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6918660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T29%20heavy%20tank | T29 heavy tank | The T29 Heavy Tank was an American heavy tank project started in March 1944 to counter the appearance of the German Tiger II heavy tank. The T29 was not ready in time for the war in Europe, but it did provide post-war engineers with opportunities for applying engineering concepts to artillery and automotive components.... | 2.125 | 0 |
6918672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civis%20Romanus%20sum | Civis Romanus sum | Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner, an American senator from Massachusetts, related a similar phrase in his famous "The Crime Against Kansas" speech in 1856, stating "I fearlessly assert that the wrongs of much-abused Sicily...were small by the side of the wrongs of Kansas...where the cry "I am an American citizen" has been... | 2.34375 | 0 |
9185254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister%20for%20Immigration%20and%20Multicultural%20Affairs | Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs | The Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs is a ministerial post of the Australian Government and is currently held by Tony Burke since July 2024 in the Albanese ministry.
The post was created in 1945 and its inaugural officeholder was Arthur Calwell as the Minister for Immigration. On 20 December 2017, Pr... | 1.921875 | 0 |
9185274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneal%20neovascularization | Corneal neovascularization | Corneal neovascularization (CNV) is the in-growth of new blood vessels from the pericorneal plexus into avascular corneal tissue as a result of oxygen deprivation. Maintaining avascularity of the corneal stroma is an important aspect of healthy corneal physiology as it is required for corneal transparency and optimal v... | 2.234375 | 0 |
9185274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneal%20neovascularization | Corneal neovascularization | Causes
CNV causes may be congenital in naturesuch as with aniridiaor acquired. Frequently, inflammatory, infectious, degenerative, traumatic, or iatrogenic (e.g., contact lenses) conditions can be responsible for acquired CNV.
Some major acquired inflammatory conditions include graft rejection following keratoplasty, ... | 2.125 | 0 |
9185274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneal%20neovascularization | Corneal neovascularization | Invading blood tissues and ablating tissues in the cornea can be obstructed by the use of laser treatments such as Argon and Nd:YAG lasers. Irradiation and/or damages to adjacent tissues caused by the procedure can result in corneal hemorrhage and corneal thinning. Obstruction of the blood vessels can be unsuccessful d... | 1.90625 | 0 |
9185304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koenwald | Koenwald | Koenwald or Cenwald or Coenwald (floruit 928–958) was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Worcester, probably of Mercian origin.
Life
Koenwald succeeded Bishop Wilfrith at some time between 16 April 928, when Wilfrith is last known to have witnessed a charter, and 15 October 929, when Koenwald was recorded as arriving as a bish... | 2.0625 | 0 |
9185304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koenwald | Koenwald | Koenwald appears to have been responsible for the "alliterative charters" which were issued between 940 and 956. These are described as "drawn up in a self-consciously 'literary' style (replete with alliterative and rhythmical phrases)". These have some features of earlier charters of King Athelstan, from the period 92... | 2.140625 | 0 |
9185306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20St.%20Paul%27s%2C%20K%20Street%20%28Washington%2C%20D.C.%29 | Church of St. Paul's, K Street (Washington, D.C.) | On new property on K Street, purchased by the church, the architect Philip H. Frohman was engaged to design a new building. During a prolonged period of construction, the parish worshipped at St Thomas Church near Dupont Circle. The first service was held in the new church in June 1948, the service of Dedication was c... | 2.09375 | 0 |
9185335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20King%20High | Robert King High | Miami, law school, and politics
When High was discharged from the Army in 1944, he moved to Miami. Attending college with the help of the GI Bill, he graduated from the University of Miami and the Law School of Stetson University. With his law degree, High began practicing law in Miami. He soon was doing well enough to... | 2.4375 | 0 |
9185335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20King%20High | Robert King High | High broke with the Democratic tradition, publicly supporting the public accommodations section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and promising to promote racial equality. He said that equal treatment of all Americans was the "most sensible issue of our times". High came in second out of five contenders in the Democratic... | 2 | 0 |
9185350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean%20Roma | Crimean Roma | The Crimean Roma (also known as Crimean gypsies, Tatar gypsies, or Çingene) are a sub-ethnic group of the Muslim Roma heavily assimilated among Crimean Tatars to the point that they are now considered to be the fourth subgroup of Crimean Tatars. Currently, they live in many countries of the former Soviet Union, includi... | 2.921875 | 0 |
9185350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean%20Roma | Crimean Roma | Subgroups
