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6917123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shady%20Side%20Academy | Shady Side Academy | Shady Side Academy is an independent preparatory school Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania in Greater Pittsburgh. Founded in 1883 as an all-male night school in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, the academy now offers a secular coeducational PK–12 program on four campuses in the city and its suburbs, including a boarding... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6917123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shady%20Side%20Academy | Shady Side Academy | A later merger in the early 1940s with another local boys' private school, The Arnold School, resulted in the creation of another new campus: a Junior School, located in Pittsburgh's Point Breeze and serving Pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students.
In the 1950s, the academy purchased an estate less than a mile f... | 2.484375 | 0 |
6917123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shady%20Side%20Academy | Shady Side Academy | Each term, students enroll in a minimum of five classes, both year-long courses and one-term electives, taught by seven academic departments—Arts, Computer Science, English, History, Mathematics, Science, and World Languages. Many departments, particularly the English and History Departments, make extensive use of the ... | 2.375 | 0 |
6917123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shady%20Side%20Academy | Shady Side Academy | Boarding program and residential life
Boarding at Shady Side Academy dates back to the school's relocation from the Shadyside neighborhood in the 1920s. The number of boarding students living on campus and the number of buildings serving as dormitories has fluctuated over the academy's history. Four buildings on the Se... | 2.140625 | 0 |
6917123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shady%20Side%20Academy | Shady Side Academy | Extracurricular activities
Student-run clubs at Shady Side exist as collaborations between students and a sponsoring faculty member. Numerous language clubs exist in collaboration with language programs offered by the World Languages Department, such as the German, Spanish, and French clubs, and for languages not taugh... | 2.671875 | 0 |
6917123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shady%20Side%20Academy | Shady Side Academy | Athletic activity and physical education at the academy originate in the school's 1885 relocation within Shadyside from its original one-room schoolhouse on Aiken Avenue to a more spacious physical plant on Ellsworth Avenue, which included the addition of athletic playing fields and a gymnasium. The academy's early ath... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6917139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band%20diagram | Band diagram | Energy levels
Depending on the material and the degree of detail desired, a variety of energy levels will be plotted against position:
EF or μ: Although it is not a band quantity, the Fermi level (total chemical potential of electrons) is a crucial level in the band diagram. The Fermi level is set by the device's elec... | 2.578125 | 0 |
6917139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band%20diagram | Band diagram | Band bending
When looking at a band diagram, the electron energy states (bands) in a material can curve up or down near a junction. This effect is known as band bending. It does not correspond to any physical (spatial) bending. Rather, band bending refers to the local changes in electronic structure, in the energy off... | 2.78125 | 0 |
6917149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Pickering | Jean Pickering | Jean Catherine Pickering (née Desforges; 4 July 1929 – 25 March 2013) was a female track and field athlete from Great Britain, who competed mainly in the 80 metres hurdles and long jump.
She won bronze medals at the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games and is the only British woman to have won gold medals at the Euro... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6917154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional%20love | Unconditional love | Unconditional love is known as affection without any limitations, or love without conditions. This term is sometimes associated with other terms such as true altruism or complete love. Each area of expertise has a certain way of describing unconditional love, but most will agree that it is that type of love which has n... | 2.625 | 0 |
6917154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional%20love | Unconditional love | Unconditional love does not separate the individual from their behavior. An individual may exhibit behaviors that are unacceptable in a particular situation. Unconditional love can remain since to love unconditionally is loving without placing judgment on the other. In loving unconditionally, we are meant to be underst... | 2.5 | 0 |
6917154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional%20love | Unconditional love | Humanistic psychology
Humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers spoke of an unconditional positive regard and dedication towards one single support. Rogers stated that the individual needed an environment that provided them with genuineness, authenticity, openness, self-disclosure, acceptance, empathy, and approval. Rogers ... | 2.8125 | 0 |
6917154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional%20love | Unconditional love | In a study conducted by Mario Beauregard and his colleagues, using an fMRI procedure, they studied the brain imaging of participants who were shown different sets of images either referring to "maternal love" (unconditional love) or "romantic love". Seven areas of the brain became active when these participants called ... | 2.734375 | 0 |
6917171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Liberman | Mark Liberman | Mark Yoffe Liberman is an American linguist. He is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, with a dual appointment as Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science. He is the founding director of the Linguistic Data Consortium and Faculty Direc... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6917177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Sanctuary%20Nicholson | John Sanctuary Nicholson | Brigadier-General John Sanctuary Nicholson (19 May 1863 – 21 February 1924) was a British Army officer and politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1921 to 1924.
