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6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | The British naturalist James Cowles Prichard originally followed Blumenbach by treating Papuans and Indigenous Australians as being descendants of the same stock as Austronesians. But by his third edition of Researches into the Physical History of Man (1836–1847), his work had become more racialized due to the influenc... | 2.71875 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | In 1899, the Austrian linguist and ethnologist Wilhelm Schmidt coined the term "Austronesian" (German: austronesisch, from Latin auster, "south wind"; and Greek νῆσος, "island") to refer to the language family. Schmidt had the same motivations as Codrington: he proposed the term as a replacement to "Malayo-Polynesian",... | 2.640625 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | Some Austronesian-speaking groups are not direct descendants of Austronesians and acquired their languages through language shift, but this is believed to have happened only in a few instances, since the Austronesian expansion was too rapid for language shifts to have occurred fast enough. In parts of Island Melanesia,... | 2.9375 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | Regardless, certain disagreements still exist among researchers with regards to chronology, origin, dispersal, adaptations to the island environments, interactions with preexisting populations in areas they settled, and cultural developments over time. The mainstream accepted hypothesis is the "Out of Taiwan" model fir... | 2.890625 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | The geographic region that encompasses native Austronesian-speaking populations is sometimes referred to as "Austronesia". Other geographic names for various subregions include Malay Peninsula, Greater Sunda Islands, Lesser Sunda Islands, Island Melanesia, Island Southeast Asia, Malay Archipelago, Maritime Southeast As... | 2.875 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | Prehistory
The broad consensus on Austronesian origins is the "two-layer model", where an original Paleolithic indigenous population in Island Southeast Asia were assimilated to varying degrees by incoming migrations of Neolithic Austronesian-speaking peoples from Taiwan and Fujian, in southern China, from around 4,000... | 3.21875 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | The lowered sea levels of the Pleistocene made some of the modern-day islands of Sundaland accessible via land bridges. However, the spread of humans across the Wallace line and into Sahul necessitated crossing bodies of water. Remains of stone tools and marine shells in Liang Sarru, Salibabu Island, North Sulawesi, da... | 2.890625 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | Mahdi (2017) also uses the term "Qata" (from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qata) to distinguish the indigenous populations of Southeast Asia, versus "Tau" (from Proto-Austronesian *Cau) for the later settlers from Taiwan and mainland China. Both are based on proto-forms for the word "person" in Malayo-Polynesian languages t... | 2.640625 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | The identity of the Neolithic pre-Austronesian cultures in China is contentious. Tracing Austronesian prehistory in Fujian and Taiwan has been difficult due to the southward expansion of the Han dynasty (2nd century BCE) and the recent Qing dynasty annexation of Taiwan (1683 CE). Today, the only Austronesian language i... | 2.640625 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | In support of both the Austric and Austro-Tai hypothesis, Robert Blust connects the lower Yangtze Neolithic Austro-Tai entity with the rice-cultivating Austroasiatic cultures, assuming the center of East Asian rice domestication, and putative Austric homeland, to be located in the Yunnan/Burma border area, instead of t... | 2.390625 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | Several authors have also proposed that Kra-Dai speakers may actually be an ancient daughter subgroup of Austronesians that migrated back to the Pearl River Delta from Taiwan and/or Luzon, shortly after the Austronesian expansion, later migrating further westwards to Hainan, Mainland Southeast Asia, and Northeast India... | 2.4375 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | According to Juha Janhunen and Ann Kumar, Austronesians may have also settled parts of southern Japan, especially on the islands of Kyushu and Shikoku, and influenced or created the Japanese hierarchical society. It is suggested that Japanese tribes like the Hayato people, the Kumaso, and the Azumi were of Austronesian... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | In relation to Sino-Austronesian models and the Longshan interaction sphere, Roger Blench (2014) suggests that the single migration model for the spread of the Neolithic into Taiwan is problematic, pointing out the genetic and linguistic inconsistencies between different Taiwanese Austronesian groups. The surviving Aus... | 2.015625 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | The Austronesian expansion (also called the "Out of Taiwan" model) is a large-scale migration of Austronesians from Taiwan, occurring around 3000 to 1500 BCE. Population growth primarily fueled this migration. These first settlers settled in northern Luzon, in the archipelago of the Philippines, intermingling with the ... | 3.015625 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | Another important migration branch was by the Lapita culture, which rapidly spread into the islands off the coast of northern New Guinea and into the Solomon Islands and other parts of coastal New Guinea and Island Melanesia by 1200 BCE. They reached the islands of Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga by around 900 to 800 BCE. This ... | 3.03125 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | However, these have been repudiated by studies using whole genome sequencing, which have found that all ISEA populations had genes originating from aboriginal Taiwanese. Contrary to the claim of a south-to-north migration in the "Out of Sundaland" hypothesis, the new whole genome analysis strongly confirms the north-to... | 2.71875 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | Western Europeans in search of spices and gold later colonized most of the Austronesian-speaking countries of the Asia-Pacific region, beginning in the 16th century, with the Portuguese and Spanish colonization of the Philippines, Palau, Guam, the Mariana Islands, and some parts of Indonesia (present-day East Timor); t... | 3.109375 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | Seagoing catamaran and outrigger ship technologies were the most important innovations of the Austronesian peoples. They were the first humans with vessels capable of crossing vast distances of water. The crossing from the Philippines to the Mariana Islands at around 1500 BCE, a distance of more than , is likely the wo... | 2.9375 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | The simplest form of all ancestral Austronesian boats had five parts. The bottom consisted of a single piece of hollowed-out log. At the sides were two planks, and two horseshoe-shaped wood pieces formed the prow and stern. These were fitted tightly together edge-to-edge, with dowels inserted into holes in between, and... | 3.109375 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | The ancient Champa of Vietnam also uniquely developed basket-hulled boats whose hulls were composed of woven and resin-caulked bamboo, either entirely or in conjunction with plank strakes. They ranged from small coracles (o thúng) to large oceangoing trading ships like the ghe mành.
The acquisition of catamaran and ou... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | The Austronesian house itself also often symbolizes various aspects of indigenous Austronesian cosmology and animism. In the majority of cases, the loft of the house (usually placed above the hearth), is considered to be the domain of deities and spirits. It is essentially a raised granary built into the structure of t... | 3.015625 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | Indirect evidence of traditional Austronesian architecture, however, can be gleaned from their contemporary representations in art, such as friezes on the walls of later Hindu-Buddhist stone temples (like in reliefs at Borobudur and Prambanan). But these are limited to the recent centuries. They can also be reconstruct... | 2.84375 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | This type of pottery dispersed south and southwest to the rest of Island Southeast Asia. The eastward and southward branches of the migrations converged in Island Melanesia, resulting in what is now known as the Lapita culture, centered around the Bismarck Archipelago.
The oldest known pottery assemblages in Oceania a... | 2.6875 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | Hung et al. (2012) pointed out in response that no pottery assemblages older than 2,000 years old have been found in Morotai, which also has a Papuan-speaking population. They also mentioned that present-day data on wind and currents is not a reliable way of ascertaining migration routes, and that the voyages settling ... | 2.3125 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | A common practice among Austronesians in a large area of Island Southeast Asia is the use of burial jars, which emerged during the Late Neolithic and flourished in the first millennium CE. They are characteristic of a region bordered by the Philippines to the north, southern Sumatra in the southwest, and Sumba and the ... | 2.90625 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | Polished and ground stone adzes, gouges, and other implements, some of which are made from jade-like stone, have also been recorded in areas of Island Melanesia and eastern New Guinea associated with the Lapita culture. These were considered valuable currency and were primarily used to trade for goods. In 2012, a Lapit... | 2.8125 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | Rock art
