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6914677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal%20fortifications%20of%20Jersey | Coastal fortifications of Jersey | Coastal batteries, magazines and guardhouses
La Tour Cârrée
Le Couperon guardhouse
Le Don Hilton
Plémont guardhouse. The British built the guardhouse in the 18th century, and by 1812 it had a battery associated with it that was armed with an 18-pounder muzzle-loading gun. During the German occupation, the Germans made... | 2.515625 | 0 |
6914679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax%20Choral%20Society | Halifax Choral Society | Halifax Choral Society (HCS) is a choir based in the town of Halifax in the English county of West Yorkshire. It is notable for being the oldest amateur choral society in Britain (and possibly in the world) with an unbroken record of performance.
History
The idea for the Halifax Choral Society (initially called Halif... | 2.46875 | 0 |
6914703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDidikai | Židikai | Židikai (Samogitian: Žėdėkā) is a town in Mažeikiai district municipality, Lithuania. It is located 21 km west of Mažeikiai. Židikai is the seat of Židikai elderate. Židikai is known for being the home of Marija Pečkauskaitė – Šatrijos Ragana, a famous Lithuanian writer (1877–1930) for the last 15 years of her lifetime... | 1.929688 | 0 |
6914830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian%20American%20Writers%27%20Workshop | Asian American Writers' Workshop | Literary Magazine
AAWW's online literary magazine, The Margins, was launched in 2012. The magazine proclaims itself as being "dedicated to the Asian American creative culture of tomorrow," publishes a variety of literature by Asian American writers including short fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and more. Through... | 2.203125 | 0 |
6914833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare%20Terranova | Cesare Terranova | On 15 January 2000, Salvatore Riina, Bernardo Brusca, Bernardo Provenzano, Francesco Madonia, Pippo Calò, Nenè Geraci and Michele Greco, all members of the Sicilian Mafia Commission at the time of the murder, were convicted to life sentences for ordering the murder of Terranova and Mancuso. Leggio had died. Leoluca Bag... | 1.992188 | 0 |
6914833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare%20Terranova | Cesare Terranova | Terranova paved the way for a more successful prosecution of the Mafia in the 1980s. He was the predecessor of judge Rocco Chinnici, who succeeded Terranova as the chief examining magistrate at the Court in Palermo and who also became a victim of a Mafia attack in July 1983. Chinnici created the Antimafia Pool, a group... | 2.109375 | 0 |
6914863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Charles%20Avenue | St. Charles Avenue | St. Charles Avenue () is a thoroughfare in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. and the route of the St. Charles Streetcar Line. It is also famous for the dozens of mansions that adorn the tree-lined boulevard for much of the uptown section of the boulevard. It is named for St. Charles Borromeo, patron saint of Charles III of... | 2.09375 | 0 |
6914863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Charles%20Avenue | St. Charles Avenue | From Canal Street to Lee Circle, St. Charles Avenue is properly called St. Charles Street and is one way in the upriver direction with two lanes of traffic, with the streetcar track sharing right-of-way with one lane of motor vehicle traffic. From Lee Circle to Louisiana Avenue it has two lanes of traffic in each direc... | 2.59375 | 0 |
6914950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Strange%20Case%20of%20Peter%20the%20Lett | The Strange Case of Peter the Lett | The Strange Case of Peter the Lett () is a 1931 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. It is the first novel to feature Inspector Jules Maigret who would later appear in more than a hundred stories by Simenon and who has become a legendary figure in the annals of detective fiction.
Plot summary
Maigret... | 1.921875 | 0 |
6914950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Strange%20Case%20of%20Peter%20the%20Lett | The Strange Case of Peter the Lett | Maigret's method
In this story, we are introduced to aspects of M's detective method. Simenon tells us that, like any other policeman, Maigret “worked with the amazing tools that men like Bertillon, Reiss and Locard have given the police; anthropometry, the principle of the trace and so on”. But that beyond that he so... | 1.921875 | 0 |
6914967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20of%20the%20Forgotten%20City | The Secret of the Forgotten City | The Secret of the Forgotten City is the fifty-second volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1975 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
Plot summary
Gold! There are rumors that long ago a treasure was hidden in a city now bur... | 2.46875 | 0 |
6914997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Strange%20Message%20in%20the%20Parchment | The Strange Message in the Parchment | The Strange Message in the Parchment is the fifty-fourth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1977 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
Plot summary
A sheep farmer receives a mysterious telephone call shortly after ... | 2.125 | 0 |
6915015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Thirteenth%20Pearl | The Thirteenth Pearl | The Thirteenth Pearl is the fifty-sixth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1979 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams. The Thirteenth Pearl is the end of the original 56-book series published by Grosset & Dunlap. Subsequent... | 2.203125 | 0 |
6915082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Saltykov | Nikolai Saltykov | Count, then Prince Nikolay Ivanovich Saltykov (, 31 October 1736 – 28 May 1816), a member of the Saltykov noble family, was a Russian Imperial Field Marshal and courtier best known as the tutor of the eventual Tsar Paul I of Russia and his two sons, Constantine and Alexander.