Early life and education
Born in Kensington, London, the son of William Nicholson and his wife Isabella. He was educated at Harrow ... | 2.140625 | 0 |
6917217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoinoculation | Autoinoculation | Autoinoculation is derived from the Latin root words "autos" and "inoculate" that mean "self implanting" or "self infection" or "implanting something from oneself". Autoinoculation can refer to both beneficial medical procedures (e.g. vaccination) as well as non-beneficial or harmful natural processes (e.g. infection o... | 2.8125 | 0 |
6917221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle%20Daniels | Isabelle Daniels | Isabelle Frances Daniels (later Holston; July 31, 1937 – September 8, 2017) was an American sprinter.
Daniels attended Tennessee State University, where she was part of their AAU champion relay team for 5 years. She took the silver in the 60 meters at the 1955 Pan American Games and was on the winning relay team. She... | 1.976563 | 0 |
6917234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Matthews | Margaret Matthews | Margaret Rejean Matthews (born August 5, 1935) is an American track and field athlete who mainly competed in the 100 meters and long jump events.
She competed for United States in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia. Matthews, a native Atlantan and captain of the TSU Tigerbelles, captured the bronze ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6917246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Carolina%20civil%20disturbances%20of%201876 | South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876 | The South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876 were a series of race riots and civil unrest related to the Democratic Party's political campaign to take back control from Republicans of the state legislature and governor's office through their paramilitary Red Shirts division. Part of their plan was to disrupt Republica... | 2.421875 | 0 |
6917246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Carolina%20civil%20disturbances%20of%201876 | South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876 | Located across the Savannah River from Augusta, the small majority-black town of Hamburg in Aiken County was the site of a confrontation on Independence Day between white slaveholders and a unit of the Hamburg National Guard, made up of freedmen, who were parading. The slaveholders went to court to complain of being bl... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6917246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Carolina%20civil%20disturbances%20of%201876 | South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876 | Charleston
By September, Charleston seethed with political activity. Following two Democratic meetings earlier in the week in which blacks explained why they had left the Republican Party, on the night of September 6 in Charleston, a black Democratic club held a meeting at Archer's Hall on King Street. Two black speake... | 2.0625 | 0 |
6917246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Carolina%20civil%20disturbances%20of%201876 | South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876 | Cainhoy
In Charleston County, leaders of the political parties arranged some of what they called discussion meetings, as the Democrats were still seeking Republican audiences, and both parties would have speakers. Given the tensions and violent incidents, they agreed that attendees should not bring arms (rifles and sho... | 2.375 | 0 |
6917295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galina%20Bukharina | Galina Bukharina | Galina Petrovna Bukharina (; born 14 February 1945) is a Soviet track athlete. She competed mainly in the 100 metres and 4 x 100 m relay. She is head coach of 400 m and relay athletes of India, at NIS, Patiala.
Personal life
Galina was born at Voronezh, Russia during Soviet era. In 1989 she moved to the US seeking bet... | 1.929688 | 0 |
6917333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salter%E2%80%93Harris%20fracture | Salter–Harris fracture | A Salter–Harris fracture is a fracture that involves the epiphyseal plate (growth plate) of a bone, specifically the zone of provisional calcification. It is thus a form of child bone fracture. It is a common injury found in children, occurring in 15% of childhood long bone fractures. This type of fracture and its clas... | 2.4375 | 0 |
6917333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salter%E2%80%93Harris%20fracture | Salter–Harris fracture | N.B.: This mnemonic requires the reader to imagine the bones as long bones, with the epiphyses at the base.
I – S = Slip (separated or straight across). Fracture of the cartilage of the physis (growth plate)
II – A = Above. The fracture lies above the physis, or Away from the joint.
III – L = Lower. The fracture ... | 2.671875 | 0 |
6917358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Quinn%20Sullivan | Mary Quinn Sullivan | Mary Quinn Sullivan (November 24, 1877 – December 5, 1939), born Mary Josephine Quinn, was a pioneering collector of European and American modern and contemporary art and gallerist, and a founding trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, which opened in rented space in New York City in November 1929. She also led a small g... | 2.53125 | 0 |
6917358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Quinn%20Sullivan | Mary Quinn Sullivan | Early life and education
Mary Josephine Quinn was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on November 24, 1877. She was the eldest of Thomas F. and Anne E. (Gleason) Quinn's eight children (six daughters and two sons). Thomas Quinn, came to Indianapolis in 1857 and by 1877 was farming land outside the city.
