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6912776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester%20Independent%20School%20District | Rochester Independent School District | Rochester Independent School District was a public school district based in Rochester, Texas (United States). It existed from the early 1900s to 2005. From 2002 to 2005, the district was known as the Rochester County Line Independent School District.
The district consisted of a single campus - Rochester School - that ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
6912830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girgarre%2C%20Victoria | Girgarre, Victoria | Girgarre ( ) is a town in the Goulburn Valley, Victoria, Australia. It is in the Shire of Campaspe local government area. At the , Girgarre had a population of 563.
History
The Post Office opened on 21 May 1917 as Stanhope North, and was renamed Girgarre in 1920.
A railway branch line from Rushworth opened in 1917. T... | 1.929688 | 0 |
6912844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile%20Krieps | Émile Krieps | Émile Krieps (4 January 1920 – 30 September 1998) was a Luxembourgish resistance leader, soldier, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Krieps served in cabinets under Pierre Werner and Gaston Thorn.
For his services in the Second World War, Krieps was awarded honours from several countries. These honour... | 2.4375 | 0 |
6912856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20von%20Dalberg | Johann von Dalberg | Johann von Dalberg (1445–1503) was the Prince-Bishop of Worms from 1482 to 1503.
Biography
Johann von Dalberg was born in 1445, the son of Wolfgang von Dalberg. He studied at Erfurt and in Italy, where he took his degree of doctor utriusque juris at the University of Ferrara and devoted himself more especially to the... | 2.078125 | 0 |
6912901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus%20impudicus | Agaricus impudicus | Agaricus impudicus, also known as the tufted wood mushroom, is a mushroom of Agaricus, a genus with many edible species.
Description
As with all Agaricus species, gills are free, colour progresses with age from pale-pink to a chocolate color, and spores are dark brown. The stipe has a clear annulus (ring).
Cap 4–15 c... | 2.03125 | 0 |
6912952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erk%20Russell | Erk Russell | Player communication
Russell was notorious for his communication and motivational nature among his players. He was known for sending out calendars to his players over the summer, reminding them to be in shape for the start of practice and suggesting a humorous workout regimen that would include entries such as: "Run th... | 1.953125 | 0 |
6912952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erk%20Russell | Erk Russell | While Vince Dooley was still contemplating the dismissal of several Bulldogs after the infamous hog incident of 1980, Coach Russell was the one who saw how it could be used to bring the team together. When Len Bias died of an overdose in 1986; as head coach of Georgia Southern, Coach Russell conveyed the dangers of dru... | 2.046875 | 0 |
6913018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevillea%20miniata | Grevillea miniata | Grevillea miniata, commonly known as sandstone grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to north-western Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub or small tree with more or less oblong leaves and bright yellow to orange and bright red flowers with a yellow style.
Descriptio... | 2.59375 | 0 |
6913052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-winged%20parakeet | White-winged parakeet | The white-winged parakeet (Brotogeris versicolurus), or canary-winged parakeet is a small parrot native to the Amazon River basin from southeast Colombia to the rivers mouth in Brazil. Caged birds have been released and the birds have established self-sustaining populations in Lima, Peru, Los Angeles, and Miami, Flor... | 3.109375 | 0 |
6913074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amasis%20Painter | Amasis Painter | The Amasis Painter (active around 550–510 BC in Athens) was an ancient Greek vase painter who worked in the black-figure technique. He owes his name to the signature of the potter Amasis ("Amasis made me"), who signed twelve works painted by the same hand. At the time of the exhibition, "The Amasis Painter and His Worl... | 2.703125 | 0 |
6913074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amasis%20Painter | Amasis Painter | The painter's twelve signed pieces include three broad-shouldered neck-amphorae, four olpai (an early form of wine jug), one band cup, one cup, one small bowl, a pyxis and a vessel fragment. For scholars who believe that the potter and painter were identical, the petite and refined shapes of the Amasis vessels reinforc... | 2.265625 | 0 |
6913074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amasis%20Painter | Amasis Painter | Another unique characteristic of the Amasis Painter's style is his occasional use of a glaze outline to delineate women's figures, specifically maenads. While he was not the first to use a glaze outline, he was the first to combine it with the black-figure technique on a single vessel, possibly anticipating the red-fig... | 2.28125 | 0 |
6913074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amasis%20Painter | Amasis Painter | The Amasis Painter and Exekias are traditionally considered by scholars to represent the two "schools" of Attic black-figure painting in the mid-6th century BC, and are credited with carrying the black-figure technique to full maturity; traditional scholarly discussion of either painter implies a comparison. Both artis... | 2.71875 | 0 |
6913074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amasis%20Painter | Amasis Painter | In autumn of 1985, The Amasis Painter and His World, the first retrospective of an Attic black-figure artist, opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Curated by Dr. Dietrich von Bothmer, J. D. Beazley's close friend and associate, the show brought together 65 works attributed to the Amasis Painter from around the wor... | 2.359375 | 0 |
6913102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand%20Hueppe | Ferdinand Hueppe | Ferdinand Adolph Theophil Hueppe (24 August 1852 – 15 September 1938) was a German physician, bacteriologist and hygienist. From 1900 to 1904, he was the first Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB, German Football Association) president.
