill%20Transit | Chapel Hill Transit | In 1992, Chapel Hill Transit teamed up with the Triangle Clean Cities Coalition and Ebus, a California company that manufactures electric buses, to demonstrate a 22-passenger bus that promised cleaner air and reduced dependence on foreign fuels. This vehicle demonstration followed an earlier one arranged by the Public ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
6909493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAPER | REAPER | The graphical user interface (GUI) of REAPER can be modified according to the user's preferences through the use of customizable themes. These themes can be created by the user themselves, allowing for a high degree of flexibility in adapting the software to their specific needs. Additionally, the default theme from ea... | 1.992188 | 0 |
6909493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAPER | REAPER | Also included are hundreds of JSFX plug-ins ranging from standard effects to specific applications for MIDI and audio. JSFX scripts are editable text files, which when loaded into REAPER (exactly like a VST or other plug-in) become full-featured plugins ranging from simple audio effects (e.g delay, distortion, compress... | 1.9375 | 0 |
6909566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian%20Athanasius%20Reinhart | Lucian Athanasius Reinhart | Brother Lucian Athanasius Reinhart, F.S.C. was an American De La Salle Brother who was last assigned to the De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines and was a President of De La Salle College in Manila.
Early life
He was born James Hyde Reinhart on May 24, 1911, in Kansas City, Missouri and entered the novitiate of t... | 2.109375 | 0 |
6909682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Sears | Francis Sears | Francis Weston Sears (October 1, 1898 – November 12, 1975) was an American physicist. He was a professor of physics at MIT for 35 years before moving to Dartmouth College in 1956. At Dartmouth, Sears was the Appleton Professor of Physics. He is best known for co-authoring University Physics, an introductory physics tex... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6909686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Sadoway | Donald Sadoway | Donald Robert Sadoway (born 7 March 1950) is professor emeritus of materials chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a noted expert on batteries and has done significant research on how to improve the performance and longevity of portable power sources. In parallel, he is an expert on the extracti... | 2.3125 | 0 |
6909686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Sadoway | Donald Sadoway | In the fall of 2007, the number of students registering for 3.091 reached 570 students, over half the freshman class. The largest lecture hall available on campus seats 566 students. Sadoway much preferred teaching in one of the smaller lecture halls, seating only 450; as such, the institute had to take the unprecedent... | 2.515625 | 0 |
6909695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactrian%20deer | Bactrian deer | The Bactrian deer (Cervus hanglu bactrianus), also called the Bukhara deer, Bokhara deer, or Bactrian wapiti, is a lowland subspecies of Central Asian red deer native to Central Asia. It is similar in ecology to the related Yarkand deer (C. h. yarkandensis) in that it occupies riparian corridors surrounded by deserts. ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
6909695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactrian%20deer | Bactrian deer | Conservation
Under the auspices of the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals, also known as the Bonn Convention, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) concerning Conservation and Restoration of the Bukhara Deer was concluded and came into effect on 16 May 2002. Acknowledging that the Bukhara deer faces threa... | 2.9375 | 0 |
6909792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A6rvejen | Hærvejen | Hærvejen (Danish, literally: the army road, , literally: oxen way, , literally: oxen path), sometimes referred to in English as the Ox Road, is the name given to an ancient trackway in Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein. The route runs from Viborg via Flensburg to Hamburg, the territory of which it entered at Ochsenzoll ("... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6909806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan%20red%20deer | Tibetan red deer | The Tibetan red deer (Cervus canadensis wallichi) also known as shou, is a subspecies of elk/wapiti native to the southern Tibetan highlands and Bhutan. Once believed to be near-extinct, its population has increased to over 8,300, the majority of which live in a 120,000-hectare nature reserve established in 1993 in Riw... | 2.78125 | 0 |