Interested in art f... | 2.6875 | 0 |
6917358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Quinn%20Sullivan | Mary Quinn Sullivan | Quinn taught art at the DeWitt Clinton High School in New York City for several years, becoming head of the school's art department by 1909. However, she resigned from teaching and returned to Europe to study at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, England, during the fall term of 1909. Quinn also attended lectures ... | 2.671875 | 0 |
6917358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Quinn%20Sullivan | Mary Quinn Sullivan | Art patron and philanthropist
Mary and Cornelius Sullivan made frequent trips to Europe and visited galleries in New York to amass their private collection of European and American art. The couple displayed their collection of modern French art in their home in Astoria, Queens. Mary Sullivan began her own art collectio... | 2.671875 | 0 |
6917358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Quinn%20Sullivan | Mary Quinn Sullivan | Indianapolis Museum of Art's Gamboliers
In 1927, Sullivan and Indianapolis art patron Carl Lieber organized a small group of Indianapolis art patrons who called themselves the Gamboliers to acquire modern and contemporary art for the John Herron Institute, the predecessor to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. As the leade... | 2.578125 | 0 |
6917358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Quinn%20Sullivan | Mary Quinn Sullivan | The Museum of Modern Art
During the 1920s, Sullivan established friendships with art patrons Lillie Plummer Bliss and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and in early 1929, the three women and Arthur Bowen Davies began discussions for a new museum of modern art in New York City. During a luncheon with collector A. Conger Goodyea... | 2.25 | 0 |
6917358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Quinn%20Sullivan | Mary Quinn Sullivan | Working with Lillie Plummer Bliss, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and others, Sullivan established the Museum of Modern Art, which opened in New York City in November 1929, and continued to support the institution as a member of its board of trustees until 1933 and an honorary trustee until her death in 1939. Rockefeller pu... | 2.34375 | 0 |
6917476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char%20G1 | Char G1 | The Char G1 was a French replacement project for the Char D2 medium tank. Several prototypes from different companies were developed from 1936 onwards, but not a single one had been fully completed at the time of the Fall of France in 1940. The projects represented some of the most advanced French tank design of the pe... | 2.34375 | 0 |
6917476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char%20G1 | Char G1 | On 12 July 1938 a much more detailed list of specifications was given. In general they called for a tank that was to be powerfully armed, immune to standard anti-tank guns, and possessing an excellent tactical and strategic mobility. In detail they demanded a long high velocity semi-automatic 75 mm main armament; a 7.5... | 2.328125 | 0 |
6917476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char%20G1 | Char G1 | The hull was crowned by a flat-domed cast superstructure that superficially resembled a circular conventional turret. In reality however it was at first planned to be fixed; the 47 mm gun was supposed to traverse through a horizontal slit like in a pill-box, rotating on a pivot fixed to the hull floor, a proposal made ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
6917495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacks%20%28band%29 | Jacks (band) | Jacks were a 1960s Japanese psychedelic rock group who released their best known studio album Vacant World in 1968.
History
The Jacks, originally known as "Nightingale", began their career in 1966 as a folk trio. After jazz drummer Takasuke Kida joined the group they headed into a new musical direction. Vacant World, ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6917605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Almoner%20of%20France | Grand Almoner of France | The Grand Almoner of France () was an officer of the French monarchy and a member of the Maison du Roi ("King's Household") during the Ancien Régime. He directed the religious branch of the royal household (the Ecclesiastical Household, ) also known as the Royal Chapel.
The title "Grand Almoner" was created by King Fr... | 2.8125 | 0 |
6917621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chingo | Chingo | Volcán Chingo is a stratovolcano on the border between Guatemala and El Salvador. The highest point on the Guatemala/ El Salvador border is Volcán Chingo at 5,823 feet. It is also known to be the second highest of a group of volcanoes in the SE Guatemala region. The population of people living within 30 km of the Volcá... | 2.875 | 0 |
6917624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley%20Theological%20Seminary | Wesley Theological Seminary | Wesley also offers the National Capital Semester for Seminarians program which gives seminarians the opportunity to come to Washington, DC to see how theology interacts with public policy. This program is conducted by the Churches' Center for Theology and Public Policy which is an ecumenical organization that serves to... | 2.28125 | 0 |
6917796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20La%20Salle%20Institute | De La Salle Institute | On 11 April 1925, the school was severely damaged by an early morning fire causing US$35,000 in damage . Two of the four floors were lost.