There are three main subgroups of the Crimean Roma the Krimurja, the Urmacheli, and the Tayfa. There are also subgroups of within each of the Crimean Roma communities: however, the castes of some subgroups were somewhat fluid in that people who switched professions and assimilated into the caste of said prof... | 2.828125 | 0 |
9185350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean%20Roma | Crimean Roma | Tayfa/Dayfa
The exact origins of the Tayfa/Dayfa, formerly called Gurbets/Kurbets has been a subject of debate among anthropologists for centuries. Seraya Shapshal observed the Tayfa during his visit to Qarasubazar in 1910 and attributed their origins to the Turkmen, and presuming that they were called Gypsies by outsi... | 2.734375 | 0 |
9185350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean%20Roma | Crimean Roma | Crimean Tatar intervention saved the lives of many Crimean Roma from the Nazis; the estimates of what percent of Crimean Roma survived the Holocaust vary, with some estimates being at around 30%, but there is widespread disagreement on how many survived due to the fluid identity of Crimean Roma who often self-designate... | 2.859375 | 0 |
9185350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean%20Roma | Crimean Roma | Deportation and exile
Most Crimean Roma who survived the Holocaust were deported from Crimea in 1944 alongside other Crimean Tatars, and were largely forbidden from returning to Crimea until the late 1980s. Historian Mark Edele estimates that 1,109 surviving Crimean Roma were deported from Crimea during the deportation... | 2.625 | 0 |
9185350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean%20Roma | Crimean Roma | In modern times
Most Crimean Roma accept a Crimean Tatar identity, and Crimean Roma have been accepted into the Crimean Tatar people as another subgroup of Crimean Tatars, right alongside the Steppe (Nogay), Mountain Tat, and Yaliboylu (Coastal) peoples of the Crimean Tatars. It is quite unclear just how many Crimean T... | 2.65625 | 0 |
9185390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Mawer | Simon Mawer | Simon Mawer ( ; born 1948) is a British author who lives in Italy.
Life and work
Born in England and educated at Millfield School in Somerset and at Brasenose College, Oxford, Mawer took a degree in Zoology and has worked as a biology teacher for most of his life. He published his first novel, Chimera, (Hamish Hamilto... | 1.953125 | 0 |
9185453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan%20Yanhai | Wan Yanhai | Wan Yanhai (; born 20 November 1963) is a Chinese-American AIDS activist. His "frank and aggressive" approach toward AIDS has led to frequent run-ins with authorities, including a month-long detention in 2002 that made international headlines and sparked a successful international campaign for his release.
Wan has won... | 2.125 | 0 |
9185454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Claxton | Norman Claxton | Norman Claxton (2 November 1877 – 5 December 1951) was an all-round sportsman from South Australia. He was a prominent figure in South Australian cricket, Australian rules football, baseball, and cycling during the early twentieth century, both as a player and later an administrator.
He represented South Australia in ... | 2.171875 | 0 |
9185454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Claxton | Norman Claxton | After his retirement from playing first-class cricket, Claxton became an administrator for South Australia, acting as a selector between 1902 and 1905, and again from 1907 until 1909. He was the team manager for a time in 1913, and sat on the state association's committee for twenty years.
Other sports
Aside from cric... | 2.140625 | 0 |
9185482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert%20Sterckx | Engelbert Sterckx | Engelbert Sterckx (2 November 1792 – 4 December 1867) was the Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium, from 1832 to 1867.
Life
Engelbert (Engelbertus) Sterckx was born 2 November 1792 in Ophem, Brabant. His parents were farmers. He began his studies in Vilvoorde, after which he studied humanities at the college of Enghien (18... | 2.046875 | 0 |
9185521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAF%20College%20Lower%20Topa | PAF College Lower Topa | Pakistan Air Force college Lower Topa is an all-boys military boarding school situated at Lower Topa, Murree which is located near Patriata in the Murree region of the Murree District of Pakistan. Situated on a hilltop, the institution is made up of a series of buildings. These comprise the boarding lodgings, academic... | 2.328125 | 0 |
9185670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic%20pruning | Synaptic pruning | Synaptic pruning, a phase in the development of the nervous system, is the process of synapse elimination that occurs between early childhood and the onset of puberty in many mammals, including humans. Pruning starts near the time of birth and continues into the late-20s. During the pruning of a synapse, both the axon ... | 2.78125 | 0 |
9185670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic%20pruning | Synaptic pruning | Regressive events refine the abundance of connections, seen in neurogenesis, to create a specific and mature circuitry. Apoptosis and pruning are the two main methods of severing the undesired connections. In apoptosis, the neuron is killed and all connections associated with the neuron are also eliminated. In contrast... | 2.609375 | 0 |
9185670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic%20pruning | Synaptic pruning | In terms of humans, synaptic pruning has been observed through the inference of differences in the estimated numbers of glial cells and neurons between children and adults, which differs greatly in the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus.