6909822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyakki%20Yagy%C5%8D | Hyakki Yagyō | Hyakki Yagyō (, "Night Parade of One Hundred Demons"), also transliterated Hyakki Yakō, is an idiom in Japanese folklore. Sometimes an orderly procession, other times a riot, it refers to a parade of thousands of supernatural creatures known as oni and yōkai that march through the streets of Japan at night. As a terrif... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6909853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20Blaster%20Episode%20I%3A%20In%20Search%20of%20Spot | Math Blaster Episode I: In Search of Spot | Math Blaster Episode I: In Search of Spot is an edutainment game in the Blaster Learning System line of educational products created by Davidson & Associates. It is a remake of their earlier New Math Blaster Plus! from 1991. Versions of the game were released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis... | 2.671875 | 0 |
6909853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20Blaster%20Episode%20I%3A%20In%20Search%20of%20Spot | Math Blaster Episode I: In Search of Spot | Trash Zapper
Blasternaut uses math to generate the tractor beams needed to collect the trash. For every problem answered, a tractor beam is added and, after five problems, a noneducational firing session begins, in which the user tries to collect as much of the trash as possible. Once the firing session ends, the user ... | 1.929688 | 0 |
6909853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20Blaster%20Episode%20I%3A%20In%20Search%20of%20Spot | Math Blaster Episode I: In Search of Spot | Subjects and leveling
The game features eight different subjects, which are chosen at the start the game. All the problems encountered in the game, except in the "Cave Runner" exercise, will fall into the chosen subject. The subjects are as follows:
Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
Division
Number patterns - in... | 2.765625 | 0 |
6909900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony%20Ferdinand%20Kilbourn | Antony Ferdinand Kilbourn | Brother Antony Ferdinand Kilbourn FSC was an American De La Salle Brother who was last assigned to the De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines and was Acting President of the De La Salle College in Manila while Brother Lucian Athanasius Reinhart, F.S.C., was on leave.
Early life
Kilbourn was born on June 24, 1894, i... | 1.992188 | 0 |
6909932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ%20Shafer-Landau | Russ Shafer-Landau | Russ Shafer-Landau (born 1963) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Education and career
Shafer-Landau is a graduate of Brown University and completed his PhD work at the University of Arizona under the supervision of Joel Feinberg. He has been teaching philo... | 1.914063 | 0 |
6909935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight%20Belles%20Stakes | Eight Belles Stakes | The Eight Belles Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old filly sprinters run at a distance of 7 furlongs at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky each year on Kentucky Oaks Day.
History
The inaugural running of the event was on the opening day of the 1956 Spring meeting at Churchill... | 2.328125 | 0 |
6910051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchurian%20wapiti | Manchurian wapiti | The Manchurian wapiti (Cervus canadensis xanthopygus) is a putative subspecies of the wapiti native to East Asia. It may be identified as its own species, Cervus xanthopygus.
Description
The Manchurian wapiti's coat is reddish brown during summer, and brownish gray in winter. It has dark hairs on the neck and dark und... | 2.421875 | 0 |
6910096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit%20cave | Pit cave | A pit cave, shaft cave or vertical cave—or often simply called a pit (in the US) and pothole or pot (in the UK); jama in Slavic languages scientific and colloquial vocabulary (borrowed since early research in the Western Balkan Dinaric Alpine karst)—is a type of cave which contains one or more significant vertical shaf... | 2.765625 | 0 |
6910159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damaraland%20mole-rat | Damaraland mole-rat | The Damaraland mole-rat (Fukomys damarensis), Damara mole rat or Damaraland blesmol, is a burrowing rodent found in southern Africa. Along with the smaller, less hairy, naked mole rat, it is a species of eusocial mammal.