1926 saw plans for the addition of a new gymnasium behind the school at a cost of US$100,000 . These plans were later adjusted with a larger gym built on Michigan Avenue for US$1... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6917796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20La%20Salle%20Institute | De La Salle Institute | In addition to courses in introductory and advanced Drama, students may participate in such activities as improvisation, stage combat, one act plays and slam poetry. During the second semester, students are in charge of directing their own plays, and in some cases, writing and producing them as well. Students who par... | 2.359375 | 0 |
6917841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agia%20Pelagia | Agia Pelagia | Agia Pelagia (, "Saint Pelagia") is a popular seaside resort in the municipality of Malevizi, 23 km northwest of Crete's capital city of Heraklion. In former times, Agia Pelagia was a tiny fishing village and a place for the residents of nearby Achlada village to grow their crops. Today, the village built at the center... | 2.21875 | 0 |
6917851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince-Bishopric%20of%20Constance | Prince-Bishopric of Constance | A deed by Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in 1155 confirmed the princely status of the bishop and of his bishopric as an Imperial Estate. The territory of the prince-bishopric contracted during the following centuries under pressure from both the Swiss Confederacy and the House of Habsburg. Furthermore, the city of Cons... | 2.71875 | 0 |
6918033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20resources%20of%20the%20Republic%20of%20Ireland | Natural resources of the Republic of Ireland | The primary natural resources of the Republic of Ireland include natural gas, petroleum, peat, copper, lead, dolomite, barite, limestone, gypsum, silver and zinc. Key industries based on these and other natural resources include fishing, mining, and various forms of agriculture and fish farming. The Department of Commu... | 2.765625 | 0 |
6918033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20resources%20of%20the%20Republic%20of%20Ireland | Natural resources of the Republic of Ireland | Oil
An Irish oil exploration company called Providence Resources announced in July 2012 that it had discovered a field with in excess of 1 billion barrels of oil at the Barryroe oil well, 70 km from the coast of County Cork. Providence later revised the amount of oil obtainable to approximately 300 million barrels, wor... | 2.859375 | 0 |
6918033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20resources%20of%20the%20Republic%20of%20Ireland | Natural resources of the Republic of Ireland | Ireland has amongst the lowest forest cover of all European countries, with 11% coverage compared to a European average of over 30%. Coillte is the state-sponsored entity responsible for forestry management – it is responsible to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Minister for Finance.
Mushrooms are... | 2.90625 | 0 |
6918039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuck%20Rule%20Game | Tuck Rule Game | The 2001 AFC Divisional Playoff game, also known as the Tuck Rule Game or the Snow Bowl, and sometimes referred to as Snow Bowl 2, was a National Football League (NFL) playoff game between the New England Patriots and the Oakland Raiders. Part of the second round of the 2001–02 NFL playoffs, the game was played on Janu... | 2.1875 | 0 |
6918039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuck%20Rule%20Game | Tuck Rule Game | The Tuck Rule Game was played as part of the 2001–02 NFL playoffs, which would crown the NFL champion for the 2001 season. Under the playoff structure in place at the time, six teams from each of the NFL's two conferences – the AFC and NFC – qualified for the playoffs. These six teams would consist of the champions of ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
6918082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izalco%20%28volcano%29 | Izalco (volcano) | Izalco is an active stratovolcano on the side of the Santa Ana Volcano, which is located in western El Salvador. It is situated on the southern flank of the Santa Ana volcano. Izalco erupted almost continuously from 1770 (when it formed) to 1958 earning it the nickname of "Lighthouse of the Pacific", and experienced a ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
6918116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welding%20helmet | Welding helmet | Design
Most welding helmets include a window (visor) covered with a filter called a lens shade, through which the welder can see to work. The window may be made of tinted glass, tinted plastic, or a variable-density filter made from a pair of polarized lenses. Different lens shades are needed for different welding pro... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6918144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsin | Epsin | Epsins are a family of highly conserved membrane proteins that are important in creating membrane curvature. Epsins contribute to membrane deformations like endocytosis, and block vesicle formation during mitosis.
