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11665635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0ztuzu%20Beach | İztuzu Beach | İztuzu Beach is a 4.5 km long beach near Dalyan, in the Ortaca district of the Province of Muğla in southwestern Turkey. The beach is a narrow spit of land, which forms a natural barrier between the fresh water delta of the Dalyan river and the Mediterranean. It is one of the main breeding grounds for loggerhead sea ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
11665636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim%20Women%20%28Protection%20of%20Rights%20on%20Divorce%29%20Act%201986 | Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act 1986 | The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act was an act passed by the Parliament of India in 1986 to protect the rights of Muslim women who have been divorced from their husband and to provide for related matters. The Act was passed by the Rajiv Gandhi government, with its absolute majority, to nullify the de... | 2.4375 | 0 |
11665639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaud%20Berquin | Arnaud Berquin | Arnaud Berquin (September 1747 in Bordeaux – 21 December 1791) was a French children's author.
His most famous work was L'Ami des Enfants (1782-1783) which was first translated into English, albeit bowdlerised, by Mary Stockdale and published in London The Looking-glass for the Mind, Or, Intellectual Mirror: Being an ... | 2.84375 | 0 |
11665647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955%20Louisiana%20Highway%20renumbering | 1955 Louisiana Highway renumbering | The pre-1955 system eventually reached the 22xx numeric range (or so) at its zenith. There were also "C-xxxx" roads, the purpose of which is unclear. All roads were seemingly numbered in the order that they were taken into the system, which led to anarchy, inconsistency, and disorder prevailing among the system of numb... | 2.5625 | 0 |
11665647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955%20Louisiana%20Highway%20renumbering | 1955 Louisiana Highway renumbering | Not all numbers were assigned to existing roads; some roads were merely "projected", which is to say they were only lines on paper. State roads were often improved only "if funds were available." This resulted in routes being nonexistent in the field, in whole or in part, or signed along routes that sometimes differed ... | 2.625 | 0 |
11665647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955%20Louisiana%20Highway%20renumbering | 1955 Louisiana Highway renumbering | The 1955 renumbering renumbered all routes based on an A-B-C system of route classification: A was primary, B secondary, and C farm-to-market. The A routes mainly comprised one and two digit highways. The B routes primarily comprised three digit routes below 300. All routes 300 through 1241, along with parts or all of ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
11665647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955%20Louisiana%20Highway%20renumbering | 1955 Louisiana Highway renumbering | "Hyphenated" routes
The Louisiana state highway system's most ubiquitous and unique anachronism is the infamous "hyphenated" routes. These routes were created with the 1955 renumbering, and are a legacy of the assumption by the state through the years of many otherwise local streets in cities and towns throughout the ... | 2.546875 | 0 |
11665648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th%20Illinois%20Infantry%20Regiment | 28th Illinois Infantry Regiment | The 28th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, commanded by Colonel Amory K. Johnson and later by Lieutenant Colonel Richard Ritter.
Service
The 28th Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois (dubbed "Camp Misery" beca... | 2.234375 | 0 |
11665651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parelli%20Natural%20Horsemanship | Parelli Natural Horsemanship | Parelli Natural Horsemanship (also known as Parelli or PNH) is a program of natural horsemanship, founded in 1981 by Pat Parelli. The program is headquartered in Pagosa Springs, Colorado.
Program
Parelli Natural Horsemanship states its core principle as "Horsemanship can be obtained naturally through communication, un... | 2.25 | 0 |
11665651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parelli%20Natural%20Horsemanship | Parelli Natural Horsemanship | Horsenality
The program uses a concept the Parellis call “horsenality” to explain the behavior of individual horses. The system is based on a model originally conceived by Linda Parelli but which was subjected to independent research by psychometric personality research specialists and that was overseen by statistici... | 2.671875 | 0 |
11665651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parelli%20Natural%20Horsemanship | Parelli Natural Horsemanship | Both Horsenality and Humanality were developed independently from original research and the rigid statistical process of factor analysis. Horsenality and Humanality have no relationship to other assessments such as the MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator), Marston's DiSC, or the Big Five (OCEAN). Any independent studies ... | 2.203125 | 0 |
11665768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokari%20Douglas%20Camp | Sokari Douglas Camp | Sokari Douglas Camp CBE (born 1958 in Nigeria) is a London-based artist who has had exhibitions all over the world and was the recipient of a bursary from the Henry Moore Foundation. She was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2005 Birthday Honours list.