He was the head of the Russian Army as the... | 1.984375 | 0 |
6915082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Saltykov | Nikolai Saltykov | In 1761, under the command of Pyotr Rumyantsev, he fought at Kolberg. Peter III of Russia made Saltykov a major general and in 1763 he was given command of the troops stationed in Poland, where he took part in the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774). In 1769 he aided Prince Alexander Golitsyn in the siege and occupation of t... | 2.4375 | 0 |
6915082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Saltykov | Nikolai Saltykov | In 1790, during the celebrations of the peace with Sweden, Saltykov was made a Count of the Russian Empire, and granted 5,000 serfs in Russian Poland and an annual pension of 125 rubles. On Paul's accession to the throne, Saltykov was made field marshal general on 8 November 1796 and then president of the Military Coun... | 2.390625 | 0 |
6915193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereospondyli | Stereospondyli | The Stereospondyli are a group of extinct temnospondyl amphibians that existed primarily during the Mesozoic period. They are known from all seven continents and were common components of many Triassic ecosystems, likely filling a similar ecological niche to modern crocodilians prior to the diversification of pseudosuc... | 2.78125 | 0 |
6915193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereospondyli | Stereospondyli | Evolutionary history
Stereospondyls first definitively appeared during the early Permian, as represented by fragmentary remains of a rhinesuchid from the Pedra de Fogo Formation of Brazil. Rhinesuchids are one of the earliest groups of stereospondyls to appear in the fossil record and are predominantly a late Permian ... | 2.84375 | 0 |
6915193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereospondyli | Stereospondyli | Lifestyle and ecology
Stereospondyls were particularly diverse during the Early Triassic, with small-bodied taxa such as lapillopsids and lydekkerinids that were likely more terrestrially capable present alongside larger taxa that would continue into the Middle Triassic, such as brachyopoids and trematosauroids. The v... | 2.8125 | 0 |
6915351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Ephraim%20Smith | William Ephraim Smith | William Ephraim Smith (March 14, 1829 – March 11, 1890) was a planter, lawyer, and politician from Georgia.
Biography
He was born in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia. In 1846, he was admitted to the Georgia bar, which required a special act of the Georgia legislature due to his youth. He worked as a planter and pra... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6915371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20This%20and%20World%20War%20II | All This and World War II | All This and World War II is a 1976 musical documentary film directed by Susan Winslow. It juxtaposes Beatles songs covered by a variety of musicians with World War II newsreel footage and 20th Century-Fox films. The film was panned by critics and ran for only two weeks in cinemas.
Cast
The film features clips from Na... | 2.1875 | 0 |
6915377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Commonwealth%20of%20Oceana | The Commonwealth of Oceana | The Commonwealth of Oceana was published in two first editions, the "Pakeman" and the "Chapman" (first names Daniel and Livewell, respectively) by the London printer John Streater, between September and November 1656. Their contents are nearly identical. The Chapman edition was listed in the Stationers' Register of 19 ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
6915403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Mulcahy | Hugh Mulcahy | Hugh Noyes Mulcahy (September 9, 1913 – October 19, 2001), nicknamed Losing Pitcher, was an American professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies (1935–40 and 1945–46) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1947).
Mulcahy was born in Brighton, Massachusetts. He threw and batt... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6915458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Vilhelm%20Garde | Thomas Vilhelm Garde | Thomas Vilhelm Garde (22 October 1859 – 24 June 1926) was a Danish naval officer, distinguished for his explorations in Greenland.