There are approximately six to seven hundred rock art sites discovered in Southeast Asia and Island Melanesia, as well as over eight hundred megalithic sites. The sites specifically associated with the Austronesian expansion contain examples of indigenous pictograms and petroglyphs. Within Southeast Asia, the ... | 2.765625 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | The Megalithic Culture is mostly limited to western Island Southeast Asia, with the greatest concentration being western Indonesia. While most sites are not dated, the age ranges of dating sites are between the 2nd to 16th century CE. They are divided into two phases: The first is an older megalithic tradition associat... | 2.828125 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | The earliest APT site dated is from Vanuatu and was found to be around 3,000 BP, corresponding to the initial migration wave of the Austronesians. These early sites are largely characterized by face motifs and hand stencils. Later sites, from 1,500 BP onwards, however, begin to show regional divergence in their art sty... | 2.421875 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | O'Connor et al. (2015) proposes that APT developed during the initial rapid southward Austronesian expansion, and not before, possibly as a response to the communication challenges brought about by the new maritime mode of living. Along with AES, these material symbols and associated rituals and technologies may have b... | 2.5 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | In western Micronesia (Palau, Yap, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands), rock art primarily consists of paintings on high cave ceilings and sea-facing cliffs. It is very similar to APT in terms of its motifs as well as its placement in relatively inaccessible locations. Common motifs include hand stencils, faces, tu... | 2.84375 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | In Polynesia, rock art is dominated by petroglyphs, rather than paintings, and they show less variation than the rock art of Near Oceania and ISEA. In the western Polynesian islands nearest to Island Melanesia, rock art is rare (like in Tonga and Samoa) or absent entirely (like in the Cook Islands). However, petroglyph... | 2.703125 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | On the Hawaiian islands, the abundant petroglyphs are remarkably all similar in execution. Their common subjects include stick-like human figures, dogs, boats, sails, paddles, footprints, and ceremonial headdresses. Depictions of marine life, however, are rare, unlike in the rest of Polynesia. They are typically carved... | 2.640625 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | One of the earliest descriptions of Austronesian tattoos by Europeans was during the 16th-century Spanish expeditions to the Philippines, beginning with the first voyage of circumnavigation by Ferdinand Magellan. The Spanish encountered the heavily tattooed Visayan people in the Visayas Islands, whom they named the Pin... | 2.84375 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | Religion
The religious traditions of the Austronesian people focus mostly on ancestral spirits, nature spirits, and gods, making it a complex animistic religion. Mythologies vary by culture and geographical location but share common basic aspects, such as ancestor worship, animism, shamanism, and the belief in a spirit... | 2.859375 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | Rongorongo, said to have originally been called kohau motu mo rongorongo ("lines of inscriptions for chanting out"), is the only pre-contact indigenous Austronesian system of glyphs that appear to be true writing or at least proto-writing. They consist of around 120 glyphs, ranging from representations of plants to ani... | 2.46875 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | At the time of discovery of the tablets, Rapa Nui had undergone severe depopulation. This was largely due to the loss of the island's last trees and the Peruvian and Chilean slave raids in the early 1860s. The literate ruling classes of the Rapa Nui people (including the royal family and the religious caste) and the ma... | 2.65625 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | In Southeast Asia, the first true writing systems of pre-modern Austronesian cultures were all derived from the Grantha and Pallava Brahmic scripts, all of which are abugidas from South India. Various forms of abugidas spread throughout Austronesian cultures in Southeast Asia as kingdoms became Indianized through early... | 2.703125 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | In regions that converted to Islam, abjads derived from the Arabic script started replacing the earlier abugidas at around the 13th century in Southeast Asia. Madagascar adopted the Arabic script in the 14th century. Abjads, however, have an even greater inherent problem with encoding Austronesian languages than abugid... | 2.796875 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | Genetic studies have been conducted on Austronesian peoples. Haplogroup O1a, marked by the M119 SNP, is frequently detected in Native Taiwanese and people of the northern Philippines as well as some people in Indonesia, Malaysia, and non-Austronesian populations in southern China.