Biography
Early years and e... | 2 | 0 |
11665768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokari%20Douglas%20Camp | Sokari Douglas Camp | In 2003, her proposal NO-O-War No-O-War-R was shortlisted for Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth. She was honoured with a CBE in 2005. She has been awarded many commissions for public memorial sculptures, most notably Battle Bus: The Living Memorial to Ken Saro-Wiwa (2006). In 2012, her sculpture memorial to commemorate ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
11665780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20C.%20C.%20Mayo | John C. C. Mayo | John Caldwell Calhoun Mayo (September 16, 1864 – May 11, 1914) was an American entrepreneur, educator, and politician. He is known for attracting corporate interest in the coal deposits of Eastern Kentucky and Southwestern Virginia, leading to the development of commercial coal mining in the region. The creation of th... | 2.953125 | 0 |
11665780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20C.%20C.%20Mayo | John C. C. Mayo | Mayo's land began to increase in value in 1893. After he displayed coal from his land at the Chicago's World Fair, a wealthy businessman named Peter L. Kimberley purchased $10,000 in the company's holdings. This money was used to further expand the land and mineral rights owned by the Paintsville Coal and Mining Compan... | 2.859375 | 0 |
11665780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20C.%20C.%20Mayo | John C. C. Mayo | Originally, light was to be provided in the mansion by using carbide gas, but near the end of construction, Paintsville received electrical service. The plans for the mansion were changed to include electrical wiring. The mansion was also designed to include running water, by pumping water from a well to a cistern and ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
11665780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20C.%20C.%20Mayo | John C. C. Mayo | Specialists were soon called in from Cincinnati. Mayo had been experiencing periods of unconsciousness according to reports. Bright's Disease had attacked the function of the liver, but news reports were still hopeful for a quick recovery. On March 1, 1914, Mayo was taken by special train to the Jewish Hospital in Cinc... | 2.328125 | 0 |
11665789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Larimer%20Mellon%20Jr. | William Larimer Mellon Jr. | William Larimer "Larry" Mellon Jr. (1910–1989) was an American philanthropist and physician.
Mellon was born in Pittsburgh June 26, 1910, the son of financier William Larimer Mellon Sr. and a grandnephew of U.S. Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon. His family fortune derived from Gulf Oil, Westinghouse, BNY Mellon, K... | 2.328125 | 0 |
11665823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stetson%20School | Stetson School | The Stetson School is a private residential institution located in Barre, Massachusetts.
History
Founded in 1899, by Henry Augustus Pevear, and then known as the Stetson Home for Boys began as an orphanage. It supported itself as a commercial dairy farm wherein each of its capable residents worked to help support the ... | 2.828125 | 0 |
11665858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Bosco%20Academy%2C%20Pampanga | Don Bosco Academy, Pampanga | Don Bosco Academy also referred to by its acronym DBA or Don Bosco Pampanga" is a private Catholic Salesian technical educational institution for boys run by the Salesians of the Society of Saint John Bosco in Bacolor, Pampanga, Philippines. It was founded in 1956 by the (Salesians).
The school was named after St. Joh... | 2.15625 | 0 |
11665858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Bosco%20Academy%2C%20Pampanga | Don Bosco Academy, Pampanga | When Mt. Pinatubo in the province of Pampanga erupted in 1991, lahar covered most of the buildings of Don Bosco Academy. The school almost transferred to another province if not for the intervention of Archbishop Paciano Aniceto, D.D. of the Archdiocese of San Fernando. Through the generous offering of the Benedictine ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
11665907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20Police%3A%20Enemy%20Prisoners%20of%20War%2C%20Retained%20Personnel%2C%20Civilian%20Internees%20and%20Other%20Detainees | Military Police: Enemy Prisoners of War, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees | Military Police: Enemy Prisoners of War, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees is the full title of a United States Army regulation usually referred to as AR 190-8, that lays out how the United States Army should treat captives.
This document is notable as the United States Supreme Court advised t... | 2.15625 | 0 |
11665979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20fitz%20Gilbert%20of%20Cadzow | Walter fitz Gilbert of Cadzow | Bruce A. McAndrew, in his work, Scotland's Historical Heraldry, argues for the Umfraville connection:
The earliest representation of the Hamilton arms appears on the Bute Mazer, where Gules, three cinquefoils ermine, presumably for Walter fitzGilbert, is accompanied by Gules, a chevron ermine between three cinquefoils ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
11665979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20fitz%20Gilbert%20of%20Cadzow | Walter fitz Gilbert of Cadzow | Documentary evidence
Walter fitz Gilbert first appears as a witness to a charter of James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland granting land to the monks of Paisley Abbey in 1294, and also later in the year in another granting land to the same establishment. The other signatories were all minor landowners in Renfrewsh... | 2.46875 | 0 |
11665998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6nwalde-Glien | Schönwalde-Glien | Schönwalde-Glien is a municipality in the Havelland district, in Brandenburg, Germany.