Biography
From 1872 to 1876, Hueppe studied medicine at the University of Berlin, afterwa... | 2.796875 | 0 |
6913109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict%20style%20inventory | Conflict style inventory | A conflict style inventory is a written tool for gaining insight into how people respond to conflict. Typically, a user answers a set of questions about their responses to conflict and is scored accordingly.
Most people develop a patterned response to conflict based on their life history and history with others. This ... | 3.171875 | 0 |
6913139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducati%20L-twin%20engine | Ducati L-twin engine | In October 1970, the decision was made by Ducati to re-enter the motorcycle competition. Director Arnaldo Milvio and General Manager Fredmano Spairani, were enthusiastic about racing, and had encouraged Fabio Taglioni to develop the 750 V-twin. In 1971 five 500 cc V-twins were built to compete in the Italian championsh... | 2.46875 | 0 |
6913154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Dale%20Trendall | Arthur Dale Trendall | Arthur Dale Trendall, (28 March 1909 – 13 November 1995) was a New Zealand art historian and classical archaeologist whose work on identifying the work of individual artists on Greek ceramic vessels at Apulia and other sites earned him international prizes and a papal knighthood.
Life
Educated at the University of O... | 2.28125 | 0 |
6913154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Dale%20Trendall | Arthur Dale Trendall | Legacy
According to Oliver Taplin, Trendall "almost single-handedly ... imposed order on the more than 20,000 known red-figure vases from Sicily, South Italy, Campania and Paestum, allocating each one to an area of production and approximate date, and attributing them to individual painters or groups of painters". More... | 2.125 | 0 |
6913171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larut%20Wars | Larut Wars | The Perak Sultanate, involved in a protracted succession struggle, was unable to maintain order. Things were increasingly getting out of hand and chaos was proving bad for the Malays, Chinese and British. In her book The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither (published in 1892) Victorian traveller and adventuress Isabe... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6913192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20Amagasaki%20mayoral%20election | 2002 Amagasaki mayoral election | Amagasaki, Hyōgo held a mayoral election on November 17, 2002. Aya Shirai, backed by the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) and the local group Amagasaki Residents Group for Democratic City Administration defeated the incumbent Yoshio Miyata, who had been mayor since before the Great Hanshin Earthquake and ran on a platfor... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6913194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Est%C3%A1dio%20Municipal%20de%20%C3%81gueda | Estádio Municipal de Águeda | The Municipal Stadium of Águeda () is a multiuse stadium located in the civil parish of Borrolha, in the municipality of Águeda, in the Portuguese district of Aveiro.
History
Open in 2003, the stadium has a capacity for 10,000 people. Primarily used as venue for football matches, it is the home stadium of Recreio Desp... | 1.96875 | 0 |
6913216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevillea%20aspleniifolia | Grevillea aspleniifolia | Grevillea aspleniifolia, also known as fern leaf grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is a spreading shrub with linear to narrowly egg-shaped leaves and purplish flowers.