In a study conducted in 2007 by Oxford University, researchers compared 8 newborn human... | 2.546875 | 0 |
9185670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic%20pruning | Synaptic pruning | Mechanisms
The three models explaining synaptic pruning are axon degeneration, axon retraction, and axon shedding. In all cases, the synapses are formed by a transient axon terminal, and synapse elimination is caused by the axon pruning. Each model offers a different method in which the axon is removed to delete the s... | 2.203125 | 0 |
9185670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic%20pruning | Synaptic pruning | Axon retraction
Axon branches retract in a distal to proximal manner. The axonal contents that are retracted are thought to be recycled to other parts of the axon. The biological mechanism with which axonal pruning occurs still remains unclear for the mammalian central nervous system. However, pruning has been associat... | 2.1875 | 0 |
9185670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic%20pruning | Synaptic pruning | Axon shedding
Time-lapse imaging of retreating axons in neuromuscular junctions of mice have shown axonal shedding as a possible mechanism of pruning. The retreating axon moved in a distal to proximal order and resembled retraction. However, there were many cases in which remnants were shed as the axons were retracting... | 2.3125 | 0 |
9185686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20during%20the%20Tang%20dynasty | Islam during the Tang dynasty | The history of Islam in China goes back to the earliest years of Islam. According to the Chinese Old book of Tang Muslim missionaries reached China through an embassy sent by ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān (644–656), the third rāshidūn caliph, in 651 CE, less than twenty years after the death of Muhammad (632 CE) in the second ye... | 2.65625 | 0 |
9185686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20during%20the%20Tang%20dynasty | Islam during the Tang dynasty | Early contacts between Islam and China
Arab people are first noted in Chinese written records, under the name Dashi in the annals of the Tang dynasty (618–907), (Tashi or Dashi is the Chinese rendering of Tazi—the name the Persian people used for the Arabs). Records dating from 713 speak of the arrival of a Dashi amba... | 2.75 | 0 |
9185686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20during%20the%20Tang%20dynasty | Islam during the Tang dynasty | In 751 the Abbasid Caliphate defeated the Tang dynasty in the Battle of Talas River. The Tang dynasty saw the creation of the first Muslim embassy, with the exchange of an emissary from Emperor Gaozong of Tang, with a general from the Caliph Osman. There were also requests for help from the Muslim soldiers. In 756, a c... | 2.84375 | 0 |
9185686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20during%20the%20Tang%20dynasty | Islam during the Tang dynasty | During the Tang dynasty a steady stream of Arab and Persian traders arrived in China through the silk road and the overseas route through the port of Quanzhou. The Muslim had their mosques in the foreign quarter on the south bank of the Canton River. Not all of the immigrants were Muslims, but many or some of them stay... | 2.78125 | 0 |
9185755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20during%20the%20Song%20dynasty | Islam during the Song dynasty | The transition from the Tang to the Song dynasty (960–1279) in China did not greatly interrupt the trends of Chinese Muslims established during the Tang rule.
Islam continues to increase its influence
Many Muslims began to go to China to trade during the Tang dynasty. During the Song dynasty (960–1279), Muslims began ... | 2.890625 | 0 |
9185785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRC%20Mitochondrial%20Biology%20Unit | MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit | The MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit (formerly the MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit) is a department of the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge, funded through a strategic partnership between the Medical Research Council and the University. It is located at the Addenbrooke’s Hospital / Cambridge Biome... | 2.46875 | 0 |
9185794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation%20%28population%20genetics%29 | Fixation (population genetics) | In population genetics, fixation is the change in a gene pool from a situation where there exists at least two variants of a particular gene (allele) in a given population to a situation where only one of the alleles remains. That is, the allele becomes fixed.