A 2007 analysis of the DNA recovered f... | 3 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | Moodley et al. (2009) identified two distinct populations of the gut bacteria Helicobacter pylori that accompanied human migrations into Island Southeast Asia and Oceania, called hpSahul and hspMāori. The study sampled Native Australians, Native Taiwanese, highlanders in New Guinea, and Melanesians and Polynesians in N... | 2.1875 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | A study about the ancestral composition of modern ethnic groups in the Philippines from 2021 similarly suggests that distinctive Ancient East-Eurasian ancestry originated in Mainland Southeast Asia at ~50,000 BCE and expanded through multiple migration waves southwards and northwards, respectively. Mamanwa-related ance... | 3.0625 | 0 |
6911444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian%20peoples | Austronesian peoples | Notable examples of these crops include coconuts, bananas, rice, sugarcane, paper mulberry (tapa tree), breadfruit, taro, ube, areca nut (including the practice of betel chewing), ginger, turmeric, candlenut, pandan, and citruses. The cultivation of sweet potatoes in Polynesia may also be evidence of prehistoric Austro... | 3.015625 | 0 |
6911540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo%20Friends | Zoo Friends | Zoo Friends provides assistance to Sydney's Taronga Zoo and Dubbo's Western Plains Zoo as a not-for-profit organisation. Over two million dollars were raised in 2005 in support of the Zoos and conservation and education strategies. In 2009, the total membership of the Association of Zoo Friends was over 62,000.
Starte... | 2.46875 | 0 |
6911561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevillea%20triloba | Grevillea triloba | Grevillea triloba is species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to near Geraldton in Western Australia. It is a diffuse or spreading shrub, usually with divided leaves with 3 spreading, linear lobes, and clusters of white flowers.
Description
Grevillea trilobais a diffuse or spreading shrub tha... | 2.6875 | 0 |
6911611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevillea%20aquifolium | Grevillea aquifolium | Grevillea aquifolium is a shrubby or scrambling plant endemic to South Australia and Victoria. Common names include holly grevillea, prickly grevillea or variable prickly grevillea. It occurs naturally in woodland, open forest and heathland.
Description
The species displays a high level of plasticity in its leaves, ha... | 2.390625 | 0 |
6911611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevillea%20aquifolium | Grevillea aquifolium | Possible hybrids between this species and Grevillea microstegia and Grevillea montis-cole occur near Mount Cassel and Mount William respectively.
Ecology
Birds are thought to be the primary pollinators of the species, though bees and ants may also have a role.
Conservation status
Grevillea aquifolium is listed as "Le... | 2.6875 | 0 |
6911644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namdaemun%20Market | Namdaemun Market | Namdaemun Market () is a large traditional market in Seoul, South Korea. It is located next to Namdaemun, the main southern gate to the old city. The market is among the oldest extant markets in Korea, having opened during the Joseon period in 1414.
The market's character, location, and size have all changed over time... | 2.859375 | 0 |
6911644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namdaemun%20Market | Namdaemun Market | A market roughly in the same area as the current Namdaemun Market finished construction in September 1414, during the reign of King Taejong. It was one of four market construction projects that occurred in the city between 1412 and 1414. A government-licensed shop that specialized in importing silks () was the first to... | 2.84375 | 0 |
6911644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namdaemun%20Market | Namdaemun Market | The markets inside the former granary did not pay taxes until 1899. Taxes were first collected by the Ministry of Agriculture, Commerce, and Industry, and then by the Office of Crown Property in 1901. By 1907, around 250 to 300 merchants operated inside the building. Roughly 50% were Korean, 30% Japanese, and 20% Chine... | 2.984375 | 0 |
6911644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namdaemun%20Market | Namdaemun Market | By 1930, sales volume dropped, although the number of merchants in the market was stable at around 200. The drop in sales has been attributed to the economy's shift towards corporate capitalism. Sales of general merchandise also decreased, as modern Japanese-owned department stores opened in the area. In 1931, the colo... | 2.59375 | 0 |
6911644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namdaemun%20Market | Namdaemun Market | In 1950, the Korean War began, and most of the 250 shops in the market were destroyed. When vendors returned to the market in June 1951, they found that the area had been cordoned off by barbed wire. Activities restarted with around 100 stalls and makeshift stores in the Bukchang-dong area. By 1953, 150 shops and 500 s... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6911644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namdaemun%20Market | Namdaemun Market | In 1968, mayor of Seoul Kim Hyeon-ok proposed converting the market into an 18-story shopping complex. Shortly afterwards, a significant fire broke out in the market on November 25, 1968. Kim's plans were scaled down to just three floors. More buildings were then constructed over time, with three buildings opening in 1... | 2.4375 | 0 |
6911644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namdaemun%20Market | Namdaemun Market | The number of vendors increased from 4,205 in 1982 to 11,886 in 2013. The proportion of goods sold also changed; clothing went from 60% of the market's sales to 36.8%, and accessories went from 5% to 29.5%. Produce and fish sellers went from 5% to being virtually absent from the market during that time. Vendors also sh... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6911644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namdaemun%20Market | Namdaemun Market | How each building is managed reportedly differs. Generally, the exterior of the buildings, utilities, and exterior security are maintained by the building's jijuhoe (). The jijuhoe collects upkeep fees from the various merchants. Their funds and activities are managed by a management office. The management office manag... | 2.1875 | 0 |
6911673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolay%C4%B1r | Bolayır | Bolayır is a village in the Gelibolu District of Çanakkale Province, situated on the Gallipoli Peninsula in the European part of Turkey. Its population is 1,053 (2021).