History
The municipality shared its borders with the former West Berlin, and so during the period 1961-1990 it was separated from it by the Berlin Wall.
In 1951–2, the Havel Canal was constructed through the municipality to link He... | 2.15625 | 0 |
11666124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravo%20%28magazine%29 | Bravo (magazine) | Focus group and classic columns
Bravo covers topics which primarily interest youths, among which are current information on pop and movie stars, as well as relationship and sex counseling.
Under the pseudonyms "Dr. Christoph Vollmer" and "Dr. Kirsten Lindstroem" the then-47-year-old author of romance novels Marie Lou... | 1.984375 | 0 |
11666158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20Debt-Management%20Services%20Act | Uniform Debt-Management Services Act | The Uniform Debt-Management Services Act was promulgated in 2005 by the Uniform Law Commissioners. It provides the states with a comprehensive act governing national administration of debt counseling and management in a fair and effective way.
Consumer debt counseling and management services have been available to ind... | 2.34375 | 0 |
11666158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20Debt-Management%20Services%20Act | Uniform Debt-Management Services Act | However, federal bankruptcy reform effective in 2005 has changed the perspective on such services. For an individual to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, that individual will in most cases have to show that consumer debt counseling/management has been sought and attempted. This shifts a highly significant burden upon priv... | 1.945313 | 0 |
11666194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s%20de%20Santa%20Maria | Andrés de Santa Maria | Andrés de Santa María (December 16, 1860 – April 29, 1945) was the most internationally known Colombian painter of his time and the pioneer of impressionism in Colombia. His work in solitary as a vanguardist painter frames the beginnings of modern art in Colombia. Santa Maria's search for new artistic expressions gener... | 2.46875 | 0 |
11666194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s%20de%20Santa%20Maria | Andrés de Santa Maria | Santa Maria first obtained recognition when he won a first prize and was accepted to participate in the salon of French Artists in 1887 with his painting Launderers of the Seine. This large and ambitious painting already shows impressionist elements in the use of the reflection of light and his interest in social subje... | 2.59375 | 0 |
11666194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s%20de%20Santa%20Maria | Andrés de Santa Maria | During the Colombian Civil War called, the Thousand Days War, the Academy was closed and Santa Maria made a long trip to Europe. In Paris, he took part in the French salon with his painting los dragoniantes de la guardian inglesa, which received a congratulation letter from the jurors. At the end of the Thousand Day... | 2.5625 | 0 |
11666194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s%20de%20Santa%20Maria | Andrés de Santa Maria | At the end of the war, he came back to Brussels. During this, the third period of his career, he earned distinctions as a painter in exhibitions in 1936 in Brussels and in 1937 in London (Burlington Gallery, displaying 125 paintings made over a 30-year period from 1907). He captured the modern tendencies of the Europea... | 2.4375 | 0 |
11666200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Nations%20Security%20Council%20Resolution%2098 | United Nations Security Council Resolution 98 | United Nations Security Council Resolution 98, adopted on December 23, 1952, urged the Governments of India and Pakistan to enter into immediate negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations Representative for India and Pakistan in order to reach an agreement on the specific number of troops to remain of each s... | 2.625 | 0 |
11666233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collier%20Heights | Collier Heights | Historic Collier Heights is a historically middle-class and predominately African-American populated area in western Atlanta. It is bordered to the west by Fairburn Road, the east by Hamilton E. Holmes Drive, the north by Donald L. Hollowell Parkway, and to the south by the Interstate 20 bridge at Linkwood Road.
Colli... | 2.34375 | 0 |
11666233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collier%20Heights | Collier Heights | Neighborhood organization
Historic Collier Heights has two officially recognized community Associations which represent the citizens of the Historic District. The inaugural Association is The Collier Heights Community Association (CHCA)–which formed in 1968. The second and more popular organization is The Historic Coll... | 1.929688 | 0 |
11666239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Richards | Linda Richards | Linda Richards (July 27, 1841 – April 16, 1930) was the first professionally trained American nurse. She established nursing training programs in the United States and Japan, and created the first system for keeping individual medical records for hospitalized patients.