Description
Like other blesmols, the Damaraland mole-rat has a cylindrical body with short, stout ... | 2.9375 | 0 |
6910159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damaraland%20mole-rat | Damaraland mole-rat | The burrow system consists primarily of foraging tunnels, which the rats dig in search of food. While particularly large tubers and bulbs are at least partially eaten where they are found, smaller ones are dragged to food storage chambers beneath the foraging tunnels. The foraging tunnels are typically only beneath th... | 3.390625 | 0 |
6910159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damaraland%20mole-rat | Damaraland mole-rat | Colonies fragment if the breeding female dies, with most surviving members dispersing to new locations. Particularly large individuals may also leave the colony to establish a new burrow system. In such cases, dispersal usually only occurs during rainy weather, ensuring that digging will be relatively easy once a suita... | 3.3125 | 0 |
6910187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Jenings%20%28governor%29 | Edmund Jenings (governor) | Colonial officer to governor
As attorney general, one of Jening's responsibilities remained resolving the aftermath of Bacon's Rebellion, nearly a decade earlier. Jenings did so in part by not confiscating the estates of all former rebels after their deaths, but allowing them be left in the hands of their nearest rela... | 2.65625 | 0 |
6910187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Jenings%20%28governor%29 | Edmund Jenings (governor) | Jenings may have become a member of the Governor's Council as early as 1684, but the next April the Council ruled that if Jenings was a member of that body, he had to resign as attorney general, and no evidence exists that he did so, and in fact received some payments for his legal work. The English government revised ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
6910187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Jenings%20%28governor%29 | Edmund Jenings (governor) | Jenings' most recent biographer details the factional strife in Virginia in the early 19th century, in which Jenings was perceived as too strenuously defending Gov. Francis Nicholson and part of a faction including Ralph Wormeley Jr. and Richard Lee II, and opposed by several powerful councilors, particularly Robert Ca... | 1.914063 | 0 |
6910187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Jenings%20%28governor%29 | Edmund Jenings (governor) | Jenings speculated in land in the Virginia colony, and also grew and shipped tobacco, using enslaved labor by at least his final years, although many records have been lost. Virginia's last colonial capital, Williamsburg, in whose platting this man had significant involvement, before becoming chartered as a town in its... | 2.734375 | 0 |
6910187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Jenings%20%28governor%29 | Edmund Jenings (governor) | Personal life
Edmund married Frances, the daughter of Henry Corbin of Buckingham House, and had several children. Frances died in London in 1713 and is likely buried at St. Clement's Dane's. His son and grandson were also named "Edmund Jenings" and both returned to England before their deaths. Edmund Jenings Jr. (d. 1... | 1.953125 | 0 |
6910211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibayama%20Yahachi | Shibayama Yahachi | Baron was an admiral in the early Imperial Japanese Navy.
Biography
Born in Kagoshima, Satsuma domain, (present day Kagoshima prefecture), Shibayama participated as a Satsuma samurai in the Anglo-Satsuma War in his youth. Although a close friend of Togo Heihachiro, he declined to join the military and did not partici... | 2.484375 | 0 |
6910266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20state%20control | Port state control | Port state control (PSC) is an inspection regime for countries to inspect foreign-registered ships in port other than those of the flag state and take action against ships that are not in compliance. Inspectors for PSC are called PSC officers (PSCOs), and are required to investigate compliance with the requirements of ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
6910266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20state%20control | Port state control | Inspection and enforcement
The port state control (PSC) makes inspection of ships in port, taken by a port state control officer (PSCO). Annual report of Paris MoU reported that a total of 74,713 deficiencies were recorded during port state control inspections in 2007, which deficiencies resulted in 1,250 detentions th... | 2.40625 | 0 |
6910271 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Elk%20Mountains | West Elk Mountains | The West Elk Mountains are a high mountain range in the west-central part of the U.S. state of Colorado. They lie primarily within the Gunnison National Forest, and part of the range is protected as the West Elk Wilderness. The range is primarily located in Gunnison County, with small parts in eastern Delta and Montros... | 2.5 | 0 |
6910271 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Elk%20Mountains | West Elk Mountains | On top of the West Elk Breccia, volcanic ash was deposited through repeated eruptions in the San Juan volcanic field to the south. Most of the ash was deposited 26 to 27 million years ago. The resulting rock, tuff, is relatively soft, but the ash landing toward the southern edge of the West Elk volcanic field was hot e... | 2.6875 | 0 |
6910319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philotheca | Philotheca | Philotheca is a genus of about fifty species of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae. Plants in this genus are shrubs with simple leaves arranged alternately along the stems, flowers that usually have five sepals, five petals and ten stamens that curve inwards over the ovary. All species are endemic to Australia and... | 2.65625 | 0 |
6910332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip%20Willis | Phillip Willis | Phillip LaFrance Willis (August 2, 1918 – January 27, 1995) was a World War II veteran and a witness to the assassination of President Kennedy who testified before the Warren Commission.
Early life and military service
Phillip Willis was born in Kaufman County, Texas, the son of Alvin Samuel Willis, a school teacher, ... | 2.03125 | 0 |
6910332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip%20Willis | Phillip Willis | Witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy
Willis was present in Dealey Plaza during the assassination of Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Standing near the curb at the corner of Houston and Elm Streets, he took a series of color slides with his Argus Autronic I Model 35156-M immediately before, during, and after the... | 2.3125 | 0 |
6910416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-trailer | Semi-trailer | A semi-trailer is a trailer without a front axle. The combination of a semi-trailer and a tractor truck is called a semi-trailer truck (also known simply as a "semi-trailer", "tractor trailer", or "semi" in the United States).