Between 1958 and the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde).
The türbe (tomb) of Suleyman Pasha (1316–1357), son of Orhan, the second Bey of the ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
6911694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard%20Roditi | Édouard Roditi | Édouard Roditi (6 June 1910 in Paris, France – 10 May 1992 in Cadiz, Spain) was an American poet, short-story writer, critic and translator.
Literary career
A prolific writer, Édouard Roditi published numerous volumes of poetry, short stories, and art criticism starting with Poems for F (Paris: , 1935). He was also we... | 2.046875 | 0 |
6911700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaa%C4%9Fa%C3%A7%2C%20Edirne | Karaağaç, Edirne | Karaağaç is a neighbourhood of the city Edirne, Edirne District, Edirne Province, northwestern Turkey. Its population is 3,062 (2022). It is situated at the border with Greece. Together with the village of Bosna, it is one of the two Turkish settlements in East Thrace situated on the right bank of the river Meriç, ther... | 2.1875 | 0 |
6911750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett%20Stonequist | Everett Stonequist | Stonequist's sociological work on marginality builds on that of his chief mentor at Chicago, Robert E. Park. "R. E. Park...[was] Stonequist's teacher and the originator of the term marginal man"
Park's notion that an individual suspended between two cultural realities is marginal results in difficulties in establishin... | 2.140625 | 0 |
6911786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopogon%20anemonifolius | Isopogon anemonifolius | Isopogon anemonifolius, commonly known as broad-leaved drumsticks, is a shrub of the family Proteaceae that is native only to eastern New South Wales in Australia. It occurs naturally in woodland, open forest, and heathland on sandstone soils. I. anemonifolius usually ranges between one and two metres in height, and is... | 3.015625 | 0 |
6911786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopogon%20anemonifolius | Isopogon anemonifolius | In 1796, English botanist Richard Salisbury published a formal description of the species, from a specimen collected in Port Jackson (Sydney). He gave it the name Protea anemonifolia, the specific epithet derived from anemone and folium, the latter meaning "leaf", highlighting the resemblance of its leaves to those of ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
6911786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopogon%20anemonifolius | Isopogon anemonifolius | Several varieties have been described but have been synonymised with I. anemonifolius or recognised as distinct species. Brown described varieties glaber, identified by wholly smooth leaves and branches, and pubescens, with leaves and branches covered in fine pale grey hairs, in 1830. English botanist George Bentham te... | 2.609375 | 0 |
6911786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopogon%20anemonifolius | Isopogon anemonifolius | I. anemonifolius is a long-lived plant, with a lifespan of 60 years. It resprouts from its woody base, known as a lignotuber, approximately two months after being burnt in a bushfire. The resultant new growth takes two years to flower, though older plants with larger lignotubers are able to re-grow more quickly. I. ane... | 3.1875 | 0 |
6911786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopogon%20anemonifolius | Isopogon anemonifolius | I. anemonifolius was first cultivated in the United Kingdom in 1791. Knight reported that it flowered and set seed there. With attractive foliage and prominently displayed flowers and cones, I. anemonifolius adapts readily to cultivation; plants can be grown in rock gardens, as borders, or as a pot plant. Garden plants... | 2.75 | 0 |
6911863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitelink | Sitelink | Sitelinks are hyperlinks to website subpages that appear under certain Google listings in order to help users navigate the site. The site owner cannot add any sitelinks; Google adds them through its own secret automated algorithms. If you have a Google Adwords program you can create campaign and ad group level sitelink... | 2.421875 | 0 |
6911867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamborine%20Mountain | Tamborine Mountain | Parts of the plateau and surrounding foothills encompassing the wet subtropical rainforest habitats below the largely cleared plateau summit, and above the surrounding eucalypt forests, have been identified as a Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International. It includes the southern fragments of the Tamborine N... | 2.84375 | 0 |
6911867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamborine%20Mountain | Tamborine Mountain | Prior to British settlement, the mountain was covered with a diverse range of forest types. Unlike the lower land surrounding the mountain, the thick scrub on the mountain was seen as a barrier to settlement so the mountain was not opened for selection until 1875. However, the selectors were living in the surrounding a... | 2.421875 | 0 |
6911867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamborine%20Mountain | Tamborine Mountain | Attractions
Rotary Lookout is on the western boundary of the locality, opposite 154-172 Main Western Road ().