Garde became a sub-lieutenant of the Danish Navy in 1880, rising to the rank of First lieutenant in 1881, captain in 1898, Commander in 1908 and Rear Admiral in 1918. He retired from activ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
6915509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaria%20Ostraca | Samaria Ostraca | The Samaria Ostraca are 102 ostraca found in 1910 in excavations in ancient Samaria (modern-day Sebastia, Nablus) led by George Andrew Reisner of the Harvard Semitic Museum. These ostraca were found in the treasury of the palace of Ahab, king of Israel, and probably date about his period, 850–750 BC. Authored by royal ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
6915552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson%20Knott | Gibson Knott | Gibson Knott is a fell in the English Lake District, an intermediate height on the ridge between Greenburn and Far Easedale in the Central Fells.
Topography
The spine of the Central Fells runs on a north–south axis with the highpoint at High Raise. A complex system of daleheads to the east of this apex resolves itself... | 2.140625 | 0 |
6915658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B%20string%20handling | C++ string handling | The C++ programming language has support for string handling, mostly implemented in its standard library. The language standard specifies several string types, some inherited from C, some designed to make use of the language's features, such as classes and RAII. The most-used of these is .
Since the initial versions o... | 2.859375 | 0 |
6915669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteford%20Lighthouse | Whiteford Lighthouse | Whiteford Point Lighthouse (also known as Whitford Point Lighthouse) is located off the coast at Whiteford Point near Whiteford Sands, on the Gower Peninsula, South Wales.
Description
It is an unusual cast-iron lighthouse built in 1865 to a design by John Bowen (1825–1873) of Llanelli, by the Llanelli Harbour and Bur... | 2.4375 | 0 |
6915669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteford%20Lighthouse | Whiteford Lighthouse | During the 1870s vertical cracks developed in the plates of the lowest three rings. A local blacksmith called Powell made wrought-iron straps which were bolted to the flanges on each side of the cracked plates. At the time, the cracks were put down to lateral pressures arising from the settlement of the inner masonry, ... | 2.6875 | 0 |
6915669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteford%20Lighthouse | Whiteford Lighthouse | The lighthouse was discontinued in 1920, when responsibility for the light was transferred to Trinity House, who decided to establish a new beacon at Burry Holms. However, after pleas from local yachtsmen, the light was relit in the 1980s. This gave an additional point of reference when navigating the waters between th... | 2.828125 | 0 |
6915691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floris%20van%20Dyck | Floris van Dyck | Floris van Dyck, also called Floris van Dijck or Floris Claesz. van Dyck (c.1575 – before 26 April 1651) was a Dutch Golden Age still life painter.
Biography
Van Dyck lived in Haarlem for most of his life, but he was born in Delft. He was a cousin of Pieter Cornelisz van Rijck, whose father Cornelis first had a brewe... | 2.25 | 0 |
6915771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson%20Crusoe%20Island%20%28Fiji%29 | Robinson Crusoe Island (Fiji) | Robinson Crusoe Island is a tourism operation located off the southwest coast of the main island of Viti Levu, Fiji, and has a history dating back 3,500 years. The island is located near Bourewa, an area that is believed to be the first site for human settlement in Fiji. A pottery site found on the island has been date... | 2.28125 | 0 |
6915823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry%20Banks | Strawberry Banks | Strawberry Banks () is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1993.
This is a Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust nature reserve. The banks are thought to have once been used to grow strawberries, hence the name, and be the crash site of a Second World War German bomber. Strawberr... | 2.125 | 0 |
6915824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwendoline%20Porter | Gwendoline Porter | Gwendoline Alice Porter (25 April 190229 August 1993) was a British track and field athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.
Biography
She was born in Ilford, London. She worked in the head office of an insurance company.
In 1922 she participated at the Women's Olympiad in Paris and won the gold medal in the 4... | 2.15625 | 0 |
6915901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germain%27s%20peacock-pheasant | Germain's peacock-pheasant | The Germain's peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron germaini) is a pheasant in the family Phasianidae endemic to Indochina. The name commemorates the French colonial army's veterinary surgeon Louis Rodolphe Germain.
Description
The bird is a medium-sized, approximately long, brownish dark pheasant with finely spotted buff, ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6915904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Robert%20Smith | William Robert Smith | William Robert Smith (August 18, 1863 – August 16, 1924) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served seven terms as a United States representative from Texas from 1903 to 1917. He also served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas from 1917 ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
6915911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie%20Halstead | Nellie Halstead | Nellie Halstead (19 September 1910 – 11 November 1991) was an English track and field athlete who competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. There is a running track named after her in Radcliffe.