Description
Grevillea aspleniifolia is a spreading shrub that typically... | 2.53125 | 0 |
6913223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20Street%20station%20%28New%20York%20City%20Subway%29 | Canal Street station (New York City Subway) | The Canal Street station was constructed as part of the route segment from Chambers Street to Great Jones Street. Construction on this section of the line began on July 10, 1900, and was awarded to Degnon-McLean Contracting Company. Near Canal Street the subway passed through a drainage sewer (the namesake of Canal Str... | 2.75 | 0 |
6913223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20Street%20station%20%28New%20York%20City%20Subway%29 | Canal Street station (New York City Subway) | Centre Street Loop
As early as 1902, Parsons had devised plans for a subway line under Centre Street in Lower Manhattan. The line would have had four tracks from the Brooklyn Bridge north to Canal Street; from there, two tracks would split eastward to the Manhattan Bridge, and two tracks would continue north and east ... | 2.828125 | 0 |
6913223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20Street%20station%20%28New%20York%20City%20Subway%29 | Canal Street station (New York City Subway) | Work on the Manhattan Bridge line proceeded slowly, in part because of the high water table of the area, which required the contractor to pump out millions of gallons of groundwater every day. Although the old canal along Canal Street had been infilled, the ground still contained significant amounts of water; the Manha... | 2.75 | 0 |
6913223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20Street%20station%20%28New%20York%20City%20Subway%29 | Canal Street station (New York City Subway) | Broadway mainline
The New York Public Service Commission also adopted plans for what was known as the Broadway–Lexington Avenue route (later the Broadway mainline) on December 31, 1907. A list of stations on the Broadway–Lexington Avenue line were announced in 1909; the plans tentatively called for an express station ... | 2.859375 | 0 |
6913223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20Street%20station%20%28New%20York%20City%20Subway%29 | Canal Street station (New York City Subway) | Overcrowding issues
After the BRT stations at Canal Street opened, the complex became a major transfer hub for the BRT lines, but the different platforms were only connected via a narrow passageway. Overcrowding was exacerbated by the fact that the station was the only place where Centre Street Line passengers could t... | 2.5625 | 0 |
6913223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20Street%20station%20%28New%20York%20City%20Subway%29 | Canal Street station (New York City Subway) | The project was originally supposed to be complete in December 1997. The MTA hosted tours of the station during the renovation, selling tickets to members of the public who wished to see the work in detail. During the renovation, in October 1995, workers accidentally drilled into the foundation of a neighboring buildin... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6913223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20Street%20station%20%28New%20York%20City%20Subway%29 | Canal Street station (New York City Subway) | The complex has a total of 13 staircase entrances and two separate elevator entrances for the Lexington Avenue Line's platforms. From the Broadway mainline platforms, there are two staircases to each of the northwestern, southeastern, and southwestern corners. There is also a staircase to the northeastern corner of Bro... | 2.265625 | 0 |
6913223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20Street%20station%20%28New%20York%20City%20Subway%29 | Canal Street station (New York City Subway) | During the late 1910s, contractors waterproofed the station, placing a layer of brick and a layer of concrete under the trackbeds. Lead plates were installed under the trackbeds where they crossed over the Bridge Line platforms.
Formerly, Canal Street resembled a typical express station, except that the inner tracks ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6913223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20Street%20station%20%28New%20York%20City%20Subway%29 | Canal Street station (New York City Subway) | Within the tunnels north and south of the station, each of the BMT Nassau Street Line's four tracks is separated by a concrete wall, rather than by columns, as in older IRT tunnels. These walls were intended to improve ventilation, as air would be pushed forward by passing trains, rather than to the sides of the tunnel... | 2.640625 | 0 |
6913270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagatjit%20Singh | Jagatjit Singh | Colonel Maharajah Sir Jagatjit Singh Sahib Bahadur (24 November 1872 – 19 June 1949) was the last ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Kapurthala during the British Raj in India, from 1877 until his death, in 1949. He ascended to the throne of Kapurthala state on 16 October 1877 and assumed full ruling powers on 24... | 2.15625 | 0 |
6913280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen%20Point | Bergen Point | Bergen Point is a point of land that lends its name to the adjacent neighborhood in Bayonne in Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The point is located on the north side of Kill van Kull at Newark Bay. It is the section of the city closest to the Bayonne Bridge. Historically the term has been used more broa... | 2.140625 | 0 |
6913310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviezri%20Fraenkel | Aviezri Fraenkel | Aviezri Siegmund Fraenkel () (born June 7, 1929) is an Israeli mathematician who has made contributions to combinatorial game theory.
Biography
Aviezri Siegmund Fraenkel was born in Munich, Germany, to a Jewish family, which then moved to Switzerland soon thereafter. In 1939 his family moved once more, to Jerusalem.
... | 2.703125 | 0 |
6913340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20L.%20Wagner | Arthur L. Wagner | Arthur Lockwood Wagner (March 16, 1853 – June 17, 1905) was a United States brigadier general and military instructor.
Biography
Born in Ottawa, Illinois, Wagner graduated from West Point in 1875 near the bottom of his class with a commission in the infantry. While serving on the frontier, Wagner saw action during cam... | 2.734375 | 0 |
6913374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake%20Game | Earthquake Game | The Earthquake Game was a college football game in which the crowd reaction after an important play registered on a seismograph. Played in front of a crowd of 79,431 at Louisiana State University's Tiger Stadium on October 8, 1988, the LSU Tigers upset No. 4 Auburn 7–6.