In the absence of mutation or heterozygote advantage, any ... | 3.015625 | 0 |
9185794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation%20%28population%20genetics%29 | Fixation (population genetics) | Neutral alleles
Under conditions of genetic drift alone, every finite set of genes or alleles has a "coalescent point" at which all descendants converge to a single ancestor (i.e. they 'coalesce'). This fact can be used to derive the rate of gene fixation of a neutral allele (that is, one not under any form of selectio... | 2.28125 | 0 |
9185794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation%20%28population%20genetics%29 | Fixation (population genetics) | Probability of fixation is also influenced by population size changes. For growing populations, selection coefficients are more effective. This means that beneficial alleles are more likely to become fixed, whereas deleterious alleles are more likely to be lost. In populations that are shrinking in size, selection coef... | 2.53125 | 0 |
9185794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation%20%28population%20genetics%29 | Fixation (population genetics) | Fixation rates can easily be modeled as well to see how long it takes for a gene to become fixed with varying population sizes and generations. For example, The Biology Project Genetic Drift Simulation allows to model genetic drift and see how quickly the gene for worm color goes to fixation in terms of generations for... | 2.8125 | 0 |
9185811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20during%20the%20Yuan%20dynasty | Islam during the Yuan dynasty | During the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, there was a significant increase in the population of Muslims in China. Under the Mongol Empire, east–west communication and cross-cultural transmission were largely promoted. As a result, foreigners in China were given an elevated status in the hierarchy of the new regime. ... | 2.765625 | 0 |
9185811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20during%20the%20Yuan%20dynasty | Islam during the Yuan dynasty | Muslim doctors and Arabic medical texts, particularly in anatomy, pharmacology, and ophthalmology, circulated in China during this time. The Chinese emperor, Kublai Khan, who suffered from alcoholism and gout, accorded high status to doctors. New seeds and formulas from the Middle East stimulated medical practice. The ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
9185814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Cavan | Harry Cavan | Henry Hartrick Cavan CBE (19 May 1916 – 16 January 2000) was vice-president of FIFA from 1960 to 1980 and senior vice-president of FIFA from 1980 to 1990, and president of the Irish Football Association from 1958 to 1994. Its Harry Cavan Youth Cup is named after him.
Committees
Harry H. Cavan served on a variety of FI... | 1.984375 | 0 |
9185814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Cavan | Harry Cavan | 1956–1973
Harry Cavan spent most of his life as a full-time trade union official, first for the Association of Supervisory Staffs, Executives and Technicians (ASSET), which merged with the Association of Scientific Workers (AScW) in 1968 forming the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS). A ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
9185821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qal%27at%20Najm | Qal'at Najm | Qal'at Najm () is a castle located on the right bank of the Euphrates, near the town of Manbij in north Syria. The castle probably stood on the site of an earlier Roman site and is known from Arabic texts since the 7th century CE. Reconstruction works were carried out in the castle by Nur ad-Din Zangi and Az-Zahir Ghaz... | 2.3125 | 0 |
9185821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qal%27at%20Najm | Qal'at Najm | Description
The castle is located on the right bank of the Euphrates, at a site where two islands allowed the construction of a pontoon bridge which carried a trade route from Aleppo to Harran over the Euphrates. Qal'at Najm is a castle of the truncated cone type, similar to the Citadel of Aleppo and those of Hama and... | 2.4375 | 0 |
9185844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20during%20the%20Ming%20dynasty | Islam during the Ming dynasty | As the Yuan dynasty ended, many Mongols as well as the Muslims who came with them remained in China. Most of their descendants took Chinese names and became part of the diverse cultural world of China. During the following Ming rule (1368–1644), Muslims truly adopted Chinese culture. Most became fluent in Chinese and a... | 2.8125 | 0 |
9185844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20during%20the%20Ming%20dynasty | Islam during the Ming dynasty | Muslim customs of dress and food also underwent a synthesis with Chinese culture. The Islamic modes of dress and dietary rules were maintained within a Chinese cultural framework. Chinese Islamic cuisine is heavily influenced by Beijing cuisine, with nearly all cooking methods identical, and differing only in material ... | 2.828125 | 0 |
9185844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20during%20the%20Ming%20dynasty | Islam during the Ming dynasty | The Ming dynasty decreed that Manichaeism and Nestorian Christianity were illegal and heterodox, to be wiped out from China, while Islam and Judaism were legal and fit Confucian ideology.
Ming Taizu's tolerant disposition for Muslims and allowing them to practice their religion led to Arab missionaries continually com... | 2.9375 | 0 |
9185844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20during%20the%20Ming%20dynasty | Islam during the Ming dynasty | Muslim scholarship
The era saw Nanjing become an important center of Islamic study. From there Wang Daiyu wrote Zhengjiao zhenquan (A Commentary on the Orthodox Faith), while his successor, Liu Zhi, translated Tianfang xingli (Islamic Philosophy) Tianfang dianli (Islamic Ritual) and Tianfang zhisheng shilu (The Last P... | 2.34375 | 0 |
9185844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20during%20the%20Ming%20dynasty | Islam during the Ming dynasty | In response to the Portuguese Capture of Malacca (1511), the Chinese Imperial Government imprisoned and executed multiple Portuguese envoys after torturing them in Guangzhou. Since Malacca was a tributary state to China, the Chinese responded with violent force against the Portuguese. The Malaccans had informed the Chi... | 2.546875 | 0 |
9185844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20during%20the%20Ming%20dynasty | Islam during the Ming dynasty | When the Qing dynasty invaded the Ming dynasty in 1644, Muslim Ming loyalists in Gansu led by Muslim leaders Milayin and Ding Guodong led a revolt in 1646 against the Qing during the Milayin rebellion in order to drive the Qing out and restore the Ming Prince of Yanchang Zhu Shichuan to the throne as the emperor. The M... | 2.65625 | 0 |
9185895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles%20Monitor | Miles Monitor | The Miles M.33 Monitor was a twin-engined British target tug aircraft designed and built by Miles Aircraft towards the end of the Second World War. Intended for use by the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm, the aircraft did not enter service with either.