Biography
Halstead was born in Radcliffe, Lancashire and died in Bury. She was a member of Bur... | 1.96875 | 0 |
6915912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.%20G.%20Ranga | N. G. Ranga | Acharya Gogineni Ranga Nayukulu (7 November 1900 – 9 June 1995), also known as N. G. Ranga, was an Indian freedom fighter, classical liberal, parliamentarian and farmers' leader. He was the founding president of the Swatantra Party, and an exponent of the peasant philosophy. He received the Padma Vibhushan award for hi... | 2.40625 | 0 |
6915912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.%20G.%20Ranga | N. G. Ranga | In the course of the Indian freedom struggle, he led the historic Ryot Agitation of Andhra in 1933. His pro-peasantry advocacy was reflected in his support of the farmers’ agitation against the zamindari oppression at Venkatagiri. He convinced Gandhi to support the movement, despite opposition from other members of Con... | 2.515625 | 0 |
6915912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.%20G.%20Ranga | N. G. Ranga | Publications
Ranga published 65 books in English, including:
Credo of World Peasants
Agony and Solace - 2 volumes
Gandhian Plan
History of Kisan Movement
Revolutionary Peasant (1954)
Colonial and Coloured Peoples' Freedom Front (1957)
Aerial-eye View of USSR and Yugoslavia (1956) - published by Parliament
Trib... | 2.25 | 0 |
6915942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newar%20Buddhism | Newar Buddhism | Newar Buddhism is a form of Vajrayana Buddhism practiced by the Newar people of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. It has developed unique socio-religious elements, which include a non-monastic Buddhist society based on the Newar caste system and patrilineality. Its caste system has a non-celibate religious clergy caste form... | 2.46875 | 0 |
6915948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERGIC | ERGIC | The endoplasmic-reticulum–Golgi intermediate compartment (ERGIC) is an organelle in eukaryotic cells. This compartment mediates transport between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and Golgi complex, facilitating the sorting of cargo. The cluster was first identified in 1988 using an antibody to the protein that has since ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
6915965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office%20of%20Kentucky%20Nature%20Preserves | Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves | The Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves is an agency of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the United States dedicated to the protection of Kentucky's natural heritage. The agency's primary focus is protecting rare and endangered species habitats. It oversees a statewide program of nature preserves, the Kentucky Wild Riv... | 2.5 | 0 |
6915968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-crested%20turaco | White-crested turaco | The white-crested turaco (Tauraco leucolophus) is a bird in the family Musophagidae, a group of African otidimorph birds. The white-crested turaco is native to riverine forest and woodland in a belt between eastern Nigeria and western Kenya. It is a common species with a wide range and the International Union for Conse... | 2.765625 | 0 |
6915975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvan%20House%20Barn | Sylvan House Barn | Sylvan House Barn () is a stone built barn near the village of St Briavels, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Because of its breeding bats, the site was notified as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1995.
Sylvan House Barn supports a breeding roost of Lesser horseshoe bats which consists of on... | 1.945313 | 0 |
6916189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellacre%20Quarry | Wellacre Quarry | Wellacre Quarry () is a 12.3 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1974. It is within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the site was formerly known as Blockley Station Brickworks. The site is listed in the 'Cotswold District' Local Plan 2001-2011 (on l... | 2.15625 | 0 |
6916214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readymades%20of%20Marcel%20Duchamp | Readymades of Marcel Duchamp | The readymades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called "retinal art". By simply choosing the object (or objects) and repositioning or joining, titling and signing it, the found object became art.
Duchamp was not interested in what he c... | 2.203125 | 0 |
6916214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readymades%20of%20Marcel%20Duchamp | Readymades of Marcel Duchamp | 1964 Galleria Schwarz edition
In 1964, Duchamp authorized a limited edition release of replicas of fourteen of his readymades to be issued by his art dealer, Arturo Schwarz, through the Galleria Schwarz in Milan. The edition included eight sets for sale, two sets of artist's proofs (one for Duchamp and one for Schwarz)... | 2.015625 | 0 |
6916215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples%20station | Naples station | The Naples Seaboard Air Line Railway Station (also known as the Naples Railroad Depot or Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Depot) is a historic Seaboard Air Line Railway depot in Naples, Florida. It is located at 1051 5th Avenue, South.