Background
The game pitted Southeastern Conferen... | 2.09375 | 0 |
6913374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake%20Game | Earthquake Game | The game's name resulted from the reaction of the crowd after the final pass, which registered as ground motion by a seismograph located in LSU’s Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex around from the stadium. The seismograph reading was discovered the morning after the game by LSU seismologist Don Stevenson and student work... | 2.046875 | 0 |
6913403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20medicine | Energy medicine | Energy medicine is a branch of alternative medicine based on a pseudo-scientific belief that healers can channel "healing energy" into patients and effect positive results. The field is defined by shared beliefs and practices relating to mysticism and esotericism in the wider alternative medicine sphere rather than any... | 2.25 | 0 |
6913403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20medicine | Energy medicine | History records the repeated association or exploitation of scientific inventions by individuals claiming that newly discovered science could help people to heal. In the 19th century, electricity and magnetism were in the "borderlands" of science and electrical quackery became rife. These concepts continue to inspire w... | 2.203125 | 0 |
6913403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20medicine | Energy medicine | The US-based National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) distinguishes between health care involving scientifically observable energy, which it calls "Veritable Energy Medicine", and health care methods that invoke physically undetectable or unverifiable "energies", which it calls "Putative Energy ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
6913403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20medicine | Energy medicine | Believers in these techniques have proposed quantum mystical invocations of non-locality to try to explain distant healing. They have also proposed that healers act as a channel passing on a kind of bioelectromagnetism which shares similarities to vitalistic pseudosciences such as orgone or qi. Writing in the Journal o... | 1.9375 | 0 |
6913417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony%20and%20Cleopatra%20%281972%20film%29 | Antony and Cleopatra (1972 film) | Back in Egypt, Cleopatra learns Antony's marriage to Octavia and strikes her messenger for delivering the news. She sends her messenger to witness the marriage union in Rome, in which the messenger then returns to Egypt and describes Octavia's physical features. While in Rome, Antony asks a soothsayer whether his or Oc... | 1.976563 | 0 |
6913525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%20Ghiselin | Brewster Ghiselin | Brewster Ghiselin (June 13, 1903 – June 11, 2002) was an American poet and academic.
Ghiselin was born in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. The family home is at 29 Jefferson Road, now designated as a historic landmark. At the age of sixteen, he moved to California, where he lived until 1934. He lived... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6913642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelplate | Mittelplate | Mittelplate is Germany's largest oil field, from the shore, in the environmentally important Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Parks tidal flats. The development of the field was done by a consortium of RWE Dea and Wintershall. By the 20th anniversary of the start of production, (about 146 million barrels) of cr... | 2.734375 | 0 |
6913642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelplate | Mittelplate | Starting from October 1987, the field has been tapped in several sandstone layers at depths reaching . The size of the deposit was adjusted upward to over 100 million tons, of which 15 million tons were extracted by June 2005. The annual production of Mittelplate Island amounts to 900,000 tons of oil (about 18,100 barr... | 2.59375 | 0 |
6913666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoRSS | GeoRSS | GeoRSS is a specification for encoding location as part of a Web feed. (Web feeds are used to describe feeds ("channels") of content, such as news articles, Audio blogs, video blogs and text blog entries. These web feeds are rendered by programs such as aggregators and web browsers.) The name "GeoRSS" is derived from R... | 2.59375 | 0 |
6913672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo%20Metropolitan%20Government | Tokyo Metropolitan Government | The is the government of the Tokyo Metropolis. One of the 47 prefectures of Japan, the government consists of a popularly elected governor and assembly. The headquarters building is located in the ward of Shinjuku. The metropolitan government administers the special wards, cities, towns and villages that constitute pa... | 2.984375 | 0 |
6913680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koz%C5%82%C3%B3wka%20Palace | Kozłówka Palace | Kozłówka Palace (pronounced: , Polish: Pałac w Kozłówce) is a large rococo and neoclassical palace complex of the Zamoyski family in Kozłówka, Lubartów County, Lublin Voivodeship in eastern Poland.
The palace was built between 1735 and 1742 and is one of Poland's official national Historic Monuments (Pomnik historii),... | 2.265625 | 0 |
6913726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrita%20Centre%20for%20Computational%20Engineering%20and%20Networking | Amrita Centre for Computational Engineering and Networking | The Centre for Excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking (CEN) at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, a research university in India, is a research and teaching center works on technologies to solving computational problems that can be applied in real world projects. The centre is involved in research projects fun... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6913742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Life%20%28Mosley%20autobiography%29 | My Life (Mosley autobiography) | My Life is the autobiography of the British Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley (1896 – 1980). It was published in 1968.