Tamborine Mountain attracts many tourists to "Gallery Walk" along Long Road, a street devoted to art galleries, cafes and souvenir shops. Other tourism-heavy areas include Main Street, two one-way roads with... | 2.09375 | 0 |
6911951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico%20Castel | Nico Castel | Nico Castel (born Naftali Chaim Castel Kalinhoff; August 1, 1931 – May 31, 2015) was a Portuguese-born comprimario tenor and language and diction coach, as well as a prolific translator of libretti and writer of books on singing diction. Although Castel performed throughout Europe, North America and South America, he w... | 2.46875 | 0 |
6911951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico%20Castel | Nico Castel | Early life and career
Castel was born in Lisbon, Portugal, the "scion of a multigenerational dynasty of Sephardic rabbis" with roots in 15th century Castile. He was raised in Venezuela by multilingual parents and a German nanny and attended a French school in Caracas. After some vocal study in Caracas and then the Univ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
6911951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico%20Castel | Nico Castel | A polyglot, Castel spoke Portuguese, Ladino, German, French, Spanish, Italian and English with native or near-native fluency. He was an internationally known language and diction coach, writing the book A Singer’s Manual of Spanish Lyric Diction and translating an extensive annotated series of librettos of French, Germ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
6911970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claramae%20Turner | Claramae Turner | Claramae Turner (née Haas; October 28, 1920 – May 18, 2013) was an American operatic contralto, perhaps best known for her appearance in the film Carousel (1956), adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical of the same name.
Early life
Born in the great Central Valley, outside Dinuba, California, she began... | 2.0625 | 0 |
6912065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%2C%20Texas | Sidney, Texas | Sidney is an unincorporated community in Comanche County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 196 in 2000.
History
Sidney was originally known as Jimmie's Creek, Canady or Round Mountain before being named after a son of the community's first postmaster, John C. ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6912094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent%20Haddelsey | Vincent Haddelsey | Vincent Haddelsey (13 April 1934 – 29 August 2010) was an English naïve painter, who focused on landscapes and horses.
Early life
Vincent Haddelsey was born in Bargate, Grimsby, England, on April 13, 1934. He was the only child of Sam Haddelsey, and Mary Lucy (nee Tierney). His father was a lawyer, and his grandfath... | 2 | 0 |
6912094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent%20Haddelsey | Vincent Haddelsey | When he was 18 Haddelsey emigrated to British Columbia, where he worked for several years in a construction camp, while struggling to paint in the winter. He became fascinated by the indigenous peoples and their collective folk art. This experience, which he described as a 'collective folk memory', led to his collabora... | 2.40625 | 0 |
6912132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales%20Independent%20School%20District | Gonzales Independent School District | Gonzales Independent School District is a public school district based in Gonzales, Texas (USA).
Located in Gonzales County, a small portion of the district extends into Caldwell County.