Early life
Richards was born Malinda Ann Judson ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
11666239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Richards | Linda Richards | Inspired by these personal losses, she moved to Boston, Massachusetts in order to become a nurse. Her first job was at Boston City Hospital, where she received almost no training and was subjected to overwork. She left that hospital after only three months but was undaunted by her experiences there. In 1872, Linda Rich... | 2.765625 | 0 |
11666247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86th%20Airlift%20Wing | 86th Airlift Wing | In addition to serving as a central overflow hub for airlift traffic flying between the US and the Arabian Peninsula, Ramstein also established an intermediate engine repair facility for deployed F-16s, became a huge collection and distribution center for gulf-bound munitions, and on 15 January 1991, Ramstein AB's aero... | 2.15625 | 0 |
11666247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86th%20Airlift%20Wing | 86th Airlift Wing | The end of the Cold War brought major force structure changes throughout the Air Force, and the 86th was no exception. On 1 June 1992, the 86th Fighter Wing, which had only been equipped with F-16s, began a slow move to airlift operations when the wing took over the 58th Airlift Squadron and its small executive fleet o... | 2.171875 | 0 |
11666247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86th%20Airlift%20Wing | 86th Airlift Wing | In December, the tempo increased further. A request was sent from the Southern European Task Force requesting the 86th CRG evaluate eight airfields in northern Iraq. On 27 December, members of the Youngstown, Ohio 757th Airlift Reserve Squadron, 910th Airlift Wing, arrived to join the Selfridge, Michigan Air National G... | 2 | 0 |
11666247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86th%20Airlift%20Wing | 86th Airlift Wing | Beginning 11 March 2003, the 86th AW's 38th Airlift (Provisional) Squadron, flying from Constanta, Romania, flew its first Operation Iraqi Freedom mission. Initially 38th (P) Squadron flew missions with just 4 aircraft, but even as these missions began help was on the way. On 3 March, the 757th Airlift Reserve Squadron... | 2.15625 | 0 |
11666247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86th%20Airlift%20Wing | 86th Airlift Wing | The 37th Airlift Squadron with its C-130E Hercules was soon involved, flying the first Hercules landing into the airfield at 2 pm on 7 April 2003. Processing through as many as five mobility lines at once, 593 members of the 86th AW deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom by 7 April. US casualties were evacuated to Ramstei... | 1.945313 | 0 |
11666277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20stories%20in%20the%20Masnavi | List of stories in the Masnavi | Book II
Preface (in prose)
Proem
The Caliph ‘Umar and the man who thought he saw the new moon
The fool who entreated Jesus to bring some bones to life
The Sufi who enjoined the servant to take care of his ass
The King and his lost falcon
Shaykh Ahmad son of Khizrúya and his creditors
The answer of an ascetic who was wa... | 2.546875 | 0 |
11666318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire | Women in the Ottoman Empire | In the Ottoman Empire, women enjoyed a diverse range of rights and were limited in diverse ways depending on the time period, as well as their religion and class. The empire, first as a Turkoman beylik, and then a multi-ethnic, multi-religious empire, was ruled in accordance to the qanun, the semi-secular body of law e... | 3.265625 | 0 |
11666318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire | Women in the Ottoman Empire | 16th century
The 16th century was marked by Suleiman's rule, in which he created the title of haseki sultan, the chief consort or wife of the sultan, and further expanded the role of royal women in politics by contributing to the creation of the second most powerful position in the Ottoman Empire, valide sultan, the ... | 3.09375 | 0 |
11666318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire | Women in the Ottoman Empire | 17th and 18th centuries
The 17th and 18th centuries are often regarded as the last two centuries of pre-Westernized Ottoman culture. Women's rights were still seen by European visitors, such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, as relatively robust at the time, as a woman's right to divorce, own property and refuse conjugal ... | 2.84375 | 0 |
11666318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire | Women in the Ottoman Empire | The 19th century was, in large part, a century of Westernization for the empire. Because of the relative stagnation of women's rights in the Ottoman Empire; European observers, as well as secret societies such as the Young Ottomans, stated a need for major reform. The Young Ottomans criticized Ottoman customs that prev... | 3 | 0 |
11666318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire | Women in the Ottoman Empire | During most of the Ottoman Empire, many women's interactions were limited to socialization among fellow women, and members of their family. Women socialized with each other at their homes and also at bathhouses. High society women, particularly those who did not live in the palace, visited one another at each other's h... | 2.46875 | 0 |
11666318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire | Women in the Ottoman Empire | While harem has many different descriptions, and could describe any sex segregated space reserved for women, its most literal usage is to describe the part of a house reserved for women in many Islamic cultures, a custom comparable to (and according to Nikki Keddie, possibly borrowed from) the Greek-Byzantine gynaeceum... | 3.03125 | 0 |
11666318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire | Women in the Ottoman Empire | The Tanzimat brought additional rights to women, particularly in education. Some of the first schools for girls, called Rüştiyes, opened in 1858, followed by a boom in 1869 when elementary education was rendered mandatory. During the 1860s, many new educational opportunities existed for Ottoman women. This decade saw t... | 3.078125 | 0 |