History
The depot was constructed in 1927, when the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (via its... | 1.921875 | 0 |
6916248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Smith%20%28judge%2C%20born%201697%29 | William Smith (judge, born 1697) | William Smith (8 October 1697 – 22 November 1769) was an American lawyer and jurist.
Life
Smith was born on 8 October 1697 in Newport Pagnell in England. He was the eldest of five sons born to Thomas Smith (1675–1745) and Susanna (née Odell) Smith (1675–1729).
In 1715, he emigrated with his family to New York where ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6916275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Tarnovo%20Uprising | First Tarnovo Uprising | The First Tarnovo uprising () was a Bulgarian uprising against Ottoman rule based in the former Bulgarian capital, Tarnovo, that broke out in 1598 and was severely crushed by the Ottoman authorities.
The uprising was organized by religious leaders, as well as public figures and merchants. These included the Archbishop... | 2.375 | 0 |
6916301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-C | Control-C | Control-C is a common computer command. It is generated by holding down the key and typing the key.
In graphical user interface environments, control+C is often used to copy highlighted text to the clipboard. Macintosh computers use for this.
In many command-line interface environments, control+C is used to abort ... | 3.203125 | 0 |
6916329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Cronon | William Cronon | William Cronon (born September 11, 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an environmental historian and the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was president of the American Historical Association (AHA) in 2012.
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6916329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Cronon | William Cronon | His book Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991) "is credited with having radically widened many environmental historians' gaze beyond such things as forests and public lands to include cities and what Cronon calls the 'elaborate and intimate linkages' between city and country." Cronon says that Chicago ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
6916341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangeliary | Evangeliary | The collection of readings from the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles known as Apostolos, "Apostle", or praxapostolos. In churches of the Latin Rite, the lessons from the Old Testament, the Epistles from the New Testament and portions of the Gospels are usually grouped in the same book, under the name Comes, Liber ... | 2.5 | 0 |
6916341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangeliary | Evangeliary | For want of precise testimony, it is unknown how the particular passages were decided on. Most likely the presiding bishop chose them at the assembly itself; and on the occurrence of certain festivals the Scripture relating to them would be read. Little by little a more or less definite list would naturally result from... | 2.140625 | 0 |
6916341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangeliary | Evangeliary | Manuscript Evangeliaria and the text of the New Testament
Manuscript Evangeliaria have little importance for the critic of the Gospel text. At the time when the various Gospel passages began to be collected in book form for use in liturgical reunions, the various families of the Gospel text and its translations were a... | 2.25 | 0 |
6916341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangeliary | Evangeliary | From the beginning the books used in the liturgy, and more particularly the Gospel manuscripts, were highly venerated, and therefore text and cover were often richly ornamented. From an artistic point of view the distinction between Evangeliaria strictly so called and Gospel manuscripts is of little importance and is g... | 2.359375 | 0 |
6916341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangeliary | Evangeliary | The Greek uncial (lettering type) is used in many manuscripts of the 9th and 10th centuries; and the Latin uncial is also employed, especially in Gaul, far into the Middle Ages for Gospel and liturgical works. The copying of the Gospels influenced largely the writings of Irish and Anglo-Saxon scribes, and effected the ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6916354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown%20Hoyas%20men%27s%20basketball | Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball | The Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball program represents Georgetown University in NCAA Division I men's intercollegiate basketball and the Big East Conference. Georgetown has competed in men's college basketball since 1907. The current head coach of the program is Ed Cooley.