The school district was recently engaged in a scandal over the use of prison jumpsuits as a way to combat violators of their dress ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
6912156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrey%20Theatre | Surrey Theatre | It continued in use until 1810, although it had a troubled existence, being burnt down in 1799 and again on 12 August 1805. Rebuilt in 1806 by the German architect of the Old Vic, Rudolph Cabanel, it was converted into a theatre by Robert Elliston. He renamed it the Surrey Theatre, being determined to perform Shakespe... | 2.15625 | 0 |
6912156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrey%20Theatre | Surrey Theatre | When Elliston returned in 1827, the theatre's fortunes changed. In 1829, Douglas Jerrold's melodrama Black-Eyed Susan, with T. P. Cooke as William, the nautical hero, ran for over 300 nights, which was extraordinarily successful for the time. Elliston made his last appearance at this theatre on 24 June 1831, twelve d... | 2.03125 | 0 |
6912214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulton%20Independent%20School%20District | Moulton Independent School District | Moulton Independent School District is a public school district based in Moulton, Texas (USA).
Located in Lavaca County, a small portion of the district extends into Gonzales County.
In 2017, Moulton High School (MHS) received a "Met Standard" rating by the Texas Education Agency. With the rating, MHS also received s... | 2.5 | 0 |
6912260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex%20%28input%20method%29 | Telex (input method) | In the 2000s, Unicode largely supplanted language-specific encodings on modern computer systems and the Internet, limiting Telex's use in text storage and transmission. However, it remains the default input method for many input method editors, with VIQR and VNI offered as alternatives. It also continues to supplement ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6912291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igram | Igram | Igram () is a village and municipality in western Slovakia in Senec District in the Bratislava Region. It is located northeast of Senec, between the villages of Kaplna and Čataj. Currently, the village has around 550 inhabitants.
History
The first written reference to the town was made in 1244. Hungarian king Béla IV ... | 1.90625 | 0 |
6912298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reca | Reca | A notable 18th-century historical figure of Reca was György Réthey, a former Imperial cavalry officer who fought for Francis II Rákóczi, Prince of Transylvania and leader of the last major uprising of the Hungarian nobility against the Habsburg dynasty (see Rákóczi's War for Independence). Both György Réthey and his br... | 2.421875 | 0 |
6912407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keshan%20disease | Keshan disease | Keshan disease is a congestive cardiomyopathy caused by a combination of dietary deficiency of selenium and the presence of a mutated strain of Coxsackievirus, named after Keshan County of Heilongjiang province, Northeast China, where symptoms were first noted. These symptoms were later found prevalent in a wide belt e... | 2.65625 | 0 |
6912407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keshan%20disease | Keshan disease | Some signs and symptoms of latent Keshan disease include dizziness, fatigue, palpitations, and mild enlargement of the heart.
Treatments
The treatment for Keshan disease is selenium supplementation. The recommended amounts are fifty-five micrograms of selenium per day for adult men and women, sixty micrograms a day ... | 1.953125 | 0 |
6912409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Daily | Hugh Daily | Hugh Daily (July 17, 1847 – after 1923), nicknamed "One Arm" Daily, was an Irish born professional right-handed pitcher who played six seasons, for seven different teams; the Buffalo Bisons, the Cleveland Blues, and the St. Louis Maroons of the National League, Chicago Browns and Washington Nationals of the Union Assoc... | 2.15625 | 0 |
6912409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Daily | Hugh Daily | Daily was well known for having a bad disposition, he has been described as surly, and having a volatile temper. Other sources add to that: mean, contemptuous, and uncommunicative. While this behaviour was not well liked by the baseball establishment, he was popular with the home crowds because of his verbal tirades ag... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6912409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Daily | Hugh Daily | Major league career
Daily's performance that season caught the eye of Major League teams, and he signed with the Buffalo Bisons for the 1882 season. Although he shared starts with future Hall of Famer Pud Galvin, he was able to pitch in 29 games, winning 15 of them.