11666318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire | Women in the Ottoman Empire | Prior to the sixteenth century, women did not hold considerable political influence, until Suleiman ascended the throne in 1520, which marked the beginning of the Sultanate of Women. The mother of the Sultan, who would herself have likely been a slave in the Imperial Harem, would garner the special status of valide sul... | 3.109375 | 0 |
11666318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire | Women in the Ottoman Empire | The qanun was the semi-secular legal system that applied to all citizens of the Empire, and would contain laws enacted by the Ottoman sultan. Its stated purpose was to supplement religious (particularly Islamic) law, however, it was also often used to supersede religious law if said law was deemed unenforceable or othe... | 3.171875 | 0 |
11666318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire | Women in the Ottoman Empire | Furthermore, young women generally had little say over her marriage. If the family of the girl agreed, the parents would settle the matter among themselves. Once the matter had been settled, a marriage contract would be made. Both the bridegroom and the bride were socially expected to show consent concerning the contra... | 2.875 | 0 |
11666318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire | Women in the Ottoman Empire | Inheritance
Women in the Ottoman Empire could inherit property from their deceased parents or husbands, although often to a lesser extent to their male relatives. Records are "quite clear" that at least as far as Islamic courts were concerned, the law of inheritance was always applied in accordance with sharia. This m... | 2.875 | 0 |
11666318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire | Women in the Ottoman Empire | Women played many roles in the Ottoman Empire, per their designated social position. While women from less affluent families would be limited to doing housework chores, in wealthy families, they were the in-charge of the household. Wealthy families possessed huge properties, such as many houses, animals, vast lands, an... | 3.4375 | 0 |
11666318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire | Women in the Ottoman Empire | Because women had access to the legal system, much of the information about their role in Ottoman society is sourced from court records. In cities, such as Bursa, women freely appeared in court during the seventeenth century. One example documents a court record from 1683 in which a woman sued someone who allegedly sei... | 3.171875 | 0 |
11666318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire | Women in the Ottoman Empire | One aspect of economic life in which women had limited involvement was artisanship; there is little archival evidence showing that women were themselves members of craft guilds of various cities. However, in some areas it has been observed that women had a complementary relationship with artisans by providing capital a... | 3.296875 | 0 |
11666318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire | Women in the Ottoman Empire | During the late Ottoman Empire, Istanbul became a central hub for the trafficking of women, with networks operating both domestically and internationally. Both men and women were involved in trafficking and procuring prostitutes.
While people of all religions in the Ottoman Empire engaged in prostitution, the experien... | 2.78125 | 0 |
11666327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus%20Manlius%20Torquatus%20%28consul%20299%20BC%29 | Titus Manlius Torquatus (consul 299 BC) | Titus Manlius T.f. Torquatus (died 299 BC) was a patrician Roman Republican consul for 299 BC, elected along with a plebeian co-consul Marcus Fulvius Cn.f. Paetinus.
Family background
The Manlii were one of the oldest and most distinguished patrician gens in the Roman Republic. One Gnaeus Manlius Cincinnatus had been... | 2.015625 | 0 |
11666393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklinton%2C%20Louisiana | Franklinton, Louisiana | The lynch party took Wilson's body by car and dumped it along a rural road three miles (5 km) from town; then they dispersed. The body was found by a passerby on the road two hours later. Police officers said they thought Wilson was shot because his cries would have aroused parish authorities, who twice had thwarted at... | 2.015625 | 0 |
11666414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20miner | Common miner | Distribution and habitat
The subspecies of the common miner are found thus:
G. c. juninensis: Andes of central Peru's departments of Junín and Huancavelica
G. c. titicacae: Andes of southern Peru, Bolivia east to Cochabamba Department, northern Chile to the Tarapacá Region, and northwestern Argentina to Mendoza Provi... | 2.75 | 0 |
11666414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20miner | Common miner | The common miner forages singly or in pairs. It gleans food from the ground while hopping, not walking. Its diet is mostly arthropods including adult and larval flies and beetles; seeds are a minor component.
Breeding
The common miner breeds in the austral summer, generally between September and December. It is thoug... | 3.3125 | 0 |
11666429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyne%20and%20Wear%20Archives | Tyne and Wear Archives | Tyne and Wear Archives (formerly known as Tyne and Wear Archives Service) is the record office for the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Tyne and Wear Archives preserve documents relating to the area from the 12th to the 21st century. It is based in the former headquarters of the Co-operative... | 2.484375 | 0 |
11666496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarnate%20Word%20High%20School | Incarnate Word High School | The school expanded, and in 1950 enrollment necessitated a distinct high school building, constructed at the high school's current location of 727 E Hildebrand Ave, situated on the scenic hill known as Mount Erin. The $1 million building, planned for 750 students, consisted of classrooms, a residence hall to house 150 ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
11666507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogel%20Rok | Vogel Rok | Vogel Rok ("Bird Roc" in English) is an enclosed roller coaster in the Efteling amusement park in the Netherlands.