Structure
Epsin contains various protein domains that aid in function. Starting at the N-terminus is th... | 2.703125 | 0 |
6918144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsin | Epsin | Epsins have many different domains to interact with various proteins related to endocytosis. At its N-terminus is an ENTH domain that binds phosphatidylinositol (4,5)-bisphosphate, meaning that it binds a lipid of biological membranes. It has also been postulated that this is a site for cargo-binding. In the middle of ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
6918144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsin | Epsin | The epsin homologue of Drosophila melanogaster is liquid facets and was first identified due to its role in eye patterning in flies.
There are three Arabidopsis thaliana genes encoding epsin family members, Epsin1, Epsin2 and Epsin3 that differ in molecular weight and C - terminal domains. Epsin1 has highest expressio... | 2.265625 | 0 |
6918167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20Ruiz%20Lozano | Francisco Ruiz Lozano | Francisco Ruiz Lozano (1607, Oruro, Upper Peru—1677, Mexico City) was a Peruvian soldier, astronomer, mathematician and educator.
Ruiz Lozano was born in Oruro (now in Bolivia). He studied with the Jesuits in Lima at the College of San Martín. It was here that he acquired his love of mathematics. He also studied hydro... | 2.59375 | 0 |
6918167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20Ruiz%20Lozano | Francisco Ruiz Lozano | In 1660 or 1661 he was in Portobelo, Panama, where he acquired various kinds of merchandise. In 1662 he was in Panama City on similar business. Over his lifetime, he pursued mercantile affairs nearly everywhere in Spanish America — Panama, Cartagena de Indias, Acapulco, Valparaiso, Concepción and Talcahuano.
Later, p... | 2.34375 | 0 |
6918190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20of%20Puerto%20Rico | Climate of Puerto Rico | Puerto Rico experiences the Atlantic hurricane season, similar to the remainder of the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic oceans. On average, a quarter of its annual rainfall is contributed by tropical cyclones, which is more prevalent during periods of La Niña than El Niño. A cyclone of tropical storm strength passes ne... | 3.140625 | 0 |
6918190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20of%20Puerto%20Rico | Climate of Puerto Rico | Approximately 80 percent of the territory's agriculture was lost due to the hurricane, with agricultural losses estimated at $780 million. The hurricane completely destroyed the island's power grid, leaving all 3.4 million residents without electricity.
Hurricane Maria caused a humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, with ... | 2.78125 | 0 |
6918311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Penton | James Penton | Despite his protests that he was the subject of a witch hunt and injustice because of expressing his view about a religion he had once hailed as a "champion of free speech", Penton was disfellowshipped, or expelled, from Jehovah's Witnesses on the grounds of apostasy in February 1981. His expulsion triggered a schism a... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6918311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Penton | James Penton | Scholar Kevin P. Spicer states that Penton considers statements by leader Joseph Rutherford and the Witnesses as important toward understanding their attempts at dealing with the Nazi government (early 1930s) by distancing the group from Jews and altering their pro-Jewish position. Shortcomings of the book are describe... | 1.90625 | 0 |
6918314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Judaism | Open Source Judaism | Open-source Judaism is a name given to initiatives within the Jewish community employing open content and open-source licensing strategies for collaboratively creating and sharing works about or inspired by Judaism. Open-source efforts in Judaism utilize licensing strategies by which contemporary products of Jewish cul... | 2.578125 | 0 |
6918314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Judaism | Open Source Judaism | The rhetorical virtue of parrhesia appears in Midrashic literature as a condition for the transmission of Torah. Connoting open and public communication, parrhesia appears in combination with the term, δῆμος (dimus, short for dimosia), translated coram publica, in the public eye, i.e. open to the public As a mode of co... | 2.21875 | 0 |
6918314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Judaism | Open Source Judaism | Moreover, the place in which the story of the Torah's revelation occurred becomes analogous to the personal virtue that a student and teacher of Torah must cultivate in oneself. In the midrashic work, Bamidbar Rabbah (1:7), an exegesis based on the phonetic similarities between the name Sinai, and the word she'eino mea... | 2.265625 | 0 |