Georgetown won the national championship ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6916354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown%20Hoyas%20men%27s%20basketball | Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball | Coming off of the best season in school history, momentum was stalled as the program was suspended from 1943 to 1945 because of World War II. Following the hiatus the program struggled to find its footing, and it was rarely successful over the next three decades, only making two postseason appearances during this time... | 2.21875 | 0 |
6916354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown%20Hoyas%20men%27s%20basketball | Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball | John Thompson Jr., played two seasons with the Boston Celtics before he achieved local notability coaching St. Anthony's High School in Washington, D.C., to several very successful seasons. Thompson was hired to coach Georgetown in 1972, and with recruits from St. Anthony's like Merlin Wilson, quickly and dramatically ... | 1.9375 | 0 |
6916354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown%20Hoyas%20men%27s%20basketball | Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball | The team moved its home arena in the 1981-82 season to the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland, to accommodate its growing fan base. It also marked the arrival of heralded recruit, Patrick Ewing, who became one of the first college players to start and star on a varsity team as a freshman. That year, Ewing led the H... | 2.015625 | 0 |
6916354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown%20Hoyas%20men%27s%20basketball | Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball | In the 1983-84 season Georgetown again won the Big East conference regular season title, and faced Syracuse for the Big East tournament championship. In a physical and tightly contested contest, Georgetown won 82–71 in overtime, securing their third tournament title in the first five years of the newly formed conferen... | 2.0625 | 0 |
6916354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown%20Hoyas%20men%27s%20basketball | Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball | To begin the 1984-85 season, the defending champions opened the season as the No. 1 ranked team and won their first 18 games. On January 26, 1985, the St. John's University Redmen snapped the Hoyas' 29 game win streak (dating back to the prior season), in what was the first of an unprecedented four contests this seaso... | 1.921875 | 0 |
6916354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown%20Hoyas%20men%27s%20basketball | Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball | An original member of the Big East, UConn and Georgetown battled for conference supremacy for multiple decades, until UConn left the conference to join the American Athletic Conference in 2013. One of the most intense periods for the rivalry was the 1995–1996 season where both teams found themselves ranked in the Top ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
6916354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown%20Hoyas%20men%27s%20basketball | Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball | Kenner League
Each summer Georgetown University's McDonough Gymnasium hosts the Kenner League. Named after one of the founders and first director of the Metropolitan Police Boys' and Girls' Club of Washington, D.C., the Kenner league is the only NCAA sanctioned summer league in Washington, D.C. Formed in 1982, the le... | 2.0625 | 0 |
6916387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Najo | Leo Najo | Leonardo "Leo Najo" Alanís (17 February 1899 – 25 April 1978) was one of the first Mexican-born players to play professional baseball in the United States, debuting in 1924 with the San Antonio Bears of the Class A Texas League. After early success in the minor leagues, he was drafted by the major league Chicago White ... | 2.671875 | 0 |
6916387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Najo | Leo Najo | Because playing semi-pro ball in Mission was only bringing in about $6 per week, Najo also played for other South Texas teams, including the Milmo Bank team of Laredo, Texas. Najo also played with some of the very earliest organized teams in Mexico, including the Cuauhtemoc Brewery team of Monterrey in 1922. The Cuauht... | 2.390625 | 0 |
6916387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Najo | Leo Najo | Later in 1924, forced to reduce their roster, the San Antonio Bears "lent" Najo to the Class D Tyler Trojans, where he led the team to the championship of the East Texas League, finishing third in the league in batting and earning a .992 fielding average. Najo received recognition for his fast base running and acrobati... | 2.265625 | 0 |
6916387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Najo | Leo Najo | Prior to the start of the 1932 season, Najo was traded to the Tulsa Oilers of the Western League. Baseball historians believe that Najo's contributions to this historic Tulsa team are an important reason it having been named one of Minor League Baseball's 100 best teams of all time. Baseball historians Bill Weiss and M... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6916387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Najo | Leo Najo | After being out of pro baseball for six years, Najo, at age 39, staged a short-lived "comeback" in 1938 with the McAllen Packers of the Class D level Texas Valley League. He played in 137 games, collecting 130 hits, a .354 batting average, and a .976 fielding average. He followed that up with two seasons as a player-ma... | 2.15625 | 0 |
6916442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperball%20Racing | Hyperball Racing | Hyperball Racing is a single-player and multiplayer video game for Windows developed by the Belgian game studio Gabitasoft Entertainment.
Description
The game set in a fantasy world with legends based on a place we know as Earth. It includes several race modes: Tutorials, Championship, Time trial and Quick race. The t... | 2.078125 | 0 |
6916460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustl%20Berauer | Gustl Berauer | Gustav "Gustl" Berauer (5 November 1912 – 18 May 1986) was an ethnic German Czechoslovak nordic combined skier who competed in the 1930s. He was born in Petzer, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, which is now known as Pec pod Sněžkou in the Czech Republic.
At the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Berauer finished... | 2 | 0 |
6916467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Guide%20Dogs%20for%20the%20Blind%20Association | The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association | My Time to Play – launched in 2020, this service comprises online and face-to-face sessions to help children aged 0–4 to develop through play, and their parents can also connect with other families affected by sight loss.
My Life Skills – helps children learn skills, including navigating streets safely, preparing food... | 2.671875 | 0 |
6916467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Guide%20Dogs%20for%20the%20Blind%20Association | The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association | Human behavioural sciences – to support the emotional wellbeing of service users, plus their family and friends.