History and details
The name of the ride, Vogel Rok, refers to the adventure of Sinbad and the Bird Roc from the 1001 Arabian Nights; the extensive theming covers, beside the ride, the building and the q... | 2.015625 | 0 |
11666627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lido%20Isle%2C%20Newport%20Beach | Lido Isle, Newport Beach | Lido Isle (mistakenly Lido Island) is a man-made island located in the harbor of Newport Beach, California. Surrounded by the city, Lido Isle was incorporated as part of Newport Beach in 1906. At that time it was part sandbar and part mudflat. There are no commercial facilities on the island other than a small snack ba... | 2.5625 | 0 |
11666644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd%20Infantry%20Regiment%20%28United%20States%29 | 2nd Infantry Regiment (United States) | The 2nd Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment in the United States Army that has served for more than two hundred years. It was constituted on 12 April 1808 as the 6th Infantry and consolidated with 4 other regiments in 1815 to form the present unit.
Origin
Although the original 2nd Infantry Regiment was constitut... | 2.6875 | 0 |
11666644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd%20Infantry%20Regiment%20%28United%20States%29 | 2nd Infantry Regiment (United States) | First Indian War period
In the ensuing years the regiment was primarily concerned with manning and constructing forts around the Great Lakes. When the Black Hawk War of 1832 erupted the 2nd Infantry was sent to Illinois but did not participate in any fighting. The regiment returned to its posts on the Great Lakes. Du... | 2.5625 | 0 |
11666644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd%20Infantry%20Regiment%20%28United%20States%29 | 2nd Infantry Regiment (United States) | American Civil War
During the Civil War the 2nd Infantry fought in the early Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri and the first Battle of Bull Run. The regiment was assigned to the Army of the Potomac and fought in engagements such as Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. By June 1864 t... | 2.421875 | 0 |
11666644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd%20Infantry%20Regiment%20%28United%20States%29 | 2nd Infantry Regiment (United States) | On 16 October 1939, the regiment was relieved from the 6th Division and assigned to the 5th Division. It was transferred on 3 November 1939 to Fort McClellan, Alabama, on 1 June 1940 to Fort Wayne, and on 25 September 1940 to Fort Custer. In February 1942 the regiment was sent to Iceland to relieve United States Marine... | 2.28125 | 0 |
11666644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd%20Infantry%20Regiment%20%28United%20States%29 | 2nd Infantry Regiment (United States) | The 1st Battalion sustained its first major casualties of the war on 21 December 1965 when the enemy ambushed the command group of Company B as the company was moving out of Bien Hoa on routine patrol. On 25 August 1966 during Operation Amarillo a patrol from Company C, 1st Battalion was ambushed after stumbling into ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
11666720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cove%20Point%20Light | Cove Point Light | The Cove Point Light is a lighthouse located on the west side of Chesapeake Bay in Calvert County, Maryland.
History
This light was built in 1828 by John Donahoo, who erected a brick conical tower along the plan he had used at several other sites in the Bay. In 1825 Congress had allocated funds to build a light at Ced... | 2.28125 | 0 |
11666730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Dock%20Offices | Barry Dock Offices | Barry Docks Offices is a council building in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan in south-east Wales. It is prominently sited, overlooking the docks to the south, below the town and on a level site near Castleland Point, a promontory within Dock View Road. Barry Docks railway station is adjacent to the building and to its rear.
... | 2.015625 | 0 |
11666786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20History%20of%20Sandford%20and%20Merton | The History of Sandford and Merton | Overview
Despite its title, The History of Sandford and Merton is not a "history" in the modern sense but rather an assemblage of stories Day both wrote himself and extracted from a multitude of sources that is only nominally held together by a thread narrative. The "history of Sandford and Merton" follows the reformat... | 3.03125 | 0 |
11666807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naz%20Ikramullah | Naz Ikramullah | Naz Ikramullah Ashraf (née Naz Ikramullah) is a British-Canadian artist and film producer of Pakistani-Bengali origin.