6918314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Judaism | Open Source Judaism | The question of whether new works of Torah learning are given the status of property is a question born of the commodification of printed works, competition, and prestige in modernity. In their academic article "Is Copyright Property? – The Debate in Jewish Law," Neil Netanel and David Nimmer explain that,
Rabbinic tra... | 1.90625 | 0 |
6918314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Judaism | Open Source Judaism | What is akin to copyright in Jewish law in part derives from exclusive printing privileges that rabbinic authorities have issued since the invention of the printing press and date back to 1518. These privileges typically give the publisher the exclusive right to print the book for a period of ten to twenty years or unt... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6918314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Judaism | Open Source Judaism | The earliest example of free software written for Jews may be the calendar code in GNU Emacs developed by Nachum Dershowitz and Edward Reingold in 1988, which included a Jewish calendar. This calendar code was further adapted by Danny Sadinoff in 1992 as hebcal. Such software provided a proof-of-concept for the utility... | 2.375 | 0 |
6918314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Judaism | Open Source Judaism | Canonical Jewish and liturgical texts (and some modern Hebrew poetry) depend upon diacritics for vocalization of Hebrew. Upon the introduction of the Unicode 4.0 standard in 2003, the Culmus Project, SIL, and other open-source typographers were able to begin producing digital fonts supporting the full range of Hebrew d... | 2.171875 | 0 |
6918314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Judaism | Open Source Judaism | Rushkoff's vision of an Open Source Judaism was comparable to some other expressions of open-source religion explicitly advocating for doctrinal reform or change in practice. As an expression of Open Source Judaism, in 2002 Rushkoff founded a movement called Reboot. "The object of the game, for me, was to recontextuali... | 2 | 0 |
6918314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Judaism | Open Source Judaism | Instead of rallying around Open Source as a means towards religious reform as Rushkoff suggested, other open-source Jewish projects strive to present their work as non-denominational and non-prescriptive. They see free-culture and open-source licensing as a practical means towards preserving culture, improving particip... | 2.1875 | 0 |
6918314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Judaism | Open Source Judaism | While digital editions of biblical and rabbinic Jewish sourcetexts proliferated on the World Wide Web by the mid-2000s, many of these lacked information as to the provenance of their digital texts. Common Torah database applications such as the Bar-Ilan Responsa Project and Hebrew text editing software such as Davka Co... | 2.296875 | 0 |
6918314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Judaism | Open Source Judaism | Hebrew Wikisource was created in 2004 to provide a free and openly licensed home for what is known in Israel as the "Traditional Jewish Bookshelf," thus filling the need left by Project Ben Yehudah. The digital library at Hebrew Wikisource consists not just of texts that have been typed and proofread, but also hundreds... | 2.328125 | 0 |
6918314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Judaism | Open Source Judaism | In August 2002, Aharon Varady proposed the creation of an "Open Siddur Project," a digital humanities project developing a database of Jewish liturgy and related work ("historic and contemporary, familiar and obscure") and a web-to-print application for users to contribute content and compile their own siddurim. All co... | 2.15625 | 0 |
6918410 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordia%20subcordata | Cordia subcordata | Cordia subcordata is a species of flowering tree in the borage family. It can be found growing in eastern Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, northern Australia and the Pacific Islands including Hawaii. The plant is known by a variety of names, including kou, beach cordia, sea trumpet, and kerosene wood.
Names
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6918434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20Creamer | Timothy Creamer | Creamer was assigned to NASA at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in July 1995 as a Space Shuttle vehicle integration test engineer. His duties primarily involved engineering liaison for launch and landing operations of the Space Shuttle. He was actively involved in the integrated tests of the systems for each Orbiter for... | 2.03125 | 0 |
6918436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Fee | James Fee | James Fee (December 7, 1949 — September 4, 2006) was an American photographer known for his images of abandoned factories and lonesome highways.