A large proportion of a semi-trailer's weight is supported by a tractor unit, or a detachabl... | 2.609375 | 0 |
6910416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-trailer | Semi-trailer | Compared with a full trailer, a semi-trailer attached to a tractor unit is easier to reverse, since it has only one turning point (the coupling), whereas a full trailer has two turning points (the coupling and the drawbar attachment). Special tractors are known as shunt trucks or shuttle trucks can easily maneuver semi... | 2.375 | 0 |
6910459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Raj%20Model%20School | Hans Raj Model School | Hans Raj Model School (HRMS) is a co-educational private school in Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi, India, providing education to students from kindergarten through the 12th grade, it is situated in the suburbs of West Delhi, spans 8 acres of green lawns, with its kindergarten division housed in a separate 1.5-acre campus.
The... | 2.4375 | 0 |
6910524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte%20L.%20Nacos | Brigitte L. Nacos | Brigitte Lebens Nacos (born 1936) is an adjunct professor in political science at Columbia University. She has written on the news media, the politics of Germany, and terrorism.
She is a joint author of a paper, "Prevention of Terrorism in Post-9/11 America" which was delivered at the Summer 2006 meeting of the Americ... | 2 | 0 |
6910578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoplasmic%20male%20sterility | Cytoplasmic male sterility | Cytoplasmic male sterility is total or partial male sterility in hermaphrodite organisms, as the result of specific nuclear and mitochondrial interactions. Male sterility is the failure to produce functional anthers, pollen, or male gametes. Such male sterility in hermaphrodite populations leads to gynodioecious popula... | 3.03125 | 0 |
6910578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoplasmic%20male%20sterility | Cytoplasmic male sterility | Manifestation of male sterility in CMS may be controlled either entirely by cytoplasmic factors or by interactions between cytoplasmic factors and nuclear factors. Male sterility can arise spontaneously via mutations in nuclear genes and/or cytoplasmic or cytoplasmic–genetic. In this case, the trigger for CMS is in the... | 2.28125 | 0 |
6910578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoplasmic%20male%20sterility | Cytoplasmic male sterility | In the case of nuclear male-sterility, a female advantage of at least 2 is required to make it evolutionary neutral (FA=2) or advantageous (FA > 2) since half of the transmission is cut because of the male-sterility allele.
Cytoplasmic male-sterility requires no female advantage to be evolutionary neutral (FA=1), or a... | 2.359375 | 0 |
6910578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoplasmic%20male%20sterility | Cytoplasmic male sterility | Cytoplasmic–genetic male sterility systems are widely exploited in crop plants for hybrid breeding due to the convenience of controlling sterility expression by manipulating the gene–cytoplasm combinations in any selected genotype. Incorporation of these systems for male sterility evades the need for emasculation in c... | 2.84375 | 0 |
6910578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoplasmic%20male%20sterility | Cytoplasmic male sterility | Maize breeding
Cytoplasmic male sterility is an important part of hybrid maize production. The first commercial cytoplasmic male sterile, discovered in Texas, is known as CMS-T. The use of CMS-T, starting in the 1950s, eliminated the need for detasseling. In the early 1970s, plants containing CMS-T genetics were susce... | 2.578125 | 0 |
6910655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20chief | Fire chief | A fire chief or fire commissioner is a top executive rank or commanding officer in a fire department.