Background
Mosely was the most prominent British fascist leader of the 1930s, founding the British Union of Fascists in 1932. In 1939, following the start of the Second World War, the party was prosc... | 2.140625 | 0 |
6913862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Cantor%27s%20Tale | A Cantor's Tale | A Cantor's Tale is a 2005 documentary by Erik Greenberg Anjou. The film profiles Jacob Mendelson, a practitioner of Jewish liturgical music (a cantor) who has dedicated his life to preserving the form's traditional vocal stylings.
Plot
Anjou follows Mendelson around Borough Park, his old neighborhood in Brooklyn. Men... | 2.34375 | 0 |
6913907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief%20Chouneau | Chief Chouneau | William "Chief" Chouneau (September 2, 1888 – September 17, 1946), born William Cadreau, was a Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in one game for the Chicago White Sox in 1910, and later played for the Negro league Chicago Union Giants. He was a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in northe... | 1.90625 | 0 |
6913932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20P.%20Day | Joseph P. Day | Joseph Paul Day (1874 – April 10, 1944) was a real estate broker and pioneer auctioneer active in New York City from 1895 until his death.
Early life
Day was born in New York City to John W. Day, a successful producer of soda water and Catherine A. (née Hayes). His father died when Joseph was 5, and his mother died 9 ... | 1.929688 | 0 |
6913945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakea%20myrtoides | Hakea myrtoides | Hakea myrtoides, commonly known as myrtle hakea, is a shrub endemic to the woodlands of the Darling Range near Perth in Western Australia.
Description
Hakea myrtoides is a ground hugging shrub which may grow to in height and forms a lignotuber. Mauve, pink or crimson flowers grow in clusters in the leaf axils along... | 2.203125 | 0 |
6913977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insubres | Insubres | The Insubres or Insubri were an ancient Celtic population settled in Insubria, in what is now the Italian region of Lombardy. They were the founders of Mediolanum (Milan). Though completely Gaulish at the time of Roman conquest, they were the result of the fusion of pre-existing Ligurian and Celtic population (Golasecc... | 2.578125 | 0 |
6913977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insubres | Insubres | In 225 BC, the Insubres and the Boii, their Gallic neighbours to the south of the River Po, rebelled against Rome. This was prompted by developments that started in 283 BC, when unspecified Celts besieged Arretium (Arezzo in Tuscany) and defeated a Roman force that came to the aid of the city. The Romans sent envoys to... | 3.03125 | 0 |
6913977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insubres | Insubres | After the Battle of Telamon, the Romans attacked and defeated the Boii and forced them to submit to Rome. In 224 BC, the Romans attacked Insubre territory. In 223 BC, the Insubres sued for peace, but the Romans turned this down and attacked them. The Romans were now determined to be in control of Gallia Cisalpina, the ... | 2.828125 | 0 |
6913977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insubres | Insubres | In 218 BC, the Insubres and the Boii rebelled in anticipation of Hannibal's invasion of Italy in the Second Punic War (218-201 BC). They attacked Cremona and Placentia, forcing the settlers to flee to Mutina, which was besieged. The praetor Lucius Manlius Vulso set off from Ariminum with 20,000 infantry and 1,600 caval... | 2.953125 | 0 |
6914005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Castle%2C%20Pozna%C5%84 | Royal Castle, Poznań | The Royal Castle in Poznań () dates from 1249 and the reign of Przemysł I. Located in the Polish city of Poznań, it was largely destroyed during the Second World War but has since been partly rebuilt.
History and modern view
Construction of the castle was probably started by Przemysł I in 1249 on hill later called Gór... | 2.390625 | 0 |
6914005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Castle%2C%20Pozna%C5%84 | Royal Castle, Poznań | Basements served as prisons and for storage of wines, and on the ground floor there were charring rooms. Those two floors were covered by vaults. Two higher floors probably had wooden ceilings. On the edges of first floor were representative chambers, and between them were habitual rooms. The whole second floor was occ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6914005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Castle%2C%20Pozna%C5%84 | Royal Castle, Poznań | Legends
According to legend, Przemysł Hill was created by dark powers. When Mieszko I was baptized, the Devil, angry, decided to sink the entire city of Poznań. He pulled out one of the hills near Gniezno, and, with a group of demons, tried to block the flow of the Warta. However, the evil forces started to celebrate t... | 2.265625 | 0 |
6914020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eresburg | Eresburg | The Eresburg is the largest, well-known (Old) Saxon refuge castle (Volksburg) and was located in the area of the present German village of Obermarsberg in the borough of Marsberg in the county of Hochsauerlandkreis. It was a hill castle built on the plateau of a low table hill, known as the Eresberg, at a height of 13... | 2.640625 | 0 |
6914020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eresburg | Eresburg | Thanks to its favourable position on the border, the castle was repeatedly attacked and hard fought for before being conquered in 772 A.D. during the Saxon Wars by the Frankish king, Charlemagne. Charlemagne had the Irminsul, a pagan religious site here or in the vicinity, destroyed. In 779, he charged the Fulda abbot,... | 2.5625 | 0 |
6914089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia%20Angell | Marcia Angell | Marcia Angell (; born April 20, 1939) is an American physician, author, and the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.