Life
Fee was born in Knoxville, Iowa. After graduating from high school he drove from Iowa to California and settled in San Francisco. While in San Francisco, he married Shar... | 2.109375 | 0 |
6918478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%20expedition | Crawford expedition | The Crawford expedition, also known as the Battle of Sandusky, the Sandusky expedition and Crawford's Defeat, was a 1782 campaign on the western front of the American Revolutionary War, and one of the final operations of the conflict. The campaign was led by Colonel William Crawford, a former officer in the U.S. Contin... | 3 | 0 |
6918478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%20expedition | Crawford expedition | During the retreat, Crawford and an unknown number of his men were captured. The Natives executed many of these captives in retaliation for the Gnadenhütten massacre that occurred earlier in the year, in which about 100 peaceful Natives were murdered by Pennsylvanian militiamen. Crawford and his surgeon, Dr. John Knigh... | 2.765625 | 0 |
6918478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%20expedition | Crawford expedition | Over the next several years, Americans and Natives launched raids against each other, usually targeting settlements. In 1780, hundreds of Kentucky settlers were killed or captured in a British-Native expedition into Kentucky. George Rogers Clark of Virginia responded in August 1780 by leading an expedition that destroy... | 3.203125 | 0 |
6918478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%20expedition | Crawford expedition | In March 1782, nearly 200 Pennsylvania militiamen under Lieutenant Colonel David Williamson rode into the Ohio Country, hoping to rescue American captives and find the warriors who were responsible for raids against Pennsylvania settlers. Enraged by the gruesome murder by Natives of a white woman and her baby, Williams... | 2.78125 | 0 |
6918478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%20expedition | Crawford expedition | The object of your command is, to destroy with fire and sword (if practicable) the Indian town and settlement at Sandusky, by which we hope to give ease and safety to the inhabitants of this country; but, if impracticable, then you will doubtless perform such other services in your power as will, in their consequences,... | 2.359375 | 0 |
6918478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%20expedition | Crawford expedition | Because this was a volunteer expedition and not a regular army operation, the men elected their officers. The candidates for the top position were David Williamson, the militia colonel who had commanded the Gnadenhütten expedition, and William Crawford, an experienced soldier and frontiersman who had resigned from the ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
6918478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%20expedition | Crawford expedition | At Crawford's request, Irvine allowed Dr John Knight, a Continental Army officer, to accompany the expedition as surgeon. Another volunteer from Irvine's staff was a foreigner with an aristocratic bearing who called himself "John Rose", who served as Crawford's aide-de-camp. Unknown even to Irvine until several years l... | 2.625 | 0 |
6918478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%20expedition | Crawford expedition | The journey across the Ohio Country was mostly through woods. The volunteers initially marched in four columns, but the thick underbrush sometimes compelled them to form just two. On June 3, Crawford's men emerged into the open country of the Sandusky Plains, a prairie region just below of the Sandusky River. The follo... | 2.96875 | 0 |
6918478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%20expedition | Crawford expedition | The first skirmishing of the Crawford expedition began at about 2 p.m. on June 4, 1782. The scouting party led by John Rose encountered Captain Pipe's Lenapes on the Sandusky plains and conducted a fighting retreat to a grove of trees where they had stored their supplies. The scouts were in danger of being overrun, but... | 2.765625 | 0 |
6918478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%20expedition | Crawford expedition | June 6: Battle of the Olentangy
When the sun rose on June 6, 250 to 300 Americans had reached the abandoned Wyandot town. Because Colonel Crawford was missing, Williamson assumed command. Fortunately for the Americans, the pursuit of the retreating army was disorganized because Caldwell, overall commander of the Britis... | 3.015625 | 0 |
6918478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%20expedition | Crawford expedition | Fates of the captives
Captives taken by Natives during the American Revolution might be ransomed by the British in Detroit, adopted into the tribe, enslaved, or killed. The number of American prisoners executed after the Sandusky expedition is unknown, since their fate was usually recorded only if one of the prisoners ... | 2.96875 | 0 |
6918478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%20expedition | Crawford expedition | While at Wakatomika, Slover recognized the remains of three other Americans who had recently suffered the same fate: Major McClelland, who had been fourth in command of the expedition, as well as Private William Crawford (Colonel Crawford's nephew) and William Harrison (Crawford's son-in-law). The next day, their heads... | 2.546875 | 0 |
6918478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%20expedition | Crawford expedition | On June 10, Captain Pipe arrived in Old Town and painted the faces of the prisoners black. When Crawford was reunited with the other prisoners, his face was painted black as well. The prisoners were marched to an unnamed Lenape town on Tymochtee Creek, near present-day Crawford, Ohio. Four prisoners were killed with to... | 2.625 | 0 |