Nomenclature
Various official English-language titles for a fire chief include fire chief, chief fire officer and fire commissioner. The latter can refer to a fire chief or to an overseer who works for the local gove... | 3.203125 | 0 |
6910672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin%20Luistro | Armin Luistro | Brother Armin Altamirano Luistro, FSC (born December 24, 1961) is a Filipino Lasallian Brother who served as secretary of the Department of Education of the Philippines under President Benigno Aquino III. Luistro entered De La Salle Scholasticate (the center for academic training of De La Salle Brothers) in Manila in A... | 2 | 0 |
6910672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin%20Luistro | Armin Luistro | The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) have expressed skepticism over Luistro's stand on sex education citing his religious background. Nevertheless, the Department of Education has included sex education in its curriculum for grade 5 to fourth year high school. Roman Catholic groups have criticized it for allegedly ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
6910672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin%20Luistro | Armin Luistro | In 1981 he entered into a program in Ateneo de Manila University, and was awarded a Certificate in Formation Institute for Religious Educators in 1985. He enrolled in a graduate program in DLSU in 1991, and was conferred a Master of Arts degree in Religious Education in 1993. He also graduated with a master's degree in... | 2.0625 | 0 |
6910672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin%20Luistro | Armin Luistro | On April 2004, he succeeded Andrew Gonzalez as the president of De La Salle University System, consequently making him the president of eight De La Salle institutions. In his inaugural speech, he acknowledged the "multiversity" concept of Gonzalez who established the system. In which structure, DLSU served as the flags... | 1.90625 | 0 |
6910690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandi%20County | Nandi County | Nandi County is a county in Kenya in the North Rift, occupying an area of 2,884.4 square kilometres. Its capital, Kapsabet, is the largest town in the county while other towns include Mosoriot, Tinderet, Kobujoi, Kaiboi, Kabiyet and Nandi Hills. According to a 2019 census, the county has a population of 885,711, made u... | 2.5625 | 0 |
6910700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20road%20drag | King road drag | The King road drag (also known as the Missouri road drag and the split log road drag) was a simple form of a road grader implemented for grading dirt road. It revolutionized the maintenance of dirt roads in the early 1900s. It was invented by David Ward King, who went by "D. Ward King" and who was a farmer in Holt Town... | 2.421875 | 0 |
6910727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable%20thermostat | Programmable thermostat | Controversy
While programmable thermostats may be able to save energy when used correctly, little or no average energy savings has been demonstrated in residential field studies. Difficulty with usability in residential environments appears to lead to lack of persistence of energy savings in homes. According to the ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
6910727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable%20thermostat | Programmable thermostat | The most basic clock thermostats may only implement one program with two periods (a hotter period and a colder period), and the same program is run day after day. More sophisticated clock thermostats may allow four or more hot and cold periods to be set per day. Usually, only two distinct temperatures (a hotter tempera... | 2.671875 | 0 |
6910727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable%20thermostat | Programmable thermostat | Digital thermostats may implement the same functions, but most provide more versatility. For example, they commonly allow setting temperatures for two, four, or six periods each day, and rather than being limited to a single "hotter" temperature and a single "colder" temperature, digital thermostats usually allow each ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
6910727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable%20thermostat | Programmable thermostat | Most digital thermostats have separate programs for heating and cooling, and may feature a digital or manual switch to turn on the furnace blower for air circulation, even when the system isn't heating or cooling. More-sophisticated models may be programmed to run the circulating fan for a brief 5- to 10-minute period ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6910727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable%20thermostat | Programmable thermostat | Digital thermostats with PID controller
More expensive models have a built-in PID controller, so that the thermostat "learns" via a feedback loop how the overall system (including the room itself) will react to its commands. Programming the morning temperature to be 21° C at 7:00 a.m., for instance, ensures that the te... | 2.40625 | 0 |
6910780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshio%20Miyazaki | Toshio Miyazaki | During his term at the 30th class of Navy Staff College, Miyazaki came under criticism for sabotaging a war game exercise which was unfairly weighed so that the team playing the Japanese side would always defeat the team playing the American side. His actions were supported by Admiral Jisaburō Ozawa and he was allowed ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
6910868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAR%20domain | BAR domain | In molecular biology, BAR domains are highly conserved protein dimerisation domains that occur in many proteins involved in membrane dynamics in a cell. The BAR domain is banana-shaped and binds to membrane via its concave face. It is capable of sensing membrane curvature by binding preferentially to curved membranes. ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6910891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Schacht | Chris Schacht | Christopher Cleland Schacht (born 6 December 1946) is a former Australian politician and member of the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He was born in Melbourne and educated at the University of Adelaide and Wattle Park Teachers College.
Career
Schacht's political career started as a stat... | 2.046875 | 0 |
6910928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola%20Pymonenko | Mykola Pymonenko | Mykola Kornylovych Pymonenko (; 9 March 1862 – 8 April [O.S. 26 March] 1912) was a Ukrainian realist painter who lived and worked in Kyiv. One of his students was Kazimir Malevich, whose early works were influenced by Pymonenko.