Biography
After c... | 2.03125 | 0 |
6914127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20Abad | Danish Abad | Danish Abad (Urdu: دانش آباد), literally "town of intellect", is a suburb town of Peshawar, the capital city of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. It was named after the first settlers in the locality.
History
Previously, the area consisted of cultivated fields. Before the 1930s the locality had been called ... | 2.015625 | 0 |
6914131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Aukasaptati | Śukasaptati | Śukasaptati, or Seventy tales of the parrot, is a collection of stories originally written in Sanskrit. The stories are supposed to be narrated to a woman by her pet parrot, at the rate of one story every night, in order to dissuade her from going out to meet her paramour when her husband is away.
The stories frequentl... | 2 | 0 |
6914139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Isaac | Aaron Isaac | The son of a merchant in Treuenbrietzen, Brandenburg, Isaac first made his living as a peddler, but at a young age he apprenticed as a seal engraver and settled in the university town of Bützow in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He worked there as an assistant to a seal engraver and on the side sold haberdashery goo... | 2.65625 | 0 |
6914139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Isaac | Aaron Isaac | So great was the confidence of the authorities in Isaac that he was given the right as head of the Jewish community of Stockholm to exercise a certain control over the Jews in Sweden, so that no less reputable Jews were allowed to enter the country. Isaac therefore became the gateway through which Jewish immigration pa... | 2.65625 | 0 |
6914157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Dale | Samuel Dale | This ambush by Samuel Dale and his fellow militiamen on British allied-Creek Indians occurred on November 12, 1813. Samuel Dale took charge of Fort Glass, a small stockade about a quarter of a mile from Fort Madison. Dale had at least 50 American partisans under his command. During the day sentinels were posted around ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6914181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartola | Cartola | Angenor de Oliveira, known as Cartola (Portuguese for top hat), (; October 11, 1908 – November 30, 1980) was a Brazilian singer, composer and poet considered to be a major figure in the development of samba.
Cartola composed, alone or with partners, more than 500 songs.
Biography
Angenor de Oliveira was born in 1908 ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
6914181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartola | Cartola | In 1919, driven by financial difficulties, the Oliveiras moved to Mangueira, then a small, growing favela with less than fifty shacks. Soon, another resident of Mangueira, Carlos Cachaça, six years older than Cartola, would become, besides a lifelong friend, his most constant partner in dozens of sambas.
When he was 1... | 2.46875 | 0 |
6914181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartola | Cartola | By the late 1940s, things had become worse. At 38, Cartola had a long illness, and shortly after he recovered, his wife died from heart problems. One of his greatest hits, sung by many artists, "Sim (Yes)", was written during his grief. Cartola stopped playing and composing; he moved with his new wife, Donária, into a ... | 1.9375 | 0 |
6914183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20Dolls%20%28film%29 | Paper Dolls (film) | Stage adaptation
A stage adaptation of the same name by Philip Himberg was workshopped as part of the Sundance Theatre Lab in 2011 under the direction of Mark Brokaw. The workshop cast including Telly Leung, Francis Jue, Erik Liberman, Matthew Wilkas, Joan Barber, Yusef Boulov, Ron Domingo, Ben Graney, Lauren Klein, Or... | 2.109375 | 0 |
6914186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucan%20Sarsfields%20GAA | Lucan Sarsfields GAA | Early success
Lucan won the Intermediate Football League in the 1904–05 season. It is reported that they did this with the help of five players from France. The story goes that in 1902 a team call Balbriggan Wanderers won the Intermediate League and then for some reason or other went out of existence in 1904. One of th... | 2.15625 | 0 |
6914199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinode%20%28satellite%29 | Hinode (satellite) | SOT (Solar Optical Telescope)
A 0.5 meter Gregorian optical telescope with an angular resolution of about 0.2 arcsecond over the field of view of about 400 x 400 arcsec. At the SOT focal plane, the Focal Plane Package (FPP) built by the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, California consists... | 2.40625 | 0 |
6914205 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihor%20%28region%29 | Bihor (region) | The area became part of Montenegro in the First Balkan War. After the Balkan Wars and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, heavy pressure led the Muslims from Bihor to move to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Turkey. In 1914, a few thousand people from Bihor left for Turkey, while followers of Eastern Orthodoxy began to s... | 2.71875 | 0 |
6914300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Davey%20Cunningham | Joseph Davey Cunningham | Joseph Davey Cunningham, (b. Scotland, 9 June 1812, died 28 February 1851) was the author of the book History of the Sikhs (1849) and an authority in Punjab University. His father was the Scottish poet and author Allan Cunningham and his brother was the archaeologist Sir Alexander Cunningham.