Design and development
The Monitor came about as a response... | 1.945313 | 0 |
9185900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Waley | Simon Waley | Simon Waley Waley (23 August 1827, Stockwell, London30 December 1875, Marylebone, London) was one of the leading members of Anglo-Jewry in the 19th century.
He was a leading broker on the London Stock Exchange and a prominent amateur musician. He was a leading figure in the Jewish community during the period of the e... | 2.296875 | 0 |
9185931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20during%20the%20Qing%20dynasty | Islam during the Qing dynasty | Elisabeth Allès wrote that the relationship between Hui Muslim and Han peoples continued normally in the Henan area, with no ramifications or consequences from the Muslim rebellions of other areas. Allès wrote in the document "Notes on some joking relationships between Hui and Han villages in Henan" published by French... | 2.390625 | 0 |
9185931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20during%20the%20Qing%20dynasty | Islam during the Qing dynasty | In the Qing dynasty, Muslims had many mosques in the large cities, with particularly important ones in Beijing, Xi'an, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, and other places (in addition to those in the western Muslim regions). The architecture typically employed traditional Chinese styles, with Arabic-language inscriptions being the c... | 2.890625 | 0 |
9185931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20during%20the%20Qing%20dynasty | Islam during the Qing dynasty | Chinese Hui Sufis developed a new type of organization called the menhuan, centered around a lineage of Sufi masters.
The Hui Muslim scholar Liu Zhi wrote about Sufism in Chinese and translated Sufi writings from their original languages. The Hui Muslim scholar Wang Daiyu used Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist terminolo... | 2.4375 | 0 |
9185980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis%20at%20the%202008%20Summer%20Olympics | Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics | Men's singles
By winning gold in this Beijing Olympics, Rafael Nadal cemented his place in tennis history by winning gold in his first try. In the calendar year preceding the 2008 Olympics, there was a shift at the hierarchy of men's tennis as Rafael Nadal displaced Roger Federer as the world number one, after his reco... | 1.953125 | 0 |
9186006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawar%20Bakhsh | Dawar Bakhsh | Dawar Bakhsh (; – 23 January 1628), which means "God Given", was the ruler of the Mughal Empire for a short time between 1627–1628, immediately after the death of his grandfather Jahangir (r. 1605–1627).
Dawar was the child of Jahangir's eldest son, Prince Khusrau, who was killed at the behest of Prince Khurram (Shah... | 2.453125 | 0 |
9186044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Story%20of%20the%20Little%20Mole%20Who%20Knew%20It%20Was%20None%20of%20His%20Business | The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew It Was None of His Business | The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew It Was None of His Business or The Story of the Little Mole Who Went in Search of Whodunit () is a children's book by German children's authors and Wolf Erlbruch. The book was first published by Peter Hammer Verlag in 1989; it was soon translated and became an international succes... | 2.59375 | 0 |
9186058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf%20Erlbruch | Wolf Erlbruch | Style
Erlbruch tackled many adult topics in children's books, though he was not always fond of being characterized as an author for children. Some of his books have autobiographical notes, such as Leonard (a "delightfully eccentric tale"), a book partly inspired by his then six-year-old son Leonard (now an illustrator... | 2.484375 | 0 |
9186073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheltenham%20and%20Great%20Western%20Union%20Railway | Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway | The combination of the gauges, where three rails have been used for both, has been effected by laying an additional rail outside each line of the narrow gauge, as if the latter had never been disturbed.