He is best known for his urban and rural genre scenes of farmers, country folk and working... | 2.109375 | 0 |
6910934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonotis%20leonurus | Leonotis leonurus | Lion's tail can be found in other subtropical and Mediterranean climate regions beyond South Africa, such as California, Hawaii, and Australia where it has naturalized in some areas. In cooler climates it is used as an annual and winter conservatory plant.
Pharmacology and toxicology
Marrubiin has both antioxidant and... | 2.21875 | 0 |
6910980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Dominguez | Richard Dominguez | Richard Dominguez (born Eufrancio Ricardo Dominguez September 22, 1960) is an American comic book artist and freelance storyboard illustrator. Best known for creating the popular series El Gato Negro, Dominguez publishes his comics through his imprint and art studio, Azteca Productions. Dominguez also is well known for... | 2.671875 | 0 |
6910989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maigret%20at%20the%20Crossroads | Maigret at the Crossroads | Maigret at the Crossroads () is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. Published in 1931, it is one of the earliest novels to feature Inspector Maigret in the role of the chief police investigator, a character that has since become one of the best-known detectives in fiction.
Premise
The plot of the ... | 2.25 | 0 |
6910993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Nicholas%20Greek%20Orthodox%20Church%20%28Manhattan%29 | St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church (Manhattan) | The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, officially the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine, is a church and shrine in the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It is administered by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and has been developed by the Port Authority of New York and ... | 1.976563 | 0 |
6910999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pongamia | Pongamia | Pongamia pinnata is a species of tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, native to eastern and tropical Asia, Australia, and the Pacific islands. It is the sole species in genus Pongamia. It is often known by the synonym Millettia pinnata. Its common names include Indian beech, Karanja, and Pongame oiltree.
Description
Pon... | 2.671875 | 0 |
6910999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pongamia | Pongamia | Pongamia pinnata is an outbreeding diploid legume tree, with a diploid chromosome number of 22. Root nodules are of the determinate type (as those on soybean and common bean) formed by the causative bacterium Bradyrhizobium.
Range and habitat
The species is naturally distributed in tropical and temperate Asia, from I... | 3.109375 | 0 |
6910999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pongamia | Pongamia | Taxonomy
The species was first described as Cytisus pinnatus by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. In 1898, Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre reclassified it as Pongamia pinnata. In 1984, Robert Geesink concluded that species of Pongamia and Millettia were easily confused, and consolidated the Pongamia species into Millettia. Subsequent... | 3.140625 | 0 |
6910999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pongamia | Pongamia | It can be grown in rainwater harvesting ponds up to in water depth without losing its greenery and remaining useful for biodiesel production. Studies have shown seedlings with tolerance to salinity levels between 12 and 19 dS/m, with an ability to tolerate salinity stresses of 32.5 dS/m.
The seed oil has been found t... | 2.71875 | 0 |
6911014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20D.%20Chamberlin | Donald D. Chamberlin | Donald D. Chamberlin is an American computer scientist who is one of the principal designers of the original SQL language specification with Raymond Boyce. He also made significant contributions to the development of XQuery.
Chamberlin was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for contributio... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6911034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao%20Tong | Xiao Tong | As adult
As Emperor Wu was an avid Buddhist, Xiao Tong also became one, and he studied sutras intently, often inviting Buddhist monks to his palace to preach and to discuss Buddhist doctrines. After his rite of passage, Emperor Wu also began to gradually have him handle more and more matters of state, becoming less inv... | 2.40625 | 0 |
6911037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Wordie | James Wordie | Wordie sailed on nine polar expeditions, including Endurance. During the 1920s and 1930s, he made numerous voyages to the Arctic and helped nurture a new generation of young explorers, including Vivian Fuchs, Gino Watkins and Augustine Courtauld. Other scientific staff included the meteorologist Edmund Dymond on his 19... | 2.1875 | 0 |
6911043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENTH%20domain | ENTH domain | The epsin N-terminal homology (ENTH) domain is a structural domain that is found in proteins involved in endocytosis and cytoskeletal machinery.
Structure
This domain is approximately 150 amino acids in length and is always found located at the N-termini of proteins. The domain forms a compact globular structure, comp... | 1.984375 | 0 |
6911044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herr%C3%A4ng%20Dance%20Camp | Herräng Dance Camp | Herräng Dance Camp (commonly abbreviated HDC, officially Herräng Dance Camp Aktiebolag) is the largest annual dance camp that focuses on lindy hop, boogie woogie, tap dance, jazz dance, and balboa. It is held annually in July in Herräng, Sweden, and focuses both on instruction and dancing.