In 2020, Guide Dogs began a research project called Born to Guide, which is a long-term study into the complex relationships between a dog's genes and its health and behaviour. The charity hopes Born to Gui... | 2.734375 | 0 |
6916477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Babet%20%281794%29 | HMS Babet (1794) | Babet was refitted at Portsmouth between July and December 1798 at a cost of £5,194. Then, in December she recaptured the American ship Helena.
On 18 and 19 January 1799, Babet captured two French fishing vessels, Deux Freres Unis, with a cargo of herring, and the Jacques Charles. On 3 June Babet was in company with ... | 2.515625 | 0 |
6916482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown%20University%20Rugby%20Football%20Club | Georgetown University Rugby Football Club | The Georgetown University Rugby Football Club is the intercollegiate men's rugby union team that represents Georgetown University in the Mid-Atlantic Rugby Conference of National Collegiate Rugby, Division II. They have twice reached the USA Rugby National Tournament Final Four, in 2005 and 2009.
Early history
The Geo... | 2.0625 | 0 |
6916515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck%20Acts | Truck Acts | Important decisions in 1888 and 1889 showed this belief to have been ill-founded. The essential point lies in the definition of the word "wages" as the "recompense, reward or remuneration of labour", which implies not necessarily any gross sum in question between employer and workmen where there is a contract to perfor... | 2.0625 | 0 |
6916588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Glanzman | Sam Glanzman | Samuel Joseph Glanzman (December 5, 1924 – July 12, 2017) was an American comics artist and memoirist. Glanzman is best known for his Charlton Comics series Hercules, about the mythological Greek demigod; his autobiographical war stories about his service aboard the U.S.S. Stevens for DC Comics and Marvel Comics; and t... | 2.25 | 0 |
6916588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Glanzman | Sam Glanzman | Beginning mid-1964, Glanzman moved regularly between Charlton and Dell assignments, almost exclusively on war stories, but also on a Charlton Tarzan series. Although some sources credit him for co-creating the Charlton hardboiled detective character Sarge Steel, he stated in a 2009 interview that "The only thing I crea... | 1.929688 | 0 |
6916588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Glanzman | Sam Glanzman | DC Comics
War comics editor-artist Joe Kubert of industry giant DC Comics brought Glanzman to work on Our Army at War, Star Spangled War Stories, Weird War Tales, and other combat titles including G.I. Combat, where for years he illustrated the feature "Haunted Tank". At DC, Glanzman began his series of autobiographica... | 1.984375 | 0 |
6916598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwintering | Overwintering | In entomology, overwintering is how an insect passes the winter season. Many insects overwinter as adults, pupae, or eggs. This can be done inside buildings, under tree bark, or beneath fallen leaves or other plant matter on the ground, among other places. All such overwintering sites shield the insect from adverse con... | 3.375 | 0 |
6916647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Laird%20Smith | William Laird Smith | William Henry Laird Smith (15 September 1869 – 21 October 1942) was an Australian politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1910 to 1922. He was Minister for the Navy in the Hughes government from 1920 to 1921.
Early life
Smith was born on 15 September 1869 in Westbury, Tasmania. He was one of six chi... | 2.328125 | 0 |
6916694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20scale | Benjamin scale | The Sex Orientation Scale (SOS) was Harry Benjamin's attempt to classify and understand various forms and subtypes of transvestism and transsexualism in people assigned male at birth, published in 1966. It was a seven-point scale (with three types of transvestism, three types of transsexualism, and one category for typ... | 1.921875 | 0 |
6916710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doyle%27s%20Delight | Doyle's Delight | Doyle's Delight is the highest peak in Belize at . It lies on the Maya Divide, the main ridge line of the Maya Mountains in southwestern Belize.