He was playing for the Cleveland Blues of the Nationa... | 2.328125 | 0 |
6912524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley%20Goddard | Beverley Goddard | Beverley Lanita Callender (née Goddard, born 28 August 1956) is an English former track and field sprinter. She competed for Great Britain at the Olympic Games in Montreal 1976, Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984, winning bronze medals in the 4 x 100 metres relay in 1980 and 1984. She is also the 1981 World Student Games... | 2.015625 | 0 |
6912552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20Gallery%20Wellington | City Gallery Wellington | Since opening at its current location in 1993, City Gallery has also hosted monographic exhibitions of many other major international artists including Tracey Emin, Keith Haring, Rosalie Gascoigne, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Tracey Moffatt, Sidney Nolan, Bridget Riley, Sam Taylor Wood, Salla Tykkä, Hilma af Klint, S... | 1.945313 | 0 |
6912599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adel%20Darwish | Adel Darwish | Darwish was the first journalist in the world to expose Saddam Hussein's missile programme after an explosion in al-Hella, a facility south of Baghdad, killed over 800 people in August 1987. Darwish, together with Pierre Salinger, also had a scoop when he obtained the transcripts of the meetings between United States' ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
6912632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaristo%20Baschenis | Evaristo Baschenis | Evaristo Baschenis (7 December 1617 – 16 March 1677) was an Italian Baroque painter of the 17th century, active mainly around his native city of Bergamo.
Biography
He was born to a family of artists. He is best known for still lifes, most commonly of musical instruments. This could explain his friendship with a family... | 2.265625 | 0 |
6912710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden%20Park | Holden Park | Holden Park is the only park in the village of Oakworth, West Yorkshire, England.
The park is also known locally as Oakworth Park.
History
The park was the former grounds of Sir Isaac Holden's house (Oakworth House) and garden.
Oakworth house was a large Italianate villa built from 1864–74 by architect George Smith ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
6912713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Macedon | Mount Macedon | Mount Macedon ( ; or ) is a dormant volcano that is part of the Macedon Ranges of the Great Dividing Range, located in the Central Highlands region of Victoria, Australia. The mountain has an elevation of with a prominence of and is located approximately northwest of Melbourne.
Etymology
The mountain is known as ... | 2.84375 | 0 |
6912716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20England | Barry England | Barry England (16 March 1932 – 21 May 2009) was an English novelist and playwright. He is chiefly known for his 1968 thriller Figures in a Landscape, which was nominated for the inaugural Booker Prize.
Life and work
England was raised in a Roman Catholic household and studied at Downside School. He joined the British... | 2.1875 | 0 |
6912733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20S.%20Struble | Isaac S. Struble | Isaac Sterling Struble (November 3, 1843 – February 17, 1913) was an American politician who was a four-term Republican Representative of Iowa's 11th congressional district. Serving from 1883 to 1891, the Plymouth County resident was a noted congressional opponent of plural marriage in the Utah Territory.
The member ... | 2 | 0 |
6912733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20S.%20Struble | Isaac S. Struble | During the three subsequent elections (in 1884, 1886, and 1888), Struble won the Republican renomination by acclamation in district nomination conventions then defeated Democratic Party and Greenback Party candidates in the general election. Struble was, according to the New York Times,
"exceptionally popular" at the ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
6912733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20S.%20Struble | Isaac S. Struble | As reprinted in the LeMars Sentinel Struble's speech outlined the blessings and burdens of being a member of the House of Representatives contemporaneous with the likes of House Speaker Thomas Brackett Reed, future speaker Joe Cannon and future president William McKinley. He offered remarks about such subjects as the p... | 2.203125 | 0 |
6912733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20S.%20Struble | Isaac S. Struble | Struble chaired this standing committee during his fourth term. His influence in the Committee on the Territories played a significant role in the admission into the union of six western states – Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming and the two Dakotas, and the organization of Oklahoma Territory. Meanwhile, Senator Shel... | 1.992188 | 0 |
6912746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevillea%20wickhamii | Grevillea wickhamii | Grevillea wickhamii, commonly known as Wickham's grevillea, holly-leaf grevillea or lgarrmari in Djaru, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is an erect shrub or spindly tree with holly-like, broadly egg-shaped leaves with 2 to 7 shallow teeth, and down-curve... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6912746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevillea%20wickhamii | Grevillea wickhamii | Distribution and habitat
Wickham's grevillea is widespread in northern Western Australia, in inland regions of the Northern Territory and in western Queensland.
Subspecies aprica grows in open woodland or spinifex communities mainly from south of the Kimberley, in the northern Territory south from Larrimah, and in a ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
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