6918478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%20expedition | Crawford expedition | On June 11, about one hundred men, women, and children gathered near Pipe's Town to witness Crawford's execution. Dunquat and a few Wyandots were present, as well as Matthew Elliott. Crawford was stripped naked and beaten. His hands were tied behind his back, and a rope was tied from his hands to a post in the ground. ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
6918478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%20expedition | Crawford expedition | Casualties
The exact number of casualties resulting from the Crawford expedition is not known. On June 7, 1782, a ranger reported to DePeyster that, "Our loss is very inconsiderable. We had but one ranger killed and two wounded [including Caldwell]. LeVillier, the interpreter, and four Indians were killed and eight wou... | 2.59375 | 0 |
6918478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%20expedition | Crawford expedition | In Kentucky, the Americans went on the defensive while Caldwell and his Native allies prepared a major offensive. In July 1782, more than 1,000 Natives gathered at Wakatomika, but the expedition came to a halt after scouts reported that George Rogers Clark was preparing to invade the Ohio Country from Kentucky. Most of... | 2.671875 | 0 |
6918478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%20expedition | Crawford expedition | Impact of Crawford's death
Crawford's death was widely publicized in the United States. A ballad about the expedition, entitled "Crawford's Defeat by the Indians", became popular and was long remembered in several versions. In 1783, John Knight's eyewitness account of Crawford's torture, along with Slover's captivity n... | 2.53125 | 0 |
6918514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrisburg%20State%20Hospital | Harrisburg State Hospital | Harrisburg State Hospital, formerly known from 1851 to 1937 as Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was Pennsylvania's first public facility to house the mentally ill and disabled. Its campus is located on Cameron St. and Arsenal Blvd, and operated as a mental hospital until 2006.
History
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6918514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrisburg%20State%20Hospital | Harrisburg State Hospital | A farm was located adjacent to the hospital and provided work therapy for the patients and also enabled the hospital to be self-supporting, by growing its own food, and raising its own livestock. When the first patient was admitted on October 6, 1851, every poor district was charged a $2.00 weekly maintenance fee for ... | 2.453125 | 0 |
6918514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrisburg%20State%20Hospital | Harrisburg State Hospital | In 1921, the name of the hospital was changed to the Harrisburg State Hospital. Also that year, the Board of Public Charities was abolished and the Department of Public Welfare was created to administer all state hospitals. With the completion of the new "Cottage Plan" buildings, the hospital had grown considerably lar... | 2.609375 | 0 |
6918599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Bethell | Tom Bethell | Tom Bethell (; July 17, 1936 – February 12, 2021) was an American journalist who wrote mainly on economic and scientific issues.
Life and career
Bethell was born and raised in London, England. He was educated at Downside School and Trinity College, Oxford. A resident of the District of Columbia, he lived in Virginia, ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
6918624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvan%20Lake%20%28Alberta%29 | Sylvan Lake (Alberta) | Sylvan Lake is a large lake in central Alberta, Canada. The resort town of Sylvan Lake is established on the shores of the lake, west of the city of Red Deer.
Sylvan Lake is a mesotrophic lake with a total area of , and a maximum depth of . It lies at an elevation of .
Development and conservation
Six communities a... | 2.03125 | 0 |
6918638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbeled%20houndshark | Barbeled houndshark | The barbeled houndshark (Leptocharias smithii) is a species of ground shark and the only member of the family Leptochariidae. This demersal species is found in the coastal waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean from Mauritania to Angola, at depths of . It favors muddy habitats, particularly around river mouths. The barbe... | 2.921875 | 0 |
6918638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbeled%20houndshark | Barbeled houndshark | Because of its many unique characteristics, the evolutionary relationships of the barbeled houndshark are difficult to resolve. A morphological study by Compagno in 1988 was inconclusive on the relationship of Leptocharias to other carcharhiniform families. Similarly, a molecular phylogenetic study by López et al. in 2... | 3 | 0 |
6918638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbeled%20houndshark | Barbeled houndshark | Description
The barbeled houndshark has an extremely slender body and horizontally oval eyes equipped with internal nictitating membranes. A pair of tiny spiracles is present behind the eyes. Each nostril is preceded by a slender barbel. The mouth is long and strongly arched, with very long furrows at the corners exten... | 3.0625 | 0 |
6918638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbeled%20houndshark | Barbeled houndshark | The enlarged anterior teeth of male barbeled houndsharks may function in mating behaviors. This species is viviparous; once the embryos exhaust their supply of yolk, they are nourished through a placental connection formed from the depleted yolk sac. Unlike any other shark, the yolk-sac placenta is globular or spherica... | 2.96875 | 0 |
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