Swing era dancers that have... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6911049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernetta%20Adams%20Miller | Bernetta Adams Miller | Bernetta Adams Miller (January 11, 1884 – November 30, 1972) was a pioneering woman aviator who was the fifth licensed woman pilot in the United States. She led a colorful life including winning a Croix de Guerre in World War I and being one of the people standing between Albert Einstein and the public at the Institute... | 2.734375 | 0 |
6911049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernetta%20Adams%20Miller | Bernetta Adams Miller | World War I
Bernetta went to the front in World War I as a volunteer for the YMCA. She delivered food to the troops of the 326th Infantry of the 82nd Division as a canteen worker, frequently under fire. She was wounded at least once, but remained at the front through the Argonne offensive and to the end of the war. In... | 2.796875 | 0 |
6911074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones%20Intercable | Jones Intercable | Jones Intercable in September in 1995 launched a $35 million cable television system in Alexandria. The Baltimore Sun called it an "important milestone" as seen by video industry experts, as the new design had a "self-healing" function to eliminate cable outages, also expanding from 53 analog channels to 87. Between 19... | 2.03125 | 0 |
6911076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florus%20of%20Lyon | Florus of Lyon | Florus was also much involved in contemporary debates. He was a partisan of Archbishop Agobard of Lyon, who was deposed in 835 for his support of the rebellion against Emperor Louis the Pious, and replaced by Amalarius. In Agobard's defence, Florus wrote a short treatise on how bishops should be appointed; he also atta... | 1.90625 | 0 |
6911084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes%20%28surname%29 | Hayes (surname) | Hayes is an English language surname. In the United States Census, 1990, Hayes was the 100th most common surname recorded. The oldest record of the surname dates to 1197 in the Eynsham Cartulary of Oxfordshire, where it appears in the form Heise. There are nineteen coats of arms assumed by or granted to individuals w... | 2.421875 | 0 |
6911091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%20City%20Park%2C%20Portland%2C%20Oregon | Rose City Park, Portland, Oregon | Rose City Park is a neighborhood (and a park of the same name) in Northeast Portland, Oregon. It borders Beaumont-Wilshire, Grant Park, and the Hollywood District on the west (at NE 47th Avenue), Cully on the north (at NE Fremont Street), Roseway and Madison South on the east (at NE 65th Avenue), and Center on the so... | 1.90625 | 0 |
6911110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative%20districts%20of%20Antique | Legislative districts of Antique | The legislative districts of Antique are the representations of the province of Antique in the various national legislatures of the Philippines. The province is currently represented in the lower house of the Congress of the Philippines through its lone congressional district.
It was part of the representation of Regi... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6911186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writers%27%20Union%20of%20Canada | Writers' Union of Canada | The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) is the national organization of professionally published writers. TWUC was founded in 1973 to work with governments, publishers, booksellers, and readers to improve the conditions of Canadian writers. TWUC advocates on behalf of writers’ collective interests, and delivers value to me... | 2.109375 | 0 |
6911211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Gato%20Negro | El Gato Negro | El Gato Negro (The Black Cat) is the name of two fictional American comic book superheroes created by Richard Dominguez and featured in the Azteca Productions' Universe. Both characters made their first appearance in El Gato Negro #1 (October 1993).
In the comic's continuity, Agustin Guerrero was the first to hold the... | 2.25 | 0 |
6911211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Gato%20Negro | El Gato Negro | The El Gato Negro characters were created by comic book artist and writer Richard Dominguez, both making their first published appearance in El Gato Negro #1 (October 1993) published under Dominguez's own Azteca Productions imprint. The original series followed the adventures of Francisco Guerrero, a social worker livi... | 2.609375 | 0 |
6911230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwin%20Wharton | Goodwin Wharton | Goodwin Wharton (8 March 1653 – 28 October 1704) was an English Whig politician and autobiographer, as well as an avid mystic, alchemist and treasure hunter. His unpublished manuscript autobiography, in the British Library, "ranks high in the annals of psychopathology" according to the historian Roy Porter.