GWR trains started running to their station in St James Square, Cheltenham on 23 October 1847. At Gloucester there w... | 2.359375 | 0 |
9186073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheltenham%20and%20Great%20Western%20Union%20Railway | Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway | Kemble had been an exchange station only (between the Cirencester branch and the main line) without public access. In 1872 it was made public for the first time. The line needed to cross the lands of Anna Gordon, no doubt the heiress of Squire Gordon who had been so hostile to the railway at the outset. Maggs says that... | 2.15625 | 0 |
9186073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheltenham%20and%20Great%20Western%20Union%20Railway | Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway | The London and South Western Railway and the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway had together constructed a steam railmotor, in which a small steam engine was integrated into a single passenger coach. It could be driven from either end, and this arrangement was considered ideal for a frequent shuttle operation, as... | 2.359375 | 0 |
9186105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shad%20%28rapper%29 | Shad (rapper) | Shadrach Kabango (born July 18, 1982), known professionally as Shad or Shad K, is a Canadian rapper and broadcaster. Beginning his career in 2005, has released seven studio albums and three extended plays. He won a Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year in 2011 and five of his albums have been shortlisted for the Pol... | 2.046875 | 0 |
9186134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%20marmorated%20stink%20bug | Brown marmorated stink bug | The brown marmorated stink bug was accidentally introduced into the United States from China or Japan. It is believed to have hitched a ride as a stowaway in packing crates or on various types of machinery. The first documented specimen was collected in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in September 1998. Several Muhlenberg Col... | 2.421875 | 0 |
9186134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%20marmorated%20stink%20bug | Brown marmorated stink bug | The brown marmorated stink bug is a serious agricultural pest that has been readily causing damage to crops across the Eastern United States. They feed on a wide array of plants including apples, apricots, Asian pears, cherries, corn, grapes, lima beans, peaches, peppers, tomatoes, and soybeans. This makes them extreme... | 2.796875 | 0 |
9186134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%20marmorated%20stink%20bug | Brown marmorated stink bug | Control
Control of stink bugs is a priority of the United States Department of Agriculture, which has developed an artificial pheromone which can be used to bait traps. Because the bugs insert their probosces below the surface of fruit and then feed, some insecticides are ineffective; in addition, the bugs are mobile, ... | 2.78125 | 0 |
9186134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%20marmorated%20stink%20bug | Brown marmorated stink bug | Spread from Russia to Georgia
The stink bug was traced to have been introduced to the Greater Caucasus area during the construction works of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, where it was most likely imported with decorative building elements brought from Italy. The stink bug has since spread to Georgia, where... | 2.328125 | 0 |
9186134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%20marmorated%20stink%20bug | Brown marmorated stink bug | Several parasitoids and predators indigenous to North America and Europe have been reported to attack stink bug eggs, nymphs and adults. Researchers have also experimented with other predators like the spotted lady beetle, the spined soldier bug and the common green lacewing, whereby the latter consumed most of the eg... | 2.890625 | 0 |
9186171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilts%2C%20Somerset%20and%20Weymouth%20Railway | Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway | The Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway (WS&WR) was an early railway company in south-western England. It obtained Parliamentary powers in 1845 to build a railway from near Chippenham in Wiltshire, southward to Salisbury and Weymouth in Dorset. It opened the first part of the network but found it impossible to raise f... | 2.375 | 0 |
9186171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilts%2C%20Somerset%20and%20Weymouth%20Railway | Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway | The areas of south-west Wiltshire were prosperous from sheep farming and wool manufacture, and quickly saw that they too needed a railway. The LSWR proposed a line from Basingstoke to Swindon, and at this time there was intense rivalry between them and the GWR to control territory: the railway that was first to have a ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
9186171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilts%2C%20Somerset%20and%20Weymouth%20Railway | Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway | Logan and Hemingway of Doncaster were the contractor, and the cost of the works was to be £220,000. The avoiding lines were opened to goods traffic on 1 January 1933, and for all traffic at the beginning of the summer timetable period in 1933.