At an early age he was r... | 2.203125 | 0 |
6914308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralism%20%28biology%29 | Structuralism (biology) | Biological or process structuralism is a school of biological thought that objects to an exclusively Darwinian or adaptationist explanation of natural selection such as is described in the 20th century's modern synthesis. It proposes instead that evolution is guided differently, by physical forces which shape the devel... | 2.21875 | 0 |
6914308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralism%20%28biology%29 | Structuralism (biology) | Like Thompson, the palaeontologist Adolf Seilacher emphasised fabricational constraints on form. He interpreted fossils such as Dickinsonia in the Ediacaran biota as "pneu" structures determined by mechanical inflation like a quilted air mattress, rather than having been driven by natural selection.
Wagner's constrain... | 1.976563 | 0 |
6914308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralism%20%28biology%29 | Structuralism (biology) | Extreme structuralists like Gerd B. Müller and Stuart A. Newman, inheriting the viewpoint of D'Arcy Thompson, have proposed that physical laws of structure, not genetics, govern major diversifications such as the Cambrian explosion, followed later by co-opted genetic mechanisms. They argued further that there was a "pr... | 2.046875 | 0 |
6914315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maja%20squinado | Maja squinado | Maja squinado (the European spider crab, spiny spider crab or spinous spider crab) is a species of migratory crab found in the Mediterranean Sea. The appearance of the European spider crab is similar to the much larger Japanese spider crab, although the European spider crab belongs to the family Majidae, and the Japane... | 2.34375 | 0 |
6914315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maja%20squinado | Maja squinado | Juvenile animals spend another 2 years moulting and growing in size. The juvenile animals live in shallow water in winter, between rocks in coastal kelp forests. They spend the summer on small rocky reefs at a depth of only about 4 m. After this time, they reach a carapace length between 6–13 cm, with no noticeable sex... | 3.3125 | 0 |
6914315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maja%20squinado | Maja squinado | Fishery
M. squinado is the subject of commercial fishery, with over 5,000 tonnes caught annually, more than 70% the coast of France, over 10% off the coast of the United Kingdom, 6% from the Channel Islands, 3% from each of Spain and Ireland, 2% from Croatia, 1% from Portugal, and the remainder coming from Montenegro, ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
6914319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declan%20Lally | Declan Lally | Declan Lally, or Déaglán Ó Maolalaidh, is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays the left half forward position at senior level for the Dublin county team. Lally won 5 Leinster titles and one All Ireland title.
Playing career
Lally was on the DCU side that won the 2006 Sigerson Cup winning player of the match in the fin... | 1.914063 | 0 |
6914434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Anguillara | House of Anguillara | Anguillara were a baronial family of Latium, especially powerful in Rome and in the current province of Viterbo during the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance.