Background
Ikramullah was born in London, England to a Muslim family. Her father, Mohammed Ikramullah, later became the first Foreign Secretary of Pakistan and her Bengali mother, Shaista Suhrawardy ... | 2.28125 | 0 |
11666807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naz%20Ikramullah | Naz Ikramullah | In a review of Ikramullah's 1994 solo exhibition, Nancy Baele of the Ottawa Citizen wrote that "Her paintings and prints...reflect her view that Canada fosters an interior life, Karachi an exterior one. She merges the two through collage, a layered look and the compositional constants of architectural arches and cloake... | 2.03125 | 0 |
11666813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine%20Kennicott%20Davis | Katherine Kennicott Davis | Katherine Kennicott Davis (June 25, 1892 – April 20, 1980) was an American composer, pianist, arranger, and teacher, whose most well-known composition is the Christmas song "Carol of the Drum," later known as "The Little Drummer Boy".
Life and career
Davis was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, on June 25, 1892 to Maxwell ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
11666877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciBooNE | SciBooNE | SciBar Booster Neutrino Experiment (SciBooNE) was a neutrino experiment located at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in the USA. It observed neutrinos of the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) that are produced when protons from the Fermilab Booster-accelerator were made to hit a beryllium target; ... | 2.578125 | 0 |
11666936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug%20Owram | Doug Owram | Owram was the recipient of a University of Alberta McCalla Professorship in 1989, and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1990. He received the J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Research Excellence in 1995.
Author
The author of several books, Owram's more recent titles include Born at the Right Time: A... | 2.015625 | 0 |
11666945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Anthony%20Catholic%20High%20School | St. Anthony Catholic High School | St. Anthony Catholic High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school located in the Monte Vista Historic District in Midtown San Antonio, Texas, United States. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio.
History
St. Anthony Catholic High School was founded in 1903 by the Oblates of Mary Immac... | 2.046875 | 0 |
11666985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra%20Leone%20River | Sierra Leone River | The Sierra Leone River is a river estuary on the Atlantic Ocean in Western Sierra Leone. It is formed by the Bankasoka River and Rokel River and is between 4 and 10 miles wide (6–16 km) and 25 miles (40 km) long. It holds the major ports of Queen Elizabeth II Quay and Pepel. The estuary is also important for shipping. ... | 2.84375 | 0 |
11667004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Fulton%20%28sport%20shooter%29 | Arthur Fulton (sport shooter) | Arthur George Fulton (16 September 1887 – 26 January 1972) was a British sport shooter who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics and 1912 Summer Olympics. He was the first person to win the prestigious King's Prize at Bisley three times, a record not matched until 1996 – over twenty years after his death.
At the 1908 ... | 2.421875 | 0 |
11667004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Fulton%20%28sport%20shooter%29 | Arthur Fulton (sport shooter) | Fulton was rapidly promoted to sergeant and initially served as a machine-gunner, but subsequently became a sniper. In this capacity, he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, Britain's second-highest military award for gallantry, and is generally considered to have made around 130 kills. His biographer, Tony Ren... | 2.546875 | 0 |
11667034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jozef%20Rulof | Jozef Rulof | Josephus Gerhardus Rulof (February 20, 1898 – November 3, 1952) was a Dutch author who was known as a self-proclaimed psychic and trance medium or spirit medium. He wrote about thirty books about life, death, and the hereafter.
Rulof claimed to be the greatest medium ever, and that nobody would ever surpass him. The n... | 2.21875 | 0 |
11667034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jozef%20Rulof | Jozef Rulof | Jozef Rulof rejects cremation. It would cause a shock and an unbearable suffering for the dead. Persons attuned to a sphere of light will not suffer much, but persons attuned to a sphere of darkness will burn spiritually. Persons going back to the world of the unconscious awaiting a new birth will not feel anything. In... | 2.234375 | 0 |
11667051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidebar%20%28computing%29 | Sidebar (computing) | The sidebar is a graphical control element that displays various forms of information to the right or left side of an application window or operating system desktop. Examples of the sidebar can be seen in the Opera web browser, Apache web OpenOffice, LibreOffice, SoftMaker Presentations and File Explorer; in each case,... | 2.515625 | 0 |
11667054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Richardson | Philip Richardson | Sir Philip Wigham Richardson, 1st Baronet, (26 January 1865 – 23 November 1953) was a British sport shooter and Conservative politician. He was the first son of John Wigham Richardson, the shipbuilder from Newcastle upon Tyne. He also competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics and the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Biography
Richar... | 2.203125 | 0 |