War again
In 1939 the country was at war again: the Second World War had st... | 2.03125 | 0 |
9186171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilts%2C%20Somerset%20and%20Weymouth%20Railway | Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway | On 2 November 1959 the passenger service on the Frome to Radstock line was ended, and with the decline of the Somerset coalfield the branch became fully closed from April 1966, except for a connection to Whatley Quarry, which connected by a private siding near Hapsford. With the increase in road building in the 1960s t... | 2.1875 | 0 |
9186192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright%20law%20of%20Russia | Copyright law of Russia | Copyright in Russia developed originally along the same lines as in Western European countries. A first copyright statute dated back to 1828, and in 1857, a general copyright term of fifty years was instituted. The copyright law of 1911 was inspired by Western laws of the continental European tradition. One noteworthy ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
9186192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright%20law%20of%20Russia | Copyright law of Russia | Copyright—the idea that an author of a work has rights on the uses and the reproduction of the work—originated in the field of literature. With the inventions of the printing press and of movable type, copies of literary works could be made quicker and cheaper than before, and the works could be disseminated more widel... | 2.921875 | 0 |
9186192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright%20law%20of%20Russia | Copyright law of Russia | The development of copyright in Russia followed the same lines as in Western Europe, only about a century later. The first printing press was installed in Moscow in the late 1550s with the support of Tsar Ivan IV; the first dated book was printed there in 1564. Printing was strictly controlled by the Tsars and remained... | 2.328125 | 0 |
9186192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright%20law%20of%20Russia | Copyright law of Russia | The printing prerogatives granted until then were rights accorded to the printers, not to the authors of a work. The first copyright provisions in a modern sense as rights an author has over uses of his work appeared in the reign of Alexander I, when he issued on April 22, 1828 a "Statute on censorship" (; ) that conta... | 2.703125 | 0 |
9186192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright%20law%20of%20Russia | Copyright law of Russia | After the October Revolution, the Tsarist copyright law from 1911 remained initially in force, although it was partly invalidated by numerous decrees. The copyright term was reduced from 50 years p.m.a. to the lifetime of an author. Many works were nationalized, first only works of deceased authors, but later also work... | 2.34375 | 0 |
9186192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright%20law%20of%20Russia | Copyright law of Russia | The copyrights of an author were limited by a broad array of uses allowed without the author's consent that were defined not to be copyright infringements. The law provided for "free uses" and also for compulsory licenses. Free uses of a work allowed anyone to use a published, copyrighted work without the original auth... | 2.234375 | 0 |
9186192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright%20law%20of%20Russia | Copyright law of Russia | The monopoly of the VAAP was abolished in 1989. Also during Perestroika, a work group was formed with the task to adapt the Soviet copyright law to a market economy. These efforts culminated in the passing of a profoundly revised copyright law on March 31, 1991. This new law was a radical break with the previous Social... | 2 | 0 |
9186192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright%20law%20of%20Russia | Copyright law of Russia | Like its predecessors, the new law granted copyrights on creative works that existed in some objective form. This objective form needed not be tangible, any form by which the work could be perceived by others sufficed, including an oral form. Mere ideas that had not been externalized were excluded from copyright, as we... | 2.109375 | 0 |
9186192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright%20law%20of%20Russia | Copyright law of Russia | The law specified a copyright term of fifty years, applicable to all kinds of works. Works of known authors were copyrighted until 50 years after the author's death (50 years p.m.a.). Anonymous or pseudonymous works were copyrighted until fifty years after the first publication, unless the identity of the author became... | 2.15625 | 0 |
9186192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright%20law%20of%20Russia | Copyright law of Russia | The 1993 copyright law contained a list of allowed free uses of copyrighted works, similar to may other countries' laws. Free uses only related to limitations on the patrimonial rights of an author on a work; his moral rights remained untouched. Any free use was subject to the condition that it did not impede an author... | 2 | 0 |
9186192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright%20law%20of%20Russia | Copyright law of Russia | Since the entry in force of federal law 72-FL of August 8, 2004, pre-1973 works subject to the Berne Convention are copyrighted in Russia if they were copyrighted in the source country in 1995. Russia implements the rule of the shorter term: the copyright term in Russia runs to the shorter of the term in the source cou... | 1.9375 | 0 |
9186192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright%20law%20of%20Russia | Copyright law of Russia | Another way by which Soviet works could become copyrighted outside of the Soviet Union was the smuggling of manuscripts out of the USSR to have the work first published abroad. This practice, known as tamizdat in the Soviet Union, could result in serious repercussions for the authors in the USSR, but was still employed... | 2.0625 | 0 |
9186195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20High%20School%20%28Kansas%29 | Lawrence High School (Kansas) | Lawrence High School (LHS) is a public secondary school in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, operated by Lawrence USD 497 school district, and serves students of grades 9 to 12. The school is one of the two public high schools located in the city. Lawrence High enrolled 1,575 students in the 2020–2021 school year. The s... | 2.4375 | 0 |
9186244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau%20de%20Serrant | Château de Serrant | The Château de Serrant () is a Renaissance château situated in the Loire Valley, to the west of Angers. The château is the private residence of the Prince of Merode, but it is open to visitors.
Early history
The Renaissance château is built on the foundations of a medieval fortress. From the 14th century, it was hel... | 2.203125 | 0 |
9186355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau%20de%20Ch%C3%A2teaudun | Château de Châteaudun | The Château de Châteaudun is a castle located in the town of Châteaudun in the French department of Eure-et-Loir.
History
The castle was built between the 12th and 16th centuries.