The Anguillara were of Norman descent. They most likely took, or gave, their name from the city of Anguillara Sabazia, on the Lake Bracciano. The name itself... | 2.28125 | 0 |
6914473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin%20Levaditi | Constantin Levaditi | Constantin Levaditi had a difficult childhood due to financial problems in the family. In September 1880, he went to the "Cuza Vodă" primary school in Galați, and at the same time started work at the store of his uncle Ștefan Ștefănescu. After the untimely death of his parents in 1883, Constantin’s aunt Efrosini, a mem... | 2.5 | 0 |
6914473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin%20Levaditi | Constantin Levaditi | Levaditi continued his postgraduate studies in 1900 and 1901 in Frankfurt with Paul Ehrlich who was considered the father of modern chemotherapy. In the spring of 1901 Levaditi, following the advice of the physician John Kantakouzinos, had the great opportunity to work in the Élie Metchnikoff Laboratory at the Pasteur ... | 2.125 | 0 |
6914473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin%20Levaditi | Constantin Levaditi | The work of C. Levaditi is immense: it extends over more than half a century and it touches on apparently separate domains, but in reality they are united by the logical chain of thought and the development of research. His doctoral dissertation in medicine (1902) made Levaditi a cytologist and an immunologist. From th... | 2.1875 | 0 |
6914473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin%20Levaditi | Constantin Levaditi | In his studies of syphilis, Levaditi introduced new techniques in serology, and recommended bismuth in its treatment. Entering World War I as a volunteer, he attained the rank of captain and was detached to serve with the ambulances of la Panne. In this capacity he worked on developing an antitetanus vaccine and studie... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6914473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin%20Levaditi | Constantin Levaditi | With Karl Landsteiner, he discovered in 1909 the presence of the poliovirus in tissues other than nervous. He expanded on these studies during a poliomyelitis outbreak in Sweden (in 1913), working with Scandinavian researchers (among them Karl Oskar Medin); he was able to isolate the poliovirus on tissue explant and ma... | 2.390625 | 0 |
6914482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarram%20railway%20station | Yarram railway station | Yarram was a railway station on the Woodside railway line in the Australian state of Victoria. The railway opened to the town of Yarram on 8 February 1921. In the mid-1950s, it was the only station on the Woodside line to remain open, effectively making it the terminus of the South Gippsland line or Great Southern Rail... | 2.125 | 0 |
6914531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankhadhar%20Sakhwa | Sankhadhar Sakhwa | Sankhadhar Sākhwā (Nepal Bhasa:) (also spelt Sankhadhar Sākhwāl) was a legendary Nepalese philanthropist who is believed to have paid the debts of the Nepalese people in A.D. 879. This event is commemorated as the beginning of the epoch of Nepal’s national calendar year Nepal Sambat.
According to Bhāsā Vamsāwali and R... | 2.421875 | 0 |
6914540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokhtar%20El%20Tetsh%20Stadium | Mokhtar El Tetsh Stadium | El-Tetsh Stadium () is Al Ahly's current training stadium and one of Al Ahly SC club's sections that represent the club in Egypt and internationally. The game of football was not one of the goals of the founders of Al Ahly, rather the goal of the club was opening its doors to students of higher schools to meet and prac... | 2.09375 | 0 |
6914543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%20City%20Fraternal%20Order%20of%20Police | Kansas City Fraternal Order of Police | The Kansas City Fraternal Order of Police (KCFOP), originally the Kansas City Police Officer's Association, is a police union established in 1999 to represent the sergeants, police officers, and detectives of the Kansas City Police Department (KCPD).
Members of the KCPD, alongside the St Louis Police Department, are t... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6914546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Theorem | The Last Theorem | Background
Science fiction Grand Masters Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl collaborated for the first time on The Last Theorem. The novel initially was Clarke's, and he began working on it in early 2004. But in 2006, at the age of 88, ill health brought on by complications from post-polio syndrome, and writer's block,... | 2.15625 | 0 |
6914546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Theorem | The Last Theorem | Some of the concepts that appear in The Last Theorem originally appeared in Clarke's earlier works. The space elevator that is built in Sri Lanka originally featured in The Fountains of Paradise (1979) where it was also built in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon). Because the elevator will work only on or near the equator, Clarke... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6914613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20submarine%20I-124 | Japanese submarine I-124 | 1939–1941
On 1 May 1939, Submarine Division 9 was placed in the Third Reserve in the Yokosuka Naval District, and it moved to the Second Reserve in the district on 15 November 1939. On 20 March 1940, I-124 herself was placed in reserve at Yokosuka. While in reserve, I-124 and all three of her sister ships — which, like... | 2.515625 | 0 |
6914613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20submarine%20I-124 | Japanese submarine I-124 | Attempted salvage and protection as war grave
I-124 has been surrounded by controversy since her loss. During World War II there were claims that two submarines had been lost in the operations off Darwin; that her crew remained alive for some time; and that divers heard crew movement inside her hull. Later both Japanes... | 2.28125 | 0 |
6914631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otternes | Otternes | Otternes is a Norwegian linear and cluster collective farmyard midway between Aurland and Flåm in Vestland County. The farmyard consists of 27 buildings.
History
Evidence shows settlements from about 300 A.D. The oldest buildings, Guttormstova and Eilertstova were built about 1700. The land redistribution reform in t... | 2.21875 | 0 |
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