Early life... | 2.125 | 0 |
6911296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Assouline | Pierre Assouline | Pierre Assouline (born 17 April 1953) is a French writer and journalist. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco to a Jewish family. He has published several novels and biographies, and also contributes articles for the print media and broadcasts for radio.
As a biographer, he has covered a diverse and eclectic range of su... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6911318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Diemen%27s%20Land%20Company | Van Diemen's Land Company | The Van Diemen's Land Company (also known as Van Dieman Land Company) is a farming corporation in the Australian state of Tasmania. It was founded in 1825 and received a royal charter the same year, and was granted 250,000 acres (1,000 km2) in northwest Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) in 1826. The company was a group ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
6911327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp%20Bonifas | Camp Bonifas | Camp Bonifas is a United Nations Command military post located south of the southern boundary of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). It is south of the Military Demarcation Line, which forms the border between South Korea (the Republic of Korea) and North Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea). It was ret... | 2.078125 | 0 |
6911333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell%20H.%20Harrison | Lowell H. Harrison | Dr. Lowell Hayes Harrison (October 23, 1922 – October 12, 2011) was an American historian specializing in the U.S. state of Kentucky.
Biography
Harrison graduated from College High (Bowling Green, Kentucky). He was a veteran of World War II. He received a B.A. from Western Kentucky University in 1946, then enrolled a... | 2.328125 | 0 |
6911355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herron%20Island | Herron Island | Herron Island is an island in central Case Inlet in the southern part of Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington. The Pierce County island has a land area of 1.2326 km2 (304.57 acres) and a population of 151 persons as of the 2010 census.
Herron Island is one of the few privately owned islands in Puget Sound. All ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
6911355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herron%20Island | Herron Island | Lieutenant Peter Puget, under the command of Captain George Vancouver, explored what is now known as Case Inlet in Puget Sound, in May 1792. On the 23rd of May, the sailors didn't get underway until 8:00 AM, much later than usual, due to the very heavy fog in the area. Because a new group of Indians was encountered at ... | 2.84375 | 0 |
6911411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Bails | Jerry Bails | Jerry Gwin Bails (June 26, 1933 – November 23, 2006) was an American popular culturist. Known as the "Father of Comic Book Fandom," he was one of the first to approach the comic book field as a subject worthy of academic study, and was a primary force in establishing 1960s comics fandom.
Biography
Early life
Jerry G... | 1.976563 | 0 |
6911411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Bails | Jerry Bails | Largely unbeknownst to Bails and Thomas, comics fandom had been underway for years in a variety of comics fanzines, beginning with Ted White's The Facts Behind Superman, James Taurasi's Fantasy Comics and Bhob Stewart's The EC Fan Bulletin in 1953-54. These were followed by Ron Parker's Hoohah, Dick and Pat Lupoff's Xe... | 1.976563 | 0 |
6911411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Bails | Jerry Bails | Who's Who
In addition to his work in comics indexing, Bails was also involved in the tabulating of information about the people involved in both comics and comics fandom. Described in the ACBFC charter, Who's Who in Comic Fandom was the first concerted effort to provide a centralized store of data on the ever-increasi... | 2.109375 | 0 |
6911411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Bails | Jerry Bails | A major part of the reference work was fan-identification of artistic styles and signature-spotting and recognition, which deductions often formed the basis for Bails' questions to creators, who could then offer corrections and additions. This included collecting and microfilming more than 500,000 comic book pages and ... | 1.976563 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | The Austronesian peoples, sometimes referred to as Austronesian-speaking peoples, are large group of peoples who have settled in Taiwan, maritime Southeast Asia, parts of mainland Southeast Asia, Micronesia, coastal New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar that speak Austronesian languages. They also in... | 3.078125 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | The linguistic connections between Madagascar, Polynesia, and Southeast Asia, particularly the similarities between Malagasy, Malay, and Polynesian numerals, were recognized early in the colonial era by European authors. The first formal publication on these relationships was in 1708 by Dutch Orientalist Adriaan Reland... | 2.65625 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | Johann Friedrich Blumenbach added Austronesians as the fifth category to his "varieties" of humans in the second edition of De Generis Humani Varietate Nativa (1781). He initially grouped them by geography and thus called Austronesians the "people from the southern world". In the third edition, published in 1795, he na... | 2.640625 | 0 |
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