The Count of Blois Thibaut V had the keep built around 1170. The Sainte-Chapelle was built between 1451 and 1493. The choir and the high ... | 1.96875 | 0 |
9186359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarian%20violence%20in%20Pakistan | Sectarian violence in Pakistan | Sectarian violence in Pakistan refers to violence directed against people and places in Pakistan motivated by antagonism toward the target's religious sect. As many as 4,000 Shia (a Muslim minority group) are estimated to have been killed in sectarian attacks in Pakistan between 1987 and 2007, and thousands more Shia ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
9186359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarian%20violence%20in%20Pakistan | Sectarian violence in Pakistan | Sectarian Violence in Pakistan: 1989-2018
Terminology
Sectarian refers to sects or religious groups in this article. Although "Sectarianism" can refer to conflict between ethnic, political and cultural as well as religious groups, and there is sometimes an overlap between religious and ethnic groups and fights (accord... | 2.4375 | 0 |
9186359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarian%20violence%20in%20Pakistan | Sectarian violence in Pakistan | Muslims
Approximately 97% of Pakistanis are either Sunni or Shia Muslims, the two largest religious groups in Pakistan. In Pakistan as worldwide, Shia Islam constitutes a minority and Sunni a majority of Muslims.
Estimates of the size of these groups vary—adherents of Shi'a Islam in Pakistan are thought to make up bet... | 2.671875 | 0 |
9186359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarian%20violence%20in%20Pakistan | Sectarian violence in Pakistan | Some of the paramilitary and terrorist groups that have perpetrated of acts of sectarian violence in Pakistan include:
Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP, literally, "Guardians of the Prophet's Companions", renamed Millat-e-Islamia, and later Ahl-e Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ)) - an Islamist organisation that also functions as a... | 1.914063 | 0 |
9186359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarian%20violence%20in%20Pakistan | Sectarian violence in Pakistan | Early years of Pakistan
At least one scholar (Vali Nasr), sees the period before the Iranian Islamic Revolution as a time of relative unity and harmony between pious, traditionalist Sunni and Shia Muslims—a unity brought on by a feeling of being under siege from a common threat, i.e. secularism. However, the first majo... | 2.5 | 0 |
9186359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarian%20violence%20in%20Pakistan | Sectarian violence in Pakistan | Khomeini's campaign to overthrow the House of Saud in Saudi Arabia and the strong opposition among pious Sunni to it. The Iranian revolution had surprised Iranians as well as the rest of the world in overthrowing what everyone thought was the powerful, secure, Shah of Iran. This contributed to confidence among the rev... | 2.0625 | 0 |
9186359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarian%20violence%20in%20Pakistan | Sectarian violence in Pakistan | One element of the violence was Shia "intellecticide" beginning in the 1990s: doctors, engineers, professors, businessmen, clerics, lawyers, civil servants and other men of learning were listed and then murdered "in a systematic attempt to remove Shias from positions of authority." Between January and May 1997, 75 Shi... | 2.125 | 0 |
9186359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarian%20violence%20in%20Pakistan | Sectarian violence in Pakistan | Hindus in Pakistan have faced persecution due to their religious beliefs. Because of this, some of them choose to take refuge in next-door India. According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan data, just around 1000 Hindu families fled to India in 2013, and according to MP Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, as of May 2014, a... | 2.375 | 0 |
9186444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20modularity | Visual modularity | In cognitive neuroscience, visual modularity is an organizational concept concerning how vision works. The way in which the primate visual system operates is currently under intense scientific scrutiny. One dominant thesis is that different properties of the visual world (color, motion, form and so forth) require diffe... | 2.15625 | 0 |
9186444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20modularity | Visual modularity | Similar converging evidence suggests modularity for color. Beginning with Gowers’ finding that damage to the fusiform/lingual gyri in occipitotemporal cortex correlates with a loss in color perception (achromatopsia), the notion of a "color centre" in the primate brain has had growing support. Again, such clinical evi... | 2.046875 | 0 |
9186444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20modularity | Visual modularity | Another clinical case that would a priori suggest a module for modularity in visual processing is visual agnosia. The well studied patient DF is unable to recognize or discriminate objects owing to damage in areas of the lateral occipital cortex although she can see scenes without problem – she can literally see the fo... | 2.09375 | 0 |
9186481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper%20Sundon | Upper Sundon | Upper Sundon is a village located in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England.
The village is the largest settlement in the wider Sundon civil parish, though Lower Sundon is presumed to be older, as the parish church (first built in the 13th Century) is located there.
The manor of Sundon is listed i... | 2.0625 | 0 |
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