11667073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20city%20parks%20of%20Erie%2C%20Pennsylvania | List of city parks of Erie, Pennsylvania | Friendship Park is an urban park located north of East 14th Street near Reed Street, where a woodchip path and some yellow paint mask the railroad tracks that once led to a coal yard on the property. The signed park, which contains flower gardens and several tall birdhouses to attract song birds, has a smart split-rail... | 2.109375 | 0 |
11667073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20city%20parks%20of%20Erie%2C%20Pennsylvania | List of city parks of Erie, Pennsylvania | The city was cited in 1990 and again in 1997 for dumping road sweeper waste on the property, in violation of the Project 70 Act, so an ordinance was added to the city code in 1997 prohibiting same. While the city no longer dumps in the park, some city residents use the park margins instead of city services to dispose o... | 1.945313 | 0 |
11667140 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atonement%20Academy | Atonement Academy | The Atonement Academy is a parochial, Catholic school in the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter in San Antonio, Texas. It is a part of Our Lady of the Atonement Catholic parish, the first parish for the Anglican Use liturgy with the Catholic Church, and was opened on August 15, 1994. The college preparato... | 2.40625 | 0 |
11667150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geositta | Geositta | Geositta is a genus of passerine birds in the ovenbird family, Furnariidae. They are known as miners (not to be confused with the unrelated miners, Manorina, of Australia) due to the tunnels they dig for nesting. There are 11 species including the campo miner (Geositta poeciloptera) which was formerly classified in a g... | 2.875 | 0 |
11667185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustache%20de%20Refuge | Eustache de Refuge | Eustache de Refuge (1564 - September 1617), seigneur de Précy et de Courcelles, was an Early Modern French courtier, statesman and author.
Biography
De Refuge was born into a family of Breton origin that asserted a noble ancestry reaching back to the 14th century. His father was a member of both the Parlement of Brit... | 1.9375 | 0 |
11667185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustache%20de%20Refuge | Eustache de Refuge | Extracts from the Treatise on the Court:
Many good pilots have been lost at sea despite their knowledge and experience of navigation, whereas others less knowledgeable, with neither astrolabe nor compass, have successfully completed many a long and perilous voyage. This doesn't lead us to conclude, though, that we shou... | 2.09375 | 0 |
11667230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Tiddler%27s%20Ground | Tom Tiddler's Ground | Tom Tiddler's ground, also known as Tom Tidler's ground or Tommy Tiddler's ground, is a longstanding children's game. One player, "Tom Tiddler", stands on a heap of stones, gravel, etc. Other players rush onto the heap, crying "Here I am on Tom Tiddler's ground, picking up gold and silver," while Tom tries to capture, ... | 2.25 | 0 |
11667289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfhemoglobinemia | Sulfhemoglobinemia | Sulfhemoglobinemia is a rare condition in which there is excess sulfhemoglobin (SulfHb) in the blood. The pigment is a greenish derivative of hemoglobin which cannot be converted back to normal, functional hemoglobin. It causes cyanosis even at low blood levels.
It is a rare blood condition in which the β-pyrrole rin... | 2.578125 | 0 |
11667297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demas%20Nwoko | Demas Nwoko | Demas Nwoko (born 1935) is a Nigerian artist, protean designer, architect and master builder. As an artist, he strives to incorporate modern techniques in architecture and stage design to enunciate African subject matter in most of his works. In the 1960s, he was a member of the Mbari club of Ibadan, a committee of bur... | 2.3125 | 0 |
11667297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demas%20Nwoko | Demas Nwoko | Zaria art school
From 1957 to 1961, he studied Fine Arts at the former College of Arts, Science and Technology, Zaria, Kaduna State, northwest Nigeria (now Ahmadu Bello University), where he was exposed to conventional Western techniques in art, though like most of the artists at the school their subject matter was pre... | 2.65625 | 0 |
11667297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demas%20Nwoko | Demas Nwoko | Architectural design
After completing his studies at Zaria and Paris, he moved to Ibadan in 1963. In Ibadan, he originally concentrated on designs for theatrical productions of the University of Ibadan's department of Drama while he was also a lecturer at the university. While in the ancient city, he was sometimes shor... | 2.59375 | 0 |
11667297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demas%20Nwoko | Demas Nwoko | Nwoko's works fuse modern techniques in architecture and stage design with African tradition. With works such as The Dominican Institute, Ibadan and The Akenzua Cultural Center, Benin, to his credit, Nwoko is one "artist-architect" who believes in celebrating the African tradition in his works. In 2007, Farafina Books ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
11667302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20San%20Antonio | Culture of San Antonio | Bandera, just 40 miles northwest of San Antonio, hosts a three-day Cowboy Mardi Gras that attracts over 15 thousand people from all over the world to the town of 829 residents.
Celebrate San Antonio is the city's New Year's Eve celebration held on South Alamo Street adjacent to HemisFair Park. The festival has several... | 2.265625 | 0 |
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