The name Doyle's Delight was first coined by Sharon Matola in a 1989 report. The name is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's book The Lost World (1912), which contains the quot... | 1.9375 | 0 |
6916715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observatory%2C%20Cape%20Town | Observatory, Cape Town | Observatory is a suburb in Cape Town, South Africa, colloquially known as Obs. Bordered by Mowbray to the south and Salt River to the northwest, the area is best known as a student neighbourhood associated with the nearby University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital. It takes its name from the South African Astro... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6916715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observatory%2C%20Cape%20Town | Observatory, Cape Town | During the years of apartheid, Observatory was one of the few de facto 'grey' suburbs where all races lived together. On the evening of 30 December 1993, three men entered a popular student venue on Station Road, called the Heidelberg Tavern and opened fire, killing four people and injuring five. The three APLA operati... | 1.96875 | 0 |
6916715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observatory%2C%20Cape%20Town | Observatory, Cape Town | Observatory has a soccer and hockey stadium below the station, Hartleyvale Stadium which is flanked on one side by Liesbeeck Parkway and on the other by Willow Road. In this section of land, there is also an outdoor swimming pool that is popular on summer afternoons – between the two there's a circus school. A driving ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
6916779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langara%20Island | Langara Island | Langara Island, known as Kiis Gwaii to the Haida (Haida: Ḵ'íis Gwáayaay), is the northernmost island of Haida Gwaii in British Columbia, Canada. The island is approximately in size. It is located approximately south of Alaska.
History
Little is known about its history. It is named after Spanish naval commander Ju... | 2.6875 | 0 |
6916852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20Runic%20Inscription%2066 | Danish Runic Inscription 66 | Danish Runic Inscription 66 or DR 66, also known as the Mask stone, is a granite Viking Age memorial runestone that was discovered in Aarhus, Denmark. The inscription features a facial mask and memorializes a man who died in a battle.
Description
The runestone is famous for bearing a depiction of a facial mask and an ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
6916860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Burdett-Coutts | William Burdett-Coutts | William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts (20 January 1851 – 28 July 1921), born William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett, was an American-born British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1921.
Life
Ashmead-Bartlett was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, the son of Ellis Ba... | 1.96875 | 0 |
6916881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20F.%20Willumsen | J. F. Willumsen | Jens Ferdinand Willumsen (7 September 1863 – 4 April 1958) was a Danish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, architect and photographer. He became associated with the movements of Symbolism and Expressionism.
Biography
J. F. Willumsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was the son of Hans Willumsen and Ane Kirstine. ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
6917004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Jos%C3%A9%20P%C3%A9rez%20Hern%C3%A1ndez | Juan José Pérez Hernández | Juan José Pérez Hernández (born Joan Perés c. 1725 – November 3, 1775), often simply Juan Pérez, was an 18th-century Spanish explorer. He was the first known European to sight, examine, name, and record the islands near present-day British Columbia, Canada. Born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, he first served as a pilot... | 2.984375 | 0 |
6917063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20catshark | False catshark | The false catshark or sofa shark (Pseudotriakis microdon) is a species of ground shark in the family Pseudotriakidae, and the sole member of its genus. It has a worldwide distribution, and has most commonly been recorded close to the bottom over continental and insular slopes, at depths of . Reaching in length, this h... | 2.359375 | 0 |
6917063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20catshark | False catshark | Taxonomy and phylogeny
The false catshark was first described by Portuguese ichthyologist in the Jornal do Sciências Mathemáticas, Physicas e Naturaes in 1868. He based his account on a long adult male caught off Setubal, Portugal. Brito Capelo thought the specimen resembled a member of the genus Triakis, except lack... | 2.96875 | 0 |
6917063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20catshark | False catshark | Bulky and soft-bodied, the false catshark has a broad head with a short, rounded snout. The nostrils have large flaps of skin on their anterior rims. The narrow eyes are over twice as long as high, and are equipped with rudimentary nictitating membranes; behind the eyes are large spiracles. The huge mouth is arched and... | 2.625 | 0 |
6917063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20catshark | False catshark | Distribution and habitat
Though rarely encountered, the false catshark has been caught from locations scattered around the world, indicating a wide circumglobal distribution. In the western Atlantic, it has been reported from Canada, the United States, Cuba, and Brazil. In the eastern Atlantic, it is known from the wat... | 2.828125 | 0 |
6917063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20catshark | False catshark | The soft fins, skin, and musculature of the false catshark suggest a sluggish lifestyle. An enormous oil-filled liver makes up 18–25% of its total weight, allowing it to maintain near-neutral buoyancy and hover off the bottom with little effort. This species likely captures prey via quick bursts of speed, with its larg... | 2.84375 | 0 |
6917103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Robert%20H.%20McCard | USS Robert H. McCard | USS Robert H. McCard (DD-822) was a of the United States Navy, named for United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Robert H. McCard (1918–1944), who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry during the Battle of Saipan.
Construction
Robert H. McCard was laid down by Consolidated Steel Co... | 2.109375 | 0 |
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